{"id":3528,"date":"2013-09-16T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:11:18","slug":"gta-5-midnight-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2013\/09\/16\/gta-5-midnight-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 5 Midnight Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1186251_10202063805295344_1984308722_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3534\" alt=\"1186251_10202063805295344_1984308722_n\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1186251_10202063805295344_1984308722_n.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t look forward to many games anymore. Maybe it is a sign of me getting older and becoming jaded. But here I am, standing on a line outside of GameStop, waiting to pick up my copy of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0050SYILE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0050SYILE&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamesrichards-20\">Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamesrichards-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0050SYILE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.\u00a0This is the largest grouping of single dudes I&#8217;ve ever seen that wasn&#8217;t at a sporting event or in front of a gay bar. There were maybe five girls on a line of about 200 people, and I think three of them were buying the game for the kids they brought with them.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I am second on line because the weed smell coming off these people is giving me a headache. My son better appreciate me picking this up for him. If I didn&#8217;t work with this demographic on a regular basis, or have kids of my own, I might be worried about the future. But once again I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I really want to stay up all night with this game because all of the early <!--more-->reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0050SYILE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0050SYILE&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamesrichards-20\">GTA 5 have proclaimed this as the best product that Rockstar has ever turned out<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamesrichards-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0050SYILE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. But unfortunately I have early meetings and a capstone class to teach in the AM. I plan to be in class bright and early in the morning. So woe be unto any student that doesn&#8217;t show up for class tomorrow. If I have to wait until tomorrow night to build a criminal empire, so do they!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J9f9TbRR_yE?rel=0\" height=\"242\" width=\"430\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t look forward to many games anymore. Maybe it is a sign of me getting older and becoming jaded. But here I am, standing on a line waiting to pick up my copy of  GTA 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,2],"tags":[449,448,216,451,450,222,220,219,452,453,454,221],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-five","tag-gamestop","tag-grand-theft-auto","tag-gta4","tag-gta5","tag-liberty-city","tag-playstation","tag-ps3","tag-rockstar","tag-san-andreas","tag-vice-city","tag-xbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}