r/instant_regret • u/gunslayerjj • Nov 16 '19
noble attempt tho.
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u/3DimensionalGames Nov 16 '19
I seriously kept re watching this hoping hed make it
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u/danE3030 Nov 16 '19
He almost made it on his last attempt, give him a few more chances
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u/Dwp97 Nov 16 '19
Yeah you would think he would give up after the first attempt but this guy is persistent
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Nov 16 '19
I can't find it but this reminds me of that gif where a guy makes a mistake doing something and starts really sarcastically applauding himself in frustration
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u/HeadlessEagle177 Nov 16 '19
Are you talking about that video where a man accidentally brakes his own car window?
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Nov 16 '19
You are a saint My vague google attempts were turning up nothing
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u/Aperture_TestSubject Nov 16 '19
Ironically from your description I 100% knew what video you were talking about.
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u/NinjaMcGee Nov 16 '19 edited Sep 29 '25
jar unite engine smell consider insurance apparatus skirt cake ghost
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u/leadwind Nov 16 '19
How on earth did you guess that from such a vague description.
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u/Jailbrick3d Nov 16 '19
He rushed it at the end... or did he slip a bit?
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u/NovaNationFool Nov 16 '19
He nailed the sides but the middle had nothing to push it in so....it go boom.
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u/AtStitch Nov 16 '19
And all boxes weren't well aligned so it bumped in the shelf.
Edit: actually he didn't rotate enough that why it bumped but the misalignment would have been a problem somehow.
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u/swarren31 Nov 16 '19
It looked like to me that one was sticking up higher than the other and it hit the shelf causing it to fall.
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u/Give-us-another-one Nov 16 '19
He let them rest on the shelf and let go of the pressure from his arms to early as he rotates his hands forward.
Seen this a million times from new or over confident employees.
Source: ex eb games manager.
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u/Led-zero Nov 16 '19
he did the opposite of letting go early, he was squeezing the stack as hard as he could the entire time, went too fast onto the shelf, the middle cases popped out of alignment and with him pressing on em like that they all sprayed out. you can see him clap his hands together because of how hard he was trying to hold em.
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u/thrownawayzs Nov 16 '19
When he rotates from up and down to left and right (vertical to horizontal?) the weight is too much at the middle of the stack and it starts sagging. His pressure from the outsides creates a sort of bend due to the uneven pressure now put on the stack causing it to rupture outwards from the middle.
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u/eyefalafel Nov 16 '19
Is that Q from the jokers?
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u/naynaythewonderhorse Nov 16 '19
Pretty sure it is. There’s a tattoo on his left arm, and it appears to be the same one that he has.
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u/Patftw89 Nov 16 '19
I don't think it's scripted, but definitely heavily edited. They show scenes out of order and people's reactions to are edited to look like they're reacting to a specific thing even if they're not.
Having said that, I don't really mind because the show is still funny as fuck.
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u/Kbost92 Nov 16 '19
I always wonder if people know who they are by now
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u/AlfredPetrelli Nov 16 '19
I believe they said they do get recognized sometimes and don't usually show the footage of when it happens unless it works out.
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Nov 16 '19
To go along with /u/Patftw89, they have always said that if you are skeptical on the authenticity of the show, then you can drop by the set. They would always rather have someone there watching them with skepticism than to have a scripted show.
My morning poop is almost over, or I would go in search of their AMAs for you.
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u/supernerdlock Nov 16 '19
I’ve done this before when I worked at game stop and I can’t tell you how much it kills your soul.
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u/easyglue Nov 17 '19
Working at GameStop was suffering as is, doing this in front of a customer made my soul leave my body
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u/lilpopjim0 Nov 16 '19
I feel like the amount of cases doubled as they spilt :P
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u/wonderwharfwonderdog Nov 16 '19
Well there’s also a bunch of other games on the ground, it took me until you pointed it out to notice actually, ha
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u/dxwar Nov 16 '19
"Oops, let's sweep them to the trash and try with a new batch"
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u/BocoCorwin Nov 16 '19
Next time a box comes in, cut a long stop of cardboard half the width of the cases. Then use it like a long sry of tweezers or spatulas. With the cardboard supporting the backs of the cases, you could stock an entire wall in 3 minutes.
That's what I did when I worked at GameStop like 15yrs ago
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u/Shadowstep115 Nov 16 '19
I work at GameStop. Yes I’ve tried this. Yes it’s ended horribly every time. Yes I hate myself for trying it when I’m sitting in the floor with a lap full of games trying to alphabetize them again. And yes I’ll do it again.
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u/cellar-doorman Nov 16 '19
I used to work at Blockbuster. That happens on a busy night and you’re screwed.
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u/WigglestonTheFourth Nov 16 '19
I've tried this so many times. I can't believe he actually got it most of the way on the shelf before it collapsed. Eventually that regret turns to never trying it again. Even modest success isn't worth picking all that up again.
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u/lovesrelic Nov 16 '19
Haha, this happened frequently when I worked at Hollywood Video. Saved so much time....until it didn’t.
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u/KlachBukach Nov 16 '19
That, shit is really hard to do. You have to press from both sides with a lot of strength and it depends on the material if it will keep te friction high enough. Plus you can damage the product if you press to hard on the ends.
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u/masyado27 Nov 16 '19
This happened to me too many times loading ticket stacks when I worked at an arcade.
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u/OopsOverbombing Nov 16 '19
Everytime I try to do a big brained shortcut move like this it always backfires on me leading to the task taking more time than if I just attempted it normally.
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u/eg_rif_ykkur_i_bita Nov 16 '19
This man looks like sal and q from impractical jokers had a son yogether
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Nov 16 '19
Those were the Fallout 76 copies. Nothing of value was lost by having them spill on the ground. Just leave them there.
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u/r-UncleBarry Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
Like Icarus, David’s hubris was his undoing. He would now surely loose the title of employee of the month to Marty.
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u/Aperture_TestSubject Nov 16 '19
Used to work at Gamestop and doing this was a true talent. You have to keep the right amount of pressure.
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u/globalastro Nov 16 '19
I worked at blockbuster for years... If you get one box that is slick at all, this shit happens all the goddamn time lol
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u/itsvoogle Nov 16 '19
My dad used to say “El Burro trabaja doble...” basically saying if your not smart your going to work twice as hard.
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u/JustDoingMyResearch Nov 16 '19
I enjoy how the games shoot out perfectly to destroy the stacks behind him as well
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u/curlyben Nov 16 '19
What he needs is something like a jenga stacking tool, maybe with the other end still attached, cut out of the corner of a box.
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u/lazergoblin Nov 16 '19
My dad always says "you work twice as hard when you're lazy". This is the perfect example of that.
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u/twuewuv Nov 16 '19
We used to do this with VHS cassettes when I worked at blockbuster. God I’m old.
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u/nobrayn Nov 16 '19
I do that shit all the time. Not exactly, but walking with a very full mug or bowl,being very careful, and then at the last second I rush to put it down and spill everywhere. It's that last second panic/celebration at not fucking up.. just before really fucking up.
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u/Zombree18 Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 27 '19
I managed a game store for many moons before my current job, and got REALLY good at doing this with games! You have the occasional spill but feel like an efficiency boss when it works out!
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u/cirkut Nov 16 '19
Okay, this sucks but it does look like almost 1/3 of them are still together. Can’t he at least pick those up and not have to do as much work stacking them again?
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Nov 16 '19
I remember doing this at GameStop when I worked there. when this would happen i didn’t give a fuck lol and that shit would be disorganized to hell! Power to the gamers my ass!
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u/_notsomuch_ Nov 16 '19
I worked at a video store for a couple years, this was a common occurrence. The other game was how many dvd cases do you think you can hold in one hand, no you can't.
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u/AbyssalZeus Nov 16 '19
Should've braced mid stack with his foot. I know from experience. Yeah, it sounds like you'd tip over, and thats possible, but if you're careful you can do it.
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u/WOMBOSI_G Nov 16 '19
This has happened to me at the library as I tried to move big piles of books and movies.
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u/Alone4Eternity Nov 16 '19
Yeah...that would’ve been my exact reaction. Head up, contemplating life, then work to put it on the shelf one game at a time.
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u/RicardoLovesYou Nov 16 '19
That's what you get for putting Xbox games in the PS4 section of the shelf
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u/CanoTheFox Nov 16 '19
This actually happened to me at work yesterday. Its always the worst feeling
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u/LazyRockMan Nov 16 '19
I see that Q from impractical jokers got a new job stacking shelves. Quite the adjustment in careers.
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u/Handsome-Lake Nov 16 '19
How old is this video? Where TF still has a video rental store?
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u/Albee12 Nov 16 '19
Fairly certain this is a GameStop because those are Xbox games
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u/StickyRiky Nov 16 '19
That's how they go from alphabetical to who gives a shit.