Gingerminge Denied

Most sources list today (Tuesday Oct. 9th) as the release date for Valve's Orange Box (a five in one game pack consisting of re-releases of Some semi-aged Half Life content along with some Brand Spanking new Half Life and two completely new games). I have been excited for this release since the Xbox Live videos started coming out detailing Team Fortress 2 but what really sold me was the video for Portal. I made some calls to find out where I should go to get the game at midnight. Walmart didn't have any. The game released tonight at midnight (1 hour and 23 minutes ago) but Walmarts in the area did not have a single copy. Representatives from Meijer said, however, that they were supposed to have copies and that they would go on sale at midnight exactly. I gave in to my urges and went to the Meijer on Stroop. I asked someone in person. He confirmed what I had been told. I went back in at 10 to midnight and a Meijer employee approached me and stated that they had combed through the shipment that was supposed to have the games but there were none there. They hadn't recieved either their new games or their new cd releases. Only the new DVDs seemed to make it through. He called the Meijer on Alex Bell. Same story. How the hell does a highly anticipated game go on sale and not a single retailer has a copy? They weren't sold out they just didn't have any. Game Crazy doesn't have any. I called them earlier in the day and they stated they would get them on Wednesday. Everyone blamed it on the Columbus Day holiday. WTF. Ship a day earlier. That's hard. Is Columbus Day a postal holiday? I thought I got mail today. Does OH celebrate Columbus Day? I could have sworn I saw school busses and kids at school today. Why do we care about Columbus? He "discovered" a land that already had people living on it and was also already known to Europeans other than himself at the time. He found no pepper so he found some spicy chilis and called them pepper. Good job! His ribalderous crew set an instant precident for the oppression of indiginous people that lasts to this day. He was probably bad in the sack too. Fuck Columbus.