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Gamer Gets Off Work to Visit Liberty City

shacknews.com — With the Tuesday release of Grand Theft Auto IV looming, video gamers are already coming up with creative ways to escape their day jobs for an imprompt vacation in Rockstar's Liberty City.

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BugMeNot2 94 days ago

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jessplease, on 04/24/2008, -8/+3LOL! The funniest thing I have ever seen!
- djSyndrome, on 04/24/2008, -4/+9You need to get out more, then.
rrushady, on 04/24/2008, -25/+2Female masturbation as the word denotes defines the act of Female masturbation in itself. Is the act of Female masturbation merely a Channel for satisfying the inherent sexual urges that exists within every female once she gains puberty! No... The act of Female masturbation is inherent in every female as was destined by God the Almighty. http://www.submitarticles-us.com/Health/female-mas ...
- nymphetamine, on 04/24/2008, -0/+10Uh....pics?
- rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I agree.
NaziHatinChimp, on 04/24/2008, -13/+2I am trying not to dupe complain, as it wasn't even my article, but I hate it when something is submitted and no one cares then some blog submits something and it is an instant 20-40 diggs. *****.
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Guy_submits_vacation_r ...
- mrelusive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Both digg pages link to Shacknews.
  
  What am I not getting here?
- sickswaystop, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1life is unfair get over it and get used to it
- rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3I want to potty! I want a cookie! I want to stay up! I want, I want, I want! Me, Me, Me! Mine, Mine, Mine! Now, Now, Now! Can’t you understand, child? They tell you stories to shut you up.
  
  They were happier before you were born.
- excessdan, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1well your digg was crap. the whole thing came from shacknews and this one links to the shacknews article
RedJeans542, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1This just made my day.
woodwater, on 04/24/2008, -0/+25I asked my bossed straight out a few weeks ago.
He saw my GTA background and said:
Him: "Oh when is that coming out"
Me: "the 29th, would it be possible to have the day off?"
Him: " Mmmm yeah sure, send me a request.."
I sent it to him today with the article link and a title "Eh, at least I'm being honest."

:P
- bgrah449, on 04/24/2008, -0/+10His response:
  "No. I'm being honest, too."
- solesoul, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5Oh hey, I didn't know you had a Digg account! Thats great, it saves me the trouble of going by your cubicle tomorrow to tell you hell no.
- JlmAWP, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I did this with Smash Brothers last month. I knew everything was cool when my boss seemed more jealous than upset. He understood like any other smart person would: vacation days are yours to do whatever you want with them.
NinjaPig, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Next Day's Article: Boss finds out employee feigned illness by looking at their facebook/xbox live gamer tag.
UGM2099, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I guy I know is taking Thursday & Friday off. Might as well... we'll all be dying to go home and play it and won't get anything done..
SurrealDream, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5The 29th will be my second day of work at my new job...Think I could get away with it?
- tehgoatman, on 04/24/2008, -0/+12do you want there to be a day 3?
- SteelFrog, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I took the 29th and 30th, but I've been here a while and taking vacation days. =D
- rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Dude when you start a new job it's easiest to get off. Tell them you had some unforeseen engagement and just need that day off. They really won't care. You're new. It's not making a bad impression, it just looks like you need to fit your new job into your life that didn't stop just because you got a new job.
  - SurrealDream, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1....can I subscribe to your newsletter?
- Moetownslick, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1eh...what's the worst that could happen, right?
skidme, on 04/24/2008, -4/+4Man...You guys do realize that real life is more important than a game? Right??
- surKaz, on 04/24/2008, -1/+9Pfft.. Boo you!... and your real life.
- rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4Life is but a game.. Learn to play it better. Enjoying yourself is the objective. Calling off to enjoy yourself instead of going to work and not enjoying yourself is a very real way to REALLY enjoy yourself in this so called 'real life'.
  
  Just imagine he's calling off to 'get laid' and approve of him, and take your internet tough guy trophy and put it on your mantle.
  - skidme, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Why would him getting laid be a better reason for getting off work? It's the same reason, I think...taking a day off to enjoy oneself.
    - rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1You completely miss the point I was making, and I don't want to explain it.
- Eslamicolt3, on 04/24/2008, -1/+4Skidme strikes me as the kind of guy who wouldn't let go of my hand until we got back on the bus.
  - rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Haha that was the best episode yet this season. I laughed almost the whole way through. Haven't done that since "Tsst"
- soupdawg30, on 04/24/2008, -1/+3Sitting in a cubicle is more important than enjoying one's self for a day?
  - skidme, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry, but not everyone works in a cubicle, unless they work in India. I realize the desire not to come in to work if I did work in a cubicle though.
    - rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1So working in fashion is better than taking a day to enjoy yourself? This is what we're inferring from you, and it's truly baffling people think this way.
      - skidme, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1My point is that a person can work and enjoy him/herself at the same time. If anyone here has a life so stressful, that they need to waste a day playing games, they'd better find a new life. If I were you, I would take that day off, but I would spend it doing something meaningful.
- Ramzy, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4I work Monday to Friday, 9 - 5, at a ***** desk, in a ***** cubical, surrounded by a bunch of ***** retards with nothing better to do but to annoy me by leaning over my cubical, spouting senseless drivel, thinking that i give a *****, while i'm trying to work.
  
  I think i've earned a day off to play GTAIV.
  - rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Sounds like someone's having a case of the MONDAYS.
    - Ramzy, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1I've got a case of the everydays.
  - skidme, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Art is that you?
zdiddy85, on 04/24/2008, -1/+4My boss definitely wouldn't fall for this. He'd reply back "You should wait for another time, I've heard the bridge is out due to terrorist attacks."
rentmitchum, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1I wish I had a 360, you can be sure I'd have a dead relative in "Liberty City" that day that I needed to mourn over.
standinero, on 04/24/2008, -6/+1They have an article about where to buy
http://www.gamingbits.com/content/view/3925/2/
Here is some stuff about P3 vs 360
http://boards.ign.com/grand_theft_auto/b5257/16180 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV#D ...
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/microsoft-co ...
- justice7, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1i dont understand.
soupdawg30, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1I lucked out. It is dead day at school and my normal off day at work.
coheedcollapse, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Is it sad that I'm depressed that I'll be on vacation in Colorado without my PS3 when it comes out? Because I am.
slimjim5811, on 04/24/2008, -0/+6Microsoft,
Please overnight my refurbished 360 Elite to me so that I may enjoy GTA IV sooner.

Thank you,
slimjim5811
- Conwaysb0718, on 04/24/2008, -1/+5Dear Slimjim5811,
  
  No.
  
  Ciao,
  Microsoft
- driftwood07, on 04/24/2008, -1/+4Dear slimjim5811,
  
  Just buy another one
  
  Thanks
  Microsoft
- KevinRWright, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Dear slimjim5811,
  
  Do you like to cyber?
  
  Thanks,
  Kevin
FizzanoMatrix, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Does this game use the remodded Synapse engine? Boss should've AskJeeve'd Liberty City
Needles13, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Can someone tell Microsoft to make better 360's? Mine has broken for the third time a week ago and I won't get to play GTA IV for a while...I missed Halo 3 release because of the red ring of death too!
Soulprint, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Oh yea I just told my boss im going on a vacation. A digital vacation. With hookers and guns and things. He gave me a weird ass look....
Redorb1790, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1My RRoD is coming I've had it since it came out and it hasn't got it....or I just lucked out.
shondell, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1not only am i going to get work off, but im also going to skip college classes too! YAY!
This game is going to ruin my life
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