November 12th, 2007

by PacManPolarBear (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/author/pacmanpolarbear/)

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After a long night of gaming and web surfing, I awoke, as I always do….confused, hungry, and a bit smelly. Since general confusion is a morning constant for me, I immediately addressed my second problem. I was hungry. Like all 26 year old bachelors, I dine on only the finest fast food and frozen dinners. Finding only a four pound bag of rice and some peanut butter in the kitchen, I set out for the neighborhood pizza joint. Did I mention I awoke at 12pm? It’s also known as “morning” for all real gamers and night shift workers.

Anyway, it seemed the same as the thousand similar journeys before it. Not thinking, I hit the mall at the peak of the lunch hour, dooming me to the long line of boredom. PSP (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/category/sony/psp) in hand, I turned on a few music videos, willed my gut to stop rumbling and settled into a long wait for the best pizza the mall had to offer. The gentleman in front of me, apparently just as bored, began playing Syphon Filter on his PSP (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/category/sony/psp). From his muttered curses and crazed twitching, he was obviously struggling with a portion of the game. I can understand his lack of skill, as pizza is the prime power source for gamers. Not able to control my curiosity, I took a gander at his screen.

Read the rest of this amazing story after the jump!

Having played all the Syphon Filter titles to infinity and beyond, I politely gave him the solution to his problem, which allowed him to finally finish the level. Just as he achieved victory, we both came to the counter and ordered our delicious pizza. Alas, my early morning confusion came back to haunt me as I quickly discovered I had not brought my wallet with me!

Momentarily stunned and speechless, I was about to mutter an embarrassed apology when a $20 bill appeared before me. Mr. “Syphon Filter” looked at me and said, “Happens to the best of us man, thanks for the help, keep the change…” and walked off. In a world of casual disregard and apathy for our fellow man, a video game bridged the gap.

My belly and I thank you unknown hero. The best thing is that I now have money to buy MORE pizza tomorrow…if I can just remember to bring it with me this time.

All people give me at 12:00 in the morning is a black eye. :(

This is the type of news that should be brought to CNN, so people will finally see not all gamers are a bunch of loonatics thinking they should cut their mother's head off to net an achievement.

Too bad you weren't shopping at the jewelry store.

Cool story.

And that dude rocks, hopefully he finds his way over here to the forums.

You know, that pizza slice may very well be the best tasting one I have ever had. If I ever see him again I'll try and get him to stop by SG. I'm so tired of hearing how gaming makes people evil in the news, I have met some amazing people through gaming...and this is just proof positive that gamers really are good people.

I am not ashamed to say that article gave me a warm fuzzy feeling :)

Everything always taste's better when its free. :D!

Around where I live that would never happen,
It'd be more along the lines of.
'The man infront of me had a knife, he turned to me..

..1 minute later I was on the floor surrounded by something which was red, Thinking at first someone's spilt tomato sauce, And to my astonishment I looked down to see a knife in my stomach with a deep wound next to it, When I layed back down to the floor I turned my head to the left and saw the man who was in front of me running away with my psp in hand.'

Wow this stoy is proof that most gamers aren't crazed lunatics that want to kill people.

yea i think we all knew that its just those bastards at cnn that stereotype us and portray us as negatively
but thats a great story man
really helps you put confidence in people again

lol I did that with this guy but it was not a psp it was a ds it was at this taco place and i just put his order on my bill bc he tout he had a $20 and it was a single dollar lol. gamers have to stick together

With pizza being the fuel and source of all our powers, the question needs to be asked:

What toppings did you have on your pizza?




Nothing beats the power of random acts of kindness, this is one of those stories.

Usually a Super Supreme with BBQ sauce for me.