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 Today, I went to WFM to return two boxes of rotten "Green Beans with Almonds" that were part of the "Turkey Dinner for 8" I had purchased. The customer service lady told me to go to cash-register 6 and wait there for her. I waited for about 10 minutes and she never came. Then I went over to another aisle and asked if they did returns there. They pointed me back to customer service, and the lady who had told me to go to 6 in the first place acted like she had done nothing wrong. I am never shopping at WFM again.

Let me preface this review by saying that I'm a Nintendo and Zelda fan. I have played all the Zelda games except for the CD-i games, and have beaten "Ocarina of Time", "Wind Waker" and "Twilight Princess". When 3DS was released in North America, I did not get it on day one, but I did get it on day three, and when "Ocarina of Time 3D" was released, I beat it three times, one for each save file you get. I had to delete a save file to play it a fourth time. You are probably thinking that a main-series, console Zelda release can never be less than gaming perfection. However, I would beg to differ, pointing you to "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link". "Skyward Sword" is the second coming of "Zelda II" in that respect, and it has done the unthinkable and finally supplanted it as the most disappointing Zelda game of all time. If you have not played this game, you have no idea how terrible it is, so before...

Newegg's customer-service, or at least its chat system, is so bad. Twice, I have chatted online with them, and both times, they have not even remotely solved my problems. They just spit out stock answers that they cut and paste from a database. It is really shameful. Their video-games division is beyond awful. I am never pre-ordering from them again. They did not have stock of a game I pre-ordered two months in advance. That is shameful as well.

What is meaning? This is the question that drives people, whether they realize it or not. The people that do not realize that they live their lives in search of meaning are constantly looking for approval, accomplishment and the next step in their lives. So many people look outward for meaning. They look to their parents, to society, to media, to their friends, and to strangers for meaning. But rarely do they look within. When they do look within, it is only to see if something within themselves can correlate to someone else's version of meaning. And when they find it, they are overjoyed. They go to the gym and wrack their bodies, they go to school to get the degree to get the job to make the money. They hit on the opposite sex so that they can either get into someone's pants or provide the basis for a foundation in which he/she can marry and eventually have a baby. This is folly. Is meaning relative? Perhaps, but I do believe that there are some absolute truths in the world. F...