This has been a shitty week for Super Paper Mario players. First SUX 2BU: Circuit City offered customers a twenty dollar gift certificate if they were sold out of Super Paper Mario for the Wii. And by sold out, they meant only if "we never had any to begin with," suckers. Super Scam City was a pretty depressing afternoon for a lot of gamers this week, but things have gotten even worse overseas. SUX 2BU2: Gamers in Europe and Japan who started Super Paper Mario without downloading the most recent updates are reporting that their Wiis are bricking, due to the game containing an NTSC-U Wii update that's not compatible with early PAL and Japanese Wii firmware. Brings a whole new meaning to Mario busting bricks, so beware of the Wii death and deceit that's going around.

Ever since Sony put the UMD in dumb, stores have been stuck with shelves of odd shaped movies that no one wants. We're seeing the same thing again with a flood of Blu-ray films, except people are actually buying them now that there's something larger than a PSP screen to watch them on. Here's the partial list of the 16 UMDs that Circuit City is selling in their "buy one get one free" ten dollar deal:

• Bad Boys
  
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Black Hawk Down
• Jerry Maguire
• Men in Black
• Big Daddy
• 50 First Dates
• Spiderman 2
• Air Force One
• Anger Management

Not a bad list, but the only thing I'm willing to watch on a portable device is a TV show. I wonder how long it'll be until we have to get our kids portable Blu-ray 60 GB gaming devices for Christmas. The deal lasts until March 17th, and it's offered in stores only, not online.

Circuit City has a sweet deal going on for all you PSP owners. Frisbee toss your old 32MB memory cards into the trash and pick up these 256MB Pro Duos for free. The catch? The infamous mail in rebates - they cost $29.99, but offer a $30 mail in rebate to negate the purchase fee. Sounds like a good Christmas present idea to me.