Why are the local rental stores shrinking their GameCube rental collections? Just a month ago I could have gone to Hastings and found at least three whole rows of games available for rental. When I was there last night there was less than two rows (a row and a half, believe it or not) and at least a fifth of them were currently rented out.

On the other hand, I can see why they're shrinking the collection; I'm very reluctant to pay seven bucks to rent a video game. I feel insulted they offer me a dollar credit for returning it before closing the next day. There is no way I'm paying seven bucks for a game for 36 hours or less, not when I can buy most of them for two or three times that.