Quick one for you, Crew, because this needs to be said while it's fresh .. and because it happened twice in two days. Wednesday, Pokémon Center (11am–3pm EST): The first wave of chaos. Pokémon Center's queue system went into "maintenance mode" repeatedly during this window - people got within a minute of the front of the line only to get bounced back to the start, over and over. Others made it all the way to checkout with items in their cart, only to have the site crash on them. Reports pointed to a new anti-bot measure throwing a brand-new error at phone users specifically ... an error longtime PC shoppers say they'd never seen before. Late Thursday night into Friday (after 4am EST), Target: Just a few hours later, Target opened its own Pitch Black preorders .. and ran into the same wall. Their anti-bot measure ended up blocking real shoppers trying to check out, while doing little to actually stop bots from getting through. So two different retailers, two differ...