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  • lol no, silly, they don’t give you free money for that. That’s just the demographic they compare everything to as a baseline :)

    It obviously depends on the establishment in question, but you get free shit for being a veteran, teacher, healthcare worker, firefighter or other emergency worker, stuff like that. Or a senior probably, they get tons of free shit, too.


  • I’ve been to a casino exactly one time in my life, and it was earlier this year. Went for the cheap hotel.

    I did not spend any money at the casino, but I did get $15 free for being a certain demographic of new customer. I played that, won $158, cashed out and won’t ever do it again (unless I get more free money, anyway).

    I’m sure what they wanted by giving me a win on the last $2 (it’s all controlled by cards, they know what my demographic is, and that people in it are likely to be depressed and on the poor side, and thus potential gambling addicts) was for me to keep playing to try to score more, but what it really did was point out dark patterns and make me wildly uncomfortable with the whole situation…



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon doesn't tip
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    7 days ago

    It’s not a discount if you are expected to pay more to add a tip.

    But dude, quit changing the subject, I’m not talking about people not tipping within the current system, never have been, and neither was the person you originally replied to. I’ve worked tipped positions, so I very much understand how they work.

    So again, are you suggesting that if we do away with tipping, costs of food would increase by MORE than the present amount of a tip that gets tacked on? Because that’s the only way prices for the end consumer actually meaningfully raise. Most likely they will actually go down overall. Because again you have to pay the tip too.

    You are really bad at reading comprehension btw. That, or you are a piss-poor troll and intentionally misrepresenting literally everything… the option to be a leech is the customer, who in the present system can skip the tip. Like a leech.

    Also, there aren’t any restaurants around me that scrapped tipping, not a single fucking one within at least an hour of where I live, so your suggestion is impossible for me and very privileged.



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldWhat is this cart?
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    8 days ago

    It kinda looks like a game king cartridge, from the inside bits (can’t find a pic of the whole thing), but that’s from the early 2000s. I went through a list of older handhelds and that’s the closest entry. But importantly, that probably isn’t it.

    What you have is probably a regional knock-off sort of thing, or something that was never popular/prominent enough to be added to the wiki page.

    This is the handheld list I went through. I stopped at the DS, as I assume yours is considerably older than that. Some of the old systems only have a handful of games for them, so it’s possible it’s something that just wasn’t made in large numbers, but my bet is on super-generic-knockoff-gamebay/gamboy/toyboy/gamekid handheld system (jokey knockoff names not real things afaik), which are not listed with the actual non-knockoff systems. (I wasn’t able to find much about vintage knockoff/copy systems)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handheld_game_consoles




  • That’s like one of the super grindy JRPG titles I have (100 hours or so to get through the story). To get all the achievements, you’d have to play through an absolute minimum of 9 times, because you need to kill the end boss without taking damage on each difficulty level, and they unlock as you go. But you’d actually be grinding bosses for ages trying to get them without taking damage…

    The game was ok, but I honestly can’t see wanting to play it twice let alone 9 times… there’s definitely a reason almost nobody has those achievements…






  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzThe Perfect Bear
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    Damn man. At least they made the art they had banging around in their skulls.

    Meanwhile I can’t do a thing I’ve got so much reference material for because “what if it’s not just the way I want”

    you dumb bitch you can fix it if it sucks holy shit.

    Edit: I wonder if cave painters had issues with… not properly representing their vision… their visions were… more bison shaped then, but all the same…



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzTiny pp
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    11 days ago

    Testicle size and reproductive potency are entirely unrelated to penis size, for all the men out there. And if you only ever have one partner at a time that you want to make babies with, you don’t really need to be a super stud in the testicle department. You just need regular sexual contact with your lady half.

    But this shows that even if you do want all the ladies, large testicles don’t matter.

    (Aside; people with breeder fetishes who impregnate multiple women are fucking gross and weird. Musk is one such and just… eew.)