chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 9 hours ago:
We’d pretend to be oblivious to them stealing it while making it obvious they’re being actively observed.
- Comment on Banana 14 hours ago:
Picked by slaves.
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 15 hours ago:
I worked in a major outdoors chain, and out policy was to prevent most theft with customer service.That is, you see someone stuffing shit in a box for a cheaper product you go over to them and start talking about the products and making sales pitches and either embarras them into “deciding not to buy it”, or they go through with it and you let it happen.
The only thing we’d physically intervene on was gun theft, and we had a designated armed employee on every shift (usually a retired cop) that handled that if they tried to leave before the local police arrived. It only came up once when I was there, and the local police did arrive in time, so they followed the thieves out of the lot and pulled them over.
The most dramatic event when I was there was actually kinda fun. We ran a background check on a guy and it got a delay, and the guy said he’d go eat in town and to call him if it came back in the next hour or so so he could save a trip. Turns out he was a fugitive, and the FBI called us to ask about the sale.
We quickly got a bunch of police dropped off in a bus so their cars wouldn’t be visible, and they hid in a few offices around the store, and I called the guy back and told him the background check came back with a proceed.
Then when he came in the door I met him at the front and walked him down a pre-arranged route to the gun counter while chatting him up while the police blocked the aisles around us, and then I got “paged” over the intercom to go to the manger’s office and pointed to the register where another salesman could check him out.When I was clear the police moved in on him.
It was kinda awesome.
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 1 week ago:
About a day
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 1 week ago:
Only good thing is that the venom doesn’t have lasting effects if you get artificial respiration in time.
They put you on a ventilator until it wears off, and then you’re fine.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.
Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
They don’t want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that’s someone downhill’s problem.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.
All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 2 weeks ago:
When the butchers at a single Walmart store in Texas formed a union, Walmart retaliated by firing every butcher nationwide and switching to only pre-packed meats for all stores.
They’ll put themselves through a lot to make sure the peons don’t get too uppity.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done Barf several times, and it’s always a hit in public.
I made a tail that came out of my pants and had 2 bent coathangers run parallel to eack other inside the cloth for support that went into the pants and were bent back up and around, came out the top of the pants and wrapped around my belt.
That made the tail stand at whatever angle I wanted by bending the coathangers, but when I walked it had a great, natural bounce and wag.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 2 weeks ago:
Mods - please ban this
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Back when it was under the price of 2 games a year it was a pretty good deal. Thinking of buying the next Halo and Forza? Get gamepass and save money, and have the opportunity to try a bunch of other stuff you wouldn’t have played.
There’s amazing games like Hades and Slay the Spire that I wouldn’t have been interested enough in to purchase that are now among my favorites because Gamepass let me try them.
Honestly, I think the better route would be to keep it cheap but not include new releases. Let people access the back catalog affordably with games that aren’t brining in much new revenue anyway. People will discover games and genres they otherwise would not have played, which will create new markets and boost ssales of new releases.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 3 weeks ago:
The franchise basically created the microtransaction.
As much flak as Oblivion got for horse armor, the Sims did it first.
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it affects dairy directly, but there’s a screw worm infestation in Mexico spreading to the US that’s having a huge impact on beef.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 3 weeks ago:
The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he’s famously bitchy about filmmakers changing his storylines.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 3 weeks ago:
343 is remastering Halo 1 again?
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 4 weeks ago:
Their console strategy is squarely aimed at Gamepass, which is a good deal for many gamers even with Steam. My ROG Ally has both Xbox and Steam games on it, and I probably do split time between them 50/50.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 4 weeks ago:
My series S shit the bed literally yesterday.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 weeks ago:
The English measure weights in stone.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 5 weeks ago:
Something I’ve kinda come to accept about Gearbox is that Pitchford is an ass and sometimes they farm out products when they shouldn’t (ACM bring the biggest example), but most of the devs actually working on the games really do care about the product and want it to be good.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 5 weeks ago:
The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.
At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.
I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.
- Comment on arriving 5 weeks ago:
I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 5 weeks ago:
Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.
Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.
Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
That was last year.
Now it’s… Tylenol?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.
Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 1 month ago:
Middle class is a fabrication designed to make the working poor think they’re better off than they really are.