Rhynoplaz @ Rhynoplaz @lemmy.world

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Maybe you've been a bit this whole time.

It's been too long since I played the first game, but in 2, you try to go straight and live the simple farm life and it's such a boring part of the game. Typically that's a bad thing, but I loved how it simulated that itch for chaos. As a player, you're thinking the same thing as the character. "Not long ago, I was riding around shooting people and making tons of money, and now I'm shoveling shit for pennies a day." When the mission comes to go back to your roots and raise some hell, you know you shouldn't, but damn does it feel good to get back to doing what you love.

The dashes and bullet points always give it away.

This is so true.

When I worked at a cell phone store, we had an accessory take rate (ATR) target. The goal was to sell 3-5 accessories for every phone sold. (The accessories had much more profit. Compared to the phones that were sold at a loss with a contract) We would sling cheap screen protectors and clearance items that were only a few bucks to crank that number up without actually getting the customers to spend more money.

They caught on and changed it to Accessory revenue per phone, and suddenly the cheap junk quit moving and we'd only have to get one person per day to buy a Bluetooth speaker to hit target.

None that I know of.

I was in my first year of college, and pretty much doing exactly what you do, except we were playing Pokemon and Goldeneye.

Yes

Police, doctors, so-called experts, scholars, scientists, even celebrities.

Yes, no, maybe, no, no, and maybe.

Fuck the police, they are the brute force of the man.

Doctors more times than not are honestly concerned for your health.

It depends how so-called the experts are. Many people actually are experts in their field and should be listened to.

Scholars have studied the material they know inside and out. They are not just repeating what they've heard, they become scholars by questioning, testing, and investigating alternatives to what they have learned.

Scientists, see above.

Most celebrities are just regular people with a louder voice. And like regular people, some were raised poor, others rich, some religious, others not so much. Their opinions shouldn't count any more than if a regular person were to say it. Based on what you know about their experiences, you have to judge whatever advice they feed you.

Of course, there could be a swindler or asshole in any of those categories, those fuckers are everywhere, but those are the exception.

My first console!

My dad got it used off a coworker for $50.

If someone shows up, they could really just say anything and I'd let them in.

So much so, that I think that's actually who it is.

Yup

They just keep growing.

After five kids, I'm convinced it's the second one. They sure are sweet, but they will lie and cheat to get whatever they want before they can speak the truth.

But I suppose the innocence of youth is not the same as the legal definition of innocence. Its not so much what they do but more that they don't know any better yet.

I'll agree that there are instances where it works, but the tricky part is knowing who those were. I love your second example because I worked at one of those stores and the manager could definitely get things done if you were polite and got the employees to advocate for you.

But, we wouldn't be much use in the first example because all applications were online, and the GM didn't interview anyone until HR told them to.

They have since closed that store, so there are only authorized agents in my town, and there's not a damn thing they can do for your billing issues.

"haven't had any complaints" (They've all been too polite)

I forgot about the second statement if that's how it played out.

Just seems to me like the big story was him being drunk with his kids in the car and trying to get out of it by playing the LEO Get out of jail free card.

Despite whoever interprets this as defending racism (which it absolutely isn't) I still think it's a predatory click bait headline looking for reaction traffic.

This is such a sensationalist framing of this incident.

Don't get me wrong, Its a great video. I watched the whole thing last night and this guy is a real piece of shit all around. It was great watching him go down, but focusing on one sentence in a thirty minute video just to put racism in the headline is dirty journalism.

We could hear that the officer had a thick Haitian accent before this guy made his remark, and there isn't a negative tone when he asks, he could have been trying to build a connection with this guy to talk his way out of the ticket. The other officer shut down the whole topic quickly and the drunk didn't bring it up again.

The guy probably is racist as hell, but I don't think there's condemning evidence of that in this video.

The subculture is a good point. I would not have been paying close enough attention to those to really appreciate their nuances.

Doesn't take much to convince me of that!