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  • Doctor Snag down there trying to hide from the police after the college students made a game out of mixing him 1:1 with whiskey and making pledges drink until they fall over.

    If that's real, and not AI, that wins. Store brand of the year.

  • I'm not sure how many lost their jobs to the machines at all. At a glance there appear to be about 4 attendants per self-checkout area, which is at least a dozen self-checkout machines at our local Walmart, so they all stay busy enough what with telling the machine I'm old enough to buy beer and such.

    Minus the self-checkout machines I could imagine 2 of the 4 clerks running the usual "not enough cashiers" play that stores got famous for, with the other 2 being sent to the back for whatever duties. Possibly they aren't hired at all.

    If my questionable observations are accurate, then that means that maybe Walmart is getting more throughput, with everyone ringing themselves up, but maybe they aren't spending a bunch less on labor.

    I can't see anybody going back on the self-check machines, though. Not after all that money spent, and the decade that retailers have spent waiting for customers to learn how to do the job themselves, especially the older folks. That was a bitter change to buy, so it's wishful thinking that we're going right back to human checkout only.

    Hell, Aldi just installed a couple self checkout machines here. They were the one holding out, too, since an Aldi cashier zooms the groceries through so fast it's tough to justify. Oh, and they're trying to have that one person, with shoppers in front of them, also be the attendant for the self-check machines. I double scanned something by accident and the clerk had to stop their own line to help me by pushing a button from way over there and then back to scanning they went.

    Come on, Aldi.

  • I think you're expecting some women to show up and argue with you like this is drive time FM radio with Wacky Bob the DJ but all you're going to get is dudes trying to act like they won because they get mad at the word hygiene and piss on the seat when they leave just to spite you.

    Yes, when they leave. They won't put the lid down without a gun to their heads, but they'll hold one last bit of tinkle just for you.

    This joke needs a more appropriate venue, is what I'm saying . Nobody here actually cares about the subject.

  • I really don't want to make a thing of it, but it's nice to hear the original voice acting. I kinda want to hear that Japanese voice actress who's probably famous for all sorts of roles, it seems unfair to consume everyone else's work but not hers, so I want to pick up the OG vibe from the dubbed anime if I can. I bet undubbed Cowboy Bebop is good stuff, I should find that and watch it.

    It can get crazy though. US DBZ gives fairly masculine voices to all male characters who are not obviously children, even if most of them sound like young men and aren't all that bassy, save, of course, Piccolo and Vegeta. Vegeta always sounds like he's trying to put some bass in his voice, but he's all nasal. Still. Man voices. Even Krillen gets a grown man voice, even if he's reedy and is supposed to sound like a pipsqueak.

    I watched 10 minutes of the show once that was in notEnglish and absolutely the fuck not. Everyone had extremely high-pitched little boy voices which was fucking weird, and I kept waiting for them to drop the gag, but no, that's their voices for that version. Goku sounding like a chipmunk squeaker yelling in some other language. No thanks. To this day I have no idea what language that was.

    So sometimes you just want subbed anime. Sometimes you want to watch Tenchi Muyo with a Ryoko who sounds right. My strong opinion is that I shouldn't have one when it comes to subs v dubs, that's internet clown stuff for people who think arguing is a fun sport.

  • Ah, the late 1900s when you could still pretend that Apple was the choice of the counterculture for no credible reason except for Apple marketing. Slacktivism, my dude. Worthless.

    This meme is truly ancient. I bet those little iMacs go for a pretty penny on eBay now after everyone tossed them in the garbage circa 2003.

  • Lemmy needs a community dedicated to pointless debate over which flashlight is best. I'm about to permanently borrow somebody's ThruNite T1 but it's too heavy, I miss the mini Maglite I used to carry. Phone flash is fine, yes, but I miss a flashlight/torch without a fucking login procedure involved for fuck sake.

  • There's a fella on YouTube who talks about game development and stuff. He has a well-respected game out somewhere, and he dropped a bombshell that you probably need to hear.

    They took their game, on a PC and consoles, out to some sort of convention to show it off and get some feedback from potential customers, namely, young children, Alphas, 6-12 ish.

    He said that every single one of them ignored keyboards and game controllers, shoving them out of the way, not even understanding what they were for, and immediately started swiping their fingers on the screens, assuming they were touchscreens. So yeah.

  • Oh well, I suppose everyone will lay down and die with no access to music. What will artists do without that all important half a peso for 5000 streams?

    Cash money says there's already a native competitor just waiting to get that money. If not there will be soon. Maybe people will just buy records again, shit. Uruguay isn't doing half bad, financially, maybe they'll bring tapes back.

    It has been quite something to see American tech companies rolling out across the world trying to pull that same old "sign the EULA or lose everything" bullshit and it's just not working for them. Too bad we can't kick them in the dick like other nations can.

  • Everyone's all "I don't know how InBev became a multibillion dollar global juggernaut corporation, it must have been YOU slovenly alcoholics!"

    The Scots are in the corner, leaning a bit too hard on the bricks, like "If it's named after your country you pretty much HAVE to drink it! At least we don't have problems with beer so long as you keep the pint up straight!"

    I can't understand German so I'm sure that's why they all sounded so muddy when they talk. Not the huge steins of beer. No. Don't be silly.

    Spiderman pointing at Spiderman pointing at Spiderman until we all fall the hell down. It's nice to have something in common.