• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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    2 hours ago

    Off topic somewhat, the place I work I managed to stumble upon a CRT TV with a built in VHS play which was hiding in a corner of a room nobody ever goes in, then in a completely separate part of the large site, a huge amount of old marketing VHS tapes. I got it working and was watching some old non-released TV ads from 80’s and 90’s. Today was a good day.

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    18 hours ago

    I was a manager at Blockbusters in '93.

    I’m not sure how to feel about this.

    But if there is not a segment in the game where I am ordering “All Holes Filled with Hard Cock” in front of an 8 year old, or randomly locking the door to go hang out at the convenience store next door, then I am not interested.

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      “Fine then, let me just borrow your car”

      “What for?”

      “I want to rent a movie”

      “you work…at a video store”

      “I work at a shitty video store! I want to go to a good video store and get a good movie!”

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      The way our character shows up on their day off and loans out VHS tapes before diving face first into a mooby’s combo meal is full of the exaggerated swagger of a middle-aged rental clerk.

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      So a gas station attendant simulator? Pick a pack of smokes off a wall of packs, restock beer in the cooler, empty trash bags near pumps, and occasionally do full service?

      I wouldn’t want to relive that again. Chevron sucked as a job.

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    I used to work at a Blockbuster, I’m not sure I’d want to relive those days.

    My favorite was when customers would come in with the cards we mailed out letting them know they were in collections for a late return. something like $4.25 (yes we’d send people to collections for the cost of a rental) and they’d always have the same complaint “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.

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      Hot take - If you can’t pay for a damn video tape rental you can’t be trusted to pay your house loan.

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        Yeah sorry I agree with you. Entire point of the credit system is to let people like mortgage lenders know how trustworthy you are. All you really need for a good score is to simply pay things off on time. If you ignore the small things, how will you treat the big things?

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        the excuse was, according to them, that having the late fee sent to collections would destroy their credit thus preventing them from getting a loan.

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            More like, “well for just $4.25, plus my convenience fee of $100, we can resolve this problem”

            I love being assholes to assholes, so the chub is just a side benefit.

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                For bitching about $4 that they should have paid weeks/months ago, bothering staff like that is going to be an easy way out. Using a bullshit excuse for pity.

                If you can’t afford $4, what house are you buying? Exactly. They just expect to be treated ‘different’, because ‘they’ are ‘better’.

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              Yeah, but then you give them something to complain about afterwards. Pissing them off by being kind is sooooo much more rewarding. You haven’t experienced pettiness until you’ve gotten a customer to a boiling rage by being nothing but saccharine and professional to a pissed off customer looking for a fight.

              I used to work retail cell phone sales for a now defunct reseller, and we’d frequently get people in who got pissed off when they found out we couldn’t do a lot of carrier functions, and boy was it fun winding people up by being kind, courteous and professional.

              I wasn’t as bad as the South Park ISP dudes, but same vibe lol

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      “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.

      I’m sure they did nothing wrong with that house once they bought it…

      *looks at housing market*

      OP you should have doubled the fine

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    23 hours ago

    it’s selling the longe gone dream of working yourself up with honest work not possible anymore in monopoly driven late stage capitalism

  • I just heard about another game not out yet where you run a video rental store during the day, but at night you basically turn into John Wick. It has both a rental store sim, and a Watch_Dogs looking action game combined. It sounded pretty dope.