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given how lovely the modern current age is , im starting to wonder if a bnunch ofold physical analog things are infact better.
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Eh, the horse has very much bolted with physical media, and in the age of social media it has never been easier for studios to get meaningful and useful feedback, if they actually care to and put in the slightest effort.
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On the one hand, ridiculous Trekkie arguments and rants on social media. On the other... 
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All I can see is an amalgam of Comic Book Guy and Grandpa Simpson writing those. "I am not a crank."
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IIRC, Spock's death was deliberately leaked by Roddenberry to try and create a fan backlash so he'd get control of the movies again and could finally make his 'Spock shoots JFK' idea made.
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Nice how they put in that fake out Spock death in the simulation right at the beginning, so people on edge would think "oh, that's it?" and breathe easy... for a while.
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Tunicate posted:I rememebr seeing an excerpt of some comic posted where superheros are at a bar, might have been misfits. Super Stupor (Randy Milholland) from 2007. Wayback machine link b/c his side project sites have been broken for a while and he's kind-of busy with a Real Job, fatherhood, updating Something Positive (https://www.somethingpositive.net), and other issues: https://web.archive.org/web/20220512180856/http://superstupor.com/sust11262007.shtml
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I'm glad we saved the city, but cpuldn't you have told us about that power earlier?
Oh everyone had a couple useless powers they don't tell anyone about. Take Bob, here, he can make anyone tell the truth
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My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? In my country almost everyone pays with a debit card for amounts higher than  so it's hard to imagine stores needing to offload huge loads of cash money. I understand how cash is still king in rural USA, but in big cities (where money truck heist movies are always situated) I'd expect mostly non-cash transactions.
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Generally there are more people in cities than rural areas. Even if 0.1% of the population are spending cash comparatively, that's still more cash by volume, and it's gotta go somewhere.
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Apr 14, 2024 20:17
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Clear_Blue posted:My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? Banks are responsible for keeping cash in hand and that money moves around
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Why would a money truck be leaving the bank?
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Clear_Blue posted:My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nowhere near as in the 60s/70s where it was routine to pay your staff in cash (c.f. Great Train Robbery) but: Money trucks can carry precious metals and jewelery as well, banks have to move money from branch to branch (get each branch's money close to the desired branch amount in the desired denominations), the money to fill ATMs has to come from somewhere, large venues need to deposit cash ($10/beer is a fairly cheap NFL price) , etc; also of course if there is less cash total there are going to be fewer money trucks, but the value of a single money truck is going to be reasonably close to constant if the money truck company can help it. They still happen - You can probably expect a movie in a little while about the LA $30m vault heist over Easter: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-03/sylmar-burglary-money-storage-facility-30-million There are some links in the story to other recent-ish heists.
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I work in a poker room with two ATM's. I feel confident thinking that the trucks who service them are carrying well into 5 figures, yes.
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i asked the buttcoin thread and never got an answer, but I kinda wonder how often buttcoin ATMs have pickup service for dollars deposited. or if they can even output money back.
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My general IMM is story universes where some people have powers and others don't, and there's not really a satisfactory explanation as to why. In both Harry Potter and Avatar some people can potentially do magic and others can't, this is often a hereditary trait much like force sensitivity. I prefer the logic in Onward, where in theory anyone can learn magic, but it takes a lot of time and dedication (though they ruined that by having one brother able to do magic and for plot reasons it couldn't be the grognard brother). In the Onward universe magic died out not for lack of potential but because technological alternatives were more practical. When training to be a doctor and administering antibiotics takes less time and work than learning cure spells you won't see a lot of shamans anymore. But because the magic and the potential to learn it still exists that gives anyone a chance to be adept. I think the Willow universe works the same way, where I get the sense that self belief/faith plays a much more important part of magic than inherent traits- a Daikini that thinks magic is phony or just weird Elf nonsense is never going to be able to master it the way a true believer would. This also helps explain why in fantasy settings it's more common in cults, secret societies, or cultures 'outside' of contemporary civilization.
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Weed is legal in a lot of states in the US but is still technically illegal federally so weed shops deal entirely in cash. I guarantee there is a lot of cash moving around in trucks on the west coast. Have there been heist movies about weed store stick ups? e: Just remembered there's a weed store robbery scene in the movie You Hurt My Feelings lol 800peepee51doodoo has a new favorite as of 01:00 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Weed is legal in a lot of states in the US but is still technically illegal federally so weed shops deal entirely in cash. I guarantee there is a lot of cash moving around in trucks on the west coast. Have there been heist movies about weed store stick ups? Dispensaries where I live were cash-only for a long time but no longer are.
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Were I am live no one would be seen dead using something as gauche as plastic these days. It's all precious gems and gold bars for purchases. Gold being a bit heavy, obviously it's the servants that carries that.
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credburn posted:Dispensaries where I live were cash-only for a long time but no longer are. I may need to change where I'm going if that's the case because the one near my house still requires cash
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I may need to change where I'm going if that's the case because the one near my house still requires cash They always have a fee to do it, though, so often you're better off just using their ATM and paying in cash, anyway. At least, around here (Oregon)
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In La you can use your debit card but there's some small fee attached.
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At the San Diego ones I've been to they always have to use some jank rear end processing routine but the general gist is that for card purchases they round the price up to the nearest 5 and give you cash change. It's got something to do with banks, but I don't care to learn more, I'm buying edibles right then.
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theironjef posted:At the San Diego ones I've been to they always have to use some jank rear end processing routine but the general gist is that for card purchases they round the price up to the nearest 5 and give you cash change. It's got something to do with banks, but I don't care to learn more, I'm buying edibles right then.
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Thanks for the explanation guys. And in hindsight it's not surprising that money truck companies want to optimize efficiency, which means stuffing the trucks with as much money as possible. It just seems like such an obvious target for criminals: big slow trucks loaded with loads of money and relatively low security measures. Does anybody know if money truck content can be insured?
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Clear_Blue posted:Does anybody know if money truck content can be insured? Every transport company I found were clear that the items being transported were insured from the moment they take possession until the moment it's delivered.
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Do money trucks have like giant dye-packs mounted in the back to drench all the notes if they hit a button in the cab?
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The Lone Badger posted:Do money trucks have like giant dye-packs mounted in the back to drench all the notes if they hit a button in the cab?
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FFT posted:It could be useful like the way school fire alarms might pop dye when pulled, but are you under the impression the money is just stacked in the back like Walter White's stash? lol, "stacked". It's just in there in a giant heap, like a mini-version of Scrooge McDuck's swimming pool/vault.
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Avatar at least is an explicitly spiritualist fantasy universe, that even runs on more or less Buddhist reincarnation mechanics, and it's strongly implied Bending is a spiritual thing as much as anything else. At least in the original series, it can seem to run in families, but it can also pop up in non-bending families, and no one finds either particularly strange. (Although I think there is at least one case with the sword master Piando who mentions being disowned because he couldn't Firebend... and then proceeded to become one of the most formidable men in the world without it) One of those things where much like Star Wars, trying to explain it only really made the problems worse.Clear_Blue posted:My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? Been answered before that sometimes it still happens, but does remind me how Payday 2 has at least a mention in the leadup to almost every heist the reason why a particular bank or other facility happens to be flush with cash or other assets the crew can make a quick buck from. From the smaller ones it's usually because they're temporarily holding a large amount of cash or gold that's being transferred, and one of the bigger one is a huge bank whose whole deal is never being successfully robbed. (til today!) Comes up a lot in heist movies and movies with heists; there's at least a mention of the timing and the reasons for it. Even Sugar and Spice has the high school cheerleaders advised to, iirc, hold up a bank branch right after Christmas when they're loaded with cash, and in The Dark Knight they're robbing a mob bank which does not expect to be robbed. (And as part of a wider strategy to get the mobsters to transfer their money to a supposedly more secure location, that also gets it all in one place) It makes a lot of sense; you don't want to go through all the risk and time investment to end up with a paltry amount of cash, or bust open an armoured truck only to find it's empty because it dropped off all the money already. And dramatically it serves well to give the heist a limited time window of opportunity.
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Now days I would think there would be plenty of banks that hold gently caress all money, as like why? Most people are using ATM's to withdraw if you really need cash, and their card/online banking/shopping for most other stuff. Would differ from bank to bank, but I'm betting there's plenty that would usually have a few thousand at most. I know there's a small local branch of the bank I use near me that has an atm out the front and a big sign inside saying "no money held on premise".
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Yeah, most smaller banks are only holding a few thousand on hand. Anyone trying to take out huge sums are going to have to go through a process even if they have it "in their account".
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writers (and maybe users posting right now) dont know about fractional reserve banking. any way in this series of posts, a history of banking and finance .... 1/3245782987548
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Clear_Blue posted:My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? Not a money truck heist., but in Norway there was a robbery against a company that distributes cash to banks (they probably use trucks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOKAS_robbery It's worth noting that even though the amount of money they got away with was staggering they were no where close to getting all the money they were storing.
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Clear_Blue posted:My IIMM: money truck heists. In real life, do those trucks actually carry tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars? Apparently a sheriff tried to steal over a million from just two trucks a couple years ago. They returned the money. https://apnews.com/article/business-health-lawsuits-california-marijuana-ed1a1f766df895b22f43f41af5a7df19
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My favorite real-life truck heist was the dude who saw a bucket of gold dust that the guards left sitting on the open truck and just took his shot. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/nyregion/gold-flake-theft-robbery.html
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drat wonder how heavy a bucket of gold dust or gold flakes would be. also what the volume of the bucket is so we can get density. e: read the article some more 86 pounds.
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Gold is loving heavy. I remember that poo poo from reading Encyclopedia Brown. I mean, maybe it's from seeing too many movies, but if I saw a pile of money somewhere, I am not going near that poo poo. It's cursed or it's a gang's or something. In disney's Encanto, why is it such a huge thing that this one family/dude is going to marry into the Madrigals, so they need to make sure the dinner is 100% loving perfect! What dude would not want to marry into this loving magic family! No one knows how the grandma rules with an iron fist, everyone in the town just sees the magic. There would be lines of people wanting to get in that poo poo.
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The thing I found most annoying about Encanto is how they have a whole bit about how they don't actually need the magic and the entire plot was about how the various family members felt stifled by their powers. Then the end is everyone getting their powers back.
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In The Punisher (1989) Frank lives in a sewer. When he gets home from being stabbed in the chest, he cauterizes the wound with a bowie knife instead of stitching it up. He has unlimited access to sewer guns and ammo, but not a sewer first-aid kit? Also, I'm boycotting the Fallout TV show because the plot should have been entirely based on the unused entries in the Wasteland paragraph book.
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DoomLazer posted:In The Punisher (1989) Frank lives in a sewer. When he gets home from being stabbed in the chest, he cauterizes the wound with a bowie knife instead of stitching it up. He has unlimited access to sewer guns and ammo, but not a sewer first-aid kit? It's hard to understate how important it is that it was the 80's. Action hero machismo expectations were beyond parody.
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