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Nam Taf posted:Checking out is vastly less important than checking in. At worst, you can give them an estimate of when you left and get a test. Vastly better than if you don't check in, end up catching it, and they can't trace. I pay by card so my bank statement will show what time I was leaving.
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I just walked by a restaurant where someone was fiddling with their phone while a magpie was eating their lunch. I walked up to her and told her that a magpie was eating her lunch but she didn't mind and went back to what she was doing.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I just walked by a restaurant where someone was fiddling with their phone while a magpie was eating their lunch. I walked up to her and told her that a magpie was eating her lunch but she didn't mind and went back to what she was doing. Straya
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I just remembered the fuckin Jupiter's ad in the gold coast bulletin talking up how they clean their machines on a fifteen minute schedule when they're not being used and thought that was the absolutely saddest way you could try to accommodate for corona imaginable. Not like in terms of a lack of effort just in terms of 'of course not only does that make sense but it also makes me feel dead inside' I was a pokie attendant/supervisor for a couple of years when I was younger Absolutely blackened my heart after a while cause you knew who all the problem gamblers were and that their kids are at home not able to get food. One guy was basically a slumlord and took all his tenants rent and put it through the pokies. RCG is a crock of poo poo. Let's you identify problem gamblers, but you get fined if you tell them they have a problem while their kids loving starve.
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Yeah I haven't done anything other than the basic bitch rsg you need to do payouts under 500 or whatever it is and it's incredible compared to the RSA cert how little 'responsible service' of gambling has to do with refusing service to addicts. Iirc the questions you answer are like 'whats the fine for letting a kid gamble' 'whats the difference between gaming and gambling' and 'can a kid use the machines under adult supervision' and then you're done. E: you get told about voluntary exclusion orders and that you're required to uphold them but they're a thing you need to fill out to say 'please stop me from throwing my money away here' and I only ever saw one punter ask for one and I don't think he ever filled it out because he was always still there Jezza of OZPOS fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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I'm seeing cunts wearing masks driving their cars alone in Sydney now used to be just melb lmao
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hmm those RSA's sound a lot like AFM certs that let me drive longer cause I has card not tired now so sleeepy...
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Weird what I can only assume was a flex from a dude walking past me without a mask in Ipswich. looked at me and spat on the ground about 2 metres in front of me. Maybe he's just a grub and didn't have a mask that day and those are two seperate things and I'm reading too much into it. I dunno. Mrs turnbeug freaked out and we turned around and went home after a 90 minute trip so I'm pissed at the dude either way, fuckin nasty poo poo even outside of pandemic times.
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:Yeah I haven't done anything other than the basic bitch rsg you need to do payouts under 500 or whatever it is and it's incredible compared to the RSA cert how little 'responsible service' of gambling has to do with refusing service to addicts. Iirc the questions you answer are like 'whats the fine for letting a kid gamble' 'whats the difference between gaming and gambling' and 'can a kid use the machines under adult supervision' and then you're done. Voluntary exclusion is bullshit. its a printed photo in a booklet at front desk of the venues you choose to (voluntarily) exclude from and no one checks it. when i worked at a bowlo they had 3 breaches where the person had Vol.Ex themselves and come straight back the day after and got let in no worries. its nigh impossible to enforce it between venues too. also nothing stopping people signing in as a guest instead of using their members card. the whole system is designed to look like you're doing everything while also doing absolutely nothing. the only good thing about working in the bowlo was the christmas parties and the crew. everything else was a grim reminder that death comes to us all and gambling/alcohol is bad for society.
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My old boss at the startup in South Granville was a fairly severe gambling addict but was also loaded to the loving eyeballs on cash (owning a $400m a year turnover business will do that) and I can distinctly remember him at a work do smacking $1000 bets on horses races back to back. Like legit I reckon he blew through $12k in an hour. Apparently he also owns horses and dogs and bets like $20k bets on cup day (loving LOSER)
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My lawn looks like poo poo because it was so overgrown, but at least it's no longer so high it hides the dog.
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I got all the whipper snippering done yesterday but I still have some pushie stuff and I need to bake some stuff for my neighbours as is my customary bribe when I ask to borrow their ride on, the flat down back is completely hosed and is a no man's land atm and it's only because the fire danger has been so low the last month Ive been able to let it slide. That parramatta grass has gone absolutely nuts with the constant rain and some of the stuff with seeds is thick and ropey like passionfruit vines or something. The pushie won't even knock it over and tbh I'm gonna have to ask how the ride on handles it at the length it's at because I will probably need to take the top off it in a lot of places
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Splashed out on a fancy rear end new fridge, and the fucker wont fit through the kitchen door. Taken the handles off, and the doors are next.
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gambling is poo poo, but automated poker machines are a scourge. it's beyond cliche after that big Whitlams song, but they really just should not be a thing. see also: cigarettes.
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Fat Jesus posted:I'm seeing cunts wearing masks driving their cars alone in Sydney now used to be just melb lmao lol this is me sometimes, I forget for a few minutes getting back in the car.
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I do that, but it's because if my mask isn't attached to my face I will absolutely lose it within 3 seconds BC I am a disorganised mess who needs to clean their gross car more often
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well why not posted:gambling is poo poo, but automated poker machines are a scourge. it's beyond cliche after that big Whitlams song, but they really just should not be a thing. see also: cigarettes. i wonder how low effort you could do a slot machine. like what if you put a metal box in a bar that just had a banknote slot and a lit up flashing sign that said 'put money here', i wonder how much money you'd get
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chaosbreather posted:i wonder how low effort you could do a slot machine. like what if you put a metal box in a bar that just had a banknote slot and a lit up flashing sign that said 'put money here', i wonder how much money you'd get Not nearly as much as the current machines rake in. They're very finely crafted to provide as much stimulus as they can which keeps the poor bastards using them as hooked on pushing the buttons as possible. I'm all for people having fun however they like it but gently caress the pokies they're an absolute cancer on society, and one which has been designed to inflict as much damage on vulnerable people as possible.
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well why not posted:https://twitter.com/nonstandardmcd/status/1341855121261641730 Where's Midland Maccas with the DC3 that you can book for your birthday parties
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Yeah like the whingers that said our machines at the golf club were too old and unlucky would still put through a decent whack before they'd go to the league's club but the real bells and whistles machines were always in high demand and I had punters asking about features I'd never even heard of before. I haven't been into the cas in a while but those machines are always the latest hot poo poo and they look more and more like arcade cabinets whenever I do go.
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ili posted:Not nearly as much as the current machines rake in. They're very finely crafted to provide as much stimulus as they can which keeps the poor bastards using them as hooked on pushing the buttons as possible. I'm all for people having fun however they like it but gently caress the pokies they're an absolute cancer on society, and one which has been designed to inflict as much damage on vulnerable people as possible. Yup poo poo is hosed and engineered specifically to extract maximum revenue from vulnerable people. I have had soooo many cases over the years at work of oldies losing hundreds of thousands to even millions from pokies. Probs most memorable gambling case I had the wife lost about a million and vanished while oldmate was losing his house to the bank since the mortgage payments had been going into the pokies and she never resurfaced. For so many the second they retire they get sucked into it and it is always ends in tragedy. My vices have always been drugs, tobacco and alcohol and i fit the addictive personality model perfectly so the way we celebrate and encourage people to gamble in this country really gets under my skin cause I know how easily I could fall into that trap and it is scary.
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ili posted:Not nearly as much as the current machines rake in. They're very finely crafted to provide as much stimulus as they can which keeps the poor bastards using them as hooked on pushing the buttons as possible. I'm all for people having fun however they like it but gently caress the pokies they're an absolute cancer on society, and one which has been designed to inflict as much damage on vulnerable people as possible. Yeah but making a pokie machine is crass Making a money box you put money into for no reason that literally does nothing, that's pretty cool. It's installation art, and maybe would convince people not to use a pokie machine since it reduces the entire thing down to its core proposition. at the very least it would save them a poo poo ton of time Part of me wants to like, hook up a receipt printer in there and have it print weird things on there, pieces of mysteries and poems and stuff, but that's basically just a carnie fortune machine and we're back to crass
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Malls are starting to install large banks of gacha machines - you get a random toy for a few bucks. But it's a bit weird when it's $20 for a shot at an xbox or whatever. It's likely just as rigged as Stacker (loving stacker) but more boldfaced just gambling rather than a game of """skill""".
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chaosbreather posted:Part of me wants to like, hook up a receipt printer in there and have it print weird things on there, pieces of mysteries and poems and stuff, but that's basically just a carnie fortune machine and we're back to crass It's almost certainly out of fashion or just plain illegal now but when I was first working as an ashtray emptier in the victory hotel lounge there was literally a machine that read your future and said poo poo like 'i foresee a large win for you soon!!' from a CGI Romani woman
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Konami remade the cutscenes from Metal Gear Solid 3 for a slot machine and they look amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwuudqfLxY
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well why not posted:https://twitter.com/nonstandardmcd/status/1341855121261641730 Oh man, I remember that!
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Konami remade the cutscenes from Metal Gear Solid 3 for a slot machine and they look amazing. Our office is next to a konami warehouse... sounds of pokies being tested and repaired all day long.
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BurgerQuest posted:Our office is next to a konami warehouse... sounds of pokies being tested and repaired all day long. Are you up for a sneaking mission?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Konami remade the cutscenes from Metal Gear Solid 3 for a slot machine and they look amazing. does it have that crying russian gamer come up when you jackpot if not why
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Here is a great article on how the Covid shutdowns forced some people to go without the pokies and actually reflect on what it was doing to them. Over the duration of the shutdowns from March to June, gamblers had saved about $2.5 billion from not having access to their vice. In 3 months. What a disgusting loving industry.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Are you up for a sneaking mission? I'm too fat to fit in air vents now. Also I never played a metal gear game except V cause I was not a playstation person.
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McSpergin posted:My old boss at the startup in South Granville was a fairly severe gambling addict but was also loaded to the loving eyeballs on cash (owning a $400m a year turnover business will do that) and I can distinctly remember him at a work do smacking $1000 bets on horses races back to back. Like legit I reckon he blew through $12k in an hour. Apparently he also owns horses and dogs and bets like $20k bets on cup day (loving LOSER) When I was a nightclub manager me and the owner would sit on the verandah sinking piss all week whilst 'laying the favourite' on pretty much any and every horse race he could get a bet on. I was in charge of pushing the buttons as he was computer illiterate. He would be up a few grand a day then occasionally his business partner would rock up high on coke or something with a sure bet and convince him to bet differently and lose a large chunk. We also managed to get banned from a certain jockey club for bringing up a bookie and setting him up at the course, then after each race changing the OS clock on his ticket printing machine to generate more 'losses' for our bookie so he had losses to show the jockey club when it was time for P and Ls. I don't gamble.
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Speaking of..so after working at this club for a few years I got promoted to IT Admin, cause I was fixing half the poo poo on my off time anyway. I used to record a lot of the security footage for cops whenever we had incidents and had to have it on file for board meetings/handing over to cops. One day got told to pull up about 2 weeks worth of footage from one specific camera, this is an odd request because normally it's a few minutes of a fight or whatever. Turns out the manager at one of our satellite clubs was taking money out of the tills and putting it on TAB and Keno all day, and I mean allllllll day. She had been taking out loans to cover the losses so that the tills would balance. She got dobbed in by one of the punters because she wouldn't split the winnings on a bet from memory. Needless to say she was fired and she was referred to the police. No idea what happened to her after that.
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Also one time I got told to fix one of the Board of Directors personal laptops as it was 'running slow' And that's how I saw this 70-80 year old man in full bondage leather with a goat.
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Infinitum posted:Also one time I got told to fix one of the Board of Directors personal laptops as it was 'running slow' Did you at least save the photos and threaten to expose them? Made some congee the other night to stay in the slow cooker for breakfast today. Turned out good but lacking some substance so I jammed 8 chicken legs in there for some protein and re pressure cooked the lot. Leaving the instant pot on "keep warm" mode so it's good to go in the morning
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In the office again, here alone because everyone else hosed off to WFH. Just figured out the bluetooth stereo and have 2x AC units blasting me.
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Got reminded by qfes that it was ten years ago the Brisbane River flooded and the entire lower East Brisbane got inundated from Norman creek. I wish I'd had a camera phone at the time; I remember thinking about how beautiful the jacaranda flowers carpeting the water looked from a distance and then getting closer and realising the weird off smell I could barely notice from my house was the flowers rotting and decomposing in the water.
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