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Pants Donkey posted:Big box stores have dedicated security for poo poo like that, so they just catch it on camera, make notes of your appearance, and typically shoplifters will be sloppy and leave empty boxes behind giving them a decent estimate. And once they suspect you’ve been shoplifting, they will alert the sales floor to keep an eye on you, making it even easier to figure out what you took. Though the point of alerting the sales floor is to send sales people at you every couple minutes to send a not-so-subtle message that you’re being watched. Because they’d still rather you not shoplift any further than deal with the hassle of losing $500+ of merch and then get the police involved. So if you’ve ever been harangued by retail employees asking if you need help, then chances are they think you’re a theft risk. I wonder if I just haven't noticed them or I haven't visited any that do around here. What stores do? I haven't noticed anything from the Walmart, Publix or Target near me.
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B33rChiller posted:or it's a place with commission. I mean it IS possible it’s a slow day and the store manager is working themselves towards a heart attack trying to meet their revenue goal for the day, and they’re making it everyone’s problem. But even they know a customer will eventually get pissed being bugged every five minutes. RareAcumen posted:I wonder if I just haven't noticed them or I haven't visited any that do around here. What stores do? I haven't noticed anything from the Walmart, Publix or Target near me. Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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Apr 7, 2023 06:10
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I was thinking about how I get jumped by salespeople before the door has closed behind me.
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Apr 7, 2023 06:20
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Didn't see these posted. Sorry if I missed them CGP Grey - Dose Your Flag Fail? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4w6808wJcU CGP grades all 50 United States Flags Mother's Basement - An Actual Cult Made Bootleg Avengers Anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io3fs0hGobA Third part to his Happy Science Cult series. Basement Life - The Cult That Makes Anime - Happy Science 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaTaxfae9L4 A short primer if you can't remember his first two videos edit: I hosed up the link and didn't realize it for 3 days. Sorry No.1 Special fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Apr 7, 2023 06:38
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Pants Donkey posted:I can speak to Best Buy doing it, and yes they racially profile. Wal-Mart does too but they aren’t as aggressive about it, it comes down more to race and age. They’ll harass black teens loitering around the gaming aisle while letting a little old white lady go in and out with stolen TVs. (True story; she got up to 15 before they realized what was going on). Ohhh kay, I can understand it from Best Buy. All of my examples were supermarkets  A Best Buy or like anywhere in a mall makes a lot more sense.
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Apr 7, 2023 06:42
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait, how do they track that? Adding on to Donkey's post, Walmart supposedly spent a ton of money on an "AI" to flag suspicious self-checkout purchases. Going off of news stories, it's more hitting people who only pay for a single item or who ring up everything as a banana. I don't think they have a way to spot people "forgetting" to scan an item or two. Sometimes cop Facebook accounts share pictures and ask people to identify them. But yeah, like the post said, if a store notices a repeat shoplifter they either bug them about it or get their picture and inform them that they're banned and if they come back they're getting a trespassing charge. More as a counter to the typical "Oh but what about these SCUMBAGS who steal TVs and tools to sell and keep getting away with it due to those drat bleeding heart DAs!" If a store cares they can work to stop it, so no need for an average person to care. I would offer a video to help with the derail, but my way too long subscribtion list has been pretty boring the last few days. RE4 just sucking up a lot of oxygen.
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Apr 7, 2023 07:12
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IShallRiseAgain posted:There is a similar channel with more content In the same vein, there's Other Places. https://youtu.be/l-q9L3zYB9M
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Apr 7, 2023 07:38
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The only thing I have to contribute to shoplift chat is that for literal years a ton of corporations, like walgreens, have been spitting out mad bullshit about how shoplifting was so bad it meant they had to put all of their products behind lock and key; and almost all of the language and products specifically cited were designed to insinuate that minorities, usually black people specifically, were behind the theft and that if it got any worse they'd have to close stores down nation wide. Anyway earlier this year there was a news article about how that was all bullshit and they just made that up because they were closing stores anyway. The CEO or whatever literally got away with just saying whoopsie we lied and drummed up a huge amount of racist bullshit for no reason and no one really cared because they were still just arguing all over the internet about how black people steal too much and close down all the stores. So, you know. gently caress the corporations.
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Apr 7, 2023 08:53
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Also they did it primarily to cover up how awful their mergers were for the average consumer because they pulled a Gamestop and wound up with way more stores than they needed and wanted to close some. But closing stores normally puts stories in the paper about how grandma has to travel an extra 20 minutes to the new pharmacy, so...yeah, shoplifting stories planted in an agreeable press. One of the more infuriating things given how fake it all was. Literally immediately debunkable by asking why CVS wasn't being overrun and ruined by this, but lol, they ran with it anyway. Anyway...Many a True Nerd is doing Hitman Hardcore streams and uploading them to his channel if you're into that kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V24QmbKJ5g
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Apr 7, 2023 10:26
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I say yes to shops lifting, they have noodle arms.
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Apr 7, 2023 13:39
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Civvie is finally doing TNT Evilution... in the form of Tiktoks/Youtube Shorts, one level per video and one video per day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR5IECWEouw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-LKsWTSZY Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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Apr 7, 2023 14:47
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Mr.Radar posted:Civvie is finally doing TNT Evilution... in the form of Tiktoks/Youtube Shorts, one level per video and one video per day: I really hope he's just using the footage he captured for his previously binned video on TNT and hasn't played it all again
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Apr 7, 2023 15:19
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New video from Biz Barclay, who did the Snape Wives video that someone linked in this thread a while back. This one is about The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, Capitalism, and Space Exploration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYKhROEASn0
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Apr 8, 2023 00:03
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It's not saying anything new about F.E.A.R. but this video's editing is nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M31TiHapdGk
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Apr 8, 2023 02:16
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RareAcumen posted:It's not saying anything new about F.E.A.R. but this video's editing is nuts. Their Cruelty Squad video has more restrained editing. Which is immensely amusing to me.
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Apr 8, 2023 16:04
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DrDestructo has blessed us with another video, this time about Valheim! Funny that he posts one as soon as I'm talking to someone else about his videos during a discord video watching call.
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Apr 9, 2023 00:09
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Kunster posted:DrDestructo has blessed us with another video, this time about Valheim! Funny that he posts one as soon as I'm talking to someone else about his videos during a discord video watching call. i'd play valheim again on whatever custom goon server or whatever if there was just a plane of infinite trees and no enemies that i could inhabit. for some reason the goddamn lumberjacking in that game just did it for me in a way no other game ever has. sure, go build your megacastle or whatever i don't care i just want an excuse to chop wood.
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Apr 9, 2023 00:12
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I finally watched the Snapewives video, and I gotta say I was with her until the end. I just have absolutely no idea what that was about.
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Apr 9, 2023 00:32
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Arivia posted:i'd play valheim again on whatever custom goon server or whatever if there was just a plane of infinite trees and no enemies that i could inhabit. for some reason the goddamn lumberjacking in that game just did it for me in a way no other game ever has. sure, go build your megacastle or whatever i don't care i just want an excuse to chop wood. It's the tree physics. Dropping one tree and watching the surrounding ones explode because it landed on them is immensely satisfying.
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Apr 9, 2023 01:30
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I finally watched the Snapewives video, and I gotta say I was with her until the end. Yeah, there’s absolutely an argument to be made about going overboard when gawking at weird, but harmless, people online. But let’s not pretend “women thinking they’re married to the mean teacher in a children’s book series” isn’t a funny phenomenon lol.
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Apr 9, 2023 04:53
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Equeen posted:Yeah, there’s absolutely an argument to be made about going overboard when gawking at weird, but harmless, people online. But let’s not pretend “women thinking they’re married to the mean teacher in a children’s book series” isn’t a funny phenomenon lol. Sometimes women just want a space to feel sexual and safe. I have no idea why Snape would be a God though
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Apr 9, 2023 06:06
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Re: shoplift chat Just put stuff in the "free" section of the grocery cart. It's great for boxes of energy drinks, dishwasher soap, etc.
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Apr 9, 2023 07:51
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Equeen posted:Yeah, there’s absolutely an argument to be made about going overboard when gawking at weird, but harmless, people online. But let’s not pretend “women thinking they’re married to the mean teacher in a children’s book series” isn’t a funny phenomenon lol. Violet_Sky posted:Sometimes women just want a space to feel sexual and safe. I have no idea why Snape would be a God though There's a strangely puritanical set of thoughts that keep pervading all culture, and I don't know where it comes from, but I wish it'd go away. My take-away from the video ended up being that all religions are bullshit, but that's not really an opinion that I didn't hold before 
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Apr 9, 2023 12:09
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Snape is the Bad Boy character that people wished Draco Malfoy was, so it kinda makes sense in context (not the astral planes part though) It's basically the exact same reasoning for Adam Driver as Kylo Ren being a sex symbol.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:12
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mycot posted:Snape is the Bad Boy character that people wished Draco Malfoy was, so it kinda makes sense in context (not the astral planes part though) It's basically the exact same reasoning for Adam Driver as Kylo Ren being a sex symbol. Where it breaks down a bit for me is that Alan Rickman was given very few traits in The Books That Shall Not Be Named because of the point of view, whereas Adam Driver had even less traits that were set in stone to go on - but ultimately both the characters we're presented with are products of good actors.
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Apr 9, 2023 16:25
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Church of the Rock, the Canadian church that Jenny Nicholson did a video on because of their elaborate Easter plays, just aired their 2023 Passion based on Beauty and the Beast. https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1645075638255251456 Jenny didn't clip the best part of the finale, but I have you covered https://i.imgur.com/NjR7r2r.mp4
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Apr 9, 2023 17:01
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Also one of the songs is a... parody? Reversion? Of 'Free Bird.'
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Apr 9, 2023 17:24
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Church of the Rock, the Canadian church that Jenny Nicholson did a video on because of their elaborate Easter plays, just aired their 2023 Passion based on Beauty and the Beast. Oh god the guy on the left is so uncomfortable in that close up
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Apr 9, 2023 18:30
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I’m so disappointed Jenny never did a video on Rainbow Fish stage adaptations after clipping such tantalizing material. https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1598103594728685568?s=20 https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1599644160591826944?s=20
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Apr 9, 2023 18:38
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Church of the Rock, the Canadian church that Jenny Nicholson did a video on because of their elaborate Easter plays, just aired their 2023 Passion based on Beauty and the Beast. https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1645101102516539398
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Apr 9, 2023 19:08
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:New video from Biz Barclay, who did the Snape Wives video that someone linked in this thread a while back. This one is about The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, Capitalism, and Space Exploration. I feel like this argument is too long and lacks focus as a single video/I’d like it better as a series of more focused shorter videos, but she’s really good at keeping a static shot of herself interesting by using her posture and gestures to bisect and quarter the frame in dynamic ways. I’m not used to thinking about video essays like this, but there’s a lot of thought put into color coordination and how the lines of asymmetrical set dressing make up an image, even perspective with the script pages taped to the wall near and far from the camera on the right. Put a human figure in the middle in high contrast colors changing how she’s sitting every five minutes with her head framed by a painting and it’s not exactly boring to watch. It’s a strange kind of innovation, but maybe that’s where analytic arguments on youtube have to go when the recommendation algorithm rewards hour-plus videos while the copyright algorithm makes it risky to have a lot of clips of things cut together. Also it probably takes too long to cut together video for something longer than an hour once you consider how long it takes to research and draft a long video. It’s like an iterative improvement on Sarah Z’s couch and tea mug and I bet more is coming.
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Apr 9, 2023 20:20
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Oh by the way, Sex Archie is back and they're two episodes into the new season. This is gonna be a long shot but I swear it was Grant on one episode of Bizarre Podcast: Dogs Must Die; does anyone remember a quote that went something like 'Media will teach you how to understand it'? It was a good one but I can't recall where I heard it from now.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:06
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RareAcumen posted:Oh by the way, Sex Archie is back and they're two episodes into the new season. I said that on the first guest episode of Stone Ocean, because it’s a point that comes up often on Cameron’s Ranged Touch shows. I think my phrasing was something closer to “media objects teach you how to read them”. And thanks for listening to Sex Archie. The new setting, and old setups, bring a lot of latitude to Riverdale and we expect to have a lot of fun over the next 20 weeks or so.
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Apr 10, 2023 05:12
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General Ironicus posted:I said that on the first guest episode of Stone Ocean, because it’s a point that comes up often on Cameron’s Ranged Touch shows. I think my phrasing was something closer to “media objects teach you how to read them”. Ahh, dammit. I listened to that entire episode and also a bit of the episode on Araki's 'Manga in Theory and Practice' book and didn't catch it so I got worried that I might have completely remembered it from a different podcast entirely. Could've swore it was also a quote from a book on top of that. While I've got you for a second and I'm sure that there'll be more highlight podcast episodes going forward after the Stardust Crusaders one back on the 20th of March, ever thought of a 'Predictions that didn't pan out' reel? Like back in part 2: The Hell Climb Pillar, 'I know how this'll work. The solution is teamwork. One of them punches the pillar to knock all the oil off while the other runs up it to get some distance and does the same for the other buddy. That is not what happens.'
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Apr 10, 2023 05:36
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https://twitter.com/LarryBundyJr/status/1639701938915663873 lmao when did larry become a musk reply guy
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Apr 10, 2023 11:35
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Alaois posted:https://twitter.com/LarryBundyJr/status/1639701938915663873 "Yes, from his humble beginnings as the wealthy offspring of an apartheid-era South African emerald mine mogul, Elon needed a hobby..." Musk reply guy's selling him a bit short.
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Apr 10, 2023 11:51
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Ok lol at the reveal that he was in a company that grifted 12 million bucks from sega to make a cadillac and dinosaurs sequel
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Apr 10, 2023 12:06
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Arbite posted:"Yes, from his humble beginnings as the wealthy offspring of an apartheid-era South African I figured Larry was just doing A Bit, as is his wont.
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Apr 10, 2023 14:56
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Ok lol at the reveal that he was in a company that grifted 12 million bucks from sega to make a cadillac and dinosaurs sequel Something Elon Musk worked on being way over-valued? Why I never......
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RareAcumen posted:Oh by the way, Sex Archie is back and they're two episodes into the new season.
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