Today's Game is Yesterday's Job

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The poor yearn for service positions.
“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the fucking customers”

yearn for service positions

Yes, but not in the way you think

Yeah I service the economy on my knees.
Now see, that is a person who puts their country and shareholders above their dignity. The next round is on me! Not for them though, they are preoccupied…
“I’m Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today” adjacent games
View Askew.
The way the character shows up on his day off and loans out VHS tapes before falling face first into a mooby’s combo meal is full of the exaggerated swagger of a middle-aged rental clerk.

“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!”

37?!?!
Hey that gives me an idea for a mini game they could add.

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.

This is probably the one time I’d pay for premium skins of Steve and Robin from Stranger Things.
Like Stardew Valley - farming is all the craze now lol
I wish they’d make a simulator where you have to get your family to the farmland. Like, hunt for food, ford rivers, drown the oxen, lose half your kids to rattlesnake bites and dysentery…
I have got just the retro game for you lol
I think the Xennial craze of homesteading is a direct result of this game. This and Little House on the Prairie prepared us to handle crop failures, coyotes in the hen house, and having to care for someone in opioid withdrawal. Haven’t lost any oxen irl though.
Oh boy, I’ve got the game for you! It’s called Organ Trail, it’s about traveling through a zombie apocalypse
So basically Oregon Trail but you run into the Donner Party?
i dont enjoy Job Simulator as a genre but they did a great job with the loom
There’s a weaving based job sim game?
job sim where i have to type correctlt

New sim idea:

Make comments online to meet the game goals but get blasted by other commenters for misspellings.

This would be even better if it were in the style of Papers Please.

I already interact with the public enough, not to mention have read enough of the Acts of Gord, to never want to run such an operation in real life.

I’ll bet you punching highly deserving abusive customers square in the face doesn’t get you fired as much in VR as it does in reality.

Acts of Gord: Love the Gord, Fear the Gord

I want to see your manager!

punches I am the manager~

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.

How do you buy a house without $4.25
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.
“Well then, sounds like you’ve got a payment to make”

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.

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

Why are the customers assholes in this case? For having an unpaid late fee?

For bitching about $4 that they should have paid weeks/months ago, bothering staff like 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’.

I get that, but what why waive the fee
if you’re in debt, your credit score goes down and you can’t take out a loan
How do you buy a house with $4.25?
Hot take - If you can’t pay for a damn video tape rental you can’t be trusted to pay your house loan.
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?
This should have been one of those bubble markers covered in the big short
the point of the credit system was to have a race blind way to be racist

“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

That’s not people’s fault for wanting to own a house, it’s the banks’ fault
What about second house and third house
As much as I like arcade paradise, I’m not sold on the visuals here.
Schedule 1 crossover when
I was just thinking, would this be good for money laundering?
This isn’t “Be Kind, Rewind”
15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand. If that money doesn’t show then you owe me owe me owe. My jungle love.
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Fuck.
Mother mother fuck.
Mother mother fuck fuck
AFLECK WAS THE BOMB IN PHANTOMS, YO.
it’s selling the longe gone dream of working yourself up with honest work not possible anymore in monopoly driven late stage capitalism

That’s why I hate video games - they appeal to the plebian fantasy.

/s

just own nothing and be happy!