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    • Columns (played with my mom, she fucking loved that game so much she’d leave the console running between playtime to save her progress)
    • Sonic spinball
    • Golden axe/street fighter (both)
    • Comix zone (this one even influenced my music tastes because it came with a CD - the first cd I ever owned. Still have it.)
    • Dominion (now abandonware, similar to StarCraft but with laser fences and shit)

    All of these were SNES/genesis other than dominion which was pc.

    Whatever hockey game I had on genesis gets an honorable mention. It’s the only purely sports game I’ve ever played and liked.








  • Your experience/statistic there is very different from my experience. It definitely depends where you are and how high-end the place is.

    Place I work now, most tips are cash, by a substantial margin. Even when paying with card about half of our customers tip cash, and most transactions at this place are cash anyway. Places I worked previously were like a 50/50 split if people paid more often with cash or card, and again about a quarter of people paying card still tip cash.

    Maybe because this is a low cost of living area, and everyone knows moving claims cash tips, maybe because it’s all small town stuff, idk.


  • Most people who work the service industry don’t claim cash tips, but credit tips are required to be claimed due to the whole being electronic and traceable thing.

    If, as a service person, most or all tips are in cash, you just claim whatever brings you to minimum wage for that pay period.

    This is obviously heavily dependent upon where you work - some places want you to claim all tips (but you still don’t claim cash usually) others, especially if you make above min wage like most bartenders, don’t care.

    However, if you don’t claim those tips you can’t use that as income when taking out loans and applying for housing and whatever else. So it’s fucks people over pretty regularly.








  • Hahaha I had the same experience learning Russian. It’s so hard to find simple stuff like dick and Jane, but in another language.

    Interestingly, comic books, especially those which have been translated into multiple languages (marvel, dc, etc) are almost easier. They usually have short, less-complicated sentences, and the context is pictorial. Plus it’s not boring af to read, which is ultra-helpful. Maybe that’s why people like manga and anime so much…? Idk.