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Hahaha this has to be bait

They did

I think you’re leaving money on the table

For some people that is ok

intentionally limiting who can experience the art you’re trying to share with the world

Almost every musician, painter, or sculptor ever has done that. It is ok.

You don’t HAVE to include more than the basic colorblind option

I think most devs could include stuff like colorblind options or rebindable control schemes and such, and I definitely think they should

better products for it

Difficulty is not the same as colorblind mode. Colorblind mode is the same as creating closed captions for movies, difficulty is the same as changing the movie to fit another audience. Difficulty is part of the game.

it COULD be a better game if they did

It would be a different game, that they are not trying to make.

Yet another thing that's impossible to discuss without being strawmanned by both sides. I'm not a hardcore gamer and for the most part play on medium or just slightly above medium difficulty in most video games.

I don't think a dev should have to accommodate customers that they don't want to accommodate, and this goes beyond difficulty. Souls games don't need a difficulty choice in the same way that Firewatch doesn't. Gacha games don't need to improve the f2p experience because those are games for whales.

It's like asking for sex drugs and rock&roll in disney movies and pg 13 horror movies.

Big thanks for sharing this, this is my chance to ask for a refund.

I like the game's flavor and I think it's a good game but I just didn't get into it.

Thank you for the detailed response, it was an interesting read! I'll pick out a couple of things directly, but it definitely helped me understand some things.

I really don’t think it was intended to be dismissive of the worker.

I may have misspoken but it's not to be dismissive of the worker, but to be dismissive of the job itself. I have a bachelor's but I'd do the job if I needed to, I just prefer to work in my field because I like the activity. No (ordinary) job is beneath me, though naturally I have my preferences.

Honestly automats are not really a thing in the USA

Nope, they were a thing in the USA like 100 years ago. It was just the earliest example I had off the top of my head of self service in the US.

more common thing in Europe to just do a day or two of shopping. So you have a small number of items that could fit in one or maybe two bags.

more common for Europeans to have local small markets within easy walking distance. Feel free to correct me on these points if I have it wrong for your area.

Americans are much more likely to do shopping for a week or two sometimes longer

All this all this makes it much more likely to shop more infrequently.

This was the big a-ha moment for me. I have 5 small supermarkets, 3 kiosks, and a bunch of other bakeries and cafes near me. I do buy for one week at a time but I often pop in to get something I'm craving or something I forgot. I'm one person so 1 week of shopping is like 2 bags and a backpack. People here do shop for short-term groceries. If you're making a big trip once a week, it's probably much more of a planned "event". I'm not saying it's in the same category as going out, but I imagine it can be a bit of a family trip. Everyone goes out, walks around a large store for probably an hour or more together, and grabs a whole load of stuff. I can imagine you might want to feel welcomed. We do have huge shops like that in Europe as well, though I guess the relationship between the people and the "hypermarket" is different. In Romania some people will just... raise chickens. Grow vegetables. I have a feeling that isn't really a thing in US suburbs. Suburbs in general are much less of a thing, and are sometimes in the extremes of just being a city with houses and shops, or effectively a fancy village.

My understanding is that both under communism and then in the turmoil afterwards that corruption has always been endemic.

Correct.

We’ve never had situations where you have to pay off police officers or getting arrested on purely false charges.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe situations like these are reported on your news, though like you said it does appear to usually be racially motivated.

Unfortunately I have yet to travel to Eastern Europe, it is on the list.

I encourage you to try as many different and strange foods as you can, and see as much nature and history as you can. I don't like eastern European cities - once you've seen one, you've seen most of them. An old center that looks neat (and shows up in every tourism marketing image) which still has visible damage from WW2, commie blocks everywhere else, and lots of gray speckled with banner ads.

And on that note due to the size of America there is a good bit of variation on how we interpret our culture.

Of course, I assumed as much. Probably the neighbor across the street could have a different view.

I get a vibe from how you and other americans talk about authority, that there is an idea of otherness - that they are not you, or not like you. In my mind, it is people who are shit, and that is the reason things are bad. The government, the police, the corporations, hospitals, schools, mechanics, drivers, street sweepers and garbage disposal staff, it's people all the way up and down. It might not be one person, maybe not you or me, but it's like... if you have an entity that is corrupt and you take the people out of it and you replace them with a random set of other people, the corruption doesn't go away. Or maybe it goes away for some time, and slowly creeps in.

And corruption is insidious in many ways. You get a government job, and you happen to know a friend who can fill another position and you recommend them and they get hired. One of you is promoted, and you're friends, so there's going to be some preferential treatment. Boom, simple corruption in a few steps. Child's play. But when people are involved with a thriving organization for decades, and they accumulate 20, 30 years of things like this, it becomes hard to break them apart. They'll make choices and do things that are good for them, of course. And all this from just basic human friendship and reciprocity. A hundred thousand small choices that individually seem innocuous, accumulate into a monster over time.

To me, a supermarket chain company is not an authority. It's like a starling murmuration, selfishly waning and waxing with the flow, trying to do things that are good for it. Why does the employee have to check receipts? Probably because people are stealing. Authority to me is something that can affect me without recourse. A cop can order me to identify myself - the police have authority. A supermarket can't tell me to do anything. I can choose another supermarket. If that's the only supermarket you have access to, that's when that supermarket is an authority. That's the only way you can get what you need, so the supermarket can dictate how you do it. Again, I have 5 supermarkets in a 1km radius, so maybe I'm privileged in this.

Could also be that your companies are legally allowed to 'lobby' (read: bribe) politicians, giving companies authority by proxy.

Oh I'm reading that right now

They do refer to self checkouts in that way in the post though, and it's not a sentiment I haven't seen before, which makes me think I'm not off base.

In my opinion the store is forcing you to do unpaid labor in order to buy something from them.

Personally, I don't feel that way. The self checkout is, IMO, leaps and bounds the better option. Faster, more private, doesn't rush me, etc. The only downside is that a teenager needs to approve me buying beer. I don't know how these machines are in the US but at least here I never have an issue. They don't talk to me to tell me stuff, I scan, the price shows up, there's a message on the screen to put the item down, I do it, rinse and repeat. As far as I'm concerned they're giving me exactly what I want.

In the United States there is a strong culture of the customer always being right

I would be surprised if that wasn't a large part of why self checkouts are popular. Yes, saving cost is a thing that happens because of this, and I'm sure that helps them make the change. However, there have always been people who want to get their stuff fast and efficient and move on. Self service isn't new, in fact automats were a thing like 100 years ago. Vending machines have kind of lost appeal but there was a time when they were really popular. People complain that waiters bother them, and some prefer fast food type places where you order at a counter, and seat yourself. Drive thrus are huge, and now fully automated, fully self service restaurants are starting to show up again.

And keep in mind that a meal can very much be a social activity (which is why traditional restaurants aren't going anywhere) and still many people would rather make it impersonal. A supermarket is a chore to a lot of people, including me. It falls in the same category as self service gas stations and laundromats. I don't need another person to be there. In fact I'm here to get my uglies, my funsies, and my needies, and I'd rather not make eye contact with someone while they're scanning my lube, scented candles, and ingredients for carbonara.

As for the second half of the comment, I don't really know how to respond to it without coming across at least a little bit like an asshole so at least keep in mind that I don't mean it like a personal attack. It sounds like what you're saying is that americans have a chip on their shoulder and a self entitlement issue. I understand wanting staff to not be unpleasant, but it's like americans expect a degree of overly deferential treatment, and it's not enough that they get it when staff is there, but they expect there to be staff to treat them this way when all that's happening is a simple transaction. I have money, they have stuff. Trade and leave.

I get it though; if you're getting something forever, you expect that it's part of the deal, even though the deal is objectively just the transaction. Now they took that away, and even though you get speed and (at least apparent) privacy, you still want what you got before.

The US isn't alone in distrusting authority. In eastern europe, corruption is a matter of course. You bob and weave, adapt, and get as good as you can. When I'm there and the employee checks my receipt, my thought is "fair enough, I'm sure otherwise people would steal". It's not an attack on me. They're not doing it because of me. It's not about me. But they don't know me. What they do know is that people are corrupt and will do bad shit, and you have to play defense. Everyone is bobbing and weaving, and getting the best they can.

I wonder how close I am to the character limit.

Ok so at least there, the bus fare checker is some degree of law enforcement. That sounds much more like an obligation and much more of a restrictive process than getting a receipt checked at the supermarket. Probably still pretty tough to walk away without showing it if they have a barrier.

I'm absolutely amused by the attitude in the post that not only is self checkout somehow above the OP as a cashier job, but the fact that they are asked to show a receipt is in a way offensive to them, an accusation of theft. Now I understand, depending on their nationality, this isn't even something they have to submit to.

From my perspective, someone walks up to you, you show them a piece of paper, they do whatever, and then you go about your business. I don't feel more accused of theft by showing a bus ticket than showing a shopping receipt. 1 minute of time doesn't factor into it for me.

Actually I realize, where I live you can go into a supermarket, open an app on your phone, scan all your stuff, pay on the app, and leave. When you leave, you show someone your phone. This is also a version of the same thing. Why are people so hung up on the most minor of interactions?

Ok bro, you can make your own dijon mustard, but I'll buy the jarred stuff.