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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them.English
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    6 months ago

    In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let’s do a laundry !

    The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).

    I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.

    Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>…

    What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.

  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Field Guide
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    8 months ago

    This is a full book and not just the cover for fun and giggles!

    In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

    Working in the naturalist’s tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.

  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.ml•I really appreciate that I can keep coming back to that game
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    1 year ago

    Up to four in split screen. We played it with my two kids in couch coop. We where three in split screen. Each player has one house. The money is shared, so I was working to get money, while my kids were exploring and having fun.

    I don’t remember exactly but one player is mandatory (the one starting the “save”/“world”), then the three others are optional. However you don’t want to play a lot without the other characters since they will not progress (the more you do something with one character like cutting wood, the easier it is for this character).