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Customer: "Do you guys sell samosas?"
Me: "Uh, no, sir. This is a cake shop."
Customer: "Hmm, well, you should!"
Me: "Would you like to buy a cake, sir?"
Customer: "You got anything with chicken?"

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Эхотаг начинается с заглавия: "Новый взгляд на "Пикник на обочине"? Обзор игры The Final Station"

"Не могу сказать, сколько времени прошло с покупки The Final Station до первого её запуска. Скриншоты давали ошибочное представление об этой игре - "Какая-то выживалка с менеджментом ресурсов. А может это вообще рогалик?". И это отталкивало меня от знакомства с этим проектом долгое время. На деле же оказалось всё намного иначе и глубже, с точки зрения здешней истории мира. А геймплей оказался простым как две копейки, но об этом позже.

Более 100 лет назад на землю вторглись пришельцы. Они уничтожали города и превращали население стран в монстров с помощью бомбардировок капсул с газом. При этом находились граждане, на которых газ воздействовал с положительным исходом и делал из них долгожителей, но таких было немного. Это чёрное пятно истории прозвали "Посещением" и несмотря на то, что людям удалось отбиться от вторжения, всем было понятно - это может произойти снова.

Отбиться удалось не без помощи братьев Стругацких, которые хоть и были писателями-фантастами в этой вселенной, но впоследствии стали учёными и национальными героями.



"Великая память
Исполнилось 134 года со дня рождения Аркадия Стругацкого.
Трудно поверить, что до первого Посещения они с братом Борисом пытались найти славу в рядах писателей-фантастов. Сегодня же мы помним их как народных героев, посвятивших свои жизни науке и развитию страны.
Братья ответственны за технологический скачок начала нового столетия, благодаря им технологии, добытые с поля первого контакта, успешно применяются в вооружении: мембранная гасящая броня, которая используется при строительстве стража, критонный луч, van-столбы и много другое.
Великая память и великая гордость".

[...]

Основной "движ" в сюжете происходит где-то за кадром и доносится до игрока с помощью диалогов и записок. Не могу сказать, что это плохо, поскольку недосказанность и отсутствие визуализации всего того кошмара, который происходит с миром, даёт волю воображению. Да и в принципе у игры настроение полной безнадёги и бессилия перед надвигающейся угрозой. Если кратко, происходит то самое второе "посещение". Кто-то заперся в убежищах, кто продолжает бороться, а кто-то просто пытается выжить. Отвечая на вопрос заголовка - нет, это не "пикник на обочине" или любое другое произведение братьев Стругацких, даже несмотря на прямую отсылку на них в игре. В отличие от пришельцев, которые просто пролетали мимо, здесь вторжение имеет другой характер. Как я понял это не банальное уничтожение всего человечества, а "отделение зерен от плевел". Более того, есть подозрения, что это вовсе не пришельцы."

Отсюда: https://www.ixbt.com/live/games/novyy-vzglyad-na-piknik-na-obochine-obzor-igry-the-final-station.html

End Of Days, Or Just Retail?

Dec. 14th, 2025 08:00 pm
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Customer: *Quieter.* "I'm fine."
Me: "I hope everything turned out okay."
Customer: *Quieter.* "It did."
Customer's Daughter: "So you're not going to tell her that you noticed the moon in the daytime for the first time ever and thought it was the End Of Days?"

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The PPE-ople’s Champion, Part 2

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One thing with him is that he does not wear fire-retardant clothing, which is mandatory in certain places. Of course, if a fire were to break out for any reason, he'd go out like the Wicker Man, but the prospect does not impress him.

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The Hatchback Horticulturist

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I worked in a garden centre for a few years. There was a lady who'd come in once a year to drop hundreds on plants and plant accessories. She always refused the free delivery, so it was down to me to somehow fit all of that stuff into her tiny Fiat 500.

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That’s Not How You Fish For Answers

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Back when I was seventeen, I was working at a pet store that sold fish. Some older guy comes in and places a napkin on the counter. He opens it, revealing a dead fish.
Customer: "I need you to tell me how this fish died."
Me: "Dude, I'm seventeen, and I work here after school."

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Popping Off About PopSockets

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Customer: "I was here yesterday. I looked at my receipt from yesterday and realized that the total is higher than I expected it to be. I didn’t get the discount I was supposed to!"

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Pill Popping Off Some Questions

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Adorable Children

My youngest daughter, tired of being the smallest of all three girls, says to me as she's taking her morning vitamins:
Daughter: "If I take all of them at once, do I grow up faster?"

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A Safe Landing

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Kind Strangers Kindness

I've got mild social anxiety, and I hate getting sick, especially around the holidays, so I'm slightly annoyed and nervous when the flight attendant directs the last person to board, a woman slightly older than me, to the seat next to me. I get even more nervous about getting sick when I hear that she seems to be sniffing really hard, like she really needs to put effort into breathing.

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I’m ringing up a customer that is on her phone. I try to ask questions but am being ignored. Another customer comes up to my line and I decide she shouldn’t have to wait for phone lady. I log onto the next register and r and ring her purchases. Phone lady stops her conversation to […]

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My brother has spent most of the day renovating the main bathroom in his house. While prepping dinner, my sister-in-law gets an idea. She takes one of the vegetables into the main bathroom, and calls out to my brother. “Hey, honey! You’re not going to believe it, but there’s a leak in the tub!” My […]

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My family owns a small house we share as a mostly summer vacation house (it snows a lot there so no one except my sister goes there from November-May and she usually goes then just to make sure everything is okay with the house). There is a couple from more than a thousand miles away […]

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I’ve been a “manager” at my store for about a month. It’s not glamorous but hey, a job’s a job. My coworker, who’s been working for a couple weeks, rings up a sandwich for a customer but accidentally rings him up for the wrong one. No problem, I think. I go over and void the […]

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Back in the day when checks were common, I had a guy making a purchase with a Driver’s License that had expired on his birthday a couple of weeks ago. Even though we weren’t technically supposed to take the check, the address and his picture matched, so I put it through. Thinking I was being […]

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I’m visiting my friend for a few days. She lives with her father, they have a big house and a sauna. One evening we are sitting in the living room and her father walks by, wearing only a towel around his waist. Friends father: See you later, I’m heading to the sauna now. He looks […]

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Your Monkeys, Your Circus

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She took the toys from the children and handed them to me. The children started crying.
Mom: "Sorry, girls, but the cashier lady says you can't have this."

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Dec. 14th, 2025 12:14 am
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Roadside Picnic Explained

Liminal Spaces

A deep dive and interpretation of "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky Brothers

Отсюда: https://youtu.be/K3-PspsdQVY?si=v3oH_QBLbfXZgMnm

Видео на английском, но, кажется, есть опция субтитров и перевода. Рассказывает об изданиях, о разных переводах, о сюжете, о Зоне, о своих впечатлениях от книги и о мыслях по ее поводу. Очень хвалит книгу.

The Dollar Menu

Dec. 13th, 2025 08:00 pm
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Customer: "Australia and New Zealand both use dollars! I looked it up!"
Stall Holder: "New Zealand dollars, and Australian dollars, sir. It's our own dollars, not US dollars."
Customer: "The US dollar is the only dollar, so you have to accept it if your country accepts dollars!"

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Coworker: "Oh, come on! It’s just a dollar. Don’t you care about kids learning to read?"
Customer: "I care very much. I donate plenty to charities."
Coworker: "Then one more dollar shouldn’t be a big deal, right?"
Customer: "It is when that dollar ends up being part of a corporation’s tax write-off so your bosses can all pat themselves on the back."

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