They’ve probably at least heard about it, and tried it as a virtual console re-release or a stolen ROM in an emulator.
If DoA’s world has recently seen a wave of 80s/90s nostalgia like the real world, that’s almost inevitable.
marianne
How does one steal a ROM? I’d assume you’d get noticed, taking a screwdriver to an arcade cabinet to swipe its chips.
Andrew_C
There are websites with images of ROMs of arcade games and cartridges from console games. Technically creating them and using them is illegal, but they are all out of circulation anyway.
And yes you do have to open up the cabinet to get to the ROM, but seeing as this is done by people who collect them (the arcade games) I don’t think they usually have to worry about getting caught.
marianne
Oh yes, I am aware of all this 🙂 But since it’s copyright infringement (unauthorised duplication of copyrighted materials) rather than theft, I went with the (in my mind) funnier mental image of someone sneaking into arcades, lurking in the shadows like a ninja with a chip reader, to actually steal the ROM chips.
TabofManyColors
*adds “Ninja with a Chip Reader” to list of potential band names*
By clicking the tiny download link hidden in between the giant “DOWNLOAD FREE NOW” virus buttons and the ads for escort services and dubious pharmeseuticals, of course! (At least that’s how it was done in the early 2000s.)
Job acquired
Becky has gained a new perk – Steady Cash flow: She makes +$8.50 per work hour
Becky Has gained a debuff – Customer stress: She loses -5 mood for each work day
Becky has gained a debuff – Employment woes: she has a 50% chance of losing -2 mood each work day
Active Perks Dino-tamer: Becky gains +10 mood for each successful hangout with dina
I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but, I think the minimum wage for waitresses is $2.13 an hour, plus tips. I don’t think Indiana is one of the states that requires employers to make up the difference between that and the Federal non tipped minimum wage of $7.25. Still, I guess it is a positive step for Becky, as awful as those wages are.
I hope I missed something and Galasso pays $8.50 and hour.
thejeff
Or the tips are good enough so they don’t need to make it up.
Pizza place tips are often low and college kids are often broke, but OTOH a lot of college kids have worked those jobs and know what tips mean.
Rusty
Most states do not allow a tipped wage of $2.13 (And few even that near it of those that are above that) and a lot of them, primarily west coast however, actually have no tipped wage allowance, meaning minimum wage is paid.
You are however right that Indiana starts at $2.13… But that doesn’t mean that without tips she would get $2.13. She would instead receive $2.13+(7.25-Tips) in pay from her employer. This is a Federal level requirement. On that part you are wrong.
Note: This assumes everything is above the board and legal. Galasso may not care about that part.
Lastly, here’s the most interesting part. She makes $9.83 an hour according to average numbers for tipped restaurant employees in Indiana. Which sadly is a little over a dollar under the average in the nation. And nowhere near the average in a place without tipped wage allowances such as Washington ($14.67) or California ($13.68)
90% of all workers in restaurants make $8.08 an hour at a minimum (With half the total making over $9.25)
The important part there… People aren’t actually making less than $7.25 (Federal minimum wage) an hour and this myth needs to stop being perpetuated so endlessly as the reason why those who get paid in tips need me to tip them 25-50% or else they’ll starve to death… Most of them are making at least equal to the minimum wage in the state with the 10th highest minimum wage ($9 an hour by the way)
You are hereby hired to continue not treating yourself like crap, for the next hour. All remuneration will be in tips. Good job so far, here is your Employee of the Month plaque.
A little bit of whining and grumbling is desired with obedience, though. It is further proof (in the spirit of a trophy, Galasso doesn’t need proof) that his will rules in these walls and that his peons obey even the orders that make them miserable.
At least we know that “Employee of the Month” is not based on nepotism.
And being as how she acted so much like Galasso, I’m surprised that Sydney wasn’t EotM.
In my head as of right this moment, Galasso held her to a higher standard, so right up until her firing he was always bitterly disappointed in her. Failing to properly intimidate underclassmen was just the last straw.
Sydney is the Fallen Prodigy. She could have been the Worthy Heir, but instead she squandered her talent and had to be forced away from the Realm. (Compare Winnowill, Anakin Skywalker, Tom Riddle and… well, half the antagonists in fiction, really).
Ken is just a peon. It remains to see what place the “Lopsided Orange One” will take in the pantheon of Galasso’s madness.
Is she? The only thing I remember about her is Joe staring.
Lailah
Yeah, it’s apparently how she was made ‘forbidden’ this time. Something like that?
Blunderwonder
I went back and read Joyce and Joe’s date, and I didn’t see anything about her being forbidden, only that Joyce was upset that Joe couldn’t control his gaze. I don’t know how that makes her underage, since Joyce would probably be upset at Joe staring at any girl’s cleavage.
16 is old enough for a job, and there isn’t anywhere near enough detail in the character’s faces to show a 2 year age difference.
Hell, 14 is old enough for a part time job (in most states, at least), and since she’s working for her dad, I’m not sure there’s actually a minimum age at all.
Awnman
If anyone is interested 14 is old enough to work in the state of Indiana subject to hour limitations and a list of prohibited jobs which waiting tables is not on. Interestingly the hour restrictions do not apply to work as umpires/referees for some reason. As for the minimum wage, it is slightly more complex. Minors do have to be payed the minimum wage of $7.25 but tipped staff which she is are to be payed $2.13 and hour with the difference made up in tips and if it is not to be made up by the employer.
CJ
What? Wait. Tipps are deducted from minimum wage?
Needfuldoer
On top of that, some employers make the staff pool their tips and evenly distribute them at the end of the day.
Shade
Well Sydney did mention distributing her tips with the bus staff. Whether that’s required for her or just something she chooses to do is the question I suppose.
Lailah
Not only are they deducted from minimum wage, but if your performance is such that you don’t get minimum wage (from tips) and you ask for the difference to be reimbursed (The literal law for this, the entire reason this is considered legal), you *will* be fired.
thejeff
Basically, tipped workers can get screwed in many ways. So tip your waitstaff and tip them well. It’s not a little something extra for an exceptional job, it’s what they’re living on.
That said, working for tips in the right places you can do damn well.
Splork
They’re not “deducted” per se. But federal (?) minimum wage for servers is $2.13, with the idea that you’ll make a livable wage because of tips (you won’t, but you wouldn’t with a minimum wage job either. Not that that makes it okay).
Dr. T
Yeah, if you might earn tips than your employer can pay you less due to the concept that your pay and tips should exceed the minimum wage, whether it does or not in reality. Some states force the employer to make up the difference if you earn less than minimum wage, but others might not.
If you think this is incredibly stupid, you can thank Herman Cain, a man who briefly was considered the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Mr. 9-9-9 is the head of a lobbying firm for restaurants that made that happen.
thejeff
Not that I want to pass up an opportunity to bash Cain, but I don’t think this originates with him. There was no minimum wage for tipped workers until the 60s. When first set it was half the regular minimum wage and was then raised to roughly stay in line with that as the minimum wage went up until the 90s. In 96 the minimum wage was raised without a corresponding increase in the tipped minimum. That seems to be where Cain had his influence. Now it’s at the lowest level ever, relative to the regular minimum wage. Except of course for before the 60s, when they didn’t have to pay waitresses anything but tips.
It’d be like 16-18, so not really a big deal on that note, no? Or is she 14 or something?
BBCC
She’s 16, Indiana’s age of consent. That said, sleeping with the boss’ daughter, whom is in a different stage of her life, maturity and experience wise, is still super gross.
Lailah
16 and 18 are basically at the same point life, maturity, and experience wise – that point being ‘moron who is invincible and is legally permitted to use one of the most dangerous things we have in the US’ Her being the boss’ daughter seems like it’d be on her.
thejeff
Unless it’s a thing required as part of the job – or at least pushed by the megalomaniac boss as such – “You, Lopsided Orange One, Impregnate my Daughter!”
Which is horribly creepy for both the daughter and the employee. Not to mention illegal.
Roborat
Not to mention physically impossible.
Reltzik
Actually, it is now possible with the correct technology.
330 thoughts on “Dangit”
Ana Chronistic
dang, I wish I could get Employee of the Month for saying I wouldn’t treat myself like crap!
Galasso also doesn’t suffer whiners gladly,
T.HawkKenbutts
hey, at least he isn’t pining after friggin’ MALAYA anymore
(probably)
Sporky
We don’t even have evidence that Ken and Malaya have MET in this continuity.
someguy
Given that it’s the pizza joint close to college, they probably have and thats who Ken wanted to ask out.
Deanatay
We’ve seen Ken on campus, he’s a student there. He’s had opportunity to run into Malaya. And develop the hots for her.
Disloyal Subject
And just like that, I’m filled with the suspicion that he is.
All-Purpose Guru
Hey, for all we know he’s schtoinked her in this continuity.
No, wait, it’s Ken.
David T. Shaw
Thank you for increasing my vocabulary.
Charles Phipps
With the Sliding Time Scale, I’m not sure any one of these characters has played Streetfighter.
Lailah
Probably not, but since Street Fighter V came out this year, they’re still versed in it if they want to be.
Doctor_Who
A new one came out just this year.
captainswift
A Street Fighter game just came out for major consoles this very year.
Foxhack
Ultra Street Fighter IV has been out for a while.
And there’s 5, even if… we don’t talk about 5 very much.
Needfuldoer
They’ve probably at least heard about it, and tried it as a virtual console re-release or a stolen ROM in an emulator.
If DoA’s world has recently seen a wave of 80s/90s nostalgia like the real world, that’s almost inevitable.
marianne
How does one steal a ROM? I’d assume you’d get noticed, taking a screwdriver to an arcade cabinet to swipe its chips.
Andrew_C
There are websites with images of ROMs of arcade games and cartridges from console games. Technically creating them and using them is illegal, but they are all out of circulation anyway.
And yes you do have to open up the cabinet to get to the ROM, but seeing as this is done by people who collect them (the arcade games) I don’t think they usually have to worry about getting caught.
marianne
Oh yes, I am aware of all this 🙂 But since it’s copyright infringement (unauthorised duplication of copyrighted materials) rather than theft, I went with the (in my mind) funnier mental image of someone sneaking into arcades, lurking in the shadows like a ninja with a chip reader, to actually steal the ROM chips.
TabofManyColors
*adds “Ninja with a Chip Reader” to list of potential band names*
Clif
Do you also keep a list of bad band names?
Needfuldoer
By clicking the tiny download link hidden in between the giant “DOWNLOAD FREE NOW” virus buttons and the ads for escort services and dubious pharmeseuticals, of course! (At least that’s how it was done in the early 2000s.)
Khno
By crossing the Rubicon!… no, wait…
Baronbrian
*slow clap*
Jay Eff
I want more Ken, if only for Ana’s Street Fighter jokes at his expense~
TheAnonymousGuy
Job acquired
Becky has gained a new perk – Steady Cash flow: She makes +$8.50 per work hour
Becky Has gained a debuff – Customer stress: She loses -5 mood for each work day
Becky has gained a debuff – Employment woes: she has a 50% chance of losing -2 mood each work day
Active Perks Dino-tamer: Becky gains +10 mood for each successful hangout with dina
AngelBadman
I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but, I think the minimum wage for waitresses is $2.13 an hour, plus tips. I don’t think Indiana is one of the states that requires employers to make up the difference between that and the Federal non tipped minimum wage of $7.25. Still, I guess it is a positive step for Becky, as awful as those wages are.
I hope I missed something and Galasso pays $8.50 and hour.
thejeff
Or the tips are good enough so they don’t need to make it up.
Pizza place tips are often low and college kids are often broke, but OTOH a lot of college kids have worked those jobs and know what tips mean.
Rusty
Most states do not allow a tipped wage of $2.13 (And few even that near it of those that are above that) and a lot of them, primarily west coast however, actually have no tipped wage allowance, meaning minimum wage is paid.
You are however right that Indiana starts at $2.13… But that doesn’t mean that without tips she would get $2.13. She would instead receive $2.13+(7.25-Tips) in pay from her employer. This is a Federal level requirement. On that part you are wrong.
Note: This assumes everything is above the board and legal. Galasso may not care about that part.
Lastly, here’s the most interesting part. She makes $9.83 an hour according to average numbers for tipped restaurant employees in Indiana. Which sadly is a little over a dollar under the average in the nation. And nowhere near the average in a place without tipped wage allowances such as Washington ($14.67) or California ($13.68)
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes353031.htm (Where you can find the exact details)
90% of all workers in restaurants make $8.08 an hour at a minimum (With half the total making over $9.25)
The important part there… People aren’t actually making less than $7.25 (Federal minimum wage) an hour and this myth needs to stop being perpetuated so endlessly as the reason why those who get paid in tips need me to tip them 25-50% or else they’ll starve to death… Most of them are making at least equal to the minimum wage in the state with the 10th highest minimum wage ($9 an hour by the way)
AngelBadman
You are hereby hired to continue not treating yourself like crap, for the next hour. All remuneration will be in tips. Good job so far, here is your Employee of the Month plaque.
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
Ana Chronistic
Reltzik
Under the Terms of Employment Contract, Section 9, Paragraph 2, Employee hereby signs over all rights to treat herself like crap to Management.
…. that’s standard.
Pablo360
Where’s T. Hawk? All I see is Ryu.
Reltzik
A little bit of whining and grumbling is desired with obedience, though. It is further proof (in the spirit of a trophy, Galasso doesn’t need proof) that his will rules in these walls and that his peons obey even the orders that make them miserable.
AnvilPro
Since they don’t have a picture of her yet, Becky’s first day on the job will just be her standing behind an empty picture frame
Bicycle Bill
At least we know that “Employee of the Month” is not based on nepotism.
And being as how she acted so much like Galasso, I’m surprised that Sydney wasn’t EotM.
anonymsly
In my head as of right this moment, Galasso held her to a higher standard, so right up until her firing he was always bitterly disappointed in her. Failing to properly intimidate underclassmen was just the last straw.
Bagge
Sydney is the Fallen Prodigy. She could have been the Worthy Heir, but instead she squandered her talent and had to be forced away from the Realm. (Compare Winnowill, Anakin Skywalker, Tom Riddle and… well, half the antagonists in fiction, really).
Ken is just a peon. It remains to see what place the “Lopsided Orange One” will take in the pantheon of Galasso’s madness.
Mr. Mendo
Good ol’ Galasso! You can always count on him…after a fashion! ^_^
BenRG
FOOL! No-one can count on Galasso! Except for crushing subjugation and defeat!
Mr. Mendo
At least he’s consistent! 😉
Reltzik
And loud outbursts, usually of the words “fool” or “fools”.
butts
DoA is the Becky, Dina, and Galasso Show now. Don’t even bother trying to deny it.
Charles Phipps
So does this mean Becky is going to sleep with Conquest in order to provide her with a son? Or is that too Shortpacked?
Gwen
Conquest is underaged in this continuity, so hopefully not
butts
Is she? The only thing I remember about her is Joe staring.
Lailah
Yeah, it’s apparently how she was made ‘forbidden’ this time. Something like that?
Blunderwonder
I went back and read Joyce and Joe’s date, and I didn’t see anything about her being forbidden, only that Joyce was upset that Joe couldn’t control his gaze. I don’t know how that makes her underage, since Joyce would probably be upset at Joe staring at any girl’s cleavage.
timemonkey
Old enough to have a job and look the same as the rest of the cast.
Fart Captor
16 is old enough for a job, and there isn’t anywhere near enough detail in the character’s faces to show a 2 year age difference.
Hell, 14 is old enough for a part time job (in most states, at least), and since she’s working for her dad, I’m not sure there’s actually a minimum age at all.
Awnman
If anyone is interested 14 is old enough to work in the state of Indiana subject to hour limitations and a list of prohibited jobs which waiting tables is not on. Interestingly the hour restrictions do not apply to work as umpires/referees for some reason. As for the minimum wage, it is slightly more complex. Minors do have to be payed the minimum wage of $7.25 but tipped staff which she is are to be payed $2.13 and hour with the difference made up in tips and if it is not to be made up by the employer.
CJ
What? Wait. Tipps are deducted from minimum wage?
Needfuldoer
On top of that, some employers make the staff pool their tips and evenly distribute them at the end of the day.
Shade
Well Sydney did mention distributing her tips with the bus staff. Whether that’s required for her or just something she chooses to do is the question I suppose.
Lailah
Not only are they deducted from minimum wage, but if your performance is such that you don’t get minimum wage (from tips) and you ask for the difference to be reimbursed (The literal law for this, the entire reason this is considered legal), you *will* be fired.
thejeff
Basically, tipped workers can get screwed in many ways. So tip your waitstaff and tip them well. It’s not a little something extra for an exceptional job, it’s what they’re living on.
That said, working for tips in the right places you can do damn well.
Splork
They’re not “deducted” per se. But federal (?) minimum wage for servers is $2.13, with the idea that you’ll make a livable wage because of tips (you won’t, but you wouldn’t with a minimum wage job either. Not that that makes it okay).
Dr. T
Yeah, if you might earn tips than your employer can pay you less due to the concept that your pay and tips should exceed the minimum wage, whether it does or not in reality. Some states force the employer to make up the difference if you earn less than minimum wage, but others might not.
If you think this is incredibly stupid, you can thank Herman Cain, a man who briefly was considered the front runner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Mr. 9-9-9 is the head of a lobbying firm for restaurants that made that happen.
thejeff
Not that I want to pass up an opportunity to bash Cain, but I don’t think this originates with him. There was no minimum wage for tipped workers until the 60s. When first set it was half the regular minimum wage and was then raised to roughly stay in line with that as the minimum wage went up until the 90s. In 96 the minimum wage was raised without a corresponding increase in the tipped minimum. That seems to be where Cain had his influence. Now it’s at the lowest level ever, relative to the regular minimum wage. Except of course for before the 60s, when they didn’t have to pay waitresses anything but tips.
Lailah
It’d be like 16-18, so not really a big deal on that note, no? Or is she 14 or something?
BBCC
She’s 16, Indiana’s age of consent. That said, sleeping with the boss’ daughter, whom is in a different stage of her life, maturity and experience wise, is still super gross.
Lailah
16 and 18 are basically at the same point life, maturity, and experience wise – that point being ‘moron who is invincible and is legally permitted to use one of the most dangerous things we have in the US’ Her being the boss’ daughter seems like it’d be on her.
thejeff
Unless it’s a thing required as part of the job – or at least pushed by the megalomaniac boss as such – “You, Lopsided Orange One, Impregnate my Daughter!”
Which is horribly creepy for both the daughter and the employee. Not to mention illegal.
Roborat
Not to mention physically impossible.
Reltzik
Actually, it is now possible with the correct technology.
…. also illegal.
thejeff
Fool! Simple physical impossibility cannot stop Galasso!
Reltzik
I don’t remember seeing anything about her age in continuity, actually.
I Write Monsters
That’s ridiculous.
Dina will also be involved. Slipshine will then jump into Forbes 500.
inqntrol
If only he’s gender blind.
JetstreamGW
It’s Galasso.
Clif
Um, good point.
Emperor Norton II
Ok, so who called Becky being hired?
Everyone who did so, give yourself four Imperial Internet Points.
That is all.
ety
You make it so hard to keep track when you do this.
Doctor_Who
Yeah, Metric Internet Points are so much easier to convert.
Emperor Norton II
Hey, you’re not going to get that pillow for free. So get tracking!
Ragnarok101