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Get good loot from a toolbox in Fallout? Gotta check them all now

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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was a kid I pressed the "return coin" button on a vending machine at a rest stop and 50¢ came out. Gotta check every single vending machine now.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do this too, and yeah you’d be surprised how many times there’s money in the coin slot

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can confirm. Coin slot returns saved me from bankruptcy! Sadly much less common now with the advent of contactless card payments.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you owed $1k then $1 wouldn't save you

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

My dad said when they were kids they'd check the payphones for coins in the change slot, so sometimes kids would spit in them to fuck w people

[–] peyotecosmico@programming.dev 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Us: hahaha silly dog.

Also us: oh a waterfall, I'll check behind it.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also also us: oh a lottery ticket that I know for a mathematical fact has such a tiny chance of winning that I'm literally more likely to be struck by a shark and eaten by lightning, well I'll try my odds, who knows?

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those who do not check behind the waterfall do not deserve to see the fairy wonderland behind it.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

A vintage meme sir but it checks out

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand, Dusty. I would inspect the magic pie bush every day too. Who turns down a free pie?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I knew where that bush was, I'd periodically put pies in the bush just for Dusty.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Dusty is clearly a good boy or girl.

[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My cats did the same thing when they found a mouse. They would stand guard where they first saw it for over a month afterwards.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

My wife's Yorkie once chased a mouse into a kitchen cupboard. After moving apartments and a decade later, if you asked him "where's the mouse?" He'd run to the kitchen and stare at the cupboards

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Me watching Dusty find the pie I left for him in the bushes

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

This is seen in human society, and is called a Cargo cult

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I once had a program fail to compile, but when I compiled it a second time it worked. No idea why, best guess is some kind of caching or dependency issue that got resolved by restating the compiler.

Now every time a program fails to compile and it's not immediately obvious what the problem is, I instinctively compile it again just in case. Well more like three or four times.

I might just be a dog though.

[–] iggames@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Our neighborhood has the Magical Chicken Wing bush. The dog thoroughly inspected it for months afterwards, and still checks on it now and then just in case.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a well defined psychological principle called Pavlovian response.

[–] JuicyGyri@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably closer to intermittent reward than Pavlovian conditioning! But yeah, definitely already "well defined" by psychology haha

I would suggest that the stimulus was strong enough to condition after one trial, due to the repeat behavior.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Used to find porn mags in bushes back in my day. They were magic pie bush bushes I tell ya

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.

My parents were big hippie environmentalists back in the '70s and they were always so proud of their son (me) for volunteering at the local recycling center every Saturday. Fortunately they never found out that I did it for the porn. I had like four or five copies of every porn magazine published in that decade.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I found them in local bushland (Australia) in the late 80s

I presume they were hidden by older boys who didn't dare take them home where a parent may find them

I also didn't dare keep them at home long, that book of bush went back into the bush

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

There is a part of the dog training book "Total Recall" by Pippa Mattinson that refers to this.

Pie-in-a-bush is her way of explaining the Jackpot reward training method.

Very surreal to see it realised so.

[–] Manmikey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dog once found a biscuit* in a bush near our home, from that day onwards he always checked the bush for a biscuit, there never was another one, the bush became known as "The Biscuit Bush"

  • Cookie if your American 🍪
[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What type of biscuit was it?

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Bush biscuit

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

And what if he found a new species of bush that grows pie huh?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't even remotely close to being a meme.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I agree but I think we're a minority at this point.

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Norwegian prog rock band called Magic Pie, I haven't seen their bush yet though

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing like some prog rock and bush.

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Found money in Vietnam once, and was forever looking at every piece of trash on the sides of roads thereafter.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The fridge won't be empty this time.

[–] schema@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The owner should put treats in that bush for Dusty to find.