My Wal-Mart Map

Discussion in 'Mapping' started by WalMartGreeter, Apr 4, 2011.

  1. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Tbh, Wal-mart would probably eat Tesco alive. But still, Britain's biggest supermarket has just decided that not only was setting up their own mobile phone network not enough, but they've now decided to start selling used cars. From the supermarket. Idk what Wal-mart do, I just hear they're fucking huge. I've only been in one once or twice when I've been in the US, a long time ago.
     
  2. aaaaaa50

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    There are books and documentaries about wallmart which go into so much more detail than is possible here. The super short summary is that wallmart is literally evil. I know enough to say that I honestly don't want to learn any more at all. If I could do something somehow, then I'd actually look into all the gory details, but that's not likely ever. Just like poverty and hunger and disease, it's depressing to read about and not be able to make a difrence. wallmart is a corporate monster of the global scale. If anyone here thinks mcdonalds is discussing, well.....

    P.S. Uncapitalized proper nouns show my disrespect. Fear me! And my uncapitalized proper nouns!
     
  3. WalMartGreeter

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    I remember someone saying they won't join 420 because a "walmart sympathizer" was in the clan. There are pros and cons on the "supermarket" industry... but I wouldn't call it EVIL :headshot:

    Mr. Wiki says that Carrefour is bigger than Tesco. They are a branch of hypermarkets (supermarket + department store) in a few dozen countries (but based in France). Walmart deals with supermarkets, hypermarkets, discount stores, and warehouse clubs (Sam's Club). But goodness, Tesco has a diverse business plan... record label, film making, banking, and fuel?
     
  4. OuNin

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    costco vs sam's club
     
  5. Metal Smith

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    how is being successful evil?

    business is a cutthroat business. Until one supermarket has services better than another, i won't even care which I shop at, whichever is closest. In the end, I've never once been given any form of guest service at a target, walmart, meijer, etc. They all treat customers exactly the same, and all have the same quality of goods.


    Except Sams' club. The Sams' clubs with the in house butchers have some of the best meats. Not sure if it's all of them, but most I've ever been to have a higher quality of meat than most other places. They also mostly have their own butchers.
     
  6. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    Your first map always sucks. No exceptions. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying.
     
  7. Metal Smith

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    My first map was awesome.
     
  8. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    eastborough is p.fun
     
  9. communism

    communism poof

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    tesco sounds tite yo
     
  10. Deadpool

    Deadpool SVETLANNNAAAAAA

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    Corporate ethics are severely lacking in this world, and the more a corporation monopolizes a market the less responsible they have to be. That seems to be the correlation to me, anyway. Walmart gets many of its products, mostly the stuff from China, from factories that essentially boil down to indentured servitude. They pay so little, and become so important in the sustenance of the poor unfortunates who wind up working for them, that they essentially wind up with a slave labour force. They do the same thing with their North American Employees, who often make less working there than they would if they simply went on welfare. "Indentured servitude" is a term that I expect would feature heavily in any attempt to reduce Walmart's absurd control over the weaker economies (local economies primarily) in which it is situated.

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/wal-mart-the-high-cost-of-low-price/

    watch this movie!
    DO IT!

    The corporate world in general enrages me, I think I'm some kind of hippy/anarchist hybrid at heart.
     
  11. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    well it actually would be the job of politics to care for ethics/moral, its not the economies.
    but elaborating on this would require me to raeg about how those two are so tightly interconnected and only a few seem to be concerned.
    but this would take up too much time and i wanted to go play emp now actually :D
     
  12. Demented

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    Economics without ethics is the art of exploitation.
    Politics is the fastest route to not agreeing on anything.

    Ergo, if you rely on politics to provide morality, you get Wal-Mart.
     
  13. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    economy has the sole purpose of producing and distributing goods, its politics that provide the framework in which it can act ...
     
  14. Paradox

    Paradox I am a gigantic asshole who loses people's hard wo

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    Destroyable objects in the store that explode into pieces
     
  15. complete_

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    i just bought coke zero on sale for 99cents. fucking awful diet coke bullshit

    death to corporate amerikkka
     
  16. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Anything less than pure Coca Cola should be removed from existence. That includes Pepsi and Dr shitter.
     
  17. Grantrithor

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    yo man have walmart as BE base and across have a zellers as NF base (zellers is liek extremely inferior Canadian walmart).

    also if this is the first time you have mapped with hammer you are soon going to find out EVERYTHING FUCKS UP ALL THE TIME. don't use carve, especially on displacements Carve is an amazing tool.
     
  18. WalMartGreeter

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    Haha I saw that youtube video of that guy using carve to make terrain. I have never used Hammer before but even I realized that there were too many vectors to represent that shape efficiently lol

    Was landing your first map? I think it was a good map that just needed some balancing issues fixed. I'm hoping a not-too-complex outdoor map will be a good first map. Of course, I have heard that the hardest part about map is not being able to stop adding shit to your map (i.e. some people never finish their first map lol). If that's the case for first maps, why do server fucking have insurrection in their rotation? It is the 2nd least optimized map (winner is raiders) in the game and kills computers with sub-par gpu.
     
    Last edited: Apr 6, 2011
  19. Metal Smith

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    Minimum wage is minimum wage. Wal-mart is about as low a skilled labor as you can get. 7.50 an hour is minimum wage, not indentured servitude. Need to make more money? go get a fucking high school diploma, GED, or go to college.

    Slave labor in foreign countries? go picket the whitehouse to impose tarifs on countries that lack child labor laws. Short of that, there is no way for us to stop getting products that have been produced through child labor. I can almost guarantee that every single retail store out there will have some form of child labor if they get products from foreign countries. It's nearly inevitable.

    There is a reason why governments should act on behalf of the people in terms of protecting them from being taken advantage of. This is also why labor laws allowing unions and collective bargaining are important.
     
  20. WalMartGreeter

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    Stop hijacking my thread, socialist.
     

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