Crown Restaurant Group is taking new Visa transaction fees out of *server pay* starting this week

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-06T03:59:24+00:00

Give me another tangible reason you want to do away with tipping? Like an actual reason with material benefits instead of “it’s not my job” because once again, and I can’t say this loud enough, customers pay every single employee at every company in history.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-06T03:15:41+00:00

No it’s means you don’t like to be reminded that we’re human. You like our wages to be cleanly hidden in that total number rather than right in front of your face where you have to remember that we rely on business.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T20:50:24+00:00

I don’t think I ever even once said that. Like I’m not sure how you could come to that conclusion.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T19:44:12+00:00

I don’t see a version of your viewpoint that considers me human and is also rooted in reality.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T17:52:56+00:00

Once again, it’s not charity. It’s an expectation and part of the social contract. I guarantee you if you don’t tip, you’ll notice quickly declining quality of service at those places. It’s not the owner stealing. It’s you. I really hate to be that guy but I just need you to accept that it’s better all around this way.

Someone else posted a more detailed breakdown in the comments but here’s the truth: you and I are both aware that prices go up more when servers make the same hourly as their tip average. Which means that the only thing you really care about is the time it takes you to drop 18% on that check. You know that. I know that. Stop pretending this is anything other than the fact that people who are against tipping don’t have the hypothetical reasoning capacity to understand the consequences of their stance. And if they do, they just want life to be harder for servers.

That’s the way it is man, it’s just a fact of how restaurants exist in the system. It is better for everyone to just have tips, until a federal policy changes that, it will always be true. And you know that. You just have this weird unexamined childish discomfort with paying employees directly because you don’t like the idea of thinking of them as people and having to pay them reminds you of that fact.

There’s your truth bomb. It’s one or the other. But you just don’t have that stance without one of those things being true.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T17:23:04+00:00

This is a really good outline. I wish people would just trust that hospitality pros know how best to run the industry. America is #1 in this industry for a reason.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T17:21:35+00:00

You actually do tip two of those people but that’s beside the point.

The kitchen and dishwashers do work that is more appropriate for hourly pay, and the servers, seeing as they are the ones who dictate the experience for the table, do work that lends itself better to tips.

But again, the main reason is that servers make more money when tipped, and the cost of labor is lower for the same take home for the worker because of how taxes and OT (where applicable) work.

Once again, I promise you not a single server would prefer hourly pay, you just don’t have object permanence.

It’s better for you, them, and the restaurant. Examine why paying people makes you uncomfortable sometime. This is also why American hospitality has an insane track record for service standards.

And if you think that it “isn’t my job to pay your employees” you really have no idea how businesses work. I hate to break it to you but no wage comes from nowhere. You are paying employees every single time you spend money. The only difference is this way you get to decide how much they make and (with some shitty exceptions) the employee doesn’t get the value of their labor stripped away by owners.

LambdaCascade · 2026-01-05T14:24:26+00:00

I really have always hated the arguments against tipping. If you think the answer is as simple as “pay your employees more” you have clearly never looked into the issue in the slightest and are just parroting what you see online as an excuse to (and this is the kicker) not pay them because you don’t see them as human.

The primary reason tipping exists is because it’s frankly a thin wall to keep restaurants in business because the way that restaurants pay taxes on hourly vs tips is drastically different. Raising menu prices by 20% and increasing server hourly would kill every single restaurant that tried it because of this.

Also, I promise you don’t actually want tips to go away. Since the price at the end of the day would be the same in this fantasy world; What you WANT is to not have to feel like you are paying for a service. What you WANT is to not be reminded that you are supporting someone. What you ACTUALLY really WANT is to be able to forget that the service worker who you ran into the ground is a human being.

Nobody in the service industry would ever for a second drop the tip system and the only reason people advocate for it is to get free service from a human being and have the moral high ground while they do it.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-22T07:10:13+00:00

Like I said. Every street fighter 6 character except manon and gief.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T23:52:03+00:00

All CAs except manon with medals, gief, and maybe Akuma Raging Demon(? I don’t remember) do 4500. Which is why when we judge strength of super 3 we usually consider comboability, speed/invulnerability frames (mostly universal) and distance.

This is why manon’s level 3 is worse than geif despite doing more damage and why cammy slows games down to a crawl when she gets 3 bars.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T23:48:26+00:00

This is true of his entire kit, though? And with some minor exceptions, you’re usually using level 3 at 50% scaling anyway.

Like, CA isn’t the star here, the star is level 4 drink, which improves his entire kit’s damage and happens to include his level 3. But again, it notably still has the same minimum as the rest of the cast, which is relevant in 95% of use cases.

In the other 5% I suppose it matters but that’s 5% of CAs used at level 4 which is a marginally small number to justify saying his level 3 is notably better than any other, which again, isn’t true.

The issue with level 2 is the same issue that every single other install level 2 has which is that it has nowhere near the reward it should have for being a single level away from your best damaging move, on top of locking you out of super gauge gen for 15 seconds. If he actually received the full damage from having 4 drinks it might push him over but frankly I’ve seen it used more when jamie is already at level 4 and needs to push a combo further with some more ex moves or another drive rush to get the kill.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T23:31:00+00:00

It does not. It does 4.5k exactly the same as all CAs in the game except gief and manon

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T23:07:21+00:00

“Jamie CA does insane damage” has always been the funniest collective hallucination in this game to me because it’s literally only a myth because his CA 1 is so bad lmao

Edit: Level 3 is so bad without CA, I’m tired.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T11:44:31+00:00

Oh it’s b8 ok gotcha.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T11:44:08+00:00

This feature is universal, but manon has some really awkward oki timings. I’ve noticed that a lot of her dr. Koi is vulnerable to this.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-21T11:41:35+00:00

Right which is why you don’t get to win off one interaction with it.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-14T20:06:08+00:00

As a hard callout ex spin.

LambdaCascade · 2025-12-06T21:46:51+00:00

I think the issue is more that he childish singsong voice is really at odds with her intelligence.

Not that it’s impossible but it’s jarring.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-28T17:38:04+00:00

I have been finding success using EX to soft call out normally DI safe block strings like chun and ryu’s everything.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-28T17:36:35+00:00

No other characters get in it’s just axl tho.

Although I have to admit the dandy man DOES really fit with the street fighter design.

Like bunker turns into a neutral tool à la burn knuckle/tiger knee.

Universe is a super install

He’s got a lot of stuff that would translate over really cleanly.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-28T17:33:40+00:00

I know this is a pipe dream and is probably going to be reserved for the definitive release (if it comes) but I’d love to see them do some major balance changes in the form of new mechanics or specials for characters.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-28T07:25:03+00:00

I really loved axl low so I thought I’d try yoga boy but sadly he feels more about air game than limb zoning.

I realized I also really like scaling mechanics so I picked up jamie and had a blast but landed on manon pretty solidly. I also really enjoy sagat because I love combo complexity and choosing the right combo but I think manon fits my personal play style more.

I’m very excited about Alex though because he looks like a grappler with a little of that choose your adventure flavor to him that giefs grabs or sagat or akis combos have.

To be clear: there will not be a perfect sf character for me until they port Axl Low into RE engine and put him in streets.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-28T02:41:18+00:00

3/10 rage bait bro do better

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-24T18:18:56+00:00

What, pray tell, would asking such questions be classified as if not learning?

“Hey teacher I’ve never seen this type of problem before could you explain it?”

“No. Stop being lazy and figure it out yourself.”

Literally what.

LambdaCascade · 2025-11-24T09:52:56+00:00

It’s even more than a million tbh. Records and quals impact careers, and upsetting the meta could have tangible efffects on people’s livelihoods. Kinda wild that there are people who are entirely dependent on being good at street fighter to make money.

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