Did you know Vriska Serket owns a gas station?

Princess Alice · 2012-06-30 21:02:24

Imipolex G · 2012-06-30 21:02:52

She's got lots of irons in the fire.

Eelektross · 2012-06-30 22:06:36

-gets canekind-

What, one backstabbing not enough to keep you down?

Princess Alice · 2012-07-01 01:51:08

The fact that the superscript "9" became an "8" as well amuses me. It has all seven segments even though it's never going to (intentionally) display anything but a 9.

Tre · 2012-07-01 02:01:42

Is the 9 superscript there to say that the price listed is only 9/10 of a gallon?

If so, then gas stations are some greedy frakkers.

Princess Alice · 2012-07-01 02:07:29

Actually it's 9/10 of 1 cent.

Weirdly precise? Probably, but every gas station I know seems to do it...

Justice4243 · 2012-07-01 02:23:02

Vriska hopes to catch the truly desperate,

Tre · 2012-07-01 02:23:10

In that case it's kind of amazing that they don't round up.

Justice4243 · 2012-07-01 02:25:45

In that case it's kind of amazing that they don't round up.

They're playing off human psychological tendencies.

Not everyone process $3.49 and nine tenths a cent as basically "$3.50" it's the same reason stores sell things for $4.99. For some reason it just doesn't quite click that's almost exactly $5.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-07-01 04:25:22

I never knew that that last digit could read anything other than a 9.

Princess Alice · 2012-07-01 04:47:14

I was thinking about that myself. There doesn't seem to be much point to it, does there?

My guess is that the sign company orders those LED units from a supplier that manufactures them for various purposes, and it's probably cheaper to buy a standard seven-segment LED digit than to have a fixed "9" custom-made.

But that's just speculation on my part.

Vriska · 2012-07-01 11:03:02

IT'S SO 8EAUTIFUL!

glennmagusharvey · 2012-07-01 12:27:58

IT'S OVER EIGHT DOLLARS!!!!!

Did you know Vriska Serket owns a gas station?

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