I think it should appear empty or nearly empty. I've never seen an in-game vending machine with that many available items.
The current vending machines hide the contents and I have to access it to see what happens to be inside. This makes sense given the changing inventory.
The static picture of so many goodies makes me want to smash through the glass with my stone axe and take everything.
since i kind of started this i just want to be clear, yes i said what i said about the buttons because thats kind of how my brain works and as soon as i saw it i couldnt help to say what didnt made sense to me. now I have it clear that its imposible for technical and practical reasons to have it working as a real thing would.
Sure we all would love the machine actually displaying the items it currently has in stock, yes would be a great feature to drop a coin in and see the product move and all those pretty details, but we all know that takes a tremendous amount of time for just a detail that as awesome as it would be its not really necesary.
for me, the difference is that fixing the buttons numbers to make sense its an easy fix without need of major fixing or redoing.
the model is good and it looks great, and its a decent common ground between what would be "perfect" and what we can get. i was not trying to annoy either the artist who made it or the pimps, i thought of it as constructive criticism. because thats how i work, im actually thankful when someone points out something like this to me when its my work and i go fix it as soon as possible, when i can.
about the ocd thing i think its a personal thing and people react differently to it so, to each its own. nodoby is ocd, people suffers from an ocd disorder and affects each at a different level. guppy and people who know me know where i stand about it and we talk and play around about it in different ways because we know each other and there is trust. so that maybe translated in the wrong way for someone else having this condition. but there was never a bad intention about it.
also have in mind my texts are sometimes hard to get for people in the way i intent or may be seen as too frontal. on one side because english is not my first language and on the other side because im kind of a d ck.
and thats all i had to say, now go fix my tits.... and the buttons if possible.