I'm sorry, but I have trouble feeling nostalgic for arcades.
I'm sorry, but I have trouble feeling nostalgic for arcades. My memories involve dark and cavernous rooms where it was hard to see other people and easy to offend them, large machines with worn-out TVs and controls, and unfair gameplay that was almost always a waste of time. What's the point of doing something if you can't do it long enough to enjoy it? The constant "coin grab" was irritating to me as a young boy, and annoying to have to constantly leave the arcade and find my parent where I could beg a few more quarters. And I always noticed that stuffed animals cost thousands of tokens, but barely tens of dollars at other stores. For about the same price, I could rent a videogame for the home console, and I wouldn't have a parent nagging me that they were afraid of someone kidnapping me from the arcade.
Posted by stephengillie on Jul 13, 2015, 7:32 PM
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> 1) Land is effectively nationalized under 100% LVT.
This low cost -> artist -> rich people movement of neighborhoods is something I observed happening in some cities I’ve lived in and it am...
From an admittedly selfish point of view, I also don't mind this.
> Oil is still underpriced wrt to its environmental cost.
If component prices keep going up and the respective monopoly/duopoly/triopoly for each component colludes to keep prices high&...
When I moved to the bay area out of college housing was too expensive for me to manage even working for a large tech company.
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I'm sorry, but I have trouble feeling nostalgic for arcades.
I'm sorry, but I have trouble feeling nostalgic for arcades. My memories involve dark and cavernous rooms where it was hard to see other people and easy to offend them, large machines with worn-out TVs and controls, and unfair gameplay that was almost always a waste of time. What's the point of doing something if you can't do it long enough to enjoy it? The constant "coin grab" was irritating to me as a young boy, and annoying to have to constantly leave the arcade and find my parent where I could beg a few more quarters. And I always noticed that stuffed animals cost thousands of tokens, but barely tens of dollars at other stores. For about the same price, I could rent a videogame for the home console, and I wouldn't have a parent nagging me that they were afraid of someone kidnapping me from the arcade.
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