I like arcades a lot, wish that scene existed more. I actually liked the grimy neon atmosphere and feeling of camaraderie. Actually felt like a community with tournaments, battles for high scores, all that. Looking back it was probably misogynist or exclusionary in a lot of ways, but it was the last time I felt like part of something.
I kinda miss ytmnd and the lengths they would go to stretch a joke. I guess I also miss stupid flash cartoons. I definitely miss how experimental the early internet was and how sites used to be simple text on single color background.
I'm gonna make some enemies but I'm glad grunge music is dead. I genuinely hate that music, maybe at the same level I hate the trucks and beer type of country music.
There was a period before the marketers focused super hard on men though. Throughout the 80s arcade owners figured out that guys spent more than girls, and that guys spent more when they weren't talking to girls, and there was an intentional push to get women out of the arcades.
I went to one in the trendy part of town. Like 10 bucks an hour all you can play. Had fun but it didn't hit like the dark smoke filled ran by a creeper old arcades from back in the day.
That makes sense. I'm too young to have experienced an old school arcade.
The closest I came was on a Middle school field trip, I remember a group of us walked away from where we supposed to be and found an old school pizza place that had arcade machines. We got in a lot of trouble, but it was fun!
Yeah, those old pizza places were fun. All that grease from the pizza ended up on the sticks though.
I was thinking about the old arcades. A lot of us didn't have money and would just go to hang out, do drugs, skate in the parking lot, be shitty kids. It was like a staging ground for the neighborhood to figure out what we were going to do for the rest of the day. A big version of hot couch guy's room.
I like arcades a lot, wish that scene existed more. I actually liked the grimy neon atmosphere and feeling of camaraderie. Actually felt like a community with tournaments, battles for high scores, all that. Looking back it was probably misogynist or exclusionary in a lot of ways, but it was the last time I felt like part of something.
I kinda miss ytmnd and the lengths they would go to stretch a joke. I guess I also miss stupid flash cartoons. I definitely miss how experimental the early internet was and how sites used to be simple text on single color background.
I'm gonna make some enemies but I'm glad grunge music is dead. I genuinely hate that music, maybe at the same level I hate the trucks and beer type of country music.
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There was a period before the marketers focused super hard on men though. Throughout the 80s arcade owners figured out that guys spent more than girls, and that guys spent more when they weren't talking to girls, and there was an intentional push to get women out of the arcades.
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Re arcades. They are back in certain areas. Both in the old school, family-friendly version and in the bar / arcade combination.
I went to one in the trendy part of town. Like 10 bucks an hour all you can play. Had fun but it didn't hit like the dark smoke filled ran by a creeper old arcades from back in the day.
That makes sense. I'm too young to have experienced an old school arcade.
The closest I came was on a Middle school field trip, I remember a group of us walked away from where we supposed to be and found an old school pizza place that had arcade machines. We got in a lot of trouble, but it was fun!
Yeah, those old pizza places were fun. All that grease from the pizza ended up on the sticks though.
I was thinking about the old arcades. A lot of us didn't have money and would just go to hang out, do drugs, skate in the parking lot, be shitty kids. It was like a staging ground for the neighborhood to figure out what we were going to do for the rest of the day. A big version of hot couch guy's room.