Looking forward to the rest of the arcade entries! My mom loved pinball and Centipede so one of the things we did for fun was hit the arcades when I was growing up. This would have been in the early 80s. Sometimes it was Aladdinās Castle, which was in the local mall, sometimes it was an arcade tucked away in a shopping strip. Man, I miss those days!
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This is a great post, I really enjoyed reading it. I need to get more familiar with Linux, Im so very tired of windows. (thats one of the reasons I got this chromebook!) I need to figure out how to follow your blog (5 decades, just an arcader, im learning)
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Thank you, I have a ton in the tank, didnt want to create a wall of tl:dr hehe.
Arcades, proper arcades were the very best, all pretty much gone now, even Japan is slowly fading
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You ever been to Galloping Ghost? It really feels like one never-ending arcade. Only difference being, all the games are free; you pay $25 up-front for the day, and thereās no guarantee that every single game works.
Iām over in the UK and we have a few of them here too, they really are great but Iām not a fan of pay once then free. The point was to make that 10p (or 25c) go as far as you could! (Gauntlet is the exception, how we fell for that one!)
Part two of my arcade blog is up. I think Iām going to have to learn how to separate the entries as right now itās all in one page
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A bit of bandwagon hopping: bear blog question challenge | meowsoleum
I love the discussion about arcades going on here. I really missed out on the heyday of arcade gaming, sadly, but I remember liking them as a kid.
@Nyx now I really want to know what was on the punk guyās mixtapes!
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The Weekly Wrap Up has been posted! Links this week include the discovery of a new numbers station, the Met Museum made 3D scans of 140 of their objects you can view online and read about the Internet of Checkpoints. My kitty visitor is still here, I had a birthday and I got a response from the UKās Cabinet Office regarding some of the official Whitehall mousers. Link Lagniappe is still going on! Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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I didnāt know about your Government Cats and Riot Dogs page! I love that Vaquita was lured to the vet by people staging a fake protest.
I just donāt understand why the cat coup for global domination hasnāt happened yet. Please hurry up, kitties!!
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Out of all the subpages on my site, Government Cats and Riot Dogs is my favorite. (saying that quietly because thatās like saying you love one of your children better than the others) I can see why Vaquita won the cityās Character of the Year award!
Good lord, I am so ready for the Government Cats to rule!
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The mid march update is up. It gets a bit venty in the ??? section, so watch out for that
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I figure some on here would get a kick out of this post 
Content warning: Childhood exposure to disturbing online content
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Lol being a menace in forums as a kid was also a pastime of mine. I donāt think having unsupervised access to the internet as a child was a net positive but I think it did spark much of my curiosity about the world.
My childhood memories are manufactured. Warmth is a successful marketing strategy. I am the product. And yet, knowing this changes nothing about the warmth. The house hippo still wanders through a kitchen that looks like ours, making a nest from lost mittens, and I still want it to be real.
This hit home, it makes me think about just how much I have been influenced by corporations selling products my entire life. How susceptible to advertising am I still today? Probably more than I would like.
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RIP my comic book backlog
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@DivergentRays it is a really, really good page! You should be proud of it.
@brennan not to ignore the rest of your post but Iām disturbed by the mention of diseases spread by McDonaldās Play Places. In restrospect, that makes complete sense and explains why I never see them anymore but NOPENOPENOPE
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An update on my cat. Like I said on Mastodon, itās not good news, but it could be worse.
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Aww, Iām both so sorry to hear this and also glad that whatās ailing him wonāt require any kind of surgery. I like the idea of motion detecting lights to help guide him - thatās such a good suggestion.
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That poor cat. But heās still a sweet cat baby asking for pettings and cuddles, though.
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Poor baby! Itās not a good situation but it sounds like heās in good hands and very loved 
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been a while since i logged on! trying to get back here, so heres my latest post, reviewing all the wings of fire arc 1 books lol
there are also a lot of posts i posted and didnt share here
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