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I pizza place, for kids, that served beer. Sure it was expensive. But fun. 😻😻😻

I know this is an AI post, but a thing that always troubled me at arcades where the machines ran on quarters & you got the quarters from the arcade, with the guy who had the quarter dispenser was-- how is this not all a net zero? I figured it out eventually, but it troubled me in 3rd grade.

So I guess you can take your kid to Chuck E Cheese and see if they're a problem gambler in a controlled environment

Play Street Fighter or Metal Slug or something and have some actual fun

I will. I will if I play good

So, I guess, both comments are consistent with “you couldn’t win prizes,” but you could sure get prizes

Deterrence, catharsis, and social service all in one. Also, making him assemble to the public and deflating the myth these morons are geniuses, or anything but barely above average psychopaths who got too much access to education and who used the resulting vocabulary to run confidence games.

I interviewed at the Buffalo company ICE (Innovative Concepts in Entertainment) that makes a lot of those token games (there first hit was Bubble Hockey). At the interview with the owner he asked "are you passionate about games?" I burst out laughing and said "no, they're a waste of time" 🤣

AI billing is run off of tokens, lol. Seriously fucked up (and accurate)

I’m not sure if they still do this, but they used to have one day with free unlimited tokens. As a kid, it was like being allowed to swim in Scrooge McDuck’s money pool

Absolutely

Counterpoint: The NYC subway system (especially circa 2005)

That plastic blob vaguely shaped like a helicopter that made noise, went up 3 feet on rusty hydraulics then came back down? It was all a lie!

Hey, if spending $50 to rack up enough tickets to buy a $3 toy isn't freedom I don't know what is.