It's a very sad thing indeed that no one under the age of 50 knows what a video arcade is. 
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Random discovery today.
I put on Dunwich Horror with Dean Stockwell on the ROKU channel. I thought I was watching the 70s version, but he looked way too old. Turns out he's in the same movie twice. Once in the 70s, and once later in the 2000s. I prefer his 70s one.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065669/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226752/
I put on Dunwich Horror with Dean Stockwell on the ROKU channel. I thought I was watching the 70s version, but he looked way too old. Turns out he's in the same movie twice. Once in the 70s, and once later in the 2000s. I prefer his 70s one.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065669/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226752/
But… regular hangers are triangles…
These.
https://www.globalshop.com.au/produ...kScAYtdBbzLTpFUtgIfWZihQ9z6DiH8caAgBkEALw_wcB
Back in the 1960s and '70s, Cosby was one of the funniest standup comics in the business. Some of his routines have become classics. That's the Bill Cosby I'll always remember. The creepy old perv who hung around the Playboy Mansion and drugged and raped women -- to me, that's almost a different person.
So these things are basically hanger hangers.
Cosby also assaulted people like makeup artists. I recall one of them saying he had his hand up her skirt while she was doing his makeup and fingering her
It's a very sad thing indeed that no one under the age of 50 knows what a video arcade is.
They still had one relatively near us until around 2004.
A couple may have sprung up closer since, but sold as being "retro"
The two possibilities now are Game Works and Dave and Busters. There is also Main Entertainment. All of these are not the same as a mall arcade like in the 80s and early 90s.
The one I knew about was based in a shopping mall. I think the seaside ones swiched over to the gambling machines by then
The local one I have heard of is now based in an old mill -and currently has the equivalent of a 22 dollar entrance fee - though the machines are set up to be free now.
Apparently has 300 odd machines in there dating from the 70s to the 90s. - However, they also have some more recent consoles/gaming too. I'd probably more interested in the arcades as the PC/console stuff, we'd just do at home.
I miss the social aspect.
I find it hilarious that Toht's name translates as "dead".
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It's always nice to find out I'm older than my 39 years, and that my daughters who enjoy arcades are also older than I am!It's a very sad thing indeed that no one under the age of 50 knows what a video arcade is.
Spider Patrol? That's a hit TV series if I ever saw one
Also, "The Spider Squish Sticks" would be a great name for a rock band.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...cle_f6bdbba9-9ec1-58ef-a1d5-32a2067e3ae3.html
Don't worry, Piers Morgan. We're actually so glad you're not Canadian too.
Don't worry, Piers Morgan. We're actually so glad you're not Canadian too.
I think youtube is slowly working its way around things like Brave and ad blockers. I tried Brave for a month and while it was much faster then Firefox it just didn't have all the things that I am more familiar with so I went back to what I like.
Sometimes I just wonder what thinking in our primitive ancestors led to the practice of using friction to make fire. I mean percussive techniques (Flint striking etc...) seems pretty self-explanatory. They'd already been chipping away at all kinds of stones for tools, & some stones made a spark, when struck, & that spark is the business.
But the notion that wood on wood, rubbing vigorously, could lead to heat, and that heat could cause small, lit embers to form? Where does that line of logic originate from? Sure, they'd been woodworking in all manners, but in what manner was wood on wood friction a part of that experience? How to you get to that conclusion? From their perspective, that's some genius level shit.
But the notion that wood on wood, rubbing vigorously, could lead to heat, and that heat could cause small, lit embers to form? Where does that line of logic originate from? Sure, they'd been woodworking in all manners, but in what manner was wood on wood friction a part of that experience? How to you get to that conclusion? From their perspective, that's some genius level shit.
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See this is the kind of stuff I love to think about. What was the first person to make fire thinking? They must have witnessed forest fires and fires caused by natural events like lightning, but that whole process of thinking "how can I do this?" it would be fascinating to learn.
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