Im probably in the very very small minority of people who still love and go to arcades. Its such a great place to meet like minded nerds. We are lucky to have 2 really awesome ones in town, one of which has a lot of good old machines, and they repair them too. They have some new ones that are OK too.

Anyway, I dont like that they changed to the dumb card thing. I get it (efficiency, capitalism, it was bound to happen) but it removes another visceral experience in society that was so fun.

Anyway, my old man rant!

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    1 day ago

    Everything you touch is “unsanitary as all hell”. Like, you think whatever’s on tokens stops there and isn’t on the machine you’re playing, the door handle you’re turning, the counter you’re touching? In the last hour you’ve handled shit way worse and you’ll handle much more of it before the day’s over.

    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      59·
      1 day ago

      You realize that people carry wipes and wipe the handles before they play lots of machines.

      The tokens have ridges, and are their own separate issue since they can hold on to grime and germs, unlike smooth handles, and counters.

      Jeeze, use a little critical thinking eh?

      Lots of arcades switched over during Covid due to this exact reason, but go off mate.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        No I didn’t realise that because I’ve never seen it before.

        We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell. If someone’s paying attention to the ridges of a token, I can only imagine the levels of auto-immunity they self-inflict on their body.

        But, no, the ridges in the token are the threat to their health /s

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 day ago

        I have literally never seen someone wipe down an arcade machine in the 5 decades I’ve spent playing video games in public. You just have to assume a kid touched it and it’s covered in snot. But it’s like owning a cat. You just have to not think about it too much.

        But yeah…. You’re actually both right. Money is really gross. So is everything else in public, or the world for that matter. It’s why we have immune systems. Can’t just accept that everything has to be gross though, we also need to keep things sanitary. But we can’t clean everything all the time! So how clean is clean enough? Everyone draws that line in a slightly different place.

        And so here we are.