PieFed.WorldYou're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?
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toomanypancakes
The machine is kinda busted so you can't play with him. Drinking more is an option.
They got pinball? I'll play some pinball.
Pinball is the best answer.
As long as there's one machine that's not Sternslop
I'm not like a super enthusiast about pinball, so I had to look that up and came up empty handed. Best I can figure is there is a company that makes tables cslled Stern and I have to assume that they (or at least it is your opinion that they) suck?
Yeah. Stern is one of the few companies making new tables, and the stuff they produce these days is all about making an account and tracking your games with QR codes. They even have a few where there is a kind of meta-game that you play across multiple rounds. Not really my thing.
A friend of mine got a summer job working a pinball joint, so I've learned to appreciate the game a lot more recently. Helps to have an inside person giving me free plays.
Fuck that shit. Gimme some Addams Family or Doctor Who and I'm good.
Safecracker for me. I never did crack that safe.
Those Stern games still play if you don't make an account, though.
Source: My local Godzilla machine has consumed many of my toonies, but I refuse to make an account out of principle. Still really fun though.
OK, you have a point on Godzilla, that machine is pretty fun. I also enjoyed playing John Wick despite my prejudice.
Drink more then go play some racing games. They are far more hilarious when drunk.
I'm a huge fan of the Gran Turismo (others as well, including rally) series. I'm pretty good too. I have my own wheel/pedal setup and take beating my PB's on tracks pretty seriously. The handful of times I've played drunk have been insanely great fun. It also reinforced how important it is to NEVER drive drunk
I remember when I played a lot of call of duty, it was always surprising when I had one or two drinks and played. I never "felt" impaired, I mean I don't generally feel drunk after just 1 drink, but the numbers didn't lie. I'd go from top 3 on the leader board to bottom 3 (it was frustrating). My reaction time must have been much slower, like significantly slower. And I probably made worse decisions, like when it was safe to reload, or when to swap a weapon for something on the ground.
I am 100% making fun of him and/or clapping deliberately off-beat
Clapping off-beat is the kind of low key, mischievous evil that I can fully support
Drinking and watching since the only way my SO is playing a dance game is at my behest and Iโm not looking away from a miracle.
Same! Watching AND taking pictures because that ain't ever happening again.
Are you kidding? The only thing more busted than that machine are his MOVES! I'm drinking until I get the warm fuzzy tingly fluttery feeling in my chest and then I'm gonna watch him so much more intently...
And I'm gonna be cheering for him and making catcalls at him the whole time :3
Heyo yeee healthy relationship! <3
Is there a Simpsons or X-Men machine from the 90s?
Don't forget TMNT!
COWA BUNGA!
Pizza time!
I made up a game called Deep Spy Penetration to play whenever I'm drunk and bored indoors. The goal is to get into as many areas of the building as possible without getting told to leave.
Rules:
1. Don't be an asshole. Don't steal stuff, break anything or move barricades.
2. Don't lie to get access. Asking is allowed.
3. Opening doors with easily missed "no entry" signs is allowed, anything the average person might not see. Don't open doors with blatant warnings.
4. If you get caught you lose.
5. If you set off an alarm you mega-lose.
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Only once. My teammate broke rule 1, tried to steal an air filter from maintenance. I didn't want to end up sharing a cell so I ran for the closest exit.
Correct answer. Do it, OP!
Not to be confused with your other favorite drunk game deep space double penetration!
You're asking what to do at an arcade?
I think they're asking what to do at an arcade if you're drunk and your husband is playing dancing games.
And providing needed context that drinking more is an option.
Good point
So... Qbert?
I don't think so.
Tease him enough to distract him.
Of course, drink more, but also, QBert. Fucking love me some QBert.
But only play if the solenoid is working. A person has got to have standards.
Play Tapper while drinking!!!
Drink more.
Wait for him to pull off a sick combo and go "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
What other games are there in the arcade?
Watch. Nerds playing DDR in front of people is basically their mating dance.
Mad dog Mcree all the way!
Otherwise:
Silent scope
I suggest you find a game to play
They are so expensive though. Another pint will last longer, find a cheap pub.
Fuck... Where in the US are the games more expensive than the pints?
Follow-up question, can you go somewhere else?
I don't live in the US, while each game may be slightly less than a pint they are also over much faster. Never seen anywhere that has multiple options for arcades.
Fair enough. And I may be spoiled living where I do, Boston is a pretty nerdy area, so we've got a bunch of options around. There's also a place up in Salem and another in Providence with no door charge and the games are free. They seem to make plenty of money on drinks and food.
My local arcade has a $5 entry fee, but games are free. The drinks are around $10 though.
I would be all for that, but the only one I heard of offering something like that was charging a significant entry fee, like ยฃ35 or so.
Claw machines.
Being that I'm the husband who has drunkenly tried the dancing games, I would say my wife is finding the Rockband exhibit. So we don't really go to arcades. We do sometimes stumble into the game room at conventions. And someone always has a modded Xbox 360 and Rockband 3 set up with all the anime songs on it. And you can generally just step up and play. When a lot of people want to play, there's a queue and a system for doing it, but most times we go, you kinda just glance toward the person singing or drumming or whatever you want to do, and they pass off to you when they're done with that song, or ask if it's cool if they do one more, maybe that's their pick they waited for or something. Anyway, I suck at arcade games, so I'm grabbing the Rockband mic. No one wants to sing in public, especially if it's in Japanese and we don't know it. The lyrics are described in romaji (e.g. "arigatou gozaimasu" for ใใใใจใใใใใพใใ which is to say "thank you very much" and is pronounced something like "ah-dee-gah-tow go-z-eye-moss"). As someone who can pronounce maybe 10-20% of romaji correctly and can kinda wing the rest... it's fun. Plus we turn the mics down and the vocal track up, so if you mess up, you don't ruin the song for the onlookers (you can do the opposite and only hear the vocalist, for example).
Ice Cold Beer. While he's distracted, the rest of our tokens are going in the ice cold beer machine.
Let me ask my wife and report back
Drink more, dance on the 2nd player pad with more freedom than he can since my side doesn't work. Insist that I won. Say, "it's ok, the bar isn't the only thing you'll be humping* tonight" with a wink, in an effort to go home because idk what else to do in this barcade.
*I call the folks that play DDR while holding onto the rail bar humpers. Idk if this is common.
I would totally join in the dancing game with my wife unless she said no, since I'm terrible at them. If so, then I would probably play retro fighting games or anything else that catches my eye.
Play one of the other rhythm games. Preferably Wacca or Chunithm.
RIP Wacca. Taken too soon. ๐ญ
I ponder my timeline and how drunk I must be to now have a husband while trying to be supportive.
If Iโm not interested in being at the arcade, Iโll just be a drunken idiot and start harassing everyone. Iโll act as if Iโve just had a half a bottle of vodka. Eventually, my husband notices that itโs time to go home.
Name checks out.
Fighters. Street Fighter 2 Turbo? Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3?
Given that our positions should absolutely be reversed here, I would either:
A) Continue the 'today is opposite day' trend and go find a booth with a retro side scrolling beat em up in it. Preferably TMNT
OR
B) Go find a non-dancing rhythm game (I absolutely can crush the piano game), or something with an element of RNG to it (casino lite!)
Tell him that I want two hundred dollars in either tokens, quarters, or credits (whatever the machine takes) or I expose this loveless sham of a marriage. I'm then going to fuck off to play Galaga and Centipede.
You should ask this on lemmynsfw ๐
Why?
You might get more interesting answers
I'll answer as if I'm on lemmynsfw (and this question would be better than the slop that a particular not-bot account continually posts there): I'd be on the dance tablet with him, and if it's a private arcade (the best type of arcade), I'd be doing versus with him and we'd be seeing who could distract the other the best with some games of touchy-feely in the middle of it. I'd bet I could take a load off of his mind while we're dancing against each other.
Chunithm and project diva future tone arcade
If they got other rhythm games, definitely that. Rhythm games and racing games are just about the only arcade games I truly enjoy ( claw machines not included because I consider things like that separate entities ).
I don't do anything.
Anything at all! I would have to think so hard how in the world could it happen that I suddenly have a husband.