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  • #16
    Quoth Mike Taylor View Post
    OT: No, what killed the arcade in America (it's alive and well and thriving in Asia) was the fact that the places were becoming hangouts for scumbags wanting to sell drugs to kids.
    I've been hearing that for as long as I can remember and it's just not true. It's a carry-over from the bad rep that pool halls had. Most arcades worked hard to keep the place clean. Any arcade that wouldn't chase off the scumbags didn't last long. What has happened is that the game companies in the US have stopped making arcade games because they make much more from home release. Even a poor home seller makes more over the run than a good arcade machine can bring in.

    On a side note, arcades in lower income areas where there are few X-boxes or Playstations do much better than arcades located in higher income areas.

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    • #17
      Quoth Arcus View Post
      What has happened is that the game companies in the US have stopped making arcade games because they make much more from home release. Even a poor home seller makes more over the run than a good arcade machine can bring in.
      That and technology caught up in the home console/computer market. you can play almost the same experience on your home console as in the arcade. Most of what you see in the arcades that still survive are the "gimick" games that require a special controller (Silent Scope, 747 Simulator), or big sitdown cockpit (Afterburner with the full-tilt ccockpit, River Rafting Adventure) that would be difficult to convert to home market. Everything else can be recreated for the home market with the same graphics, usually.

      I miss my arcades, but there are good market reasons for why most of them are gone now.
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      • #18
        Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
        It's net-ese for a gazillion exclamation points when the person typing them can't be bothered to keep the shift key held.

        Eleventy = !!!!!111!11111!

        ^-.-^
        It could also be considered a vague Tolkien reference...which is par for the course for certain types of slang. In the opening section of LoTR, Bilbo is celebrating his "eleventy-first" (one-hundred and eleventh) birthday. That, and Frodo's 33rd birthday (roughly the age of Majority for hobbits).

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        • #19
          Quoth EricKei
          It could also be considered a vague Tolkien reference...which is par for the course for certain types of slang. In the opening section of LoTR, Bilbo is celebrating his "eleventy-first" (one-hundred and eleventh) birthday. That, and Frodo's 33rd birthday (roughly the age of Majority for hobbits).

          Yes, I am a Tolkien geek.
          Tolkien geek FTW! Off topic but I had a friend over to watch the extended editions and we kept having to pause the movies so I could explain stuff (cause he had never seen the movies or read the books) and I even pulled out the book The Fellowship to show him the map. Then a few weeks later I went my sister and brother in law's house and they were watching an extended editions marathon and my brother in law did the same thing for my 6 year old niece.
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          • #20
            You mean successful businesses stay in business by carrying stock that people won't buy because it's cheaper elsewhere?

            OMG!

            Does she run a successful business by employing this theory?

            No?!

            Wow, I would have told that hosebeast customer to STFU and GTFO.
            Fixing problems... one broken customer at a time.

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            • #21
              The McDonaldsization effect. That's the term.
              Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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