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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2012, 10:00:33 pm »
We're redoing the other half of our basement (opposite the bandroom/bar) and I think I'mma pull the trigger on a pinball machine.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2012, 12:40:16 am »
Come to the Arcade Expo with me.  You can pick up some good deals at the show.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2012, 02:01:32 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on March 25, 2012, 12:40:16 am
Come to the Arcade Expo with me.  You can pick up some good deals at the show.

That crazy car of yours is a time machine?
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2012, 09:27:39 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on March 25, 2012, 02:01:32 am
That crazy car of yours is a time machine?

That would be cool, but no.  They obviously haven't put up any info about this years event.  It's still a few months off yet.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #34 on: March 25, 2012, 04:31:12 pm »
Quote from: Carlos del Vaca on March 23, 2012, 01:49:47 pm
And there aren't that many whores just walking around (I think in all my trips to Vegas I have been approached by a woman I thought was possibly a lady of the night exactly once).

I found myself alone in the Stratosphere at like three in the morning, and this somewhat attractive black woman approached me. She needed help with her shoe or something, and after some chitchat she said "$150 and you can fuck me anyway you like." I was at a loss for words and eventually got out that I had a girlfriend (I did at the time), and then she asked me to buy her a drink. I got out of there because I knew I was too weak not to give in after a couple more minutes. I'm convinced I was the target of an undercover operation.

Quote from: Carlos del Vaca on March 23, 2012, 01:49:47 pm
And of course you have the "flippers" who hand out cards and brochures for "escort and entertainment" services at various places on the strip, and if you called up one of those you could probably get whatever you wanted for the right price. But it's easy enough to ignore.

I'm pretty good at ignoring those guys, but one time as I was walking past and it sounded like one of them kept saying "donkey show? donkey show?" I stopped, turned around and he said it again, clearly. Damn I'm glad my friends were there to pull me away. Way too curious.

Sorry if I killed the idea of Vegas for you again, GKA.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #35 on: March 25, 2012, 04:43:28 pm »
[[shrug]] im way too poor to enjoy any of that.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #36 on: March 25, 2012, 07:23:58 pm »
My first time in Vegas the card guys just blew me away. We came to the strip from a couple blocks away, and by the time we got near we were wading through basically porno trading cards. I had never seen anything like it.

Ah, innocent youth.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2012, 12:37:57 am »
We totally collected over 100 of those in the 2 hours we were in vegas and then made a little theatre out of the crack in the mold in the dashboard where the air bag is.  It made Arizona better.

Actually Arizona is fuck*ng beautiful, just the people there blow (and by blow I mean are racist scum bags) (and by blow I also mean they are kinda selgiraffe dicks for living in the desert and pretending that they don't- water is what I am talking about here.)

One time I went on a crazy road trip through Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico.  Vegas was my least favorite place we stopped, and we also stopped at a big green plaster dinosaur by a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Western Colorado or Utah.  So yeah.  Also, I was on a shit ton of speed, which is probably how you should see Vegas.  Unfortunately, though, I had been up for at least 2 days, so I needed that shit and it wasn't as euphoric as it otherwise could have been.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2012, 01:19:29 am »
That dinosaur (or one very like it) shows up in Fallout New Vegas.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2012, 01:33:22 pm »
I think everyone collects as many escort cards/brochures as they can on their first trip to Vegas. Then you're over it.

The trip I made with the whole family, after the kids were in bed the missus would go out for a while, then she'd come back and I'd go out to play cards or some such. So the one night I'm walking north from the Flamingo (I think I had decided to check out the Wynn) and a woman walking alone the other way said "Hey, how you doing?" She was very blonde, pretty but heavily made up, some kind of fur stole, short skirt, heels. I said "Hey" and kept walking. Then I thought "I believe that was some sort of prostitute. Saw a guy out walking alone and thought she'd say hello."
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #40 on: March 26, 2012, 05:18:49 pm »
*fliiiick* *ticka* *ticka* *ticka* "Free Coupons!  Free Coupons!"  *fliiiiick* *ticka* *ticka* "No porn! Free Coupons!"
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #41 on: March 26, 2012, 08:20:28 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on March 26, 2012, 01:19:29 am
That dinosaur (or one very like it) shows up in Fallout New Vegas.

Yeah, actually, 99% of what I know about Vegas comes from this game. It's...a bit sad, really.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #42 on: March 26, 2012, 09:49:14 pm »
My experience, after playing that game and going to Vegas maybe four times: the game was better.
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Re: Some shit about arcades or some such
« Reply #43 on: March 27, 2012, 01:38:45 am »
You just made my day, Nabu.

I loaned Fallout 3 to a guy yesterday because he enjoys shooters and he grew up in DC. I hope he likes it; I would hate to have to stop being his friend.
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