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mdmost

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  1. I worked at Crystal's Pizza off Inwood from the summer of 1992 till it closed in the fall of 1993. That was a great place to work. My friend was the MOD in the evenings and when it was slow enough or we were closed for the night, we'd open up the video game coin returns with his key and set everything to free play. My mom would take me to Putt Putt every couple of Saturdays and just leave me there with enough money to play video games and get a hot dog while she went shopping. We would also do Midnight Madness where you paid a set amount and they came by with buckets of quarters to load into the machines. But by far the greatest arcade was the two story Chuck-E-Cheese at Walnut Hill near 75. That was where I first played Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.
  2. Oh don't worry. Rex will return in about a month under some new name where it will be easy to figure out who he is as he does his usual attacking style and following people around to get responses. Then you can put that username on ignore until he brings Rex Kramer back out of retirement. Tale as old as time.
  3. Try as they might they can never get back the feeling of an 80s arcade. There's no Rock-Afire Explosion. There's no more tokens. There's a few places here in DFW called Freeplay that scratch that itch with old arcade games. As a kid, I wanted nothing more than $20 in tokens and that could last me a few hours at Putt-Putt or Aladdin's Castle. Now when I play these games at a place where you pay a set fee and everything is free play, it's a lot easier to just get bored quickly with a game and walk away mid-game. At least Freeplay has decent food and beers.
  4. Whoa, wait. Rex took his toys and went home again or was he shown the door?
  5. Yo dawg. We heard you liked Jaws.
  6. The gamesmanship begins. Saw that we may have Nunez overvalued so Napoli wants to pay way less than we're asking. Now this:
  7. Yeah he may get deported and lose all his sweet government subsidies but at least he got to own some libs.
  8. Renewed for season 5.
  9. Red Five likes em nerdy
  10. A fun nod to the original that someone pointed out online
  11. It's pretty wild how much the squad is being remade coming off an improbable championship. The Red Sox loss is our gain it seems.
  12. Musk is Rex Kramer? Actually, that tracks.
  13. Quite the space captain sweating which button to push moment for all the blue checks on Twitter right now. Go against your Nerd god or go against your Orange god?
  14. Well after Trumps kicks all the people off public assistance, he can force them to work the field. MAGA bringing back sharecropping!
  15. No, no. This time it's gonna happen.
  16. I like Harvey but he's not pushing to start. Sell him and let him be featured.
  17. mdmost

    Comic Books

    RIP Jim Shooter. So many great titles of my youth both at Marvel and Valiant. He wrote the original Secret Wars. The entire Venom franchise owes itself to him dropping the symbiote in Secret Wars #8. Valiant was so refreshing to read. X-O Manowar, Solar, Unity, and most importantly Harbinger. The latter really stuck with me. It felt like my generation's X-Men.
  18. PIHB regulars might notice a certain someone as one of the NASA team
  19. The numbers for Mando are double and triple that of Andor. Maybe that was the highlight of Disney+ but the subscription numbers are still high for it. The Star Wars TV show returns are trending downward since season 3 of Mando. Lucasfilm is done with TV after Ahsoka season 2. There's just no profit in it. You just have to enjoy the special unicorn we got that is unlike most Star Wars fare. We won't see its like ever again. linux, you want it to be one way
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