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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: brad808 on April 10, 2012, 04:59:14 pm
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Caine's Arcade (http://vimeo.com/40000072)
... And they say arcades are dead ;D
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Man, don't post stuff like that... makes me cry just watching it.
That's just AWESOME. Huge kudos to Caine for never giving up, and to Nirvan for being the first customer.
Now, somebody get me a kleenex.
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I was just about to post this also. Way way awesome, will def bring a tear to your eye or you're in the wrong hobby.
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Super cool.
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Wonderful story thanks for sharing. Great way to start the day!
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:applaud:
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Just found out about this myself and was coming here to post.
Here's the youtube vid since vimeo seems to be having a problem.
Caine's Arcade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U#ws)
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....his mom is kinda hot :dunno
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manly tears were shed my friends.
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Does anyone remember that 13 year old that built a box arcade cabinet? It was posted on this form a while ago, I can’t find it though... 9 year old it’s cute; 13 year old it was a bit funny.
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I built cabinets when I was 14 :laugh:
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He's received well in excess of $100k in donations for his college fund thanks to this little video.
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He's received well in excess of $100k in donations for his college fund thanks to this little video.
Ain't that a racket. Stay tuned for more.....
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Im so annoyed by this kid. ---fudgesicle--- his cardboard and ---fudgesicle--- his endless supply of calculators.
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Im so annoyed by this kid. ---fudgesicle--- his cardboard and ---fudgesicle--- his endless supply of calculators.
Sounds like someone got their shen long defeated.
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Im so annoyed by this kid. ---fudgesicle--- his cardboard and ---fudgesicle--- his endless supply of calculators.
Sounds like someone got their shen long defeated.
your mom defeated my shen long last night...twice >:D
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Nah I'm with Malenko on this one. On the surface it's really cute and you think "boy that kid really has an imagination". Once you start thinking about it a little more deeply though, it's sad and a little disturbing.
The kid seems to be almost soley focused on the capitalism aspect of running an arcade. Weather he's obsessed with money or our society is so screwed up that this is what he remembers from real arcade experiences... he's just too young to worry about those things and I'm not so sure it should be encouraged. He seems lonely too. I mean the little guy is stuck in a place he really shouldn't be, so bored that he's built this entire shop to entertain himself. I don't really see any friends in the video.
I think that's the real reason people rallied around him, because he seems lonely.
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Lol . . . don't be silly. He's a 9-year-old kid. You ever heard of a lemonade stand before?
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I think that's the real reason people rallied around him, because he seems lonely.
Project much? Yeesh.
Troll much? Yeesh!
Seriously man what is your deal? Somebody makes a post regarding mame... you pop in just to say "mame sucks." Honestly I can't remember the last time you've posted something other than a one line comment intended to derail a conversation. I ignore it constantly thinking that it's just your way of getting attention, trying to cover for your attitude with a light-hearted joke or two. Lately though you've just been outright insulting me and you need to cut it out.
So taking into account the type of posts you make if you really feel that I'm projecting something perhaps we should re-introduce ourselves. Nice to meet you Pot, my name's Kettle.
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The kid seems to be almost soley focused on the capitalism aspect of running an arcade.
That's probably the only kind of arcade he's ever known. It is very imaginative and impressive. I don't think you can take that away from him. You think he looks lonely? Is that because the film was edited to make it seem like no one plays his games and he sits there from sun up to sun down waiting on a customer?
I swear, it's these kinds of assessments of children that have most of our society wanting them on Ritalin.
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The kid seems to be almost soley focused on the capitalism aspect of running an arcade.
That's probably the only kind of arcade he's ever known. It is very imaginative and impressive. I don't think you can take that away from him. You think he looks lonely? Is that because the film was edited to make it seem like no one plays his games and he sits there from sun up to sun down waiting on a customer?
I swear, it's these kinds of assessments of children that have most of our society wanting them on Ritalin.
The video said that he never had a paying customer prior to the guy who made the video. Sounded like the kid just worked on the games, adding and tweaking, waiting for pedestrian traffic that never came. On the one hand, kind of cool and ingenious using tools and boxes that he had at his disposal. On the other hand, really sad that he is stuck there all day with nothing to do and no one to play with so he creates an area for people to play in, but until the video, nobody came. :(
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Look at it this way, this poor kid is left to play with cardboard boxes because his dad takes him to work then pays no attention to him day in and day out. The shop is doing very little business, but the dad is locks himself in the office all day and leaves his kid to entertain himself on the side of the road, his only babysitter is the traffic in the street. Cain sadly builds a memorial to one of the few happy times in his life where his dad actually spent some quality time with him at chuck E. Cheese. Little did Cain know, but his father had only wanted to go to the arcade after downing a cocktail of drugs his old man found stashed in a used door panel he bought from the junkyard. No, Cain's dad does not nurture his interest and develop his imaginary arcade like a father should. The crooked shambles of cardboard skill games that don't function stand as a testament to Cain's neglect. With the endless spare time Cain and his dad spend in the same location for an entire summer, his dad contributes no time to Cain's endevor. Cain wishing for a simple word of advice on how to make his games less pathetic or perhaps some time painting the cardboard games as fathers on the television screen would normally do with their sons. No, there is only rejection from his father who has only become more agitated and drunk recently because his calculators kept getting stolen. If only he had taken 5 seconds to look at Cain's arcade, he would know that they were stolen by a little boy looking to gain a moment of attention from his neglectful father.
Then one day, a man finds a lonely child wrapped up in his imaginary cardboard world without a soul to watch after him. Taking pity, he attempts to play a game of crooked hoops basketball. Cain quivers at the notion that an actual human being, especially one not covered in transmission fluid, has taken the time to acknowledge his existence. Cain's dad, Seeing this transpire from the security camera of his ivory tower, finds an opportunity. He runs out, thinking that he might have a customer for his "Buy 5 quarts of motor oil, get a free Cain" deal. Alas, it is only but a penniless spawn of a hippie. The hippie larvae fancies himself a facebook flashmob expert, and cain's father agrees to have his son filmed like a circus monkey in front of the mob, after all....it is free advertising for his used muffler emporium. He mustered a "I care" attitude for his 5 minute interview, and let the unbathed weirdo work his film editing magic.
When the film was released, Cain's father never expected it to take off so well, but like a true opportunist, he fashioned a "College fund" for his child. As money rolled in, Cain's father knew there would be no more days getting drunk off of Seafoam and hiding in the office huffing brake degreaser. Only when the donations hit the $150 thousand dollar mark did Cain's father turned to his son, looked in his eyes and said: "Today I accept you as my son". Cain life finally finds a glimmer of purpose.
;D
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Look at it this way
I'm so glad that story did not go where all too many "fan fiction" stories on the internet tend to go.
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Look at it this way
I'm so glad that story did not go where all too many "fan fiction" stories on the internet tend to go.
---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I thought he was channeling some bizarre mix of Donkbacca, and Barbara Walters!
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Just doing my duty to give you "Cain: The Untold Story"
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bet you that kid didnt have the permits to run that arcade or the tax stickers. Toss him in the clink!
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Just doing my duty to give you "Cain: The Untold Story"
You have to have Morgan Freeman narrate it.