:-/ What is your arcade worth?

[pinballwizard79]

I hate replying & starting a new page, FML

[TOK]

Yeah, and don't forget that the electric car is over 100 years old but somehow GM managed to kill the idea in the 1990s.

 

90's battery technology is what killed the idea in the 90's. The EV1 had standard lead/acid batteries.

[Vigo]

...And the fact that they are not in any way Convenient.

Generally speaking, completely electric cars:

*get only about 100 miles per charge
*have a max speed of 65-70
*have a battery life of a couple years (and the time leading up to that, the car will only reach about 20% charge)
*have a significant cost to replacing the battery
*require the owner install a charging station in their garage (if they have a garage)
*cannot tow trailers
*cannot be rapidly charged - 2 hour charge time as opposed to a 5 min gas fill on a car
*have very few public charge spots
*pollutes more than a gas car if the electrical source is coal - 11 oz of CO2 per mile compared to 9.7 oz of CO2 per mile from a compact gasoline car (according to the WWF) (Also, coal power makes up almost half of the electricity source in the US)

[RayB]

I say arcade & so does like everyone I know.
If I told people I had a game that played every game they would look at me like I am not making sense
When I tell them I have an arcade that plays every game they look at me like I am cool
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Your mistake is that you're basically saying you have one game that plays all games. It's no wonder people look at you funny if you say that. You have an arcade cabinet that plays all games. Or arcade machine. Or video game machine. You know, it helps to be specific through use of an extra word or two if you want to avoid having people look at you funny.

For example: don't refer to your Mp3 Player as "an mp3" if you want people to know you're not talking about a single song. (I've heard some teens actually call their player "an mp3").

Pedantic kidding aside, if you owned several "arcades", what would you call the room they were in? An arcade arcade? Would you say "My arcade is full of arcades"?

[newkillergenius]

Sometimes I just come here for the laughs.

[TOK]

Pedantic kidding aside, if you owned several "arcades", what would you call the room they were in? An arcade arcade? Would you say "My arcade is full of arcades"?

You'd simply call them Arcadeseses (pronounced: ar-cades-iz-iz), adding the extra "es" for each machine.
For example, if you own 7 games, you would say "come on over and play my arcadeseseseseseseses!"

A careful listener could probably deduce how many Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat cabinets, sorry, arcadeseses a person has by simply counting the "eses". You could also find the theoretical limit of them by adding up the total number of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter sequels produced.  

[CheffoJeffo]

 

[newkillergenius]

Hilarious TOK