Tammy:

bq. you hate d and b’s?? that’s the first time i heard anyone said that. i’m ok at that place maybe once in awhile otherwise i can’t afford it.

Well, I can’t hate the place as in, it’s a bad place or anything like that, because really it’s meant to be a fun place and how could I hate that? I mean, let’s say I liked roller coasters and I went to Disneyland and they barely have any roller coasters, but it’s still The Happiest Place On Earth, and how could anyone in their right mind have hatred towards The Happiest Place On Earth? (And I wonder, do they sell Snapple (The Greatest Stuff On Earth) at The Happiest Place On Earth? If they had a circus there, would it be The Greatest Show On Earth? Anyway, I digress (and often at that).) My point is that Dave and Buster’s, to someone such as myself who has an appreciation for video games, is like Disneyland when it comes to video games. They’re not real video games. They’re a small selection which are modified to give winners tickets which can be traded in, (and if you’re a decent player, have accumulated several hundred dollars’ worth of game play) for prizes such as rubber bouncy balls, colorful dish-rags, and tacky shotglasses. Essentially, items which would be an insult to the possessive tendencies of any regular video game player, avid or casual, and by that I don’t mean that game players have any particularly greater possessive tendencies than those of the average person, just that I’m speaking of the average tendencies, at whatever level they exist, for people to want to own things. The aspect, in other words. That said, one can certainly have fun at Dave and Buster’s, but the same type of fun can be had at a location with regular old pool tables, or over a friendly game of Taboo, or Twister (whilst clothed or not). Or at an arcade, but one with decent, up-to-date games (or even old, since what beats a good game of Pac-Man?) and which doesn’t attempt to insult my intelligence by throwing lame “prizes” into the mix. End of rant.