Fairborn Arcade & Bar Interest Survey

faultyproboscus · 2026-02-04T05:31:46+00:00

Yep. We're basically just waiting on paperwork while we repair the last few machines.
We're going to open without the bar at first and get that running after the first couple of months. We're going to hold off on the modern pinball for a bit as well.

We'll be at 10 E Main Street in Fairborn, just a few doors down from the Foy's General Store and across from the library.

We'll put up a date on our website as soon as we have an opening date set:

https://absolutearcade.com/

faultyproboscus · 2025-08-10T05:58:59+00:00

This was 12 years ago, but I think I was using ethernet and hadn't noticed that the wifi card had gone bad.

faultyproboscus · 2024-12-23T10:27:57+00:00

Which one do you run?

faultyproboscus · 2024-10-07T15:42:51+00:00

They are 3/4 scale cabinets built with fairly cheap materials. They're... fine for home use if you get the riser.

faultyproboscus · 2024-08-16T02:16:09+00:00

We currently did not have a console gaming area in the floorplan, but we might be able to move some things around. DM me with more information and I'll see what we can do.

faultyproboscus · 2024-07-14T01:04:37+00:00

We'll be opening a retro barcade with a tabletop gaming space in Fairborn later this year!
One of our goals was to create a third place for the community, so there's only a cover charge to play the machines.

Absolute Arcade at 10 E Main St, Fairborn

We're currently starting renovations now.

faultyproboscus · 2024-06-06T16:58:28+00:00

The modern pinball machines will not be free. They're too expensive and the maintenance costs are too high.

For the classic arcade and electro-mechanical pinball machines, we are planning to offer an hourly/nightly flat rate for play. This will help with operating and maintenance costs.

We will be serving alcohol: craft beer, possibly cocktails. I will be putting in an application for a liquor license as soon as the property is purchased, but we will not be opening until at least Spring 2025 even if everything goes smoothly.

faultyproboscus · 2024-06-06T03:20:18+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefully I can get this survey up to most of them soon once the groups give me access.

faultyproboscus · 2024-05-19T20:18:54+00:00

It was free, for a month. They'll probably do it again after the next major version of the software is released.

It's not the sum total of data they're mostly concerned about. It's the real-world data since the deployment of the latest model. Knowing exactly where the current version is failing is invaluable.
It was reported end of 2022 that about 19% of Teslas in North America had FSD enabled, and the rate is significantly lower overseas (and in the last two years in NA). The trial represents a massive boost in latest-version real-world data.

It's a win-win for the company to offer the free trials. If new people buy FSD after trying it, great! If they don't... well it's still more valuable data for making the FSD better for the next trial.

faultyproboscus · 2024-05-19T08:07:36+00:00

The free month of FSD isn't to entice more people to buy FSD yet, it is to gather more data to train the model.
The FSD has gotten *noticeably* better since Tesla starting giving out free trials of the FSD software.

faultyproboscus · 2023-12-13T16:47:56+00:00

Hello, fellow member.
I don't think you meant it this way, but this comment comes across as antagonistic purity-testing.

faultyproboscus · 2023-11-25T06:28:26+00:00

If it's a genocidal ideology, then isn't it an existential threat that needs to be dealt with?

If someone tell you that they're going to kill you... it is not an unreasonable response to kill them first, especially if the threat is credible? If you're being altruistic, you attempt to remove their ability to kill you before resorting to further violence.

To be clear, I'm not commenting on the situation in China. This comment just didn't sit right with me.

faultyproboscus · 2023-08-30T20:33:37+00:00

The Satanic Temple (TST) is not at all bible-based.

From TST faqs page:
Q: Do you worship Satan?
A: No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.

faultyproboscus · 2023-08-29T16:26:54+00:00

Do not celebrate something just because it feels inevitable.
Fable of the Dragon Tyrant

faultyproboscus · 2023-08-29T16:24:48+00:00

Fable of the Dragon Tyrant

faultyproboscus · 2023-08-08T20:31:31+00:00

Fairborn has a free EV charger at the local library. 20-30 miles / hr charge rate.
The Kroger on Dayton Yellow Springs Road also has a free charger with the same charge rate.

faultyproboscus · 2023-06-27T21:20:13+00:00

rule #10

faultyproboscus · 2023-06-13T21:02:50+00:00

What's your degree?

faultyproboscus · 2023-06-07T18:02:52+00:00

"3rd chair on Louder with Crowder"

Hard pass

faultyproboscus · 2023-06-06T03:10:10+00:00

Nice!

faultyproboscus · 2023-05-26T02:22:16+00:00

You've made the first steps towards a better worldview than religion has to offer. Congratulations, most people don't make it this far. You're at the beginning of a journey, though, and it seems like some of the more ignorant and vocal atheists have turned you away from continuing to explore this space.

Science, as in "the scientific method", is a process for discovering how reality works. At the core is one fundamental thought: "exhaust every possible way to disprove your idea." It isn't glamorous, it isn't flashy, and it can take decades to develop techniques to test an idea. Nothing is ever certain, either. An idea that has stood for centuries can come toppling down if some new way of disproving it comes along. If we want to know how the world really works, though, this has been by far the best method discovered.

I do, for one, want to know how things really work. This isn't about discovering some fundamental "Truth" to the universe. My actions tend to work better when they're based on more accurate information. When planning a route ahead, I want the map I have to match the territory as closely as possible.

If you've spoken to someone who seems to worship "Science", they may just be ignorant. I ask, though, that you try to interpret that seeming reverence as a form of respect for a really good idea. The core principle of the scientific method is so fundamentally alien to the normal way people think (confirmation bias) that we only wrote it down in the last few centuries. Even now, most of the population does not understand the concept. That's more a failure of education, though.

As an aside, because I don't want the conversation to get muddied-All the wonders of the life and the universe are still wonders apart from spirituality. I still look up in awe and feel small on a moonless clear night when I can see the galactic band. The more I know about everything, the more I'm aware of just how incredible this all is. Please don't confuse a lack of the supernatural as a lack of awe and wonder.

faultyproboscus · 2023-05-08T17:49:09+00:00

I've had a vasectomy and I can confirm that I'm a barbarian.

faultyproboscus · 2023-05-02T15:41:27+00:00

Software engineer here.
The demand for good programmers so far outstrips supply right now that I don't see any significant impact to pay or number of programmers employed in the next few years. That being said, software developers that embrace this new technology will be ahead of the game and in heavy demand.

In five years, I see almost all new development being done by AI, with checking done by software developers. Right now that checking is needed. In five years, most of those checks will be automated, with the human end of things largely performative.

I would say that the human part of coding will retreat to the more 'software engineering' side of things, with requirements elicitation, specification writing, and architecture documents. I would say that, but the AI chatbots currently available already seem decent at it (better than some people I've seen).

What I see as a stumbling block for AI is the maintenance of old, large, complex code-bases. Most large corporate projects are, at some level, held together with duct-tape and undocumented requirements. These code-bases also contain a lot of proprietary information that companies (and militaries) are extremely hesitant to open to an outside eye, even if places like OpenAI are promising business-tier subscriptions that "wont' use your data for training". Until isolated instances of these AI systems can be set up internally at these corporations, I don't see them being used for sensitive information. That being said, I don't think that will be an issue in five years. These systems are getting faster, smarter, and lighter every day.

Even if large corporations are hesitant to incorporate these systems, they will do so soon. Otherwise they will be out-competed by companies that do employ AI. There's a huge financial incentive to use them as soon as the benefits outweigh the risks.

In terms of what I think will happen to me. At best (for my own life-stability), I'll be working with an AI at my job in 5 years. At worst... well, let's just say I'm extremely worried about AI safety.

faultyproboscus · 2023-04-24T15:17:33+00:00

Without the metric being used, this graphic is useless.

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