Barcade Jersey City

[PuddinPop]

AB, thank you for your understanding 
Truth be told, I just like to enjoy life. If I like playing video games at some bar that sells craft beer and love everything about wolves, so be it! I am not worried about who is sharing the same bar as me so long as I am having a good time.

Sounds like some people around these parts are too uptight to enjoy life to its fullest (not that I am perfect by any stretch of the imagination). Wouldn't it be more fun to relax and live a little without fear or the boogiehipsterman attacking?

And yes Drago...bring on Frogger!!

Sure, the joy in PP's original post is easy to mock, since it sounds, well, mockably lame. But that's PP and we love her for it. I'm sure she'd be just as happy about ugly sweater parties, or a tattoo parlor that specializes in finger mustaches. That's just who PP is.

It's got nothing to do with Xenophobia (whatever that is). It has to do with being wanna-be style. Do your own thing, you feel me?

Let's just all take a deep breath. A deep breath of that crisp, fresh Jersey City air. This is easier if you remove Brooklyn's Nutz from your trachea first.

[AmbushBug]

How disappointing, I thought he was named after this guy.

[DarkMoment]

He's named after the Steely Dan album.

Always liked Fagen and Becker. Never saw the two of them together live, but I saw the New York Rock & Soul Review at Bottom Line in early 90's with Donald Fagan,Phoebe Snow, Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Charles Brown and some others equally talented musicians I forget and Fagen especially was terrific.

[dragonaut]

He's named after the Steely Dan album.

[DarkMoment]

While I had a really hard time following what you just said (I'm tweaked out on coffee), I find your post eerie, because Gaucho is the name of my cat.

Well hope your Gaucho had a better cup than Argentina.

[dragonaut]

While I had a really hard time following what you just said (I'm tweaked out on coffee), I find your post eerie, because Gaucho is the name of my cat.

[DarkMoment]

I demand a stop off at the pinball museum.

I worked at a slot car tracks hobby shop while freshman in high school,after split sessions, cause someone burned down our cross-town rival ( )so we got out by noon. I had to open up and no one but us kids there then playing pool on reg tables (rent by hour) 6 pinball machines, racing slot car tracks open till 10. One of my friends and I got so good as pinball wizards we played 1 machine, Gaucho with each of us taking a flipper and of course machines are set to tilt so you can use physical abuse but just this side of tipsy. No body english and ball goes straight down the middle for most as you got to work this machine to beat it that consistently. We won the max of games on the machine, 100 I think, and played for 12 hours straight, shut the machine down when store was closing and it meant you lost a game shutting down and lost 1 when plugged in but we played another 7 hours straight after that next day when store opened. Oh, and games were a quarter.

Halcyon days during '65 when it was a hell of a year for bands and songs 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_in_music

[dragonaut]

I demand a stop off at the pinball museum.

[jehu]

Sounds like we need to take a Wired trip down the the boardwalk!!! SKEEBALL!!!!

I'd rather they be dealing skeeballs.

[dragonaut]

I'd rather they be dealing skeeballs.

[TheFang]

Perhaps, if people are interested in doing something that, well, reeks of Jersey City identifiers, someone shall open up some sort of a PCP bar, perhaps call it, The Angeldust Lounge.  BYOM (Bring Your Own Machete).

Well, seeing as how it's going to be an arcade, I'm sure there'll be plenty of kids dealing speedballs.

[dragonaut]

Perhaps, if people are interested in doing something that, well, reeks of Jersey City identifiers, someone shall open up some sort of a PCP bar, perhaps call it, The Angeldust Lounge.  BYOM (Bring Your Own Machete).

Or, y'know, we can play Frogger and have some beers.  I really love Frogger, and it was only available on the Atari 2600, which is a console I skipped when I went from my Coleco Gemini (which I had like, two games for) to an Atari 7800.  I couldn't for the life of me find Frogger for the 7800.

I just don't get the theory that hipsters should stay where they are, or whatever.  The lines on the map that differentiate neighborhoods, cities, counties, states, countries, unless legitimately following a natural barricade, are just that.  Lines on a map.  They're not three mile high brick walls keeping ideas from growing legs and running off to other areas of the country.

[jcpeace]

 

This thread is boring now that you've showed up. The fun is back over in the HP renovation thread.

If your idea of excitement is to trivialize the very concept of colonization to serve the lofty and valuable ends of xenophobia, then party on , dude!

[Bobblehead]

Not pointing any fingers here (ok, I am), but quit the hair-pulling bitchfight.

well put.
this thread has developed into some sorta Hamilton Parkian wussfag fest.
I expect to see jim rockford and that nugnwuss guy show up and start whining about the threats of breaking a nail on a video game or something.

  Like you are one to talk.

This thread is boring now that you've showed up. The fun is back over in the HP renovation thread.

[jcpeace]

:ahem: on behalf of me fellow HamParkstanies, hazz you & yours not enjoyed your visits to der DubGarten?
  

i hazz indeedy. but you aren't one of those people  

[CeeDub]

:ahem: on behalf of me fellow HamParkstanies, hazz you & yours not enjoyed your visits to der DubGarten?
  

[jcpeace]

Not pointing any fingers here (ok, I am), but quit the hair-pulling bitchfight.

well put.
this thread has developed into some sorta Hamilton Parkian wussfag fest.
I expect to see jim rockford and that nugnwuss guy show up and start whining about the threats of breaking a nail on a video game or something.

[Bobblehead]

Kindelan and Bobble really mean Williamsburg and not Brooklyn as a whole.  Williamsburg is Brooklyn's diseased scrotum.  I was mearly trying to quantify some explanation of the term "fake authenticity" and talking out of my arse like I am known to do when the occasion takes me

Indeed, you can feel where I am coming from.

Crying up a storm? I was piling on.  I thought Kinde's post was hysterical, so I dumped some gasoline on the flames. And then hit it with the industrial sized fan. 

PP already pointed out that her thread title was a direct quote from the JCP.    I'm not piling on her. I just thought the whole FUCK BROOKLYN line was worth some support.    I still think there is some grain of truth to the irritation, though. 

If the place is great, I'll be the first to sing its praises.

[AmbushBug]

Hm, I would do my own thing, but then I realized that people have literally been drinking alcohol for centuries. I feel like such a poser now.

Seriously, though; I don't see what the problem is. I like going to bars. I like playing video games. I'm probably not alone, so combining the two is a smart business move. Sure, I hate pretentious wankers as much as anyone, but I don't see how having a bar that had its original location in Williamsburg will somehow turn normal JCers into cokeheads in skinny jeans. It may attract those types, but we already have plenty.

I don't remember this kind of uproar when Kim's Video(RIP) opened up  — people worrying about LES gutter punks and Elephant 6 artists taking over Pavonia Newport.

And if you're worried about "borrowing from somebody else's scene," I have news for you: It's called diffusion. It's how we get things like the Bible and Korean Tacos and Rock and Roll. If John Lydon and Joe Strummer hadn't embraced their inner wanna-bes, we wouldn't be blessed with, I don't know, the whole of British punk rock.

Sure, the joy in PP's original post is easy to mock, since it sounds, well, mockably lame. But that's PP and we love her for it. I'm sure she'd be just as happy about ugly sweater parties, or a tattoo parlor that specializes in finger mustaches. That's just who PP is.

It's got nothing to do with Xenophobia (whatever that is). It has to do with being wanna-be style. Do your own thing, you feel me?

Let's just all take a deep breath. A deep breath of that crisp, fresh Jersey City air. This is easier if you remove Brooklyn's Nutz from your trachea first.

[elgoodo]

we're naturally defensive because we love our town.

vintage video games + alcohol = awesome.

and the fake biergarten blows.

[Soshin]

Kindelan and Bobble really mean Williamsburg and not Brooklyn as a whole.  Williamsburg is Brooklyn's diseased scrotum.  I was mearly trying to quantify some explanation of the term "fake authenticity" and talking out of my arse like I am known to do when the occasion takes me

[Darna]

"I think what bobble means, and he can correct me if I am wrong, is the hipster fasion of co-opting things which are esentially considered to be a fabric of everyday working class life outside of large metropolitan areas."  Soshin

1.  Neither Bobble nor Kindelan expressed anti-"hipster" sentiments in their posts; rather, they talked about the evils of being colonized by Brooklyn.

2.  The arguments they do assert, however, present us with a false choice--that is, supporting JC necessarily entails bashing Brooklyn.

3.  If your interpretation is what Bobble meant, that argument is flawed because it conflates all Brooklynites with hipsters, which we all know is not true.

4.  Well said, JCPeace.

[fasteddie]

Is this place gonna have SkeeBall? Cause if it's not, I'm not goin. I hate video games, even vintage video games. SkeeBall is the real shit, and those crane things where you try to pick up the prize.

[Soshin]

Bobble, please define fake authenticity, because it seems that you and Kindelan are creating an argument that did not exist.

I think what bobble means, and he can correct me if I am wrong, is the hipster fasion of co-opting things which are esentially considered to be a fabric of everyday working class life outside of large metropolitan areas. 

Working class reality worn as a fashion statement by trust-fund babies is incredibly annoying.  Stuff like trucker hats and PBR beer, shirts with the logo for a gas station on it (yeah I know I am old and people probably don't wear these anymore, I am so 2005) or a penchant for 10-pin bowling (You can blame "The Big Lebowski" if you want but that movie can also be interpreted as a class war manifesto) are all an attempt to make yourself appear grounded and connected to some sort of gritty existence when in fact you remove the latte foam their entire psyche breaks down.

Barcade is in itself an extension of this, go to any shitty working class bar in Scraping Taint, Alabama or Dullardville Alaska and I bet you can find a 1980's video game that has never been updated.  Hell, the Astor Bar in our very own Dirty Shitty still had one of those sit-down tables with Space Invaders that 2 people could play last time I was there.

[TheBadGuyWins]

Not pointing any fingers here (ok, I am), but quit the hair-pulling bitchfight. This place looks like it will be a lot of fun, completely regardless of it's Williamsburg origins.

But, OOHHHH NNOOOOOOO IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE GRITTY AUTHENTICITY WE JCers PRIDE OURSELVES ON!!!! THE SHAME OF IT ALLLLLLL!!!! WE'RE SURELY BEING HOBOKENIZED!!!!! Heaven forbid there arrives a new local establishment (I don't give a rat's ass if the owners hail from NY) for you to grab a drink aside from the same places over and over and over and over and over. I, for one, like that I don't have to constantly leave town to find something fun to do. And unique destination points like this bring in out-of-town dollars that help local business thrive.

Crying up a storm solely because a new neighborhood business started on the other side of the Hudson is plain stupid.