October 12th, 2023

I'm close to having all my ops at 100 bond in Arknights. I still have like a dozen at 0, but there's still a lot of progress being made there.

Went out to the arcade today. You could tell the place was old, and the bathroom was I think literally as small as it could be without being unusably uncomfortable, but it was a really nice place. There were a lot of rhythm games there, but I honestly spent pretty much all of my time playing Pop'n Music. I did give this game called Music Gun Gun 2 a go, but I found it kinda lame. Pop'n Music is really fun, but there is one problem with the cabinet there (besides it being incredibly loud).

For reference, it should be white/yellow/green/blue/red/blue/green/yellow/white. If they just swapped the blue with that green in the middle segment it would probably be fine, but it did mess me up a little. Though I think most of my mistakes were just to being new. And to yellows tripping me up (so, me being new). I took pics of a few of my results, rather than shove them all into this page I just put them in a seperate page here (pardon the ugliness of it). I probably played about a dozen times, which means about 36 songs (I turned a $5 bill into quarters and also played with some loose change in my wallet; 50 cents for 3 songs). I kinda want to just play more. The main problem is just getting there and back; even though the arcade is directly across from the train station, the Dunellen line does not meet up with the line I'm on until Seacaucus, which is basically the end of every line. This means driving is the only option, but then I either have to go down a damn mountain (and then back up that mountain on the way back), or get onto route 22. I did both mountain routes today, I think in the future I'd rather just go on route 22. Even if there's heavy traffic I don't think people are too nuts there.