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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
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Hello! I fix #pinball machines and #arcade games, and tell you all about it! I fix lots of other things too, and occasionally tell you about that. I also run one of the web's longest-surviving #textAdventure games, called Improbable Island, and I often write here on Fedi about decade-scale online community management stuff. Husband, dad, professional Thing Fixer and amateur woodworker in my early 40's, an #immigrant from the UK to the USA. Gun enthusiasts pls do not follow/interact. Pronoun He


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My big old text adventure
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Please don't tag me in the same post as famous ppl who I don't actually know or talk to, thx

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
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Dan's Online Community Management Thread that started off as me bitching about a subreddit and turned into a server-spanning Epic Thread about What Not To Do when running online communities, part 1:
https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/105778289798706182

Part 2:
https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/109354147264054179

Part 3:
THIS THREAD RIGHT HERE, YOU'RE READING IT BUDDY, also the fact that this very thread is split over three servers now is, uh, shall we say Illustrative Of The Issues Discussed

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Much like nobody on fedi has a normal relationship with technology, nobody here has a normal amount of money either. Fedi is either stripeysocked people who don't have two pennies to rub together because they'll give their last fiver to a starving artist and forget "oh shit wait I'M a starving artist" and so they have keep passing the same wrinkled fiver around in a big stripey circle, or it's Computers People who've been doing Computers Things so long they don't know how to live on less than a hundred grand a year and there's nowt in between

This thread's for the first half, if you're in the second half I'm obviously not talking to you, I'm not fixing this car for fun y'know, you're welcome to watch but You Must Be At Least This Poor To Comment

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

🦊🦊💻💻 what's this on my computer now
🦊🦊💻💻 looks like a guy doing his own repairs on a 20-year-old car
🦊🦊💻💻 what a silly thing to do, why would you do that
🦊🦊💻💻 I know how to help
🦊🦊💻💻 "You should buy an electric vehicle!"
🦊🦊💻💻 There, that'll help put him on the right track
🦊🦊💻💻 Honestly, how are so many people this oblivious when the solution is so obvious

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

🦊🦊💻💻 "If an EV is unaffordable for you, why not simply send your butler to mechanic school"

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

🦊🦊💻💻 what's this on my computer now
🦊🦊💻💻 looks like a guy doing his own repairs on a 20-year-old car
🦊🦊💻💻 what a silly thing to do, why would you do that
🦊🦊💻💻 I know how to help
🦊🦊💻💻 "You should buy an electric vehicle!"
🦊🦊💻💻 There, that'll help put him on the right track
🦊🦊💻💻 Honestly, how are so many people this oblivious when the solution is so obvious

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Rad filled up, battery reconditioned and now she purrrrrrrs

Gotta get some screws to replace the rounded-off or broken ones from the old rad (fan was held on with zip ties wtf) and then I can run it out for an inspection

🦝🦝🎵🎵for the first time in forever,

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

I just saw down the Bad Leg of the Trousers of Time and narrowly avoided this series of internet searches:

Radiator coolant in eye
Safety goggles fogging up
How stop safety glasses fogging up
Prevent safety glasses fogging forum
Transmission fluid in eye

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

So taking the old rad out took like a day and a half and putting the new one in took about half an hour lol

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Imagine if the other machines in your life needed as many different sorts of fluids and pastes as a car

Imagine topping off and draining out and flushing through all the chambers and tanks on, like, your phone

This is literally the stuff of nightmares, this is creepypasta territory

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Not the same goo! Same TYPE of goo, but not THIS goo, this goo's bad 🙂🙂

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Now that the old rad's out I gotta put a temp switch in the new one and put the new rad in and then d'you know what I gotta do? With the goo?

I gotta put, the goo, back IN

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

The impetus of doing this job was The Goo Is Falling Out and yaknow what happened all throughout the job? You know what happened? To the goo? Do you know what the goo did? It fell out