My company decided to take out to D&B in Milpitas for a little excursion yesterday. I've never been to this D&B before, and this one is set up more like a casino than an arcade. There are pool tables and a bar/restaurant. All the games have a little switch you can toggle if you want someone to service the machine or bring you cocktails. Work gave me a $20 card, so I used it to experiment with the kinds of games I don't normally play in arcades. Motion capturing technology is now utilized in a lot of these games to give you a more realistic feel -- for instance, the machine can detect if you're crouching down or if you're dodging to the left or right. One of the games used motion-capture with a sword to simulate a bad ninja horror movie.
Afterwards I drove up to the city to watch one of the films of the Asian Film Festival -- a movie called "Dolls". There's 3 vignettes in the movie, one about two wandering lovers bound by a red cord, another about an old yakuza boss who left his woman behind, and the woman still waits for his return every Saturday, and another about a disfigured pop star and a fan.
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