We were perusing the old arcade cabinets at the back of the shop. We talked about an ad for one that was just recently released. I picked up a controller that must have had at least 40 buttons. Almost each of the face buttons were split into 8 directional inputs.

I felt kind of sleepy as I played 100% Orange Juice. I was eavesdropping on a nearby conversation: apparently to “Scott check” something meant to put it in a schedule.

I was playing a new Zelda game with a friend but we had trouble getting through one of the earlier shrines. He asked if I still wanted to continue. I flipped open a strategy guide and decided that I at least wanted to finish the temples. The guide had cross sections of all of the dungeons and I noticed most of them had interesting points of verticality.