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Those tokens are unsanitary as all hell. Good riddance.
Everything you touch is "unsanitary as all hell". Like, you think whatever's on tokens stops there and isn't on the machine you're playing, the door handle you're turning, the counter you're touching? In the last hour you've handled shit way worse and you'll handle much more of it before the day's over.
You realize that people carry wipes and wipe the handles before they play lots of machines.
The tokens have ridges, and are their own separate issue since they can hold on to grime and germs, unlike smooth handles, and counters.
Jeeze, use a little critical thinking eh?
Lots of arcades switched over during Covid due to this exact reason, but go off mate.
I have literally never seen someone wipe down an arcade machine in the 5 decades I’ve spent playing video games in public. You just have to assume a kid touched it and it’s covered in snot. But it’s like owning a cat. You just have to not think about it too much.
But yeah…. You’re actually both right. Money is really gross. So is everything else in public, or the world for that matter. It’s why we have immune systems. Can’t just accept that everything has to be gross though, we also need to keep things sanitary. But we can’t clean everything all the time! So how clean is clean enough? Everyone draws that line in a slightly different place.
And so here we are.
The arcades I go to have wipe stations, multiple through out the arcade. Covid made them mandatory.
No I didn't realise that because I've never seen it before.
We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell. If someone's paying attention to the ridges of a token, I can only imagine the levels of auto-immunity they self-inflict on their body.
But, no, the ridges in the token are the threat to their health /s