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Friday 25 September 2026 Vol. 1 · No. 128

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✨ 🎰 NEW ON THE TRIVIA FLOOR — Three more machines in the Trivia-O-Matic room — History, Pop Culture and Sports ♦♦♦ 🦀 NEW IN THE ARCADE — BEACH COMBER: four gulls, and not one of them hunts the same way ♦♦♦ 📚 NOW BROWSABLE — The Reading Room has shelves — a page per magazine, and categories to dig through ♦♦♦ 🚀 NEW DESK — Launch Schedule — what's going up next, read live off the orbital manifest ♦♦♦ pull the lever ↓ ♦♦♦ warning: may cause involuntary smiling ✨

🎰 New on the trivia floor Three more machines in the Trivia-O-Matic room — History, Pop Culture and Sports

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Look & Listen

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🎰 The Trivia-O-Matic 3000

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🌍 Word of the Day

βόλτα

volta

/VOL-tah/

Greek

a leisurely evening stroll to see and be seen

“the whole town, out for a wander at dusk”

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📅 Today Is…

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National Lobster Day

Once served to prisoners because it was cheap and everywhere. The lobster has since renegotiated.

🍜 Ramen Flavor of the Day

Samyang

Buldak 3x Spicy Hot Chicken Ramen

South Korea

Regular Buldak with the heat dial snapped clean off. Delicious for about four bites, then it becomes a personality test.

Package: Samyang · photo via Open Food Facts (CC BY-SA)

Samyang Buldak 3x Spicy Hot Chicken Ramen Package: Samyang · photo via Open Food Facts (CC BY-SA)

🕹️ Classic Arcade Game of the Day

Light gun shooter

Time Crisis II

Namco · 1997

The pedal is the whole idea: stamp on it to lean out and shoot, release it to duck back behind cover. The sequel added a second player on a linked cabinet, so you and a stranger could cover each other without ever speaking.

Artwork: Time Crisis II · via Wikipedia (Time Crisis II Flyer.jpeg)

Light gun shooter Time Crisis II Namco · 1997 Artwork: Time Crisis II · via Wikipedia (Time Crisis II Flyer.jpeg)