(which will be rather stressful as I only have one attempt to get this enormous sticker aligned perfectly!)

Three goes-over with Goo Gone and a big razor scraper, some spot cleaning with acetone in stubborn areas and a preliminary sanding later, here's what we're left with. It's plenty rough and after taking this photo I began the first of two rounds of Bondo to fill up the damaged corners and smooth out the gouged top. Tomorrow I do a final sanding, apply the new art and put on new T-molding.

That was the most stressful five minutes of my arcade career so far. Picture shows the 6-player X-Men machine with new control panel art (mostly purple with the X-Men characters next to each one's controls), not yet trimmed, but laid down smooth with no creases or air bubbles.

Here's a closer view of that grim grey control panel. Yergh. It's gotta go.

@thegibson Gonna guess one is a Sega R360?

Here's what I did today. Picture shows Victory Pointe's six-player X-Men machine, a 90's monstrosity that uses two 4:3 arcade monitors and a mirror to make one really wide image. It is Gloriously Extra. Unfortunately some operator of days past covered up the original control panel art with this grim Generic Spaceship art. I guess the original art must've been really rough, if this was an improvement.

Anyway. We've got reproduction art now.

@Gargron If folk are reporting it, that's one way of telling you you've gotta have a rule, and asking you for help.

You can also ban anyone you like at any time whether they've technically broken a rule or not; it's just a website, and mastodon is even more Just A Website because folk can pack up and move to another instance pretty easily, assuming they can find a non-Russian pro-Russia server.
https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/105778289798706182

Is that darkness on the far corner of the bed a small friend, or just pants? You don't want to look away from the thing you're reading, so just go "Ch-ch-ch" towards it and see if it moves.

Perks of having four black cats and wearing a lot of black clothing: while distracted, and out of the corner of your eye, everything looks like a cat.

Absentmindedly reach to pet your furry hat hanging on the stair railing while reading the post. Reach out with your foot to toefondle the chin of your fluffy black sweater. Reach your hand down into an empty shadow in the corner of the room, while your actual cat watches you in confusion from the sofa.