Arcade

He's mesmerized.

 Caught in the hypnotizing carpet.

 Undone by the flashing lights, bright colors, and beeps and explosion sounds.

The arcade is a created to draw in susceptible humans to trade in their money and time for plastic, molded into shapes that easily crumble to pieces.

It's incredible how it works.

The arcades

They're popular in Taiwan.   Bunches of them.
That claw game that grabs a stuffed animal for you.

They're full of cutesy things--teletubbies, bears, pokemon, more bears.

What do people do with all these things?
And why does one street need so many?
Do people end their day saying, "Ah, long day at work, I need to go relax and win a stuffed, red teletubbie"?

It's one of those things in life that I find mysterious.