A Dumpster Children Production

BLACKHEART

ARCADE

Monthly virtual game night for scattered degenerates who refuse to let geography win.
A division of the Bar Blackheart entertainment empire.

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What Is This?

A fair question. We barely know ourselves.

Blackheart Arcade is a monthly virtual game night for emotionally stunted adults who peaked socially in their mid-twenties. We used to live near each other. Then careers, spouses, children, multiple chihuahuas happened, and — for reasons no one fully interrogated — people voluntarily moved to places like Tacoma. Geography became a bastard, and we became people who say "we should hang out more" without doing anything about it.

In the words of The Dude, this aggression will not stand, man. So, once a month, ignore the soul sucking vampires you call your children, log in, tune in, and get weird. Talk shit, betray someone in a party game, peer pressure the wayward souls into moving back to Denver, etc, etc.

Parasocial Bonding Serotonin Substitute Functional Loneliness Scheduled Spontaneity Digital Cope

How It Works

We've designed the lowest possible barrier to entry. Some of you won't clear it.

1

Fill Out the Survey

Tell us when you're free, what you want to play, and how honest you're willing to be about the fact that you'll cancel day-of with a text that blames your children/spouse/dogs. It takes three minutes. You've spent longer staring at your phone in a bathroom pretending to shit.

2

We Pick a Date

We perform the Sisyphean task of scheduling multiple hysterical adults across four time zones.

3

Show Up. Or Don't.

So log on, grab an inberibating beverage, drink enough to change the tempature in brain room. Or go full k hole and drink enough to rearrange the furniture. It's only weird if you let it be weird. If you're into it, we're into it.

The Survey

Give us the same energy you give strangers on the internet and fill this out.

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The Lore

Unsolicited and loosely accurate.

BAR BLACKHEART

Bar Blackheart is a fictional karaoke establishment that combines occultism, eroticism, and psychological horror into one harrowing karaoke experience. It has operated without permits, fire exit, or basic instinct for self-preservation since an undetermined date in the mid-2010s — though "operated" suggests a level of intentionality that may be generous.

The bar's signature cocktail, None More Black (Rittenhouse Rye, Averna Amaro, Punt E Mes, Cognac, Orange Bitters), was not invented so much as discovered — in the same sense one discovers the void. "Is it poisonous?" you ask. Technically no. Functionally… perhaps? Our bartender is not a toxicologist, just deeply committed to the bit.

The establishment serves as the spiritual headquarters for a loose confederation of damaged individuals who function less as a friend group and more as a mutual non-disclosure agreement with a group chat. A cautionary tale of what happens when friendship is left unchecked, metastasizes into something absurd and probably illegal.

SUBJECT:
THE DUMPSTER CHILDREN

I. Origin

The group known as "The Dumpster Children" was first ████████ in approximately ████ when ██████████ met ██████████ under circumstances that remain ██████████ and, frankly, ██████████. The name was chosen ██████████ which is to say, someone said it once and nobody ████████ fast enough to ████████.

Initial membership was limited to █████ individuals, though the group has since ██████████ to approximately twenty through a process best described as "██████████ absorption" — a term coined by field agent ██████████ after observing how the group ██████████ new members through ██████████, sustained ██████████, and what can only be described as "████████ trauma bonding."

II. Organizational Structure

The Dumpster Children operate with no formal ██████████, no bylaws, and no ██████████ of any kind. Leadership is determined by whoever ██████████ the loudest, though several members have been observed ██████████ in what appears to be a ██████████ hierarchy based on ██████████ and access to ████████ party packs.

Internal communications are conducted via ██████████, which migrates platforms approximately every ██████████ months due to ██████████ and, on one occasion, ██████████ that resulted in ██████████ being permanently ██████████ from ██████████.

III. Known Activities

Activities include but are not limited to:

  • ██████████ karaoke under the influence of ██████████
  • Organized ██████████ described internally as "game night" though surveillance suggests ██████████
  • Preparation and consumption of cocktails that ██████████ in at least two ██████████ and one ██████████
  • Annual gatherings at locations chosen for their ██████████ and proximity to ██████████
  • A group chat with a daily message volume that suggests none of these individuals are ██████████ at their ██████████

IV. Psychological Profile

Collectively, the group exhibits ██████████ attachment styles, a ██████████ disregard for ██████████, and an unusually high tolerance for ██████████. Individual assessments are filed under [REDACTED] but notable observations include:

  • Subject "████" displays ██████████ tendencies when given access to a microphone
  • Subject "████" has been ██████████ from ██████████ in three states, though charges were ██████████
  • Subject "████" once ██████████ a ██████████ at a ██████████ which is technically ██████████ in most jurisdictions
  • Subject "████" is an actual ██████████ doctor, which is ██████████ given what was observed on ██████████

V. Threat Assessment

Threat level: LOW TO MODERATE
(Revised upward from LOW after the incident at ██████████ in ████████ 2019.)

The Dumpster Children pose no credible threat to ██████████ security but represent a significant and ongoing threat to ██████████, public ██████████, and the structural integrity of at least one ██████████ in the greater ██████████ area.

VI. Recommendation

Continued ██████████ is advised. Do not attempt ██████████. Do not engage. Do not accept a drink from anyone claiming to know "the bartender." There is no bartender.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Blackheart Arcade is the interactive gaming division of the Bar Blackheart Entertainment Empire (a phrase used with maximum irony and zero corporate backing, SEC filings, or adult supervision). Established 2026 by individuals with no credentials, no business plan, and no reasonable expectation of follow-through.

The product exists for one purpose: to place emotionally arrested adults into a shared digital environment once per month and observe what happens. Early testing has produced results described as "a sand pit of emergent behavior," "a fully operating ecosystem of dipshittery," and "why is Kyle doing that."

"Too weird to die. Too stubborn to disperse."

— The Dumpster Children