You know, “Jews control the FGC” was not a take I was expecting to see today, but here we are.
Didn’t see that before but it’s possible. But we can’t draw enough conclusions from just this post alone. I am admittedly making a lot of assumptions just based on this guy’s use of the word “banker”.
Pinball kinda was a money laundering scheme for the mob when it started, though.
For one it was often gambling, pre-flipper (like pachinko!) tables were often formatted as bingo analogues (with more advanced ones changing victory conditions as play progressed), you won free games, tracked on its own reel, but the “house” would buy them back.
Even that aside though, pinball route operation relies on good relationships with local establishments you can put tables in and generates uncheckable cash inflows (Are you taking in $150 but only reporting $15? Okay! Are you only taking in $15 but putting $150 from another scheme on the books legitimately? Okay!) which played to mob strength.
The historical capital of pinball, Chicago, was the capital of American organized crime, and major manufacturers like Bally (like the casinos and weirdly, the gyms) and Williams (which abandoned pinball for the higher-margin work of making equipment for video poker) have readily crossed over into the legal “gaming” world.
Alright, so tomorrow we’re doing a gridiron, that’s a pinball tournament formatted after an NFL season, where everyone is matched to a team, plays their schedule, and then proceeds to playoffs by NFL rules. We used to do it yearly in the mid-2010s, but this is the first time in six years; it’s great cause at the end the playoffs eligibility gives you intense rooting interests in total strangers’ games.
I am the Tennessee Titans.
Going into a bye week, the Titans are 0-6 :(
The Titans finished the season with a 6-11 record.
dam man for how much you talk about pinball i thought you were good. sad!
A bunch of those were “I had a good game but they had a better one”, I’m 5-10 now, but yeah, I lost a bit of instinct in the personality change there, more critically the anxiety zeroing makes me worse at constant awareness of the table and snap-second reacting, even more critically I’m still getting used to even parsing 3D vision.
Alright, so tomorrow we’re doing a gridiron, that’s a pinball tournament formatted after an NFL season, where everyone is matched to a team, plays their schedule, and then proceeds to playoffs by NFL rules. We used to do it yearly in the mid-2010s, but this is the first time in six years; it’s great cause at the end the playoffs eligibility gives you intense rooting interests in total strangers’ games.
Alright, so tomorrow we’re doing a gridiron, that’s a pinball tournament formatted after an NFL season, where everyone is matched to a team, plays their schedule, and then proceeds to playoffs by NFL rules. We used to do it yearly in the mid-2010s, but this is the first time in six years; it’s great cause at the end the playoffs eligibility gives you intense rooting interests in total strangers’ games.
Alright, so tomorrow we’re doing a gridiron, that’s a pinball tournament formatted after an NFL season, where everyone is matched to a team, plays their schedule, and then proceeds to playoffs by NFL rules. We used to do it yearly in the mid-2010s, but this is the first time in six years; it’s great cause at the end the playoffs eligibility gives you intense rooting interests in total strangers’ games.
So Disney owns the MCU but Marvel can still license out the concept of the Avengers, soft butch!Captain Marvel, Black Panther and Dr. Strange fighting Thanos for the Infinity Gems.
Verdict: better than the movie-license Avengers table plus the Guardians of the Galaxy one
There’ve been a few efforts lately to graft modes and multiballs to vintage layouts; this is the best I’ve seen, with a mid-60s base with all the best features: rollover bumper lanes, a drop alley, a return to plunger, liteable spinners, A-B-C targets, 2 drop banks, a tight loop with a saucer lock, and a TOTAN-style spinner that magnetically captures balls to start (basic no-rules feature) modes. With an in-table instruction screen and old school backglass spinner-reel scores.
there’s been a lot of new entrants nosing their way into pinball lately; this from Pedretti is a new head for your existing Whirlpool cabinet that expands the mystery pool to 16 and adds some 1990 Steve Ritchie-ass modes to your 1990 Pat Lawlor table, plus a score display screen with good Flash-level animation.
Haven’t been respecting the midlife crisis mancave-bait Gen X retro band tables they’ve been making lately but Jersey Jack has topped the 1994 Data East here, even supplanted Viper GTS: Night Drivin’ as best pinball table featuring Slash.
Sweet Child O’ Mine is a multiball where they just feed you like six for the first half of the song, on the other hand no one wants to see a video of the band and audience from a fucking 2020 performance
I wonder if Bono ever envies how Axl got the music press to spend the early ‘90s constantly wondering out loud if and when Chinese Democracy was coming.
