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Dirt Road Junglist posted:How big? I have one for a computer monitor that works really well. VIVO Single LCD Computer Monitor Free-Standing Desk Stand Riser with Adjustable Tilt, Swivel, Rotation | Holds One (1) Screen 13" to 32" (STAND-V001H) on Amazon strange feelings re Daisy fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Sometimes I wish Play Port would get rid of their Tee'd Off machine because some fuckass always plays like one ball, then the machine just keeps yelling 'SHOOT THE BALL" until someone (me) goes over and drains the rest so it shuts the hell up. Did pretty good at Harley Davidson though, it's nice when a machine's flippers work perfectly.
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KingShiro posted:Sometimes I wish Play Port would get rid of their Tee'd Off machine because some fuckass always plays like one ball, then the machine just keeps yelling 'SHOOT THE BALL" until someone (me) goes over and drains the rest so it shuts the hell up. Another reason I hate terminator 2. *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep*
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Mar 25, 2019 15:50
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Last Friday I had my best tournament performance yet! 44 players, group match play. 4 qualifying rounds of 2 games each with the top 8 moving to a semi-final round. After the qualifying rounds I'm tied with one other player for the 8th spot. The randomly selected tie-break machine is Jumping Jack, an EM from 1973. A few balls into the game and I start figuring out shots and how to keep the ball in play a significant amount of time. I wind up winning with a score of 46K. I advance to the semi-final round where the top seed for our group gets to pick the table we play on. He picks JUMPING JACK! Being the lowest seed I wind up going first which is very much to my advantage since I was already hot on the table! My first ball lasts FOREVER! I'm able to clear every single drop target which maxes out my bonus at 10K and awards me an extra ball, which we are allowed to play on EMs in these tournaments because of the effort required to collect them! After ball 1 and my extra ball I'm already above 50K. Four more balls and I end with a score of 83,990. Not only does it qualify me for the final round, but it winds up as the #1 score in Pindigo!  Final round is on Blackout. Being the lowest seed I'm going first again. All four of us are doing terribly and ball 3 for me is a house ball. Best I can do is 2nd since player 4 already had a higher score than me. Player 2 also gets a house ball, so I'm at least getting 3rd. Player 3 is up and he's got me with his bonus...until he tilts 100 points under my score! I wind up taking 2nd overall!   I've had some first place finishes before, but those have been in much smaller tournaments. My previous best finish IFPA point wise was 3rd in a 33 player tournament! The points I'll earn from this tournament will be worth nearly half the points I've earned over the past year!
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Double posting to say that apparently a teaser trailer for Stern's next game got leaked. Didn't have a chance to watch it before it was taken down, but someone got a screenshot of the trademarks at the end. Black Knight: Sword of Rage  EDIT: Looks like I posted during the few minutes the teaser was made private. It's up again in the next post! Doggles fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 20:40
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Doggles posted:Double posting to say that apparently a teaser trailer for Stern's next game got leaked. Didn't have a chance to watch it before it was taken down, but someone got a screenshot of the trademarks at the end. It's still there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQD_7MVk9J8
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Mar 25, 2019 20:45
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I’m both happy to see a non licensed theme and disappointed because only the movie/comic themes make any money at my arcade.
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Doggles posted:Double posting to say that apparently a teaser trailer for Stern's next game got leaked. Didn't have a chance to watch it before it was taken down, but someone got a screenshot of the trademarks at the end.
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Mar 25, 2019 20:58
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Pinball Arcade did and lost it to Zen. I don’t think Stern has ever licensed a Williams IP. I thought that the people doing the remakes of Medieval Madness et al had exclusivity on Williams/Bally but maybe that was limited to remakes and not something like a sequel. Anyway it’s great Stern is letting Ritchie do this (I think this is his retirement game.) AC/DC was such a massive hit for them, Star Trek is only now leaving production. He’s a design legend, so it’s cool he gets a curtain call. And gently caress: if it’s a hit maybe it’ll lead to more.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:How is this possible? I thought Stern lost the Williams license? Well, going by the trademark info from that trailer, it's licensed from Planetary Pinball Supply, and they have this document on their website which states that they have full rights to all pinball material from Williams and Bally in the field of "mechanical and electromechanical pinball machines". Chicago Gaming, the company behind the Williams remakes, also has information on their website mentioning they're licensing from Planetary. So if Stern wants to do a mechanical table featuring Black Knight, they'd have to license the Black Knight from Planetary. However, if Farsight/Zen/etc. want to do a *digital* recreation of Williams/Bally material, it seems like they'd have to license that separately from Scientific Games, which I believe is what Zen did.
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Mar 25, 2019 21:23
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Black Knight 2000 has the best music. I hope this can live up to that.
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Doggles posted:Four more balls and I end with a score of 83,990. Not only does it qualify me for the final round, but it winds up as the #1 score in Pindigo!
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https://twitter.com/Zerochan/status/1110315960211132418
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roffels posted:Black Knight 2000 has the best music. I hope this can live up to that. I hope they weren’t implying they’re going to play some kind of dark metal stuff instead of a goofy as hell disco or arena rock song or something
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IGN has an article up about the new Black Knight. BLACK KNIGHT: SWORD OF RAGE PINBALL REVEALED: FIRST IMAGES, VIDEO, DETAILS, AND AN INTERVIEW WITH CREATOR, STEVE RITCHIE
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Mar 26, 2019 16:40
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LOL the pro doesn't have the upper playfield. I guess not surprising, but come on. It's not a BK game if it's single level.
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The pro not having the upper playfield is such hot garbage, but I have faith it'll still be fun because of Ritchie. Wonder what the price gap between Pro and Premium will be for it.
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Mar 26, 2019 17:16
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is it Sword of Rage or Sword of Fury?
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They absolutely should have scrapped that silly knight toy instead of the upper playfield in their pro strip down. The pro looks downright boring. I wouldn't be surprised if it has the worst flow of any modern Ritchie, left to right we have: - Left shot is a drop or a dead end. - An orbit that may be fast but only if the gates aren't used often, and if they aren't you may not get any time in the pop area. - The games singular ramp shot that can be blocked. - Stand up death target. - Shot that appears to be blocked always unless lock is qualified, in which case it's a dead end. - Other orbit/lane shot. That's all you get to shoot in the game, and if those upper gates are frequently used it's going to feel very stop and go. Artwork looks incredible though.
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Mar 26, 2019 17:51
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I do love the dorky knight though. It’s a non starter for me though. Only the licenses make money at the store.
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Mar 26, 2019 18:12
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I am stoked for the remixed theme. Love that poo poo.
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pzy posted:is it Sword of Rage or Sword of Fury? Sword of Fun! :v Honestly, I kind of dont like how retro BK3K is trying to be. The first one was CLASSIC 70s fantasy, 2k late 80s fantasy. Kinda just feels like the 80s again which I totally get as a nostalgia thing, but I kinda wanted to see a modern update, like historical milestones. Eh whatever, just give us Centaur III
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Mar 26, 2019 20:21
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seems bizarre to me that a key feature of the BK games is a fairly exclusive and more expensive option? Kind of hosed up tbh that they can take out an entire section.
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Especially when they didn’t add anything to sorta replace it on the pro. It looks more like a sequel to Stargate than Black Knight with all those dead end shots.
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Mar 26, 2019 22:35
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If it doesn't have an upper playfield it isn't a Black Knight machine.
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Mar 27, 2019 03:30
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Deviant posted:If it doesn't have an upper playfield it isn't a Black Knight machine. Scott Ian of Anthrax on guitar doesn't make up for that.
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I really dislike black knight, it's just a table I can't handle, and the short lower table is probably most of it, but I can't imagine a table calling itself black knight that isn't dual-levelled.
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KingShiro posted:Sometimes I wish Play Port would get rid of their Tee'd Off machine because some fuckass always plays like one ball, then the machine just keeps yelling 'SHOOT THE BALL" until someone (me) goes over and drains the rest so it shuts the hell up. I feel like every time I've been to Next Level in Hillsboro, Oregon somebody has left Twister before finishing a game, which results in the really loud occasional Helen Hunt screaming "ARE YOU OKAAAAAAAY?". It took me a while to figure out where it was coming from. Certainly not as annoying as leaving a Terminator 2 table though with that constant beeping. Someone walked away from one at a bar that had it while I was playing something else, and after a couple minutes of beeping after my ball drained on whatever I was playing at the time, I went over to T2 and launched the ball just so that loud beeping would stop. I did it right as the guy was coming back, who apparently had to take a call outside and then he got pissed at me for killing his game. I'd say we were both in the wrong here but jesus christ do not loving leave a T2 game in progress you fuckwit
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Shock Trooper posted:Next Level in Hillsboro, Oregon Oh poo poo, I keep forgetting that place exists.
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Wait it's open??  Edit : also I don't want to think about how many of you are that close Vvv shut up LethalGeek fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Mar 28, 2019 01:56
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LethalGeek posted:Wait it's open?? Portland? More like Goonland.
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Jesus, where the hell do you folks go that people walk away in the middle of a game??? I've seen people leave their free games up but never mid game.
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Mar 28, 2019 03:26
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Anywhere with free play, tokens, or where there’s no other entertainment for children and parents put money in the machine hoping for 15 minutes of peace.
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Mar 28, 2019 03:32
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I've only ever seen kids do that, because they either have no idea you get more than one try or they literally just got bored and wandered away from the machine.
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South Park: A tale in two parts This Tuesday was our local league, the theme being that members could vote in which games to play. For some sick reason, South Park was one of those games voted in. I distinctly remember saying to the organizers "NO ONE should be good at this game!". Well, come game time and I somehow pull this out.  Felt pretty good about that to be honest, considering it's a table I never bother to touch. However, at the end of the night, a player in another group put up 370 million. Yesterday was my day off, and despite all rationale, I couldn't let that stand. 
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King Vidiot posted:I've only ever seen kids do that, because they either have no idea you get more than one try or they literally just got bored and wandered away from the machine. You must never go to a barcade on Free Play because I see tonnes of games with 4 games started and abandoned in ball 2
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Lone Goat posted:You must always go to a barcade on Free Play because I see tonnes of games with 4 games started and abandoned in ball 2 then you move in, turn the machine off and power it back on and you're golden. Or hold the start button and it resets the game.
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Spring Bally Goon Tour It's Spring, so time to stay inside and play some Pinball FX3! We're knocking the difficulty down a notch from Tournament to Arcade, but don't think it'll be smooth sailing: Not only are we playing without extra balls, you're only given 10 plays. No more score grinding this time. Make those games count! Rules:
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Mar 28, 2019 13:37
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Oh man, I'm in. Wonder if they fixed the sdtm saucer shot when using the right flipper on AFM.
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The free play machines here rather frequently end up in a four player game with player four up for ball 1. Which is the worst, because you have to power cycle it (or drain out a ball first), you can't hold the start button to reset the game if it's still on ball 1.
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