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Clouseau posted:Pinside is trash and full of trash people. If they ever released Game of Thrones, I'd never get my roommate off his PS4.
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gently caress me, did I just walk into another hobby that will be hostile towards me because I have breasts? E: *skims Pinside forums for GoT mod info* Geezus, guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVBIr7zyuQ "My favorite part of the video was the blonde taking off her jacket and adjusting her top." "It was just a tad hard to look at the gameplay footage with the blonde in the video. I am pretty sure I am the only one that had a problem with this though." "Ha I'm Taking notes on Fattrains Skills with the Ladies! Look at how smooth he is! Go Train!" "I spent more time watching watching Fattrain put the moves on "the lady in red" than I did watching GOT! Go Train!!" I gave up after the first page. At least the people I've met locally have been cool so far, but this doesn't really make me want to go to pinball events or talk to dealers. Dirt Road Junglist fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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canyoneer posted:I had that moment.  brb, need to drink that image out of my mind.
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Awesome! posted:at least dino looks suitably uncomfortable from the situation So do the children watching from the background.
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Discendo Vox posted:My understanding is that the horrible misogyny is 99% the fairly wealthy basement creepazoids on forums who only play machines in their mancaves, and that the level of misogyny in public, organized pinball is actually a bit below the usual background noise level of sexism due to careful policing by cool people organizers. Pleasant news, then! So far, everyone I've met while playing has been cool, but I live in a hipster city with multiple "barcades," so that's not useful to calibrate against. The retro gaming expos here have been chill so far. Will see if the overall hostility of Portland starts poisoning that, but in the meantime, gently caress the haters, I'll be at the bar working on my high scores.
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the escape goat posted:http://www.bellespinballpdx.com/ The selection at Ground Kontrol is great these days. My roommate just found out Jersey Jack pins exist, and it's like watching a 6 year old discover video games for the first time. (We are not purists.) Mostly, we've been trying to track down a good GoT table, since the neighborhood bar has a GoT Pro that's taking up a lot of our free time. Vancouver has some decent pins to play on, too. Plus, out of nowhere, we were playing at a bar in Beaverton, and ran into a guy who knew my roommate through a shared music scene going back over a decade. Small freaking world. Everyone I've met so far has been cool, which is why I kinda went WTF earlier. Pontius Pilate posted:Oh Portland? You'll be fine then so long as you're white. Accurate.
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Looks like the Belles and Chimes in Portland are inactive, but I'd feel weird playing without my guy friends anyway.
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Jun 6, 2017 00:05
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Discendo Vox posted:Just create a botnet of rules, continuously randomize- Rogue Pinball. 
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Jun 7, 2017 00:37
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Robot Danger posted:All I had to do was shoot the center ramp to get Hand of the King for the first time. Instead I misplayed a trap and drained my last ball, and now I haven't come remotely close to getting it again. Just when I think I'm finally starting to turn a corner and get better I'll go on a terrible run that lasts weeks. Just before I read this, my boyfriend came in and shouted, "Get ready, baby! We're getting Hand of the King tonight or we're gonna die trying!" Synchronicity, y'all. I've been in a pinball wasteland for a week and am way out of practice. Guess I'm gonna die tonight.
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Jun 14, 2017 19:31
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Niwrad posted:You guys are making me want to play GoT. The upper playfield is actually decent, IMO, but it plays slower than Pro. I prefer Pro, but I like both quite a lot. Tyrell is my usual go-to for bigger scores, and I've gotten pretty good at stacking Tyrell and Lannister with Blackwater. Will definitely give the Martell strategy a go tonight, tho, and see what happens.
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Jun 15, 2017 00:18
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Batman Forever was dead when I got to the arcade tonight, but at least I did something to cheer myself up. Nice!
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Playfield magnets, how do they work?
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Collateral Damage posted:Pabst Can Crusher It's not bad if you're looking for a cheap game to play while the rest of the tables in the arcade are jammed up. But my first play on it was at a Project Pabst festival, so I'm probably not biased enough against the license.
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Jul 26, 2017 17:02
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And it would be a re-skin of a Twilight table, but with worse graphics, and the rules are even more broken.
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Jul 27, 2017 16:47
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Rollersnake posted:Lars von Trier's Anything Plus the table would only be available in Denmark, because it can't be shipped anywhere else.
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Jul 29, 2017 18:00
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I submitted a pin at a reservation resort to PinballMap.com once, and that makes me an authority on whether Native Americans are okay with being stereotyped!
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Aug 1, 2017 16:50
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TheMcD posted:Holy poo poo, I am riding such a pinball high right now, I don't think I've ever been higher. Well done! GP2 Boyfriend and I are to the point where we can consistently clear 1-2 houses, but we're still not that great yet.
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I played Monopoly out at the Chinook Roadhouse this weekend. (Great pinball spot, btw, if you happen to be on the Washington coast. The bartender told me she got annoyed at having broken machines, so she brought in a maintenance expert to teach her how to keep them up. Great collection in great shape, and almost everything is $2/5 balls.) Can't say I'm a fan of it. The center front ramp is way too close to the flippers for my taste, and it didn't feel like it flowed well. Still, would not turn it down if all I had to do was drive up and collect it.
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Aug 8, 2017 18:43
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Aw, I love Monopoly. I know it's Whirlwind's janky cousin but the music is great and the overall use of the layout is really fun. I've played a couple really nice ones and when someone's poured their heart into it it really glows. Will keep an open mind, then! Maybe I'm being hard on it because I played a batch of extremely hot Strike Extreme games right before.
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Got a 342,780 on Dialed In and made 2nd on the daily high scores. The grand master score is over 4 million, but I'm still feeling pretty good about myself. I'm a rather mediocre pinball player overall, but I'm sucking less every time I get out and play 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Woah, worth it! Seconded! GP2 Boyfriend thinks it's too sparse on the mid playfield, but I rather like the flow.
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Lone Goat posted:Place where I play league in Toronto just got a Dialed In How are you liking it? I think it's fun, but my BF can't get over the whole cell phone theme long enough to have fun.
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Collateral Damage posted:I've never really liked the pro/premium thing. I'm not a huge Stern connoisseur yet, but I'd say GoT Pro is actually more fun than the Premium layout. The top field, while it's cool, and I like the animated dragon and all, doesn't add much to the gameplay. Plus it takes out the standard skillshot, and covers large parts of the play area awkwardly. My holy grail would be the Premium lighting on a Pro layout...
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Boyfriend and I haven't been playing much lately, between illnesses and work obligations. We finally tracked down a GoT machine (I think the one we used to play at the pub downtown migrated to a roadhouse up north)...which was great until the elevator stopped popping right, and things really went awry when the divertor snapped clean off and landed in one of the drains on the upper playfield, where it started collecting balls. So much for that.
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Awesome! posted:does the game actually play decently on a phone/pad? i cant imagine shaking to nudge Usually you swipe to nudge, so it's directional. It's not nearly as accurate to play on a touch screen, in my experience, but you can set up where on the screen the control "zones" are.
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She Bangs the Drums posted:The convergence of pinball and craft beer makes me think of greying haired middle aged men with mustaches. #Portland
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bewbies posted:also love star wars I enjoy it, but GP2BF thinks it's too sparse and too unforgiving. He's a big fan of tables like GoT and Arabian Nights where there's a lot going on in the mid-field.
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They're going to Eugene and Portland, ME twice, but nothing in Portland proper? KevinSorboDisappointed.gif
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Squashy Nipples posted:I haven't been to a pinball room/barcade in a few years, but last weekend I saw one of GOT tables in a rest stop. Didn't have time to play, but it looked pretty cool... what's the thread opinion on it? I'm fond of it, but it was also the best table close to my previous apartment, so I spent a lot of time on it. It's got a good balance of challenge to reward, but also keep in mind that I'm scrub level at best. I did get a top house score (Tyrell, I think) once on a table on the coast, but I think they reset the scores nightly... I prefer the pro edition. The upper play field on LE is cool and all, but it blocks visibility on the left orbital and it dumbs down the skillshot and makes humping the pop bumpers harder. The light show on LE is spectacular, tho. I'd love to put a pro table with the LE lighting in my living room some day.
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prefect posted:I saw that it was in TPA, so I gave it a shot. It's just not good. The sound effects are terrible. There used to be a Pabst reskin of that next to the GoT table at one of the barcades in town. I would occasionally toss a quarter in it for something cheap to do while waiting for my next turn at GoT, and I have to say it's not compelling at all.
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tonedef131 posted:I was down there Saturday while the Belles and Chimes monthly was going on. The atmosphere is just completely different. They are far less physical with the machines and generally stand around cheering each other on. They frequently bring food to share and friends who are new to Pinball and just want to hang out. When a ball drains, even when it mean elimination, they turn around and smile. Aw man, I hope I'm not too violent for Belles and Chimes  I'm an inveterate table-smacker and I curse a blue streak every time I side drain...or otherwise lose a ball.I'm gonna need people to play with once the ex goes to Germany, so an all women's league sounds like a great idea.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Pinball is an inherently political game and if you can't recognize that then you're part of the problem. Come to Portland. There's at least one Junkyard table per suburb.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:Actually I am visiting Portland next month. What are the best pinball places? Quarterworld and Ground Kontrol, for sure. My Father's Place also has good selection, but it's more of a bar than a barcade. I hear C-Bar is nice, but I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. http://cbarportland.com/ There's also a new Pinball Museum in Beaverton, but I think they're in limited hours until next year. http://nextlevelpinballmuseum.com/ Besides that, get the Pinball Maps app on your phone and load the Portland region. If you're looking for a particular machine, it'll give you directions and most of the time someone knowledgeable has been there and described how well the table plays.
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Niwrad posted:I always thought "gambling" was just an excuse to get rid of them because the real reason they were being used was to launder tons of money for the mob. Not even necessarily to launder money, but because a bunch of mostly hollow boxes give you plausible deniability if you're shipping, say, a ton of drugs and want them covered up in the transport truck.
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Deviant posted:Oh, no, I meant I play abba on the bar jukebox because it's way louder than the iron maiden machine. You are a person after my own heart. Try Ace of Base sometime. "Beautiful Life" in particular is good at getting under the skin of people who are super angry, because it's so relentlessly positive.
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Discendo Vox posted:I'd love a revision of the Whoa Nellie art that just makes it entirely, obsessively about different varieties of melon. That would be the spergiest thing ever 
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cosmicjim posted:We want Hard Body. I'm trying really hard to come up with a Hands on a Hard Body joke, but it's not working.
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How hard would it be to isolate the monitor and sensitive bits from vibration? Soft mounts and shock absorbers and all that. Obviously increases cost and complexity, tho...
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Inferior Third Season posted:The pack with Medieval Madness. This.
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