I seem to be the only person in Portland or like anywhere pinball who doesn’t actively hate this table. Wevs, there are a lot of ‘90s DMDs that only recently got “rediscovered”, just wait for the operators to start unloading them, pick one up cheap, and flip it when the time comes.
I think it’s a cute callback to the late pre-ramp era where so much of the action involved a diamond-shaped upper playfield w/saucer fed by orbit shots (dig those bonus count lights too).
Also it’s got interesting tradeoffs between downhill elements that progress towards modes or advance scoring, uphill during a match for those millions, and uphill without a match to advance the bonus and multiplier.
Not saying it’s perfect - those tradeoffs right now are too weighted in favor of bonus and thus uphill no-match, I don’t really try anything else until I’ve got the multiplier maxed, which is at least what, 12 shots to the upper playfield, and however long bouncing around the ring.
(It would be nice if outside a match the ring would be some “cut a promo” feature which gave you 2-3 flips to make the saucer or a particular lit target then went dead.)
The last code update buffed the matches a bit, with enough hits you can get a pin leaving the upper PF without a saucer, it would be nice if the championship belts actually did something, whether modes like after Champion Pub fights, bonus, maybe a permanent +1X multiplier.
And the central horseshoe/bumpers, fuck only knows why they’re even there.
You know, if you’re Donald Trump, “run for President” seems like a reasonable bucket list entry. The hell else you going to have on there still unchecked?
You know, if you’re Donald Trump, “run for President” seems like a reasonable bucket list entry. The hell else you going to have on there still unchecked?
[ ] not have everyone think you’re a complete asshole
I cannot possibly see that as being something The Donald would be remotely interested in.
I like that as absurd as it is that’s a true sentence, that even though they quite frequently die from it, even though the famous hubris parable is literally “don’t push too far, or else your invention will fail and you will die by falling from a great height”, humanity still regularly gives rise to innovators of Falling From Great Heights, and we’re much better at it today because of them.
a lot of business operations for internet clothing stores seems to be “just keep selling shit with pokemon or bugs bunny’s face on it until someone sends us a cease and desist”
like not that i disapprove, but it’s weird how much out there is just “how long can we get away with copyright infringement, and are we small enough that they don’t care”
This has been every t-shirt operation’s business model ever since there were t-shirt operations with business models
Hot Topic was the most important clothing outlet of the ‘90s, more than The Gap or Abercrombie or Banana Republic or Old Navy, because they made the t-shirt an everyday thing and they were *constantly* getting shit for selling unlicensed knockoffs
(also bcuz the model of selling first band-, and then other media-branded property allowed them to offload all the buyers’ R&D risk of “establish ourselves as the style of a/every teen subculture”, which was huge)
Incidentally, American Apparel was *absolutely* key to the ‘90s t-shirt glory, but as a wholesaler not retailer
A lot of it had to do with free trade agreements and the fall of the Carolinas-based U.S. cheap textile industry, giving rise to cheaper options from elsewhere or better domestically
AmAppy got by in those days off the U.S. military, only domestic manufacturer left capable of delivering big contracts.
the reason it took so long to legalize gay marriage is because the entire country only hired one intern to apply a rainbow pattern to every corporate logo and they had to wait for him to finish
At a punk bar, a girl trying to be stern with her boy, “I pay for that bed, you don’t get to bring drunk randoms home and fuck them in it”. He just laughs at her.
Two or three cycles later she’s still playing stern but it’s softened to “if you’re going to fuck strangers in our bed *while they’re on their period* you have to put down at least two towels”
So apparently if you (well, at least me) search “homo sapiens”, the quick facts box Google gives you draws a blurb from Wikipedia and an illustration from… the German equivalent of Wookieepedia?
Just saw an ad for this. Just imagine, adjustable rollerskates! That clamp over your shoes! With non-inline wheels! What will they think of next. Yours for only $120.
