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.
polar expeditions were insane there’s just like a 200 year period in history where every european man on planet earth was simultaneously struck by the urge to run off and die horribly at one of the poles
I mean imagine what it would be like if all those guys who get so hype about Mars could get there by just flying far enough
I wonder if these semiheptagonal Japanese plastic bottles pack better or something, like you can fit more on a flat on the back of one of those tiny pickup trucks to restock your konbini
I wonder if it’s Metal Gear Solid V or Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) that constitutes the plurality American impression of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Facebook has realized I will pause my scroll to read a post about what a golfer I recognize from my dad watching golf TV as a kid is up to these days, so it’s looking like the PGA Senior Tour over there rn
Hm on taking wake-up creatine today what I had first noticed swimming on Thursday as a stitch in my side flared up to hurt a lot but then receded I guess as processes that made it tight and irritated were empowered faster than ones that loosened and buffered it
So yeah I should really take a few more rest days until that disappears. You’re starting to see intimations of the coming of fall, its definitely the rainy season by the end of October but I’d like to wrap up by mid-September by the latest, but I probably have at least one or two days of physically undemanding work laying out the wire holding the Blueberry Hill retaining wall in I can do before I get back to pitching.
Secret history where homosexuality really is demonic and the modern sexual environment comes out of it escaping from a group of British occultists (who used it to empower their aesthetics) during the Blitz
One thing I didn’t expect about my stomach shrinking so much is that the skin covering it would get so soft and delicate as it didn’t have to bear such strain keeping my insides in.
This is actually very normal human behavior. It’s just that most people (in the USA) think “Jesus strengthens me” instead of “I am a pikmin, dandori time”
I like how even with Nintendo setting per-publisher quotas they would just localize whatever they had on hand on the NES era. “Does anyone in America know who Golgo 13 is? No? Great, here’s a Golgo 13 game.”
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.
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