{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The Portland pinball scene used to have a reputation for hard drinking (back when they were leading the pinball-in-bars revival,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/178401956928/", "html": "<p>The Portland pinball scene used to have a reputation for hard drinking (back when they were leading the pinball-in-bars revival, as vs. the midlife engineer w/cargo shorts and 8 machines in his basement then regnant), but that\u2019s faded</p><p>Tourney that brought people from out of town this weekend though, and wow are the SF and Seattle scenes cocainey</p><p>Not in a yuppie or hipster or \u201cI have this great idea for a screenplay\u201d way, more scumbag \u201cIf this van\u2019s a-rockin\u2019 I\u2019m listening to Dokken\u201d aesthetics, though I\u2019m sure there\u2019s tech money behind it all</p>"}