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Wow! Been a while since they've had that many tables that much on sale all at the same time.

I mentioned "The Exorcist" as a show I DVR'd but hadn't watched yet. Did so since, thought it had a really strong first episode. Felt more like a cable show than network, was sufficiently creepy, had the kind of camera work that makes me take notice. I'm not declaring it a must watch yet, but I...

Typical network TV breakdown; half hour show is 22 minutes long, hour long is 42-44 minutes long. It's been that way for years. Reason you think there are more commercials is that they'll sometimes run the first 15 minutes of a show with no interruptions and then come the back half have a break...

I wish I knew, both the if (though I'm pretty positive it will this season) and the when.

End of September

Chum is fum? Welcome, and yes it is a good group of enthusiasts here. Except for a couple. Okay, really only one. Stay away from that guy. You'll find by pushing the 'forum' tab up top that there's a bunch of categories. Near the bottom, you'll find the other pinball games section where...

Kinda takes the fun out of though, no? I get why you do it that way, but I want to get closer to the actual experience, not farther. Same goes for how some have programmed nudging parameters. I want a controller setup like I've seen some build, with plunger, Mercury switches for nudge strength, etc.

It's not that it looked too real, it's that it looked like a cheap soap opera. Most TVs come with this automatic motion enhancing B.S. that does the same to all your movies at home. It's done to make things stand out in the showroom, but nobody should leave it on at home. Well, maybe for...

We don't often get a discussion going about the podcast here, but it's good just in case! List of scores for Zen Star Wars (as mentioned in podcast) Force Awakens - 115.9 m Clone Wars - 336.3 m Rebels - 145.6 m RotJ - 30.1 m Empire - 205.8 m Droids - 138.3 m New Hope - 26.4 m Han Solo - 34.7 m...

The house we just had our monthly league tourney at was essentially Season 1 come to life. Apart from MM, the above tables were all present, as well as MB, TAF, TotAN, ToM, P*B, BSD, EatPM, BH, and more. Whenever I come across any of these tables, which I've played to death in TPA, I am horrible...

I agree. I've gotten to play WoZ a couple times now and I'm never looking at that screen. So much info being thrown at you, not enough on the playfield itself. It's sensory overload. Even being an observer, there's at any one time at least 3 windows of info happening, plus the call outs, plus...

That was my boy! Never hesitated to download anything he authored. Never took shortcuts, always tried to push the software and innovate. I even enjoyed some of his custom Roms, especially for Centaur. Shame all his tables are VP 8. Some work in 9, to varying degrees.

This wound up sorta being a topic in the next BlahCade podcast. The main thrust was a discussion of all the Star Wars tables and my ranking of them. Of course this then led to who designed them, at which point I discovered designers I like and dislike. For the sake of spurring this thread along...

And that was only his 3rd post! I love it. Perfect level of snark.

While VP scratched a huge itch back in 2004 for me, my main problem with it was always the inconsistency of table authors. I found 2 or 3 I liked, both visually and physics tuning, but then there'd be a table I wanted that wasn't done by them and I'd hate the experience. I tried it out again a...

Yep. I mentioned this in the beta. My best guess has always been that there is some filter/algorithm FarSight uses for dynamic lighting that picks up on hot spots light should bounce off of. Problem is, it doesn't take into consideration the source of that light or the material the object is...

After a 2 or 3 year hiatus, BFDI just returned with a new episode yesterday. Kids that make it clearly have used that time to learn way better animation techniques, quite possibly how to write too!

First I remember playing are Banzai Run, Haunted House, and Comet. Balboa Funzone, Newport Beach, probably 1988. No doubt I'd played some prior (I even had a pinball wizard tee), but I've no memory what they might've been.

I was never a fan of DE or Sega tables back in the day. They were terribly cheap feeling machines that had perpetually weak or broken flippers. And yeah, not the deapest or most interesting of rules. Jurassic is fun simply by having a mirror of Whirlwinds layout. I like GnR mainly due to the...