pinball politics
Grumbling at Josh Sharpe for dropping potentially big and somewhat plausible news about a Pinburgh replacement on April Fool's Day and I know he finds it fun to tease people with the ambiguity but come on, you have to play fair and drop a hint that in hindsight confirms the joke. There's *rules* to a good prank.
Michigan pinball politics
That said, I'm told one of the more obnoxious right-wingers is using the possible Pinburgh announcement to declare all over Facebonk how he'll never play an International Flipper Pinball Association-sanctioned event as long as they're supporting Black Lives Matter and all that, and while there's nobody capable of believing him, it's nice stuff to *hear*.
re: Michigan pinball politics
@Austin_Dern There aren't enough Willy Wonka memes on this planet...
re: Michigan pinball politics
@zebratron2084 Hoo yeah.
Sad thing is he's an amazing player to watch, and has some supernatural ability to find the ridiculous code exploits. But, jeez, even if you ignore the politics his personal abrasiveness is something else.
(And this in a hobby that's, uh, got a lot of abrasive people in it.)
re: Michigan pinball politics
@Austin_Dern Color me absolutely not astonished. :) Although if you were the personality model for pinball pros, I'd just think they were all charmingly eccentric, which also seems very plausible... <3
re: Michigan pinball politics
@zebratron2084 Oh, I am absolutely one particular model of Pinball Guy. But there are, like, four other models of Pinball Guy out there.