Looking forward to it again! It was a blast last year, and it was fun to meet and hang out with all the out of towners who came out for the show.

They just need to bring SO MUCH invisiglass lol

I mentioned this to you last year derek, but if we are doing ticket-style entry into the competition play, it would be cool if the lanyard sleeve had a ticket slot on it. I understand with laminated stuff that can be annoying, but it would be pretty awesome. I hated fumbling in my pocket looking for the right ticket and hoping I didn't lose any of that precious cargo.

As for pinside handles, just put a blank section on the lanyard and give us a sharpie. That will also give me a chance to draw dicks on everyone elses lanyards while they are not looking

First thing I did when I got your STLE was reset the high scores. There was no way I was going to feel good about myself or my playing with those still up there haha.

Well, there goes my chances at being champ

I'm going to do so bad in the nitro tourney lol.

Hell yeah! I like having some diversity in it

I hope to win absolutely nothing, but get pretty sauced and have a good time. Aim low, shoot low, and occasionally stumble backwards in a drunken stupor and hit the mark.

I find it really interesting how polarizing some games are (whether it be because of theme, flow, ball times, etc), and I'm no stranger to that myself (I think TAF is a garbage game, probably one of the most unpopular opinions on pinside lol), but I wouldn't view DI as any more of a casual/kids/etc game than The Hobbit in terms of actual gameplay. The theme is definitely more on the kid-friendly side, but as far as shots and gameplay go, I don't think it's a casual game at all. Honestly, casuals don't enjoy the complex games with lots of shots. Casuals like my ST and LOTR because they are simple fan-shot layouts. In my experience, as soon as you add in tunnels, subways, hidden shots, upper playfields, obstacles, etc, they lose interest because it's too hard for them to understand what to shoot at (even with my explanation).

I don't disagree that the game has long ball times, but I think everyone needs at least one of those in their collection.
As for endless ball time and casual shots, it's the same as Hobbit. I hated it when I first saw it, and when I first played it last year at YEGPin (I thought it was a boring, slow, floaty mess with terrible geometry), but once I played libtech 's machine, properly set up as a shooters game, I wanted one myself. With JJP you can change coil strengths so that a higher angle is still viable, which makes the game a lot more aggressive. I don't think DI feels as floaty as TH, and I like that it has less dead space in the pf, so I think set up properly in a home environment it will be a pretty solid shooters game. Yeah, it will still have long ball times, but like I said, I don't really see that as an issue.

I also am not a big fan of the lightning bolt guy, so I'm going to use flexible filament in my 3d printer to replace him with a big floppy dick when I get mine. I think it will really tie the ridiculous theme together. Just need to figure out how to get some custom sounds in the machine ("look out for that big cock!" "eeeek! a penis!" etc)

That's a solid point about the elements not immediately tieing together, I think their intent was that the phone tied things together (hence why I think they ended up sticking with Dialed In and not Quantum City).