Where is Robin?
This has gone on way to long.

I agree. I'm done in this one. I quit using Pinside for socialising awhile ago because of ignorant close minded people and only used it for resources. I broke that rule today. Have fun boys. Enjoy the cross burning.

Hopefully spending time with his family instead of worrying about what grown men are bickering about on a pinball forum.

IBTN!!! (in before the noose)

made it in b4 it's deleted

Not funny at all.
Said the hangman.
Sad day for Pinside.

oh yeah baby

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Everybody saying this and nobody draining the thread??

This is not about draining the thread.
This is about Pinside not allowing racist/political posts.

I am deeply disappointed in Vid. He has done such great things for the community. But he has crossed the line. This is truly a sad day, posting such an offensive racist picture on a pinball forum. Why?

CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!!!

Vid should apologize sincerely. I'd forgive him.

People make mistakes.

Poor Vid and his horse.

If a pinball machine shows up. It might also need a Lexan protective barrier.

The whole world is watching, we will see the bar is setting lower and lower here...

Would this be considered in poor taste?

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Get over yourself and learn to write a proper sentence. Good lord, find something better to complain about.

Not only is that not offensive to anyone, it is freaking hilarious!!

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Vid your guides don't mean anything to me. I know how to purchase and take care of my pins. This is what vids guide on how to be a tasteless racist. It's time to hang up the keyboard. You should be banned for that. So not right. I'm not important here, but if he's not banned, I'm never coming back to this website. The mods have their favorites, who will only get slaps on the wrist for their atrocities.

Bye?

Why the announcement?

You won't see anything from Vid in this thread until his thread eject expires. Stupid posts don't mean he's racist.

Good riddance, see ya, bye. If your panties are in such a bind that you can call someone who you DO NOT know a racist and his action of posting a picture in poor judgement an atrocity, you should immediately remove yourself from the internet entirely. Better yet, stay home close your doors and windows, lock them up tight and protect yourself from experiencing another "atrocity".

What the picture depicted was an atrocity. What Vid posted was a stupid frickin decision. Get a backbone will ya?

Keep this thread OPEN! This got more interesting now that American Pinball is stating Magic Girl will be delivered by the end of year.

Wow,… this thread took a turn for the worst…
How in the world did we end up in this place? It is probably out of misplaced anger and frustration, I guess. I’m disappointed that it has made a left turn to violence, racism, and politics. We need serious hard discussions on those topics as a society but this thread isn't the place for them, at least in my opinion. It is unfortunate because John Popiduik’s swindling is serious and has affected many good people. The pinball community should be united in rejecting him and his works until and if his victims are made whole.

This off topic, name calling and arguing over what should or could theoretically happen to John using violent racist images, actually obscures Popiduik’s deceitfulness and thievery. He may be associated with a new company! He may attend Expo! That's the news! He’s the one who should be under scrutiny for what he did.

I was watching the thread evolve last night. It was interesting and surprising. I was readying a post saying that I was going to bring popcorn to Expo for everyone! Because if Popiduik does show up it certainly will be a spectacle for all to see. The biggest debate at that time was if his association and promotion for a new game was legitimate or if it was someone making it all up! (That included the original post and responses which have since been edited away) Now it has morphed into,… what is and what is not offensive or something along those lines….???

Pinballers should be organizing picketing and protesting the Expo hotel or the appropriate vender booth! Busying themselves making signs and coming up with catchy chants,…”Hell no, John must go!” Maybe a news crew would show up, that would be so cool! If John Popiduik has associations with a new company or pinball machine the spotlight needs to be shined on them asking for an accounting of his fraudulent actions in the past. This should be the case at every show they attend. Imagine the new company presenting their machine and the auditorium is packed with people John Popiduik has defrauded along with their friends, family and supporters. No not for violence, cartoon or otherwise but for a truthful reckoning and for the face to face answers his victims deserve.

It looks like the new company is trying to deliver MG games. Chill a bit and see if they can make good on their facebook promise.

Moderator's comment: We understand that a number of folks were not happy with the image posted earlier, but it has already been removed, and the appropriate action was taken to address the situation. If anyone wishes to discus any moderation actions further, please open a moderator feedback thread.

Other than that, please try to keep things somewhat on-topic (JPop, American Pinball, Houdini, etc). The post on American Pinball's FB page was certainly an interesting twist worthy of further discussion.

I still can't understand how mikepin had no idea how deeply this jpop affected the Pinsider community. No offense but if your setting up an expo, aren't you in the business? Just seems strange. And someone deleted the beginning of this thread where mikepin announced Houdini/American pinball was coming to the expo and it was a great thing.
That has now been deleted. The beginning of this thread now comes across as if mikepin was empathetic to the Pinsiders whereas originally mikepin was telling everyone that Houdini was a great thing for pinball in general and that everyone was overreacting. Unbelievable. The editing is bullcrap.
This whole thread should be closed imho.

Old school doesn't keep up with the online drama clubs

Fair enough. Sorry mikepin. I get it.

What was Vid's picture of for those that saw this after censorship?

Who is American pinball's marketing person?

Sabrina Wei?

Every body can make a mistake and i m sure Vid will apologize when he can.
Did not see this picture too, but i think we need to talk now to the original thread or close it.

PM him and ask. Let's drop this off topic shit here in the main thread.

Jflop's mention already creates more than enough deserved drama.

Give vid a break. He made a mistake while trying to be funny. Anyone with a sense of humor understands the fine line between humor and offense.

Wow this thread has brought out some ctazies...

Finally! Some common sense.

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Sounds like American knows whats up. This is some A+ PR in my book. Kudos to them for this new information.

Why they didn't tell Magic Girl would-be-owners sooner, ill never know, but hopefully they make things right.

I'm glad that nothing serious has happened and that vid only hurt a couple people's feelings. He didn't steal your money, he didn't inflict injury to anyone.... He just hurt some feelings.

Harden the fuck up pinside, you're sopping all over the place. Understand a joke when it's posted; even when done in poor taste.

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There's enough real world problems that you could use that energy for.

This American Pinball thing is real folks... I think the pin world is about to get turned upside down and NOBODY saw this coming.

Popcorn is popped and ready!

American Pinball is going to build and deliver pinball machines to every owner that lost money with jpoop. Every owner who paid jpoop in full is going to get a machine at no additional cost? Is that what our saying? I call bullshit!!!! This is nothing more than a bunch of lies. I can't believe ANYONE is buying into these lies.

QSS

Wow, i was too late too see vids pic, but was it gore? What an angry mob..

The picture was a photo of an actual lynching, edited with jpop face on one of the hanging corpses. I can see the attempt at humor, but he missed badly. Not much you can do to get more offensive except child porn.. :/

Considering we have about four identical threads going on American pinball / jpop, this one could certainly be closed and it would be no big loss.

If Pinside would just merge similar threads together we wouldn't have this issue.

Common sense would have been not to post a horribly inappropriate picture on a pinball message board. But common sense seems to be in short supply on Pinside.