Honestly? I don't think I do anymore. I just enjoy things that are challenging in *general*. Pinball is a vehicle for learning things and doing things that I think are hard to do for most people for me.

I'm still going to own games, because I really appreciate the art and crazy themes, but I feel like my excitement and enthusiam for just "ERMAGERD IT'S A PINBALL MACHINE NO WAI!!" is kind of shot the last two years or so. I don't enjoy the chase, I don't enjoy working on games anymore all that much. I like helping people fix their games just fine, but anytime I have to fix something at home I find it unbelievably irritating. I'm tired of all the parts and tools all over the place, and anything short of CPU board issues or sound board issues is just a snooze and an annoyance. Tournaments are....

I'm about to print out a shirt that says "Most Consistent 1st Loser" because I keep finishing in 2nd place.

I don't think I'll ever fully get out, just scaling back for a while. I'm not willing to abandon Voltron, and while WPT might be up on the block, work is going to continue while it's gone. I've got so much to do in terms of art, isolating video and audio assets, rules design, and learning python, I expect it to be 2 years before I need access to a physical machine, and I have the whitewood, so..