Only the K-man's currently. I used to listen to others but he's basically the only podcast that isn't afraid to tell it like it is...everyone else has too many friends in the industry or is afraid of being cut off

Dude, Seriously? Like seriously? Guy who has made 17k+ posts talking about wasting so much time reading pinside? YOU'RE ON ALL DAY LONG EVERY DAY.

LMAO

Just had to give you crap for that one.

Well, being completely honest here, there are 1000's of people on pinside. When the whole Heighway thing was going on, his podcast was about the only thing saying that you need to get out, the company is in trouble, while all such comments on pinside were shouted down or moderated. I think I specifically remember a post from Mr68 or something like that trying to help that was given a lot of wrath.

So say what you will about him, he was legitimately trying to help a bunch of people whereas pinside really wasn't. I'm not saying all of his podcasts are great or warranted, but in that particular situation he was one person trying to help. And there have been other instances like that.

Mr68 posted public financial docs indicating Heighway was having financial issues here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/alien-pinball-official-game-thread/page/141#post-3301083

All the comments following are ripping him for the most part.

K posted a podcast around the same time talking about the financials of the company as well, it's even mentioned in the thread. So what part of the timeline do I have incorrect here? They reported issues, got blasted for it.

My post was deleted as well. I don't understand either.

I actually thought the hype one was decent, as someone who doesn't go after the all the latest games before playing them. I've been waiting for years for people to stop buying on hype. People didn't buy new games on hype until Tron, now a large portion of the people in the hobby do, which has also led to things like poor code for quite a while. It's basically priced me out of the hobby for the past 6 years, my last NIB was AC/DC premium.

So you as a buyer who typically is on the hype train, I can see why you wouldn't find that episode entertaining, but for people not on it, I thought it was decent.

RGP was totally fine without the hype train. I was on it for 6 years before the Tron/Pinside explosion.

If you bought 5 games without waiting, you're not really a believer in waiting, lol. Unless you bought them like a year or two after release when they were more finished.

The same thing happens in video games, people get hyped up to preorder them as well at collectors edition prices before the reviews even come out. Even waiting 2 days there will get you a review and save you money like 1/2 the time. Hype only benefits the seller.

I tried looking back at some of his old posts. Honestly, I couldn't find that much...if that was the hurdle to be crossed to be banned, there are a lot of other people that probably deserved the same ban. I think the KLOV thing followed him over and made it impossible for him to exist. I think the post that got him banned was the hobbit ramp thing where he was just reporting a location problem? I do remember some of his posts to be rather pointless though, no more than anyone else's like ODin.

As far as the podcasts go, I do know that he has gone out of his way to give props to other podcasts on occasion. When I listen to those other podcasts though, that same gesture is not returned, in fact I've listened to some pretty childish behavior from some of the others (not saying there hasn't been childish behavior on Kaneda's, there has, but the others are not innocent). In fact the whole Ryan and Marty thing, I think that they originally started the thing making fun of him during a pretty long segment on their podcast where they took his sayings and made fun of him (they were friends at the time, all in good fun I think). So he just took their laugh track and now that relationship is evidently gone. I think the Slam Tilt podcast was one way back when he gave them props and I actually started listening to them because of him...then on a later episode they go out of their way to crap on him, and I haven't listened to them again.

I honestly don't remember him saying anything that bad about any pinsiders except Whysnow and Aurich. And now it's just Whysnow. He generally says good things about you, Levi, etc. I think he did give you a ribbing over your Beatles sales thread though, lol.