Quoted from o-din:Back to the days when pinside was a manly repair tip forum for those that had actually used hand tools before with plenty of pictures and gifs of scantily clad women, and there weren't endless, ridiculous "shut up and take my money" dream theme threads, or whipped men who admit they let their wives run their lives, and it was OK to say you didn't like a particular theme or game without somebody going off and sniveling to whoever and then having the hammer of Thor come down on you for doing so would be A-OK with me.
One good thing about an economic downturn is it does have a way of weeding out the posers who live life on a line of credit from those that are ready and can make it thru on cruise control.
And personally, I look forward to it.
I can't tell how serious this post is or isn't, but I am going to 100% agree with this.
When I read posts of "oh my God, I had to settle for a SE machine amidst my sea of LE machines...what ever will I do if the neighbors find out?" kind of posts - I just hope they are not legitimately serious.
I miss the days this site had some REAL content and not a bunch of drama or seemingly meaningless threads like "Hey, do you really keep your NIB boxes just in case you want to sell your game for even more money?" kind of threads.
You can find tech advice here and there, but now, the vast majority of that knowledge has been placed on PinWiki, Pinball Ninja, or good ol' wild wild west of RGP.
If you can write a $21K check for a game, life goals I guess...? If you can tell me how to properly test a PnP vs NpN transistor or properly trace a current flow on a WPC backbox board, or rule out a "all switches open, ground error" on the DMD - and you can actually carry out these actions and find and correct your errors a la Clay H - now you have my attention.
Oh, woe is me the good ol' days.... *half sarcastic/half truthful*
