Cerebral wit will not be tolerated on pinside. You've been warned. Ban hammer coming if this type of clever, intellectual banter persists.

Nope.

Felt GOOOOD - didn't it!

Man, I have never seen a thread go so low. You mean to tell me that crap sold for longer than just the first year?

ROFLH

Pinside Gold reply!

Much enjoyed that one.

BEELZEBUMP!

Wish you were closer Boob we could play some pinball all weekend at the pinball museum in Banning. Hope to see some pinsiders there tomorrow. I'll be the guy with the big beard and my 5yr old son. Say hi if your there. Thanks.

That's practically in your backyard! Have fun.

He seems like a nice guy...WTF we got a bunch of <edited>moderating this site? Free Internet Speech anyone? Next thing Pinside will be trying to confiscate our guns!

Less than 10 miles. It's a shame they can only do 4 public events a year. Probably over a thousand pins and every video game.

Ok beelze...time for you to come over for drinks and cigars....

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Booby come back. You can blame it all on me.

Were you wrong, and just can't live without him?

Any kind of fool could see that

I do that anyway!

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takes a few hours to get account approved, to prevent spammers/etc.

That's funny! Am I the only one that can see the humor in it?

yes

Come on Brandes - tying moderation of Pinside to gun confiscation? REALLY?? ROFLH!

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Must watch! Friggin hilarious!

Who will make the "I miss RobT" thread?

Wow, I thought you were joking. RobT shows as deactivated.

Yes, wow. Nothing strange in the posts 10 hours ago.

So. Pinside lost two good and reasonable guys and the people who instigate fights remain. Yay?

What the hell happened to Rob?? He is a gold star - blue chip pinsider!!
Rob get your ass back in here brother

Self-initiated, he wasn't banned for anything, just wanted to take a break.

Randy and Rob not here.....??? Not a Good day, at all.

In their honor, I will banish myself for 1 hour.

Post linking doesn't work for long threads but the Stern forum / It's Official GoT thread was unfortunate on page 96

The ridiculous part was the misogyny that was allowed to remain between lectures for calling someone a troll.

You make it sound so benign. It maybe a self-initiated break but is sure seems to be in direct response to the got thread. I shook my head when reading certain parts of that thinking I would be pissed if I was Rob. But if you talked to him, then I guess I interpreted things wrong.

Rob is a good guy. Hopefully he finds his way back.

The guy who played Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the Bill & Ted movies has a documentary about the damage caused by destroyed or dispersed communities on the internet. It seems the best forums and communities, the most tightly knit, are those involving illegal or fringe activities, or perhaps expensive hobbies. Rumor once held that there was no higher form of degenerate forum posting than satellite-hacking forums (apparently so esoteric that I was never able to find them). I think it's something in the solder, perhaps console modders are a junior version. But there's plenty of that to go around here.

The loss of these virtual communities disrupts the users absolutely. Usually it's some three-letter government organization to shut the fun down. On a mundane forum it's sometimes moderator-imposed exile. That doesn't happen here though, however it seems it's now been suggested to exile oneself if compliance can't hold.

Exile from communities is the real thing that gets me. It's not hatred of authority figures, or some form of us vs. them madness; it's the fact that there's a feeling of deep loss associated with the lost civilizations of the internet when it results from misunderstanding. Mass self-imposed exile is a grief I'd not yet conceived. The exhortation, then, would be to not dissolve from within.

Is a pinball machine full of dildos family-friendly?

Is a site dedicated to collectors of multi thousand dollar machines something that really needs to be? It's Robin's forum and his to chose, but most of us are over the age of 40. When I started at 21 people in the hobby thought I was crazy at 28 I am still usually the youngest by about a decade.

People keep saying think of the children, but aside from a few helping dear old dad (or mom) restore a machine, you get crickets. Kids are not collecting these due to space, cost, or risk of injury. As for that last one plenty of parents would not let their little darling work with a soldering iron or with high voltage. So the notion of being more family friendly is moot and will continue to be. Kids are not suddenly going to become richer, have permission to have a huge toy in the family room, or suddenly be trusted not to burn/electrocute themselves.

There are other forums/means of communication besides Pinside in our hobby. If folks can't conform to the rules of this site they will leave either voluntary or involuntary.

There are times Ive wanted to deactivate my account because of a rise in blood pressure engaging in some of these discussions have caused. A lot of those times are self-inflicted and ive tried to cut down on the amount of posts i make.

I thought the commentary from the mod directed at Rob was a bit preachy and inconsistent.... however:

To allow a relatively minor "slap on the wrist" to snowball into self-imposed exile seems a bit thin-skinned.

Some of the egos here are pretty monumental....

I think it's more that people realize just how much of their valuable time they're wasting, arguing with stupid people on this site.

That was awesome!!

That was me not ICE

BS, my wife is a teacher and her principle is a screaming liberal. They cant give below a 70 even when the kids refuse to do the work and their parents tell her it's her job to teach them not theirs. They cant spank their ass when they misbehave, they cant put them in the hall or have them sit out or recess and if they send them to the office they are told they are not keeping their class in order. Spank their ass and put the fear of God into them and the bastards will have some respect for authority.

I didn't talk to him. Honestly I put him on ignore temporarily (he's off now) after we started arguing so I wouldn't get sucked into it further.

I think his attitude in the GOT thread sucked frankly. Anyone who's upset that people aren't happy with the game's art need to just suck it up and deal, even if they're tired of reading about it. Starting to personally attack people for it was garbage. If he needs a break to get away from that then good.

I think it's good to remember to be positive. But I also think it's good to let people express how they truly feel, and if something isn't good enough then say so. I'm not from the school of thought that says "just be happy people are still making pinball". If we were all just playing on route maybe, but not when this forum is dedicated to collecting $7000 toys.

Actually if you pay attention that's not true. And if we want this hobby to not die we had better hope it's not true.

Regardless, doesn't matter what you think, or what I think. Robin's sandbox, deal with his rules.

That's the theme of my post, if things are a way you don't like ... deal with it. I don't care for things here too. I put people on ignore or drain threads rather than whine about it.

I wish more people would take advantage of these tools...they provide some very amazing (and obvious) benefits.

Pete

Is it possible the moderators could put me on this ignore list?

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I agree: Follow the rules or leave....quietly.

But the artwork on GoT premium looked a bit better. I have no idea who the people are, but I like the "blue tone"...Oops, off topic.

Who is Beelzeboob anyway? :p

This is for you beelzeboob

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I have used this feature in the past and it really does work!

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