Franchi's mouth is a liability to Stern. I've seen him post some pretty cringe-worthy comments on social media. Stern doesn't need their own monkey drama after skating through the Trudeau thing unscathed.

Yeti said he was done with pinball for a while a few months back. Franchi is supposedly done. Dirty Donnie is supposedly done. Time to find some new blood...or maybe they already did? Lots and lots of excellent artists out there to choose from.

Put the bottle down Ice, you're talking out your ass again.

Coming from someone who fed K a bunch of lies that he in turn reported, that's pretty rich. You're pathetic.

The post above isn't what I'm talking about, ice. Chill the F out. He made some sexually inappropriate comments on a post about Trudeau recently that was quite cringey. So bugger off. You're something else man. Grow up.

People sold their Trudeau games because of what he did. It absolutely had an effect on Stern, right or not. Read back over all the posts on here when that news broke. Some people flipped out.

Um, what about Ghostbusters? But yes, that's what I meant otherwise.

I only drink for the effect.

Where exactly does one acquire a stainless steel bowel? This could come in handy next time I eat at Taco Bell,or the next time I decide to tempt fate at the norovirus chocolate fountain at the Japanese buffet.

All I see are bowls... No bowels unfortunately.

Haha it's all good...Monday hangover is in full effect!

Shots fired! If what Franchi said is true, any other industry folks sharing insider info with K should certainly take pause.

At this point, you better be very happy with the code level of a game before you buy. Stern is proving every month that you may very well wait years until they decide to actually finish a game.

I wonder if Stern is giving Franchi the cold shoulder due to his now obvious leaking of material to Kaneda over the last year or so. It is well known that Stern detests the k-man. Franchi came out recently and said he gave K info (Munsters PF leak) in confidence, which he then published a couple weeks later. This nearly cost Franchi his pinball career at the time. Think about it...K has been pumping the Superman 78 thing for a while, as well as the potential Batman 66 reskin. It is starting to make a lot of sense now.

For American Pinball to pick Franchi up, they would have to admit their art sucks...and I don't see much of a chance of that happening.

As for the way Franchi handles himself online...I always get this weird incel vibe off a lot of his public comments. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but in the corporate pinball world, that isn't a flag that is smart to fly as one of the faces of your company.