Man, I love David Thiel and his work. Very impressive. You can tell he loves what he does! And he's damn good at it.

He talked about how he wasn't going to give a lot of details about the custom dialog call outs because "it's still a work in progress" and they found a sound alike for Ian McKellen, and his work will need to be approved by the licensor.

Sounds like Hobbit is a long way from production.

Comparing code to ST on release doesn't give me the warm fuzzies!

Huh?

Posting a D&B report for a pinball company on a pinball forum is a new low?

Makes perfect sense to me! Never seen anything worse posted on Pinside! Ever! Where are the mods?!?! This shall not stand!

Really?

You said this about his post:

If his post was really a "new low" for Pinside, and you were shocked enough by it to say "wow", how can you now turn around and tell me that you don't think the post should have been moderated?

A "new low" for Pinside is something that would be moderated, don't you think?

The only drama was in your original post. You know, the one that has 8 thumbs down now (queue the claim of "same anti JJP posters" in 3...2....1...)

Try not to fanboy so much.

So anyone who thinks that JJP might not be in a good financial situation = them thinking you are a stupid MFer?

Obviously not the case. I don't think JJP is in a good financial situation, but I sure don't think you are stupid MFer either.

If you did a search for "no skin in the game" I bet you'd get twice as many results!

Edit: missed Fumbleflippers post!

Actually even he never called the fix itself lame. In fact, he called it a great fix! He just threw in some other crap about how the whole ramp should have been removed to do the fix to avoid dust from going in to the pin. I.e., he was being super anal.

It is very strange to me how there seems to be some kind of reputation for this fix as being ridiculous, funny, or not working. It was a great fix for the issue.

Anyway, I guess we have Alex to thank for the off topic discussion....

Are you now an employee? Do you receive compensation from JJP? When did that change? Last I heard you were a volunteer.

If you aren't paid, it is highly relevant as you are completely removing one of the main determining factors in how an employee is being treated...which was the issue being discussed.

Why wouldn't Jack treat you well, especially if you are volunteering your services?

Not really. JJP sells $8500.00 (and up) pins.

Stern still sells pins in the $4700.00 range (in addition to the Premium and LE's).

If JJP continues to sell at higher and higher prices, Stern will still be selling a ton of pros and nobody else offers an alternative to that market segment.

Please.

JJP has been around more than long enough to have shipped more than one game. The above quote is nothing more than a strong supporter trying to give them another pass for yet another long delay in releasing product.

When will Hobbits actually start shipping? I previously said no sooner than September, but I think I was really being overly optimistic when I said that. November or December seems more likely to me.

Please JJP, prove me wrong!

I went back and looked at the last several pages of posts.

I have no idea what you are talking about?

Wow, Jack is sure sending an awful lot of PM's to Pinsider's who make comments here lately.

Fix Pinside? Last I checked, it wasn't broke.

I've been one of his big bashers in the past.

We are watching him grow up before our very eyes!

I've had good conversation with him via PM too. Hope he keeps it up...and also hope he doesn't let the compliments go to his head.

I got one too.