Dang Kim, you must be an alcoholic? . I thought you were a jack and coke guy?

I'm off to drink some beer right now fellas, i'll tip one for you GWJ. It's been a great week!

Guilty!
Ok so I paid 16 bucks for 6

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Canadians have got all kinds of great beer!

I happen to know for an incontrovertible fact that this is the worst beer produced anywhere in all of human history.

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True but 1 can of Rush beer is over 3 bucks

I wonder how many Pinside threads over the years that have taken the beer detour and will again in the future. It was inevitable for this thread and I'm surprised it took this long.

No matter. Cheers everyone!

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Probably went to junk mail!

Terrance and Philip is in line first then on to KennySpenny!

Stop saying this. This is blatant false advertising. A Stern Pro takes over a year in development & is designed and programmed by the best in the business. You have no standing or proof that you can build a Pro quality game.

It’s an absolute insult to the industry professionals that you think you can do something of equal quality on your first time out in 6 months. Absolutely delusional.

Are you still mad because of that time John stole your pepperoni?

What does this even mean, and why are you encouraging him to push forward to failure?

You think I'M encouraging failure.? Yikes

What a thread !

I'd consider being in as a very small minnow or chum at 5 or 10 bucks.

Krill…

Sardines & pepperoni

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And beer!!!

That, sir, is an abomination.

It's supposed to be anchovies, not sardines.

Good beer night last night. 3 on the patio at the local, then next door to the barcade 1.5, & finally to the Friday night pinball social 4 buds. I always buy a 36 pack of bud cans for my wife (suitcase of beer).
Back to TPB pin build, & winding down on the hunt for the Big Whale. Looks like one cannot be found this month. $100k US must of scared them off. So retired pinball designer, & artist will not be involved.

I’m trying to keep uninvolved parties out of the ongoing fray but the pictures your painting here are not pretty ones…

I hadn't realized this contingency (though I'm sure everything would totally check out if one were to re-read your earlier posts). So um who is going to design this Stern pro quality game and do the art for it?

Anything built is going to be the same or better quality that people are use to. Not a piece of shit thrown together, just to get it done. More than happy to scare away any further mini whales. If I have only one the better, much less work to do in the 6 month build window. Looks like I will be doing a local podcast about the project. Guess mister know it all about licensing has gone silent. So I will figure it out in August, hopefully within the 2 weeks.

If you mean Ben, he posted in here just yesterday.
He noted that expecting to get any type of license in 2 weeks is unrealistic, and that he's apparently going on a fishing trip.

No it was the Palmer guy. SMH - what ever that means towards TPB licensing.

Lies.

You don’t have a designer, artist or crew. You’ve never designed a game. Now you’re going to design it & build it in 6 months? Industry professionals can’t even do this with a full crew & factory.

It’s dead & you’re in denial.

Jesus, John. Somebody already told you it was an acronym.

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which conducts the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), defines binge drinking as 5 or more alcoholic drinks for males or 4 or more alcoholic drinks for females on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past month.

You may wish to show your primary care doctor your last post. He might be a bit more concerned than you realize.

That’s a joke. I was binge drinking with a dozen other binge drinkers last night. Lol

“At least one day in the past month”?

Call me a once a week binge drinker then.

No, he's literally been googling for a licensing agency called SMH.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/moby-dick-let-s-talk-whales-and-whale-watching?tq=Smh&tu=greatwichjohn

You know I'm down for a pin and a little drinky poo

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Is that Rare or Jimmy Buffett on the left?

Keep pushing John, almost have him triggered off the edge.

Yes I am not into crap lingo of texting. Just like I type with the same finger all these years. So yes a red herring SMH towards licensing. Maybe the pinball podcast coming up very soon will entertain & maybe enlighten a few about how this build can be done in 6 months. Ben is on his fishing trip, & I am on mine for a project OK from TPB. Already have the mini whales in play, & there is more interest since people see THIS IS REAL! My plan is working, & gaining more ground by the days.

Mr. Lahey was fukkin awesome! R.i.P.

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I guess if you look up the generic guidelines in the world about drinking - I fall in as a heavy drinker. Seems like all the people I see at the bars fall into the group. Likely many more drinking at home would be the same. Personally I have never been kicked out or banned from any bar. Never got a DUI, visit to the drunk tank, or ER from drinking. Maritimes are known for bars & I live in a port city with military, universities, & tourism.

I know many think John is serious about this project. I did, too, for a while. But re-read all this under the assumption that John is trolling everyone, and it becomes clear that's what's happening here. It's like he's drafting a screenplay for "The Trailer Park Boys Make a Pinball Machine."

100 % trolling. Nobody who has made it to 50+ being this clueless.

I cants believe we're not naming Letterkenny pinball machines right now.

The idea was born dead.
He should name his company “stillbirth pinball”.

The gang is just mad they can’t “cancel” you John.

It’s impossible! Keep forging ahead buddy.

On one hand, I appreciate your candor, John. But on the other you come off as naive and seemly oblivious to the sabotage that you do to yourself on a public forum. None of this is the way to attracting a whale or any investor. It's just the opposite.

I sincerely wish you the very best. But each time you comment it becomes another WTF moment for me.

Keep doing it your way Big guy.

At the end of the day, we are gonna call you Frankie. Mr Sinatra. “I did it my way”

I’m gonna call my doctor on Monday. I might just binge drink again tonight. That’s over my weekly limit but there is much to celebrate and life is short right GWJ?

If you had been following John's projects since Day 1 in the old RGP days like I have, you'd know he's not trolling. I was as harsh or worse to him then than anyone here has been, and I apologized in person when he came down here for the Florida Arcade Pinball Expo. He brought a couple BGs he gaveaway for free that were close to being perfected, and I told him not to take any more money for product not perfected. He's obviously not taken that or any advice, and I will continue to call him out for the same crap now.

John likes to talk like the big boys and considers himself on their level. Every project for over 10 years has been announced with much fanfare, while not having any proven tested product at all.

Any money sent in went into development of said project, and also because of the timing I think Seawitch/Stargazer PF $ was used to set himself up as a Stern distributor and open a 'pin museum' since Canadian law at the time forbid more than 3 games in a location (I may be a bit off on the law bit, going from memory, feel free to correct me). I don't think the 'museum' ever opened as his talk of that quietly faded away.
Maybe a Stern distrib/op can give us an idea of what that would cost to start up and bail out on. It looked like he had 10 new Sterns at his house for that tv news story. He said here recently he had to sell his house to pay it off, but that was all money, time and effort that should have been spent on repro playfields at that point.

John is a decent human being, but like a 'crazy cat lady' with a big heart there's a switch in his brain that's flicked the wrong way and causes him to adopt any stray idea that wanders into his head.

This is all very helpful to understand him a little better. I still don’t get him, but his MO becomes more predictable. So why does one go bankrupt from buying 10 Sterns to be a distributor. Don’t you just sell them off. Pinballs are one of the most liquid capital assets you can have. I’m not understanding that