I am one who has been quietly enjoying this thread (and the previous one). And yes, there has been some serious shade thrown towards John. However, I am 100% positive John is here of his own free will and his posting patterns, combined with an attitude of being oblivious (or just plain being oblivious) provides most if not all the catalyst.

For me, I still believe in the full range of possibilities here:

1. John is a genius of geniuses. He is trolling us all with an expert Viral Campaign beyond compare that will lead to a terrific reveal and a commercial product/new company, and he actually started this sometime ago (the Jon Norris already had a playfield design reveal is potentially telling);
2. John limps across the finish line with something like a Bally earlier SS; or
3. Doesn't finish, and possible seriously affects his health in the process.

I would be amazed (and a little in awe) if it was the first, hope for the second, and am very much concerned for John in the third.

Also, I added "throwing shade" to the Phrases that need to be retired thread
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/phrases-that-need-to-be-retired-/page/8

100%

There are dozens of free file converters on the internet, if this is an issue of converting a vector based drawing (2d or 3d) into something a printer can use like an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file. This conversation about how to get this file printed sounds like it should be happening in 1995, not 2022...

FTP, DropBox, Google Drive, Files.com, Microsoft OneDrive .....

John, try PASSWORD
or maybe your birthday

I am glad you did not bring up Dave Fix's name since Dave requested you do not bring up his name.

Dave, rest assured your anonymity will be preserved.

The concern isn't the amount, it is relevant to income. If you have to finance a pinball purchase, that may be a good indicator that maybe you don't have the income to support it. On the other hand, if the decision is to vacation in Europe this year, or stay in the states and buy a NIB, well that is a different story.

John's income is approximately $1,916 US a month which after food, shelter and transportation doesn't allow for a lot of discretionary spending. $20 a week in slot represents about 4% of that income. Honestly, to me doesn't sound bad at all for an entertainment budget, and so far that sounds like it is about all the entertainment John gets (besides drinking beer, and the cost of that relative to his income is a different story).

John, I thought you mentioned somewhere in addition to your pension from the City, you would get the OAS at 65 or maybe it was CPP/QPP? is this true and does that add to your existing pension?

John is posting on a public forum about his drinking, food choices (and life choices) and his lack of progress. At this point it literally feels like he intended to post in the reddit roast me thread. Of course, since there is nothing to post on the actual build, all there is to post is a day in the life of John.

Concur. If this is an epic troll (unlikely), at this point if it a completed machine showed up at TPF, I don't think I would actually care, as-in what was the point of that, it would have been better for you just to show you were capable of doing it all along.

I do feel like I understand completely how John's own outlook and actions (and no one else's) got him to this point in life. As the saying goes, John made his own bed and has to lie in it.