Should have started there. Why limit yourself?

Reminds me of how Skit-B thought making a 1-off of Predator was the same as selling 250.

There's no "if it dies" because this investment is SOLID AS A ROCK.

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That's one thing I learned from the jpop fiasco - I'll never be part of something again when that person has no skin in the game.

I want to see it keep marching till TPF.

As the story goes, Jpop tricked American Pinball into starting a company and they never saw the big thread on Pinside and had no idea who they got into business with, so anything can happen.

There's a lot of victimhood in that story. The world and your bosses and your fellow union members weren't conspiring against you to hold you down and make your life terrible. That co-worker wasn't given a 10% raise to make you a victim. This thread makes it abundantly clear why someone might need to micromanage you, and yet kept you employed for decades of employment. I regularly challenge my thinking by asking "What did I do that caused this?" and the answer to that can be painful sometimes, but always makes me better for asking it.

Ben was onto something...

I'm in as well.

Me too. A homebrew one-off. And if the thing takes TPF by storm he can have his conversation with the person who's name rhymes with Smavid Shmix about what next steps are.

My read is they're responding ONLY to John. He even told them he was trying to reach "the Boys". Quote below is what he posted about what he sent the person:

We know from what's been stated by others in this thread about how licenses normally go, and their time frames, that John was saying nothing like that to them, and talking about 1 week deadlines, and ready to start a build, and shows he was going to bring it to.

I don't see how they could respond in any other way than "shut it down".

I'd be curious to compare GWJ's licensing inquiry with how a proven professional like Roger Sharpe does it.

Are you sure about that?

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But the game was priced at $10k US, not $10k Canadian. So it's a wash.

2000 was still early in the no-smoking laws. I re-watched Jackie Brown recently, which is from 1997, and they're smoking in the mall and food court.

Times have changed, and it sucks for that to be the reason to leave your chosen industry and career.

The deeproot debacle must have been bitter as well, thinking it was one thing when it was another.

That and "keep the faith".

John seems willing and wanting to share all the minutiae of the build including every part that he orders and shows up, so as an observer I vote to keep this thread open, please.

I am amused that the countdown to starting work kicked off into a Holiday weekend with no work.

Atlantic time is 1 hour ahead of Eastern so it's only 10am-ish there .

Totally not John's fault!

I think we'll be lucky with postit notes for scoring by Texas.

I'm actually disappointed I didn't get to be part of a gofundme because, hot damn, this is an entertaining thread.

Oh, I'm very familiar with the "why" the gofundme didn't happen. Big up to Ice!

There was definitely opportunity for this pin to be full-on GWJ. The material is all on this thread.

I'm grateful to Ice for funding this fever dream and giving us all this entertainment, and boy am I going to mourn the loss of what this game could have been as it switches themes.

holy crap, dude, the world isn't out to get you.

All the momentum he's built up on the pin will be lost.

Pinside only connected him with a single $10k mini whale, you're asking for too much.

I found the trailer for the unfinished Rick Stetta documentary:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3uip22

I remember when that trailer first showed up years ago, it was my first introduction to Rick Stetta and I really wanted to see what would come of it. Too bad nothing did and I guess Rick didn't get his comeback that he wanted, although I think a documentary can still create a compelling story even without a "rocky" type ending.

Phew, was worried for a second.

Get ready for that "Greatest Hit" to be dusted off and put into high rotation soon enough.

I do believe that Ice knows exactly what he's gotten himself into, and he himself is not repeating TPF 2023 deadlines.

This thread is endlessly entertaining, and I thank Ice for making that possible .

Best I can tell there's a conspiracy between you, the Haggis guys, the Trailer Park Boys agent, UPS sending packages to the wrong address, Greatwichjohn's former boss, and that asskisser that got promoted ahead of him at the city. A clear case of collusion if I ever saw one.

Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your continued process.

See you in a month for the same question.

Are you sure about that? Because another VERY FAMOUS pinball designer says that's the "first issue" .

or this. This is still called a hot dog.

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Quoting this for emphasis.

The TPF deadline is what is making people insane. But if this thread simply turned into a deadline free homebrew build, it would die off as well. lol.

Amazing how quiet this thread gets without beer and pepperoni.

I feel like the end of the movie was just shown to us.

Kind of wild to imagine had GWJ gotten his $100k "Whale" we would be in the exact same place.

All your summaries should be set as key posts. They are some of the most important of the entire thread.

You seem very clear about that but I'm not sure I agree. John's posting history, his 8 year playfield odyssey, the self-reported stories of his work life, the literal photographic evidence we have in this thread of consuming meats grilled beside toxic chemicals... maybe we're looking at the best he can do. There's never been a hint of anything else.