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Quoted from NicoVolta:Hilton’s Viking played awesomely well and looked beautiful. It was not surprising to see that it won a best in show trophy. The playfield was restored and cleared by our own CaptainNemo. Very impressive work.
I didn't even know this guy did playfield restorations. I guess there are 5 of us that do it. 
Sunshine? Looks like a flasher locked on and started on fire. Was there a giant magnifying glass above that game? Holy shit, never seen anything like that.
Quoted from Jjsmooth:I one upped ya, Stu.
no bad santa action on that machine.
sleeping is for old people. Hopefully you can head over here on the next round and i'll show you the exciting world of Solid state zaccaria. 
Quoted from beelzeboob:Tell that to the blue hairs that power-walk our local mall at 5 in the morning. If that's what retirement looks like, I'll be glad to keep working until I'm dead.
you tell them when you see them tomorrow morning for your morning walk.
Quoted from NicoVolta:Oh wow. Must be seen in person. I was fortunate to be standing very close to the point of maximum totality with a clear view...
It begins with the crickets.
A few chirps at first, followed by a tsunami of clicking.
Next, the automated street lamps alight themselves. Artificial world aligning itself with the natural one.
The surrounding air cools. Sky fades to indigo-grey, quite unlike any sunset.
And then... at the peak of darkness... a majestic hole in the sky.... surrounded by a halo of starfire.
It defies belief. It feels utterly supernatural. The urge to hold one's breath is almost irresistible as all eyes fixate upon it.
And as it ends... the corona sparkles like ice as a prismatic knife slices through... splitting light into its component colors before releasing the sun's power upon the earth once more.
Monumental experience, and utterly humbling.
I don't know what it was, but it seems the eclipse brought out tons of crickets. I hardly ever seen crickets by my house, but during the eclipse they were about 40 of them on my sidewalk, and everywhere I stepped in the yard, had hoards of them jumping around in front of me. I have never seen that before on my property.
Quoted from SirScott:Making me hungry...
looks like cat shit rolled in litter.
Quoted from xsvtoys:I always think of eevblog on YouTube (a favorite channel for nerds). He posted one video with details of how much money he makes from YouTube. More than 400,000 subscribers, millions and millions of views, and he makes a paltry $40,000/year. You would never be able to get close to those numbers with technical pinball material.
I wish I made 40k a year.
Quoted from vdojaq:Trying to take a pay cut?
paycut. It's more like double my yearly salary now. Playfield restoration is a long slow process. You think i'm joking when I say I make $4 an hr sometimes. I'm not. There are plenty of playfields i've made $4 hr on. Couple was even $2hr. I've increased my prices but still my hourly rate is low. There is only so much I can charge before you outprice yourself. It's very very time consuming. If I had 4 of me, I could crank out 10 playfields a month and make a lot more.
Quoted from beelzeboob:You're lucky that people actually want 4 of you. Nobody even wants one of me.
I said, I want 4 of me. I don't think anyone else does. I know some would be in trouble if there was 4 of me.
Quoted from NicoVolta:I am stealthy but I did! Including a pic of the best Alien Poker I've ever played... which I now respect as a decent shooter thanks to your efforts.
Yes... pics downloaded and coming up this weekend. Mega thanks to Hawk Ford for hosting the class!
LOL whut? This is the best I can do short notice... but I ain't cheap!
speaking of pirate wench. You take any of mine?
hummmm, i'm trying. As you can see in my playfield restoration walkthrough thread, They take some time. When you updating this thread with IO love?
A little zaccaria disclosure. Zaccaria was owned by 3 brothers. One of the brothers died in the mid 80's. He was the one that was responsible for the art. Hence why you see a big change in the art around the last games to come out.
In the case of New Stars Phoenix/stars phoenix. Stars phoenix came out first With more traditional art, yellow ramps, and plastics with art on them. Conventional displays. couple months later, they must have decided to use up the parts they had sitting around. Changed the displays to LED's style displays, added the word NEW to the backglass. and did a piss poor slop together art package on the playfield, with no art on the plastics. Very little went into tweeking the physics of the playfield either. Nothing flows smooth and shots are just a little off. If they would have spent a week or more just on physics, it could have been 300% better playing. Good idea, just needed some tweeking. I spent hours upon hours tweeking this game to get it to play as good as it does, but it's still the shittest playing zac i've ever encountered.
the 2 brothers were still making zaccaria, but also started a new company called technoplay. Same shit, but more involved games. but technoplay didn't last long and was sold as Mr.game. Which just was a shitfest of crappy cabinet design and uneventful games.
Quoted from Pecos:Umm, those aren't colored LEDs! Those are colored incandescents. There is no replacement for a filament that you can see, at least in my book.
still changes it to monochromatic, which will destroy the look of your art package, plus make it damn near impossible to see and play in lower light conditions. If you like to look at your game from a distance like a xmas tree, and see the pretty colored lights. then it's practical. but if you have to walk up close to it, then it's a complete nightmare. LED or not. it's not about LED, it's about the color. Warm white or sunlight is your friend here. LED or regular.
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