I'm always amazed about how hard people nudge and bang around machines. When I was a kid in the arcade the guy running the place was a always a seedy dude that would not hesitate to give you a kick in the ass or cuff upside the head. I like to play but I don't take it very seriously. Every time I go to a show I see people raging in the tournament area and that is why I never enter. I do like the shows that they have the tournaments in a different area so it doesn't look so bad.

I think it's just a matter of if your tournament or competitive player. I personal don't really understand competitive pinball, to me it's leisure activity to be played with friends. It's like playing pool with friends you win some lose some but no one gives a shit. I have never seen some one rage playing pool and for me it's super weird when people do it in pinball. For me to feel competitive there has to be a physical and mental aspect and pinball doesn't have enough of. If it's competitive for you and can slide save have at it, even if it is cheating I don't care because I don't care who wins. At the end we just push start again. I do admit I can get be a little competitive with myself while playing but I see it as a solo activity. I would get annoyed if you tried to cheat while I was playing but feel free when your at the flippers.

The with friends was the context, I have never seen someone get worked up over a casual game of pool with buddies. Even super high stakes billiards people are reserved. I don't think its the slide save that puts people off, its raging when it doesn't work. Every time I have seen someone pull it off and its smooth and causal people are just impressed. It's when people are angrily slamming it into the machine next to them and the stream looks like GoPro in a wipe out that people are like, dude there are rules. My rule of thumb is raise the stakes as high as you can behave yourself.