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Slide save - cheating or just nudging/pinball skill?

By spinal

6 years ago


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  • Latest reply 3 years ago by dasvis
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    “The slide save is...”

    • ... cheating at pinball. If you're physically moving the pin across the floor it's going too far! 66 votes
      27%
    • ... just another form of nudging. Just because the legs move a bit across the floor doesn't make a difference - I'll just move it back a bit after I drain and all is good. 179 votes
      73%

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    #24 6 years ago
    Quoted from toasterman04:

    Don't you think it should be up to the owner of the machines.... I have played some collections where the owner prefers no nudging of the machines.... you need to respect thier wishes ....

    No...well I guess it is since they own it but if you can't bare to watch your machine get moved a few inches, you need to find a new hobby because you're doing this wrong. Those are THE LOWEST FORM of people in the hobby IMO.

    #27 6 years ago
    Quoted from spinal:

    So I guess one should ask first before performing this at a friends house.

    And then leave if they start crying.

    #39 6 years ago
    Quoted from mtkinf:

    By that logic, shoplifting is not shoplifting if you don't get caught. Seems to me it's still shoplifting.

    Finally, something worse than a cargument.

    maybe if you changed this to a sporting activity and not something that is by it's definition a crime, you may see it diff'rently.

    Quoted from markmon:

    No. Machines were built to nudge and its part of the game. Any owner that says you can't nudge I guess I'd have to be done playing and want to leave because that person was too ridiculous to hang with.

    I do appreciate Gravitar taking the sides of the poor machines...a notorious game abuser

    #61 6 years ago
    Quoted from mtkinf:

    You want a sporting event. If a foul is committed but the referee/umpire does not see it, is it still a foul?
    C'mon. That's a far better analogy than a cargument.

    It is better. Except in this case, the ref is the tilt bob. The penalty is tilting the machine and losing points, but I just moved it 2 inches and it didn't tilt so there is no foul. In a tournament last week I moved an Aerosmith probably 4-5 inches, it didn't tilt out, no big deal. Mind you I didn't think, "Ok i need to pick up the machines and move it to one side," I just reacted and the machine moved over a concrete floor...what am I to do? Just walk away from the game mid ball saying I'm sorry?

    Quoted from Pinballlew:

    Good move, I say fair game...how do tournaments rule the maneuver?

    Up to the tournament director. If it's a player running it i have never had an issue. If it's a collector I've had 1 person bitch at me, but I was rage tilting so it was deserved on their part.

    Once again, make the tilt tougher...use games that deal with bonii after the ball...stops it right quick.

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    #93 6 years ago
    Quoted from flynnibus:

    I don't treat games any differently. Now if someone has made a game some beauty queen and puts it up on a pedestal.. I'll generally be more ginger with it because we are probably looking at it more than we are playing it hard. I mean, when a game looks fragile.. treat it as such.

    Right, so you treat them diff'rent, got it.

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    #95 6 years ago

    God you're even more boring than usual. You usually make more sense though.

    #98 6 years ago
    Quoted from Fixie:

    I'm going to put casters on the legs. That way everyone can be happy.

    LED'd or just powder coated?

    #100 6 years ago
    Quoted from Beatnik-Filmstar:

    I'm honestly baffled how "cheating" is getting around 30% of the vote.

    Diaper-rubbers

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