I have a mysterious black playfield rail. It may have been from an early shop job on a game I sold. I can't imagine I missed a rail. It's probably from a scrap playfield but I can't be sure. I cringe every time I see it.

Lately, 50% of the time I turn a game on I don't end up playing it.

I say "Friday!" in Red's voice from Road Show every Friday in the office multiple times. Nobody has any idea why. Nobody ever asks....

I did something similar with LOTR. I figured I'd never own the game again. I had come within a few shots of Valinor a few times. I think I stuffed something in the outlanes to try and mostly get there the night before I sold it. I'm pretty sure I ended up pulling the glass. I was half in the bag and exhausted, it still took forever. I don't even recall what happened. I remember it being not as cool as TABA.

I check this thread when it has new posts, then think of things to confess to. Then I can't remember if I've already confessed and I'm too lazy to check, so i don't post anything.

I confess that I bought the overpriced bulb tester from Pinball Life even though I could have made one in five minutes. It's great for this issue.

I have a policy that pin money is separate from real money, unless it's an emergency. I sold 2 A list pins recently and with the money so far I've bought an arcade game, a smoker, and put some money toward a Disney Vacation. It will be difficult to reinvest this money into pinball now that it has made it's way into the public (wife knows) pool of money.

I'm seeing everyone stuck at home and I'm a little jealous I'm still at work. I'd love a couple weeks off to work on home projects and spend some time with the kids. My job is in no way essential.

Wait, does someone put one sock and shoe on, then the other sock and shoe?

Same. I end up wasting so much time during the day doing useless shit like read these posts, that I end up going back to work after dinner to make up for all the time I wasted.

I get a little pissed when friends beat me up on the price of a pin and try to sell it for considerably more shortly after. In the end I agreed to the price and shouldn't care what happens to it after, but I would like a decent deal to be passed along I guess. Especially if no value was added. I have bought broken games from friends and made considerable amounts of money, but I've added value to the game by repairing or restoring. Obviously this doesn't apply to games sold a year or 2 after when the market has changed.

Ha! Took a minute. Might want that protector under the drop!

I bought Iron Maiden NIB summer of 18. Opened it up the other day and found the tilt bob uninstalled. I've had some ridiculous saves wiggling the ball out of the outlane. Obviously something wasn't right, but I ignored it for 2 years. Considered not installing it still. Put it back, but a very generous height.

I used to do this, but I stopped taking the vitamins.

I started tearing down my Rollergames the weekend before July 4th. I told myself I'd order some parts on Monday to hopefully be here in time for the weekend and took Monday off so I'd have a long 4 day weekend. Today is the first day I touched it, and all I did was pull a few lamps.

This made more sense years ago, now not so much. There are too many titles and the abbreviations have run out. I don't know how many times I've seen White Water as WW, I know WH20, but what about Willy Wonka. Every thread I've seen refers to it as WW. What happened to Whirlwind? I agree it needs to stop.

When I was buying up routed WPC games they rarely came with them and I rarely bothered replacing them. I wouldn't put it on location, but the latch was fine for home use. Probably not the best practice, but I never had any issues in 14 or so years. I like the way Stern does it now with the bolts on the back.

I confess that I really miss this method of staying awake. I don't miss the day after. It's a good thing I couldn't afford any more than I did when I was younger.

I confess that I can't stand "vs" threads. You know which game is better? The one you like better. Bonus anger if nobody or hardly anyone has even played the game.

It pisses me off that games actually differ in gameplay. I'm fine with the LE having different trim, real backglass, powder coating, different cabinet artwork but to make actual changes to the playfield sucks. I wonder if they are actually saving any money in the end. They are essentially designing and supporting 2 games. I would think the efficiency of the line running one consistent playfield and coding 1 game would offset the costs. I'm obviously wrong, they wouldn't do it if it didn't make money, but I wish it was aesthetic only.

If a thread I'm following has 75 or more new replies I'll often just give up, even if I like the thread. I'm really trying to keep up with the GnR thread, I come close to giving up almost every day. I'm skimming through the posts so quickly I don't know why I'm even bothering. It would be helpful if there was a code update only thread, or a playfield issue only thread, or game techniques, etc.

I confess every time I read the word "titles" my brain sees "titties". I'm 43 years old.

I confess that I've built several gaming capable computers, and rarely game with them. I've always been more of a console gamer, but that has almost fallen off completely as well in the last 10 years. I still buy every Xbox, even though it's used for Netflix more than anything else. I was able to get the Series X at launch or close to. I was working from home and snagged a 3070 video card and upgraded most of my computer around it. I enjoy sourcing the parts and building them.