Good job Dennis!

For those interested, Kaneda had a tripod and recorder setup during the Mirco session, and you can hear the questions that were asked pretty clearly from the room speakers. Audio does go from loud to quiet, but you can at least hear everything that was said. A lot of tough questions for Mirco, and it does get very uncomfortable. Here's the link to the FB Live.

https://fb.watch/c46kGAQMEr/

As far as the Twipy awards go...well...I do have some thoughts. This is difficult, since I love Imoto and have spoken with her on several occasions, I know how hard she works, and I consider her to be one of the great ambassadors of pinball. But being frank, if you compare the 2019 Live Awards at TPF to the 2022 Live Awards , it's night and day. Judging purely on the online broadcasts, the 2019 show was smooth, the audio was clear at all times, the presenters transitioned in and out well, and at no point was I confused about what was going on, and at no point did I have trouble hearing anyone. The show seemed very professional and well put together. Whereas, the 2022 awards show was none of those things. And you can't even use the excuse that it was Imoto and Jack's first year hosting the live show at TPF, since 2019 was Zach and Greg's first year hosting the live show too.

So IDK, it makes me sad to say it, but Jeff really needs to take a hard look and figure out what changed between the 2019 awards and the 2022 awards. Different hosts are the main visible change. I have no idea if there is a bigger team behind-the-scenes that works on the TWIPY Awards Show, or if it is mainly the hosts who put in the time. But either way, we need next year's awards to be more like the 2019 ones, and less like this years. Maybe that means new hosts or a new team, or maybe it means Jeff finds a way to get Zach and Greg to host again.

Also, can we get some more light in that TWIPY Awards room? 2019 was nicely lit, whereas this year's awards seemed like they were in a dark closet with a single harsh spotlight.

I was happy to hear it was a disaster. I feel awards shows are a complete waste of time for anyone not up for an award.

I did listen to this episode today. I did not think it was possible, but a Pinball Show record was set.

An entire episode without a high-pitched "Oooooooh" after a comment. (Not withstanding Bobby Craig's Stern report)
Zero imitations of movie creatures
No unfunny homoerotic comments
No impersonations based on an amalgamation of SNL sketches/movies

It's clear that Dennis gets dragged down to the lowest common denominator by co-hosts. Can we have another solo host job next week?

you make me not want to come in this thread anymore

to be clear it’s because you’re mean to people for no reason

sorry just wanted to keep it on a USA today reading level

holy shit this sounds awesome i can’t wait

I listened because the post said that Dennis was hosting solo. Otherwise this podcast is a rare listen these days due to everything I mentioned.

I enjoy plenty of pinball podcasts. Triple Drain, Slam Tilt, silverball chronicles, the one with two guys Marty and Jeff. Common denominator? They all come off as genuine and real, not acting like a character and putting on a bit.

I listen to quite a few pinball podcasts. They keep my mind occupied while doing my hike.

My favorite is when Zach & Dennis host The Pinball Show. Yeah, I know, it's all subjective but I really like the interplay between them.

There's a couple of podcasts I can't stand but the last thing I would do is go in their thread and insult them. I just simply don't listen to them.

Different strokes - I don’t prefer and likely won’t listen to another solo den den show. As one of my favorite shows I’m looking forward to having you back on the show co hosting!

marty and jeff have fake commercials and regularly plot their friends’ murders on their show, what do you mean they don’t do characters and bits

joel literally replaced tom with a soundboard on triple drain one week, your argument makes no sense, quit being a dingus and either be nice or leave

slam tilt is half beavis and butthead impersonations and silverball chronicles is probably the most heavily scripted pinball podcast on the airwaves, quit acting like this, your bias is so blindingly obvious it’s like it was coded by dwight

But I even did Market Trends! /singleteardrop

Maybe we need a CANCEL button added to our podplayer. This feature would be like adding an exoskeleton to the podcast before uploading it and the button would run desired filters. If each person, sound, impersonation, story, joke, callout, impression etc was indexed before uploading the episode, then listeners could apply multiple filters to block ‘inappropriate’ material and unwanted noise, the result would be just right. Not too hot, not too cold, just perfectly warm and tailored to the individual. Who am I kidding? Ain’t nobody got time that!

market trends is holding you back, slip loose its surly bonds and ascend to your throne

Dennis’s pinball persona is at the top of the charts and he’s never been hotter. With that being said …. Dennis is still trending up. Zach has been on spring break hiatus. His ratings are low he is almost forgotten. So with the announce that he’s back …. Zach is trending up, too.

I enjoyed this podcast. Would love to hear more of Zac Coligan on TPN.

yo i haven’t finished it yet but i can’t wait that long, pinball tapes is one of the best pinball shows i’ve ever heard holy crap

edit: a link to the IPDB page of the game being discussed would be great on the show notes so we can follow along with pics

Ha your still 50% of my favorite show - I just prefer the 2 perspectives (tourney guy and non). Plus it sounded like you were giving Mirco a pass - oh and your wrong about Halloween

Hey, is this the place where I say I was underwhelmed by the most recent Head2Head Pinball Christmas special?

Just to clarify. Tom was replaced by a soundboard only once and it was on one of my TPN After Hours chatting streams. The Tom you hear on the podcast is always REAL and UNFILTERED!!!!

you’re right sorry to besmirch the journalistic integrity of triple drain

More Tom Talks, Less non-Tom Talks or “fake” talks, forgetsboutit#

ok real talk y’all, do you think there’s an end in sight for this market stupidity or do i just need to get over it and learn to live in this harsh new reality where robocop is a $4,000 game

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This is for you Zach, and I'll injoy the production you created. Thanks

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Good Golly Miss Molly. Jackpot.

ZMeny - We would love to have you visit Colorado. Just stay on the front range. If you saw all those ski lifts we have in the mountains with just a bar across your lap you would stroke out!

Production schedule updates resulting in earlier delivery of Deadpool Premiums to people with my first and last name will DEFINITELY earn TPS a 5-star review on Apple podcasts.

Ready for Zach to dial it up to 11

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Bowen and Colin are helping with designing game rules with P3 games, not coding as often mentioned.

Quite a big difference …

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Anyone having problems with TPN disappearing from your podcatcher? I'm a long time TPN subscriber, but I now have to search for their content, it doesn't automatically flow through. Not the end of the world, but a pain in the ass nonetheless.

Welcome back Zach! Great show and you being “real” and in your face is the Zach we all love. Look forward to more shows to come.

The podcasters are certainly critics of pinball machines; TWIPYs award shows; pinball shows/festivals and any other topics they care to discuss.

But you're saying they themselves cannot be critiqued? I spent my time listening and shared my thoughts. No big whoop.

Bobby Mueller had the #PINBARtm, and now Zach Meny has the #PINBARNtm. I love it!

Also, I keep hearing that Dennis is the nicest guy in pinball, but IDK. For some reason, I always get the sense that Dennis doesn't really like people that much. Not that Den Den is mean or anything, but just that he isn't really fond of most humans. So I'm always befuddled by people calling Dennis the nicest guy in pinball. Dennis is certainly one of the most well-liked pinball people though.

If we were going for truly "nicest" pinball person. I'd have to think that Joel Engelberth is up there pretty high on the list. I actually do think that Joel likes the company of other human beings.

Yes, Zach, you're crazy! We all know it; we all accept it. That said, you're not crazy for having opinions. You're crazy for saying there's no agenda behind them while calling BS on me and others for having our own opinions. If you don't agree with them, that's totally cool, but it doesn't make you right and me wrong, or vice versa.

Nor does us adding features and options need to spun as a negative. If you think a feature is bad or wrong, and if we add an option to change it, that seems like a positive thing. If you don't like either option, that's also cool, but I'm not sure why you would criticize us for listening to feedback and adding more options. You can rightfully criticize me for lots of things, but criticizing continual improvement of the P3 is what solidifies my opinion that you have an agenda.

Opinions and criticisms aside... some facts you were unsure (or disagreed with) from the last show:

The flipper buttons on the P3 push into leaf switches (not instant on/off microswitches), and you can absolutely control the strength of your flips with quick flips, do tap passes, do various forms of passes, etc.

The story I told on the F&M podcast is 100% accurate. The 3 games Dennis compared to the P3 were POTC (Stern), I500, and WPT. The heart chest on POTC is at the same position of the walls/scoops. The I500 ramps start an inch or so in front of the walls. WPT is pretty much entirely behind the scoops. Certainly there are games with features lower on the playfield, but big/interactive features are most often on the very sides or farther up the playfield for a very good reason... the lower a feature is on the playfield, the more shot angles it blocks, and that generally makes a game feel clunky. Did you really make transparencies and compare the P3 playfield to other games? That's awesome. Feel free to share the pics. I'd love to see them.

Yes, I did stand back in the booth and wonder what you felt about the game as you played. I spent as much time as I could in the booth watching as many people as possible and wondering how they felt about the game too. All of us had a ton of great conversations with people at the show, and we learned a ton from watching people play. We came back with a good list of things to improve... a few mechanical things to tweak, and a number of gameplay and graphical things.

Overall the show was a ton of fun. It was great to see and hang out with everybody again and especially see them enjoying the Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity. I'm super proud of the team for showing such a mature product at its first public event, and now I'm excited to work through of all of our new challenges... like growing our production team to work through the orders. That's my primary focus now.

I was glad to hear you found a few things in the game you enjoyed too, and I loved Dennis's take on Germs. That's actually a mode where the flipper strength control is super important. You're shooting for the moving 'Al-moebas' on the screen to calm them down. The raised walls represent the far wall of the petri dish, and if you hit them too much, you break through (the 'broken' wall drops), and shooting a ball into the now-open scoop ends the mode prematurely. If you really want, you can trap up and wait for the Al-moebas to 'eat' your flippers. That'll weaken them too.

- Gerry
https://www.multimorphic.com

never mind.

Wow how do I follow up on that novel by Gary. Came here to say many of the same things haha.

Assuming you are telling the truth Zach and you have no agenda and are just providing feedback on weird Al, I will say I think you need to give it another chance. Send me a message if you want to talk in private any agenda. Anyway, play a half dozen or so games at a show or friends house. I was blown away at Pinbrew by the game. I've played every game out there, own or owned several of the top ones, and I still think the game is amazing.

The flippers felt great to me. It could have been an issue with the power at TPF or you could just be really used to the stern feel. It's not quite as snappy as Stern, but it felt really good to me. I was making all my shots, I was drop catching, dead flipping, etc. Within a half dozen games, I completed five modes on my first ball. This game will likely have a slow burn but once people get some time on it look out, going to be alot of people getting more interested. I can't wait to get mine, I think so highly of it I'm going to be letting go my Godzilla premium, I'd rather have this!

Dang Mike, I really appreciate that. Yeah I truly love people. I love getting to know them and just enjoy being around them. COVID lockdown sucked and I'm so glad I found streaming and podcasting to give me a chance to engage with other people while still being at home. Pinball is fun to play but this community is what keeps me coming back for more.

Appreciate the clarification on Mirco Dennis - good show guys!

If you want to send me a private message regarding what podcatcher you use I can see about trying to sort the situation out. I subscribe to ensure the episodes are arriving at the main TPN feed and am not having a problem but each application is different. We might just need to direct input the RSS into your app to get around the issue it is having, tough to say.

Who knows how all these pinball rumors get started?

Thank you for noting this detail. I know I said at the end of the segment that I read here (on Pinside) that leaf switches were being used but the post was five years ago and with the ability to change the buttons I wasn't sure if that was continued onward or not (though the phrasing made me suspect it was).

Of course, if my word choice was confusing I thought it best to provide clarification. My stance on Mirco is somewhat convoluted given I'm weighing who the consumer's "contract" is with against what we all know in such a small hobby, so I'm not too surprised I didn't present that very well the first time.

Important note for @dennisk: I hike that mountain in Hawaii every couple months. Was on top of it in February when someone fell off (thankfully that person survived).

Oh, I did not know if it was a popular one for folks. I have never been. Just saw some Reddit posts saying it can be rough especially when wet and depending how far you go.

Oh yeah. They're now writing stories inventorying deaths over the past ten years and calling on someone to put up a sign at the trailhead indicating how dangerous it can be (note: almost everyone who goes doesn't die or require spinal surgery. Unfortunately, a handful do).

So why would anyone anyone keep doing this hike? Because it's as breathtakingly beautiful as a siren's song. Here's a nice little photo journal of it https://www.journeyera.com/olomana-trail-three-peaks-oahu/