Thought I would weigh in as well. I'm Jason. I'm one part of the team that has taken this on. As Ken said, we will not be under an umbrella of anyone. This is an equal partnership and each of us are not only free to speak our minds, we are being encouraged to do so by everyone involved. That goes for content providers as well.

This is simply a way to consolidate, not only our efforts, but to shine a light on providers who we feel are talented and perhaps just haven't had the chance to have their ideas or talents in front of enough people. We are also very fortunate that we have some existing well established content creators who have agreed to team up just because its pinball, and we all love it.

There will be detractors. A lot of the folks on here who have been outspoken about not listening, hating this sort of thing etc. I respect a ton, and I will continue to do so. The bottom line is we are doing this to encourage the hobby and celebrate it. Our motivations are not quasi-fame, monetary, revenge or any such nonsense. You have the right to listen, ignore it, or even question our sanity, but we have our hearts in the right place. That's a promise. We have made, and will continue to make mistakes. That is part of taking risks and trying to get better.

I have printed out, next to my desk, a lot of colorful quotes from emails, facebook comments, messages and yes...even pinside. It is great motivation and when you are blessed with thick skin, and a desire to get better, it only helps.

I hope some of you will enjoy it, and for those of you dead set you will hate it, I hope that we are at least afforded the opportunity to change your mind at some point. If not, carry on. We certainly will.

Once again, the influence of Zach is overstated. Yes, he is my friend, yes he is a strong personality and yes, he has been integral to all of this BUT he is 1 part of it. I have always been respectful and try my best to criticize with some degree of constructiveness and humanity (not all do, ahem) but the idea that I will suddenly not speak my mind about a turd because I share an rss feed with zach is like saying Rick & Morty is meant for toddlers because it shares the same network as Barney.

Furthermore, the domain "issue" that keeps rearing its head is...entertaining to me. Yes, any entity that desires a website would be damn well served to get that domain so that it can be used. We talked about it before hand and no one wanted a website. It wasnt going to be used for what we are doing. Yet somehow, the fact that we did not get a domain has indicated we are inept? Kanedapinball.com is available I'm certain among many others for content creators. If someone has the time and motivation to go through doing that, so be it. The fact that someone cares enough to even pay for the domain and go through the effort, just tells me we made them anxious, mad or jealous or a combination of all three. That makes me smile.

The fact that so many people who have said this is all a waste of time are still here reading, posting and leaving opinions? Another smile.

Criticism, insults and naysaying all easily trump the cold, lonely silence of indifference. Please proceed.