There are assholes everywhere you go…pin shows, at the grocery store, Disneyland, even my office. As others have said, fortunately they are usually the minority. A handful of people that are abusive can’t ruin it for everyone…I find kicking them in the back of the knee while they are playing will make them walk away from the game they are abusing.
This thread actually made me chuckle. I was hauling pins to the show for others, so unfortunately didn’t have room to bring one of my own for free play. But all of this talk did make me remember Pinfest.
I took my restored Vampire (well, 85% restored). The amount of people that told me I was “stupid for bringing it” or that were surprised I did made me laugh. I remember telling a few of them, “I did all of this work, and am I supposed to just leave it at home to stare at it?” I wanted other people to enjoy it and see the work I had done. The game plays awesome, and there are always a ton of EM’s at shows that just play like crap.
During the three days it was there, somebody was nice enough to keep playing with one of the pop skirts locked down, melted the spoon a little and almost burnt out the coil. No big deal, and this is a game with all brand new parts. I lifted the playfield, took it apart and fixed it. Game was back up and running in 5 minutes.
A few people were a little abusive on it, and I was more than happy to say something to them. The game came home with a few minor scratches, but nothing to sulk over. I was glad to let people enjoy it, and plan on taking it to York as well.
At Pintastic, I saw a couple people doing some stupid things on games, and I didn’t hesitate to say something to them, even though it wasn’t my game. That’s all we have to do.