After reading about the first arrest, I wondered if I could ever look at CFTBL or GB without the following image popping into my mind:

A guy is working at his desk late into the night. It's quiet in the office, since most of the other staff have gone home. His vision is starting to blur just a bit from staring into his computer screen for hours upon hours. He pushes back from his desk, removes his glasses and rubs his eyes. He takes a few seconds to clear his mind and take a quick mental break. He leans back in his chair, looks up at the ceiling and thinks about the secret that makes him happy...

He then smiles to himself and gets back to work.

Sadly, that image has occurred to me every time I've seen one of his games for the last several months. I can't imagine it will stop now.

That's just me, others will have other opinions.

You've hit on the key word: "Enjoy".

Personally, part of the enjoyment I get out of a game, or any art for that matter, is the association with the creator. For example: MB and RFM are more interesting, and thus more personally valuable to me because they were designed by George Gomez. IMHO, owning a pinball machine for home use is 100% emotional. I do it because it's fun, and I get some joy out of it.

I've already found that my fun and joy at playing JT's games on location has been lessened below some threshold that is important to me. If I owned one (I don't), would I throw it out on the street? Of course not. On the other hand, I might be tempted to see if there was interest in a trade for something on my wish list. We're lucky in that there are plenty of great games out there, and even if these slip in value or lose desirability, the pool of other games is quite deep.

That is exactly and precisely "it".

Nobody's proposing a boycott, and I can only speak for myself, but I'm a little skeeved out by the whole situation, and that makes it less fun. We all like some games better than others, and this is just one more factor going into the mix.

And yeah, having been a huge fan of Kevin Spacey for decades, and having grown up listening to Bill Cosby's comedy albums, I'm deeply disappointed. The movies are less appealing, and the comedy is less funny knowing what I know now. The fact that I have a 12 year-old daughter probably amplifies it.

Like I said before, pinball is about fun, and fun is inherently emotional.

By all means, though, flip away on GB and CFTBL! Just know it's not me standing impatiently behind you.

Pinball is inherently subjective and emotional. That's why there's more than one game, and why the word "Amusement" shows up so often. Some things make games more or less fun to individuals. Intellect and reason would suggest that a good ETF is a much better place to store money than a pinball machine, and yet we're all here.

Different things bother different people. Personally, I don't care for lightning flippers, and I think spinners are really fun. Thinking about a guy abusing kids detracts from my experience, so I will choose to avoid it whenever possible. Someone else will have a different judgment about that, and that's fine, but I don't think that either position is one of intellectual superiority or the triumph of reason over emotion.