TWIP: Dan Forden - The Pinterview

Quoted from rubberducks:
I'll be interested to see how well it does.
Some people will probably want a crucifixion for such a suggestion, but I really don't think The Beatles' music has aged terribly well, or not very much of it.
Older rock has. OLD pop, or light rock, per their music ... it feels incredibly dated. Kind of like grandpa trying to be hip.
I know lots of older people who say that they "used to love The Beetles" ... I don't think any of them ever listen to them any more, or want to.
Added to that, Paul McCartney's voice is so utterly terrible these days, and has been for at least a decade, and that he's generally hated ... not sure about the popularity.

Lol I don’t know who you hang with but most people I know think the Beatles music is pretty timeless. Me included.

As far as Paul’s voice sucking now and being “generally hated” (huh? He grosses $15 million a show) Who gives a shit? How is any of that relevant? The Beatles are huge.

People bring up the dumbest things to “prove” their opinion.

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#362 5 years ago

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Quoted from Rondogg:
I had a pinsider threaten to come to my home in real life and hurt me. I posted to the mods twice. They didn't contact him, suspend him or even respond to me in any way. Guy still posts on here. That was 21 months ago.

I don't think there's any official policy against threats/harassment via PM?

There probably should be as I think some people just think this is a great way to blow off some steam without being moderated. I've gotten some pretty outrageous PMs before and I'm sure many have. Veiled threats of violence (even if they ALWAYS come from drunk blowhards who are completely impotent and harmless) really shouldn't be allowed around here, especially keeping in line with the "Pinside ethos" being promoted and espoused in the TWIP interview. If stuff like that is tolerated I don't see how you can't expect it spill over onto the public forum.

You can't tell someone that you just might come and shoot them publicly, as this would surely result in moderation. Why are you allowed to send someone an uninvited PM saying the same thing?

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#461 5 years ago

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The deep root scam is starting to make sense now.

“We will make all those who lost money on Alice in Wonderland whole by offering them full credit toward a $50,000 Pinball machine. The good news is it will feature things we’ve never seen in a pinball machine before!”

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#618 5 years ago

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Quoted from Whysnow:
Sorry, but this is NOT just business for business.
It is lame and shows the companies true colors yet again.

Quoted from LoserKid_Pinball:
The 8 years Spooky has been a podcast, they have talked about Godzilla in almost every podcast. !

You know who doesn't talk about themes they really like on countless pinball podcasts?

Stern. There's a lesson to be learned there perhaps?

#623 5 years ago

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Quoted from Whysnow:
Stern has a known history of buying licenses just to stop others from making them.
This was a dick move, plain and simple.

#625 5 years ago

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Quoted from gambit3113:
Yeah, I'm just not buying it. They already made a Godzilla machine once. They have a relationship with Toho. Godzilla is a huge license. There are movies in the making, toys in production. Stern has every right to grab that license.

There's no crying in pinball or business. THe idea that this is personal or any of us should be offended by it is ridiculous.

Spooky isn't doing any favors to Stern by siphoning off hundreds of thousands of dollars in pinball sales with TNA, why is Stern supposed to make any silly accommodations to their competitors?

I don't get this at all. You don't want anybody chasing your possible licenses stop flapping your gums about them. This is business folks.

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#632 5 years ago

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Quoted from Whysnow:
the sad part is how many great licenses are "locked up" by Stern that they will never make.
I have to wonder if it eventually catches up to them when companies realized they potential lost revenue and brand recognition from allowing them to pay the small fee to hold but not execute?

Are you accusing Stern of “catch and kill?!”

#656 5 years ago

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Quoted from jgentry:
Everyone copies everyone else in business. You can flip the script and say it's Spooky copying stern just as easily. It's just part of competition and not all companies are going to work on some moral code of ethics. Kudos to Charlie for pretty much always taking the high road though. That's certainly not easy to do.
People just need to quit getting all emotionally caught up in behinds the scene stuff from companies that they have nothing to do with. Stern and Spooky have both made some great games. Be excited for what they are making and let them worry about what is next.

Correct. All we ever hear when somebody BESIDES Stern puts out a game - no matter how ridiculous and/or expensive it may be - is that "competition is good for pinball!"

Well here ya go Godzilla fans - the #1 pinball company on the planet has acquired your dream theme! And they may rip off the stuff from other companies you like? CO-Op modes and stripped down playfields with no ramps and shallow code?!

FUCKIN FABULOUS!

Competition is good for pinball! It's not like DE put out a DMD game in 1990 and everybody else just shrugged and said "nah, that's not for us." All this competition is gonna get us all the awesome stuff we want people! So stop yer bellyachin!

#689 5 years ago

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Quoted from Whysnow:
you can attempt to rewrite history however you want.
Intent and reality are pretty clear to those paying attention. Just sayin...
You can flip the script, but it is inaccurate to do so.

The TWIP story on this is about 3 sentences long.

There IS no script. You can play detective all you want, to most of us there's absolutely no information, evidence, or background.

If you really want any of us to get suitably outraged you are gonna have to spread around some dirt.

#696 5 years ago

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Quoted from rubberducks:
Sad that Stern got it - they may do it justice, but I've no interest in Spike (2), as things currently stand.
IMO Spooky should have just gone ahead with an unlicensed 'monster lizard' theme in the same style ... it was always pretty unlikely they'd be able to compete with a big player on what's potentially a very valuable license.

If Heighway could get Alien anybody can get anything.

#709 5 years ago

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