Guys, let's not get this thread nuked like that one recently nuked that had similar talk as the last few here.

Speaking of believing false information…

complainers rule social media.

rule=ruin

Scooby Doo?

Scooby don't.

None of the Peanuts comic strips are amusing in any way.

If you're over 15 years old you shouldn't be saying "May the 4th be with you."

Very unpopular opinion

Yeah its embarrassing out there

Had a pm send an email to the trades sending that email msg this morning. I was gonna respond‘NERDS NERDS NERDS’ but didn’t want to offend any snowflakes out there..

I love that the majority of pin owners are also geeks of one form or another. Which makes sense, if you consider how many of us have spent time hanging out in the arcades during the golden era of sci-fi films. (Alien, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Wrath of Khan, Aliens, Terminator, Predator, The Thing....)

Agreed. I'm 100% pure geek. Absolutely nothing cool about me at all... and I love it.

Odd that this political post is still here after being tagged more than two weeks ago. Aren't we trying to get this kind of stuff off threads?

Totally agree. I don't rely on just on source for news. But as far as T.V.(or streaming), it does give you a live experience at times.

Yeah, apparently it's kind of a thing :
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Wonder how many more of these kinds of adds I'll see today...

Here is a very unpopular opinion....

After having a great time playing Rush tonight, I decided to play Godzilla. After playing Godzilla for a couple mintutes, I came to the realization that I hate Godzilla. Mostly because of the cheap drains. The two that bother me most are a slow rolling ball over the switch by the saucer that goes down the outlane the majority of the time. The other is when your left flipper is fading and can't make it up the right ramp, and goes SDTFM. The other thing that bothers me is how slow the damn processor is on the game. Is it a 8086 processor from 1976??? I have drained and had the animations slowly play out for what...10 seconds or more? What about not being able to use the magna grab because you have to wait so long for animations to finish that the ball is no longer moving? Godzilla coming to a for sale ad soon...

My unpopular opinion is that a lot of the posted opinions here aren't necessarily that unpopular.

Let's get this thread back on track.

I find it difficult to listen to most women on pinball podcasts. (Is is that not an unpopular opinion?)

I can count on one hand the number of minutes I have listened to any pinball podcast, genders notwithstanding. What a waste of time.

Oops, found this still in the post draft, shoulda hit Send Post before:

Peanuts is a laff riot compared to many others.

At least we have, thanks to the Intertoobz, "Marmaduke Explained" and "Dysfunctional Family Circus" to inject actual humor into those two. I do suppose Peanuts could use the same treatment in a majority of cases.

But why try, when nothing will ever top Calvin and Hobbes?

I've listened to maybe 2 podcasts in my life, neither pinball related and so long ago i was probably just seeing what a "podcast" was.

The Far Side > Calvin and Hobbes.....

Calvin and Hobbes was great.

Although not technically a strip, The Far Side set the gold standard for a printed comic.

I hate that pinside is charging for every for sale ad part now. I think it just started May 1st.
Just tried to list a 280 part and pinside wants 12 bucks!

Meh. Yes, it's not a strip. It's also primarily weird, punny, and not much else, which was fine as far as that goes, but C&H was not only often hilarious but was also heartwarming in a way that those "cute" strips could only hope to be.

How would one describe what The Far Side was about? See? It's all throwaway gags. Calvin and Hobbes made you care. Several single panel comics still exist as imitations of TFS, but I know of no strip that comes close to the magic of C&H. If any do, I'd love to hear about it.

2 different animals, I agree.

I prefer TFS though I have collections of both. Nothing wrong with throwaway gags - it IS a comic strip, not Little House on the Prairie.

Doonesbury, B.C., Garfield, all great strips. Hell back in the day Blondie, Lil Abner and Dick Tracy were read by millions - those were the TV series in the days before TV.

Don't forget Garfield Minus Garfield:
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How are you all reading comic strips when newspapers have been dead for over 10 years?

Early Bloom County > all

https://www.gocomics.com/comics/a-to-z

Lots of comics on line.

LTG : )

It was an immensely clever window into the absurdity of life and culture through caricatures of humans, animals, aliens, inanimate objects, cavemen etc.

Gary Larson was a prolific genius who could think outside the box inside a box.

I once read somewhere that he has a degree in entomology, and is educated in other aspects of Biology. This may explain his use of animals in a lot of his far side comics.

Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon said this about it, and I agree:

"In the last few years of Charles Schulz’s life, the strip was loopy and sentimental; but the stuff they’re repeating now reminds us that for most of its history Peanuts was about loss, failure, and longing for things you can’t have. Almost everyone in the strip had such doomed romantic feelings: Lucy for Schroeder, Sally for Linus, Peppermint Patty for Charlie Brown, Marcie for Peppermint Patty, and so on. Charlie Brown’s unrequited love for the little red-haired girl is legendary, of course, and the rest of his life isn’t much better. His baseball team won only one game in the strip’s history, and then had to forfeit because their outfielder, 5-year-old Rerun, bet on the game. His baseball hero is always on the verge of being sent to the minors. He is bullied by his psychologist and is largely ignored by his dog, who refers to him as 'that round-headed kid.' They don’t mention any of this when they use him to sell insurance.

Snoopy is probably the only character in the strip who is generally happy, largely because of his ability to retreat into fantasy."

I would just say - It's difficult to listen to most pinball podcasts in general

Let's just say it's difficult to listen to podcasts.

There are a few podcasts made by real life entertainers that I listen to occasionally, usually while doing chores. Comedians, mostly, but Alan Alda's casts are intriguing.

However, I can't imagine being so immersed in pinball that I would even contemplate having any interest whatsoever in hearing Joe Pinball babble on about pinball. I'd sooner spend an afternoon playing Stare At The Sun, or listening to Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits on repeat.

For you guys that spend all day working on pins, I guess it would make good background noise.

Lana Lang was always a better match for Superman than Lois Lane, plus redheads > brunettes.

disagree, there are some very good ones

Not a pinball podcast but I love the "Office Ladies". Its a behind the scenes/breakdown of the episodes. Theres a couple True Crime ones that are pretty interesting also.

Bulbs are still better

Unpopular opinion? Here it goes...

Pinball magic is gone. Owning these expensive machines is fine, and fun. But I no longer feel the magic like I did when I put my last quarter in an Earthshaker and got the new high score and got my free game. You know, that thrill you felt when you heard the knocker smack knowing you could play on.

Things have changed and I will never get that feeling back.

The magic is gone. Being married is fine, and fun. But I no longer feel the magic like I did when I put my (blank) in her (blank) and got the new high score and got a free (blank). You know, that thrill you felt when you watched the knockers smack knowing you could play on.
Things have changed and I will never get that feeling back.

Go into diagnostics and double check your factory sexism settings.

Pinball machines are like women, the best models have knockers.

Real ones are the best. Sorry stern not sorry

Yeah!! Only male chauvinist pigs would own an EHOH! Burn Elviras..

I don’t know anymore. Some commentators are just horrible and they can’t be the best people for the job. We have a new local news anchor, has a hard time reading the teleprompter. If we aren’t supposed to care what sex, age, or race someone is- why does it seem like choices are made by sex,age, and race?
I’ve figured out the only reasons I started watching soccer were because of the commentators and no ads. A good commentator makes it seem like the most exciting thing in the world is happening when you are watching paint dry. I can’t understand Spanish, but I won’t turn the game off if Andres Cantor is commenting..

Unpopular opinion: All game ratings on Pinside should require rating comments in order to justify scores given.