Jack, this is the first time in history I've agreed with teekee. You really f*cked this up.

One of your (probably former) customers.

I'm not even that much of a collector, and I'm pissed.

Because I feel I was lied to. 1000 LE games... buy early, support the company, and get rewarded with a special edition. So paid the first payment almost 3 years ago, paid off 2 years ago, and waited.. got a game a week ago, and find out there's a better "LE" a week later. So why did I preorder 3 years ago??

I like the game, but right now do not like JJP much at all. Crappy business practices, and they've lost my trust.

That's a stupid comparison, Alex. Apple does not sell limited editions of their hardware (and if they ever did, they wouldn't pull a stunt like this).

I can think of one who didn't: Stern and Tron. And I even want a Tron LE, but respect Stern for not making more.

No way you're getting our BBH!

It's a great day for hunting pheasant!

You know, that was a reasonable and well-written post, til the snarky comment at the end. You're getting better, though. Keep at it...

Cal50, you're right about us having little effect compared to massive geological events. Here's another tidbit.. the planet doesn't care what we do to it! The earth will be just as 'happy' with global warming as it would be with another ice age. The question is whether WE will be happy with it, and the answer is, over and over: not very much at all.

Didn't even really have to look for a supporting article, yet another came out today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/science/earth/warning-on-global-food-supply.html

Fact is, it doesn't matter whether we are the principal cause of change or not... what matters is whether we can do some things to slow or prevent it. Not because of any conservative or liberal agenda, but because, you know, it's kinda nice to eat. This isn't petty politics, this is whether your children are going to live well, or live in a shitty dystopia. People who take good scientific research and distort it to promote an unrelated political agenda, in a word, suck.

The code in the Pro is really good right now. The idea of three levels of six missions is pretty cool.. you can try to complete all the top level for the super awards and kobayashi multiball, or if you get tired of that, try drilling down and completing all three levels of one mission for a permanently multiplied shot. It's harder to drill down... the missions get quite a bit harder, but the perm multiplers are sweet!

One example - prime directive:

Level 1 - shoot any lit shots for points. Combos double shot scores (as they do for ALL missions). Mission ends on final shot after timer counts down. Can be timed out by wussies, but stupid as points are needed here and for later modes.

Level 2 - make sequence of ~7 shots. Shots flow as a combo so in theory can be done quickly, but yea.. theory. If you haven't made all shots when time expires, you fail and must restart level 2 mission. You pick up on shots where you left off on restart.

Level 3 - make those same 7 shots, but no restart when you left off if you don't make it in time...have to restart level 3 from beginning if you f it up. Ouch!

All six missions evolve like this, but all have unique rules. One (Nero II?) has you hitting 3 shots left to right to clear 3 enemies before they get reinforcements.. other advanced missions light only one shot, etc. All are varied.. you really have 18 modes here, plus three separate Vengeance batle modes (one multiball, two single ball), plus Klingon multiball, plus the two minor mission wiz modes (Kobayashi multiball and whatever you get for finishing all level 2 missions), and finally captains chair. All the missions have really good music and sounds from the movie.

All that is just what's in the Pro. I am quite confident that Steve is not going to let his game get short-changed by Stern. It's bad enough they missed with the LCD.. methinks he's going to make up for that in spades with one kickass traditional pinball.

Somalia.

Whoops, that last was mine. Responded to a comment about ST; actually thought I was in one of the ST threads at the time. They blur together after a while, especially the derailed ones.

Feel free to cut and paste that post into a relevant ST thread

Edit: yea that was a total mis-post, no idea how it got here, but supposed to be in the STLE thread... Trainwreck complete, 5 million!