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You know that feeling...

By MrFancy

5 years ago



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#1 5 years ago

...when you’ve gotten your first pin. And after a couple of months or so you’ve messed around with it enough to get a sense of how the settings and leveling affect the game play, and you’ve replaced the rubbers, flippers and whatever else you think needs replacing and adjusted things so that the game is playing just how you think it should be. You’re already pretty good at the game at this point just from messing around with it for a couple months, but it takes a while to get used to how it plays when you’ve got everything just right- it’s amost like learning a whole new game. But then, you start to really feel it. You aren’t getting to wizard modes yet but you’re very comfortable with all the shots, even the tight ones, and you’re playing this game on a totally different level than you could ever play any game on location. And it’s your game, you picked it out, you decided how it should play, etc.

That’s exactly where I’m at right now. I just got in bed but you know what I’m gonna run down and play a couple more games of DH first...

#2 5 years ago

Then you start looking for your second game...

#3 5 years ago

And third.............

#4 5 years ago

Start making room now!!

#5 5 years ago

Then you play the same game at your buddy’s house and realize his game plays amazing... so much better than yours... and your game plays like shit after all!! Then you get mad and try to sell your game. It won’t sell, so you discount it twice and end up losing $4k off what you paid for it. Plus you had to throw in that stupid $350 acrylic topper to make the sale too. But you still want to play that game. Finally your buddy offers you to sell you his game... but it costs $4k more than your original one. Oh well fuck it, you buy it anyway. You take it home and set it up, but it just doesn’t play quite like it did at his house. WHAT THE FUCK!? Your buddy is a contractor and he tells you your house leans, and no pin will ever play quite right. But he can fix it... for another $4k. Oh well, fuck it. You know that feeling.

#6 5 years ago
Quoted from MrFancy:

...when you’ve gotten your first pin. And after a couple of months or so you’ve messed around with it enough to get a sense of how the settings and leveling affect the game play, and you’ve replaced the rubbers, flippers and whatever else you think needs replacing and adjusted things so that the game is playing just how you think it should be. You’re already pretty good at the game at this point just from messing around with it for a couple months, but it takes a while to get used to how it plays when you’ve got everything just right- it’s amost like learning a whole new game. But then, you start to really feel it. You aren’t getting to wizard modes yet but you’re very comfortable with all the shots, even the tight ones, and you’re playing this game on a totally different level than you could ever play any game on location. And it’s your game, you picked it out, you decided how it should play, etc.
That’s exactly where I’m at right now. I just got in bed but you know what I’m gonna run down and play a couple more games of DH first...

Try reading this in a Morgan Freeman voice and NOT LOLing. I also tried Lewis Black voice and I enjoyed it just as much.

#7 5 years ago
Quoted from Buzz:

And third.............

And by that time, they start multiplying all by themselves.

#8 5 years ago

.....when your “normally” chimp-flippin’ 2-1/2 year old, straight up pulls a live catch to cradle, post passes to left flipper and makes the smoothest right ramp shot on Maiden ala KM(F!)E, right in front of you and your wife’s now Tex Avery-esque-sized cartoon eyes!

Of course it was just past 11PM when it happened and we aren’t going to win parents of the year anytime soon but, damn it feels good to be a (pin) gangsta...

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