# Live at halfrez.

**Source:** Dead Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2014-11-06  
**Duration:** 87m 0s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tY4NA8DuQ

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## Analysis

Jack Danger streams live from Bottom Lounge in Chicago during a We Are Pinball animator/creative event, playing classic pinball machines Gilligan's Island and Funhouse with various guests and community members. The stream features casual gameplay commentary, technical adjustments to fix a leaning Gilligan's Island machine, and conversations with pinball players and event attendees, while highlighting the venue's collection of vintage pins.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] We Are Pinball holds an annual animator/3D creative event at Bottom Lounge in Chicago that requires sign-up and has capacity limitations — _Jack Danger directly states the event is held once a year, requires sign-up, and hit capacity last year forcing them to turn people away_
- [HIGH] Gilligan's Island has a leaning issue that affects gameplay and ball control on the right flipper — _Repeatedly mentioned throughout stream; Jack and others struggle with cradle control and shot accuracy due to severe leftward lean; Jack attempts fixes including adjusting feet with compass calibration_
- [HIGH] Gilligan's Island has a mechanical failure where the ramp is stuck and doesn't come down properly, preventing completion of final mode — _Multiple players note the ramp isn't descending when expected; Jack suggests power cycling might fix it; Brad Chmielewski confirms 'you can't complete your final mode'_
- [HIGH] DeadFlip streams pinball daily at 5 o'clock with rotating game selection voted on by viewers every Friday — _Jack directly states 'every day at 5 o'clock, we stream pinball' and explains Friday voting system for weekly game selection_
- [HIGH] The studio has ten pinball machines available for streaming with multi-camera setup (player, playfield, DMD) — _Jack describes 'we have ten machines in our studio' and explains three-camera setup for streaming_

### Notable Quotes

> "We Are Pinball live on the internet and everyone says that you look like a nerd."
> — **Jack Danger**, ~14:00
> _Joking introduction to the stream format and collaborative nature of the event_

> "Folks, tell me if that music in the background is too loud. I have a way of cancelling that out a little bit. One of the few streams where we can actually listen to music."
> — **Jack Danger**, ~25:00
> _Acknowledges venue audio challenges and notes pinball streaming uniqueness of being able to preserve ambient/game audio_

> "I have no idea what I'm doing... Folks, if you know how to play this game, please, for the love of God, tell me."
> — **Jack Danger**, ~65:00
> _Expresses genuine confusion about Gilligan's Island rules, indicating it's an obscure game not commonly played or well-documented_

> "The lean on this thing is bonkers. It's impossible to cradle on the right flipper."
> — **Jack Danger**, ~45:00
> _Direct commentary on machine condition affecting gameplay and stream quality_

> "Every day at 5 o'clock, we stream pinball. It's pretty cool. Some days it's hard. Some days it's really, really fun. But in general, it's a blast."
> — **Jack Danger**, ~50:00
> _Describes the daily streaming commitment and emotional reality of content creation in the pinball community_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Jack Danger | person | Pinball streamer, content creator, and community personality; host of DeadFlip Pinball channel; streaming from Bottom Lounge event |
| We Are Pinball | organization | Organization hosting annual animator/creative professional event at Bottom Lounge in Chicago; connected to pinball community |
| Bottom Lounge | organization | Bar and arcade venue in Chicago hosting We Are Pinball event; contains multiple pinball machines; has upstairs pinball area |
| DeadFlip Pinball | organization | Daily pinball streaming channel; streams every day at 5 PM with rotating game selection voted by viewers; has 10 machines in studio and multi-camera setup |
| Ivan | person | French animator attending We Are Pinball event at Bottom Lounge; participates in gameplay commentary and casual pinball play |
| Brad Chmielewski | person | Competitive pinball player; filled in for streaming last season; ranked 12th in state after recent tournament charity event; plays against Jack at Bottom Lounge event |
| Brad Stark | person | Pinball community member; founding member of something (unspecified); competitive player participating in event; has Wicked Punch photo |
| Nick | person | Event attendee doing 3D printing presentation; appears to have dad in attendance (Dadflip username) |
| Sid Younger | person | Competitive pinball player; attended event; has brother also in attendance; known for physical strength |
| Gilligan's Island | game | Classic pinball machine being played on stream; has severe leftward lean and mechanical ramp failure; obscure game not frequently encountered |
| Funhouse | game | Classic pinball machine at Bottom Lounge venue; described as fun; not on free play; Jack considered playing it alongside Gilligan's Island |
| Sea Witch | game | Classic pinball machine at Bottom Lounge; available but Jack considers it boring; mentioned as backup option |
| Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball | game | Pinball machine at Bottom Lounge venue; described as 'boring ass game' by Jack; available but not preferred for streaming |
| The Champion Pub | game | Pinball machine at Bottom Lounge venue; available during event |
| Metallica | game | Pinball machine at Bottom Lounge venue available during event |
| Theatre of Magic | game | Referenced in chat as viewers watching stream; also classic pinball machine mentioned in venue context |
| IFPA Head to Head | product | Competitive pinball ranking/tournament system mentioned; Brad Stark criticized the placement-based ranking rather than one-on-one format |
| Twitch | organization | Video streaming platform where DeadFlip broadcasts; discussed as acquisition by Amazon for approximately one billion dollars |
| Logan Theater | organization | Chicago venue hosting trivia; characterized as pretentious with obscure trivia questions; Jack mentions poor attendance |
| Green Street | organization | Chicago venue with trivia events; mentioned by event attendee as alternative to Logan Theater |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Live streaming and content creation in pinball community, Classic pinball machines (1980s-era games), Machine maintenance and troubleshooting (leaning, stuck mechanisms)
- **Secondary:** Competitive pinball and player rankings, Community events and venue culture, Game rules and playfield knowledge
- **Mentioned:** Chicago pinball venue landscape

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Stream is generally upbeat and friendly with casual banter, though frustrated by machine mechanical issues (leaning Gilligan's Island, stuck ramp). Community atmosphere is welcoming and collaborative. Some light frustration with game rules and mechanical failures, but overall tone remains enthusiastic about pinball and the event.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** DeadFlip maintains daily streaming schedule (5 PM) with viewer-based game voting system; incorporates multi-camera coverage and guest players (confidence: high) — Jack explains 'every day at 5 o'clock we stream pinball' with Friday voting system for weekly game selection; describes three-camera setup and guest Elite player participation
- **[competitive_signal]** IFPA Head to Head ranking system criticized for placement-based rather than one-on-one competitive format (confidence: medium) — Brad Stark comments 'I didn't like it' regarding IFPA Head to Head system, noting 'it's all placement, not one-on-one'
- **[event_signal]** We Are Pinball annual animator/creative professional event held at Bottom Lounge Chicago; requires pre-registration and has capacity limitations (confidence: high) — Jack directly states 'we hold it once a year, and you have to sign up for it. You can't just show up' due to capacity constraints from previous year
- **[market_signal]** Gilligan's Island identified as difficult-to-find, rarely-encountered classic pinball game in current community (confidence: medium) — Jack states 'nobody's ever seen a Gilligan's Island, like really, it's a hard to find game' as reason for choosing it for stream
- **[product_concern]** Gilligan's Island pinball machine has multiple mechanical issues: severe leftward lean affecting playfield, stuck ramp mechanism preventing final mode completion (confidence: high) — Throughout stream: Jack unable to cradle on right flipper, multiple failed shots, ramp doesn't descend when expected; Brad Chmielewski confirms 'you can't complete your final mode' due to stuck ramp

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## Transcript

 Thank you. Folks, we're still setting up a few things. Give me one second, one second, one second. That's alright, I'll just leave it right here. Boats, just a minute, just a minute. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello? Hello? Okay, let's see. Can you folks hear me okay? Actually, I can just pull it up myself. I'm on the stream. I'm on the stream. I've yet to have a res update. What's up, buddy? I am Breaker Breaker. This is Jack Danger. Looks like Sleeping Dogs Club Aquarium in the background. Well, here's how I have it set up. I can swing this over to Funhaus. Yeah. So I figured we'd play both. Can you folks hear me? Can you hear me talking? Dope. Just want to make sure we're not too loud. So folks, where I'm at currently is a bar in Chicago called Bottom Lounge. At Bottom Lounge, we are holding an event for animators and 3D guys and creatives alike. and it just so happens that there is a treasure trove of pins here. Like, a lot of pins. The two that we're able to focus on right now are going to be Funhaus and Gilligan's Island. I picked these two because, honestly, they're not seen that much. And Funhaus is a blast. Gilligan's Island's leaning a lot, but I don't suppose that's such a big deal. We can hear you fine. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Cool. Uh, cool. Cool. Let's see if we can get a good shot of the players and the nerds in the background. All the nerds. Yeah, that should be good. Yep, Titan Pinball, Gilligan's Island. And Gilligan's Island is the game that we're going to be playing on first. Again, it's leaning like crazy, but it should be fine. Since we're on location, I can't do a lot of fixing of, you know, other people's games and stuff. The island toy. Are you talking about that spinning, like, Lazy Susan thing? That is actually pretty cool. We're still getting the situation. Wait a second, folks. Give me one second. So, this little conference we're having here, we hold it once a year, and you have to sign up for it. You can't just show up, unfortunately, because we have way too many people that want to come in. And we hit capacity really quick last year and had to start turning away some very important people. So, we made sure to get the word out early. Early and often. Early and often. Oh god. Oh, my toothpicks. I just need to plug in one last thing and we're good. Just need to make sure I don't light the place on fire here. That is a very corroded... Alright, we're good I'm going to wear this stupid wired headset But we do have another mic For I guess the Overall audio Sorry, there's also like a Like a weird camera blur I had to turn up the exposure a lot Because it's super dark in here Alright, so let's switch this over and we'll play a little Gilligan's Island until things start kicking off here. There we go. Ladies and gentlemen, Gilligan's Island. The game's going to be a little dark too. I apologize. Just, it's a very, it's a very dark, very dark bar. Not dark as in brooding, just as in light. Yeah, that looks pretty good. And like I said, right next to it, we have... Well, the lineup here is pretty incredible. Staring through the window. Rahm Emanuel staring through the window. So we have a fun house to our right here. I guess your left. and then so that's this little bank the next bank over there is a sea witch and a Bugs Bunny's birthday ball something I was talking about that yesterday and then to the left we have a champion pub and a Metallica Ivan's here everything's working brother we are good to go we are live on the internet and everyone says that you look like a nerd That seems like a trick to me Again, thanks everyone for coming Anyway This is Ivan, he's in from France He's an Aminator Animator What are you? What do you do? I don't know You don't know what you do? No You're just you Just Ivan Alright, good evening pinheads and welcome back to Dead Flip Pinball. Today we're on location at Bottom Lounge because there's an event going on that I couldn't miss. So I figured I'd mix the two, the stream and coming to the event. Behind me there's going to be a lot of people talking. Hopefully we can tune them out. Super Panda, Cosmo John, Heavy Lift, Culture, Titan, Tom.com, everybody, thanks for coming, this is awesome. Cosmo John. They say hey, Ivan. Hey, everyone. Hey, everyone. So we're going to get a couple practice games of Gilligan's Island in here to see how this thing plays. Gilligan's Island's interesting. You have to collect all the little items here to create the secret professor's lava seltzer formula. I even got multiball on this a minute ago, and I actually don't know what the hell he did. Super Panda, all the sarsaparilla. Well, actually, this is beer. I'm drinking Daisy Cutter. We're not going to fuck around tonight. Oh, swearing. Yo, you want to play me? I'm French. I swear. Les poissons. Right? That's fish. Yes. Poisson. Poisson. Poisson. Okay. Okay, that's the camera that people see your face. This is the, yep, and that's the DMD. All right, man, you ready? If the audio gets too loud or crazy or anything, tell me, folks. One of the first DMDs. Beers, espirulis, same thing. All right, so I'm not going to explain what I do on Gilligan's Island because, to be honest, I don't know. I know that there's a little saucer up here that you want to try to get it in when you plunge to collect certain different objects here. And I missed it. Oh, second chance. All right, so it wants me to hit something. I don't know what that is. Also, the game's leaning a lot to the left. A lot, lot. You know, I'm afraid to mess with that. I think if we came down with the right feet, it might be the right front foot we might be good. Because I can't hit that jungle run shot. I might have to take these headphones off because it's a little distracting. So, I've already collected pineapples and bananas. And then I drain like an idiot. Alright, Ivan. You're up, bud. So what you're doing is just keeping the ball alive. Passant. They speak French in this game? Yeah, they still prove other French. Huh. I did not know that. Folks, as the night progresses and the place starts filling up, I'm going to be grabbing random nerd friends of mine and battling them to some pinball. Skilligan's Island's on free play, but Funhouse is not, so I'm going to have to maybe book someone for that. Brian McCulley. Devotion. You're live on the internet, friend. Hey, what's up, buddy? Good to see you, man. I'm battling up. Sir? Good, sir. Welcome. We're twitching right now. And that's really loud. That's going to be hard. Can you all hear that dope-ass music? That's a long shot. You happen to have the headphone extender on. Sorry, bud. I haven't yet. Alright, Gilligan's Island, here we go. Folks, tell me if that music in the background is too loud. I have a way of cancelling that out a little bit. One of the few streams where we can actually listen to music. That lean, though. Holy sharps. It's like a sausage disco. I'm sorry, what? How you doing, bud? These headphones are sweaty. Commentate for me. So there, ooh, I got a free multiball, hell yeah. I do not know how to get, I don't know how to get multiball on this otherwise, outside of the mystery award. That very well could be, because I'm not even, well, that's over. No ball save. I don't think they even knew what ball save was back then. Yo, one-handed? I don't care. Hell yeah, Gilligan. Das Bacon's, what's up? Yeah, folks, make sure to tell me if everything in the background is too loud or whatever. I'm sure you can hear me just fine. Bottom line, just the shit, guys. If you're ever in Chicago, come stop by. It's pretty cool. Gilligan's Island. Gilligan. Lagoon. Lagoon. Ivan, if you got shit to do, you don't need to stick around. Good. You know what? That is pretty great. Sneak in. Just kidding, Internet. I'm not kidding. Alright, so it wants it in that hole right there. Because I got secret formula lit. Just like that. So, I collected everything and I got a lot of seltzer going. Oh, baby. Now I need to get it in there. Right there. Oh, it didn't go all the way up. Shit. Wait, there's a girl where... Girls wouldn't come to this place. I have her. What girl? Hold on. Jack, I dare you to flirt with that girl on stream. Who, Jacqueline? Uh, no, I'll get in trouble. That's more business trouble than any other trouble. How's the screen? Yeah, this is lean, man. On the screen. Turn around. Yes. Super Panda. Yes. Yes. I can't. I can't flirt with her. I'm not allowed to. She's married with babies. All right. So my... Anyway, my lava seltzer stuff is still lit, so I got to get it into that scoop right there. And then I believe it wants me to shoot the island here, hopefully makes it all the way up. Oh god, no good. Please fall in Oh the flipper stuck The flipper got stuck Again Alright. Challenge her to a game of Gilligan. Guys, we've had girls on the stream before. Why are you just now freaking out about this? I don't know what I want. You, you, you, you, you, you. Is he trying to like, TP or anything? I don't know. Kill it bud. Going against the island. Oh nice save buddy. Farts. Good game. Hey when, uh, when does this actually start? When does this start? I don't know. Girls! In eight minutes. We have a 3D printer in the back. 3D printing logos. Oh, that was a free game, but it doesn't matter because it's on free play. Can you do... You haven't said anything and I'm already over it. Do stuff. Do stuff for me. Stuff. I just, I want this game on free play. You see this young lady here with the binder in her arms? Yeah. Yeah, I'll watch the table. Yeah, what the crap? Alright, let's get back to Gilligan's Island here. Supapanda, you are wall of texting critting my stream right now. Wall of text crits for 9k. Guy in real life. Pineapples. Kickback. Nick Campbell, everybody. Remember him from the internet? They were trying to get me to hit on Jacqueline. I was like, no. Aw, that'd be cute. Yeah. She's married. Hey, what's up, buddy? Everybody's here. Good to see you, darling. You have a half-rest, but not in everything. What I wanted to ask you was your idea of how long this is. Until 7. Why? Do you need that tripod? Yeah. When you're done. Oh, well, if you need it. When you're done. If you need it. Folks, you hear that? That's how high it goes right there. Then I'm just going to go tell him that. And we're going to see what we can do. Just hold it up like... It's a little, like, where it looks spooky like that. Yeah, that looks eerie. You can have whatever you want, bud. You can take it all. Look who it is. It's Nick. Yeah! Bye, Internet. Nick is going to be doing a presentation, so he has to do other stuff. Are you in on this? Yeah. Now you are. Baby, baby. Got them shells, girl. I don't think it was terrible. Was that French? I don't know. Ça va mal? Ça va bien? Ça va comme ci, comme ça? So, you have the little formula in the middle there. There you go. You need one more coconut to collect your coconuts. You've already got your bananas. Yep, that's your coconut. You can take our dignity, but you can't take our sass, really. You got this, bud. Yeah, he keeps feeding weird out of there because of the lean. Oh, well. There you go. He spilled lagoon. I don't know what that means. But shoot it up there, I'm sure it gives you all the money. Terrible is terrible in French. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Jemaparl. I'm trying to say it as hillbilly as I can. What? You're doing a kickback, you got this. Kill it. Je m'appelle Jacques Danger. Jacques Danger. Jacques Danger. All right, you shrunk his head. You need some eggs and shoot the lagoon or the rope. Hell yeah, dude. Oh, you got bricked. Super panda. All right, turtle eggs. You need to hit turtle eggs two more times. It's the far left loop here. You're doing great, by the way. Yep. That didn't do anything. What the hell? Why did it do that? Coconuts! Alright, you got your coconuts. The people are pouring in. Yeah. How you been, dude? Good. Staying busy, I hope. Good ball, dude. We are live on the internet right now. Hi, internet. Video, audio, the works. This camera's on us. That camera's on the play field. That camera's on the score. And this is everyone chatting right now. Well, I apologize if you're creeped out. All right. So I have... I need shrunken head, which is one target. I need coconuts, which is one target. I need two more eggs. And then I mix it, and then we got what we need. Let's hope we get something on the plunge. Yeah, it is. It's a cooking game. So there's an egg. Yeah, that counted. Good. Gordon Ramsay while I'm playing pinball. You're the worst pinball player I've ever seen. Yes, chef. How do you access that? Wait, what? Um, Twitch. Do you know what Twitch is? I'm not sure, but I don't know. Um, it's a... Oh, no, why? It's a video game streaming website. And it's twitch.tv forward slash Do you have a Oh you have a Regular Regular phone Good No that's what I mean Yeah you don't have like One of these things that Can't play flash And shit like that Yeah step over here I'm sort of wired into place No No Twitch.tv for, yeah. Oh yeah, download the app. And it's, uh, the you're looking for dead underscore flip. Yeah. Yeah. Dead flip. Alright, so I collected all my stuff for the seltzer. Let's get it in there. That big red arrow is flashing at us. That obviously wasn't the shot. Neither. Oh my god, the lean on this thing is bonkers. It's impossible to cradle on the right flipper. Trying to backhand this thing. Oh, there it is. Oh, baby. Alright, let's see if we can actually start making shots now. Go, go, go. Hell yeah. That didn't do anything. Stream, maybe you'll know. I have no idea what to shoot for. Oh, that's worth a million. Oh, I don't know. Alright, Ivan, you're up, buddy. Yep. I don't know what to shoot for once I get into that mode. Well, yes, SuperPanda, that is a thing bought by Amazon for a billion dollars. Amazon bought Twitch for like a billion dollars. Really? Yeah. Google and YouTube are going to buy them, but they didn't. Why what? Why would they buy it? It's the future, bro. It's the future. Uh, no, we'll be alright I'm just unscrewing one of the feet here real quick, folks Is that better? I don't know Gilligan rules, yeah, I don't know Do you have an iPhone? Hold on, folks. We're going to try to balance this thing out real quick. Open your compass. Yeah, Tom. I know how to light up the seltzer, but I don't know what the fuck to shoot for after that. Compass! Calibrate it first. There you go. So how's everyone's Wednesday going so far, stream? Good, I hope. I should be drinking more, but I'm wired in. All right, so I'll check it right here. Oh, well, that's your ringer volume, so that's pretty good. All right, actually, I think I fixed it by dropping that foot down. All right, let's try this again. Right, exactly. It wasn't a skill-based problem. Obviously, the machine was messed up. Alright, once that ball comes down, I'll know right away if it's leaning a lot still. It's still leaning. Oh. Nah, we'll play it through to see what's going on. I don't want us to tilt out or anything. Do you see the troves of people pouring in? The smallest pumpkin tomorrow? Interesting. Being hung over is the worst. Alright, pineapples. And bananas, got them both. Oh, I am furious. And you'll go baby. I wouldn't sweat it, you'll get me. No! I like to know what it was meaning. Well, we gotta un-lean it a little bit more. See, you can't properly take a balance on the glass, it's gotta be on the playfield. There we go. kickback. So, I need... coconuts. Oh, that lean. Eggs? Um, I don't know. Yo mama. It's rolling great. The problem right now is that Gilligan's Island's leaning a lot. All right, there's my coconut. Also, yeah, I'm trying to, like, ask the stream what to do after I collect the lava seltzer, but honestly, nobody knows. So once you get, what, I have to get the arrow? Yeah. Once you get the arrow, the ramp is worth all the money. There's no ramp. You go through, and it just takes you back to the top. Okay, so you collect the lava. Once you get the lava, the Kona lights up. Yes. And then you just keep hitting that shot, and it's like millions. It wasn't doing anything. That's what I know. All right, there's my shrunken head. Shrunken head? All right, we need some... Oh, we got all of our eggs. I need that rope. Catalina! You see that shit? It's like magic hovering. Kickback. This is a touch ethereal for my taste. Leaning Island? Yeah, beer snobbery. God, this whole game is like leaning hard to the Come on, give me that rope Yeah, what the hell are we listening to? I feel like I'm in a nightmare You don't want to say hi to anybody? You're welcome to leave me I have all my real friends on the internet Yeah, I'll stream till like 637 and then I'll go say hi to all the nerds. Alright, we're going to drop this down a little bit more. I got it, I got it. I just got to get my foot under it. Uh, that should do it. Let's see. Dad Flip? Wait a second. What am I reading? Who is Dad Flip, and why are you my favorite person right now? That's what I wanted to name my child. Well, when I have a child. Oh yeah, we, dude, we fixed this. We're good to go now, man. What is this? It sounds like B-52's in outer space. Uh, actually, I think the lean was helping us score better. I think it leaning was helping us play better. Sick. Uh, you don't have to hit start anymore. You're fine. We'll just drain that. We'll drain that one. Hey, start. Red. Can I... Can I trouble you? I have a tab open. Yeah. Can you grab me a beer and get yourself a beer on it? Sure, and then can I be on the show? Yeah. Sweet. Do you want to play your ball first? Oh, yeah, I'll be up there, yeah. Brad Zac Stark's here, everybody. Do you want to play my... Founding member. I'm not even going to bother with that today. You do have the Wicked Punch photo, though, I have to say. And now number 596. Oh, yeah, dude. Brad's score was dwindling there for a while, but he won third place on this charity event that we held, and he skyrocketed up. He is now 12th in the state, and I think you were like 24th before that. I think I was the lowest I ever got. I was 21st, and I could have sworn you were below me, regardless. Yeah, I got you below me. Regardless. I thought this was a turtleneck. But now he's murdering it. Yeah, surprise me with a beer. I don't care what it is, man. Alright, thank you, brother. Well, okay, don't surprise me that bad. Who's the dad flips? Hello? Oh, man, yeah. Welcome to Dad Flip Pinball. Flippin' off all your famous dads. Are you joking? Okay. Don't say that too loud. Alright, man. It's like one of the longest running TV shows in history. Yeah. Yeah. Great job, buddy. Marianne the Skipper. How's it going, brother? How can you not? I'm so flabbergasted that you don't know about getting a vote. The music sounds like Battlestar Galactica. Yeah. I can see that. It's a little dreamy. Zac Stark, where are you? Yo, you want to play my boy's ball? No. Good thing you said no. I have a... Yeah. Thanks, man. Every day at 5 o'clock. Every day at 5 o'clock, we stream pinball, yeah. It's pretty, I don't know. It's cool. Some days it's hard. Some days it's really, really fun. But in general, it's a blast. Yeah, and this is all kids streaming right now, or chatting with us, yeah. You need turtle eggs? You only need one shot for shrunken head. Yeah, so the camera setup is we have a camera that's on the player, a camera on the play field, and a camera on the DMD. And it's all laid out. Actually, I can. So we have ten machines in our studio and we leave it up to a vote for all the people watching on Friday to pick the game that we going to play all next week So we focus on one game, we have guests come in that are like pro pinball players to show us what's up, and show you how to blow up the game and shit like that. Yeah, it's pretty cool. We have an old fountain over. Why is this in a plastic cup? I don't know, it's a thing in a can. Here we go. All right, now the dancey techno step is playing in the background, folks. It's still leaning, but it's not as bad as it was. Nice. He has both. Okay, we're going for the rope. We're going for broke. Broke rope. Go for broke. I'm hoping to, like, get a tip off there or something. No, it's not happening. This music is giving me a seizure. I'm sorry, buddy. One sec, gotta twerk to this jam Yeah How loud is that music? Is it like super bad? Because I can consolidate all the audio to just my microphone That's picking up audio And then this is picking up audio Uh, yeah You know who just asked me what Gilligan's Island was? This frickin' ding-dong. How old are you? Hey! French! X-Men. Oh, okay. Ha ha ha ha! We don't have that. We don't have Gilligan's Island. How would you say Gilligan's Island in...what's island in French? Lille. My first is Lille de Gilligan. Lille de Gilligan. Lille de Gilligan. On the Isle of Gilligan. Yes. On the Isle of Gilligan. Loose Keys is here! Woo! Yeah! That's good, that's good. Oh, good job. Alright. You can do it! Ivan, as long as you don't drain. Boom! Someone joined the stream named Dadflip. Oh, Dadflip! Hey! Hey! Dad flip. Hey. Hey, it's a dad flip. What's up, buddy? Another dad flip. Brad Chmielewski has filled in for us for a couple of last season, actually. All of last season, yeah. Tore it up, yeah. We have Ethan. I'm sure his mom's watching right now. Hey, I got the same headset. Oh, yeah. I didn't like that it was blue because of, you know, alliance nonsense. I'm more of a horde guy myself. Also, the red one's wireless, isn't it? Dad Flip, who are you? There's a person named Dad Flip in the stream. I don't know. Ivan, can you pass me le alcohol, please? Thanks, buddy. Oh, it's Nick's dad? Wait, someone's... Is it your girlfriend? You said your girlfriend was watching this, right? I'm over it. She is? What's her name? Is her name Dad? Wait. It works out pretty well. I mean, everything fits in the frickin' backpack there. And also I figured out how to set it up so I can just, if I want to play Funhouse, just swing the arm over and we're good. Oh, baby. I just don't want to be drunk and then have to try to figure out what to do with all that stuff. And then we just stream for 40 more hours. Player one, what'd that say? That's four with what? Is it five with what? No, I got a bonus ball. Hey, can you folks explain what the flip just happened? Bonus ball. Oh, it's like an extra ball. Ball four? Thanks for coming, Zac Stark. Alright, let's see what we can do here. Groove is in the heart, folks. So, I need three eggs, a shell, and a rope. Alright, I think we can do this. Three eggs, shell, and a rope. Come on down. There's my rope. Sharts. Okay. Let's go up the lagoon. Oh, crap. Eggs. There's one. There's only one. Back that lagoon. All the way up, you frick. There's another egg. Oh, God, we're getting so close. And the left flipper's stuck. And the techno music's getting louder. No! Yo, honestly, Ginger or Marianne, it depends on the mood. Because, holy crap, they were both freaking adorable. Man, everybody's here. We got Justin Younger. Oh, we got both Younger brothers. Can you feel the muscles? I can smell the muscles. This is a strong guy just walked in here. All right. Just me and you, buddy. Battle to the death. Well, only when it counts. Yeah, I completely agree with that statement. Although I looked at the ISBA head-to-head system you do, and I didn't like it. Not in just because it looks like you got eight places this tournament and I got three. Right, it's all placement, not one-on-one. Well, damn it Zac Stark. You're a damn fine pinball player, I must say. You're a damn fine pinball player. pinball player. Just a heads up, if you slap the left flipper too hard, or the right flipper, it'll stick. There's that rope. Soap it. I got that rope. Oh, they just need to like clean, they need to clean that or something. Got my pineapples. Got that coconut, just now. Got my shrunken head just now. Oh, it's Jack versus the two Brads. Oh, right, there's my eggs. So I need my shell, which I'm not entirely certain how to get. You want in too, Anybody? No. Alright. Alright. Julian, Brad's up next, but you're last. Can you pass me that beer? Yeah. Give it to you right now. You da man. Why'd you pick Gilligan's? Um, I wanted to play Funhaus, and I figured by putting this stream, by putting that in the middle, I could swing back and forth between the games. Because no one's ever seen a Gilligan's Island, like really, it's a hard to find game. Funhaus is pretty fun too. And I didn't want to be stuck on just Champion Pub, and obviously no one likes Broke's Bunny, so... And that's my story. You tilted. Eh, you tilted. Nope, you ain't playing shit. That game's missing pinballs. All right, you got your shrunken head. You need some turtle eggs, which are the far left loop, and some pineapples, which are the targets on the left. There you go. No! All right, buddy, you're up. I was Green Street last night. Damn it. I went to go do the trivia, and it was terrible, and I left early. And I'm like, I should have just stuck around for that. At Logan Theater. They're a little... They're super pretentious about their trivia. It's like the most obscure dumb bullshit that nobody knows. Right. That's also why there was like seven people there Instead of like a whole room full of people Alright, here we go Keeping the stream alive Jungle rum, baby Uh, why'd I do that? Where is the shell? Where is the shell? Oh! It's there. Alright, so, lava silt is lit. Here we go. That was not the shot. No! Please go in there Round's over Alright buddy So Nick was saying to shoot for that But that doesn't do anything Yeah but The shot Nick said to take doesn't do anything Have you gotten in there? Yeah see No Unless that just Uh, the... The ramp should have come down. Yeah, the ramp's supposed to be down. It is supposed to be down. Uh, so this game's broke. Really? Are we certain about that? Yeah, because that ramp's supposed to be down. Have you seen it move at all? Yeah. It moved earlier. Well, my only... Shots fired at Logan Theater. shots fired at Logan Theater talking shit well Funhaus isn't on free play which sucks I guess we could set up on Sea Witch and Bugs Bunny but those are boring ass games It's not terrible, but it's not good either. It's got a gimmick, and that's the only thing I liked about it, was the score swapping. I wonder if we power cycled the machine, if that would fix it. Yeah. So the shell is clean up the lagoon into the back. It's tough. Brad Chmielewski steps up to the plate. And he spots a recipe. You got Rube. Farts. Ivan's gone. Why don't you play Ivan's ball? No, you probably should. Yeah. Yep. You put a $20 bill on there and you just smash the start button. Don't hit that. Yeah, just pull it and you're good. Wait, you're... Oh, you weren't kidding. I'm sorry. Okay. Oh, no, you're doing great. Kill it. If you're fucking with me, you're doing a great job. You're doing a really great job. Right on. Yeah. Yeah, totally. They all have these on the side. That's every pinball machine. Well, you did pretty freaking good. Sea Witch is actually a pretty good stern. And the one here is really clean. Alright, let's see if we can get this thing to... Wait, I got an idea, I got an idea. I'm going to hit that target. That's not what that does. Huh? No. That's not what that does. Why is it lit for a million then? It's different leaves. It's like a moat being lit or something. Oh, it's not an arrow pointing at it? Yeah, there's a bunch of them. What a crock of shit. Wait, that did something. That actually did something. His face got angry. Folks, if you know how to play this game, please, for the love of God, tell me. I have no idea what I'm doing. Get that recipe. Oh, I don't know what happened. It's not leaving the ramp. Oh, yeah, it's halfway spun. Shots fired at Gilligan's Island. Yeah, I think power cycling will fix it. Shove it forward to back. Yep. My man. Same beer forever. Wait, is there... Is the beer free? Oh, no. You're like, oh, no. They don't trust me. They're like refilling Capri Suns back there for me. Oops. Free beer! That's cool, he's 3D printing half-res logos. State? No! Alright, we're gonna power cycle this thing, cause Ivan doesn't- oh, he's here, goddammit. Ivan! Ich liebe dich. Stream just died. There's no way. You're trying to get your... Oh, gross. No way, dude. The stream looks fine. I don't have any drops or anything. Tradition. Yeah, if you're near Bottom Lounge in Chicago, they have one upstairs. And that's where we're at. I'm talking to the internet, sorry. I'll point to you when I'm talking to you. I'm going to try to fix the island here by power cycling it. It's stuck. The island is stuck. Good, good. Jack Bransfield. How you doing, buddy? Yeah, we met earlier. Gilligan's Island is busted right now, it seems. What? My power is like, there's food? You're lucky I love you guys. You can see it struggle. Here, I'm going to shoot at it real quick. Nailed it. Yeah, it's missing a ball. It's missing a ball It's going to keep doing that Do you see that? It like Pink, pink That sucks That really sucks Well I don't want to have to pay for Funhaus Why isn't this on free play? Well it's not that Gilligan's isn't unplayable It's just you can't Complete your final mode No it's still not on free play Yo if you can get that figured out man that'd be great Thanks man Ivan killing it for us He's gonna try to get Funhaus On free play so we can Swip over there because Gilligan's actual island is not working properly. The jungle. What's that? No one's ever busy. Are you guys planning on buying a Walking Dead? I'm not sure if we... I think we're going to wait until there's a couple more iterations of code coming out before we start playing The Walking Dead. Um, I'm gonna try to knock it in into place here. It's just gonna go under. No, what I mean... You see this click right there? Right, but that's what I'm trying to do is collect stuff that would do that. Stop letting him take your shot. That's all I'm trying to do is get that thing shook. I want to Yeah right We live on the internet I sure there children watching Donate to kids Whenever... Whenever... Yo, Jack, honestly, if you could yell at them and tell them to put that on free play, because I think that's one they missed. They said they were going to because Ivan talked to them, but I think they forgot. Oh, okay. Oh, that I don't think they can fix. Yeah, there's a chick walking around with a clip. Oh, look at that. Ladies and gentlemen, we brought you to the wrong bar. We love the guy who's in the bar. Dude, yeah, Mike, who runs the place, is fucking awesome. And he does keep really good care, take really good care of his games. It's just tonight they all seem to be shit in the bed. What's up, buddy? Everyone's here! Alright, so stream. The people behind me are labeled 1 through 4, starting on my left. Type a number and I'll turn around and slap that person really quick. Well, we're wearing the same sweatshirt. Three. One, two, three. Oh, I'm not going to slap her. What? What? What? I didn't notice any. Oh, nothing. I'm not going to slap you. Good. That would not be good. Right? Yeah, no, that would be terrible. I changed my mind. I'm not telling you. Oh, so you want me to slap everybody. Wait. They just want me to... They're looking for, like, the old, what is it, the three stooges, like, slap down the line nonsense. Come on. I know you want to move, buddy. I thought it was the other way. So... What's that? I was wondering how much... Every machine's different because what it is is inside there's a plumb bob. It's like a big metal weight hanging from a thin piece of metal. And that's swinging around and there's a metal ring around it. And you get to adjust how much sensitivity... This looks disgusting. I apologize. How much sensitivity it is. and when it hits that ring, that's when it starts saying danger and it tilts. On older games, the second it touches that ring, it just shuts off. But you get to adjust the sensitivity by making it up higher or lower to make it swing more. But most of these games, you can give them a good shove, and they don't really freak out. You were saying that you're able to control this in the back deck? Yeah. It shrinks down pretty far. The guy in the Twitter shirt deserves a slap. Oh, he's French. Don't worry about it. Oh, brother. Seriously. Thanks for coming. Yeah. I am only associated because I do all the... I design the shirts and the buttons and the graphics and the blah, blah, blah, whatever. It is. And it all happens very last minute. Which is exciting. Dadflip. Who the hell is Dadflip? Uh, yeah. The internet. It's all here. Yep. Yeah dude, check this out. Uh... I'm gonna drain that. Check this out. That's the stream here. So we have the camera facing us. We have the camera on the DMD and the camera on the playfield. Yep. That's... How do you adjust the aspect ratio? Through special software. Yep. Sorry, buddy. Alright. I'm going to see if I can shake this damn thing back into place. I can't tell. Um. Oh, mom. Yeah. We just figured out how to, like, get it to work properly. We're still trying to figure out how to get it to look nice on our own location without bringing a bunch of lights with us. Because it's, like, really freaking dark in here. But we can, like, play with the exposure and shit. Like, this looks pretty good. Yeah. Come on, baby. There we go. Brother, I challenge you to a game of this, but the thing's fucked up, so I'm trying to shake this into place. This whole top part here is motorized, and it's busted, so... Really? Those are two classic games. Those are two of the games that last really, really long. Wait, Nolan, you're saying there's a version of this game without a DMD? Weird. Yeah, I can't figure out why that's being a shithead. But that thing needs to be able to spin because it's very important to the game. Oh, the Pinball Hall of Fame. Yeah, I've been there a couple times. Yeah, no shit. Just shocked that they made a table at the GMD. Yeah, awesome. Yeah, we've been out there a couple times. So whenever we go out there for conferences and shit, we hang out there. And most of the money that goes into that place is all charity, which is awesome. Hey, what's up, buddy? Setting records. Setting records? Trying to. What's going on? Gentlemen, you're live on the internet, so don't say anything terrible. I don't cuss. You don't cuss? I don't cuss. Cuss. Swear words, cuss words? Cuss. Twitch. Yeah, these are the kids chatting right now with us. Welcome to the future. Yeah, we stream actually every single day. 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for an hour and a half, two hours at our studio. Different machine every week. pinball I don't know yeah fuck it who cares no and especially not ones that are run like a freaking TV show like we have guests on every day yeah it's pretty cool well I had to be here at this event but I can't really push back the time my show goes, just to make sure people, you know, check it out every day. So I knew there'd be pins here, so I set up. So I'm here playing pinball when I'm done, then I'll go get wasted with these nerds. Yeah, works out pretty well. To be honest, you just named the only three I know of. I don't know who else would be talking. Did you see the Super Smash Brothers crap that the Schmidt Brothers made. So you hit play just in the viewfinder of Cinema 4D. No rendering or anything. They built an entire Super Smash Brothers game with Xbox controllers that you play. It's got power-ups. The world's falling apart. When you want to be stronger, you're a cube. When you want to be faster, you turn into there's dashing and double jumping and all that shit. It has zero practical use. Absolute zero. Yeah. It's like the, uh, yeah, it's pretty bad. Anyway, I'm gonna get back to this. Gentlemen, pleasure. Let's get drunk. Yeah! Drinking! Alright, I'm gonna power cycle this one more time to hopefully kick it in the ass here. in the ass here. Come on, baby. Oh, God, it wants to move. Something is blocking it. What is your dilemma, sir? Why is every game busted? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Well, let me ask you, folks. Are you guys enjoying watching the old hotshot being played there? We're going to finish out the week, but I'm just wondering if we might pick up another EM to stream sometime. How's it going, brother? Not much. We're streaming pinball to Twitch. Streaming pinball to the internet. So we got a camera on the playfield here. This is a camera on us. And that's the camera on the DMD to capture the score. Is that you or is this? This guy. Indeed. No, we do this every day at the studio. Oh, yes. And we didn't want to miss a day, so we brought it here to stream for a couple hours and then be on our way. Is it always pinball? We have ten machines in our studio. Nick Campbell owns most of them. Oh, okay. And we stream pinball 5 o'clock p.m. every day, Monday through Friday. Okay. On Twitch, the video game. It's pretty good. Cooljack, good. Yeah, my friend Gavin has that cabaret that he wants to sell me to re-theme. And I think I might pick that up and play it for a little bit before I start stripping it down. And, I mean, if I'm going to be stripping it down at work, I might even light up the stream just so you guys can watch me tear it apart. Start doing some work on it. That might be interesting. Because I would love to design some artwork for a game like that, man. Fun fact, myself and Nick, we were the guys responsible for the witch animations on the new Wizard of Oz pinball machine by Jersey Jack. We also designed their entire back end for all their pin systems. I worked a little bit with John Papadiuk, but that didn't really go anywhere. And yeah, working with Jersey was a lot of fun. And to be able to do a whole machine artwork-wise would be remarkable. Tradition, good luck with the frickin' Iron Man. You're going to discover really quick that that game is a bruiser, a punisher. And I recommend to anyone playing pinball machines in their house, don't set them up easy. It just ruins you when you go out to tournaments. move those posts all the way up, turn those extra balls off, you know, just make the game as hard as it freaking can be, because when you get good at that and you go out to a tournament, it can only get easier and you will dominate. Yeah, I might do some pinball repair on the stream, that'd be kind of cool. especially since I don't know a lot about it. And it's going to be a lot of just cosmetic stuff since I'm painting on it. What's up, Chris? How you doing, buddy? Meet up within the meet up. Meet up within the meet up. Chris Schmidt, everybody. This gentleman is in charge of running this event that we're at. He is also a very beautiful man. I don't know what else to say. That's right. Just do it. How's it all going man? Dude, there's a lot of people here. The first game is the Thunder Game. Moving the screen around a little bit, we're trying to get the game to move around. Uh, Nolan, where is most of the motion graphics in Cinema 4D? Yeah, uh, Cinema 4D is the 3D software that a lot of people use, and here in Chicago. And, um, the first designers that we used were the earliest ones we had. Oh, well, I'll be... What's that? I'm still going for a little bit longer. I was talking for like half an hour. Someone was like, that's cool and I'll put your mics out. I was like, god damn it. Someone kicked my microphone out. But that's to be expected. I'm wired in right now. Yeah, sorry folks. This is like a motion graphics event. How would you explain this? What is this? It's a meetup. Just like a... It's a meetup event. It's like designers, animators, 3D guys, um... Cinema 4D Focus. Yeah, Cinema 4D Focus, the 3D software that is pretty prevalent here in Chicago. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Um, are you here to steal some gear from me? Oh, good. Do you want to get in on something real quick? Yeah, I think we'll play one more game and then we'll call this thing. Yeah, Nerdfest, exactly. Yeah, right. You guys are watching streamed pinball on Twitch. You're saying we're at a fucking Nerdfest. Oh, I wish that would work. Alright buddy, you know what, you can start us off here. No, but you know what, the game's like 80% there still, so you can still score big. If I had to pick a game that was on my top of artwork, that, you know, Centaur looks gorgeous. There's something about that black and white and red combination that's sort of Geiger-looking. It's incredible. And I'd say terrible artwork as far as new games are concerned. The back glass on the Metallica Pro is the dumbest shit. It's terrible. That Metallica back glass looks like refined high school art. Like you'd see that on someone's binder. shaded with their, like, finger. Oh, it's no good. It's no good. Uh, yes, agreed. It's nice that they didn't do the old, uh, like, just Photoshop some bullshit like they've been doing. But there's something about that I'm just not a fan of. Alright, so what do we need? I need eggs, bananas, and coconuts. And rope. What's up, buddy? Don't say anything disgusting, we're live on the internet right now What? No, never mind, say whatever you want I think you have a Twitch streaming problem You're in a party and you're streaming Twitch, you asshole Yeah, Black Hole looks pretty good too, that is for sure I can't really picture what Fathom looks like No! Do you keep draining out of the right highway here? Oh, shit. Alright, let's see what we... Give me the ball. There you go. There you go. Get in there. See? That ramp was lit for millions of points, and it doesn't work. So I can't get the money. Can you guys hear the trippy ass music playing right now? Alright, eggs, eggs. No! Was that ball three? Good. Coconuts. Pineapples. Shell. Yeah. Yep. You gotta hit the pineapple on the... Motherfucker. Sorry, buddy. Not your night. Honestly, this game... This game's just sort of whatever. When it works, it's okay at best. No! Come on, man. work. Work for me. So frustrating. So I don't think the new pinball season starts until January. If you want to, you know, bum around with us some more. Well, folks, I'm done dealing with this fucking game and it's 6.30. So, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for coming to the bar with us. It's dark. Thanks to Brad Chmielewski for stopping by. Brad Zac Stark, thanks for Brad Zac Stark. We're done? Yeah, we're calling it. That's the game, bro. The game's, the game, busted, busted, busted. Cost money and I don't even want to go in that little corner over there. I think they would've been entertained. I think they would've got, because how many people in this game have even played Bust Money Man? Yeah. Right? Better watch it. That's true. Well, not a lot of people even knew Gilligan's Island was a game. I don't think they're better off doing it. Say no to drugs, kids, by the way. Or else you'll look like these assholes. Protect yourself. All right, folks, thanks again. It's been awesome. Glad I could bring you guys out here to check this out. We'll see you tomorrow back on the hotshot. Have a good night, everyone. Goodbye. Bye. AIDS is real. Protect yourself.

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