# Stream 551: Rush (Stern) LE

**Source:** Don't Panic Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2022-06-13  
**Duration:** 107m 32s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7VhpYttlY

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## Analysis

George hosts Don't Panic Flip with guests iSkiDo and I Only Seek Your Ridicacy, showcasing a new Sony ZV-1 camera setup and discussing its limitations as a playfield camera. The stream primarily features extended tangential conversations about candy preferences, food recipes, whiskey distillery tours, and mixer drinks, with brief gameplay of Rush (Stern) Limited Edition pinball interspersed throughout.

### Key Claims

- [MEDIUM] Sony ZV-1 cannot reliably output more than 30 fps via HDMI without switching to high frame rate mode, which drastically reduces image quality — _George discussing camera specifications after ~3 hours researching the ZV-1 manual_
- [HIGH] The playfield camera is a Sony A6500 with a 16-50mm motorized E-mount zoom lens that resets to default position every time the camera powers on/off — _George directly stating camera specifications in response to Jon Hey's question about playfield cam_
- [HIGH] Escher won a side tournament at a Papa Duke event with a 98 WPPR point value — _Escher confirming tournament win during stream conversation_
- [MEDIUM] George Dickel distillery was rebuilt/designed with electricity-optional operations, including all triple-beam scales and boilers with firewood backup systems — _George recounting details from George Dickel distillery tour experience_
- [MEDIUM] Sundrop soda was originally designed to cut/mix with moonshine — _Joe explaining Sundrop's original purpose and mixing applications_

### Notable Quotes

> "The only way to get that liquid smooth that I found... is if you're telling me I am wrong, I will just assume that I am wrong in this case, and we can figure out how to make this DV1 work."
> — **George**, ~08:30
> _Shows George deferring to Manu's camera expertise despite his own extensive research on the Sony ZV-1_

> "I've made pork pie bread... We have meatballs in our family that we name porcupines because they're basically meatballs with rice in them."
> — **George**, ~32:45
> _George sharing family cooking tradition during tangential candy/food discussion_

> "Their entire facility is built so that they can outlast civilization."
> — **George**, ~41:20
> _Humorously describing George Dickel distillery's electricity-optional design philosophy_

> "Sundrop is, in my opinion, the ultimate mixer. It was designed to cut moonshine, and as a result it can cut almost anything."
> — **Joe**, ~48:15
> _Joe explaining Sundrop's versatility as a universal mixer for multiple spirits_

> "I thought you were actually saying... I don't know. It is very stressful in there, and I don't know when to shut up, so it all checks out."
> — **Cyril**, ~54:30
> _Cyril joking about difficulty reading the room while his wife is delivering kittens in another room_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| George | person | Host of Don't Panic Flip stream, testing camera equipment, playing Rush LE, engaging in extended tangential conversations about food, drinks, and distillery tours |
| iSkiDo | person | Guest on Don't Panic Flip stream |
| I Only Seek Your Ridicacy | person | Guest on Don't Panic Flip stream |
| Manu | person | Camera expert referenced by George; provided sound file for stream alerts; appears to be knowledgeable about camera operations |
| Jon Hey | person | Person referenced in stream chat, asked about playfield camera specifications, mentioned as camera knowledge associate of Manu |
| Escher | person | Pinball player who won side tournament at Papa Duke event with 98 WPPR points; has not yet visited Pittsburgh/made 'the pilgrimage' |
| Cyril | person | Stream viewer who is currently helping his wife deliver kittens; reported kitten count stuck at 4 with 2 more potentially in process |
| Kyle | person | Stream viewer who recently achieved Twitch partnership status; was playing Avengers game on stream earlier |
| Joe | person | Guest/participant in stream conversation about drinks, mixers, Sundrop soda experiences |
| Sammy Grant Higgins | person | Stream chat participant |
| Surreal | person | Technical assistant/moderator helping with Discord audio routing and sound file management; self-describes as 'degree-less' and not a technical engineer |
| Papa Duke | person | Organizer of pinball events; Escher won a side tournament at one of Papa Duke's events |
| Chaotix | person | Stream viewer who donated $100 bits while drinking tropical mango ghost energy drink |
| Don't Panic Flip | organization | George's pinball streaming show |
| Rush | game | Stern pinball machine in Limited Edition form being played during stream; Canadian rock band themed game |
| Sony ZV-1 | product | Face/player camera George tested; criticized for inability to maintain consistent 60fps via HDMI and quality degradation when attempting high frame rates |
| Sony A6500 | product | Playfield camera used on George's setup with 16-50mm motorized E-mount zoom lens |
| George Dickel | product | Tennessee whiskey from Tullahoma, Tennessee that George is drinking; distillery has electricity-optional design |
| Sundrop | product | Soda originally designed to cut moonshine; discussed as universal mixer for various spirits |
| George Dickel distillery | event | Distillery tour facility 15 miles from Jack Daniels tour in Tennessee; features triple-beam scales and firewood-backup boiler systems |
| WPPR | organization | World Pinball Player Rankings system; Escher earned 98 WPPR points from side tournament at Papa Duke event |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Camera equipment and streaming technology, Rush (Stern) Limited Edition pinball gameplay
- **Secondary:** Food and candy preferences, Alcoholic beverages and mixing techniques, Distillery tours and whiskey production, Stream moderation and Discord technical setup
- **Mentioned:** Pinball tournament results and WPPR rankings, Generation naming and demographics

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Stream is lighthearted and conversational with friendly banter. No negativity toward games or community. Some frustration expressed about camera equipment limitations, but presented humorously. Generally celebratory tone regarding Kyle's Twitch partnership and Escher's tournament win.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Stream viewers actively participating in conversation, including Escher's tournament win celebration and Kyle's Twitch partnership congratulations (confidence: high) — Multiple community members mentioned and welcomed on stream with celebration of achievements
- **[community_signal]** Pittsburgh positioned as major pinball competitive hub; Escher expressed desire to make 'pilgrimage' to location with significant WPPR tournament activity (confidence: medium) — Escher: 'I have not made the pilgrimage yet, but man, do I want to. That seems to be the hot spot for all of the WPPR and just wherever. All the cool kids are going.'
- **[product_concern]** Sony ZV-1 camera unable to maintain consistent 60fps output via HDMI and exhibits frame rate/quality tradeoff issues (confidence: medium) — George stated after 3 hours of research: 'it felt like it was stuck at 30 frames per second... only way to set the HDMI output to something greater than 30 frames per second is to go into high frame rate mode... drops the image quality down drastically'
- **[technology_signal]** Motorized camera zoom lens resets to default position every power cycle, requiring manual adjustment each use (confidence: high) — George: 'The fact that it resets every time. Every time I turn it off and turn it back on.' About Sony A6500 zoom lens

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## Transcript

 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Oh, wow, the camera's over here. My name is George. This show is Don't Panic Flip, and we have some great guests on with us tonight. We have iSkiDo and I Only Seek Your Ridicacy. Gentlemen, how are you doing this evening? I'm lovely. I'm doing swimmingly. How is George today? Doing really well. I just realized that I was going to set up chat over here so that way I could look at the camera at the same time I had chat. But now I have to look over here to see chat because I was trying to get the colors all working beforehand. So let's just show that off. If you type in exclamation color point and give it a hexadecimal code, 800833, I don't know, I'm just making stuff up. It should, it's getting there slowly. Wait for it back there. There it goes. There it goes. so two different sets of lights we have the Govee lights and the Philips Hue and now when you type an exclamation point color with at least a hexadecimal value it changes all of the lights Govee is really slow because we're not direct controlling the lights we're actually going through their API using an API key they generated so it goes from here out to the internet and then back here and it goes individually to each light Each light is its own server. They don't have a hub like Philips Hue. Right. Hi, Sammy Higgins. Welcome. Iron Fox, hire Peanut. Welcome as well. So that's where we are. That is the wrong one. There we go. So we have the new camera over here. This is a Sony ZV-1, which I was actually just explaining to HighSkiDo and Dice. do not use or purchase a Sony ZV-1 as a playfield camera, which was the original intent. When we had done testing previously, I thought it was a little funky because it felt like it was in 30 frames per second. And the only way, at least at the version of firmware I have, now that I say that out loud, maybe I should check to see if there's an upgrade. But the only way to set the HDMI output to something greater than 30 frames per second is to go into high frame rate mode. I think it's HFM. And to do that, it drops the image quality down drastically to go into that. But it's for certain, it's outputting at at least 60 frames per second. It also doesn't seem to maintain 60 frames per second really well while it's doing that. So as a face cam or a player cam or as Manu would call it. Oh, Manu. That's right. I've got a new audio file for you so that way you don't have to have Will Smith associated with you. Sorry about that. That's so tropical. Yes. And MPC3K, man, I was online with the ZV-1 manual for about three hours. trying to figure out how to get it to operate at 60 frames per second. Talk to me about the DV1. Your findings are incorrect. And I do want to throw out, it wasn't that it was bad. It just wasn't amazing. It wasn't this quality. And the only way to get that liquid smooth that I found, and hey, I will throw it out there. Manu is amazing when it comes to cameras. So, Manu, if you're telling me I am wrong, I will just assume that I am wrong in this case, and we can figure out how to make this DV1 work. Will Smith can be in stream welcome sounds again in 10 years, exactly. Right? That also happens to be in line with, sorry, the Academy Awards, who will allow Will Smith to once again be a part of the Academy Awards in a decade. Yeah, but really, don't forget to remove that sound. Thanks. Yes. Yes. It was done. I'm just going to do that now. I'm not going to vent out of shape about him not being a part of the Academy or any of that. He hasn't made a good movie for the last 15 years. I'll do it live. Yeah, we're going to do this live. I mean, there was the movie he did. If we're doing this live, can we do a new song? No. It's live. If we're live replacing Manu's sound effect, could it be like me going, Movie sign. It's Manu. Manu Smith. That's the Smith. Who brings the pinball riffs to you? It's Manu. Manu Smith. That was perfect. We just need to clip that and then convert that into an MP3 file, and that will be Manu's new sound when he comes in. It's funny. I'm looking for... I apologize, Manu. I'd rather his new sound just be you blowing the train whistle. Oh, man, that train whistle is awesome. I still don't have it. Okay, so I just updated... Okay, you now no longer have a sound file. I'm going to give you a temporary sound file. Let's go here. So I think it's under sounds. And what are we getting here? All right, so we could do yada, yada, yada from, what's that called? Did you yada, yada, yada sex? That's from Seinfeld. Yep. um the opening a beer sound effect that's interesting can't buy a bucket uh by nba jam yes mpt3k we absolutely can that's just going to require a little bit more work um let's see here the batman transition comical sound effect huh i'm going with that i don't even know what that is I'll bet that's it. I'll bet that's it. Which MLP character sound should Monty... I have all of the My Little Pony character sounds. I have a folder that Firepower... Was it Fire... Oh, no, wait. Hold up. It is not Fire... Firestorm sent to me. I think Marion's here. It's a real good evening and welcome. Thank you. How did the birthing go? Uh, it is going. I think it's called the kittening. It must be. There are kittens coming out of a cat and existing. I am behind on the going-ons of Twitch and the Discord world. What is the cat in a cat thing that's happening? Oh, a stray cat that my daughter brought home is giving birth in the other room right now. So that's why I'm late. Okay, right now. Yes. Congratulations. The following has begun. Oh, it's right there. I may be a tad late. I'm helping deliver a litter of kittens. I cheat you not. That's correct. I was going to ask, where are you delivering them? right into a towel actually and thankfully not on our brand new carpet so okay uh that's funny my uh my uh first no second dog i ever had was a great dame uh and her name was kato and kato decided she was going to have her 10 puppies on uh my mom and stepdad's brand new bed and there was no moving her once she decided that she was having her babies right there. No, no, there's too many moving parts. And they're all connected from all four corners. Yeah. We'll lift it up. Yeah, you could move the bed, maybe. That's your option. Yeah. Well, she was a 190-pound great dame. She was a monster. That sounds challenging. Yes. I'm not convinced those can all be great Danes. Some of these have to be below average Danes. Okay, Danes. Heligos, welcome to the stream. Are we on ball right now? Okay. Alright. So, oh, nice. I already have orange. I wonder, did I get orange for full plunging? Huh. And there's another orange. So if we're trying to up the value of our modes, what we do here is go and try and grab as many of the same colored records as possible. And I don't know how to hit it. The orange is now on this internal loop up here, which is kind of hard to see. But man, does that Playfield camera look awesome. Yeah, MP3K, I got to hit you up about this ZV-1, because I was stuck. trying to get that to operate. Steve! Oh, Bob! Now... Otherwise known as Escher? Yes. Yes. Now, Escher, I heard you won like a little side tournament kind of thing at a pretty big event here recently. How did that go? Cut up the district A and C, maybe? Yep. And correct me if I'm wrong, you have not made the pilgrimage yet, right, Jordan? I have not made the pilgrimage, but man, do I want to. That seems to be the hot spot for all of the Whoppers and just wherever. All the cool kids are going. Side tournament worth 98 Whoppers. Congratulations again, Ezra. That's awesome. That's where I met Elwynn for the first time. And I gotta admit, I acted kind of dumb. I looked over and I'm like, shit, I know you. And he's like, yeah, a lot of people here know me. that's awesome isn't Whopper the name of the computer in war games well I thought that was Joshua oh you mean like the acronym yeah Whopper's the name of a delicious Burger King hamburger and the name of a below average candy you're not a fan of Whopper's the molded milk balls I'll eat them if they're around, but the older I get, the less I'm worried about chocolatey things. I think they're good for one, just to remind you that you don't like them. There are so many candies I feel like I enjoy that are exactly that. Milk duds are another one for me. Just enough to remember that I get frustrated by how much chewing is necessary. He's not fine. operation plan response what whopper stands for in the movie sorry what was that oh that was what whopper yep welcome to the stream on time welcome not a great game um Oh, hey, Try to Tilt asking which cam for the Playfield. Okay, so the Playfield is an Sony A6500 with an E-mount power zoom lens, which is more irritating than helpful. It is a 16-50mm 3.5-5.6 lens. Milk duds were great the one time I had them, I hope you know that. So what about the zoom lens has caused you issues? The fact that it resets every time is every time I turn it off and turn it back on. Oh, it's like a motorized zoom. It's not like something that's like on a twist or something. Exactly. Yeah, if it was on a twist, I could leave it and it would be at that same zoom every time. You know, I wonder if that's a setting I might be able to put into the camera somehow to, like, not readjust or at least remember the Zoom. I'm definitely... You need some more research to do. Right. Oh, surreal. Don't tell me you actually like juju birds. Okay. Okay. All right, I'll say it. Oh, okay, if you're looking for chew content. Oh, yeah, that's chewing for days. You feel like a cow with a piece of cud. I don't know, I like Mike and Ikes for that, because they don't last too long, but they last long enough. I know the Jujy Fruits have just enough clench that it feels like your teeth are going to be pulled out of their sockets, but it doesn't quite happen. I'm supposed to use Jujy Fruits to get over their chewing content. Really? Really. Well, I'm, I'm, cause it's like the same amount of chewing, with like 99% less moisture. Yeah, like halfway through a box of Jujufruits and your jaw is like, must have blocked up. Your mouth is cemented shut. I feel like I can't chew anymore, I can't open my mouth. I, I have a, I have a taste for James Rees's Pieces every once in a while. It's not something I can have all the time, but every once in a while I just want an entire mouthful of James Rees's Pieces. And why do they seemingly only come in gallon-sized bags? It is hard to find a small bag of James Rees's. No person should be eating this many James Rees's Pieces. I'm not ashamed to admit that I also enjoy holding the James Rees's for about a minute so that when you put them in, the shells just sort of break apart and everything disintegrates. You know, this time of year, if you want smaller bags of James Rees's Pieces, they have only orange James Rees's Pieces in these conical bags with a green tail on them to make them look like carrots to put in people's Easter baskets. And those are kind of individual serving size in the shape of a carrot, but James Rees's Pieces. Joe Hill's out here being the real hero. Well, that's the thing is because I have a child that I have to buy Easter candy for, I spend a lot of time thinking about, well, not a lot. I spend 15 minutes a year evaluating games for candy, which is more than I spend evaluating any other kind of candy, really, except maybe Christmas and Halloween. But, like, you know, out of my 45 minutes a year of candy evaluation, this is a third of it right there. All right, guys. In Canada, where do we stand on Cadbury eggs? Don't like them. I love them. I also love them. In Canada, the James Rees's, uh, just said James Rees. There's no pluralization, so it's very weird. It's like James Rees Cups. This is a James Rees's Cups? It's just James Rees Cups. So bizarre. I don't like cups. Wait, you don't like James Rees's Cups? No, I don't like cutting it down to just James Rees. Like, it feels like an old friend is gone. It is weird, you know. I thought it was like a typo. I was watching the pinballer's stream, and they said, oh, we have the James Rees's. And I was like, you don't say James Rees's, it's James Rees's. And they showed me the package, and I was like, okay. Through Canada. Apparently they decided it's going to be James Rees's. Huh. And to anyone out there who pronounces it James Rees's, yeah, I'm sending a James Rees to your house. James Rees's. Find that right James Rees's pieces. and I'm like, ugh. James Rees's Pieces. Thank you. Sometimes I'd probably say it wrong, because somebody else said it, and I just picked right up on it. Sammy's absolutely correct. James Rees's Pieces sounds like a joke, though. All right, next up, you guys threw out Cadbury Eggs. What are your thoughts on candy corn? Nope. You gotta go with the high-end, made-from-actual honey. If you're getting corn syrup candy corn, I know it's technically more fidelity, because it's actually made from corn, but it's garbage. You get the honey candy corn and you're happy, you don't, you're miserable. I don't even, I've only ever had the cheap crap. I didn't know there was high-quality candy corn. I've only ever liked one kind, and it was one of the best. Is it much? But we're talking about the difference between a $2 bag and a $4 bag, right? So, like, you know, it's once a year. Get the $4 one. It's going to be so funny. I spend a maximum of 25 cents on there. Like, 90% off. See, it works. Okay. And Mr. Hardluck, welcome to the stream. interactive chess. See, I'm so excited now to try high quality candy corn, but I'm a ridiculous fan of the inexpensive candy corn. Oh, well, that's like if you're like, oh, I already like french fries. And I'm like, George, there's this restaurant in New Orleans that does knuck fat fries with aioli and you're going to love it. It's like that sort of step up. Okay, okay. I do love fries. We have a restaurant that does in Portland, Maine, and the actual name of the restaurant is called Duck Fat. It's the best. I love it. Did anyone read Snivy's poem? I missed their poem? Yeah. Oh, I thought Miss... No. All right, I got this. I gotta say, this place is chill. I love coming here with time to kill. The people are nice. The streamer is cool. The gameplay is awesome. You honestly rule. lots of fun topics such wonderful talk no reason to leave or take a walk stay awesome you guys keep on rocking the fun you create it's truly shocking that was awesome thank you does a flop i know just like ah missed it again uh no take a walk line george that just made me think of whenever you were about to do an ad roll i'll be like i'm gonna go walk around the block i'll be back in five minutes Do you remember the funny commercials? You're like, oh, you're doing an ad? Oh, I've got to go walk the dog. I don't have a dog, but I suddenly feel the need to walk him. Oh, goodness. Look at my porkyfines in the oven. I'll be right back. Actually, we do make porkyfines. Are you making a joke, or do you make porkyfines? I've made porkyfine bread. Okay, we have meatballs in our family that we name porcupines because they're basically meatballs with rice in them. It gets al dente kind of cooked. They're really good. That's something. Wait, wait, wait. So when you put the rice in the meatballs, it's raw, but then it, like, steams inside the meatball? Yeah, sort of. It's like the rice, instead of absorbing water, absorbs delicious, delicious fat. Okay, see, what I've been doing with my rice cooker lately is cooking the rice in chicken broth, which is fantastic. But I love the idea of having it absorb the ground beef juice. That is really interesting Yeah the recipe is about as easy as it gets You make meatballs with rice in them It like one pound of meat to a cup of rice Mix it all up, put in some garlic or onions or, you know, whatever you want. And then... I might have accidentally made this before, because Costco sells these stuffed bell peppers with rice and ground beef in them. And I always assumed that the rice was pre-cooked, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe not. I might have baked this eight or nine times. Because, like, yeah, because I've had these stuffed bell peppers where you've got, like, cheese and rice and meat inside them. And it's kind of the same concept. You just throw it in the oven for 55 minutes, foil over it, and you're great. With this, we do 30 minutes on 375, I think it is. And then take marinara sauce and cover the whole top and cook it for another 30. Wow, that sounds amazing. It is good to go. Sorry, but did I hear you correctly that you were cooking them with, was it hedgehogs? They're called porcupines because they have sort of al dente rice in them, so. Okay. We just have always called them porcupines. That's generation three now that they were called porcupines, so I don't know. But they're just called porcupine. You don't actually eat porcupines, right? Not these days, no. But I have no idea what the Great Depression was like. Okay. And for that, we're all grateful. Yeah. You know, it's funny because I was trying to explain to my kid today, she was mad that her generation didn't have a name yet. And I'm like, well, the thing is, you want your generation to get a good name later rather than a bad name right away. Like the baby boomers, they got named when they were babies, and it stuck. But like the greatest generation saved the world from fascism and then got to be called the greatest generation in the 30s. So maybe you don't want your generation to have a name for another two decades or so. What is your kid's generation? Name twice for two different generations, it seems like. Or is that just regular boomers? No, boomers and baby boomers are the same. The kid jive these days. in the last three years they're either the children of the corn or they're the coronials sorry, coronials? either the coronials or the children of the corn I feel like you're saying corn slightly, like I don't know what maybe what that word means oh, because quarantine thank you, yes, I knew there was something there And I just looked over. Yeah. Nope. Totally makes sense. I didn't get it either, George. You're good. I think we should call him the Branch-co-vidians. Oh, no. I'm sorry. What? The Branch-co-vidians. So, David Koresh created a cult called the Branch-to-vidians based out of Waco, Texas. Yeah, it worked out great for everybody. It did not. It's just that there was fire and lots of bullets and death. I don't know. Maybe that's a Texas deep cut. Okay, Alex has a small horse. All right, that's a 2x on the super jackpot. Let's see if we can hit this. Nope. I don't know. How do you do that, Joe? What are you all drinking tonight? Oh, excellent question. Hey, I think I actually have... Yeah, look at that. Autofocus is turned on. That's a pineapple vodka and soda. How about you guys? I'm sparring a LaCroix Pampled Moose and vodka. That's great fruit. Sounds good. I have a great value diet root beer. I've got a Long Branch Wild Turkey on the rock. That's Matthew McConaughey's Wild Turkey. And I've got a George Dickel, which is a Tennessee whiskey from Tullahoma, Tennessee, and Coke. And Coke. Okay. Yeah, because I'm doing footage review for my next episode. Like, while we're chatting, I'm ingesting video into my editing laptop and stuff. Talk about George's Dickel. I can't remember if I've had Dickel or not. I feel like it's something I know. Here's the thing. If you get the chance to go to, if you're going to Tennessee for the Jack Daniels tour, the George Dickel tour is like 15 miles away. I actually have been on the Jack Daniels tour. So the difference between the Jack Daniels tour and the George Dickel tour is the Daniels tour is all about the history of Jack Daniels and the company, whereas the George Dickel tour is all about, hey, we built this factory or we rebuilt this distillery so that everything is electricity optional. We came back after they banned alcohol and we're making alcohol again. And you know what? If they ban electricity next, we'll be ready for it. All of their scales are these gigantic triple beam balances. All of their boilers have electrical components, but they also have a place underneath where they can put, like, just here's a pallet full of firewood. Like, technically the only thing that we can't accurately reproduce without electricity is, what's that thing where you use optics to tell what the molecular composition of something is? Spectrum analyzer? Yeah, we can't do molecular spectroscopy without electricity, but that's really just what the pacers are for anyway. I feel like that's just a stationary bike and a few Red Bulls away, though. Yeah, so their whole thing is they're just like, their entire facility is built so that they can outlast civilization. And it's really cool, because you see how they've got everything hooked up to electricity now, but how they could just swap in coal or, like, people pushing things tomorrow if they had to. So Chaotix is drinking a tropical mango ghost energy drink. Nice. He generously donated 100 bits. Oh, it's over there. Thank you again, Chaotix. is doing a diet Dr. Pepper. Diet Dr. Pepper. That's my, not diet, but Dr. Pepper in general has become my backup when I'm out of Mountain Dew as my soda of choice. Didn't used to be that way. Say it again? Big Red fit into the equation. Big Red the gum? No, Big Red the soda. Maybe that's a Southpank. Oh, I don't know Big Red. It's a red cream soda. Yeah, it's red, and it tastes mildly of bubble gum. I don't think we have that in Tennessee. That might be a Texas thing. Maybe I believe he had a Delta. It's definitely not a North thing, so maybe you're right. Hey, Alex, I have tried Dr. Pepper's cream soda. I don't know. It takes driving 10 hours in any direction to leave this space, so I don't do it often. Joe, did I answer that thing if you got your sundrop yet? I did. So I have the sundrop. What I don't have right now is the tea vodka, Joe, I'm supposed to get? Like sweet tea vodka? No, no, no, sundrop. It was designed to cut moonshine, right? So you can mix it with moonshine, and it'll still taste pretty okay. You can mix it with things that taste pretty good already, and it comes out great. Like, there's a drink that I have in the summer called a sungria, where I take some red wine, I slice up some apples and orange slices, throw them in there, and then top it off with some sundrop and ice cubes. Fantastic. Are you writing like a... Sorry, last time you were talking about Sundrop and like a tea vodka or something like that. I remember that too. That's what I'm saying. Sundrop is, in my opinion, the ultimate mixer. It was designed to cut moonshine, and as a result it can cut almost anything. Oh. Moonshine. Find that shot. If you think about the name moonshine Sundrop, Mountain Dew is also Oh! But it's designed, like, you know, when you cut your moonshine with a little drop of the sun. Got it. That's actually really cool. I never really thought about the moonshine dew drop. I like that. Sammy says, Joe, what were you mixing with last time we were all out there? Honestly, whatever liquor we had. Like, if we had tequila, sundrop, tequila, orange juice, or sundrop, tequila, lemonade is great. Vodka, orange juice, sundrop, vodka, lemonade, sundrop is great. If we had George Dickel or Jack Daniels, you can just mix that directly with the sundrop. You don't want to add lemonade or orange juice. I eat pinball. I eat pinball. It is the universal mixer. Take my hats off if I could. I eat pinball, Carl. Welcome. Thank you so much for the raid. And I don't know if I've had the opportunity to congratulate you, but amazing job on untaming a partner on Twitch. I stopped by a little bit earlier, saw that you were playing Avengers, I think. Stream looks awesome, as usual and expected. So if you're just joining us, we're playing some Rush LE this evening. Very well deserved, Carl. Absolutely. I didn't catch that because I popped by the stream too, but I missed that partnership announcement. Way to go. God, the flow on this game is getting... Like, once I find it, it feels really good. Cyril, any update on the kitten count? I believe it's still stuck at four with probably two in the bag, so to speak. It's still stuck in Alcatraz? Yeah, it would stick out. That's pretty good. Yeah, I was asked to leave the room. They weren't appreciating my humor. I don't understand how a pregnant woman currently giving birth couldn't find that hilarious effect. Well, I didn't say it to a pregnant woman. I said it to my wife, who is not pregnant, but delivering cats. I thought you were actually saying... I don't know. It is very stressful in there, and I don't know when to shut up, so it all checks out. I think it's okay, though. We haven't lost any, so that's good. That's good? Apparently, that's a thing that is a likely scenario. I'll use the new sound on Discord. Okay, cool. Do you want to send that to me as well, Manu? Our test-fisher bird new rushers are shipping with the V4 Scoop Savers. Wow, they went through four different versions? Four different versions? Mine seems to be doing okay right now. Hit the scoop! What do I need to hit right now? Also, George is my other mod. I'd be happy to set up an intro sound for you should you decide to stop by again sometime. I'm in. Count me in. Does that special thing go on the V2 thing? I'm on the what? The V2 scoop, maybe. Oh. it definitely is the same one that came out with all the all the LEs I haven't done anything else to it let's see we need two and that's going to reset this guy I'm sorry sorry I just heard the sound that Manu sent you it's incredible nice work Phil That was supposed to be a farcically bad example of, like, what Manu would not want. Oh, you don't give that to Screaver. Don't do that. Love how this machine has separate minutes, hours, and years mechanics. Man. Oh, no, MPT-3K enhanced it? Wait, now I want to hear it. Yeah, now I kind of want to hear it. Okay, we'll get it switched over. George, if you can play that and play it. I can play it if you'd like. Yeah. Can you route that through Discord, Surreal? I can do that, yes. I have the technology nowadays. Wait, what is it going to play on? Hold on. I need to make sure that I don't play it in Discord, though. That's important. I'll allow it. What? Okay, sorry, bear with me, I didn't prepare for this. Well now it's all, yeah, it's all on you. You didn't know there would be a quiz? Preparing, what's with all the preparing? Just go! I'll take that. Okay, I'm sorry if this feeds back and it's horrible. Are we good? Okay, alright, let's see. See if this works. Movie sign, it's Madu. Manu Smith That's Christmas too Brings the pinball riffs to you It's Manu Manu Smith Manu Smith Manu Smith That's pretty great That was your hate You auto-tuned or something Doing something cool Cool piece behind it Monotreex, what happened to the rap music? Wait, was there supposed to be rap music behind it? Wait, that wasn't rap music? I did not hear any rap music. All I heard was the vocal. Oh, you might have a filter. If you have the voice filters on in Discord, it'll only let the vocals through. Yep. I've run into that before with having live musicians play on my streams. So you need to go through and disable all of the smart sense sound or whatever. on your voice and video, so... Uh... All that stuff. Okay. Noise reduction. That wasn't playing. That's exactly how it sounded on my side. Oh, you didn't hear rap music either? No. Oh. Milo, you should know better than letting me do anything technical. I find that hilarious. anyone else who isn't familiar with why that was hilarious uh uh surreal is literally mr technical and i say literally in the most literal sense only i don't know if i can be technical is my middle name yeah i was waiting for a surreal to be like i'm actually dr technical you know i've been I'm going through eight years of THP electrical engineering to be called mister. I'm actually degree-less. True story. Did you say you're a degree-less or you are degree-less? I am degree-less. This man thought you were operating without permits. Correct. What are we doing? So anything that I say might kill you, so don't do it. Okay, don't play cool. I should get you a shirt that says, Not an engineer, do not allow this man to operate locomotives. That's good, actually. If I'm working on circuitry, it might be a good idea to dial 911 and just wait. This is gonna start! I'm gonna take crypto advice from you. Well, my crypto advice is just don't, but, you know. Okay, Marner just sent me this on my own. It actually does have music behind it. The one he sent me does. Okay. Interesting. Come on. Hit. There we go. There we go. 200,000 combo. We're now in 2032. All game timer is extended. We need to shoot the far loop. I don't actually know what it said. All right, we're good. So George, what are the specs of the laptop that you have on order? Ooh, it's... Oh, no, no, no, stop! Alright, it is an i9-12000 series. 32 gigs of RAM, 2 terabyte, NV-something version 4, I don't know. NVME. The what? NVME. NVME, but then there's like a number afterwards that seems to be getting bigger and bigger. It has the new 3080 Ti NVIDIA video card in it. And something, I think the RAM speed was faster than I remembered. It's like DDR6 or something, so rather than being 330 or 450 megahertz, it was slightly higher. I don't know. Have a great night, Slivy. Thanks for stopping in. Oh, it dances really fast. Yes. Dance Dance Revolution 6. That's right. You can. It sounds disgusting in a wonderful way. Yep. And that gets here tomorrow. Nice. What size screen? 15 inch. MSI? Ace 2s. Ace 2s. Ace 2s, yes. I repeat, I can be able to stream the stream to Discord. I'm so sorry. Say it again. There. Sorry. Go ahead, Dice. Oh, I already said what I was going to say. You go ahead. Oh, I was going to say he's incapable of simultaneously streaming through Discord. I'm watching you on like a five and a half second loop. I know. Or delay as opposed to loop, but yeah. Although watching me on a five second loop, that sounds super fun. Yeah, we could all pick our favorite five seconds of George and just watch it whenever we want. Ooh, I like this. This is the new Twitch meta, is we're going to do loot streams. Oh, okay. Y'all will love this, but also hate it. I tried to do a TNA stream, and there was a problem with the video capture connected to my laptop, the HDMI capture. And it was looping the audio, but it was doing live video from the game. And so it was looping the narrator saying reactor over and over again. And people kept commenting in the chat like, wow, they sure say reactor a lot in this. And I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of reactor mentions in the callouts. It took me 30 minutes to realize what they were listening to, which was just the woman going reactor, reactor, reactor, reactor, reactor, reactor. for the whole, like, meanwhile, like, me and my sibling Sean are talking over it a lot, and, like, you know, occasionally I'm seeing these comments, and I'm like, look, it's a game about nuclear stuff, there's going to be reactors in it, I don't know what your problem is. That's awesome. Did, so that has the newest rev of software on it. Did you, did you by any chance, did you have a conversation yet with, with Scott? I still need to do that. That's, like, honestly, George, I am, my queue right now is insane. I am so far behind on scheduling all of the things. But it's something I'm definitely planning on doing while I have the machine. Okay. On the other side, Manu, I have your sound. I have your sound updated. So what I'm going to do, because I don't know how to actually reset Streamlabs chatbot, I'm going to reopen it. and then Manu, when he types, will be able to hear his new sound together with the rap music. You could get us there. Everybody else could type after that. Yep. And yes, it was Republic of Gamers. You know, I could probably pull up the actual specs as opposed to speculating as to what it was. I know I just pulled it up recently, too, because it was supposed to be here a week ago, and then two days after that, and then it was supposed to be here on Friday, and now it's coming on Saturday. I don't think he restarted it yet, Manu. I just restarted it. So it's got Sursnarf Speculating. There you go. So, Manu, you'd have to do it one more time. Just one more. With feeling. Bordeaux. George, don't... Oh, I totally unlocked my phone on camera. Sammy, he's knocked himself so many times doing that. Look at that, a writing... And there's my address. Manu, Manu Smith, that's good Smith. He brings the long riffs to you. It's Manu. Manu Smith, Manu Smith, Manu Smith. Nice. That's awesome. That was awesome. I love it. Yes. Okay, so what is it? This is... The Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Intel Core i9-12900 32 gigs of DDR5 Sir Snarf, you were correct, not DDR6. One terabyte... Oh, I thought it was two. Darn it. Whatever. And then, I think that was pretty much all the pertinent stuff, but here's the fun thing. I just ordered, because this has a Thunderbolt 4 connection on it, I just ordered an external enclosure that goes from Thunderbolt to a PCI Express card. So I'm going to take the Elgato Cam Link Pro, which has four ports in it, and put it inside the box and connect it up via Thunderbolt to the laptop and stream from the laptop. And I got that idea from Pinball Princess Jillian, who is here. Welcome. That was your idea, and I just made it happen today. I will have the case on Wednesday. And never looked back. That's awesome. You're going to have to give that a try, because my new laptop has Thunderbolt 4. Okay. Well, I'll let you know how that goes. My concern is that we still end up with issues with disconnecting and reconnecting. But I think I cleared that with Jillian, that as long as you don't disconnect and reconnect the external module, you can connect and reconnect devices to the HDMI ports without any issues. It'll be bleeding edge until quarter three. What happens in quarter three, Test Bishop? Did something else come out? Yeah, Thunderbolt and Lightning 7. It's very, very frightening to me. Are you joking right now? I am absolutely joking. Okay. I'm going to go get the cat update. I'll be back in a minute. I was going to say, I actually want to go grab a snack real quick, so I'll be back too. But see you in a bit. I want a drink. I'm out. God. So once you can find this left orbit, the amount of flow on this game becomes kind of cool. If you can also then find any shot on the right. Like, I guess if you can just hit... If you can hit shots, it feels really good. Jillian, FYI, be patient when voting. that's usually disabled in voice. It's usually disabled what? In voice. B-O-I-O-S. Bios. Oh, got it. There's a couple of those on here. Z-198. Okay. That's actually really good to know. Queen Darkly says, no drink for you, George. Only pinball. I get there I get there So uh was anybody else kid really sick today Uh I have to say no mine was not Uh, any case that I believe the RTX 4070 will arrive alongside other RTX 4000 cards in September of 2032. Okay. Can new architecture really be that much better than the 3000 series? Like, maybe if they figured something out that they didn't... Okay, I'm sure in a video we'll have dozens of threads. What if the new car is going to have, like, subscription services? You can pay by the month or something. What? I was reading an article where they're going to be charging like a monthly fee. Instead of you buying like this crazy price card, you pay like a lease fee or something. I'd rather just pay the price of the car. I, what? High score achieved. High score achieved. I, Go get that drink, George. Yeah, now I'm going to go get a drink. I didn't even know what that was. Ah. Oh, the 6X memory, okay. I feel like it's the same jump as the 1000 to the 2000 series. Okay. I'm not sure NVIDIA will have dozens. Okay, that statement makes more sense when I read it out loud to myself. Hey, last person to do something, i.e. pinball. Does anyone know Carl's initials? Something K, something D? Sure. Sure, we're just going to go with the space. but you'll be able to play any games off of their cloud oh now that's interesting you went from the 1080 ti to a 3080 ti that's i'm i'm i'm excited that the laptop i think is going to own and the biggest issue was the limitations on usb and i think with thunderbolt and that external module i shouldn't i don't think i'll have those issues so i think at that point, then I can sell my desktop, which I have just dedicated for streaming. Now, can you speak on the legal implications of you suing your insurance company, or is that no longer happening? Uh, don't know. I finally, as of like two o'clock last night, actually went through and submitted for approval everything. So I got kind of feedback from the insurance company that they likely weren't going to cover, uh, hold on a sec, that they likely weren't going to cover a majority of my stuff. I think they will cover the laptop though. Um, and, uh, so I made sure to document everything and get it all back to them as, uh, I guess as well documented as possible, a little bit of slackage, uh, and sent off everything yesterday. Uh, so hopefully get something back at the end of this week and then can decide what to do after that. Shouldn't that mat be spun the other way around so it says hello to whoever's walking in instead of leaving? Say it again? That's only if it's on the outside of the door. That mat on the floor behind you, shouldn't it be spun around so it says hello to whoever's walking in instead of leaving? Well, I have two mats and because I didn't like any of the others, I got two hello mats. So outside it says hello, and inside it says hello. And I thought, it'll be fine because of, what's the movie with Sandra Bullock? The one where she wins a, or she has to get into a, a, miscongeniality, yes. And there's this whole moment in miscongeniality where they talk about the fact that, Sorry, however you see it, the word for hello and goodbye in Hawaiian is the same word. And she mentions, well, doesn't... Aloha, yeah. And doesn't that just get confusing? Like, wouldn't you just start up your conversation again as you're trying to say goodbye? Forever! I mean, not if it's a message from Silicon Valley. Do you know what that means? Do you know what that means? It's a message from Hawaii for hello and goodbye. How great is that? I missed it. Over your introsound, which just triggered. Dinesh from Silicon Valley was so hyped that the same word for hello and goodbye in Hawaiian was the same thing. He's like, how great is that? It is... I don't know. So I ended up buying two Hello Mats. Hiya, Ice-Kidoo. Hey, Ice-Kidoo. Ice-Kidoo left out. So, new beverage is this guy here. The Crown Royal Washington Apple at 7%. It's Canadian whiskey, apple, cranberry, and other natural flavors, along with carbonation and colored with vegetable juice. This is fantastic. Every person I have given this to, I think even... That's surreal. It is great. every person I've given this to, including Extra Paul has really, really liked it and Paul does not like very flavorful beers usually, I guess it just depends Mr. Hardlock, yes this is so good, they also have a a peach sweet tea flavored one as well, which was very good also, Sir Snarf, camera's looking very crisp again, new camera yes, Sir Snarf, we have a ZV-1 facing us over here, so that's a Sony ZV-1 and then if we go to this one on the play field. This is a Sony a6500 here with a power zoom lens. And, uh, and that was, uh, a Craigslist find, which is great. I was able to talk them down a little bit and, uh, got that one along with, uh, uh, a second lens for a pretty decent price. You so fancy. Well, the problem is, is like immediately, not only had I agreed to go through and do, um, what was it? Uh, to do like a photo shoot for a friend of their new massage, uh, parlor that they just opened. Um, but there was a whole bunch of situations where I really wanted and needed a camera to take pictures of Zoe at kind of like family events. And I didn't have a camera for any of it all within the span of two weeks. I'm like, no, no, no, this isn't, this isn't acceptable. I need a camera. I didn't realize how dependent I had become on it. And add to that... You didn't have a cell phone? It's a cell phone camera. It's actually... The cell phone cameras are pretty awesome. But that's not the point. I couldn't do the things I wanted to. No, I need real bokeh, not digitally enhanced bokeh. Business expense, exactly. Never say that again. No, no, no, there's such a huge difference. You can see it in the pictures. When you take a picture with your phone camera and it's trying to imitate Boca as opposed to actual Boca with a nice camera and a good lens. Yeah, you know who doesn't care about that, George? The average photo viewer. But I see it. But I see it, and it bothers me, knowing how much better it could have been. It's not just me, George. I don't think George had an excuse to buy a new toy. Do you feel like it's spoken? That's a plus one. It's real. Hey, I think it looks like plus five, because it just had, like, a belly laugh there. I haven't heard you laugh like that at one of my jokes since the Satan's Butthole at Christmas. I think we clipped that. Yeah. Yeah, I actually downloaded that clip because I enjoyed it so much. The cat update is that there are now five. They seem to be living. That's a good start. I have a picture in Discord. Is there a runt? Or are they all similar sized? They all seem to be pretty similarly sized. There is one big one. So I guess there are four runs. There may or may not be one still in the chamber. We'll see. Maybe there's one still in there. Could be. Hmm. It was one big multicast, and it came out with glowing red eyes and said, I'm the only one. We are one. Yeah, we are one. Wow. That was the red-headed one. Have any of you ever used the speedtest.net app? Not the app, but I go to speedtest.net all the time on the web. I found I can just Google speed test and Google will run its own speed test. If you have the app, press the go button, but don't let go. Keep holding it and keep holding it and continue to hold it for a good 30 seconds. And you will see the most terrifying dead evil cat that used to be named Oogla, which I guess they named the company after. And it's just so creepy and scary. It's just like haunting. It's insane. It's worth it. Oh, yeah. Just to try it out. It's funny. I mean, I want to try it out now, but I'm also slightly worried. It's just creepy. It's like, what on earth? Rami, if you want to add me on Discord, then I will send it to you. I'll take that. Do you guys know what else that voice I did is good for? I'll get you next time, Gadget. Yep, that's Dr. Claw for sure. Yes. Is Frisco a discord? I think so. Frisco? Yeah. I mean, this is a particularly flattering picture of my... Well, it's not my cat yet, I guess it is? I don't know. I mean, once you've given birth to a cat's babies... Yeah, we've housed its giving birth, so I guess... Yeah. I guess the damage is done. It sounds so happy about Cheryl. You're like, great! We have cats now. Well, look, I'd like to think that I'm not manipulated a lot, but we do have many more animals than I had input about. But it is a cute cat. I want to see this cat. You can always supplement the added expenses by just making an Instagram account for the cat. Aw. Aw. I see the cat. You can also reject Facebook and rent Rackspace in your local data center, mount your own bare metal server, and bring, you know, cat photographs over there on a sloppy disk. You don't have to use Facebook. That's true. Why do you hear the metal groups? Why not I send you a five and a quarter inch floppy, and I'd let you just figure out how to read it these days? I am seriously, I'm at the point where it's like, I lose not quite enough servers to go rent a rack, but almost enough. And I'm like, I'm this close. Pull the trigger. Not good. Not good. ColemanD3K writes, George, you should be looking at the Sony ZV-E10 for a guy like you. I tried to. The problem is, is nobody on the internet is selling a Sony ZV-E10 today. You have to wait like six months to get any good cameras and anything on the, on Sony cinema line. You can't get, uh, the a7S III. You can't get, uh, the FX3. You can't get an FX6. You can't get the E10. None of those are available right now unless you want to pay almost, what was, I think I saw one on eBay for like $1,400. And that was just with the kit lens it comes with. Sammy was just looking at tickets to that game you guys were talking about going to. Uh-huh. Yeah, I just saw that. Tickets on the giant side are twice as expensive as the ones at the park. Uh-oh. Does that mean that Sammy is going to be sitting on our side? Which means you have to roast the entire game. I still don't care about sports, but knowing that Sammy is a fan of the Giants, I'm going to become the biggest... What's the name of the Colorado baseball team? Rockies. I'm going to become... Rockies. Yeah. I'm not going to do those Flintstones. I'm going to become the biggest Rocky fan just for that game. I'm sorry? Manny saw all of your gear on a Texas subject. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Manny, wait a second! You saw a laptop, an edelkrone slider, and a camera! Frisco's going to be a little bit more serious. uh Oh, hi one of my other cats Uh, it's real i'm just gonna respond to this I guess I can make an executive decision Raiders. That's true. I wield unlimited power. Unlimited. Oh, Sammy's in the group. If you Join us in chat, Sammy. You are now able to. Sammy is in chat. Sammy! Hi, Sammy! Also, that was a great intro sound. We'll look for Sammy to unmute the mic. Hello? Hello! Hi, I have a microphone actually now. Were you trying to talk into your hand before and it wasn't working? No, I just have to plug my microphone in each time. I do the hand talking thing all the time accidentally. Okay, so Sammy. Did you get to hear your intro? Yeah, I heard it, yeah. Oh, okay. Thank you. Wait. We're going to have to have that stupid song again. You should have kicked and never escaped that song. I just don't, I feel like awkward interrupting people when I start to talk and then the song plays. And I'm like, I didn't want to interrupt you. But I guess that's the point. I don't know. It'll make your grand entrance. Okay. The real best cat on your desk has some mad whiskers. Yep. Aww. Yeah, she's the toxic cat. She's my favorite. He's fancy. He is fancy. She's being very sweet and also biting me a little. I mean, it goes hand in hand. It's a good bite. It does. It's like, oh, I hate you only a little. Did they bite you? That's a love gesture. Yeah. They're not trying to hurt you. Well, sometimes they are. Yeah, you have to know the difference between the different bites. The inner machinations of a cat's mind are an enigma. that felt good you didn't send any cats to my place Manu because you said you didn't want them around so I hid them I shipped them off wow harsh Manu are you allergic you no honestly my two cats that we've had this entire time absolutely disappear when new people are in the house. Hey, me too. Same. I really like cats. I had cats, but it turns out that I've been allergic to cats my entire life. That means well. I think I might be allergic to people. As soon as I have a spare four grand, they're breeding a specific type of cat in France now that's actually hypoallergenic. So once I have a spare four grand, I will be picking up one of those cats. Are those those cats without skin? No, they look like a cat version of the snuggle bear on the snuggle fabric sock. I think they have to have skin. I think it's fur that they don't have. Yeah, I was thinking maybe they have feathers instead of fur or something. They've got, like, down. I think most... No, they're born inside out. It's this new thing. Yeah, this cat was swung over the bar, like, inside out boy. This is the boneless cat. Oh, no. Yeah, the boneless cat is the new fad. They just kind of flop around all over the place. Those are just cat nuggets. Jelly cat. Oh, that was the game? Oh. Oh, why do I even... She usually doesn't plop herself down on my desk. I think she's honestly concerned with whatever is going on in the guest world. I mean, there are cats coming out of another cat. So, yeah, see why that's concerning for it. Yeah, and they haven't met because the stray probably hasn't been vaccinated or any of that stuff, and you can't do that while she's pregnant and all that stuff. So we're kind of like two more months of quarantining this cat in this one room, which I feel bad about, but that's what has to happen, I guess. well now you've assumed the responsibility for all these kittens do you have to like get them all like ate and neutered and no um well most of my surprise like the the uh you know there there was a point of sophie's choice kind of thing where do we because the The mom seemed really young. We don't know anything about her. And there was a chance that she wasn't even going to survive labor at all. But she apparently has, so that's great. But, you know, so there was a period where the option of not doing that was being discussed. But that isn't what we did. Um, so instead, you know, the decision was made that the kittens were going to go to, um, non-kill shelters. Um, but as it turns out, I think, like, four of them have already spoken for, and there are five, so, yeah. I think you've spoken for the fifth woman. Well, we've spoken for the mom. Okay. Well, fair enough. That's good. Yeah, she's going to stay here. There might be one or two that go to a shelter or something like that. Look, it's an incredible investment to spay or neuter six months. Do you have to wait six weeks or something, six months? It's not something you can do when they're born anyway. No, it's not very long. I think it's like two months, eight weeks or something. They're less expensive than children, but they're still expensive. I don't think they were going to pay spaying or neutering of children. I don't think they were having them, but okay. I think it was like $500 or $600 a pop. No, that's definitely not true, because I've had my cat, whatever the female version is, and I think it was maybe a couple hundred. Really? Okay. Well, we're overpaying, man. Literally. Maybe you're paying for the upscale vet, though. The experience when you go into the vet, they bring you a cigar and a glass of wine. I forget what that is. Once the water is in the tap. Yeah, I don't go into the vet because of COVID. I don't get any experience. I'm definitely being overcharged. Well, we do tend to... We opt for the water spay, usually. Where they can have the natural in-pool type of thing. I don't know. Yeah, that was a good joke. Anyway. I was going along with you. Like, I don't know about that. Eric, you look like you wanted to say something with your own stream. no honestly I'm just loving this chat right now if I had something it's already gone that was great well that's why you invite the nine of us oh yeah he doesn't have to worry about entertaining anybody he can just worry about you know succeeding that's right this is actually a brilliant move to break much although I don't know how much or I don't know how entertaining talking about like cats is You know. Well, apparently it's going great. I mean, keep in mind, on most other channels at this point, like, if you're, like, looking at cable television, it's all infomercial. So it's like, yeah, you got Spain, cats, and pinball over here, but somebody else is trying to sell another towel. Like, I think we're beating the towel people. I would agree. Beating the towel people. Wonderful. By the way, we are beating them as in, like, we are doing better than they are. We're not actually, like, hurting the cow people. No, no, no. We are not whipping anybody. We are the resistance. We're beating them with cows. I don't know. I believe that's called a rat tail. George, Sir Snark wanted to know if you know what your next show is that you'll be attending. Oh, so going to Expo. Already over there. Going to Expo. Got tickets for that. And that's in September, October? I think it's in October. October. Now, I think there's a few other people potentially going to that show, maybe even in this stream right now. They got my hotel room. Oh, my God, Mr. Hardlock. Mr. Hardlock. Jedi. Yeah, that way. Um, that one is definitely happening. Uh, Pintastic may be happening. Uh, okay. Princess Jillian says I might go. Depends on promo. Last year, I couldn't go to Chicago Pinball Expo because it was the same weekend as the National Pinball Expo. And I was just like, I gotta support my local show coming back after COVID, right? It's not actually called National Pinball Expo. It's called Music City Multicon. Like, that's what it is. It's our pinball event every year. And so I was feeling kind of like, oh, I missed out. I really should have gone up to Chicago, but I feel like I made the right choice. And I was finally vindicated like two days ago because apparently I filmed Billy Mitchell playing Pac-Man at this event, and it's now being used in a lawsuit to prove Billy Mitchell is a liar. Again? More of this story, Joe. Okay, so Billy Mitchell, who is one of the subjects of the documentary King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters, has made all sorts of claims about setting world records that other people have said he cheated at. And he has sued them for defamation, claiming they're lying that he's a cheater. And one of the people he's suing is now using my footage. So they had this big announcement, Billy Mitchell is about to set a world record for a perfect score in Pac-Man, right? and so my daughter and I walked over to where we could see the projector and where Billy was playing and I was like let me film this I'll put this up on my YouTube channel maybe some of you don't think it's neat right it turned out he lied about having a perfect score oh my god and so that one of the big things in his defamation lawsuit is he's like well I can't be a cheater because all these people witnessed me accomplishing these goals or whatever and the fact that he like in It's not like an audience of like a thousand people said that he's got a perfect score in Pac-Man and didn't. And I have no one noticed it at the time. Well, actually, the funny thing is, when I upload it, somebody goes, that scores five thousand points too low. I think he calculated it wrong. And I'm like, well, I don't I don't know what random guy on the Internet says. Like, but no. But then. So yeah So it turns out this week that this guy who using in the lawsuit is like like this score 5 points too low because it happened earlier in the game I like oh wow So I missed Chicago Westville, but I have accidentally helped bring down Billy Mitchell. You've become a witness. Yeah. So I guess I'll take it, you know. Someone get killed. He has a lot of legal problems at this point. The walls are coming down, it seems like. Yep. I should probably go for that crappy hot sauce That was terrible Well, now might be the time to get it Unless you like prison hot sauce It's basically repackaged Frank's Oh, okay Wait, prison hot sauce or I imagine that that's like prison wine I mean, Frank's is kind of a commodity I don't know I was going to say, I don't know what you would make prison hot sauce out of Yeah, well, I think you'd have to let her mess I don't want to ask It's not the question you asked It's the question I asked and then immediately regretted it And immediately regretted it Hot dog, nice to see you Hey hot dog This is where I'm going to be bowing out for the night guys I'm trying to get back to a normal sleep schedule And the edges of things are starting to get damaged Welcome back guys Yeah, welcome back Quick, surreal, tell them a good joke So he laughs himself to sleep. Satan's butthole. It's all God. And hat work. Great being here. Good having you in here for the first time, Sammy. Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun being here. Yeah. I'd love to talk to you. Yeah. Next Monday, for sure. Good night, everyone. Someone please try to ping me via any form of electronic communications if it seems like this is the night that Jordan is going to beat this game. I don't think the mode is in here yet. I thought I was on push to talk, and I've been blowing my nose and stuff. My bad, y'all. Didn't hear it even once. You muted. Have a great night. Dice, go. Yeah. Dice, have a good night. Thank you so much for hanging out. See you, Dice. Already gone. I am missing every shot right now. Okay. Help defend. There's Georgian afloat. Jedi, you definitely did not jinx me. That said, last week, by the way, was my... I think my audio just died, because I can't hear anybody right now, but I see the mic going up. This happens when nobody's talking. Yeah, no, I wasn't talking. No, I was freaking out because it's like my mic keeps saying I'm transmitting, and I thought I was on place to talk, but it says I'm transmitting. I think something's up with Discord. I think there's something up with Discord because I was just watching the volume adjusting. But I can hear you guys now. Sorry, that's my bad. I'm saying everything accurately, so I'm seeing the little light-up thing every time somebody's talking. I think it was just one of those rare occasions where none of us were speaking. Okay, that was it. Hello, Shannon Stafford. Welcome. Hi, Shannon Stafford. Chaotix, hello. Alright, so I don't actually know what I'm trying to do right now. I think, oh, I'm in Working Man because these are orange colors, and the orange colors are associated with pylons, as we've been told, or orange work cones. I had no idea they were called pylons, though. Oh my gosh, get over there. Wait, do you mean traffic cones? Yes. Traffic cones are evidently called pylons by somebody. British, I think. Is that, okay, is that like the British term for them? I think so. Yeah, I can ask in the morning. It's too late over there now. Is that Zombie Cleo? Uh, no, uh, Badger Spanner. I don't know if you've met her, well, online at all. Because, like, you usually stream late at night. Uh. Friend from Norway awake. What are we asking, Europeans? Pylons? The traffic cones are called pylons. On it. Or the pylons, the big skinny ones that aren't actually cones. I think it's a tower. We call the skinny ones We call the skinny ones pylons. And then we've got the cylinders. Those are called like water barrels. Because they fill them with water so they don't blow away. Well, those are the big barrels. I'm talking about the, you know, four inch diameter long orange things that they use to differentiate lanes. Yeah, they look like sticks. Those ones I think are called pylons here. I see that. The bars on the side of the wall, are those supposed to go the same color as well? Yes. Now, Phillips Hue and Govee evidently have slightly different variations on the colors. Like, I can see this, like, red, white, kind of off-white color on the Phillips Hue. Okay. This is definitely... Okay, I can see it being outrageous orange on Phillips Hue, but on the... I'm not saying it looks outrageous. Bright green. Bright green? No, Kelly green. Oh, no, okay. I was going to turn it lime green for Joe, but he's already turning it. No, I was just changing it to Kelly green. I like that I can see your script pop up on your machine as that happens, George. How are you seeing the script pop up on my machine? Because you have your streaming PC in frame. In frame with? Oh, you can see it actually here, like, on the camera. Okay, cool. Yeah, it literally runs the script. You freaked me out there for a second. I'm like, dude, I knew that you were really good with computers, but come on. I also see my cat. Oh, yeah. The screen's good. The green looks so weird in the room. Yeah, yeah. So that's, because it's 3OC, 3OC, that's just something I have memorized for when I'm testing web dev stuff. Making George look like Kermit. Well, this is what pinball in the Matrix looks like. That'd be a good reduction. Time for George to sing the Rainbow Dome. It's not bad, actually. I have so many things written down, and I haven't had enough time to implement a lot of them. It is really hard to sing like Kermit. I spent like 45 minutes on that about two weeks ago, which is arguably part of why I don't get enough sleep. Because it's like 1 a.m. And I was like, what if I just watched the tape one more time? I bet I could really nail it. Like at the end of the day, it still came out like, Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? Rainbows are magic and also illusions Rainbows have nothing to hide And then I would drift into this Massachusetts, like, JFK accent, and I was like, I can't do this. We have a pitcher for the Giants that was, like, a better Kermit the Frog impressionist than he was a pitcher. And so I really hope that he's, like, opened up a new career for himself with that, because he doesn't play baseball anymore. But I totally, like, appreciate the difficulty of it and the fact that he was able to do that, like, sounding just like Kermit. I was going to have a backup, right? Right, yeah. I think it's good to have secondary careers. Hopdog asks, can we get a read of it as JFK? I mean, you can, but you're not going to like it. Let us be the judge of that. Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what's on the other side? Rainbows are magic, but also illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide. I like it. Arguably better. Like, not even arguably, definitely better. That's the same thing. My JFK is better than my Kermit when I'm sitting in character. I'm not saying it's better at being Kermit. I'm just saying it's just better. Now sing happy birthday, Mr. President, as Miss Piggy. I don't know. I don't think I've ever tried to do a Miss Piggy voice. Oh, oh. Happy birthday to you. That's not bad. You've got to say Kermie, though. To you. Happy birthday, my dear Kermie. Happy birthday to you. I think you're a worse one. It's pretty good. It started strong, yeah. Okay, I've literally never tried that. Whereas the Kermit thing I tried for like 45 minutes within the last two weeks. Okay, so. That was pretty dang good, I gotta say, for on the fly. When I say it started strong, I mean, it started strong really good. And it kind of faded, but you said there it was your first time trying it. Well, and that's the hardest thing I think about accents is maintaining them. Because anything I do, if I'm not careful, I'll just drift into the Irish tree. Like, I'll start off doing a New Zealand accent, and before you know, I'm somewhere between Scotland and Ireland. And it's hard to find on a map, but it's labeled the Irish Sea. I mean, sometimes you waffle towards, like, the north, but also, yeah. Squalido, hi there. Welcome. Alright. Oh, that was ball two. Okay, okay, we're good, we're good, we're doing fine. Do you think I could do an entire stream with an accent? I did make a commitment to do that at some point. Why? What was the trigger, though? I don't know, but then I think nothing just, yeah, probably. It sounds like whatever the trigger was, it was you hit it. You might have set a goal, and then the goal was hit, and now you have to do this at some point. Do you want coaching on accents? I would love coaching on accents. So my favorite accent, the one that brings me the most joy, is the San Dimas accent from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. And for that, you just kind of have to open your mouth a little bit and smile more than feels natural and lift your arms up and be like, oh, what a foundational evening of pinball we have had. We came together as friends and we left as friends who played pinball together. So, the Californian of this group, I've never met a single California human being who sounds like that. But you don't have to. Because it was immortalized by Bill and Ted anyway. Sure. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to do this and do the thing. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Is that a recording, Ice-Kidoo, or is that you just doing it? It's me. Oh, my God, that was great. That was great. I mean, you've, you know, geographically, you're pretty close to Boston anyway, aren't you? You're in Maine. Manu, join us. Do you want to jump in, Manu? I will send you an invite, and then you'll have to leave again when you get to this. Yeah, I love that Manu is always in this group except for when he gets annoyed. Yeah, and then he's just out. You know what? I get it. It's a late night call at, like, a really weird hour. I get the frustration with being in that call. Yeah, he declined it, so then he sent it again. Come on, Manu. I'm guessing Manu is actually testing the RIP Theater right now, and that's why he... Yeah, he says, no, no, no. I accidentally typed your ticket command. But also, come on, Manu. Come join us. I imagine he has a ton of work left to do for the Rift Theater, right? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's good. We've got lots of fun things planned. He's just making little polishing tweaks. So, Riel, can you say if the movie pick for Good Friday is something that ties back into Easter somehow? Well, I didn't know that it was Good Friday until today when one of my other co-workers said, you know, thank God we're off. And I said, why? Because it's Good Friday. And I go, well, now it is. Now it's a great Friday. Yes. Now it is not an ass Friday. So I don't know what the movie is. I hope it's epic. Epic was a great movie. I mean, you could even do something like Harvey because it has a giant rabbit or, um, what else has a giant rabbit in it? Who framed Roger Rabbit? Yeah, who framed Roger Rabbit? It's not a great story. European friend. Oh, sorry. No, no. Because I'm answering the pylon question. Oh. So, Norwegian friend. So, if that's a UK thing, they do call them pylons. Okay, so I wasn't insane No They call them a word I can't pronounce In Norway, but that's fine See, but what are the protoss things? Is it like the umlauts and something with a slash through it? No, it's not a K It's spelled K-J-E-G-L-E-R Which is a combination of letters that doesn't work in my brain How do you say that? K-J-E-G-L-E-R K-J-E-G-L-E-R? K-J-E-G-L-E-R Just like it happened. It just rolled off your... It was very well done. It's pronounced exactly the way it's spelled. But it could be pronounced Kedler, because I think sometimes J's are like Y. No? Speak Norwegian. I mean, I actually did get Swedish lessons recently, but it was from somebody from Poland. So, I mean, my Norwegian is going to be a very questionable event. Sounds like a sweet deal. Ha! Another point. I don't know why you're going to give me a point for that. No. No. What? A sweet deal? I refuse that point. That was terrible. The sweet deal? That was great. What are you kidding? Did I make up a pun? I'm not going to play this game. It's not a game. It's real life. Puns are the thing That's true but I haven't been Keeping count of whatever it is that I have I don't think that I've had any minuses There might have been one or two I don't think we do minuses I didn't think we were being evaluated at all I don't think I got an evaluation Yeah The test will come later Joe I mean luckily I'm really good at tests Because tests are usually structured in a consistent way regardless of my knowledge of the source material. Just as long as your answer is always C, you're statistically going to do well. Yeah. I'm right there with you. Oh, my God. So I have a history degree. And, like, 90% of getting a degree in American history is being able to keep Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire straight in your head. Because then if you're like, okay, I need to write an essay, it's like, how did this affect American culture? It's like, well, keep in mind, this was occurring at the same time as the other three things in this verse that we didn't start the fire. You're done. You know, I read the curriculum that I had. Joe, I think you're the only history major that I've ever met who didn't go into law. Well, so the thing is, there's two main career tracks for history majors. Military and law. My original plan, I was in ROTC to be part of Naval ROTC to be a Marine Corps infantry officer. And I had some medical issues and I got disqualified. And then I was like, well, I'm almost done with this degree anyway, so I guess I'll finish it. And then I thought about going to law school, but the 2008 recession hit and everybody decided to go to law school. And all of a sudden law schools were overpopulated and they were like, we're going to have more lawyers than we have jobs. So I was like, I guess I'll fall back on my job of being a Linux sysadmin, or I'll fall back on my hobby of screwing around with Linux servers, you know? And so I became a Linux sysadmin and developer. I love how people's hobbies, or I love it when hobbies become jobs. It's happened to me twice now. Same. Although, I never got a full-time or full-paid job out of my hobbies. But I do have a part-time job with one of my hobbies. You are now admitting that this is your hobby, George? You're a fucking open-ball streamer. Don't let that turn clear. Oh my god! No, not... This is a hobby. Hobby amateur. you can tell it's amateur for sure with all of the good quality cameras okay we gotta rethink this strategy oh hey we got we got another one this one's gotta go to Chaotix who cheered 100 bits last Chaotix if you're still on what are your initials oh you're still on you're right there yeah my only fans you could be a hobby look at me now same okay okay well what else is a hobby actually so I used to write about sports for free so that's not technically a hobby that's like unpaid labor so now I get paid for it so I think that's not the same thing but I'll take it it depends was it a blog or were you an intern It was a blog, but it was owned by Vox Media, so, you know, it's not like they can't afford to pay people. I still work there, so I have to be very careful about what I'm saying. Okay, yeah. But I started working for one of their sites, covering the Golden State Warriors, unnamed, and the most I've ever worked. Huh. That sounds kind of like a weird internship. Yeah. that's interesting is that how you got into then sports writing was by like subscribing or being a part now I'm curious how did how did how did that come about was it a they had an opening kind of thing and they they hired a bunch of people did you know someone how does that how does that start kind of like a mix of all of the things so when I first broke in I so um a lot of the Vox Media's sports sites have, like, things called fan posts, where they're, like, encouraging their community to write posts, and then they promote them. And so I wrote a few of those that got, like, huge traction, and so then I got, quote-unquote, hired by the site that covered the Golden State Warriors, and then that got the attention of the site that ran the Giants site that I currently work for and have worked for for the last several years. and um so then but then he brought me on and he made sure that I got like some money I think at first he paid me in coffee which I appreciate it was something but yeah no so later on things have been restructured and there have been there are people that have like full-time benefits all that kind of stuff jobs and then for people like me who it's like it really is just a hobby for me I get paid for it but there's not like huge expectations and also I can kind of choose my own schedule, so it's best of both worlds for me. But it did, getting that first quote unquote unpaid job, not unpaid, or it's not a job if it's unpaid, it's something else entirely, but that did lead to getting better opportunities to the point where I actually got to cover the World Series in 2019, so that was really cool. That's awesome, yeah. And they did pay me for that, so. Okay, well, yeah, if you're going to cover the World Series, they should probably pay you for that. Yeah. Hello, Paul. Welcome in. Hey, Paul. And just in time, it's quarter after 12 here in Colorado. I think that is going to be it for tonight. I thought I was still on the chat view, and I wasn't. Thank you, everyone. And when I say everyone, I definitely mean everyone. Sammy, welcome for the first time in. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Joe Hill's surreal and I ski-do. thank you each so much for joining as well. You're welcome. I think everybody here streams. So I'm going to go through the list. Check out twitch.tv slash iSkiDo. Check out twitch.tv slash JoeHills. Check out twitch.tv slash SammyHiggins, S-A-M-I. And lastly, check out twitch.tv slash surreal underscore seven. All four of these wonderful people are streamers on Twitch. and potentially other platforms as well. I know, Joe, you're also on YouTube very heavily and not Facebook. Nothing Facebook. And not Facebook, exactly. Does anyone else stream to other platforms right now? I'll take that as a no. Oh, sorry, Sammy. Yeah, S-A-M-I. But George did literally spell it out, but, you know. I appreciate it, Surreal. I appreciate you, Surreal. Oh, and I met, okay. Oh my God, I'm never doing this again. Forget it. You guys can do this. Yeah, but I messed up ice cream news, too. That's all right. Thank you for the thought. I'm going to shout out Bumper Nugget just because. Shout out everybody. Shout out everyone. You guys, thank you so much. New cameras were functional this evening. Everything looked okay. The play field looks pretty good. I ended up having to drop some of the color down. I thought I had the ISO set correctly before I got started, but things were a little bright. So we got some of the external lights turned off. You can take off those and things start getting really, really dark over here. But, yeah, really happy, I guess, with the quality again at this point. Thank you so much for joining us. And we'll be back on tomorrow. I think tomorrow I'm going to be making a concerted effort to try to save Xandar on Guardians of the Galaxy. So hope to see you all then. Ooh. Yay. Very nice. I think that's it, you guys. Have a great night. And thank you again. You too. Night. Bye, Chad. Have you been inundated with ads and questions related to TPN's now famous homemade pinball pudding line of puddings? Questions like... TPN's pinball pudding is so good, it must be illegal, right? What the fuck is pinball pudding? How can a collection of content creators also be a pudding? That makes no sense. And we hear you. 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