# Stream 492: The Mandalorian (Stern) PRO

**Source:** Don't Panic Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2021-10-20  
**Duration:** 127m 52s  
**Beat:** Pinball

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

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## Analysis

George from Don't Panic Flip streams gameplay of The Mandalorian (Stern) Pro, discussing the game's layout, code implementation, mini-wizard modes, and comparing Pro vs. Premium editions. The stream features casual banter about Pinball Expo attendance, Battle Stern Stars tournament, personal collection updates, and community interactions with viewers.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] The Mandalorian playfield layout is improving with repeated play; upper playfield implementation is incomplete with more code features pending — _George discussing game quality: 'The more I play this game, the more I think I like the layout and the game... I just don't think everything's been implemented yet'_
- [HIGH] Mini-wizard modes received significant development effort and are well-executed in The Mandalorian — _George: 'The mini-wizard modes are fantastic... that's obviously where a decent amount of the effort went'_
- [MEDIUM] Premium Edition of The Mandalorian has better upper playfield stability but more difficult horseshoe ramp shot compared to Pro — _George comparing editions: Premium helps with upper playfield but 'you lose in this little horseshoe... that is much, much harder to hit'_
- [HIGH] George owns Star Wars: Fall of the Empire, James Cameron's Avatar Limited Edition, Stranger Things, AC/DC Pro, Total Nuclear Annihilation, and Stars machines — _Direct statement of current machine collection on stream_
- [HIGH] George is attending Pinball Expo next week and will have reduced streaming availability — _George: 'I'm leaving Monday morning... expect no streams on Monday or Tuesday for sure'_
- [HIGH] John Popaduke designed The Mandalorian playfield — _George: 'It was actually designed by John Popadiuk'_
- [HIGH] Battle Stern Stars tournament is scheduled for Thursday at 9 PM Mountain Time (10 PM Central, 11 PM Eastern) — _George: 'Battle Stern Stars this Thursday... 9 o'clock instead of 10 o'clock Mountain Time'_
- [MEDIUM] Godzilla delivery is expected to arrive while George is at Pinball Expo, creating a missed delivery situation — _George: 'What would suck is that Godzilla is going to get slated for delivery next week. You know that's going to happen while I'm gone'_
- [HIGH] George prefers Whistlepig 86-proof 10-year aged whiskey over higher proof variants — _George discussing new whiskey purchase: 'This one's only 86 proof, so you can drink more of it in one sitting'_

### Notable Quotes

> "The more I play this game, the more I think I like the layout and the game, and the more I think we need to see the rest of the code."
> — **George**, Early in gameplay
> _Indicates cautious optimism about The Mandalorian's design while flagging incomplete code implementation_

> "The mini-wizard modes are fantastic. So, like, that's obviously where a decent amount of the effort went, was in developing the multi-level, multi-stage mini-wizard modes."
> — **George**, During gameplay discussion
> _Highlights a strong design element while suggesting uneven development effort distribution_

> "I have not played the Premium Edition. That said, I did battle Manu, aka Mystery Pinball Theater 3000. He was on a Premium Edition. I was on the Stern AC/DC (Pro Vault Edition). And I think he's played both and prefers the Premium Edition."
> — **George**, Responding to viewer question
> _Indicates different player preferences for Pro vs. Premium editions based on competitive play experience_

> "I'm leaving Monday morning, which means expect, because of Pinball Expo, likely no streams next week."
> — **George**, Mid-stream announcement
> _Sets expectations for content hiatus during major industry event_

> "It was actually designed by John Popadiuk."
> — **George**, During gameplay
> _Confirms designer attribution for The Mandalorian playfield_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| George | person | Host of Don't Panic Flip stream, pinball enthusiast and collector hosting gameplay commentary |
| John Popaduke | person | Pinball game designer credited as creator of The Mandalorian playfield |
| Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 | person | Pinball player and community member who has played both Pro and Premium versions of The Mandalorian; competed against George |
| The Mandalorian | game | Stern Pinball machine being played and discussed throughout stream; comes in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition variants |
| Star Wars: Fall of the Empire | game | Stern Pinball machine in George's collection; mentioned multiple times during stream |
| Godzilla | game | Pinball machine expected to arrive at George's location; delivery timing conflicts with Pinball Expo attendance |
| Pinball Expo | event | Major annual pinball industry event occurring next week; George attending with streaming equipment |
| Battle Stern Stars | event | Pinball tournament scheduled for Thursday at 9 PM MT; George competing as part of broadcast coverage |
| Don't Panic Flip | organization | George's pinball streaming show/channel |
| Stern Pinball | company | Manufacturer of The Mandalorian and other machines discussed on stream |
| Dave | person | Co-host or contributor from Silverball Chronicles; chose Eric for Battle Stern Stars tournament team allegiance instead of George |
| Eric | person | Tournament player and personality; tournament host; strong Star Wars knowledge; Dave's chosen team for Battle Stern Stars |
| Jon Hey | person | Personality associated with Wormhole Pinball; merch worn by George on stream |
| Fliptronic | person | Streamer/community member not streaming on normal schedule due to Pinball Expo preparation; wearing merch George is promoting |
| James Cameron's Avatar Limited Edition | game | Pinball machine in George's collection |
| Stranger Things | game | Pinball machine in George's collection |
| Total Nuclear Annihilation | game | Spooky Pinball game (TNA) in George's collection; mentioned as having triggered audio reactions |
| Stars | game | Classic pinball machine in George's collection; purchased from New Jersey shipper for approximately $2,500 |
| Silverball Chronicles | organization | Pinball podcast with upcoming episodes; Dave and Rob associated with it |
| Dialed In Collectors Edition | person | Longtime stream viewer who recently became published author; George owes them a book |

### Topics

- **Primary:** The Mandalorian (Stern) game design and code implementation, Pro vs. Premium edition feature comparisons, Pinball Expo attendance and coverage plans
- **Secondary:** Battle Stern Stars tournament, George's personal pinball machine collection, Gameplay strategy and mini-wizard modes
- **Mentioned:** Community interactions and viewer engagement, Whiskey/beverage reviews

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.72) — George expresses genuine enthusiasm for The Mandalorian's playfield and gameplay progression, particularly praising mini-wizard modes. Excitement about Pinball Expo attendance and tournament play is evident. Minor frustrations during gameplay are lighthearted. Overall tone is upbeat and community-focused.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Active viewer engagement on stream with mod assignments, book exchanges, and tournament team discussions indicating strong community participation (confidence: high) — Multiple viewer interactions: moderation assignments, book promises, tournament team allegiance discussions with Dave/Eric
- **[event_signal]** Battle Stern Stars tournament scheduled Thursday 9 PM MT with Eric as featured player; George competing in tournament play (confidence: high) — George: 'Battle Stern Stars this Thursday... 9 o'clock instead of 10 o'clock Mountain Time'
- **[design_philosophy]** Mini-wizard modes represent a significant development priority in The Mandalorian, with multi-level, multi-stage complexity indicating intentional design focus (confidence: high) — George: 'The mini-wizard modes are fantastic... that's obviously where a decent amount of the effort went, was in developing the multi-level, multi-stage mini-wizard modes'
- **[event_signal]** Pinball Expo occurring next week with significant community attendance; George attending with streaming equipment for coverage (confidence: high) — George: 'I'm leaving Monday morning... expect no streams next week... I'm bringing all of my streaming gear'
- **[market_signal]** Secondary market pricing for classic machines: Stars pinball available at $2,500 shipped and installed (normally ~$1,500 base price) (confidence: medium) — George: 'That Stars behind me there, I had shipped out from New Jersey... it was closer to $2,500. But still, a pinball machine shipped to your front door and set up in your house for $2,500'
- **[community_signal]** Fliptronic preparing for Pinball Expo with modified streaming schedule; merger of streaming activities and industry event participation (confidence: medium) — George: 'Fliptronic didn't get to stream on their normal night as they prep for heading out to Pinball Expo next week'
- **[product_strategy]** Clear feature differentiation between Pro and Premium editions: Premium offers better upper playfield stability but more difficult horseshoe ramp; Pro has easier ball retention on initial bounce (confidence: high) — George comparing: 'Blackwater 100% of the time just hold up the left flipper... whereas about maybe 25% to 50% of the time, I lose the ball... So there's a benefit there, but what you gain... you lose in this little horseshoe'
- **[product_strategy]** The Mandalorian's code implementation appears incomplete with additional features pending; mini-wizard modes received significant development focus but upper playfield functionality still in development (confidence: high) — George: 'I just don't think everything's been implemented yet... The mini-wizard modes are fantastic... that's obviously where a decent amount of the effort went'

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## Transcript

 Open your eyes, what can you see around? Winds of the open sky, over the sparrows' lounge This is a dream, getting the royal scar Holding a diamond blade, throwing it far Hold down your breath still You jump the front wheel, just sit and wait until you fly. He's got his thumbs down, he's got the wrong guy. He's got the wrong guy. I'm trying to tell me you got the wrong guy Open your eyes What can you see around Wind of the open sky Over the siren sound This is a dream, getting the royal scar Holding the diamond blade, throwing it far Holding your breath still, you try to fight Will just stand and wait, will You gotta tell me you got the wrong guy Got the wrong Got the wrong Got the wrong Got the wrong Then try to tell me you got the wrong thing Open your eyes, what can you see around? Wind of the open sky, over the siren sound This is a dream, getting the royal scar Holding a diamond blade, throwing it far Holding your breath still You turn the fire little Just sit and wait until You got it, then try to tell me you got that wrong guy You got the wrong guy Got the wrong Got the wrong guy Got the wrong guy And try to tell me you got the wrong guy Open your eyes, what can you see around? Winds of the open sky, over the siren sound This is a dream, getting the royal scar Holding the diamond blade, throwing it far Holding your breath still You jump the sky We'll just sit and wait Till the sun comes back Oh, my God. Sorry. This screen. Hello. Good evening. Welcome, everyone. My name is George. This show is Don't Panic Flip. And tonight, Dice, good evening. Wait for the sound. The night will last forever. Good evening, witches, warlocks, and all other configurations of spellcasting peoples. dice saying hello to all of the non-muggle folk. Welcome, you guys. We've got more, hopefully, well-mixed sound. Iron Fox Dibs, welcome as well. And tonight, we're going to play some more Mandalorian. At least that's the hope. And maybe even play it well, I'm not sure. Midheart! MPT-3K! Stop going... Dude, MPT-3K, I went on at exactly 10 o'clock. Regardless, MPD3K, welcome. I get to hang out with you, not on Tuesday, not on Wednesday, but I'm picking you up Thursday, I think, next week from O'Hare Airport, right? It's 1108. Well, mostly, yeah. I was at Captain Zan's stream to donate to their charity. Dude, awesome. Evil Peach is so jelly of everyone going to Expo. I'm excited. I'm so excited. On top of that, I picked up another Whistlepig tonight that is, I think it was only 86 proof, 10 years aged. And it hasn't traveled around the world, but it's traveled from California to Vermont and then apparently back on a truck. Like, it ages in a truck as it's driving around or it's finished. I don't know. I'll have to go grab the bottle at some point. But it looks really cool. Ice Ski-Doo, welcome. Fix your clock. Yeah, okay. This one's only 86 proof, so you can drink more of it in one sitting. That's the, like, it's less harsh, so it's all the flavor of Whistlepig, but without the, like... And it's awesome. It is really good. I think I have found the new bottle of whiskey that I want. Ooh, like in the rave. Yeah. Speaking about that, so I am wearing Fliptronic shirt and not poor boy. Loser Kid. Loser Kid Pinball Podcast hat. MPT3K, I redeemed a t-shirt, a medium tri-blender death MPT3K shirt. MPT3K, where is my shirt? Oh, we had a first-time chat from a viewer, which was moderated instantly by Dice. Yes, I did. MPT3K redeemed it, and then you asked me what the medium, what size, and I said, if you remember, I had a large and it didn't fit anymore. I needed a medium, but I have not received my shirt yet. I did. It's redeemed. We can go back and check. I don't, I don't, I guess you probably have to do a lot of scroll. You have so many redemptions, it's ridiculous. Yeah. Who are you going to believe? you or me? Sure, okay, I would trust MPT3K over me. But, I'm sporting Fliptronic tonight who unfortunately didn't get to stream on their normal night as they prep for heading out to Expo next week, which is so cool. I'm a shmedium. Oh, Dice, by the way, went back and watched the first two episodes of Gravity Falls. This is going to be a first here. Dice, you were right. I feel like I missed out. Like, maybe I must not have been paying as much attention the first time through in Gravity Falls, but I was laughing, like, spit-take-style laughing at a couple of moments in the first episode, and that was it. That triggered it. Now I'm like, okay, I'm ready for the second episode. So, yeah. Lynn in Denver watches the camera slowly track to the left. Lynn, what are you talking about? MPT-3K is on it. Well, I just, like, when I'm at, I'm going to be bringing this. I got my Loser Kid hat. Like, I want to wear other people's stuff while I'm at Expo. And I can't wear MPT-3K's stuff because I don't have any of MPT-3K's stuff. I know. It went from me seeing a quarter of the microwave to all of the microwave. And there you have the luxurious microwave from the Wyatt condominiums in Fort Collins. Quit dancing around. I'm getting motion sick. Sorry. I ski-do. This is where we live. We live right here. I don't want to see any of this. None of this. None of that. None of this. Nope. Nope. This is where we live. This is where we live. Free microwave with every condo. What a bargain. by Grab Thaw's Hammer. What a savings. So, we've got whiskey. Really good whiskey. Like, I am pretty much, that is the whistle pig I'm picking. Nerd. Thank you, Lynn. I'll take that one as a compliment. Normally, it's funny, there's certain words that, like, trigger a reaction. One of them is canned tuna. For sure. Dice. canned tuna will trigger that like, ugh. Nerd is actually another one. I, for whatever reason, never liked nerd because I feel like a nerd and a geek were very similar except a geek had style and I feel like I've always had style. And to say, call someone a nerd is like, you're into nerdy things, but you also lack social grace. Honestly, now that I say that out loud, nerd probably pegs me perfectly. uh it's not actually moving like it used to anti-tilt bob i i prefer bagged tuna from the cat station oh my god so much easier to open than the can all right guys so what do we have coming up on tpn uh we've got uh i don't know what do we have we have uh a new the only we've only got two events. We've got a new podcast coming from Silverball Chronicles. I may not ever wear that shirt again after Dave on the Discord chat kind of dropped me so easily. I was like, hey, look! I wore your shirt last night and I sent him a little image or a graphic of it. Hey, Ogden, I'm not big on the social graces. I completely understand. And I don't remember what the circumstances was, but he basically is like, no, I'm not supporting George. Oh, that's what it was. So Dave and Rob, I think from Silver Ball Chronicles, Dave responded, he is Team Eric for this Thursday. This Thursday is the next Iron Pinball Battle Stern Stars. Boom, that guy right there. So Battle Stern Stars this Thursday, and that's going on a little bit earlier than normal. That's 9 o'clock instead of 10 o'clock Mountain Time. If you're in Central, that would mean I'm going on at 10 o'clock Central or 11 o'clock Eastern. And Dave was, I'm Team Eric. Now, there's two things about that. Let me slip on down to the Oasis. Wait, what? Leave it all on my roots. I showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair. I feel like I missed out on something. Oh, wait, can we expect 24-hour coverage of the con, including especially the after parties. I don't know. If we have internet at the booth, I think there's going to be a ton of coverage. I'm bringing all of my streaming gear with the hope that there is internet at the booth, but I don't know for certain. But going back to the story, Dave chose Team Eric, and first, Eric is not wearing Super Bowl Chronicles merch, right? Like, that should have been wholeheartedly behind me regardless of skill. Two, like, I'm If there was money on it, I would also be Team Eric. There's no question. Eric is an amazing player, an amazing tournament player, an amazing personality when it comes to commentating on tournaments, hosts all the biggest tournaments, and knows Stern Stars. So I'm expecting to lose by a lot. That said, Dave, Dave, right here, right here. Dave, you should have been Team George. I was wearing the merch. There won't be any after parties like the drinking stream. Titanics, a.k.a. Meat Jello, welcome to the stream. Ty, how are you doing? It's just you and I on this one. George is lost. I'm so sorry. Okay, time for bed. Good night. Lynn in Denver. Wait, we're both in the same time zone. This is the way. Thank you so much, Lynn. And I really do hope that we can get to This Is The Way tonight. This isn't Godzilla. No, Vertzilla. But, but, but, the distributor pinged me asking for my phone number. So I think that's, I mean, that's obviously a sign in the right direction. I'm really hoping, what would suck is that Godzilla is going to get slated for delivery next week. You know that's going to happen while I'm gone. So also, heads up, I'm leaving Monday morning, which means expect, because of Expo, likely no streams next week. All right? Normal streams Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Expect no streams on Monday or Tuesday for sure. And there may be streams, but it could be on a plethora of different channels from Expo. There will be coverage. There will be recordings. I'm bringing all the gear. Little Bubblegum! Audrey! Hi! Welcome! What are you doing? You're back on Twitch? That's amazing. Hi. I stopped mid-shift to come say hi. Blame Manu. That's a sign, all right. She is pooping. So when you stopped, you went to the bathroom, and you're pooping while you're saying hi. Hi, Audrey. Just have them deliver it to your neighbor or friend. Oh, right, to Grayson, who may, Grayson may be gracing us with his presence this evening. I'm not sure. I'm assuming he's going to jump on at some point and say hi. And if that's the case, he's more than welcome to jump over. That said, it's probably going to be a little awkward with this because I can hear things. I don't know. What else? We're going to play some pinball. George, your place is looking good. Thank you. Thank you. Let's do this. Oh, this is ball one already. We're here. So let's switch over. Boom. Look at this play field. This play field is gorgeous. The more I play this game, the more I think I like the layout and the game, and the more I think we need to see the rest of the code. I'm not even going to say that I don't like the code. I just don't think everything's been implemented yet, and there's some things I love about it. The mini-wizard modes are fantastic. So, like, that's obviously where a decent amount of the effort went, was in developing the multi-level, multi-stage mini-wizard modes. But that upper playfield, not a fan. Have I seen Ambush? MPT3K, I saw Ambush with you. You were the one recommending that night to get to Ambush. That's when we got it. Live catch, Pinball. Welcome to the stream. Grayson will be eye candy for Audrey, right? If we get BumperNugget in here, who I think it might still be driving back from, I don't know, like Iowa or something. Oh, eye candy? Pour moi? Finally, an upgrade for this itch. Oh, my God. Oh, man. Knivey tries! Hi! Live catch, it has been a hot minute. Absolutely. Stream bird into host. Oh, God, it's hard to type so badly. I said that perfectly, I feel like. All right, let's see if we can find these shots. Ooh, do you hear that crisp audio coming in? That's direct audio from the game. That's direct audio from this mic mixed together, pulled in audio from the computer, and what's the other? Oh, and also music being played direct. Mr. Hardluck, welcome to the stream. We're doing all the things now. DPF, shats yourself. Times three. Three. What are we drinking? Okay, first things first, we've got some Whistlepig Whiskey. Trying it out. Just picked up a bottle of it tonight. And the other one is actually one of my new favorite drinks. Let's see if we can hit this right ramp. Got it. On the fly. Left ramp on the fly. Boom. Feeling good. Crap it up. In the scoop. I mean, that's where I wanted it to go to start the mode. Let's see if this pops out. There we go. There we go. We're cool. We're fine. We're all fine here. So what I need to do is get the ball over to the right flipper so I can start my encounters. Obviously, that was intentional. There it is. There it is. There it is. So that's how we're letting the ball get over as safely as possible now. Oof, in the chat, boys, I do want to become famous. Thank you so much for asking. Ooh, pig pink. Unfortunately, Iron Fox is not a color. Live catch, no game. Are you guys not getting the game? The game audio should be... Oh, there's no music. It's just the call-out. Alright, bonus level. Whatever. Alright. Alright. Level 1 done, though. Now we're on to level 2. We're going to start a multiball if we hit that center. Can you backhand the left ramp? Hey, Ogden, I can backhand it for a very short period of time. Like, right there. And then at some point, the flipper just isn't powerful enough to continue making it. and the reject down that left ramp is real. It goes straight down the middle. Got level two. All right, coming up on level three. Don't make me a mod so I can vicious mockery these bots in the astral plane. I don't know. Can I do that with one hand here? Slash. Mod. Snivy. tries... Boom! MPT-3K got it. Snivy tries. I think you should be a mod now. MPT-3K, thank you so much for modding that. Alright, now we're gonna try and... Oh no. Crap, we lit scope. I should never go for scope never go for scope although I got 200 Beskar but I lost a ball yes, look at that, you got that sword Jurassic or Mando? all day Jurassic, all day live catch, I don't know if you know this but Jurassic is my all time favorite game All right, looks like we've got one more up top. I know it feels very wood choppy because it is. All right, we're on bonus levels. All right, let's catch back up. Don't you dare make him a mod before... Ice Ski-Doo, you're not a mod. I feel like everybody just needs to be modded. Ice Ski-Doo, you absolutely need to be a mod. Boom. You did not know. Jurassic Park is amazing on levels. The integration between the artwork, the play field, the multi-state toy with the truck, and then the graphics and integration on the stream. Legos 88. Thank you very much for that follow. Thank you. um it it all comes together with a play field that has once you figure out that play field it has a surprising amount of flow and and on top of that like a flexibility to how you you initiate and obtain that flow especially if you can hit that o shot if you can hit the o shot the flow in that game is spectacular big follow okay i see do boom dropping the hammer on that one. So now we are done with Encounter Level 1. We're about to start Razorcrest, but what I need to do first is hit that mission. All the way around. That did not work out well. What am I at? 274 on the best card. Let's grab Child. Not good. Bouncy, bouncy. There it is. Oh! There it is. Give me something good. Give me something good. Nope. Thank you, game. Increase ambush by 200. 2 million. So I'm going to try and hit this right ramp. Got it. Now we're going to go foundry. All right. I am going to pass and save my 320 Beskar. I want to grab that extra ball. Live catch. I have a pro. Love playing it. Great COBO layout, theme, and code. The O-shot could be a bit easier. That would be perfection. I'm afraid that if the O-shot was easy, it wouldn't be as fun. Fletronic, I agree. This is a pretty rad shirt. And I finally got one that actually fits me. All right, we got our extra ball here. I'm going to let this bounce over. And now we're in a multiball. Now we get into that multiball. I should never be a mod, Mr. Hardluck. Such power should never be used for the jokes, and that's all I do. Mr. Hardluck, I won't put the responsibility of modship on anyone who doesn't want that responsibility. All right, let's try not to brick everything. Wow. Obviously intentional. It behooves you to play poorly. Okay, we're good. We're good here. I think the mode is done. Yeah, our first mode is done, and maybe we're on mode two? I don't know. Okay, nice little jump there We're going to go middle, trap up afterwards That worked out swimmingly Beautiful, beautiful Let's see if we can backhand that left ramp again. It's my bedtime. Audrey, have a great night. Thank you so much for stopping by. It was really good to see you. Darn it. Whatevs. I do what I want. Let's see here. What machines do you have at this moment? Live catch. I've got Mandalorian, Star Trek LE, Stranger Things Pro, Total Nuclear Annihilation and Stars. I also forgot to turn on two of the pinball machines. Snivy, did I miss the shot? Oh, I missed it! I gotta go back up. Wait. Sitting here, this Snivy so proud, by this community, he's totally wowed. The love and support they show to the streamer, he's shooting for stars, an eternal dreamer. He's got those he can trust to keep the chat clean this pristine log no bot can demean. Nice word usage there. And while we defend his chat from the bots, we cheer DPF on while he hits shots. This stream is the one where he beats the game. Grandmaster on Mando needs his name. Well said. Fliptronic, one more week till I'm in Chicago. Fliptronic, I'm looking forward to hanging out with you in Chicago. And Jordan. I like my shirt more since it clearly reads Fliptronic, so people know that I'm promoting and not just a fan. This could be F for my last name. You don't know. It works doubly so. Why do I feel like I'm still in a mission? I think it's because I am. Got it. All right, so that mission should be done. And I need to hit... I should hit Hunter over here. There it goes. I'm going to go for this right orbit. Can you guys hear the music? Aeon Black, welcome to the stream. George is just pressing F to pay respects with that shirt. F in chat. George, 4-0 good. I've also got to read books to the kids and finish this game, George. Bye. Manu, have a great night. Thank you so much for hanging out. All right. What do we got to do here? We can light a mission that's going to go all the way around. I just need to hit this left orbit to grab more Beskar. Got it. Beautiful, beautiful. Now we're at 684. We've got our extra ball. Yes. Okay. Thank you, game. Thank you. Thank you. Light extra ball. Donezo. RJ Birdman, it's impossible to get into the game. Pinball, maybe one day I'll finally own one. It is not impossible. RJ Birdman, there are plenty of places you can go play outside on location if you want to. And you don't always have to go like the newest and the best. On the pinball machines, you can grab an older machine for a lot less than what you pay for one of the new ones. In fact, that's what, oh, nope, other side, reverse. That Stars behind me there, I had shipped out from New Jersey. And it was, normally it should be like maybe $1,500 for a Stars. With shipping and the fact that I wanted it so bad, I couldn't talk him down in price. It was closer to $2,500. But still, a pinball machine shipped to your front door and set up in your house for $2,500. That not it nowhere near as expensive as the other ones It still a really expensive hobby I give you that And George won keep either All right what am I doing I got scope lit and I want to hit this mission over here Oh my god, I can see when someone's first chat happens. Snivy tribe! Now that you're a mod, you can see it. Lots of location play and lots of older games that are awesome. Anne Black is right there with me. Hey, by the way, I no longer in my head pronounce it Eon, and I just say Aeon now. That happened. Very true, thanks. You're not wrong. RJ Birdman, one of my favorite phrases. You get one shot. Okay, I really don't care right now about trying to grab that. So whistling birds and gem packs. Oh, to grab that. What's going on? Time out already. Jeez. Great. I've got my second encounter lit here on the left ramp. Oh no. Not good. Try that again. There it is. All right. Let's beat this first level of the counter. Darn it. It's fine. Nice and easy here. Going right back up. We've got it. This target you have to bank. You can't hit directly. Darn it. All right. We're going to try and hit this left ramp one more time. We've got it. This is level one Z. There it is. We got it. Level one done. Two more levels. Really not good. Okay, we're fine. We're fine here. Now what we're going to do is we're going to start our mode, and to do so, I'm going hit the middle ramp and try to trap up on the left flipper. All much easier, safer shots. Loser, kid! What do you think of that hat right there? I agree. Super nice hat. Boom. So what we're trying to do tonight, guys, is actually make it to the end sequence on this game. Wow. There it is. All right, so we've got our third mode started. We're on our second encounter. Now, if you guys saw that fun video of how do you get to the mini wizard mode for Razor Crest, it's all about that middle shot, right? So we're going to start our hurry up. And now I really don't care. I'm just going to try and hit this encounter. Oh, no longer have the power. We are the opposite of He-Man. We no longer have the power, and how frustrating is that? So what I'm going to do is hit the middle, grab that hurry up, and then try to let it safely bounce from the left to the right, since I can't post-transfer on this game, which is super frustrating. We're going to hit it again. That worked out swimmingly. Third time? Third time's a charm. that works enough now we're going to hit this left ramp got it see if we can complete level two of encounter two three levels for each encounter last shot there got it we need to move beautiful now we're ready to hit and start our third level of the encounter crim Crimson looks really good. I skeed you, thank you. Have you played Mando Premium? If so, how does it compare? I have not played the Premium. That said, I did battle Manu, aka MPT3K. He was on a Premium. I was on the Pro. And I think he's played both and prefers the Premium. And I feel like I only won that game based on luck that night in the battle. I think the Premium helps you out in the upper play field, the one that rotates up, although it does get harder the more you progress. When it goes, the more vertical it goes. But you can 100% of the time just hold up the left flipper and trap every time, whereas about maybe 25% to 50% of the time, I lose the ball down the middle just based on that first bounce as it comes out without ever hitting the ball. So there's a benefit there, but what you gain, I think, in that upper play field, and when MPT3 comes back on, I think he also is fairly opinionated about the two, I think you lose in this little horseshoe. The horseshoe right there that's currently lit yellow is a ramp. It goes up and comes back, and that is much, much harder to hit and very difficult to backhand, if not impossible. So that shot is a lot more difficult. Darn it. Uh, let's see. IceSkidoo bought a Spitzel Pirates for $50 off Facebook about nine years ago. Is that what Fliptronic played the other day? Also, Curzob, welcome to the stream. Not good. All right, I'm not going to try and backhand that again. I am going to go ahead and try and hit this right ramp. Beautiful. Now we're going left. If at first you don't succeed, just give up and switch to the other ramp. Let's try it again. I used to be able to backhand that right ramp. I can't anymore. All right. I think that is... There we go. Level two is done on encounters. We are close to starting our fourth mission, and we can now prep Razorcrest. I'm going to hit Razorcrest, see if I can trap up. Beautiful. And now let's see if we can hit this right ramp. It was actually designed by John Papadiuk. The Vizzlepin. Oh, I didn't realize. There's the double. Easy. Tilt Bob installed. There's nothing you can say about that right there. We're going to let that chill for a second and start our mode. All right, so this is mode number four. I'm going to let this bounce over safely, hopefully. Not good. I think we have two extra balls right now. Just saying. Okay, three more to light Razorcrest. We do need to hit both ramps to start our fifth mission, which I'd really, really like to do before we start that multiball. So right ramp. Totally worked. Let's try it again. Nope. Oh, that was a waste of an extra ball. All right, moving on to our second drink of the evening. Let's see if we can get that right there. Boom. That is a woodchuck hard cider sangria. Kind of amazing. All right, let's try this again. Left ramp. Got it. To right ramp. Got it. Start the mode. Missed it by that much. All right. Game. There it is. All right, so we started our fifth mode. Uh, expect a package from me in the mail sometime soonishly, okay, dice? Okay. If you say so. All right, now I'm going to start my multiball. I think one more shot to light, maybe? Nope, two more shots. Now it's lit. And Jenga. All right. Dice, I owe you a book. Oh! That's awesome. I finally get to read Dice's book. If you guys aren't aware, Dice, while being a viewer, a longtime viewer on this stream, went from being just DICE to published author DICE. Although, I mean, really, has DICE ever just been DICE? All right. Super Jackpot is lit. I really don't care about Super Jackpot right now. Super Pops are lit. We do have a 2X going. Oh, right. I was supposed to check out that show. I don't know. Do we do it? Do we go for more Beskar? I think we go for Beskar. All right. All right. There's that. I guess we can grab a super jackpot. All right. We have 306 going into the foundry. I think we go in. Now, the question is, what do we grab in the foundry? As we're going into our I-like-those-odds mini wizard mode. I think we advance encounters, is what we do. Yeah, complete an encounter level. Because encounters are tough. That helps. Scope. I'm going to wait for that to die, because what I really wanted to start, I like those odds. Nope, thank you, game. Let's keep hitting that left ramp. That sucks. I thought we had another shoot again. Grab bag hours. Bug killer. Welcome. Wait, wait, okay, alright, I was supposed to Is it a pinball? It's not, it's fiction based on true events Oh Aeon Black wants a link First 200 VIP copies need to go out Kersov, F Oh, you mean like F, I dropped the ball What happened? I thought I had an Okay, apparently not All right, so we just started our... Maybe our mini-wizard mode? Unless, of course, it did start mission. Yeah. All right, this is I Like Those Odds. Which is our first mini-wizard mode of the night. God, I really need another extra ball. I like those eyes. Alright, left ramp. All the way to right ramp. All the way again to right ramp. Not cool game. Okay. We're going to try this again. We're going to go left ramp to right ramp. Got it. Beautiful. and phase one done. If we can complete phase two and get to phase three, we get a multiball. This is great. Oh, I will go back and read the other half of your message. Un memento here. Sorry, I can't waste my shoot again right now. There's that. There we go. Phase two done. Now we're on the third phase of our mini wizard mode. Here they come. All right, we just need this right orbit to finish. I like those odds. Got it. Oh, no. There we go. Uh, left ramp. Don't drain. Don't drain. Please don't drain. Got it. I'll take the foundry right now. I could use that. is... Does it get grayed out? Can I buy another extra ball? Oh, man. Alright, somebody yesterday, it may have been you, Snivy, said go ahead and just... Darn it! I got an Ambon Rifle. I did the quick double tap thing that was said. Uh, Child is lit. I think we gotta go with that. Alright. Dice. I'm gonna go back up and read the other hat. I owe you a book. There's no way I'm going to let you get into more Gravity Falls without a dipper hat of yours. Oh! Okay. Okay. Okay. Really? I don't care about Super Sniper. Or Super whatever. Super things. Settle down. Roll. Settle. Feeling... Feeling pretty good about that right there. Feeling pretty decent. Let's see if we can grab some more Beskar. Let's go ahead and hit the middle. No! Ah! Oh, that hurt. That really hurt. Ah! I mean, that's not an awful bonus. I wonder what our score is here. 525? It was okay. It was okay. Okay. Ah! It's not awful, I feel like, for our first game this evening. I know, I know. Kersov, thank you. That felt good for a second. I could not keep it up, but it's fine. What we need is more accuracy juice. I'm going to go grab that really quick. I'll be right back. Let's do a quick commercial. 0.002% of people struggle to find companionship because of their choice in unpopular hobbies. These same people may find it difficult to be happy or enjoy themselves when alone. Because being good at something requires effort. 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I feel like I have to go back to Jedi McMuffin's McDonald's ads to remember how to say welcome in other languages. Grayson, thank you. Yes, I thank you guys so much for liking the commercial. That was super fun to work with Pinsomniac and Jordan and Becca from Fliptronic to get that together. Off to grab an ice cream. Wish me luck. Snivy fries, have luck while you're getting an ice cream, he said, talking himself into a corner. All right. switching back over to main four because descriptive buttons are always helpful. Color free play. Oh wow, that drink is interesting. Very, very interesting. I don't know if I like it. Alright, what do we got here? So, left ramp. That doesn't, that's not, that's not how we roll. Evil peaches using a my color. All right, so we got, we got pink over there, yellow, green, white, and teal over by the bar. That's pretty awesome. I love my color. All right. Feeling better here. Feeling better. I'm going to use the scoop in order to spot me different shots. Now I'm going to hit this middle. And can we hit this right now? Nope. I know better. Whew. Left ramp. Got it. Up and around, and that worked out really well for me. There it is. I don't know if the child's actually going to reward me anything useful, so not going for it. I'm going to start the encounter. See if we can make it through this first level. Nope. Let's try that again, shall we? Alright, now that we're over here on the left flipper, we're going to start our mission. When this pops out, I'm going to try and let it bounce safely over to the other side. And we're going to start a multiball. That's what you get. Wow! That... I've had better. Trying to complete this mode. Alright, mode is done. And we can grab that super jackpot. No we're not. This is an easier backhand. He said completely bricking it twice. to involve your cooperation in the effort. Beautiful. So hit the super jackpot for $25 million. Kisco! Kisco! Welcome to the stream! How you doing? Scope activated! Got it. Perfect precision! Wow. It didn't count it because scope was up. That's BS. All right. Are we actually going to complete this first level? Darn it. All right. There's that. That's fine. I return with a greensicle. Kipko, are you going to be at Expo? I probably asked you five or six times at this point, and I'm so sorry if I forgot, but are you going to be at Expo? I'm guessing you are, because you were at Expo last year. You sent a whole bunch of pictures from the Stern Warehouse tour, which is now going to be virtual. That's BS. Great. And left ramp. Hopefully Friday and Saturday I shall... Uh, I shall see probably just Saturday. Okay, okay. Ooh, loving the red. Woo! All right, we're... I think level one is done there. I can also initiate our, um... Our Razor Crest. Uh, I can advance Razor Crest. Wow. I've had better. Man. Alright. I gotta wait for the super skill shot to finish and now light mission. Nope. We're fine. We're all fine here. Let's try this again. Right ramp. Got it. On the fly. Left ramp. Feels good. Feels good, man. What cameras are you rocking? Kisco. Kisco. I've got a... On the playfield, a Sony a6400. Uh, facing me, that is a, uh, Sony FX3. I've got, uh, basically a 920 knockoff on my hands. We're direct capturing the LCD. And I got a GoPro Hero 9 on the belly cam right, right here. Uh, I've also got a CX405 pointed at the playfield that we're not displaying right now. Man, let's try that. Ugh. All right, that works. We'll get it in there. All right, third mission. And right ramp. Got it. Got it. All right, so we've got that one shot left over here. Oh, I looked away for a second. George don't play, well, I really like cameras. If anybody has seen the movie Intolerable Cruelty, with George Clooney and Catherine Seda-Jones, amazing. Oh, yeah, dude, Sarah, check that out, right there. That, this along with a really nice lens is what the FX3, though, gets you, right? Which is basically, it's the a7S III, but slightly, not slightly, actually a lot more built for making movies as opposed to taking pictures. But it does everything the a7S III does. It has all the same equipment. and it has a built-in attachment to have a vertical holder and a dedicated microphone. So I've got a Shure MB70 or something like that that I have back there, but it all directly connects to the camera, and then it's got a holder and a screen that pops out, so you essentially can use it as a cinematography-style camera. And that's funny, the FX3 is the lowest model of, I think, the FX series that Sony puts out, but the FX6, which is the next step up, is the de facto standard that Netflix requires to make movies for Netflix. The play field is the kit lens that came with the a6400. So that's a 3.4 to 7 point something, 35 to 135 millimeter or something around those numbers. It's the kit lens. Uh, so on the, on this camera here, by the way, this guy is a 20mm f1.4 lens. And because it's the FX3, it's full frame, right? Make a pinball movie Gray uh Gray said I Somebody else is making a pinball movie I will stick to commercials What do I... Two more to light Razorcrest. I do need the left, right, right... Oh, no, I'm still in a mode. So what do I need to do here? I need to hit this. Like that. Beautiful. Now let's get into the encounter. Looking good. That happens all the time. And you don't ever get that on the premium. Don't worry, George. All my cameras are webcams. Seraph, I'm not worried. man that's the thing is I feel like a lot of people who let's let's jump back let's jump back so a lot of people who stream pinball some people you'll see are are really good players and usually the reason they stream is to get on some sort of a tournament stream or something like that so they don't they're they're not as invested in the technology and and that's fine right because the goal there is just to get is is to get and play competitively while being remote And we saw so much of that from pin Slash, both pin clashes, too. Has there been two or three? But those are great examples of getting people kind of outside their comfort zone and setting up streams, going through all of the headache and doing it with what equipment they have. And that's great. And then you've got the people who stream fairly often who are trying to figure out initially whether or not they enjoy it, whether or not they want to keep it going and finding out that like the CX405 is maybe the more cost effective when you're comparing quality between one lens to the other, especially on the play field, if you're trying to achieve that 60 frames per second capture and actually have it look liquid smooth, as opposed to some of like the Logitech cans that say they do 60 frames per second, but it doesn't have that buttery smoothness that some of the other cans do. So there's that. And then I feel like what a lot of people end up doing is they end up getting excited by putting out a stream that looks as good as possible. And you see that on a lot of different streamers. They eventually get to a point, I mean, if you're in the hobby and you have pinball machines, you've got apparently some extra cash. And if you can combo that up with maybe doing home videos or taking pictures or just because that's what you want is to see how you can max out that quality and have it look that good, I feel like that's that third collection of pinball streamers. Yeah, right, Kisco. And that also depends on the type of viewer you are then. Are you looking for someone like Deadflip, who's a mixture of pretty good of skill and also really engaging? Are you looking for someone more like Escher, who is going to teach you how to play a game in ways you never imagined? Or are you just looking to chat and hang out with somebody like MPT3K, who might be the single most engaging person I feel like I've interacted with on chat? Or Fliptronic is another really, really good streamer who knows how to talk and provide feedback and engage the audience and do so with a quality that doesn't deter. Right. Or if anything, on both of those guys, their qualities are just absolutely amazing. They're off the chart. So it just depends, I guess, on the kind of entertainment you're looking for there. I'm going to play pinball now. Carl is next. Oh, my God. And Carl is the standard, I feel like, by which streaming is set, right? Like, amazing player, highest quality. And on top of that, like, I can't turn Carl off when he's streaming and going for the wizard mode. The only reason I might turn it off is if I don't want to see the wizard mode, because there is a good chance every time he gets on that he's going to hit a wizard mode. Just gotta keep my face at 4 ADP or below Don't wanna lose the beauty Very funny Oh, I'm caught Yeah, he crushes them There's no better verb to use I feel like He just crushes the game Last shot Got it Okay, level one is done. We're ready for our fourth mission. I'm going to hit Child. Man, it sucks. We had extra ball lit. All right, here's what we're going to do. We're going to try on the fly. We're going to go left ramp, right ramp. Excellent shot. uh shout out carl would like to check out his content oh just can anyone put uh it's ie pinball kisco that'd be twitch.tv slash ie pin and thank you so much still no crack on your left ramp just above the left steel ramp protector wait hold on still no crack on your left ramp just above the left steel ramp protector no i have i have no no crack right now i'm fresh out of crack. Not gonna lie, the bonus level callout just sounds so caught off in that. It's like the VO was supposed to say, bonus level increased, and they just were like, we can't pay for the third word, skip it. Bonus level! It does have that not quite finish. All right, right ramp. Try it again, right ramp. Third time's the charm, right ramp. Got it. And we're going to start that mode. This is our fourth mode. And now we're in our multiball. Boom! Crack is whack. Thank you. I have a hot bar or two I could do, but it might be a little risque. That is your call. Risque is fine. I probably won't say swear words. Yeah, I'm good. We're in a good spot. All right. And mode shot. Beautiful. What do we got here? We've got two shots now, left and right. Looks good. Let's try floating. Alright, we've got Foundry at 455. We need that extra ball, so I'm not going to go for it just yet. They should have used a black plastic for the ramp. People keep telling me black don't crack, and I think that's what they mean. right yeah you might be able to get stern to send you a new one they say crack is whack but it makes you a beast in the stack until the heart attack and the broken back and the friendly flak not to mention it's easy to track Wow snidey the fact that you just come up with this kind of blows my mind all right hitting this left ramp here got it 200 best guards. This is going to get us into the foundry for this extra ball. Yes. All right. Just ask Jack. Danger. God help me if you ask me for an algebraic equation, though. Okay. Okay, got it. Words are your thing, not math. Light extra ball. Got it. Light extra ball. Excellent. And our fifth mode. Phew. Got that extra ball. Done. I word good. I'm half bad. All right, what are we going to hit now? Ah! I guess we start working on Razor Crest again, and we have to start our second encounter. We're falling behind big time on the encounter. Beautiful, beautiful. And we're going to go left ramp. Good. That lit our encounter. And our encounter has been started. we completed a mode I'm sorry we completed a level of the encounter so now we're going to jump back in queen dark lady you can ask me about algebraic equations okay oh that sucked Whoo! There we go. Hitting this left ramp. Got it. Let's see if we can finish level two. Got it. Level two done. Not good. Okay, that's fine. We did the thing. Two shots left there. Beautiful, beautiful. We're going to hit it. Let's see if we can complete this second encounter, then get in. We've lit our mini wizard. Darn it. Got it. All right. Beautiful. Level two encounter is done. Let's focus now on some Razor Crest and then hit that mission. And this is a really good song in the background. Kisco, I'm glad you can hear it. Got it. Beautiful. And mini wizard mode achieved. Oh, I should have started the advance first. Right ramp. Looks good. Right ramp. Got it. To left ramp. Got it. Alright, phase one is done. Moving on to phase two. One positive about Mando, even though it's a lot of chopping wood, at least the shots that you have to do are easy to shoot. Very rarely does it bounce. Snivy, I have to disagree. I feel like this game, I think, is one of the harder games when it comes to being too bouncy. Got it. I'll take it. All right, now we're in a multiball. Grayson, how are you doing tonight, by the way? after this game, and depending on how this goes. If you're interested in coming over and playing some pinball today, man, I'd love to have you. uh if you guys aren't familiar Grayson who graced us with his presence recently it actually turns out is my neighbor and happens to be into pinball and pretty dang good. Scoop constantly rejects on ice skidoos. It's all about which engineer is assigned to your team. Keith has a good one. Yeah. All right. Uh, I don't really care about this mode, so I can drain out. I just can't triple drain is the issue. There we go. Let's go left orbit. Got it. That'll work. Let's try that again. All right, let's try this again. Got it. Beautiful. Now right orbit. That was a pretty decent save. I'll take that one. Maybe I'm just spoiled on watching DPF and his butter smooth shooting. Snivy. There we go. That's fine. I needed to get out of that. So we're on third level encounter. We should have Razorcrest lit. Let's get that started. You see the hat? I am Mrs. Niddy. Pinstomniac, how the heck you doing? What do we need now? We need Razorcrest and encounters. Let's go ahead and start working on our encounters. Pinstomniac, how's beating Mando going? We have one mini wizard mode done. We're on our third encounter. We're making progress, and we're still on ball one here. All right. Razor Crest is now lit. Now, if you guys remember from our tutorial last night, the third Razorcrest multiball? Beautiful. We're going to go there. I'm going to wait for this to time out because I'm not getting any benefits while Scope is active. and what else do we need? we need to light encounters still not there yet no idea what that was about encounters there it is encounter is lit and let's start our third encounter Boom! Alright, let's be bad guys. Let's go to the left side. Keep going. One more to light Razor Crest. And Is there no armor reward that can progress Razor? Yes, there is. And it's only, I think, 300. What am I at? 228 Veskar? That's fine. Now we're out of that mode, and we're ready to finish up our encounters. Whistling Birds used Action Button Mission Smart Bomb, which is lit, I think? I don't know. Let's hit that. So now what we're going to do is try and light Precious Cargo. We need four more. But kind of a waste. There is. Are you coming down south this weekend? No, Pinsomniac, not planning on it. I got Zoe this weekend. Maybe, I don't know, I can't imagine Zoe enjoying herself at that. And second mini wizard mode. Boom. Which is a multiball. I don't know what... Oh. Darn it. All right, so we hit phase two. All right. No, no, no! All right, whatever. Whatever. We have 350 Beskar. That's done, and that was ball one. We just have to finish up our encounters. Do we have a ball jam somewhere? Please tell me we have a ball jam somewhere. Does anybody see it? Oh, there it is! It wasn't jammed up. It was actually locked up. I'm going to go for Child and see if we can get an extra ball. Okay, Precious Cargo is done. We were on Phase 2. We're still on ball one. How much do we have in the boundary? 372. The double danger, though. Give it a tickle. Just give it a tickle, he says. And encounter. Let's do it. Why? Why? What's going on here? Game. Oh, scope got lit. Darn it. We've also got child lit again. Oh, I'm frustrated now. Encounter! Alright, level one, let's do it. Level one is done. Why... Ugh, scope is lit again! Beautiful. Now we're at 572 on the foundry. Let's go ahead and grab that. Oh, man. I could do the question mark, complete an encounter level, and whatever that is. Man. So we're going here. There we are. Just completed... Yeah, we just completed second level. Third level. All right. Darn it. Three more shots. Oh my god, that drained so horrifically. Thank you. Thank you. Let's complete this level. Let's just be done with it. Oh, one more. Man. Getting it over to that other flipper. Like that. There we go. Being cool. Here it is. Here it is. If we can get this crapped up, we're good. Alright. That is done. Now we have to do it one more time in order to actually get to you have what I want. If we can do this all in ball two, it means we're in This is the Way on ball three. Oh, crap. We got this. That's it. Woo! Right? You have what I want. Phase one. Get on the ship and shoot. I just have to not die. Don't die. Alright, that does nothing up there. All right. Phase one complete. Complete. Apparently we're in a multiball. Crap. Three shots to complete. Oh, I see. I have to hit the orange shots. I'm not sure what green does. Oh. Oh. I hit the green shot a lot and it didn't add a ball. Oh. You've got a high score. Enter your initial. Oh, man, that was frustrating. Dang. What is this one here? Well, right, at least I got a GC out of it. Thank you, AonBlack. That was Aogden, I think, was the last person to throw down bits. Aogden, if you're still on the stream, what are your initials? You're getting in here at the GC. Snivy, I did say you had to put a GC on this table. It's not... I'm going to say AOG. I'm assuming Aog didn't left. Hey, Picket knows. It's going pretty dang well. So close. I needed to not drain. I have to go into that last mini wizard mode with another ball. 828. It's nothing to shake a stick at. Pinsomniac, thank you for the green. Does this table stay once you get this? No, Seraph. This goes instantly. I've already got like eight people interested in it. I think you could get over a bill on Iron Maiden with how you play now. I'm impressed. Kisco, thank you. It's definitely, it's been a long time coming. By the way, Grayson, if you're still on and you're still interested, head on over. I'll go unlock the front door. Thank you. Thank you. My question is, could you use the whistling birds to advance your, you have what I want. So the whistling birds, I tried hitting it. So Snidey, you mentioned the whistling birds. I gave it a shot. So I don't I don't think it could do anything. New stream goal. Get George to say, hey, Google, cancel. Hey, Google, cancel. I almost did it out of the box, Nick. so you know I'm still I'm still shaky from that really frustrating just a couple of shots away from this is the way how frustrating oh god I need I need I needed one more ball I needed one more ball But I feel like we there right We just we just need that game where we play just a little bit better and don't drain. And, and we've got this is the way. not saying it not saying it nick trying to think wow this is really good it just needs to be a little bit colder uh colder i feel like it's tough to play this game after that since it's kind of the same thing seraph it happens every time yeah to get back on that that's why i said this game feels very chopping wood um razor crest requires you hit one shot up the middle it's got to be something like 40 times right and uh encounters require you to hit the hell out of that upper play field, which sucks. The only thing that's fun about this game are the missions and the mini wizard mode. That last mini wizard mode was gorgeous. Man, how much fun was that? I love the fact that I could feel exactly the way you were feeling, being just a few shots away. Very entertaining to watch. Kitsko, thank you. Changes Twitch username to Google. Didn't activate. Didn't activate. Next invention, pinball cup holders with thermocouplers in them to keep drinks ice cold. Ice-y-do. I think you could do that. This is a poem with the purest of intent, a joke of a verse from Snivy ascent. You'd never guess what this leads to. You'd better read loud or else you will rue. Hey, gee, compliment me. Snivy wants some vibes. Good ones for free. Bumper nugget. Mr. Paul, how you doing? Oh, hi! Bumper Nugget, if you just joined us, we got closer than we've ever closest in previous sessions to This Is The Way. Completed I Like Those Odds, Completed Precious Cargo, Made It To Phase 2 of You Have What I Want Before I Drain. Hi, Buzzo. Oh, Mr. Buzzo, welcome to the stream. Go old school. It's called a koozie. I don't know why. I'm not a fan of koozies. Yeah, the repetition has kind of turned me off of this game. And if you want better cup holders, put a gyroscope in them so you can nudge and not spill. I like that. I feel like that's not the first time you've been like, a gyroscope solves the problem. Just use the gyroscope. No biggie. It does. Snivy, it does. I just tried it. After traveling through all time and space, I'd still hang out with you. I'm back. Ten hour drive left me a little wired. Oh, really? Oh, man. it's already 1140. I'd invite you over if we didn't have like 20 minutes left. I've invited Grayson over a couple of times. Totally understand if he's not interested. We've only got 20 minutes left. Got to DM me when you need a stream guest again. Oh, great. I'm so sorry, man. I, yeah, it was definitely very last second. Hey, Google, compliment me. You light up my life in all different colors. something in all different colors i missed it grayson i will definitely dm you okay yeah grayson i i come on over in in my defense i said i i think you you must not have been there or it wasn't loud enough but i suggested twice in heading over i'm so sorry you only heard it the 20 minutes the door is open you made my google compliment you too trying to slide into george's dms dms yes Bring a bowl of goldfish that Sniping tries. I have a ton of goldfish, by the way. And what we'll end up having to do is rotate who has these. No, no, no. I got goldfish. You don't need goldfish. I can't eat the goldfish because they are both cheesy and gluten-y. A goldfish stream, says Aon Black. Do you plan to stream at Expo? Kisco. Yes. Yes, yes, and yes. If I can get internet at Expo, we have the Pinball Network booth. And what's his name? Zach from Flip N Out Pinball is setting us up with a pin, hopefully a Godzilla. That would be amazing. I have no idea what it's going to be. So if we can get internet at the booth, I'm bringing all of my streaming gear. So the hope will be absolutely to stream there. On top of that, Pin Stadium, a.k.a. Scott, the guy who's responsible for lighting up all the playfields on all of my games, has also offered to host streams as well. So we might sneak over there and try and stream from Pin Stadiums once or twice if they can also get internet. Oh my god, PinSomniac, I am so excited. And I do really think, for going new in Vox on an LE, I made the commitment on the right pin. Because Godzilla looks amazing. Yeah, you played like three games. I played about five or six games on it. I had it crash hard on me, though. Like, total blue screen of death, by the way. Oh, Grayson, if you haven't already walked over, just in case, I'm 104. How did you get your hands on an LE? Kisco! Now, some people might say that you have skills if you can do this, right? And I'm not saying I don't have skills, but I was one of those idiots that went on Pinside and bought a new inbox on the secondary market for a ridiculous amount of money. I do. Pinsomniac, I have already watched one of the Godzilla movies in response to actually seeing Godzilla come out. So I watched Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla with Zoe, and it was horrific. It was so bad it got good again. and both Zoe and I were making fun of the bad dubbing, the horrific acting, and the way that none of the monsters look realistic at all. Don't see how else you could. Right, they did. Where did you find them? Should I put my, wait, should I put my peg leg on? What? Make race in a doorbell lighting scheme. Oh man, when you hit that doorbell, faith, that'd be good, and all the lights change. I mean, we could... Grayson, welcome! We could really quick to a... Not a raid, a rave. And that would be kind of like celebrating it. There we go. Boom. Now you got a light show for when you come in. You get to start us off. We're playing pinball. Oh, okay. Player two! There you go. Welcome! Thank you, I appreciate it. For the remaining 20 minutes. I don't think... Yeah, hello everyone. I've been here once before. I don't think I'm gonna beat your last gore, I'm gonna be honest. But... Hey, I was impressed. I'm gonna be honest. Oh, and that backhand is so... the flippers have been used so much that you can't backhand that left ramp anymore. You have to forehand every time. Oh no. We're not doing well. We're not doing well. Oh no. Oh, no, no, no, just because of, ah, it bounced out. That was a rough one. That was a rough one. For the last few streams, next up, here's what I'm going to do. Actually, you keep them on. Because we're doing the helmet thing, I'm going to restart the whole game. There. So once that's done, I'm going to start this up, and you can do three balls by yourself. Sure. Then since you've got the headset on, you can keep it on. Okay. There we go. All right. We're going to come back to this. We're gonna improve. We're slowly gonna improve. Oh! Yeah, it would help if I actually switched the scene. So sorry. Thank you, Seraph. Where's the King of Houston? Well, I couldn't hear it because I didn't have the headphones on. Wow. This scene does look really pretty. I would give it that. Oh, we got an alert of some sort. What? What? We got an alert of some sort. Okay. Someone's laughing. Yep. That was Ice Ski-Doo with an L-U-L. Oh, my gosh. There's no question, Pinsomniac, that Game of Thrones is a much better game. No question in my mind. There's more flow. The rule set is deeper and more enjoyable. It's more fun in general. The only issue is that Game of Thrones is, in my opinion, too easy to beat, and there's no satisfaction in beating it. It needs to celebrate if you get to the end. Was it Lyman that fixed Game of Thrones? Or was it... I thought it was Dwight who went back and made additional essays. That is where you'll find your glory. Hey, I feel like I'm doing pretty well. Oh my god, you're killing it right now, man. You just started a multiball. This is great. He was white. Okay, Dr. Curlyfeck, yep. I'm always satisfied with minor accomplishment. Mr. Buzzo, when I beat a game, I want the flippers to die, and I want it to, like, at that point, I've done something cool, and I really want it to celebrate my accomplishment. Deadpool did a great job. World Cup Soccer did an awesome job. What else? As we beat Jurassic Park is amazing. No, Pisco, I never did beat Iron Maiden. I got rid of it before I ever even got to the number of the beast. Fargo Pinball, welcome to the stream. I just got rid of Lord of the Rings. I feel... I don't know why, I just wasn't enjoying playing it. And ended up getting rid of it to somebody pretty close, actually, to you, Fargo. Also, y'all need to meet each other. Y'all would get along, Mr. Buzzo and Dumpad. Okay, Hysomniac, hook us up the next time we're both hanging out. Hey. Game of Thrones has Midnight Madness Hodor, so it's the fear here. It says Aeon Blast. 45 million. I'm pretty happy about that. I'm not going to lie. I'm pretty happy. Not even Game Over. That was Ball 1. And also, to start the next mode, you have to hit the left ramp and the right ramp. That qualifies your mode to then start by hitting the scoop. Okay. And if you do that, it lights extra ball. Okay. And then you get an extra ball. Perfect. I'll attempt it. No guarantee. Okay. I'll give it a whirl. Let's see here. Dang it, TPF, you missed my opinion on scope. Oh, Snivy, I'm going back up. So sorry. To be fair, I think you're kind of undervaluing scope. considering you can get mission skip and encounter skip. What? Snivy, I had no idea you can get mission skip and encounter skip from them pretty consistently. I've never even heard of that. I'm going to need to investigate mission and encounter skip from them. Yeah, big shame, George. You need the beast. I kind of want to get Iron Maiden. Also, oh my god, I can't believe we did not talk about it, but somebody posted a picture on Pinside today of what looks like Rush, the pinball game, got leaked on the internet. I gotta say, that might be LE number two, depending on the layout. Rush is quite possibly, I think, even though it may not be my favorite band, I think it's a perfect band for pinball. It's nowhere near as awful as Iron Maiden. It actually is enjoyable, and it's just as fast-paced. Oh, man, Kisco, dream theme, right? Yeah. That only skipped one level of encounter. Okay. Encounter is where it's at, though. Encounter is the toughest one to get through. Gorin, is the picture still up? What picture? Oh, man, that was tough. It's fun. It's fun. Now, the Beskar is worth it. Pinsomniac. When I'm working, I'm trying to get my extra ball from Beskar. I usually hit Scope and Hunter. I'll actually go for those. You know, the question, can I get multiple extra balls? No, you've got to... You're good. All right, we're good. We've got to unlock these balls. Okay. Okay, so there's things that Scope can give you that I just wasn't aware of. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Hey, I'm pretty confident. First game and since last stream, I'm pretty confident. Oh yeah. You wanna keep playing? I got chat. You keep going. Huh? I'm gonna play for a while. There's not that much time. We've got ten minutes. You got this. I don't talk much while I'm playing. I get too focused. You stay focused. I've got chat. It's working out really good. Was a picture of Rush leaked or just the fact? No, no, it was a picture. So apparently somebody showed a Whitewood of Avengers. Maybe it was Avengers. Or maybe it was a Whitewood of something else and it was in an Avengers box. And you could see in the background what looks to be like a Rush picture. a part of what looks to be maybe like the Rush logo. Filling in for Dice. Tonight's question, if you could restart a TV series that you enjoyed and wanted to carry on, no question, Firefly. Yep. Pin Somiak. Nick is right there with me. Firefly all day. Grayson, if you could continue a television show that stopped either early or stopped at an appropriate time, what would it be? Um, that's a really tough question. That is. Can I change, can I get rid of a season and get it remade? Okay, sure. I would get rid of the last season of Game of Thrones and remake that. Okay. Would you just the last season or would you also get rid of season seven? I didn't mind season seven as much as I just liked the ending of the whole thing. Okay. made me unhappy. So I invested a lot of time into that show, so obviously it's a very extended show. And so, I was unhappy with that. So yeah, that's probably the only one that I'm majorly upset about how it ended. I also would continue a show called Billions. I watched it on Amazon Prime. It's about a hedge fund manager and I don't want to spoil it if anyone decides to watch it but it's just about a hedge fund manager and his problems with like a bunch of different legal or government officials and stuff like that. I would have loved another season of that. Okay. Milky Ball? Me and Black agree. Billions of greats. One X for Boba Fett, one X for Hunter, one X for... Oh, I'm going back up. Three triangles are the multipliers. Right. Okay. Although I would love some more IT crowd. IT crowd definitely has some good moments. The Sarah Connor Chronicles? I actually kind of enjoyed the Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles. What? Oh, that was time to try. What's with the drop targets on either side here? On the left, it gets you Beskar and complete stuff for Hunter. And on the right, those are the Boba Fett targets, which is how you get one of the 2x 1x. It adds 1x to whatever your current multiplier is. Firefly Fresh would be good. Okay, so another thing I would do would be Avatar, the last airbender. I want that fourth season that they obviously meant to do originally when they named each of the seasons after one of the four elements, but they stopped at three. That said, I'm a big fan of The Legend of Korra. I think that was great. So maybe just a whole other season with whoever the next Avatar is. Mr. Buzz, though, I would argue some of the cooler emotes out there. see the puck. Let's see. I want to bring back Defiance and the related MMO. Ooh, Defiance wasn't bad. I was kind of surprised by how much I enjoyed Defiance. George, can you please change my welcome to the stream sound? Insomniac, you're going to have to send me an MP3. I almost said you're going to have to send me an MPT through K. When you get your maiden again, can we do a challenge on that? Done. I would love to do it. I need like a week with it. I feel like just to get reacquainted. And I think that's one I might try and raid somebody temporarily. I know I'm not, I don't want to buy it. Because I just don't like Iron Maiden's music. And to put anything else on there, it's weird. Dude, you're killing it right now. The ball control and everything. So Grayson, by the way, has an Austin Powers. Is that right? That is correct. That is correct. It's in a little bit worse shape than yours. Okay. Well, I mean, Austin Powers has got to be 20 years old at this point. I don't know exactly the date on it, but it's been a while. Okay. You know, your slippers have changed selection. Oh, you're in Foundry, so you can buy something here. You have... Oh, I forgot that. ...armors exactly what you wanted. It adds to your ball save. And it's going to kick it out that left scoop here in just a second. 01189998819991197253. No idea what that is. More seasons of Seinfeld or Friends. I see you. I have seen a lot of Friends. I'm not going to beat around the book there. I have seen a lot of Mad About You and a lot of Friends. Amiga Kami, welcome to the stream. See, the thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in. That I have not seen Arsenal. How goes the flips? Higher, Peanut. Welcome to the stream. They go great. We got so close. You've got one more game. You be up. Got really close to beating the game. It's so disappointing that it didn't happen. It would have been great just before. I have not seen IT grab, by the way. But I have watched so many of the, oh, slash raid doesn't work. It was exclamation point. No, not raid! Exclamation point, RAID! There we go. That's how we do the the colors now. Um... He doesn't know Richard is out of his room. What? I gotta catch back up. I'm so out of it. I just started rewatching Steinfeld from the pilot this week. Nope. Curb Your Enthusiasm? I tried Curb Your Enthusiasm. I feel like I need to give it another go. Really, watch ITCraft. Pinsaniac, I've seen a lot. It seems enjoyable, but it doesn't have much in the way of continuity. So it seems like it's humorous in the same way that Seinfeld is, actually. Which was not something... I don't know. I will probably, when I run out of other stuff, go back and watch the ITCraft. Nice shot. Not quite 700 million, but hey, it's something. It's so funny because I really don't try for score at all. It is all about just trying to get to that big circle in the dead center of the middle of that playfield. I'm here for fun, that's pretty much. Okay. I was not paying attention to that. If you like Steinfeld, you'll like Burb Your Enthusiasm. Okay. Richmond is out of his, which is why, why is Richmond out of his room? It's also British humor, so it might not be your sense of it. Yeah, I sometimes struggle with British humor in general. Ah, that was fast. Good game. Better roast there than on Thanksgiving night. I didn't like curve, I liked Seinfeld. Okay, that's good to know. I actually caught up on chat. That's been so long since I've been able to do it. Okay. That's way too quick. Look, we're still, it's 11.59. You've got time to spare one more. Excellent job. Huh. That's coming back down. Ooh, that was rough. Quick, talk faster! George turns into a pumpkin at midnight. He does. Yep. Can confirm. An atomic pumpkin? Why does that sound familiar? I feel like that's a type of rum or something. Bumper nugget. Curb is for those that like Mistanza, right? Okay. Yeah, it's so funny because I've seen so much Seinfeld but never got into Curb. I feel like there's a lot of shows that when I run out of content I'll have to go back, but now I'm hooked on Gravity Falls. I re-watched the first two episodes and can confirm pretty dang good. Oh my, I was so unprepared, mind you, for you to visit because we talked about doing a pull-up battle at some point. I'm just throwing it out there. Grayson is just a tad younger than I am. A year or two. A year or two, at least. Which network originally aired Firefly? It was Fox. Yep. Amiga, really poorly handled series, usually Fox. Yep, exactly. If a series got canceled early that was amazing, guaranteed it was Fox that did it every time. Oh no. Yeah, I see you. If you have not seen Firefly, it's lost a little. It's dated because the graphics kind of suck on it, and they were never really that good, even at the time. But once you get past that, and it's Joss Whedon trying to be humorous without being silly. Like, you know, Angel and Coffee the Vampire Player were amazing television shows, but they didn't take themselves seriously 90% of the time. There's obviously a few episodes that got super serious, and season six was mostly serious, honestly, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was a lot less humor, and it was my least enjoyable season, because it seemed so opposite of what Buffy normally was. I didn't like angry Buffy. but Firefly is one of a kind and I'm so concerned that my request for more episodes or if they remake it it'll never live up to the to what it could that's right Brown Coat for Life I have another show that I'm upset ended I know we're out of that conversation I thought of another show that I'm upset that ended Silicon Valley Ooh, Silicon Valley. Now, did Silicon Valley end because of the... Who's the jerk that was in Deadpool that is no longer, I think, going to be in Deadpool going forward, who was also in Silicon Valley? He was the guy who owned the house. Apparently, he is impossible to work with in Hollywood. Anyone that works with him can't stand him. I don't remember... T.J. Miller. That's who it is. Mr. Buzzo, yeah. And I'm wondering if it's one of those weird situations where people wanted more T.J. Miller, but they hate T.J. Miller. And the show couldn't go on without T.J. Miller to balance how awkward the main character was. Yeah, I mean, that's definitely true. But I don't know. I know we're way past that conversation. No! No, no, no. We're going back because Higher Peanut just brought up Better Off Ted. And I would say I want more seasons. They only did two seasons of Better Off Ted. It was amazing. Every episode was a delight. And to this day, the episode where they invented the translator that made whomever used the translator sound like one of the evil scientists, and at first they brought it out, it also made them sound like a 50-foot-tall robot, was epic. Every part of that episode in both seasons, it just was awesome. So I take mine back and say Better Off Ted is the one I'd like so much more of. And, guys, it is now after midnight. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Grayson, thank you so much for coming over. Of course. I'm so sorry it took that long. It was an enjoyable 20 minutes. No, I had a friend that kept calling me, so I was on and off with paying attention. Okay. Most likely. Sorry I missed you then on that. But we're going to get you back over here. We've got to get a couple other people. So Paul, you haven't met anybody else who specifically comes over, but we got Ty, we got Paul. Mo has mentioned. Mo is Tongan Jedi on here. He is a big Tongan is the best way to put it. Tons of fun. Has been on the stream a few times over the past three to four years. So we're going to have all of these people here at some point in the near future. But remember, Thursday we've got the battle. and that is with Eric from Straight Down the Middle and that's on Starz. Old school game. I'm going to get my butt kicked. Just warning you guys now. I'm hoping that we have great conversations. Still need to find someone to commentate that. Nick, what you doing? I haven't checked on the Discord. Maybe somebody else popped up and said they were interested. And no streams all next week is the standard. We're going to be at Expo driving out on Monday. Expo starts on Tuesday. Sorry, on Wednesday. Expo's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next week, driving back Sunday back here on Monday. That's the goal. So. I've got to refocus. Yeah, it's focused on you, actually. Which is perfect. Here. We'll just leave you as the focus right now. How's it going, everyone? My name's Grayson. Yeah, that's about it. And Grayson, you also stream on Twitch, is that right? I will not say it, but yes, I do. You don't say your channel? No, I don't. No free promo, but I appreciate it. Okay, well Grayson Streams, if you can figure out his stream, you should definitely go follow it. I've typed in chat before, if you desire that. I play a lot of FIFA, so it is very different content. If the content overlapped, I would probably be a little bit more open to sharing it, but it's just out of, I don't know, out of respect, it's not, I'm not here to get extra viewers. Okay, well cool. Everybody, you guys have a wonderful night. 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