# S385: TWD (Stern) PRO

**Source:** Don't Panic Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2020-12-18  
**Duration:** 113m 7s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR-txsOHphE

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## Analysis

Don't Panic Flip streams gameplay of The Walking Dead Pro pinball, experiencing significant audio and camera technical issues throughout. The host plays multiple games, discussing mode strategies (Bloodbath, Barn, Riot), struggling with difficult shots, and sharing a negative customer service experience with Deep Root Pinball regarding RAZL inquiry timing.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Bloodbath is completely stackable and can be started before or brought in via Prison or Multiball — _Jeff Walker chat message during gameplay explanation_
- [MEDIUM] The Walking Dead and NBA Fast Break are the only solid state tables where it's possible to get zero for the bonus without tilting — _Chat message from Paz Jeff Johnson during stream_
- [HIGH] Deep Root Pinball's four to six week posted timeline means end of January would be earliest games leaving factory — _Direct quote from Deep Root Pinball email response read on stream_
- [MEDIUM] The Walking Dead shot layout is similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — _Host and chat discussion during gameplay_
- [MEDIUM] Game of Thrones Premium Edition shoots amazingly well — _Host personal experience and observation during stream_
- [MEDIUM] Stern has the Godzilla rights — _Chat message noting Sam Stern has the godzilla rights_
- [HIGH] Left flipper loses power very quickly on The Walking Dead Pro — _Host observation during gameplay noting backhand pinball was easy at start_
- [LOW] Deep Root Pinball sold approximately 25 RAZL machines — _Chat speculation during discussion of RAZL production_

### Notable Quotes

> "I sent out an email and got back a real jerk response. And I wasn't expecting it at all."
> — **Don't Panic Flip (host)**, ~1:20:00
> _Expresses frustration with Deep Root Pinball's customer service response to inquiry about RAZL timeline_

> "If I sent that email to Spooky Pinball, they would have been amazing about it and been like, haha, totally, funny"
> — **Don't Panic Flip (host)**, ~1:19:00
> _Contrasts manufacturer customer service cultures, praising Spooky's approach_

> "It's just mean. Whatever, game. Really? Because plumbers always slope everything straight towards the drain."
> — **Don't Panic Flip (host)**, ~56:00
> _Expresses frustration with The Walking Dead's difficulty and design hazards_

> "Let me show you on the website where you could have looked that up instead of bothering me with an email. It's just like basic salesmanship."
> — **Don't Panic Flip (host)**, ~1:21:00
> _Characterizes Deep Root Pinball's email response as dismissive and poor customer service_

> "This game is so dangerous. And, like, every shot, you're playing with fire."
> — **Don't Panic Flip (host)**, ~45:00
> _Describes The Walking Dead's playfield design as requiring constant risk management_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Don't Panic Flip | person | Content creator/streamer playing The Walking Dead Pro and discussing pinball machines and manufacturer experiences |
| The Walking Dead (Stern) | game | Pinball machine being played in stream, Stern release with Pro tier being demonstrated |
| Deep Root Pinball | company | Manufacturer of RAZL pinball machine; subject of negative customer service interaction via email regarding shipment timeline and ordering priorities |
| RAZL | game | Deep Root Pinball's pinball machine; host considering purchase but deterred by customer service experience |
| Spooky Pinball | company | Referenced as manufacturer with superior customer service culture; host had positive interactions regarding Rick and Morty availability |
| Game of Thrones Premium Edition | game | Stern release owned by host; praised for excellent shooting characteristics; recently sold/disposed of |
| Stern Pinball | company | Manufacturer of The Walking Dead and multiple other games discussed; Sam Stern distributor mentioned for ordering |
| Rick and Morty | game | Spooky Pinball release mentioned in context of positive customer service interaction regarding priority ordering |
| Hot Wheels | game | Pinball machine mentioned as potential sale item; discussed in context of Austin Powers interest |
| Austin Powers | game | Potential future pinball machine; host interested in release from unspecified manufacturer |
| Houdini Master of Mystery | game | Pinball machine described as disappointing overall despite some enjoyable moments |
| Godzilla | game | Rumored/anticipated pinball license; Stern Pinball reported to have rights; chat discusses modern vs. classic versions |
| LED lighting | product | Used throughout stream setup; confirmed not producing excessive heat unlike traditional lighting |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | game | Referenced as having similar shot layout to The Walking Dead Pro |
| Dialed in! Collectors Edition | game | Mentioned in chat; appears to be in host's collection or under consideration |

### Topics

- **Primary:** The Walking Dead Pro gameplay and strategy, Technical difficulties with streaming setup, Deep Root Pinball customer service and RAZL ordering
- **Secondary:** Manufacturer customer service comparison, Pinball machine design and difficulty, Anticipated future pinball releases and IP
- **Mentioned:** Host's personal pinball collection management

### Sentiment

**Mixed** (0.35) — Frustrated with The Walking Dead Pro's difficulty and shot responsiveness, deeply frustrated with Deep Root Pinball's customer service response, but generally entertained by the stream experience and community engagement. Technical troubles add to overall negative sentiment.

### Signals

- **[business_signal]** Deep Root Pinball's customer service approach appears dismissive and unhelpful, potentially losing customers through poor communication (confidence: high) — Host's detailed account of email response perceived as sarcastic and unhelpful; explicit statement 'I'm never doing business with those assholes ever'; contrast with positive Spooky Pinball experience
- **[sentiment_shift]** The Walking Dead Pro viewed as frustratingly difficult and dangerous; design prioritizes challenge over accessibility. Multiple chat participants expressing frustration with game difficulty. (confidence: high) — Host repeated complaints about game being 'mean', 'brutal', 'dangerous'; chat participants joining in frustration; description of every shot as 'playing with fire'
- **[licensing_signal]** Stern confirmed to hold Godzilla licensing rights; community discussion indicates preference for classic Godzilla over modern iterations (confidence: medium) — Chat message 'Sam Stern has the godzilla rights' and discussion of classic vs. modern Godzilla versions
- **[market_signal]** RAZL production appears limited; chat speculation about ~25 units sold suggests low volume or slow sales (confidence: low) — Chat speculation about 25 RAZL sales in context of production timeline and order backlog discussion
- **[community_signal]** Host considering Led Zeppelin purchase from Stern but hesitant due to Stern AC/DC Pro Vault Edition concerns about playfield flow (confidence: medium) — Host explicitly mentions hesitation about AC/DC Pro and wants to watch stream before committing to Led Zeppelin order
- **[product_concern]** The Walking Dead Pro exhibits tilt sensitivity issues and design problems with drop targets and shot response consistency (confidence: medium) — Multiple references to perfect hits not registering on drop targets; mention of game at location being too sensitive; discussion of rubber stickiness affecting shot completion

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## Transcript

 Okay, there's that. Ooh, that looks much better. Hopefully you guys can hear me okay. Testing, maybe, testing. Yep, no more delay on that. I think there, it was a grounding issue. Are we back? Still buzzing! hmm yeah I'm let's get one more person because I don't hear I don't see oh it could be a fan hold on there now how was that better? nah it's when he doesn't peak so testing 1, 2, 3 any better not better awful yeah I'll just start up another game here sounds good to me says if you keep talking it goes away okay that's interesting cause I definitely there was an issue I think with one of the cameras causing like a every once in a while a camera will, for whatever reason, it needs to be unplugged and plugged back in. But I'm going to turn the music back up. That should help a little bit with that. Fliptronic says 7 out of 10. Okay. Definitely not as clear as usual. That is so weird. But now just sounds like a headset. You know what? I will take that. I'll take something, I guess, at this point. Okay. Wow! The shoot again died very quickly right then. So, going over there, much, much better. Okay, great. Thank you, X. Alright, last one and we're on food. Got it. Alright, now we're ready to start a mode. That was a nice backhand. Woo! Alright, so it's one shot and then CDC. Another shot. Looks like then we can hit all the red shots. That one's flashing. Looks like it wants me to hit Arena now. And... I don't know. Wow, that does not want to... That worked out well. We've got, I don't know how many more... Eight seconds left to hit Arena. Nope. But I do have a beer So we've got that going for us Let's see how long That shoot again lasts So there's food which we've already got Now we've locked in weapons Not cool Let's see if we can grab that other. Oh, come on. Really? Really? Woo! And... That one touches the back of the rubber, so sometimes when you hit it, it doesn't actually go down. It's like you kind of have to hit it just perfectly. Jakub! Yeah, we're back. Apparently the audio is not that much better, but it is somehow a little bit better. Okay, so we've got food and weapons, first aid. Let's see if we can lock in first aid. Uh, and... got it. Great, so we've lit bloodbath. I think we've got Riot or Barn flashing right now. Oh, that's right. We can start a mode. Let's see if we can get into Riot. Nope. I have no idea where that shot is. Apparently we're going Tunnel or Arena. Arena it is. I'll take that extra ball I think, maybe It's better, I can hear the music now at least Yeah, I'm gonna have to do some playing around with the audio I'm not exactly sure what happened Oh, and apparently Arena is now done Same as CDC We got that Three, that sucks here's our extra ball I think this is ball two I don't know and we've just got this bank here and we can bring in bloodbath that shifted it pretty good yeah let's go ahead and tilt out on that one So that was ball two, now we're in ball three. We've got... Oh, come on. Wow. Hey, I'll take a ball save. I'm really surprised this game gave it to me. It's a little warm in here. I had the heater on and everything. Alright. And let's go... Can we do Bloodbath? Can we do Siege and then Bloodbath? Because now we should be able to start Siege. I'm guessing it would be better to bring a mode into this. Yes, okay. So we can start Siege and then bring in Bloodbath, but I would have to start a mode first, right? Prison. Oh, prison, sorry. Well, it says siege down below it, but I guess you're spelling prison, so that makes sense. Yeah, that definitely makes sense. Wow. Yeah, whatever. So I guess let's just start that mode. Got it. Okay, so now we're in Bloodbath. And I think when you're in Bloodbath, if I remember what Extra Paul told me, you really want to just get more of the... You really just want more of the... whatever those things are. The stand-up targets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go. So that was our add-a-ball. Oh, that sucked. I'll take it. Uh, we got barn going now, I think. Nope, apparently barn is still lit. No, alright, I don't know what we're doing. Are we actually in barn right now? So that's lit, there's that. I guess we've got well walker. Sieges is wizard oh okay Bloodbath is completely stackable start it before or bring it in either prison or well multiball got it okay and nine walkers killed I don't know that's just a picture I can't tell what mode we're in right now okay so I feel like I can consistently hit barn and now we're out of bicycle girl. I'm going to hit barn, I guess, again. There goes more barn. All right, and now we've got a multi-kill on the barn shot, which seems good. How many walkers do you need to kill to get to last man standing as Paz Johnson? I'm going to go ahead and say 115. There goes that one. We did have that murder, death, kill, triple kill, double killer. I can't remember what that's called. But we had that thing on the barn shot. This and NBA Fast Break, I believe, are the only solid state tables where it is possible to get zero for the bonus without tilting. Okay. I did not know that. Wow. Alright, doing it again. He's going to give me that one back. Thank you. I'll take it. Wow. That was brutal. Kind of sounded like something moved back behind me. It's fine. Ah, I got to get this last one here. Let's see if we can backflip it. That. That is totally the shot right there. Now we're in CDC. Let's go there. whoo saving it a little bit 22 seconds left on cdc got it all right so there now we've got first aid weapons let's see if we can lock in food got it all right one more and we'll light blood bath i guess we could also we've got 13 seconds left on CDC. If we can get that last shot... I feel... Oh no, that sucks. Alright, we're cool. And we lost a camera? Oh my tech stream, what is going on here? Man Alright, we got the camera back Forward facing cam Is out I'm gonna It's overheating again I gotta turn that fan back on Apparently it's too warm in the garage? Who knew that that was even a thing? Alright. I can't believe you've done it to me again, George. Not more of The Walking Dead. I'm sorry. That... Hit the hell out of that shot. You can see it perfectly there. Also, the music is way too quiet. There we go. What are you using for lights? Those can give off quite a bit of heat. Oh, they're all LED, Midheart. So they shouldn't be giving off a lot of heat. and there's a fan now on the camera camera might die again i'll keep checking i'll keep checking are we on ball three with four million right now all right there's one I hate it when those drop targets don't fall. Like that was a perfect hit. Alright, now we are ready for Bloodbath. If we can hit it again, what else do we need? So we've got all of these shots that represent different kills, right? Not that one. So now we're in bloodbath. And somehow hit both of those shots at the same time. And we're double flipping. I'm just happy that it's giving us all these balls back. That's great. I'll take that shot. There's something. There's an add-a-ball. That'll work. We've got a triple thingy kill on tunnel. Nope, didn't get there. Get up there! Oh, it gave it to me. It gave it to me. All right. All right, so now we need to hit Arena. Let's do that. Got it. Eventually. Cool, now we need to hit some Barn. Got it. And now I think we can hope... There we go, now we need to hit CDC. Totally got it. Got that attaball. Beautiful. That's fine. Now we've got to hit Riot, which is the one shot I really struggle to hit. Thank you, Bumper Nugget. I also really like that drop target cam. Okay, so we've still got Riot lit right now. We've got four shots left on well. Man, Riot. Try that again. Still trying for Riot right now. Wow. And we got a shoot again, though, so thankfully that. Uh, The Walking Dead or TMNT? Well, this is The Walking Dead, right? Oh, were you saying earlier that The Walking Dead seems like the shot layout is similar to TMNT? Oh, I guess, eh, does it kind of? Yeah, maybe. pin daddy all the tech issues you're having coincidence that it's since you started with the walking dead it is i think very coincident uh we've got fish tank and crossbow there and that was solid this game is just this game is not nice nope tunnel is like the hardest but most forgiving because you don't need to full clear the shot oh interesting you just need to get it up i see the i see the rollover back there all right flip tronic walking dead is mean i know But we do have beer, so there's that. Well, there's a barn shot. There's two of those and a ball drain. fears don't win the zombie apocalypse. That's what you think. Change my mind. Alright. Now we're going to try for tunnel. Alright. So we started tunnel. We have extra ball. Let's grab CDC. Now let's see if we can snag Riot. Nope. Whole can of nope there on Riot. That one's just not happening. All right, left ramp. Apparently more bicycle girl. Please don't drain. There's another bicycle girl. There's another bicycle girl. Hey we got that riot! Hey we got ourselves another riot! I'm a riot, you're a riot! And we've still got... oh wow extra ball is lit. Yeah it is! I think I just like mean pinball machines. Love The Walking Dead. Love Black Knight Sword of Rage. Am I a masochist? Kinda. Clearly it didn't work for Sean. That bar got wrecked. That was a reference to Sean of the Dead. Just in case. If you're like, I don't get that statement. Alright, so we got our extra ball. One more. One more. Oh, man. Man, this game is all about losing and getting control again. Got it. Alright, so now we just need... Oh, it's on weapon. Great, now we can hit another mode. I guess let's go riot? If we can hit it. I meant CDC. Obviously CDC. And we were prepped for Bloodbath, but that was all on ball three, which just... Oh, I had an extra ball. I forgot about that. and at least you can actually nudge yours. The one on location by me, you look at it funny, it tilts. Yeah, we set it, I feel like, nicely. It wasn't too much, not too little. Not good. Nope. Becca! Welcome to the stream! I'm sorry, you added a camera to the most horrible, awful, no good, very bad drops? Yes. Yes, I did. That's actually kind of hilarious. I do want to point this over. No, I feel like we need it here. Not so much here. Yeah, like right there. That's actually pretty good. And then this. Hold on. one sec, we can brighten this up just a hair. Camera. There we go. How is that? That is much brighter. Look at that. And we once had a game so sensitive that the shaker motor on the neighboring roadshow was setting it off. Oh. Apparently that was that game. We're not getting worse. How about that? Alright, so we need that one last drop target there. All right, game. I'll take a freebie at this point. Whatevs. I do what I want. I guess let's go for prison? Wow! Yeah, along with weapons and thirst... Oh, wait. Just doesn't want to actually admit her secret love for The Walking Dead. Sure, I'm sure that's what it is. Not good. Hey, I found that shot! Now what do we want to do? I guess let's go that shot. Ooh, I nudged that one right out. I don't have a sound clip for my disapproving mom. Hmm. I get it. I get it. That's definitely the sound you need. Really struggling with these targets over there There That's going to have some spin on it. All right. Let's grab a mode here. Let's see if we can do tunnel. I mean barn. I'll take that shot. Okay. Looks like it wants me to hit the barn or the extra ball. Alright, so we hit barn. Let's see if we can hit this extra ball. I think we need it. We're probably already on ball number three. If you can find the sweep shot, I'll be very impressed. All right, all right. Yep, yep, yep. Cool. Cool game. All right, so we've got, I think, one more on prison over there. We've still got barn running and bicycle girl. I'm going to hit this last target there. Okay, now we're ready to do prison. Oh, really? That's not going to get up there? And we're just going to drain everything. This is going swimmingly so far. We had a dirty pool situation for a second there. Oh, my God. All right, all right. Let's grab another one of these drop targets here. That sucks. All right, so we got something there. We got, I don't know how much that was. Hey! Oh, wow! Did we just get into bloodbath, or was that bloodbath? That sucked. That's fine, though. Left ramp. Gonna grab that last... Oh, no. No, I'm not. Y'all ready for this? Don't forget, you can add time to modes by clearing the... I was going for the drops the entire time. Bumper nugget. We love pinball. welcome to the stream. Doing well. Playing The Walking Dead, so mildly frustrated. all right so we got food and weapons yeah that's not so the left flipper loses power very very quickly because we were able to backhand that very easily at the beginning. Hey guys, let's be honest. Alright, while the shoot again. That was great. That was good times. Alright, alright I don't know why I love this song Alright, now we're ready to get back into Let's try Tunnel Wow. Oh, Super Troopers. That's what this song is from. I feel like I always forget that. All right. I feel like we're getting close to things. We can go Well Walker. Crap. We got an extra ball lit, which is great. I'll take it. I'll take it. Crap. I locked it in again. On the wrong one. That really sucks. That's fine. Got it that time. And now we're in CDC. And we've got two letters left for prison. uh cdc is lit how many more shoot left ramp for bicycle girl what do we need here oh we've also got blood bath nope I really like this song. How many more? Two. One. We got our one more shot there. There's that. So now we're ready for Bloodbath, if we can do that one more time. Okay, so I hit the left ramp. Pin Daddy, Becca has arrived. My misery finally has company. Someone else who really doesn't like this game. One more for Well Walker. Got it. Okay. Okay, and Riot is running. That's going right down the middle. Oh, man! Alright, alright. Perfect! I was doing the things. Riot's value. Hey, I actually hit Riot. I hit Riot again. And now we've got a murder death kill. And I think now we're also ready for some prison action. Yeah. All right, give me all these guys back here. All right. I think that was about as successful as we could have hoped. Yeah, that was awful, is what that was. All right, so now we've just got to do all the things over again, and then we're fine. Riot equals turtle pants. Yeah, exactly. All right, I don't know what all of that was, but, you know, the game made that happen. So, George, we're going to take you on a little journey. We hope you like journeys. Woo! All right, all right. I mean, we're doing things. We've got a crossbow shot there. That's coming back. All right. I mean, I'll take it. Eh. We gotta play better. I feel like all three balls have to be better. Okay, there goes a riot. I'm fine with that. And... Alright, so the shoot again is gone, so now I want to go for those targets. Got it. And now we want to start something. I'm going to go barn. Shoot barn to destroy walkers before they escape. Yep, got there. I got Donnie Champ tonight, by the way. Apparently you only play as Raph. Yeah. Well, I think the last time I played it was the first time I made it to the wizard mode. So it was always Raph up until that point. Alright, we had a shoot again. We just hit Barn. It was a little too much. All right. So now we've got first aid. Man, that was just a hair. Oh, wow, that was too much. Wow, this game is so dangerous. And, like, every shot, you're playing with fire. So, is The Walking Dead just a temp-borrow trade between you and George Bumper Nugget? Yeah, because I have to get better at this game. My phone is blowing up right now. Oh, that is Wolfman on the Discord. Thank you, Wolfman. Alright, what do we want to hit? Tunnel? Nope. Still nope. We can go CDC or Riot. Not good. Riot Nope Try Riot again here There it is Man, that shot is so tough But we did get an extra ball Once again on ball three Be a lot nicer to get that on ball two Oh, we almost got that one I'll take it, I'll take it Yep, because that's how this game is. It's just mean. Whatever, game. Really? Because plumbers always slope shite straight towards the drain. George, one thing that helped me was disabling a bunch of input devices that I wasn't using in sound settings. Okay. Okay. Oh, that's interesting. We have a mic on the camera. That was weird. Camera tilt bob. Desktop audio and then mic. Oh, you sound normal. It was the mic on the other camera I just plugged in. Let's Bees! Fliptronic, where were you? Oh, I'm not even playing. That's good. Alright, so now we can play good. That's how we do that. I'm gonna do it this time. Oh. Bumper nugget. that is the rubber on that one uh what is next to rick and morty uh jurassic park and total nuclear annihilation and then avengers uh you know you can tell oh i already did that one uh what a great lineup on your shoulders says ramrod thank you no no those are those are solid pins. And then Game of Thrones we just got rid of, so now I have to figure out what it is I want. After watching the stream tomorrow, I confirm whether or not we're grabbing Led Zeppelin. Because I was in on it initially, but I'm really, really hesitant right now to follow up on that. But I want to see it. And specifically, I was in on a pro, so I'm kind of worried about how the pro is going to play. It doesn't look like it has any flow. All right, so we need this shot right there. And now we can go for tunnel. Totally got there. Now let's try barn. How about that? Let's try barn again. Wow, that had so much spin on it. Becca and Jordan already wants to get rid of Hot Wheels. And Jordan, actually, I was going to say Jordan likes to hold on to games, but I think Jordan actually gets rid of games faster than I do. If you had a Hot Wheels, you'd really be leading the way. No, buy not my Hot Wheels. No, no, no, not that I want your Hot Wheels. I'm just saying you've already talked about getting rid of Hot Wheels. Give me that back. That was a lot of work to try and keep that going. Becca throwing down the gauntlet there saying he better not. Unless it were for a TNA. Oh, it was a joke? Really? I did not get that that was a joke. Alright, trying for barn. Again, there we go. All right, all right, we're being cool, game. I'll take that riot. I'm a riot, oh no. Whoa, game! You are frustratingly wonderful. Wow, this game is so... Raza, so Pindaddy, I actually emailed Deeproot, and I mentioned my... So I mentioned my concerns about Led Zeppelin overall and asking what kind of ETA I might have if I put an order in for Raza. And I got back the most snooty, awful response I have ever received to a genuine, like, hey, I'm concerned about one of your competitors. I'm interested in your product. And they responded back, well, I can't say anything specific to a competitor's timeline, but I can tell you that ours are clearly documented on the website. You should go check that. it was pretty much that with Raza and I'm like I'm never doing business with those assholes ever that was like my one time to ever to ever send an email to a like if I sent that email off to spooky they would have been amazing about it and been like haha totally funny like I I got into a a good conversation with Squirrel about, sorry, with people over at Spooky, and I said that if there was any way I could bump myself up in line for a Rick and Morty, I would drive them out craft beer from Colorado. And that spawned a fun back and forth conversation. Sorry, I forgot to use my sarcasm. Pindetti, thank you. Okay, I get it. I'm just saying, I sent out an email and got back a real jerk response. And I wasn't expecting it at all. Fliptronic, yeah, exactly. They were like, well, let me show you on the website where you could have looked that up instead of bothering me with an email. It's just like basic salesmanship. They don't have it. and I, I, yeah, I don't even know what to say about that. To be fair, they probably have been getting a ton of troll emails. Okay. What was it? Somebody said they've sold 25, uh, 25 razas. It might be because they're getting trolled so much that they're being jerks to actual potential customers. I'm sorry, there is to be fair, and then there is shit. I just lost a customer because of awful customer service. I'll post the email up on Discord because it is funny. like the the the sarcasm in that email is dripping oz welcome to the stream and i worked at hobby lobby the pinsomniac it can't be oh wait wait don't wait hold on hold on i missed stuff uh i need to go handle their custom also it's called copy paste no more oh no, Fliptronic, I deleted the clip and never put it back up. It was an accidental delete, and there was no control Z. Scotty C, welcome! Get in Aliens! Oh my god, Bumper Nugget, I am starting to hate this game, and I didn't think that was possible. I'm like, I know it's a brutal game. I get that. Oh my gosh. It's possible. No, wait, that is some impressive customer. I know, right? Oh no, hate it. Hate it. Join us, says Becca. I've had some rough days and sent out some snarky emails, but wow. I know, right? It's like, if you have the chance, if one sale drastically increases your total percentage of sales, you probably should take all of the emails with some sincerity. Whatever, though. Man, maybe they got stuff in the line for... I don't even... with, like, slot machines or something like that and they don't actually have to sell pinball machines. all right bloodbath coming up we're gonna do the thing see that is how you do it when you call it and you do the thing and stuff happens and then you double drain that's obviously where where that whole thing was going oh wow all right what do we need here uh let's go barn nope Cool. Cool! Yes! Let the hate flow through you Becca I want to read it That breaks my heart George I just want to fix it For the sake of Goonies Goonies never say George bye What Goonies never say bye Is that a thing Here, wait. You know what? I'm going to pull up the email and I will just read it. How about that? this is this is fun this is this is a fun little break right here um so if i'm gonna search jesus i'm so not used to this so we're gonna search for what they're called Deep Root. And... There we go. Thank you for your email. Let us try to answer your inquiry. We cannot speak as to whether another manufacturer's shipments will be on time or not. We can speak to ours. As of now, our four to six week publicly posted timeline would mean that the end of January would be the earliest games leaving the factory here. as per posted order priority, extra leaves before arcade, and full payment before deposit. Hope this helps. Yeah, so my email, it's funny because I don't think they read my email. I'm trying to decide between purchasing a game from my Stern distributor or purchasing Raza from Deep Root, and my biggest concern is the delay between order and shipment. I expect shipment from Stern within about three weeks for a new LZ, but I was only whelmed with the launch. My goal is both play and early access to a game for streaming. If I were to order a game through Deep Root, how likely am I to get one of the first batch and what ETA would you expect for delivery? That's what I said. But I didn't say anything at all asking them to respond to the timelines of other manufacturers. yeah let us try to answer your inquiry we cannot speak as to whether another manufacturer's shipments will be on time or not which i never asked about we can speak to ours so i don't know maybe maybe i read more sarcasm into that when i got it as a response but hold it up to the hand cam oh this one right here Oh, wait, I lost it. What's your name? Your name is Deeproot. There you go. There you go. Does that help, Nick? Hold it up to the hand cam. There you go. Uh, what is this? A message for ants? Alright, let's do this. This is game number 16, take number 42. Uh, let's try not to have an embarrassing game. How about that? Cool, cool, yep, started Riot in just a few seconds, I'm fine with that. Kirk Hobbs, welcome to the stream. Let us try to answer your inquiry, but not in any way providing anything that could be considered answering your question. It was just... Yeah, Zoolander pin anyone with only a right flipper because you're not an ambi flipper. I'm guessing that's what that is. Also, they could have just said no, exactly. Like, they won't prioritize for... It wasn't even that. Like, I was just letting them know why I was hoping to get something quickly. Anyway, it was... I don't know. I feel like there was an opportunity to be cool and, like, ingratiate yourself with a potential customer. And that was not it. Alright, now what do I need to do? I need to hit shots. I need that first aid shot over there. Man. I feel like the rubbers on this are too sticky or something. There... I'm just going to whine about everything. When I'm having a bad game, there's nothing that's right on a pinball machine. I'm just going to keep complaining. Pin Stadium, welcome to the stream. No need to prioritize for streamers when they don't want the bad publicity. I mean, by the time a streamer would get a machine, the orders would close, so it wouldn't really matter. Beer about everything in Stego. Instead of wine, let's beer about it. Kirk Hobbs, that is plus one for you. Penn Stadium, coming in with the bits. Thank you and welcome to the stream. All right. Oh, nice. We locked it in on weapons. One more for Bloodbath, and we've got our 2x running. There's CDC. Uh, looks like prison. Oh, no. And a barn shot from a weird backhand. Obviously intentional. Let's go, I guess, see if, yeah, this. Oh. Nope, we're going prison. All right, there was a good CDC shot. And we've got Bloodbath. Wow, triple drain all in one go. We've got extra ball and Bloodbath on one target here. Right there. So now we're in Bloodbath. I'm going to try and grab that extra ball. And then we've got the potential add-a-ball. All right, let's grab this extra maybe. Nope. That worked out really well. there was the extra and there's our add a ball i'll take that back thank you oh it looks like we also lit okay game that was just brutal right there i'll take arena no i'm not i mean let's go barn Let's try Arena again. Got it. That'll work. Let's see. We can go for a Well Walker. We need a few more of those Well Walkers. It looks like we've got Bicycle Girl. LZ will be a PETA to stream. Oh man, because of the music? It's fine. I don't even care about the music. Arena. That's... I'm gonna pull this back. this way just a hair. Alright, we're good. We're good. We're good. The playfield lays at Kirkov's. I agree. Like, if it shoots really, really well, I'm gonna be a big fan. I think. And I'm okay with the playfield being bare if it shoots well. Because I feel like Game of Thrones, the pro shoots amazing. All right, what do we need now? CDC Arena Riot. We need Tunnel and Barn. I'll take that. Game of Thrones is the best. Sorry, George. I was on a phone call. Can you repeat that? What pro... Oh, Game of Thrones does shoot amazing. Specifically, oh man, specifically the, that had spin on it. The pro version of Game of Thrones shoots wonderfully. Ha, at least this pin doesn't degrade like the show year after year. It really did, didn't it? I stopped watching as they introduced Negan. Really? Oh, wow, that was ball two. Okay, there's more. We can bring this back, game. Let's do it. Game, you messed me up. All right, let's hit barn. Got it. Oh, and now we're ready to re-get into bloodbath, plus we've got well walker. So. How many more well walker shots do we need? It doesn't say. Let's hit that last weapon. Alright. That just reset. I don't even know what to do with that right now. It didn't light bloodbath, so apparently we have to do it again. No idea how many more on that I'm just going to keep hitting Well Walker right now I'd be interested in what AP puts out next I freaking love Hot Wheels Goodness knows I'd be intrigued by a Spooky Pin I don't know, I feel like I'm just hitting Oh, two more for Well Walker uh dice so stern has the godzilla rights all right i mean we got four of the five modes i guess that's that's something All right, that's done. And there we go. Oh, man. What an awful first ball. Is this not set up for... Nope, it's just adding... It's just adding people. Hold on. I'm missing stuff here. I need to find a Hot Wheels because my only taste of AP right now is Houdini, and that was awful. Totally awful. I also... There are moments I feel like I enjoyed Houdini, but overall I was a little disappointed. I really want Deep Root to succeed with the new business and pins, but they really bad aim and keep shooting them. Yes, absolutely. Pinside Boomers seem excited for a potential Tojo Godzilla, but Congress Godzilla would be way cooler. We don't talk about Houdini. A shameful display, says Dice. And, Hopdog, I'd take anything. I'm not mad at Houdini, just disappointed. Okay. I just don't like the animation. honestly if my and I don't like anything about uh Oktoberfest there's nothing about that but at least Houdini was kind of cool um and I guess I I would really like a Hot Wheels uh but I just don't want to pay full price for it I guess right now alright so much for Siege All right, don't drop it straight down the middle. We're good, we're good. All right, now we're going to... I want to work my way left to right. There we go. Barn. george oktoberfest has boobs there's always something to like about it becca who are you my dad dice yeah uh zilla 2000 remake says hop dog okay um by that logic you should find a big bang bar It's got the tube dancer. It does. That is not much better than the game we just reset for. Thank you. All right. What do we need now? We can work on that. Ah. Got it. Wow, I can't believe I timed that correctly. There we go. I'll take it, game. I'm taking it. Arena. Arena. That'll work. All right, so we've got extra ball. Arena is lit. We can bring in Bloodbath. Let's grab that extra ball. And we tilt it. There is a tilt bob in this game. No question. Let's see here. Or a Whoa Nelly. Wow. Haven't heard someone recommend that one in a while. I just wish so badly that The Walking Dead would have been a Breaking Bad pin instead. Breaking Bad would be an amazing theme. Right, Sis Dice? And... Okay. Alright, we're cool. Oh, is this not a new game? I feel like I started a new game. One more shot for Bloodbath. Or an extra ball. That's fine. Obviously, that was all intentional. Two more shots to get prison. Prison! Alright, we're doing things here. And now we are in Bloodbath. All right, so I think we just got an addable. That's fine. That's fine. Now what are we doing? Looks like we've got Riot running right now. And we're in Bloodbath. Let's see if we can get another Ataball. There's that. And we got one more for another Adaball on Bloodbath. Got it. That did not work anywhere close to what I thought it would. We do have a Multikill or whatever that is on the left orbit. So we got that guy. gotta catch up on chat here in just a second ooh and that's on riot now that's great so i guess we can work on well walker again uh look if i can get a game with meth multiball it's so epic dark i'm in one of my favorite quotes of all time is from uh bb did you make this coffee yeah i grind my own beans sip why are we making meth. I'm also sold on meth multiballs, says Dice. And who can forget the always classic, yeah, Science Bee. Oh, I've got another chute again, though. Ugh. All right, what do we need now? What do we need? Five more shots on Well Walker. So we can go over here. How many times do I have to hit that? So we've got Riot, Barn, and Arena We've got two more to go Four more shots on Well That game is so mean Breaking Bad pin would be great But if it has to play the sound clip Say my name Anytime I enter my initials But I would settle for The Walking Dead Just being a game that doesn't suck The episodes of Breaking Bad The whole episode where they're trying to get a fly Out of their lab is one of the greatest pieces of physical comedy ever put on television. Wow! I really need to go back and finish watching. And finish watching that, because I gave up. I didn't make it all the way through. It just got kind of depressing. Alright, did the thing there. All right, I'll take that. I'm taking it. I'm taking it, and I'm going to go for, I don't know, well or prison or arena. I'm going for well walker. George, it's not a feel-good show. It's just a good show. This game's trying to kill me, guys. Woo! Get up and around. Up, up, up! See, me telling it to go up really helps. Obviously. Obviously. Super obvious. Alright. Extra ball is lit. Yeah, it is. It's been drinking like a mother! There we go. We got our extra ball. I feel like I'm starting to find some of the shots. All right, how many more shots on Well Walker do we need? We need shots. We're ready for Bloodbath soon, but we're only in our first mode. I keep hitting that, which keeps extending the mode. I kind of want it to just end. Will this time out? Yes. Okay, so it just timed out. Oh, good, good. We're fine. I sweeped it. All right. All right, so now I'm just going to hit some mode points here. Oh, wow. That was so bad. All right, I mean, that obviously was intentional. It's fine. Didn't even want that. That's totally cool. Now we're in CDC. Whatevs. Woo! So we're still in CDC, and we completed that entire thing just then. Translight. Oh, my God. It's almost midnight. We have to do the Translight. I can't believe what time it is. All right. As soon as we're done with this game. It got late. Yeah, we're doing the Translight giveaway as soon as this is done. Great. I know, right? Wow. Everyone spam the word Translate. That was ball one. All right, let's do the Translate giveaway first. Because that's going to take a little bit. Hold on. So we got to go to Nightbot. And I got to log in with Twitch. I now have to authorize. And then I come in here and I do a giveaway and eligibility channel modifiers Okay. And everybody has regular luck. And we're going to do keyword. And the keyword is going to be raffle. All right, yeah, type in exclamation point raffle. Nope, I take it back. Let's do exclamation point meth. That's way more fun. Yeah, exclamation, I mean, for Breaking Bad, let's go ahead and do exclamation point meth. All right. And remember, you get to choose if you win. If you want Rescue 911, TMNT, pin blades, two different pin blades. Wow. Meth is way more fun. Thank you. And all right. I think that might be method own meh. No, no, no, it's meth, not meh. Meth. Moth? MPT3K has not actually put it in. That is meth-ud acting, says... All right. map says mpt3k meth goblum matthew mcconaughey all right is that everybody exclamation point meth what's up i put it in at least twice as mpt3k for whatever reason you weren't eligible but now you are I'm gonna roll it you guys don't mess this up that's been zombie egg getting method up with George we are all just missing teeth double flip there we go double flip you're in here five four three two one roll it up dice has won the giveaway Alright Dice I'm going to go through it all Which do you want? There is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles There is And guys I know this is going to be hard to pass up But Rescue 911 9-1-1. And then you've got some pin blades. Look at these guys. So that is for Jurassic Park, and the other one is for uh... What is it? Um... The Simpsons Pinball Party. Rescue 9-1-1 is a dream for me. Would Switch even allow that? Dice, which one do you want? You won! Did I miss it? No, okay. Dice! TMNT! Okay, good. Yes! That's actually perfect, because Jessica just put together a whole bunch of Christmas cards for people, so we were already mailing you something. You have to call him Meth from now on. He wants meth. Okay. You guys, that was a huge follower celebration. Yeah, we're sending out... It's like, we got about ten cards, I think, that we're sending out right now. So, yeah. A, I've got to finish up this game. What was the George 20,000 channel point? No, this was just a celebration for hitting 1,300 followers. like two weeks ago. So every 100 followers, we do a fun giveaway. The next one's going to be a lot of fun because I also got a ton of schwag from Stern and Flip N Out Pinball. So we might do a whole hat, T-shirt, and bandana giveaway package, I think, for when we hit 1,400 followers. Anyway, Dice, I've got this for you right here. Boca is amazing. Look at that. Boom. Boca. I rolled that up like I was gonna... I rolled that up like I was gonna do something with it. Yeah, exactly. I have a ton of schwag right now that I have yet to give away. I would absolutely give 20,000 points for Rescue 911. Becca, Rescue 911 is going to be the amazing giveaway for something. Oh, you know what? Probably 400 streams. Today was 385, so in 15 streams, we're gonna hit 400. and we'll do a Rescue 911 Translight giveaway for 400. DPF King of the Schwagger. Rolled, not folded. Never folded, no. So, five weeks. Yeah, honestly, we might hit 1,400. If that's the case, we'll do a two Translight giveaway. Or, no, sorry, the Schwag and a Translight giveaway for 1,400. Exclamation point math. Well, I feel like I've got to make up a couple of streams yet, so we might do some weekend streaming. Man, I gotta hit that again? Again? Three more over there. that is really not good all right all right let's hit this arena shot shall we yeah All right, we're good. I just want to time this out, honestly, but instead, what am I going to go for? We need Well Walker. I think we need two shots on Well Walker. I don't even know what that was All right. I'll take it. I'll take it. And we're still, I think, in bloodbath. No, we're not in bloodbath right now. Now we are. Now we are. All right, we're doing things. All right, we're doing stuff now. We're going to go tunnel. Tunnel. Okay. All right. Woo! All right, all right. Left orbit. Got it. Got Riot. Beautiful. All right, we're doing our things here. Now we need to hit tunnel. All right, now we need to hit Arena. It looks like we can also go right into Prison. Yeah, okay. Let's do that. Let's be bad guys. Ooh, this song again. Got it. Alright, alright. I mean, we're hitting shots here. I'm not... This doesn't feel awful. which is fine. That is all totally okay. I can't tell if we're about to get into Wellwalker again or what's going... Or, sorry, into Bloodbath over here. The original Shadow, not even nice enough to send the improved alternate Translight. I actually really like the alternate Translight, yeah. All right. So there goes ball one. So not weapons, not food. There we go. That was the worst ball two ever. I don't know about worst ever that seems a bit of an exaggeration I know, Fliptronic, I can't believe this came on no, you're a mile from blood okay, Yancy, thank you I'm going to be patient. Wait, wait, go. Got it. Alright, so we've only got the one mode left, which is Tunnel. I don't know the significance of that, but it's the one mode we have left. There we go. Tunnel is lit. okay so if it just wants us to hit tunnel right now or i guess we could keep working towards prison if we complete tunnel that completes all five of the modes what does that get us to horde or siege uh becca i don't like that show but i can't stop watching it wait what was the show Texas Rob Lowe I haven't seen that So what did George do on stream last night? He was working towards prison Alright, I kind of just want this to time out 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 One more set to light bloodbath Now what? So all of the different modes are lit solid. What do we have to do now? Do we have to complete this again in order to start the mode? Terminus is mode number six. Okay. Well, that sucked. There goes ball number three. Well, it was an okay game. We got one more in us. We got one more. that unfortunately this game might be tough but it definitely has that one more game feel Nope. Nope. Sigh. Kind of thought that would have bounced gently over to the side. That did not happen. Ball three! Alright, we did save one more game. And... Barn! Got it. And I let that bounce. That was the quickest last ball. All right, gang. I'm out. I'm falling asleep at the keyboard. LOL. Cookie Monster, have a great night. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Yeah. That was... I've had many feelings playing The Walking Dead, but I'm sure the one more game feel was never one of them. All right. I can't end on that. I gotta... Just one more. And same thing. Going to try and complete it all. Do all the things. All right. Thank you, game. Just give me... Up and around. Just go. Just go. Just go. Just go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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