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Last day of our week long Dracula battle.

Dead Flip·video·1h 28m·analyzed·Oct 24, 2014
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TL;DR

Deadflip hosts final Dracula tournament with Chicago league players; promotions for upcoming Pinball Expo.

Summary

Deadflip streams the final day of a week-long Bram Stoker's Dracula tournament featuring four Chicago-area pinball players (Jack Danger, Richie Townsend, Erica DeMarco, and Crystal Gemnich) competing in a Pinburgh-format tournament. The hosts provide extensive rules explanation and gameplay commentary while testing new microphone setup and discussing pinball culture, with upcoming Chicago Pinball Expo promotion.

Key Claims

  • Chicago Pinball Expo is starting Thursday and runs through the weekend with new Walking Dead machine, Big Lebowski pinball available to play, and IFPA-ranked tournament

    high confidence · Jack Danger announcing expo details to newer player Erica DeMarco

  • Erica DeMarco has only been playing pinball since last season (making her unranked)

    high confidence · Direct statement from Erica during stream conversation

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula is described as naturally dark game with difficult shots but rewarding gameplay

    high confidence · Multiple stream hosts confirming design philosophy and gameplay difficulty

  • Jack Danger put up number 3 or 4 high score on the machine by day one of the week

    medium confidence · Jack Danger claims achievement; Brad nearly made board, missed by ~100k points

Notable Quotes

  • “It's a fun machine, I'm just getting a little tired of playing it.”

    Jack Danger@ 2:35 — Reflects operator fatigue from week-long single-game focus; common issue in content streaming

  • “Bram Stoker's Dracula is like an incredibly fun game, dude. You're gonna enjoy it. The shots are hard, but very rewarding.”

    Jack Danger@ 48:23 — Captures game design philosophy and difficulty-reward balance that defines the machine

  • “I've been playing pinball only since last season. Last season, that's it?”

    Erica DeMarco@ 26:52 — Demonstrates newer player integration into Chicago league; important for community growth

  • “I seriously put an hour and a half on this machine every single day this week and I'm still playing like a ding-dong.”

    Jack Danger@ 38:03 — Reflects game difficulty even with extensive practice; validates Dracula's challenging reputation

Entities

Jack DangerpersonRichie TownsendpersonErica DeMarcopersonCrystal GemnichpersonBram Stoker's DraculagameDeadfliporganizationChicago Pinball LeagueorganizationChicago Pinball ExpoeventDelilah'sorganizationPinsanityevent

Signals

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    community_signal: Deadflip hosting week-long single-game tournament with community voting to select next week's game demonstrates content strategy focused on fan participation and extended engagement

    high · Facebook/Twitter poll for next week's game selection mentioned; tournament format with community voting

  • ?

    community_signal: Chicago established as significant competitive pinball hub with active league (Chicago Pinball League), multiple venues (Delilah's), and strong player base attracting expo participation

    high · Multiple Chicago players, league infrastructure, venue partnerships, dedicated expo event

  • ?

    community_signal: Integration of newer players (Erica: one season experience) into competitive streams and community events; mentorship visible through rules explanation and encouragement

    high · Erica identified as unranked newer player; extensive rules teaching; supportive commentary from experienced players

  • ?

    event_signal: Chicago Pinball Expo announced for Thursday-weekend with new game reveals (Walking Dead, Big Lebowski) and IFPA-ranked tournament

    high · Jack Danger explicitly promoting expo to Erica DeMarco as major community event

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Erica DeMarco recently attended Pinsanity event and is returning to stream competition; represents active participation across multiple tournament/event venues

    medium · Erica mentioned returning from Pinsanity event; ongoing competitive participation across events

Transcript

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0:00
go live and we'll let people start to join. All right. Folks, we're going to give it another two or three minutes to give people a chance to join the stream and we'll get started. So talk amongst yourselves. I don't know.
0:35
I love how this thing sounds, definitely. It was like tin canny before when it all came from that mic up there, but now it's like... Have you been using that all week? Just since yesterday.
0:47
You can hear me sipping on things and stuff. I don't know, it's a little weird, so I try not to... Don't make dad noises.
0:58
Yep. Sorry for the dad noises, folks. Do you know Dracula? Uh, vaguely. I played it at MGC once. Uh-oh. We'll show you what's up. I just know Skull Shop, and I know Bats and Rats. Bats and Rats, is that right? Bats and Rats. That is correct. There are bats, and there are rats.
1:26
Ba-ba-da-boom. Yeah, we're just going to give it a minute. Great. That's good. Yeah. And it picks me up fine, and then it also picks up people around me and the machine pretty well, too.
1:53
It doesn't really pick up the background music, though, which is, I guess, anything. Yeah, just drink.
2:05
Oh, yeah. For pinball? You don't want to lose anything? Hair tie. All right, folks. Welcome to the last day of Bram Stoker's Dracula Week. Gotta say, it's a fun machine, I'm just getting a little tired of playing it. So I did post on our Facebook and on our Twitter the link to the straw poll, so you guys can vote on what the game for next week's gonna be. So click that.
2:48
You got the whole weekend to decide, and then we will see where that goes. Today, we have, as always, for some reason, Richie Townsend. Howdy, Internet. I invited him. Don't worry about that. Erica DeMarco's back from the Pinsane Clown Posse's. And special guest tonight, Crystal Gemnich. Is that right? Yeah. Hell's Bells. Hell's Bells, Trudy. Do you guys still play for Delilah's? Awesome.
3:18
She's another pinball Chicago League player. Yeah. So today we're going to do that pinberg style of thing that we usually do. play to 15 points. Since we have four people here, first place will be three points, second place will be two points, third place will be one point, and last place is zero. First person to get to 15 wins the thing. And if it takes too long, we'll just high-five each other and go home. Yeah, works out pretty well. We're going to get a practice game in really quick, and then we'll get this thing started. So I guess in order of height, Richie, I will go first, and then we'll just work it out. You have a benefit, don't worry, don't worry. All right, let's get this started.
3:59
Reverse height? So Crystal, if you want a heads up, I'll show you what I'm doing here real quick. Yes, middle face of skill shot. So on your very first ball, I found that as this right face is about to turn into the middle face, that's when you launch it on your first skill shot, hits it every single time.
4:22
Right there. Yeah. Would it have been great? Works the first time, every time. Sometimes. Oh, man. So I'm finding everything you shouldn't hit on this game.
4:41
So I like to open this ramp up and then start rocking the left ramp to get your bats going. Because when that's open and you get your ball in there, it'll drop it right in the middle of those pops. And the pops is what? The pops are, well, all switches are for bats, but the pops give them to you the fastest. Okay. All right, Richie, let's see what you got, bud. Sure.
5:02
Sure. Bob Twitchell says hi, everybody. Hi, Bob. All right. All right, Crystal, you're up. Kill it.
5:44
Pizza fans here. That is plenty of people to have a pizza party. Also pizza fan, we have pizza on the way. Well, I guess they have pizza on the way that they're going to eat in front of us.
5:56
All right, buddy, you got this. Oh, yeah. We'll just put it on the back glass or on the play field glass.
6:12
There you go. Get them rats. Where's the mystery? So mystery is to the right of that left ring. It's that little hole right there. It's got a flashing light in front of it right now. Good ball, good ball.
6:35
So for the second skill shot, if you've hit the first one, the second one is right when that right face lights up. Okay. So let's see. Right there.
6:47
There it is. I'm hitting nothing. I'm hitting absolutely zero. I am the monster. Blanc. Alright, Richie. Playfield too dark. I get that a lot. I'll see what I can do to fix it.
7:20
Well, Bob, we can have a dark play field or we can have a play field with a little reflection on it. We're sort of trying to balance that out.
7:34
All right, Crystal, take it home. Beautiful. Don't sweat it. This game is supposed to be hard. We also have lightning flippers on it, the short little things that are murderous.
8:02
So, Crystal, are you going to be in the new season of the Pinball Chicago thing? same team same bar Delilah's fantastic that they're putting in the machine oh what they came out with a all right so the third skill shot is the third skill shots when the left face is about to turn into the right face. Okay.
8:41
There it is. And on ball three, if you didn't do very well, it gives you a missed multi-ball right there. So do you see where mystery is? Yeah. There's a thing blinking there called missed. Yeah. That's a multi-ball. Okay. And what it does is it starts a ball hovering across the play field. On the magnet, right? Yeah. And you have to knock the ball off of there. and then every shot that you hit during that is like 10 million points. Yeah.
9:06
So watch me miss it, and then someone else will have to do it. There it is. Wow, I telephoned that. Yeah.
9:18
All right, Richie, let's see what you got, bud. That table at Double Bubble was trashed. Yeah. Like, it was hard to play. I played one round in doubles, and I sat out for the rest of the day. It was not fun. Was it Eric that had to stop playing because he was, like, throwing a tantrum? Yeah, we kicked him out. We had to kick him off in the night. So good. He had his name on the board to practice. He was draining his balls. and he got like grand champ on the machine before the tournament started that's pinball for you she's talking to you richie get it girl all right crystal so the that is the only thing you want to shoot for is the mist right there
10:30
Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't sweat it. Don't sweat it. You got a ball safe. Nice. Get it up there.
10:53
You're getting some solid saves out of that, that's for sure. Oh, man. Targets are a bitch. Don't ever shoot for those. I know. Obviously, it's hard to avoid them, but do not shoot for those.
11:09
Those are the quick way to light your third multi-ball. Okay. Which, honestly, is not even worth going for unless you're in the middle of it.
11:21
All right. Let's just get this tournament thing rolling here. so we'll just keep going in order of height since those were terrible scores for all of us alright let me pull up the rule set here rules boom so our players here are Jack we got Richie we got Eric Crystal and we have Eric beautiful alright so first to 15 3-2-1-0 you guys ready? I hope you're ready cause Richie's gonna kick all of our asses yup ain't that right Richie if you could do me a solid and give me a little shout out.
12:29
A little technical issue with our start button on Dracula here. There we go. Good luck. Are we playing for anything? No.
12:40
We're playing for hugs. Winner gets the most hugs. Here we go. the hug shun man I'm about to be hug shunned if I don't hit anything give me that mystery Alright, one more shot to open to start bats here I'm trying to get the coffin open Why can't I get my hands on the damn ball? There we go
13:38
Oh, farts with your idols. So I'd probably like to have... Oh, thanks. Thanks, buddy. Do I get any rats for that? No.
14:04
Nope. Barf. Why do you get rats? Um, because I doinked a lot and accidentally hit that rat hole a whole bunch of times.
14:22
Oh, sorry, Richie, I... Screwed up? No, I didn't screw anything up. If anyone screwed something up... It was me. Just now.
14:35
Alright, Crystal. We don't have to do that the whole time. Yeah. Nice save. Beautiful. What do you got? The lowest mystery score I can give you.
15:07
That sucks. A moment's courage and it is done. Nice save. Holy crap. No, don't feed him. Nice. Good ball, good ball.
15:35
Alright, Erica. Murder it. You're getting no love on that ball save at all. Zero loves. Oh, and the thing just wimped out on me.
16:07
I don't like it. Bats. Here we go. This is what I wanted on ball one, but I played it too safe.
16:28
I'm trying, man. That ramp is my freaking kryptonite. I might still get that 2 million. That sexy 2 million points.
16:47
It is. It stops that too. Y'all are in trouble now. What the? Stay alive, dummy. Where is that? Where's this stupid ramp?
17:12
The ramp. Oh my two million. Yo you better watch out. I ain't getting hug shun girl. Check this out.
17:35
I am the monster. The breathing man. Which one's mine? You want to see yours? Yeah. Look over here on the left.
17:45
Oh, far out. Yeah. That's the only photo I could find that I was able to chop out. I did a lot of creeping on Facebook to find y'all's photos. Should we get some Chicago Kimball League photos taken? I completely agree. Should that guy that Ben hired for the party maybe? How'd those photos turn out? I don't know. I'd love to see them.
18:08
Oh, Richie, video mode is ready for you. What's video mode? So if Richie gets it. No. Keep shooting.
18:19
Keep shooting, Tex. So what it is. All right, Erica, take it. No, Crystal. Yeah. Get it. The video mode. Yes.
18:32
Yesterday, the first time ever, I let it kill me. Because I'm getting too close? Yeah. Because the closer they get, the more they're worth. I wasn't trying to get close. Have you played the video mode before?
18:45
It's tough. On hard, we have it set to pretty difficult. I probably should have gone for it that time. Yeah. I am the monster. That breathing man will kill.
18:59
Kill it. Oh. Just a heads up, if you're trying to backhand that ram, it don't work. Okay. He's lying. I've done it one time in my life. One time. All right. If you're purposefully trying to backhand that ram. Enough momentum coming from the right-hand side. Yeah. That's it.
19:18
Purposefully backhanding does not seem to work. We're coming from the left-hand side. Holy shit. That went about as clean as it could down that in lane right there. We did. All right.
19:42
Time to tune up. What skill shot am I on here? You know that you get at least 39. Shut up, Richie. My extra 2 million.
19:54
Love never dies, love never dies. What are you doing? Two million, baby. Yeah, Tom, no kidding. Oh, and he gets it. That's all I wanted. Yeah, Tom, the backhand to the coffin, I backhand that thing all the time when it's open. No! But the ramp is not necessarily a thing. I got them both? I got them both. You got them both back, you lucky duck. Lucky bastard.
20:43
Crystal, yeah, so when that ramp opens up, so you can, you know the ramp you tried to backhand there? Yeah. When that opens up, you gotta get balls in there for another multiball. That you can backhand when it's open.
20:55
But getting it up the ramp is not really a thing. Alright, bud, you got this. I give you life. You turned. Ah, bitchy, you beat me.
21:24
Gosh. Farts. That's alright. It's only game one. Skill shot. Fall in there, come on.
21:44
Just fall in. Just... Yeah, right. Oh hell yeah One more time you got rats rolling You need some stools
22:06
Is that a poop joke? Wait, I got stools over here. That's a good point. Some people aren't standing around like idiots. If you guys want to sit down, you're more than welcome to.
22:23
Alright, so we're just... Where does it... Yeah, right. The Committee of Judgment. Richie 3, Jack 2, Crystal 1, Erica 0.
22:40
All right, folks. All right, so I started off. Oh, yeah, I guess you do. All right, bud, kill it. There, you happy? I got stools. Eh? Stools. Yeah.
22:56
They're like, yo, you need some stools in there. Bow. All comfy now. So, it was Richie in first, I was second, you were third, Eric was fourth. It's about to turn around, because Richie sucks. I do, it's true. I'm just kidding, I love you, Rich.
23:20
Oh, yeah. Come on, Bobby. My man. Which sucks. No, dude. Two and a half million is like... I mean, come on. The skill shots and bonus.
23:42
That was like skill shot and bonus, man. Two and a half million is like three and a half million. Skill shot and bonus. That's all you need.
23:51
Fall in there. Oh, I hate you. I got cocky. Two and a half million. Oh, two and a quarter million. Two and a half million.
24:10
Thanks for coming back. Thank you for having me back. It's been a pleasure being here this week. It'll be exciting to see what game we play next week.
24:21
What's that? Oh, man, that went incredibly well. Did you watch it? Go watch the past stream. It was the first time using this. It's nuts. I'm not screaming as much as I usually do because of this thing. I don't want to blow up people's ears. Are you switching it on and off? No.
24:41
I think if I try to switch it on and off, it's going to blow static straight up their asses, and I don't want to deal with that. Straight up your asses, Thomas. Straight up your asses.
24:59
Try to make it sound as silky as possible. Good job, bud. Good job. Both of us combined. Yes. No. That's fine with me.
25:17
Look at my score. Ding dong. Yo, Erica's about to murder a tooth. You just got that two million mystery.
25:29
But more to after all. Hey, check that out. Jack quotes Dracula in my family. I'm constantly... You have to. Even in my regular life. Dracula's such a quotable machine.
25:46
Hey, folks. just wondering, can you hear everything okay? I'm sure you can hear me being an idiot, but can you hear the machine and the people and the hey-hey?
26:05
Up all night. Does it still look super dark? I mean, if I brighten it up anymore, you're going to see every reflection ever made in existence on this glass.
26:17
Thank you, Tom. Dope. I don't want the machine to be too loud. You get to listen to my sultry voice.
26:38
Sultry. Get to listen to my sultry voice. Hey, ladies. Oh, rats. Got them rats and bats? So, Erica, how long have you been playing pinball? I've been playing pinball only since last season. Last season, that's it? Last season. That's why you would be unranked then. Yep, yep. Well, we're going to change that around in OTA.
27:03
Starting Thursday, I believe, and through the weekend is the Chicago Pinball Expo. Really? And people fly in from everywhere to come to the show. It's okay on Wednesday, but the whole thing is an open. the new Walking Dead machine is going to be there for you to mess around with. I think there's a big Lebowski game that's going to be there so you can play it.
27:22
But it's a big IFPA-ranked tournament that you can play. And there's just people bringing machines from all over the place just to let people play them. Sometimes they sell them. It's pretty incredible.
27:38
Just go up there. Awesome, Tom. Thanks, man. Can you hear Richie complaining? Does it sound good when I complain? Yeah? Yeah. Awesome. He said there was a lot of whining going on in the background. Oh, that's just me. No, I'm just kidding.
27:58
All right. Crap. Good ball, Richie. Thank you. Skill shot. Mystery. Five million. Oh, farts. I can't get that ramp. I can shoot something twice in a row, and then I shit the bed on everything else.
28:38
See? That's all I can do. Liv, you ding-dong. Is that why there's two dangers before two? Thank you, Richie. You can't do three or the game's over. So I have bats lit right now. That's what that green light flashing back there means. Up here? Up here. Okay. So that means my next shot to the ramps is going to be bats. But now that I also have the coffin open, once it gives me the ball, after shooting it up the ramp, I can shoot it right in the coffin. That gives me a coffin lock, and it drops it right in the pops to help you get all 50 bats. So I just need to try to hit that stupid ramp I can never hit.
29:26
Oh my gosh, this is my life right here. Could be brighter. Well, yeah, to be honest, this is BSD. This game is naturally dark. I mean, it's dark here. There's no freaking lights doing anything.
29:44
Mommy. Nice. So now that's going to put it up there. Hopefully I can get my hands on the ball, throw it inside of the... Oh, or it could just fall right in.
30:00
Oh, you freaking... I don't want to keep saying fart, because people are going to get really tired of hearing that. I'm just going to start swearing, okay, folks?
30:10
You're just going to say fart all the time? I do say fart all the time. Why don't you just say mathematical all of a sudden?
30:16
Mathematical. Yeah. I'd say the next game we'll start putting names back up. No. Wait. Oh, frick. Okay, well.
30:31
You're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Don't sweat it. What are you drinking there? Red wine? Grape juice? I mean, grape juice? Kids? Adult juice. We don't drink alcohol here. Who went to Wisconsin?
30:44
Oh, my gosh. I did. JK. New Glarus, anyone? New Glarus is fantastic. Great. All right. I'm embarrassing myself.
30:57
All right. Also, Tom, speaking of themes, it's October. We're playing Dracula. It's like a Halloween thing, you know? Maybe we could have waited on this machine for a couple weeks. You could do Twilight Zone. That's like a kind of spooky. That is spooky. Spooky. So is, well, nothing else, really.
31:19
Personally, I'm going to be upset if people don't pick ACDC next week, because I love that game. I could play that thing forever.
31:31
Tom, in chat, did you just try to swear and it censored you? Because if so, I will correct that immediately.
31:42
Yes, it does. Bram Stoker's Dracula is an incredible game. I think he's saying wins, W-I-N-D-S, because it's mist, and you blow in the mist. I have no idea, and I keep meaning to look that up, and I do not.
32:05
Oh, there you go, 10 million. Oh, shit. Richie's coming for it. So that, when you get missed, everything's worth 10 million, okay? If you mix missed with any other multi-ball, it becomes 20 million per shot. If you mix missed with all three multi-balls, it's 30 million a shot. And it just starts blowing points out of nowhere.
32:35
Okay, Tom says that he is saying wins. W-I-N, yeah. Wins! Wins. What? Dot, dot, dot, yeah. Yeah, it sounds like he's saying, I don't even know what it sounds like he's saying. Like wins?
32:57
All right. They did want to go home. Those balls were already going to go home. Three million points.
33:07
All right. Can you backhand missed? You can try, it seems. I love you. Live. Oh, baby. Oh, what is happening?
33:29
I can't get the ball. I just got freaked. Yeah, he's saying, Vince. Vince! So shout out to my boy Vince Vaughn. He was in Dracula.
33:52
Get that miss. Get it. Come on. Go in there. There is no life in this barn. Almost. Almost. Ooh, almost. A little earlier.
34:12
Dude, you nailed it. Well, now you actually have to hit it or you don't get the multiball. Oh, hell yeah. Now start shooting things.
34:30
Is that how you do the shot? Yep. You're not twisting enough. I mean, fuck. That felt good, though. Solid work. Nothing compares to that in a run of seven. Richie, what the hell are you doing, man? You're, like, tearing it up tonight. I haven't hit the heads or rights yet, man. You don't need it, man, apparently. Until Erica gets, like, 500 million right now. Do it, Erica. Do it. You can switch those, by the way.
35:06
Oh. Alright. Was that the exact same order? Tom says you got some skills there, Crystal. But that Dracula would make even a pro look like an idiot because it is a hard game.
35:28
Alright, so Richie got three. Holy farts, dude. You're murdering us. Jack got two. Crystal got one. Here's the deal. This is... So Crystal has two points.
35:46
That was my phone ringer for a long time. All right. Start it up again. Same damn order, Richie. Piece of... Gotta drink every time that girl moans on the game.
36:05
Yes, sir. Whatever you want. I do. I'm on my motorcycle. Richie's going down this game. Jack is upset.
36:24
I am the last of my kind. I don't get upset, Richie. I get even. Call Williams, I'm sure they'll take care of that for you, bud. Call me from my way. Mr. Williams?
36:51
Mr. Williams, would you please move that post? I don't like it. It's like, oh, you're the first person to ever complain about that post. All right.
37:00
I've never heard of that before. You guys go to make up. Man, I've got to figure out a way to get down to that.
37:10
That's awesome, Tom. All right, here we go. Coffin multiball. Six million. All right, Richie. Guess what? Skill shot.
37:25
Mystery. Give me five. Skill. Way to give me the barfiest score. Liv. I am Krakuya. Alright. Thank you. There it is. One more time. Well done. No.
37:49
Liv, I love you. Mom? Oh my gosh. This game is punishing me. I've been playing this all week. Why am I playing like an idiot?
38:03
I seriously put an hour and a half on this machine every single day this week and I'm still playing like a ding-dong. Did Conrad still have the best game this week? What's that? Or did Brad still have the best game this week? No, I did. I put up number three or number four on the machine. I think day one. Come on! That's crazy. Brad's was very, very pretty. He was also really close to getting on the board. He missed it by like 100,000 points.
38:29
He lined himself up perfectly for that one. Yo, we got them close scores. All right, geez, hold on. Oh, God. That sucked. That's unfortunate. That sucked. You should have let that roll back down. All right. Yeah, we got a worm burner here, folks. Everyone's just over a million.
39:05
Except for Richie. Garbage ass. Go ahead. Yeah, right? It's because I had a day off. You needed a day off. Yo, I need a day off.
39:18
Oh, you mean a day off of pinball? A day off of just pinball. Oh, no. I never need a day off of pinball.
39:29
Get there. Get there again. Hell yeah, Tom. Flip it up. Yeah, my first iPhone was nothing but pinball noises for ringers.
39:43
Spitchy. What? Oh, I'll give you a heads up on the skill shot stuff again. It's right when the right face turns on. I gotcha. No LEDs.
40:31
Honestly, up all night, I'm not a big advocate of the LEDs. They get a little bothersome sometimes. Holy crap, Wizard of Oz is... You need sunglasses to play that freaking game. It's fun. It's just really bright.
40:49
Can you just go in there, man? Yeah. Yeah, someone brought that up the other day, that they don't use the L in Dracula when they say... It's like, Dracuya Fierzas.
41:09
Gotcha. Vince. I'm done shaking. After I tilted, man, that was trouble. Tilting? No, screw that. Tilt always.
41:26
Here's what I need to get under control. Shooting anything. How many tens did you hear just now? I heard no 10 millions. I didn't hear a single 10 million. I heard no 10 millions.
41:39
That's called the waste of a missed multiball. So you can just hit the ramp 12 more times? Is that what it is?
41:47
And I will. Just after this. Just after these messages. Will be. That post. Move it! Right in the pops.
42:23
What's he saying about Gia over there? Can you, can you, can you please go up the freaking ramp? You're watching a horror movie tonight?
42:48
What? You've been doing pretty good with that, huh? Yeah, not too bad. Make a pie and watch a horror movie. Wait, every time you make a pie? Making a pie the past week. It takes a week to make a pie? No, I make a dozen pies. Oh, Pi-a-day.
43:09
Watch this. Oh, baby. Look out for Mr. Danger here. LED GI can be terrible, but if done right, LED can be awesome.
43:24
Yeah. Metallica and ACDC LEDs I can put up with. But if you do LED GI wrong, man, it flickers out of the corner of your eye and it's very disorienting.
43:43
Cinderella story. You got this, buddy. Wait, this is only ball two. Yeah, I know. Oh, yeah. Cinderella story.
43:55
Yeah LEDs do last longer but it just I don know They have their places right I wouldn want to see Dracula any brighter than it is I think it perfect Yeah it supposed to be dark and foreboding I love it, because the first time I played it, I was at MGC in, like, a dark room with no windows, no, like, no lights, other than pinball tables. Yeah. It was great. You're just playing with the shittiest GI on a machine. It's supposed to be scary. You got scary girl noises happening. You are but mortal after all. Good job, buddy. Dang.
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Because you're mortal. Stop doing that. What the fuck are you doing? I got to come back. You got this. Ball three. Just get the mist. That's all you got to do.
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That is not an option for me anymore because I activated mine early by hitting the ramp a bunch of times. Yeah. So to get it again, I got to murder that ramp like 12 shots. Love never dies. No, what are you kidding me? You played for like half an hour. It popped for half an hour. That's not me. You didn't do anything.
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Oh, me. Yes. Um. Drink. What the hell was that noise? I've never heard that noise in my life. What was that? That, like... Yeah.
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I don't know what that was. Really? Yeah. That was weird. That's a weird noise, though. I need some bats and rats.
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Tom, yeah, it's not me either. Someone's coming. Crystal or Eric are about to get some blowout ball here, I'm sure. Oh, come on. I'm trying, Tom, but I haven't had bats or rats all day. All day. All week. There you go, bud.
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No! There you go. Oh, baby, you got it. Nicely done. Two million on top of that, too. Oh, my gosh. Hit it. No. Shake it loose. All right, stop shaking.
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Wait, hold on. Oh, fucking... Why's she still got the bonus? I don't know. All right. You're fine. Everything's fine.
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Cinderella story, right? Yeah. I was rooting for her. Easy to beat. Oh, fun. I love that. Nice. Later.
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Oh, crap. All right. There's been an upset in the order of things. So, what is the order? So that would mean that Jack has seven. All right. Richie, thank you for telling me that. Richie has eight. All right. He's still on top. Crystal got a zero on that one, so she still has two, and Erica has one. Erica is on the freaking board. All right. Good job. All right, so I guess I go first. Good luck, everybody.
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Welcome to the competition. It's my butt. Is this still on? Is that lit? It's not blinking. It shouldn't blink, but it's okay.
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Jack's butt is blinking. My butt's blinking. Can you look at my butt right now? You've learned my secret.
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Hey, can you just look at my butt real quick? The mic is right here on my belt. Damn. I think the table's leaning. all right tom thanks for stopping by buddy bye tom everyone bye tom oh did you do me i did you oh gross all right you're up there champ by the way you moved up a point someone someone that wasn't someone on top of you got below you Well, that's exciting for me, I guess. And then... Up all night. BSD is like an incredibly fun game, dude. You're gonna enjoy it. The shots are hard, but very rewarding. Rewarding? My mouth numb? Rewarding? Dracula. Which game? Very rewarding. Bram Stoker's Dracula. That's what BSD stands for. BSD. Big stupid dummy. I bet I don't know you.
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Wait, but the science. Should we go over all of the acronyms? What? Oh, no. That can get gross really quick. Hey, Jack, do you want to hear a ghost joke?
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Yeah, what do you got? I think the internet wants to hear a ghost joke. That's the spirit. Oh, my God.
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That's the spirit. That's pretty good. Hey, Richie, where do boats go when they're sick? I don't know Jack, where do boats go when they're sick? To the dock. Oh!
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Right? Come on. I don't know. I don't get it. You know what's funny? Where did I see that? Someone just told that joke on a stupid TV show.
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You don't get to say farts, that's my thing. I said fart knockers. Oh! The fart knockers, yes, thank you.
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Not Drew's. There's two of them. Thanks up all night. Yeah, I try to keep it classy with the rankings and whatnot. Jack. Yes. Castle lock. What's... You got a castle lock? Yes. So you already got a castle lock. Yeah. You got it. So now you get to launch again. Okay. The castle locks are usually by hitting the ramp a bunch of times, or if you complete a bank of targets, then castle lock will light up. You get it up there. There it is. Half a million points. I'm trying not to cough.
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What's risky? Don't shoot the targets. That should not be an on purpose thing. There you go. Just keep hitting that. Perfect. Get it in there.
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Live. Alright, get that ramp. Yeah, that ramp's a pain in the butt. Oh, and a secret that we learned, which is crazy. You know when you get in that little hole just below the ramp there and it plays that animation of the dude? He's like, Master, you got this. I may have brought that up already. Oh, I just want to get a crash!
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Okay. Listen, as long as the ball's in play, you're still making points. Was I first? Yes, sir. Holy crap, Crystal.
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Look at the 22 million up there. Oh, no big deal, just winning right now. Here we go. Nah. I think they do.
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Thanks, buddy. Well, if anything, I'm ready for some double multiball action. So, click his name. click dissolve over here.
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Now click his name again and then click dissolve. Yeah, to get rid of it. But if you don't re-click his name, it just shuts down the whole stream. Yeah, that's why it's a little tricky. I don't want to do that.
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Skill shot. I'll play pinball. Much skill, very points. Such flips. Get those bats, Ding Dong.
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When you hear the moan, take a drink. of root beer. Of juice drink. One juice drink, please.
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Come on, Richard. You need to gain some control here. Some crock of shit backhand left ramp. Are you going to eat bats and rats yet? I got some. This is my first. Oh! Good time. My first and I, you know, just took it. Well you can't say you didn't get it anymore because you hit it. Killing it. Deserted Island Pinball.
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Holy crap, what game would I have on a deserted island? Gloves of Azus. If I had to play, Richie, what game would you have to play if you were on a deserted island? Just one.
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How long am I on this deserted island? It doesn't matter. Am I alone? Forever. Will I be competing with people? Is there a generator to power the... Yes, there's power. There's a magical power source. Magical power source. You have to build this table out of twigs and... Twigs? Twigs and... Yeah, twigs, I don't think. Up all night. If I had to play a game, just one game for the rest of my life, it would be ACDC. It's my favorite game that's come out in the past five years.
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Actually, it's kind of tied with Star Trek, although I feel like Star Trek would get boring after a while. Yeah. Well, ACDC, like, it changes with the song, and it just, it makes it a little more interesting. Oh, that's me. Hello. Erica. Yo. Good job. I would probably say Whitewater, except if you're on a desert island, that game breaks a lot. Why? It doesn't matter. It's all magic. It's all magic? It just fixes itself? Yeah. Whitewater, huh?
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Whitewater's a good one. Although, yeah, okay, Whitewater. How about you, Erica? What do you think? I think Attack from Mars. Hell yeah. You're just trying to diss my choice? No, white water's fun, man. I love white water.
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I'm about to diss you on this pinball machine. Alright, here we go. Alright. I hate you. That ain't gonna tilt. I'm its boss.
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So that question being said, if you were trapped on a deserted island and you had to shoot them off by fire, I am the monster, the breathing man. It's like own one, play one, burn one. Fuck, what's the deal? No, you can swear. It's a video game. Fuck, marry, kill? I would fuck ACDC. I would marry Tron. and I would kill Iron Man.
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Kill Funhausen. You freaking frick. Now I get it. A-C-D-C-L-E. Yeah, no kidding. It's got to be premium or nothing.
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Up all night, what's your game, man? What do you think? Man, Attack from Mars is a good one. Attack from Mars is a good choice.
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Got them bats. And not much else. So up all night says Metallica number one, Black Knight 2000. Oh, baby. It's close. Black Knight.
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Medieval Madness might be up there for me also because there's so much to do on that game. Blood out. Come on, Richie.
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We're just going to name all the pinball machines? Plus one to Erica for Attack from Mars. Metallica, hard to choose.
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Yeah, man. Metallica, I feel... I didn't like that game when it first came out. I don't like it. It's grown on me, especially with the new code.
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No disrespect to Stern, but I think the back glass aren't some of the ugliest stuff I've seen in a long time.
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Oh, you've got this, dude. Wait, Richie. Oh, I thought you played out of turn. Mark Sheridan, thanks for the follow, buddy.
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Look at that. So when that pops up, it shows up here. So you'll see it eventually. There it is. Yeah, pretty cool, huh? What is it? Whenever someone clicks follow to follow the stream, their name pops up. Oh, I know. Yeah.
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So did you... Oh, farts. Bounce it around. Not my name. All right. I mean, unless she beats Jack, that's how it stands right now. What do you mean? Oh, sure. Yeah.
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Oh, she beat you. She beat me. Another upset. Erica, you got this, dude. Cinderella story. Not the best. Not my best. Cinderella story. All right.
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What's up, man? Thanks for coming. You could be saying windmills. Windmills. Nice shot. One more in that lock. Backhand that shit.
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Oh, fuck. Get it quick. No! Yo, good job. Windmill. One windmill, please. Let's see. Keanu Reeves. Remind me again, who's the guy that plays Dracula?
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He's from... Fifth Element. We talked about this the other day. I know. Doesn't his name sound like a car or an element or something? Gary Oldman. Amazing actor whose name I always forget.
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Because he's just so good at blending in. Yeah. He's a real actor. Gary Oldman. Thanks, Marcia. Nope. There's a tiny bit of a delay with the stream versus us, but uh you nailed it oh baby come on so I got three points I got ten oh shit and No, I'm sorry. I have one, so I have nine. Yes, you did that wrong. I'm not cheating. And Crystal now has four. Crystal has four.
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We got this. Erica has one. All right, so I will start us off again. And then you, because she beat you, yeah? Yes. You beat Richie. Yeah. I wasn't cheating, I swear.
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Richie and his points. Welcome to my home. welcome to my home I don't drink why I
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never drink wine we're having some of the best games you all have ever seen I'm sure. Yep. No one's broke 200. Nope. Life. And we're going to be consistent with that. Mm-hmm. I consistently have not gotten the ball safe. Don't sweat it. Oh! Consistency is where it's at. All right, Richie. Come show us how to do something.
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I'll let the music sit for a minute. Give Richie a little holler here. Oh, I hope it's ACDC next week. That would be awesome. I'm considering doing commentary for Richie's ball, but I don't want to. Well, that's what I figured was going to happen.
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You don't want to start the commentary. All right, folks, here we go. So Richie, oh, well, he's done.
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Erica DeMarco steps up to bat. You gotta leave that target bank alone. Shoot later on the flippers. There you go. As long as you're not hitting the bank, you're fine. There you go. Alright, when it comes down, shoot late on the flipper. Perfect. Good score. Thank you. Come on.
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Killing it. Barf. Yeah, later. We'll keep you away from that target bank at least. You might not hit something, but at least you won't hit something that's throwing it right back at you. We're looking good in this game. Oh, man, them millions.
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Like, a high score on this is like three million. Okay. Ramp town. I did not go to ramp town. Who said pizza?
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I didn't say anything about us eating pizza. I mean, I'll take y'all out for pizza if you want to go get pizza. Why, you got pizza at home?
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What the hell? Yeah, but there's pinball to be played yet, nerd. Oh, dude, I caught... I cry every time I eat pizza. I caught... I just can't get it straight. There's tears in my pizza. Caught an air ball off the ramp there. Tears in pizza don't work well together.
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Tears in my pizza. Wait. Alright, bitchy. A bag of what? A bag of pizza. A bag of turds. A garbage bag. That would be incredibly heavy. Oh, God. That would be painful. So BSD stands for bag of shitty dicks? Bag of shitty dicks. Yes. No?
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I thought BSD means in his world. Yeah. Everyone else. You heard it here, folks. In Richie's world, BSD stands for. Make sure it is.
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It is. Nope, can't do three. Half ramp. Nice save. Is that the sound you were talking about? No. But that noise was the diverter opening up for the ball to not go all the way around the top loop but to come down that middle ramp Okay
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Solid hit. You know, I think Ben should invest in making us playing cards next season. we should do a kickstarter there is a playing card thing that's been going on for a while but that's only for like the greats of pinball and we are not the greats I want to collect them all up all night this game is a quarter muncher you are correct a quarter muncher showing how great Jack is oh I'm not great my score is garbage And apparently I can't hit skill shots.
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Backhand? Mom? All right, yo, that wasn't a nice save. That was an impossibility. I'm not even sure what the hell just happened there. Y'all know of any tournaments coming up in Chicago outside of So this weekend there is a couple of charity tournaments You can strong arm that ball off of there But you have to make sure you haven't gotten any dangers before then, received any dangers Oh 10 million Oh, man, did you hear that, guys? I got a 10 million.
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So, tournaments. Yeah, there's two. Yeah, there's a charity tournament this Sunday, but I think you have to sign up for that in advance. There's something in South Illinois. It's another charity event. And then Thursday through Sunday is Expo. But I think there's like stern release parties or launch parties that weekend also.
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There's one in Wheeling, one in Joliet. There's a lot of pinball coming up this month. Launch party, not this weekend.
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Definitely next weekend. There's two of them next weekend. Wawa Wewa. Wait, you just made me say that. Oh, it's Laura Beeson.
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Hi, Laura. I'm here drinking. I didn't feed the cats. I'm sorry. I didn't clean their... I didn't clean their litter boxes either. I'm sorry. The house smells like shit and it's my fault, folks. You hear that?
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Girlfriend. I don't have a girlfriend. Oh, Mark Sheridan, you know Laura. They went to college together. Huh. Or some shit, I don't know.
69:33
Keep it clean. Is it true you can slam the machine on your first tilt warning without tilting the table? Yes, up all night. So this thing has something called debounce. It's a coded tilt, so there's a physical tilt, but they give you the first two dangers, and then it'll keep rattling, and it just gives you the benefit of the doubt. So you can give this thing one giant-ass shove before, and then continue playing your ball. Yeah.
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That's how you're able to shake your mist loose. Shake it loose. All right, here's the video mode. the children of the night. The children of the night.
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I hate dogs. Oh, gimme. I don't have seven cats. I've only got five cats. It's like seven cats.
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It smells like seven cats. Come. Birds being squashed? All right, ramp, please. Nope. Drain? Yeah, drain. That's what I wanted. Was that ball three? Yeah. No, there's no... You were pretty well lined up on that, too. Oh, fuck. Hey, wait. Oh, yeah, you're second. What am I doing? I'm sorry. Cheating again. Yeah. Cheating again. Yes, I did.
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Yancy, he's getting walking dead. Holy crap. I'm going to have to check that out. Up all night. The big Lebowski machine looks so good. something like that so one of the programmers is a guy we know here in Chicago his name's Scott his last name starts with a D I can never remember it but the guy that's doing a lot of the artwork animations is the same guy that animated on the Wizard of Oz machine okay no no no no no Brixie's monthly tourney this coming Tuesday oh I'll be there buddy quarter muncher gross is that what he said? quartermuncher? Yeah. Quarter? It sounds weird, doesn't it? Yeah, it sounds weird when you say it, dude. Come on. You're making me uncomfortable. Quarter devourer. Devourer.
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Alright, you got this. Come on, Richie. Just get in there. Just do something. Oh, yo, yeah, so Brixies, so Emporium has a monthly tournament. Brixie's is this place out in Brookfield which isn't a far drive they have a monthly tournament where's the other one? oh it's in Schaumburg no one really goes to that one because it's too far away it's at a Gameworks so the place smells like kid urine all color DMD animations for Big Lebowski.
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I think so. Actually, I don't remember. Alright, so what was the outcome of that, guys? So Jack got three. Oh no, Jack got three again. I think Crystal got two. Player two? I was player two. You beat Crystal. Yeah, you did. Alright, so who got two points? By 50,000, I got two. So Richie has 11.
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And Erica? I got one. Oh, yeah, girl. All right, so here's the deal. If I get first or second, it's over. So just don't let him get first or second.
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All right. Speak to his butt mic all day and distract him. Yo, just speak to my butt mic. Yo, is this on? Is this thing on?
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That's awesome. Yeah, I heard there was going to be Lebowski's at Expo, but I didn't know there was going to be one at Pinball Life.
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That Pinball Life party, do you have to be invited to that, or can I just waltz in there like I own the place? Only if you waltz. Only if I waltz. I have to, like, dance my way in there?
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I just waltzed that skill shot. Richie, are you making a terrible joke right now? Yeah, it's going to be awesome to see the gameplay on that game, because it's rad that they were able to license the Brunswick stuff and Big Lebowski and such. Oh, Yancy, I'm gonna be at that pinball life party then.
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Here we go. I need first or second to win the whole stink stankin' thing. Call me mom. I'm not hitting anything yet.
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Yes please. No, don't count down, don't count down. Yeah baby. And that's what you want folks. A good decent bats on ball one. Yeah, can you teach me how to do that ball save? The what ball save? The one straight down the middle and you go, clap. Oh my stupid little slap save maneuver. my balls yeah yes I hear you laughing I'm trying to get it up there for you shut up Richie I knew that was coming and it I'm trying to get it up there for you girl what a creep alright hell yeah y'all should go to the It's going to be a riot. Yeah, Yancy, do you have the details on that, man?
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All right. Skill shot. Woo. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, you should go to Expo, both of you. It's fun. It's so fun. Also, I think they had, did they have, like, a video game thing going on at the same time? Because I think it's just Chicago Gaming Expo instead of Penn I don't know Whatever Good job Erica DeMarco This is her comeback story right here Cinderella story
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I'll stay in the bumpers all day. Hey, that's all. Hang out. Dude, points are points. Bump, bump, bump. Oh, oh. You're fine, you're fine. Shoot late. Oh.
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You're murdering that target, Beck. Oh, come on, man. This game is like my unicorn. There you go. Oh, my gosh.
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Shoot late, shoot often. Oh, farts. Shoot early and shoot never. Like I said, folks, you can check our Facebook. You can go to Facebook.com forward slash deadflip. There might be an underscore in there somewhere. And also our Twitter. All the links are inside of our profile page here. But the poll to vote on next week's machine is up. Click the game you want to see played. You can click multiple machines.
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But let's figure this out. You've got all weekend to decide, and it's going to be good. Pinball life.
78:43
What the hell is Huntley? Is that even in Illinois? Huntley? I thought it was pretty far. But I live – oh, so you live close, so you're going. It's going to be crowded. I like crowded.
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I like smelly, crowded, loud. You know, that's funny. Everything that happens that's like Chicago pinball something or pinball Chicago something. It's like Will Met. Nothing is in fucking Chicago.
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It's like the Chicago pinball thinger. It's like, oh, it's in Schaumburg. Great. What are you eating, Richie?
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Dinner. A bicycle? That's the studio bike. That's available for anyone here to use if they need to use it.
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Oh, Vince. No, I'll get it back. Alright, we just gotta get it in there two more times. One. One more, one more. Don't go up.
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Oh, you freaking... You son of a... Of course, you're gonna figure out how to go right down the middle of the... Oh, that's annoying.
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Alright. All of you need to get over a hundred. Oh, that was only ball two. You'll get this, though. I promise you. Kill it.
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Just get the, uh, no, man. Big money, no whammies. There you go. Big money, no whammies. You ever seen, uh, oh, crap. Press your luck. it's an old TV show from the 80s.
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It was so, it was people sitting on a set of bleachers, it was like three people, and then around you was this big frame of like money and things that were going to happen that you could spin and you'd get like $100 or a new car or a boat, but intermingled with that were these little things called the whammies that if you landed on a whammy, it played an animation of a whammy doing something to take your money away, like hit you on the head and your money. So why do they look like those little viruses from Dr. Mario? No, they look like Noids from, remember Domino's Pizza had the Noid? I say you are a man of all. You know, the human in a bunny costume guy? Yeah. Wait, how old are you? Well, no, I'm 31, but I lived in Canada until I was 14, so things are different. Break balls. We stream for like an hour, hour and a half, So we're going to be done here, I'd say, in about 10 minutes. But thanks for coming.
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620. It's 620 now. Am I 620? I think you're three. I think I am. Big money, big money, no whammies. Stop.
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Shoot late. Oh. You just got ripped off, dude. You just got ripped off. Not my day. Okay. Big money, no whammies. Get it. Holy crap. That ball just wanted out.
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Arf. Drink. No one's drinking. I can't drink. No? Uh-huh. Ha-ha. Nice. Break balls, where are you from, brother?
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Oh, nice save. You'll get there. Late. Yes, good job. Four million. maybe not that late oh god oh god oh god oh god you chopstick all right here we go sweden holy crap thanks for watching what time is it in sweden you just caught everyone's attention Sweden yeah they have pinball in Sweden pinball was illegal here in the states for many years so companies were shipping their machines overseas I know that in Germany they call it Flippa that's crazy Flippa he just probably didn't know what Well, for a while he thought I was talking about foosball.
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Pinball? Yeah. Oh, yeah, the team that always plays all the time. And when he said flip a, were you like the dolphin?
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Flip off. That was a stupid joke. I'm sorry. Whoa, it's one. Oh, it is Friday. Oh, crap, it is Friday. Wait, is it Friday in Sweden?
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Wait, how do time zones work? Yeah, it's party time. Oh, yeah, I guess it is Saturday over there. Happy Saturday. Yeah, and apparently they do call it Flipper.
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Happy Saturday. I know, too. One of the reasons why when I ask friends on Facebook if they want to play pinball, I put up the Flippa signal. What's the Flipper signal? I'm just asking you to send me a pinball. Yeah, I love a signal. What? Yeah, watch this.
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Damn it. Flippers never cross. Never cross the flippers. Waltz. I love you. Are you dancing?
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No. Ding dong. What are we looking at here? Genitonic. Love it. Our logo. Yo, I will click that link in a minute.
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It better be disgusting. Here's what has to happen. No, it doesn't matter. Ball three, you get your free missed multi-ball. And then you get your 10 millions, hit like 10 shots, and you're going to win. the thing. That logo is sick. Alright. I gotta click this now.
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If Mark Sheridan says it's good. Whoa, that is sick. Holy shit. Wow. UME. I love it. What does it stand for, man?
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Ultimate Mortal Enemies. I don't know. What does it stand for? Don't. Oh, again. Fucking hell. That happens to you more than it should.
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That happens to you a lot more than it should. Umayah. How do you pronounce that phonetically? Umayah? How would you say that?
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Umayah? I'll say it. Umayah? Yeah, how would you pronounce that? Gracious. Oh, I don't know. Umia?
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Trip over me. Umia? You know German? A little bit, yeah. I'm German. No kidding. Don't swear, dude. Don't swear. I don't know what that's called.
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Umia. All right, folks. That wraps up the week of Dracula. Jack Danger wins it. I'm sorry, folks. Yeah, congrats. Thank you. I've been playing this game all freaking week. I'm glad to move on. He gets all the hugs. All the hugs. Like I said, there's a link on our Facebook and on our Twitter to vote on the next machine we're going to play next week.
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Thanks for coming by. Keep playing pinball, and have a good one. See you later, everybody. Cheers. Bye.
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Umio. Is that the news? Do we pretend to talk to each other now while shuffling papers? Yeah, shuffle your papers. Wait.