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Day 3 of IRON MAN Battle Week! PT2

Dead Flip·video·36m 7s·analyzed·Nov 13, 2014
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TL;DR

DeadFlip Iron Man Battle Week Day 3 PT2: gameplay, strategy, and arcade banter.

Summary

Jack Danger and guests (Brad, Crystal) stream Day 3 Part 2 of Iron Man Battle Week on DeadFlip, playing multiple games of Iron Man at what appears to be an arcade. The stream involves gameplay commentary, rules discussion, mode strategy (focusing on War Machine, Monger, Whiplash, Jericho), and banter about pinball mechanics. Technical issues with Twitch required a stream restart mid-session.

Key Claims

  • The Iron Man machine at GameWorks in Schaumburg is 'a nightmare machine' and 'sucks'

    high confidence · Jack Danger's direct assessment during tournament venue discussion

  • GameWorks is one of the Tuesday IFPA tournament stops along with Emporium, Wicker Park, and Brixie's in Lincoln Park

    medium confidence · Mentioned during discussion of tournament circuit venues; speaker references checking IFPA calendar

  • Iron Man requires constant nudging to play effectively and is 'a workout to play'

    high confidence · Jack Danger's observation: 'this game is a workout to play. Yeah, this game is actually... You're basically nudging all the time.'

  • Jericho mode in Iron Man allows all shots to light up for points after completion, with War Machine, Monger, and Bogey as objectives within the mode

    high confidence · Crystal's rules explanation: 'when you light up Jericho, everything is worth points. What you want to do is you want to hit the monger enough to put him down.'

  • Do or Die mode in Iron Man requires hitting the center spinner once for 35 million points

    high confidence · Rules discussion: 'In do or die, you just have to hit the center spinner once. The ball will feed down, hit it again, you get your 35 million points.'

Notable Quotes

  • “It's hard to tell on camera, but this game is a workout to play. Yeah, this game is actually... You're basically nudging all the time.”

    Jack Danger@ 9:10 — Assessment of Iron Man's physical gameplay demands and constant nudging requirement

  • “You can never stack Iron Monger and Whiplash at the same time.”

    Crystal@ 17:03 — Important rules constraint affecting strategy and mode stacking

  • “That is what is known as draining in stereo. Drain in stereo.”

    Jack Danger@ 13:39 — DeadFlip terminology/community phrase for simultaneous ball drains

  • “Two dangers is a beef Spangberg. You'll get there. The terminology means nothing to anybody but us.”

    Jack Danger@ 15:55 — DeadFlip insider community terminology for gameplay outcomes

  • “The Twitch has been a real pain in the butt today, so we're probably not going to drag this on too much longer today.”

    Jack Danger@ 27:39 — Technical issues forced stream restart and early conclusion

Entities

Jack DangerpersonBrad SmithpersonCrystalpersonDeadFliporganizationIron MangameGameWorksorganizationEmporiumorganizationWicker ParkorganizationBrixie'sorganization

Signals

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    event_signal: DeadFlip Iron Man Battle Week streaming series featuring daily gameplay and guest players over multiple days

    high · Jack Danger: 'We're going to be playing this all week. There's only two more days, and then I'm going to put up another vote nonsense for next week's game.'

  • ?

    community_signal: Chicago-area pinball arcade venues (GameWorks Schaumburg, Emporium, Wicker Park, Brixie's) are active IFPA tournament circuit stops with regular competitive play

    medium · References to IFPA calendar and Tuesday tournament stops; machine condition issues noted at GameWorks location

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Iron Man requires advanced mode stacking strategy; Jericho mode post-completion phase allows point accumulation across all shots; Do or Die is a challenging end-stage mode

    high · Detailed rules discussion showing mode interdependencies, score progression, and strategic decision-making around mode selection and execution

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Iron Man designed as physically demanding game requiring constant nudging; high player engagement through active gameplay rather than passive ball feeding

    medium · Jack Danger: 'You're basically nudging all the time' and 'this game is a workout to play'

Topics

Iron Man gameplay mechanics and strategyprimaryPinball mode stacking and rule interactionsprimaryIFPA tournament venues and locationssecondaryDeadFlip streaming technical issuessecondaryPinball community terminology and insider languagesecondaryCompetitive pinball gameplay and scoringprimary

Sentiment

mixed(0.55)— Jack Danger and guests express enjoyment and camaraderie while playing Iron Man, with frequent humor and banter. However, frustration emerges during difficult shots and bad plays. Mixed feelings about the machine itself—acknowledged as challenging and fun but also as a 'glutton for punishment' game. Technical difficulties (Twitch stream issues) caused some irritation but did not significantly dampen mood.

Transcript

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All right, let's see if that works any better. I clicked the thing, did some stuff, wiped the thing down. Push a button. Push some of the buttons. Push a button, make it restart. I don't know, does this button make the Internet go faster? Did you turn it off and turn it back on again? I did. I've never done that before. I don't think I've played Watchmen of the Storm. God, no. It's like a half a second, really. Yeah. I'm over it. All right, go ahead and play, buddy. I'm trying to do my tap passing now on this thing. Okay. Tap passing. I have no idea what I need or how close I need to be. America is secured. America is secured. For those refreshing to see the time delay, my computer says 6.13 Central Time. 6.13. That's special. Free game! Yay! I've never seen that before. Me either. It's the first time that light bulb's ever turned on. It might actually be worth some points because I have $15 million for some reason. Whoa. I'm going to have to go back and watch to see what happens. We might have hooked that up. $400,000. Shoot the refs for bogey scoring. Bam. Bam. Farts. Yeah, he did something and jumped up to $15 real quick. Is this ball three or ball two? Oh, Joey! Where's Joey? Joey. Cool chick. All right, cool. Just making sure. I killed the stream and then started it back up. I'm not sure what the heck is going on. Oh, no. Looks good here. Oh, Betty Ding Dong's here. Stop it. Stop it. Everything you're doing right now is bad. Stop it, I love you. We got some more millions here. Monger fight. Yeah, I think we're fine now. We're good. Oh, man. Bray is coming for it. Get out of the way, balls. Well, here's what you folks missed while you were gone. I took my shirt off and did a bunch of pull-ups on this pipe here. Crystal did some backflips, which were pretty sweet, while she was playing her harmonica, which she's not even wearing, which makes it even more impressive. I got the teleported. And Brad's been playing this whole time. And he only has $26 million, which is sort of impressive. Go! Wow. The ketchup is real. The ketchup is real Dude, good ball Good ball Well, I could Very easily just Shit the bed on this game Alright, so you gotta play your ball Two million is not something to sneeze at on this game Spell Iron Man for fast score We're back live, everybody. Good slap. Good pop. Good flip. Shut up, Jack. Dad the Mask. That's a quote from The Mask 2. You remember that scene from the movie, right? I can't. Of course you do. The scene where Tony Zac Stark threw Marc Silk seal balls at Monger's Garage. Yeah, right. What? Yeah, okay. Yeah, the Mark II armor in Iron Man, he never shows it, but it's actually made out of pinball machines. That is a lie. Do not look that up. That is a huge lie. Okay, here we go. Sorry, I said you shut up, Jack. Oh, you told me to shut up? That's fine. Shut your mouth. I'm just talking about Chris. Chris? Shut up is a bad word. Oh, that right there just sealed me the loss. I'm just saying, fire and business. My only thing is that you got to jump. Shoot the rats. Yeah. You got the rats. No, not bad, Mojo. Delicious, awesome, amazing Mojo. No, no, no, no. Oh, get in there. No, gosh. Love you. Oh, gosh. Not enough. Oh! Wow! Wow. Wow. Are you? Yo. Apparently, I had just enough. Yo, what the frick? That was beautiful. Rick plays only 41 million. It's nothing. We're, like, bringing a sweat over here. All right. So we're sitting at Jack with seven points, Brad with six, Crystal with two. Crawling out of the hole. Crawling out of the hole. All right, let's do this. I say, let's do this. Is it hot in here or just me? It's definitely hot in here, and you're looking really attractive today. So yes. So yes, to all of the above. Oops. Oops. Let's set all the drones for War Machine Pokéball. War Machine Pokéball. Nice save. Oh my god. Oh, so edgy. Gorgeous. See you, soft drone. All right. What was I doing? I remember I spent the whole of this ball trying to keep the ball alive. Let's get some drones. Ah. I got one. There we go. That's the soft drone. Ground soft drone. Oops. Oops. Oops. I'm going to get the second idea. Oop. Yo, I want to get this soundtrack. Okay. They have me prisoner here. I mean, it's true. Give me all the breaks, please. We'll go monger. Never mind. All the drones. Every drone noise. Flopped it. Yeah. Sound test mode and just... I just rock out in sound test mode, you know? Just listening to all the music. Yeah. I freaked out there. I got nervous for sure. That was a legitimate pinball freakout. Man, fingerprints to open your phone. Give me a break. Yeah, that was on purpose. You were not allowed to take the game, dude. My name is not Dave. My name is Jack Danger. No more stills. No more stills, please. Can touch it Can touch this Sorry I just need a good save and then an amazing race Yeah Crystal Crystal Gimnick everybody Middle name Don. It's hard to tell on camera, but this game is a workout to play. Yeah, this game is actually... You're basically nudging all the time. Yep. You're fine. You are... Not fine. You are looking fine today, buddy. You're fine. You're fine. Girl. Girl. Salt. Girl, you salty. Oh, we're not. I didn't want to do that. Girl. Yeah. What is it? Is it capital E, capital J, capital A, A-L-T? Is that how you do it? Oh, my God. I almost bit you. How do you do that? P-A. And then there's... Bible? I learned how to do emojis, everybody. Be impressed. Yeah, there's a guide online. Yeah. You don't need one. You have War Machine lit. War Machine lit. Comes with some kind of medical issue. Medical. She'll let... I'm gonna tell her she got that, too. Alright, let's make an easy shot, please. Yay! Oh, no. Holy crap. Danker. Danker. Danker. Oh. Frickin' beef Spangberg, man. Okay. Okay. When you do exclamation point beef ass, Nightbot yells, careful, that's a beef Spangberg. Yeah, I'm gonna take Ironmonger naked here. How do you do it? Play out? It's an exclamation point EO. Yeah. But once, if we ever get partnered, then we can just have emojis that people can put, like these little photos. Ish. Kya. Don't do that. Walking dead. Why am I doing this? I could just float the ball. Hey! Idiot. Stop showing off that you know how to keep the ball alive for so long, and actually it's important. There you go. Sorry, Kimmy show. Donate to kids. You don't have to apologize. Just make sure you say donate. What the frick? That was a little baby flip. That was cute. You have to boss. Okay, okay. Not in love anymore. Yeah, baby. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Did you hear when your balls went south? Come on, settle, balls. I'm going to tilt straight. Oh, does it suck? No. Oh, trying to separate the cradle? That sucked. Yay. Okay. You're a ding-dong, Tony. Nice. Oh, gosh. The slaps are real. Oh, no. Top six to save your ball. What are you shooting at? I'm trying to do a flash. Oh my god. It's everywhere. Oh my god. It won't settle. There you go. You finally caught it. That was messed up really bad. Wait, don't you want more? Yeah, that was really messed up. That would have been pretty dirty. Clip, clip, clip, wrong. Okay. Alright, take a breath. And it's earlier than you expect. Nicely done. Hey, get out of there. Did it purpose. What just happened? Man, you are straight up do or die status right now. I have two warnings. Don't be taking too many of these. The balls of stats. Can you believe this crap? That is what is known as draining in stereo. Drain in stereo. Oh, my God. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Right up the middle, ding dong. Do or die, do or die, do or die. No! Dude, good ball. That was a solid ball too, holy crap. Do or die, do or die, do or die. Do or die. Everybody out of the pool. Exactly. Nicely done. Someone called it. I say, why not have a pool? You're impossible to understand, buddy. That's why you guys fought. Monger wasn't trying to fight him. He was trying to, like, give him a raise or something. Grumble, grumble, antagonizing comments. Yeah. All right, see you, bud. Did you see my house? Yeah, talk to you later. All right, let's ramp out. Never mind. I don't need to get a Monger mode. Swiggle your middle finger. No, why not? I remember a model that's difficult. Just on a spring. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Is that a girl brother? No. All those breaks. Shooting at everything is not getting me anything. Spicy. Spicy. Spicy. Spicy. Flip. Um. Don't do it yet. No, I'm ramping out still. 200,000. Some worm larches. If I hit it on accident, I'm not going to sweat it. Everybody out of the pool. Beef Spangberg, man. That's dead flip terminology for two dangers. One danger is a beef. Two dangers is a beef Spangberg. You'll get there. The terminology means nothing to anybody but us. but get off of my phone, fool. Don't. Oh, good. No, I thought it was going to get stuck. Wasting my freaking bogey time, like the pops are doing right now. Come on, pops. Mom? No! Yes. I didn't want you, buddy. Thanks. Thanks. You didn't touch the ball, but it's your fault. Well, he's up for me. I got a couple... I only need like two more hits to whiplash. War Machine's lit. And Monger's up. Yeah. So what's the order I have to do that in? War Machine, Monger, Whiplash. You can never stack Iron Monger and Whiplash. At the same time? Okay. Okay. Okay. My number one trick. All right, let's go. Sorry, buddy. Sorry. So I only need one mark. You only need one mark? One mark. What is the mark you need, though? I don't think it matters on that ball. So what is a mode that you haven't done yet? I did Whiplash, did bogey. I didn't do bogey yet. If I shoot a ramble, let's see what happens. Because both of them are lit for 200. That might be your last one. Nice So far where it go Sector 16 Sector Sector 16 Yep you didn bogue out That what you need Stop! Oh, you... It did not... It did not respond. One more shot and he's got Jericho. Oh, it was only a fourth of a shot. Fourth of a shot. All right. Jericho's lit, my friend. Wow. Can you get it during bogey? Yeah, sure. I'm just blinking at you. Stop. Everything you're doing. Such a long way to go. Oh, baby. He just lit up Jericho during bogeys. hopefully that shaker motor tilts his ball dude bogeys during Jericho that's on point well I'm going to choke you. Is Wayne Brady going to choke a bitch? Wayne Brady. All right. War Machine. And I'll use War Machine to... Can I advance Whiplash while Amongers up? Yeah. Oh, no. It may lock it up. Okay. Then I'm just going to go for the Monjor. Yeah, that ain't enough. Well, shoot and see what happens. Nicely done. All right. Here we go. We'll all learn. This is the only way I'll win. Yeah, it's a stream about learning. Learning and getting really freaking pissed off at the law machines. Yeah. In your management, I don't think I've learned very much today. All right. War machine. Solid war machine. Made my life. There we go. Okay. War machine. All right. Monger. Well, America does it. that's how America does it that's how you're edible there you go so I need to hit a loop just like that Dude, I just killed the Monger in like record frickin' time. Well, I missed. I hope you're happy. It's so bad now. Oh, you already beat me? Oh. Yeah, I love that sound That's for Whippy Whippy Ding Dong Alright, can you backhand this? Not like that Not like that Oh yeah Yeah, but you know what? I'm just getting this out of the way so I can get my freaking do or die. Are you effing, freaking, stupid effing me? The ball save is zero. You get one back. Shoot the rest for boogie score. Everybody gets one. Can you give me the ball? That was stupid. Get! Is that even possible? Bogey stack. Dude, Jericho bogey stack. You're moving my phone off of the pinball machine. Shaker motor. Well, that was a sexy shot. My man! Terrible Jericho. Two in one game. Yeah, Titan, but that was two terrible Jerichos in one game. Fair enough. But one of my shots is also going from count lane. All right, Crystal, you got this. You don't have any marks. Just start lighting up modes. The whole game ahead. Oh, jeez. All right. Ramp out. I'd suggest, no, actually go for monger. Far right or far left loop. Don't shoot for that middle crap. Little hair assault, bro. Hair assault, bro. Quiet in the audience? So tradition, when you light up Jericho, everything is worth points. What you want to do is you want to hit the monger enough to put him down. You want to hit bogeys enough to get those out of the way. You want to hit war machine. And every shot is like an objective in that mode. Everything just lights up. In do or die, you just have to hit the center spinner once. The ball will feed down, hit it again, you get your 35 million points. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we'll call it there. Where are we at now? It is 637. I have nine. We're at a seven. Crystal is two. no sweat no sweat we'll play one more bullshit game just to cheer you up because you seem really angry salty yeah and I'll I'll go first screw it here we go such a long way to go such a long way alright here we go high score no whammies sleep of the wheel folks sleepy eyes slow eyes yeah sleepy eyes is is like the cuter way of saying slow eyes We're at Emporium. Oh, GameWorks? Not Emporium. Right. Brad Smith versus Josh Zach Sharp. And the Iron Man at GameWorks is a nightmare machine. It sucks. That thing, Freddy Krueger's sitting inside of that thing like flipping switches. It was there on Saturday. At GameWorks? Yeah. If you check the IFPA calendar, that's one of the Tuesday stops. Oh, really? Yeah. It's Emporium, Wicker Park, GameWorks in Schaumburg, Brixie's in Lincoln Park. Yeah. Or, no, not Lincoln Park. Oh, it is Lincoln Park. I tried to do a loop pass. It didn't work. Oh, bar. That's what that's about. Just drop. Yeah. Okay. Yawning. Excuse me. I want to try one. You probably don't. I don't. What? Pepper? He's taught, like, see, that's the part in the movie where they just woke up, and Tony and Jeff Bridges, and Tony made breakfast for Jeff Bridges, but he put pepper in the eggs. And they're sitting there in their boxers, and he's just like, too bad you had to involve pepper in this. And then there's this romantic laughing and tickling scene. What is this movie about? You should watch Iron Man. It pretty messed up It pretty messed up You knew how it ended No, the end of the game is actually the beginning of the movie. His first movie. Yeah, yeah. I saw this book online about, it was like, it's too fast to tell how much time each year. And one of the books there says, what's your recommendation? Dirty. Thanks for coming, buddy. We're actually just about to kill the stream here after this game. Sorry, about that Canadian about. There's a problem, though, Dirty J. The Twitch has been a real pain in the butt today, so we're probably not going to drag this on too much longer today. If I met one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles out of their suit, I would have cried. Oh, hell yeah. You're like, those are my favorite. But when they're in your personal space and real, they're the most frightening things in the world. There's actually a scene from that movie where you can see the guy's face through one of the turtles' mouths. Yeah! I enjoyed those. Of course you were great. Yeah. But you didn't like Turtles in Time? Or what was it, the third one? I don't remember Turtles in Time. They had like that... The kid's crying because he's not wearing his Iron Man costume. Aww. YouTube, baby. That's right, Jody J. You can watch this anytime you want. We did have to split this stream up. We had to cancel it once halfway through and start it up again because Twitch is being a ding-dong. So it'll be a two-parter, but it's all good. We've already nailed the Jericho shot. Absolutely. We're not able to play the mode out, but we've hit the shot plenty of times. Crystal, this is your game. Jericho. Don't you love this game? Yeah, we're... Crystal Dawn, if you do not achieve a Jericho, you are not allowed to leave. You've got to stop playing like a dink. Like a dink. Like a frickin' hippie ding-dong. It's not a game. All the slayers. Donate to kids, folks. Brad Smith, U.S. Oh, man, he's shots fired. At the monger. Gross, he didn't have to tell us. Okay, let's do something else, I guess. Throwing targets. Throwing targets. I'm just ready for my range here. You gotta let me handle this. You gotta let me handle this. I've got a fire class for fast forward. Oh, my God. Wait. Did I play my ball? Yeah, you did. I did not play a good ball. That is for sure. Crystal is indisposed for the moment. She will be here in a bit. That's the thing about beer. You may buy a case, but you're only renting it. You're only renting it. How about it? Good times. Nice spool of wire I got there. It's a good wire. No wire. We use that for fixing pinball machines. If you put it on its side and roll it underneath, it's just tall enough to rest the machine on so you can screw the legs down and stuff like that. Found it in the dumpster, along with the rest of these pinball machines. We have a very fantastic trash system around here. Are they all in the same dumpster? Someone's just like, fuck RMA, fuck Getaway. These are terrible. Yeah, right? I can only assume this game sucks. Thanks. Oh, Crystal. All right, she's back. Stop talking about me. Stop talking. Hey, take it home, buddy. You have one shot to Monger to get him up. I had a cool, creepy guy who had to do more. But, I mean, he's still hard. I'm sorry. He's still hard. Speed the ball. Good loss. No. His bag's are packed. His bag's are packed. Go to your home. Nope. No, that's great. It's just, I don't know why you keep choosing the hard shot to bring him up. I like that shot. She's getting that shot. You know what? That's completely fine. I'm so happy with that. You said busting your balls. Why are you busting my balls? No. Yes. That was something to behold. Oh, farts. Farts. You guys need to come up with a prize for high score of the week to keep you all, yeah, that'd be pretty cool. So I guess it's what are you buying yourself? Yeah, right. Because I do get more chances than everyone else to play this. We do, you know what, we do have a 3D printer. Maybe we should print up like trophies for the winner of the day. Like something really tiny Yep Just Iron Monger's head With like wires hanging out of the bottom Bleeding Well that's a baby You're wasting my time Well now I'm wasting my own time What am I shooting at? Right. No, stop. Friends. Friends. Troops. Oh, I love you. I love you. I love you. Monger. Fucking. Sorry. Go away, man. You just ruined my life. Not with one. Not with one farting hit left. You heard that. He didn't like what you said, Bob. He's like, what? That was funny. I'm so pissed. Get down. I've never seen you punch me in a pinball machine. I don't think anybody is really in a good mood. No. No, this game, you're glutton for punishment to want to play this all week. Thanks, Dream. You guys rock. Why is it when I aim for targets, I make the shot? You're not authorized to shake the game, Dave. All right, bring it home, Crystal. Bring it down. Bring it down home. Ask your mom. 200,000. 200. Beautiful. That's fine. Don't be afraid. Yeah, she's dangerous, folks. Watch those elbows. Hame. Hame. More like couch lanes. Am I right? Yeah. Yeah, uh... Folks, thanks for coming. so that we don't leave completely pissed off. We're going to go play something fun. Or Hot Shat. No, hell no. That was unfortunate that we had to play Hot Shat and then go right into Iron Man. Again, folks, thanks so much for coming. We're going to be playing this all week. There's only two more days, and then I'm going to put up another vote nonsense for next week's game. Tomorrow's guests, I believe, are Ben Vigent. Hi, buddy. Hey. me as always because I have no life oh sad and I have no one else lined up but I'll just grab some hobo off the street or something I won't be there I learned my lesson you played it Titan Pinball thanks for coming buddy alright guys have a good night stay warm it's freezing here in Chicago and And, you know, if you go out for drinks later, give me a holler. Goodbye forever. Goodbye forever. Goodbye.
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