On Wednesday, March 5, 2022, at 12 P.M. You all take a break. We look forward to the upcoming next episode of Rainbow P Winround. That does not sound good to me at all. Again, speculating here, not to say that's the case, but as soon as you introduce any sort of wireless audio solution, especially that is daisy chained in a way, if it's not direct connection to the box, to the Stern machine, you're talking about the audio bouncing from the Stern machine, going through a digital converter to like what, Wi-Fi, then to your phone, then from the phone wirelessly to your earphones. That's going to be some latency up the butt. No thank you. And as someone who can't stand latency in emulated games and I have to use original hardware or run ahead for those who are up in emulations butt, you know what I'm talking about. But run ahead has its own problems, not the latency from a video standpoint. You turn on run ahead, you hit the A button to jump, Mario jumps. Perfect. However, the audio is tied to the initial instance. So then you still have audio lag in run ahead, which is my new kind of troubleshooting. Not troubleshooting. It's not something's broken. It's to try to get around it. You know how you get around all that? You just use original hardware and original CRT. Or you get a mister and stick it onto an OLED, but not through a receiver. But then you got to bring in CRT filters. It's a whole thing. For those who know or get down the emulation rabbit hole, you know what I'm talking about. And then you gotta realize you just gotta go back to the original stuff. So for me, Walking Dead, again, could be, why don't we just get the original one that plays awesome and I love it. This whole new one, Spike 3, redesign, you don't have to use the audio system, whatever the new thing is, headphones, but, uh, yeah. I'm like, all this new stuff could introduce things that I don't like to just play the original one. What's the problem? The problem is the financial. More than anything. The problem for me in pinball has always been the finances of it. The room in the house, yes, that's a problem, but the finances of it. Like, I'm not willing to lose $2,000 just to be like, oh, let me try it. Oh, it's just two grand, not a big fucking deal. Everyone else out there who just like $2,000 ain't no thing, it should still be. Even if it ain't no thing, it should still be. Your life is not correct. That's still money that you shouldn't be... Well, again, if you're that wealthy, don't listen to me. Fuck me, Jesus. You probably shouldn't be listening to me anyways, at that point. But yes, the money in pinball has always been the bottleneck for most choices, if not all of them. Should I buy this game? Should I sell this game? Should I continue to own this game? It's rarely that, like, this game is so bad, it just has to leave my house. It's so bad! There's not been a single video game that I can think of that has been like, oh, this is so bad. It makes me so angry. It must leave my house. No, it's the money of it. So, so will Spike 3 come with enough advancements to make Walking Dead that much better than the original? Will it come with enough advancements to make the hobby continue to be an upward trend of like, all right, we're growing, we're doing better. This is awesome. These aren't changes for the sake of changes. They're changes for the sake of positive evolution of the game. Are they going to bring with them a price increase to spike three? Please know there's nothing you can add that I can think of, but again, that's your job to think of these new things to sell me on that would warrant not, not warrant a price increase because yes, costs of good and labor increase. That's fine. But there's nothing like a attribute to a machine that you can add that suddenly, Ooh, now I want to spend $500 more on something that's And I'll probably lose money on. Hmm. Yeah. And I, and as much as George says in the video that yeah, sales aren't as good as they were during COVID. They're not, they're still like, you know, slow. They're not slowing down tons. Sure to distributors. But if you look at distributors, they're just sitting on loads of games, loads of games. You want a game that's out there? Yep. Just go buy one anytime you want. So yeah, you're selling through to distributors. You're not selling direct as much as so. Are you taking that into consideration that yes, let's say that during COVID they were selling. We're just going to use a number. I don't know what any of these are. Let's just say that you sell 5000 of a game per year in COVID on average. It's not true. We're using that as our scenario. Okay. You would do that to all the distributors flipping out preferably. I mean, if we're, if we're being real, we're going to flip it up pinball to buy your games. But there's others out there. There's... I'm not going to name them because I'll talk shit about some of them. But you're selling 5,000 a game. So let's just say there's five distributors total out there. There's not, there's more. 25,000 games a year. 5,000 to each. We're saying 5,000 to each distributor. I'm changing the numbers from 5,000 a year to 5,000 to each distributor. You sold during COVID 25,000 games a year to distributors. Okay? And they sold them right through and there was not a lot in stock. Yeah. You suddenly didn't go back on the line like, all right, let's make 25,000 more. No, you had this schedule laid out and you kind of made this over time and you would have things on the schedule a couple months in advance and make these and make these and all that. Okay. So now say after COVID, it didn't drop much. Let's say just dropped to 20,000 games per year per game. Okay. You're still selling quite a bit, 20,000 titles to these distributors per year, but now all of these distributors are just sitting on these games. So if they want to stay a distributor for you, they still have to buy these games for you, so of course, like, you're still selling close to the same amount, because the distributors are the ones buying them and then taking the risk and like, oh, hopefully you can sell these shits. This is a big, heavy, lots of money thing. Oh God, what's happening? We better diversify and start doing all sorts of different shit to get these things out the door. And since we have contracts with you as far as like minimum cost that we can sell these at and free shipping and we better open these and sell them as used and oh shit what's happening. But you're still selling X amount of games, X equals 20,000 to these distributors until these distributors go out of business or just say like, hey, I can't do this anymore. Well, if you can't do anymore, you're breaching contract and you don't have customer like then you're asking the distributor to completely change their career in life. Junction wrenches. isolated. Out Detailed walk of life. Part 3 Out Detail is ludi The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Have you ever, um, pay attention to the things in life that give you energy versus take energy away from you? And I'm not talking like cocaine or caffeine or alcohol or pot, which I mean, you know, let's party. However, things I talk to, let's say John, I'm just saying a John, that person drains me. Oh, I can't. Oh, every time I talk to or I talk to Steve, you know, you talk. Oh, my God. See, it's been so long. You know, those kind of things. And you don't always think about them consciously. And maybe you do. But may I just divulge some of my own struggles as of late and as of late as I said, what am I, 43? So about four, about 43 years lately of ever since I quit caffeine. Jo vær's join us at n機t mettre www.willywonka.com I need things that give me energy, like naturally. For example, raising a child gives you energy, something mentally you have to do. I gotta do this. Or, I gotta go to work. Asterix. Come back to that in a second. Or, I gotta take a shit! Oh my god, I gotta go to... You're not usually like, oh, I'm so tired, I just can't get this thing, I'm just gonna poop myself in my sleep. Not a lot of us poop our pants in the sleep. If you have, email in at pinballpartypodcasts at gmail.com and tell me that you've shit your pants in your sleep. Cause that is, those are stories that give me energy. I, I wanna read those. Please, if anyone has, please, I'm fuckin' dead serious. If you've shit your pants sleeping, preferably a solid shit. Liquid shit in your sleeping, I could assume you're just blackout drunk, you party too hard, yeah, your body's gonna shit your pants. But no, like just a solid four on the Bristol stool tribe. Yeah, I just had a nice healthy shit in the middle of the night. You know, you wake up from having to pee sometimes and, oh, I gotta pee. Or as a kid, you're like, oh, I gotta pee. Oops, I pissed my pants. Not a lot of us in our adult life are shitting our pants. So in waking life, you usually like have enough energy to finish shitting. So paying attention to things that give you life, give you energy or take it away. You know, talking to certain friends, doing certain activities, going out to eat, talking to your mom, reading a book, playing a video game, playing pinball. I've talked about this before that pinball generally gives me a pretty good set of energy balls. Feels pretty good afterwards, but not always. Not always. I've paid attention a lot and even used it as like a headache journal over the past few weeks. What I mean by a headache journal, I used to have migraines a lot and headaches. It's kind of what I'm built with. And it's been stimulants that have done it. I say stimulants as in like, oh my God. But throughout my life, you know, caffeine, just like any normal person, nothing weird. And then cigarettes, you know, I've realized like, oh, I've always had these headaches and those made it worse. Guess what? Now that I don't have any, no headaches. Fucking fuck me. All the things in life that kind of calm me down and bring me joy, nah, fuck you. Those give you pain. So, just deal with the six and a half out of ten. But when you realize you have to kind of align your life around these things that naturally keep I going to talk about when I go to a cinema If I had a headache. Okay. What time of the day do they have a headache? And I had to do that for a few years when I was doing a headache study with Mayo to find out what type of headaches that I have. It was cluster migraine headaches and it turned into a whole bunch of things and I've gone through it. And it's been. A system of checks to simply self-diagnose in a way during those times you would bring it to a doctor and he'd be like, oh, no, that's the year it's this. But I've used that formula for paying attention to what gives me energy, what drains my energy to the same level of discernment or detail. As in I have something written out for seven days and in each of them it's named the three to five activities you did in that day roughly and then rank how much energy they gave you, one out of five, five being the most, one being the least, and then how much interest did you have in it, one being the least, five being the most, Distinguish boys under 8 and酸 High School, WhiteARI, HL yen exclusively, 아닌 biidades abHigh School, HL employers in Hotardonia, School of Arts, NAPFA Rajar Des Sensei, CM média district'monline. 그대로ả Toby속' School of law & Human Services, Gingrich犬 and Crick Secret Areas, caughtmemich境 Lebich bean There's nothing from it. Oh, it's just find ways to cancel meetings, to schedule, like all the shit that we do to survive in this. Maybe it's just me. Ones across the board and then other little tiny things. Sometimes picking up the guitar and playing, it's like, it's just like a two and a three and a two and so things like that. You do those for enough days and then you look at it with discerning eyes or in my case, You take pictures of all five pages and upload it to AI and let it do the work for you. Of course, why wouldn't you? But the things that it finds is, I know we've talked about this before and oftentimes on the show we're talking a little more deeply about some of this stuff and it's just, hey, it's what we do. It really, it wasn't necessarily eye opening. It was like, of course, but you know, when you strip away all the falsities, all again, For me, the caffeine, nicotine, anything that alters anything, the spending pinball time and money and going here and going there and the distractions, like just to keep going and doing stuff and not taking time to think about like, what am I doing? That would come afterwards. Well, I drink a bunch of caffeine, go buy this game. Oh my God, I gotta play the game like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you really want that? And now that you've like played that game and gotten over it, you got this $10,000 thing sitting there and in your bedroom and you can't do other things with that room. I don't mean like activities like stepbrothers. I mean just like, oh, like you can't fit a bed there for guests or oh my God, now if you need to move or something, you have this $10,000 thing. So though I was sick of making those mistakes. Same with cars. I was getting into cars. Same thing. Oh my God. So, looking at the patterns and seeing that the things that give me my energy throughout the day are talking to friends in order of the most energy. Talking to friends and I am underlying and bolding friends. Not just people who I think, oh, these are friends. But, you know, every time you get a text from them or it's like so often you're just like, oh, God, why is he always like that? The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Is this still something I want to do and invest time and energy into it? Or is it completely draining the energy? And that's so again, bolding friends of the things that give me energy are talking to friends, going to the gym, and honestly, this podcast and anything kind of not... I'm not, how to describe this? The inconsistency of me doing podcasts over the time, over time, has not been again of like, oh, I don't want to do this. I can't. It's I really am driven by kind of spontaneity, the irreverent absurdity of life in general, and meff, jacking off horses, etc. The things that we've done or, you know, it comes across as you shouldn't swear so much And all that. No, that's just, this is, this is the, this is what you're signing up for. This is what we're doing. This is the brand. And that really bleeds into my real life. So sometimes music and this podcast are like a one or a zero out of five. It's just, that's just not that, it's just not that time of the month. Just don't have my podcast period right now. It's just, it's just not that time of the month. But the consistency of going to the gym, going on walks and talking to friends, family as well in the friends, essentially anyone that you truly care about, is almost exclusively a four or five out of five. And what is consistently a zero or a one is work consistently. amy