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Flash Gordon (Bally 1981) VPW Mod

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 9m·analyzed·Dec 4, 2025
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TL;DR

VPW Flash Gordon gameplay stream with anecdotes on Godzilla durability and upcoming events.

Summary

A streamer playing Flash Gordon (Bally 1981) via VPW mod on virtual pinball, demonstrating gameplay mechanics while discussing tangential topics including a Godzilla premium rail failure at Free Gold Watch venue, upcoming Star Trek movie riff streams, and Patreon pricing changes. The stream is informal and heavily digressive, mixing pinball commentary with chat interaction, music discussion, and personal anecdotes.

Key Claims

  • A Stern Godzilla Premium at Free Gold Watch broke after 1.5 years of heavy play, with the motorized building mechanism's left rail snapping from ball impact despite Keith Elwin's team demonstrating 6 months of continuous operation testing.

    high confidence · Host discussing venue maintenance issue with chat participants, describing the specific failure point and Stern's durability testing.

  • Kevin Smith (filmmaker, Clerks/Chasing Amy director) recently acquired a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball machine as his 'holy grail' and is a pinball collector with two Stern machines.

    medium confidence · Host references Smith's Instagram post about acquiring Rocky and Bullwinkle, noting Smith voiced a character on a Stern game.

  • VPW (Virtual Pinball Worlds) Flash Gordon mod runs improved unofficial 3.04 code with better rules implementation.

    medium confidence · Host mentions checking out X Files VPW version running unofficial 3.04 code and notes VPW recreation quality.

  • Flash Gordon is a tournament-eligible game played in competitive circuits like PAPA.

    medium confidence · Host states 'This is a tournament game. I do know that they do like running this in tournaments. I like Papa.'

  • Patreon subscription price lowered from $5 to $3 per month to reduce burden on subscribers after funding cloud storage secured.

    high confidence · Host explicitly announces pricing reduction during stream, explaining rationale and that storage is now funded for 'the next couple of years.'

Notable Quotes

  • “If it got that much play at a place like Free Gold Watch for a year and change, like so much play, and then it just broke, you guys should be good until, I don't know, 2050.”

    Host (analyzing Godzilla durability) @ ~08:00-10:00 — Reassurance to home collectors about Godzilla Premium durability based on venue failure data; demonstrates how operator wear translates to home expectations.

  • “avoid missing ball for a high score. That is basically the rule set for Pong when they came out with Pong from Atari.”

    Host @ ~25:00 — Commentary on rule clarity and simplicity in pinball design; references foundational arcade game design philosophy.

  • “It's amazing what these cats can do. I know cuz I actually work with some of them.”

    Host @ ~19:00 — Host reveals involvement with VPW/virtual pinball development community, establishing credibility on mod quality assessment.

  • “He's a pinball player now. And he got his holy grail pinball, which was a Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

    Host (about Kevin Smith) @ ~60:00 — Celebrity pinball collector acquisition; signals cultural crossover interest in pinball hobby among entertainment industry figures.

  • “The reason this game is dangerous is because all the shots are so close to you.”

    Host @ ~42:00 — Gameplay observation about Flash Gordon playfield design and ergonomic challenges.

Entities

Flash Gordon (Bally 1981)gameGodzillagameFree Gold WatchvenueKeith ElwinpersonVPWproductKevin SmithpersonRocky and Bullwinklegame

Signals

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    product_concern: Stern Godzilla Premium motorized building mechanism rail snapped after ~1.5 years of heavy venue play despite manufacturer's 6-month durability testing.

    high · Host detailed account of Free Gold Watch venue failure: rail at building entrance broke from repeated ball impact; Stern had to replace entire building mechanism; Keith Elwin's durability testing showed 6 months continuous operation was successful but real-world venue use exceeded expected wear.

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    operational_signal: Heavy operator usage (year+ of continuous play at Free Gold Watch) revealed component failure point in Godzilla Premium not caught in manufacturer testing protocols.

    high · Host's analysis that Free Gold Watch play volume significantly exceeded Stern's 6-month lab testing, suggesting gap between controlled testing and real-world venue conditions.

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    content_signal: VPW Flash Gordon mod demonstrates high-quality recreation with improved unofficial 3.04 code; host expresses near-automatic adoption pattern for VPW releases.

    medium · Host states: 'It's almost sight unseen where if I see a VPW table go up, I'm going to install it.' Also notes working with VPW developers.

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    community_signal: Celebrity filmmaker Kevin Smith recently acquired Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball as collector's piece; owns 2+ Stern machines, indicating cultural crossover interest in pinball hobby.

    medium · Host references Kevin Smith Instagram post about acquiring Rocky and Bullwinkle as 'holy grail' machine; notes Smith voiced character on Stern game and is actively collecting.

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Topics

VPW mod quality and virtual pinball recreationprimaryStern Godzilla Premium durability and component failuresprimaryFlash Gordon gameplay mechanics and rulesprimaryVenue operator wear patterns and home collector implicationssecondaryCelebrity pinball collecting (Kevin Smith)secondaryStream production and community managementsecondaryTournament pinball eligibilitymentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.72)— Host is enthusiastic about VPW Flash Gordon mod quality and engages warmly with community. Godzilla durability concerns are presented matter-of-factly without negativity toward Stern. Discussion of venue failure used constructively to reassure home collectors. Stream tone is celebratory regarding community member participation (Lynn joining), celebrity collector news (Kevin Smith), and Patreon price reduction benefiting subscribers.

Transcript

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See your next movie completely free. And now on with the show. Lowe's Theaters welcomes you to the exciting world of the movies. Smoking is not permitted in this auditorium. It's the law. Certificates are available at the box office. Thanks for helping us keep the theater clean. As you exit the auditorium, please deposit litter in trash recepticles in the lobby. Please be considerate and don't talk during the show. Is everything ready? The movie is Tiptoes. The story of a peculiar love triangle involving two [music] brothers. That's what it was. It's not anymore. Oh, surreal cam. But we don't have surreal. So, let's turn off the surreal cam. Welcome in everyone. How are you all tonight? Back to the grind. showing off some virtual pinball. What's up, Enclear? The version of X Files on VP forms now runs on the unofficial 3.04 code that has improved rules. I actually I'm interested in checking that out. Thank you. Need to install this latest we had in our run. Hey, Lynn. Yeah, this looks cool. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of of um Flash Gordon, but I'm willing to give it a shot now that VP um VPW Emperor Ming awaits and Emperor Ming both await playing it. Let's check it out. Let's check it out. Actually, let me do this because I need to do this. I need to read the rules card real quick. Uh and I'll try not to turn off my computer. Lighting one, two, three, fashioning arrows lights mini bonus for 50,000 and saucer for 2x and lighting one two three four nail buster. What's up? What's up, David? How are you, man? Oh, nail buster, I got good news and bad news. Are you ready for this? Also, Lynn, I have good news and bad news. So, our Godzilla, our Godzilla premium, maybe you guys don't need to worry about it because maybe you have a pro, but it's the same place that broke. It's the same place that broke. So, our Godzilla premium, the building, you have a pro. Okay. The building didn't break, but after I don't know what, a year and a half, you have a pro, too. The building didn't break, but after a year and a half or so, what's up, John Paul? Start. Welcome in. After a year and a half, so you know where the ball enters the the first floor of the building, right? Where the ball enters, there's a there's a piece of metal. There's a of course there's a piece of metal. There's a rail. Um that rail over time snapped. So, what's amazing, [laughter] so we needed an entirely new building. We did a whole new building mech just for that. But the thing is the building the mechanism in the building didn't break, right? Because Keith Elellwin and them his team showed they showed at the at Expo a couple years ago. They showed that they ran that mech for like six months straight. Just it just ran six months and it worked fine. Yes, it still works fine except the rail broke. So the ball hits the inside the inside left rail like right here. It hits the inside left rail and it snapped. So if that got that much play, here's your good news. Here's your good news. If it got What's up, Isaiah? If it got that much play at a place like Free Gold Watch for a year and change, like so much play, and then it just broke, you guys should be good until, I don't know, 2050. You guys [laughter] should be fine because you're not playing your game as much as they played at uh what do you call it? Our good news pro likely doesn't need to get a whole new building back. That's true. It also doesn't need to get a whole new building back. But if that breaks, I'm telling you, if that rail breaks, take a look at it tonight, Lynn and Nail Buster. Go take a look at that in that that wall that that that that ball hits. Just take just take a look at it and make sure it's you know you'll see what I mean. The impact on that wall is uh it's pretty intense. Look at the audience north of 800 games. Fredo. I love how you say Fredo. It's pay. It's paper play. And it has a dollar acceptor except it's like you know a dollar for one game, two $2 for three games. And it plays long. You guys know that game will play that game will play long if you're if you're not, you know, crazy and you're just double jack. You're just double flipping. Um, free go watch as the people have said. Yes, free go watch. [clears throat] Not paid go watch, but free go watch. Paid go watch is a different place. I keep threatening to put the machine uh on I keep threatening to put the machine on coin play for Christmas at home, Lynn. Why would you do that? Why would you put a game on at home? Unless you're routing it. I know you're not routing a game. All right, we're going to play some Flash [crying] Lighting. 123 flashing arrows lights. Uh, my brother will disappear during the Oh, I see. Awaits. Yeah, Lynn, make make them pay for it. [laughter] Lynn, I got a I got an idea for you to go. Oh, you know what, guys? We just took it off route and I think it's still on coin. Um, give me a second and I'll give me a minute and I'll put it back on free play. And then just like never put it back on free play or until like until like you know the gathering is done and then go, "Oh, you know what? I'm sorry. I keep forgetting to put it on free play. I'm so sorry. Thank you for the prime, Isaiah. 23 months. What's up, lamb? So Isaiah, weren't you just Wait, I feel like Isaiah, I feel like we were either playing a real Flash Gordon or were you here playing this Flash Gordon or or we went expo when we were playing Flash Gordon? What? Oh, no. We were playing a homebrew that was based on Flash Gordon. You did, Isaiah. You played a homebrew that that used this playfield. I can't remember which homebrew it was. Somebody's homebrew used this playfield. It was too many. What's LZ? I can't even remember what that is. Legend of Oz. What was it? Bash Hordan. [laughter] So dumb. That is the least amount of effort you could put into a a homebrew based on this game. I don't know. Let's call it uh Bash Harden. [laughter] You don't want to spend any any freaking brain cells. Um Oh, Legend of Zelda. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Probably is that's what it was of Legend of Zelda. Um, part of me is tempted to source a pair of Australian coin max and force him to get some Australian 20 cent pieces just to rub some salt in [laughter] bash. There's no there's no attempt to even even give any any amount of thought to the homebrew that is based on Flash Gordon. What's it called? Bash Hordon. [clears throat] Where's one, two, three? Okay, one, two, three is up on top. Okay, lighting one, two, three arrows. Okay, dropping one, two, three targets. Second and third time advances lights and advances target value. I you wait, Emperor Ming. You just wait. Ball shooter lane rollover scores super ring bonus when single target is dropped. Do you ever get annoyed at I know they only have this much space on the card, but every rule is written like a newspaper like like headline. Ball shooter lane rollover score super ring bonus when single target is dropped film at 11. It's like just just you know lighting flashing amber yellow dropping for ball and sauce. The only thing I know game rules drain balls to insert more quarters. Here's my rule. Here's my rule of pinball. You ready, guys? And I'm going to make a shirt. You guys can't steal this because I'm going to make a shirt that says avoid missing ball for a high score. That is basically the That's the rule set for Pong when um when they came out with Pong from Atari. That's what that's what the sign said on the Pong machine. It said avoid missing ball for high score. Is brilliant. Brilliant. So once again, this is an amazing VPW um recreation. It's amazing what these cats can do. I know cuz uh cuz I actually work with some of them. Yeah. B. Nope. I remember watching a um I remember watching a tutorial. Oh [ __ ] I wasn't recording. Say it again. Say what again. What am I saying, Lamb? Just tell me what what did you say before? Let's see. Your post is different. I watched Bow and Karen's um do a bash [laughter] blue onesie. Blue Onesie. Is it Blue Onesie Records? I watched um Bow and Karen's do a Papa tutorial on this a while ago and I can't remember why, but for some reason he said hit these targets and then hit these targets. I don't remember why though. But I listen to Bowen Currins. I listen to Bowen. Oh, shirt idea. Mm- Nope. Nope. Nope. I'm gonna make that shirt. I'm gonna make that shirt. I might have I'll see if Freelo wants to um to make it for me. Did I find a bug already? I feel like that should never happen ever. [laughter] I just feel like I feel like that should never happen. I think maybe I found a bug. Anyway, they could put out another version. I'm a trapper. I like to trap. I might trap too much. As someone in chat might say, I do too much trapping. And then if you hit the target, it's 5,000. Hang on. Whoa. Oh, man. The king of ghost flips. [laughter] You have a shirt for me, Isaiah. All right, let's see. What is my score? Okay, I'm at 204,000. We're going to break We're going to break a million during the stream. We're going to break a million. Damn it. Oh, He'll save every one of us. Not from a crappy score. and Sylvia pinball million break you. Here we go. 200 201. It's almost sight unseen where if if I see a VPW table go up, I'm going to I'm going to install it. Um, pinky down. I had some Taco Bell. Well, wait a minute. But Ghost Flipper didn't ask I mean Hollywood didn't ask anything about food. Why? Why are you Why? You can't just You can't just It's Don't cheapen it like that. I I Rod, you're cheapening it now. Hollywood actually has to ask the question. Ah, okay guy. [laughter] Oh, bonus advance is over here. My whiteboard doesn't work. I need to I get need to get a new whiteboard. Does my whiteboard work? I don't think my whiteboard works. Zigaz. Ah, it doesn't. It doesn't. No whiteboard. Okay, that's all right. M rotissi chicken spinach leaves. You know what I had for dinner? Chipot. My wife brought home chipot. So, I had a chipot like salad. Oh, gone. This game is not working out right now. Spongebob Burger King meal. Uh, it was like it was So, she brought home two. She brought home a dish that had rice, like salsa, guacamole, and chicken. And then another dish that had rice, salsa, guacamole, and beef. I couldn't eat the beef one, but I ate the I ate the [ __ ] out of the chicken one. Spinners for days. Let's do spinners for days. How many spinners can we do? That's coming down. So, the only thing I learned about this game is the direction of these lights tells you whether the ball's going to kick up or kick down. So, that's the only thing I know to look for. When it hits that saucer, it'll go up or it'll go down, which means that's the way it's going. I hate my screen. I swear to God, I lost my screen now. I lost my screen. I lost my chat, everybody. So, I can't see you guys right now. So, ah crap. What is the deal with this? Why does it keep doing this? There's a cable that's bad in my system. It keeps cutting my screen out. Um Oh, that way. What's up, flip screen? I got the $5 box because I really just wanted a soda, but the soda is $4. $4 for Did I Oh, 136. That's a terrible score. Target scores $100,000 when lit. I want $100,000. Coming down. Did John Youssi the new revision I sent yet for? Yeah, I did. I did see it. I didn't get to install it yet, though. that spinner's worth a thousand. That looks good to me. The reason this game is dangerous is because all the shots are so close to you. Um, Taco Bell selling sodas for $4 is the sodas for $4. Oh crap. How did I like that for a thousand? I like that. It's going a little crazy, isn't it? [laughter] It's going a little crazy. I love it. I love that it's going a little little nuts. Um, no bad score. Having fun. Yeah. Going up. Wow. Three 344. This is pretty good. Hey, Mr. Hardlock. A hard luck that in no way was that your fault. What do you mean? Flash Gordon approaching. Oh, there's another I keep forgetting to fix that. I got to circle. I got to circle mask that logo up there. In no way was that your fault, um, Mr. Hardlock, I was doing so well and then you showed up and said hi. It was not your fault at all. [laughter] I'm the king of blame. You heard the king of pain. I'm the king of blame. What are you supposed to do? Hit that target? What? Am I surreal? I love that I hit that spinner for a thousand and it just went nuts. Oh, come on. I hit my flipper and it didn't fire the freaking without lanes are mean. We're getting to a million, Lynn. We're going to do it. Okay, we're uh we're Bash Harden. Bash bash ball three magic right here up at the place. I got to get over 500,000 on ball three and it's not going to happen this way. 524. It's going up. It's going up, kids. I'm learning where the points are. First, I learned the points are not at the $1,000 spinner cuz you can't make $1,000. Every spin takes a long time to get to anything decent. Can't hit a million. Feeling that only feeding that only. Oh, this is actually kind of fun. I dig I man. VPW VPW at you guys. Now, if I hit this target up here, is that worth? I'm wondering. I forget what that's worth. Like, okay, it pops up, but then coming down. Going up. See if I can get it up there. Okay, I hit the target. Now what? [ __ ] It's gotten out of Okay, don't let it get out of control. So, the target's down. I got to re reread the rules for this. That was a bad flip. That was a bad flip. I knew it. That one flip. Oh my god. I knew that one flip was going to murder me. All right, let's see. This is a tournament game. I do know that they do like running this in tournaments. I like Papa and stuff. Well, I keep saying Papa. That doesn't exist anymore. He'll save every one of us. What's up, Gary? I feel like I want to hit Oh, I feel like I want to hit all the targets up at the top. Shoot. No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Settle. Oh, boy. If I can bring homegrown, whenever I can bring you guys new music that you love, I'm happy to should pick up the album, too. You should check out You should pick up the album. It's really good. All right, let's go. Let's go. 171. I'm loving this. I think you got what? Yellow magic. Uh, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Is this Yellow Magic? Hang on. Is this the clip from Yellow Magic? New RP, Red Octopus, just released in Britain. And that was a track called I Want to See Another World. And time for us to see something of the other side of our world. Now, through the music of the Sadistic Mika band from Japan, the first of our guest bands on tonight's program. It was two songs. The first from their new album, Hot Menu. So, third. Sadistic. Sadistic. Yeah, that's sadistic. Mika. I'm going to let that play in the background. Same drummer as YMO. That's why I was thinking YMO. I don't think this is making it to a million, but let's see. Paladin, welcome. Thank you for the prime. What's up, Paladin? This is a good way to try to get to this million with some sadistic [music] Mika band playing behind me. [music] Good spirits. I'm loving it too, Paladin. I'm loving it too. Cheers, Paladin. Uh, Flipstream the uh, scoring in the bass. So, yeah, the scoring and all the bass mode, the base mode, the hub mode, whatever. But the multiballs [music] are still insane. So, we got to fix those. [laughter] All the modes are looking good. The multiball is insane. Insane. You want an easy billion points on Matrix? Play a multi. [ __ ] me. Steady. What's up, Steady? Steady. We're listening to some sadistic Mika band in the background which is of course ah [music] which is a Japanese band back in the 70s. So funky. Yeah, seriously funky. Yeah, they're really funky. By the way, I did want to mention to everybody that um I do have another channel. It's called DJ MPT3K. [music] And I'm starting to get into the habit of, you know, my regulars kind of know about my Sunday things at 2 pm Pacific. So, I'll just do whatever open format, whatever. But Saturday nights, sometimes I'm trying to I'm home and I'm chilling. Saturday nights, I do a full set of just J-pop and city pop. So, if you're interested in city pop or J-pop or maybe a little K-pop, not sure. Thank you. Uh, thank you for that shout out, whoever. Who shouted me out? Titty Pop. No, no, Titty Pop. No, that was called Temple. Next number is called Suki Suki Suki. That's a different channel. Yeah. So, I do those on Saturday, but it's really super late. It's really super late. And so, it's it's hosted by me and Grammy pretty [laughter] much. Your hosts are me and you know so like you know Friday is me and Surreal. Saturday is me and Remy [music] Manukor. Even some dirty pop. Dirty pop. Was that bad? Booty pop. What's up, Jared? Welcome in, Jared. First time. [music] Got a little We got a little Flash Gordon pinball. We got a little sadistic Ma in the background. It's very odd here. Trust me. I've let my I've let my stream go insane and I don't care. [music] 227. I'm trying to break a million. Somebody tell me how to get points on here. I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing. Hit flashing things don't drain. Thank you flip screen. Thank you so much. [laughter] And flashing things don't drain. The first part is the hard part for me. The second part Hey Bloopstream, did John Youssi that? Um, [music] did John Youssi that post by Kevin Smith? Kevin Smith, right? He's the one that did Clerks and Chasing Amy. He posted, I think, on Instagram that he got his he's a pinball player now. And he got his [music] holy grail pinball, which was a Rocky and Bullwinkle. He's a huge fan of Rocky and Bullwrinkle, and he got a he got his own Rocky and Bullwinkle now. Currently touring Rocky Music, in fact. Fine. I thought it was pretty cool. He's got like two Sterns and he and he got Rocky and Bullwinkle. Uh he voiced a paladin. Oh yeah. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he voed Paladin on Sterns thing. Um now that he no longer has to stand four feet from the machine. I don't get that one, Germy, but I know it's something. Uh I wanted to pop in because I noticed MPT3K on. I want to say hi. Hi, Steady. What's up, friend? I'm glad you stopped by. Even if you just stopped by for a minute. It's always it's it's always it's always awesome. I'll be like, "Wow, people actually come by and see how silly I'm getting." Um I want to take this. Oh crap. Oh, he lost a ton of weight. Yeah, he did. He I was hoping he didn't have like a disease or something. Rocking Bullwinkle is pretty fun. I wanted to I wanted to tell since I've done it already. Um I wanted to let all my patrons know and people who are not Patreon subscribers to my channel um that so if you're a current Patreon subscriber, I just dropped the price. You're no longer paying me $5 a month. You're only paying me three. I dropped the price for a couple of reasons. Number one, I don't need the five. Hey, Surreal. I the the whole point of having the Patreon was to get enough money to pay Mega to store the the streams from Friday night because those streams are like once in a lifetime. They're they're they're they're lightning in a bottle. every time we do a movie on Friday, it's insanely fun and just ridiculous and stupid. So, I wanted to share that. I didn't want it to sit and die on a hard drive, you know, um in my house. So, um I needed some money to well, most of the time. [laughter] That's true. Most of the time, not last week. um [laughter] last week. Uh let's forget about and so I needed I needed the money to post it on Mega and I I needed the cloud storage money. So you guys were great. You gave me the cloud storage money. You also gave me some money to um support me and Surreal. Um the money um we didn't mention this before, but the money actually goes to me and Surreal. Surreal is putting in hours for the Friday. So you're not just supporting me, you're supporting me and Surreal. Um, [laughter] so thank you so much to all my current patron subscribers. At $5 is no longer $5. It is $3. So, um, everybody who is a Patreon right now, you're paying less. Thank you. Um, hopefully you stick around. And anyone who wants to become a Patreon subscriber, it's $3. So, there you go. That's it. That's it. And it's going to stay $3 because I at this point we've pretty much got mega paid up for for the next couple of years. Whether the theater goes on or not, the storage will be there. Oh no. AND THEN I DRANK. COME ON. [laughter] DAMN. DAMN. Uh oh, Surreal's giving cut. Never mind. Joking. [laughter] It's supporting Surreal, too. I'm out. You guys suck. Uh, did we stream Star Wars? Technically, yes, Isaiah, but but I think we need to stream Star Wars Star Wars on a Thursday. So, if you want to stream Star Wars on on this Thursday, I think maybe we should try to stream Star Wars on this Thursday. So, anyway, um it was a birth Oh, did we Oh, you mean the movie? Yes, it was a birthday stream. Thank you, Steady. We did stream A New Hope, which which is what the kids are calling it now. They're calling it a New Hope. To to to us, it was just Star Wars. Um and Mr. Scoot was there, and Mr. Mr. Scoot has never forgiven me. Mr. Scoot has never forgiven. [laughter] God damn. I turned into Cher for a moment. Mr. Scoot has never forgiven me for having him. [music] [laughter] That was coming in hot, man. [music] He never forgave me for having him riff uh one of his favorite movies. He was He was He's He was honestly mad at me and he wants a redo. So, I think we're going to have Scoo on my next birthday. Oh, let's plan that. I'm going to ask Scoot if he could do my next birthday. What you do? What you doing? [laughter] He was He was starting to yell at me. [music] Um Oh, Surreal's birthday is coming up. But Surreal, you get whatever you want. I get Scoot. So, I'm going to ask Scoot if he if he can bring a movie next time. I'm going to ask Scoot if he could bring a movie. Um, he wasn't drunk. No, he was pretty sober. H, we're not watching Thanksgiving again. [laughter] Gone in 60 seconds. Yeah, he was talking about Gone in 60 Seconds. Scoot's movie choice would be interesting for Yeah. No, he gets to choose. He gets to choose. That's a lot of freaking That's a lot of playing with your food, manu. Okay. Legitimate. Uh, anyway, not the alcohol picked me. No. Yeah, he was he was No, he wasn't angry, but he was like, "Manu, how could you make me how could you ask me to come?" Oh, because here's the thing. It was a surprise. Remember Surreal? We didn't say I didn't say what movie we were riffing. I didn't tell Scoot what movie we were riffing. Fun fact, Almaro contains no almonds. [laughter] So he shows up and it was a false false start too because I kind I accidentally showed a little bit of movie but he was like he was like Mano how the [ __ ] could you do this to me? How can you make me rip Star Wars? Um, I wouldn't complain. I know. [music] I know. Almost all of the movies I like are riffable. Yeah, if you ask me, I'll take a shot at ripping Star Trek 2. WE HAVEN'T DONE A STAR TREK MOVIE. [screaming] Let's do a Star Trek movie this week. Not Not Star Trek 1. Oh my god, we will fall the [ __ ] asleep. Not Star Trek 1. Not the freaking stupid motion picture with Verger. Not doing that one. Yeah, Khan. Lena, you around this Friday? We should do Khan. Holy [ __ ] that would be so good. Um, I've been blessed. All my favorite movies have have been on the theater. [laughter] Steady. Yeah, we should do the San We should do San Francisco one. Star Trek Star Trek 4. Oh, Star Trek 4. Star Trek the motionless picture. Okay. Okay. All right. You know what we're gonna do? You know what we're gonna do? I'm gonna have Ping. Ping. Ping. That's the list. [laughter] Ping. Let's just make a list of two. Let's make a list of two. Star Trek Corrath of Khan or Star Trek um um Discovery or Voyage or whatever the [ __ ] it was called. Okay. Two movies. That's it. That's the list this week. [laughter] I got to check I got to check with my admin. I'm checking with my admin now. Why do I have two of these in here, Grammy? One with sound and one without sound. Damn it. Give me the Give me the ball back. Why only two? Cuz I think it's hilarious. 800, Lynn. 871. I got time for a couple more. We're at 871. I don't know cuz two would be great to just choose between Roathan or the San Francisco one. Even though I do know Rother Khan would win. All right, Ping. I'll tell you what, Ping, you make the list. It's got to be Star Trek to movies. All not one. Don't include one. Is that cool? Ping. Star [music] Trek toos motion pictures movies. Not the not the first one cuz I don't want any chance at all of that movie getting picked cuz I will quit the theater at that point. 871 is is the is the uh score you guys got to got to beat. All right, Ping. Cool. All right, so we got a Star Trek L. Thank you, Lynn. Thank you, Lynn. Lynn, you're awesome. Lynn's like, "You're welcome." And I know I'm awesome. I mean, clearly, it would be my luck. Star Trek is this weekend when I'm doing my 24 hours stream I'll be watching on stream. A I'm sorry, Palin. Palin, you know I didn't know, right? You know, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to be that guy. [crying] [ __ ] All right. That's how you like that spinner. Now I know. I wasn't expecting that gauntlet to be taken out. You wasn't expecting Don't say anything to me then. Don't talk to me then. Don't talk to me. Cuz you know I would be like, "That's a great idea. Let's do it. Let's do the thing you just said cuz it's fun. What's happening? Damn it. You could never safely exit that lane. Surreal will have to do the door sounds. [laughter] Surreal, you could get rid of the door sounds. the Star Trek door sounds. You ain't got to do them. But you know what, Surreal? I think you should still do them. [laughter] You should just, Surreal, do the door sounds for for nothing, for no reason. You got something else in mind? [music] Uh, I guess I'm about to become a Patreon subscriber for the replay. A I mean, it's $3 Paladin now. It's cheaper. Um, okay. Uh, I'll talk to you. Sometimes I might even see what happens when I spin you up with something. [clears throat] [laughter] Uh, just not for the Enterprise. Yeah, not any anything. Make the sound, but anything for anything but the Enterprise. Do I need to make sure the arcade office zoom connection is good? Do I need to make sure that the Okay, what is happening there? Oh, okay. I thought that was rain. Um, let's see. Oh, Lynn, do you Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Lynn, do you want to join us? Lynn, can you join us? [laughter] Can you join us while we're Oh, Lynn's gonna Lynn's going to actually join us. [applause and cheering] Lynn. If it gets too late though, you know, you could you could always bail, but we'll just make fun of you if you do. [laughter] You better take a nap, Lyn. Do like me. Take a nap before the theater. You guys know I actually try and take a nap before the What's up, Borg? Oh, this is going to be Lynn. This is going to be great. You've never been on. Oh, thank you Grammy for explaining. Grammy, so yeah, Lynn, so what you want to do is you want to make sure that your connection is good and your microphone is good. Nobody has a better microphone than um Surreal. Nobody has a better microphone than Surreal, but you could try. You probably still fail cuz we all fail when it comes to surreal and the microphone. No, Surreal. Your microphone is what? You got the sure whatever, right? I think you got the shore. Either that or your voice is just amazing. Download a video broadcast. [laughter] He has turn two. He has two turntables and a microphone. You have a Blue Yeti. Wait, how do you sound so good with that crap? With that crap. You know what I use? I don't even use a Blue Yeti. I use what is called a Fifine. I use the cheapest microphone. This Fifine that I'm using right now is like 29 bucks, but it's like perfect. I love the Fifine so much that I that I bought the company. Oh, was it the company? Oh, did I buy Commodore? Sorry, I bought Commodore instead. I hate it. I'm a fif fine foe. [laughter] Okay. Um, so Ping is making a list for this Friday of just Star Trek movies. If if they're going if they're too long, I'm going to edit it. I may I may have to edit for time. Don't get mad at me if I remove your favorite Bones or Scotty scene. Going up. What's up, Tabasco man? Ah, come on. I'm almost there, man. Look at that bonus. 848. Manu, how's your frame rate this smooth? It looks like you're playing the real machine. I have a really good PC. I don't know how much smoother I can get everything. Um, just a minute, Tabasco. Let me answer that in a second. I I can only guess what the answer is, but if we if we do gone to 60 seconds next week, can we still have a vote with that only on the list, you know, for the [music] littles? I like that. Uh Ping, make sure you make a list of gone in 60 seconds. Five entries, they're all gone in 60 seconds. Nuclear nuclear vessels. All All movies are editing required. All right, we'll close the vote on. Okay, thanks. Give me [music] some time to to make an edit. Nuclear whistles Don't drain, you son of a [ __ ] 9:09 9 9 920. I can't do one. I can do one more. I can do one more, Lynn. 920. We're trying to go a million. My game my my play got better since Remy queued up some J-pop. 920. We got to go for a million. Last chance. Last chance. Last dance for love. This is my last chance. Romance tonight. How do you light the spinner? Uh, bonus advance. Anybody know how to light the spinner? This This spinner. I know how to light this spinner. Well, maybe you light them. Maybe you gota light them with the I don't think that one has sound. Some of these I ripped with no sound. I don't know why. Why did I rip some of them with no sound? I'm starting to learn where the points are in this game. Okay. One. Crap. It's going out. I knew it. I wasn't even going to try. I might start over. It's funnier without sound. I think I'm going to start over. This will be a doover. Last game. Try again. By the way, you guys know that this is on virtual uh vis uh VPU visual pinball universe downloadable downloadable right now. Look for the VPW version of Flash Gordon. Uh M Carter 6 toe, all those guys, they got together and they they made a hit record. The VPU guys, the VPW guys, they're just regular guys, right? They put their pants on one at a time, one leg at a time. But when their pants are on, they make great. What happens when they have [laughter] more fans? You don't want to know. Uh, let's see. Lynn's getting prepared. Let's see. If only they put them on their legs. [laughter] Pants were required for this hobby. I'd have a different [laughter] camera angle. Don't. Ah, it's not happening. Don't give it away, Paladin. Don't give it away. Give it away. Give it away now. Is that just the tip? Just the tip. Just the tip right there, kids. It's all about the tip. Just the tip. I'm doing too much on the left side of the game. No, it's going out. Okay, it didn't go out. Please don't trade. Please don't trade. Don't do it to me. Don't do it to me. I got to get 2x. All right, the last ball. See if I get a million on this ball. Well, I I have been having fun playing this. Didn't expect to. What's up, Arthur? Didn't expect to have fun playing this, but man, this is a challenge. [clears throat] Whatever you Oh, okay. One more. One more and then I'm done. Then we can Now I'll let you guys all go. You all be free. Just like on Tony's stream. Flash. Emperor awakes. [snorts] I'm not sure what's happening. 15 seconds. It d does what? It's like is like is it like playfield multiplier? [singing] [music] [singing] [music] follow me. Falling over. I got I got one of my I got one of my flips from Isaiah. I swear I do. So cuz when Isaiah flips it's like he's got like style when he does it. I see. I watch you Isaiah. When you flip sometimes you're like it's like okay [laughter] he's got some style when he does it. Sometimes you're like, "Pa." I don't know if you noticed that, Isaiah. You got an action pose. You do. You do. [laughter] You're like, and then you're like, "Okay, that part was a lie, but that's what I see in my head. [laughter] Woo! Woo! Damn it. [laughter] Right down the freaking middle. Watch this, Lee. You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half. And now I guess I got to fix that one. I want to see it actually. [singing] Damn it. [laughter] All right, I got to 920. 920 million. I think I might keep I'm going to keep climbing this mountain of a million points on Flash Gordon. But uh let's go raid somebody. I got to go. I got to drink some more, hang out with the kids, do that kind of thing. Okay, so possibly a stream this Thursday from Freo Watch. I feel like we should play Star Wars because we didn't really play Star Wars. We did tested it on Star Wars. Friday, a Star Trek movie. You pick it. Make sure you're a member of the Discord. Pick one of the Star Trek movies. We're going to watch that Friday. Lenin Denver. Surreal me ensues. Saturday possibly J-pop K-pop city pop right here. DJ MPT3K. not MPT3K, but DJ MPT3K. And if you subscribe to that, check me out on Sunday where I sometimes do free free form streams. Got all our friends doing things.
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high · Host explicitly announced pricing reduction: 'You're no longer paying me $5 a month. You're only paying me three.' Rationale: cloud storage now funded 'for the next couple of years' via existing patron contributions.

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    design_innovation: VPW Flash Gordon mod features unofficial 3.04 code with improved rules implementation, suggesting community-driven rule refinement beyond original manufacturer specifications.

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    personnel_signal: Keith Elwin's durability testing approach involved 6-month continuous operation lab testing, but real-world venue usage patterns exceeded test parameters.

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