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Drinks with Jack - Hot Nudge EP4

Stern Pinball·video·6m 32s·held·Feb 18, 2022
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TL;DR

Jack Danger interviews Hot Nudge streamers about their group's origins, favorite games, and future plans.

Summary

Jack Danger interviews the Hot Nudge streaming group (Rebecca, Anna, and Jane) at a Stern Pinball stage event, discussing how the women's pinball content creators started their streaming channel, their favorite games, their tournament experiences, and their vision for growing female representation and broadcasting pinball tournaments.

Key Claims

  • Hot Nudge streams on Thursdays and Sundays

    high confidence · Rebecca (Hot Nudge member) stated streaming schedule during interview

  • Anna won a Stern Pinball machine (Adventurers Pro, specifically Veterans Pro model)

    high confidence · Anna directly stated winning the machine during interview

  • Hot Nudge members have done traveling shows, including to South Carolina

    high confidence · Rebecca mentioned traveling shows during interview

  • Jane rented pinball machines from someone named Gavin during the pandemic

    high confidence · Jane stated she rented machines from Gavin when pandemic limited arcade access

  • There is a Monday night bar team pinball league in Chicago called Bells and Chimes

    high confidence · Anna mentioned the team league in Chicago where she met other Hot Nudge members

Notable Quotes

  • “we just kind of sort of stumbled upon anna wanting to also stream and we're just like we should stream together”

    Rebecca (Hot Nudge)@ 1:23 — Explains the organic origin story of Hot Nudge streaming group formation

  • “it ended up being hot nudge kind of like hot fudge and then our first day was hot nudge sundaes for our streams and it just sucked”

    Rebecca (Hot Nudge)@ 1:43 — Describes how the group's name was chosen and their self-aware humor about early streaming attempts

  • “i want to continue streaming obviously that's super fun i love to you know when when now that things seem to be opening up it would be really awesome to start doing some traveling shows”

    Rebecca (Hot Nudge)@ 5:26 — States Hot Nudge's future goals for expansion and cross-streaming with other content creators

  • “i would love to see more female representation in the top 50 top 100”

    Rebecca (Hot Nudge)@ 5:40 — Identifies gender representation in competitive pinball rankings as a key community goal

  • “we hear all the time now that there are more events that logan people being like i had no idea this was a thing i worked him all my whole life and i had no idea people actually competed at this”

    Jane (Hot Nudge)@ 5:52 — Highlights gap between casual players and competitive community awareness, motivating more tournament broadcasting

Entities

Jack DangerpersonHot NudgeorganizationRebeccapersonAnnapersonJanepersonStern PinballcompanyAttack from MarsgameHarlemgame

Signals

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    content_signal: Hot Nudge represents a growing women's pinball streaming community with regular scheduled content (Thursdays and Sundays), traveling shows, and cross-streaming ambitions

    high · Rebecca and the group discuss their streaming schedule, traveling shows to South Carolina, and plans for cross-streaming with other streamers

  • ?

    community_signal: Hot Nudge members explicitly advocate for increased female representation in competitive pinball rankings (top 50/100) and more tournament broadcasting

    high · Rebecca states: 'i would love to see more female representation in the top 50 top 100' and Jane emphasizes broadcasting local tournaments to grow awareness

  • ?

    venue_signal: Chicago has an active pinball venue and tournament infrastructure including Logan Arcade (Tuesday tournaments) and a Monday bar team league (Bells and Chimes)

    high · Anna and Jane both reference Logan Arcade and the Bells and Chimes team league as key venues for competitive play

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Significant gap exists between casual players who are unaware of competitive pinball tournaments and the organized tournament scene, suggesting opportunity for better event broadcasting

    high · Jane notes: 'we hear all the time now that there are more events that logan people being like i had no idea this was a thing i worked him all my whole life and i had no idea people actually competed at this'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Modern Stern games (like Guardians) are noted as engaging for streaming content due to multiple rule pathways and strategic depth

Transcript

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0:02
hey honey you want to know [Music] what is up expo jack danger here back on the certain stage and i am surrounded by some very dear friends of mine the ladies of hot nudge folks can please put your hands together thank you so much these ladies um they they stream pinball every few days a week tuesdays and thursdays sundays no keep guessing keep guessing thursdays and sundays i said one of these days absolutely when i was streaming and i streamed way too much and i needed someone to cover for me when i had my children rebecca was kind enough to come in and covered for me which was fantastic uh and now it's awesome to see that like you've got your own gig going on would you like to tell us a little bit about that definitely starting just like dabbling into streaming for like taking over your stream really like caught i caught the bug but i didn't want to do it by myself we just kind of sort of stumbled upon anna wanting to also stream and we're just like we should stream together and we like had this crazy messaging of like what are we gonna call ourselves what are we gonna name ourselves and i threw we both threw out the most ridiculous ideas but it ended up being hot nudge kind of like hot fudge and then our first day was hot nudge sundaes for our streams and it just sucked and then of course you know we we kept like picking on jane to be like hey come and stream with us hey can we go stream at your house hey and then she just kept coming and then she just became a part of the hot nudge fold and so we have other bells come on we've done traveling shows we've gone to south carolina it's just been a whirlwind of fun and awesomeness what would you say is some of your favorite games to play to stream uh to stream i really like guardians this is one of my favorite games uh super fun to stream a lot of the modern sterns are like there's so many different ways you can approach the games so we we like to also every once in a while on sundays do pin golf where we kind of set objectives for ourselves and you know do different things with each game we almost thought about streaming that little tiny american girl flip out but we haven't done it yet so uh we we might we might have a little tournament on that one one of these days uh well coming over to you anna hi how are you i'm great you're an incredible pinball player and i've seen you around chicago battling for a very long time and i just wanted to know sort of like your history in pitball and like how did you get to this point uh one of my friends started a team for the team league in chicago which is this really fun monday night bar team pinball league probably a year later the bells and chimes started up and that just that's where i met jane and becca and everything just took off from there because that community is just so awesome you have beans in your house right yes i do what are we looking at um i have an attack from mars i was the first one i bought and then i got a uh harlem from the papa sale which is rest in peace well you're keeping the dream alive by letting it live on i don't know if you know this but i won a stern pinball machine [Laughter] did you win adventures i did i wanted a veterans pro it's in my living room i play it constantly it's very hard it'll make you better football players i hope so that's the hope yeah yeah well thank you anna i'm going to move on to jane here hi jane hello how's it going it's good so jane is a very fierce competitor i guess the same question for you like what what got you to this point like when did you start and like when did you start really sort of coding your skill in the pinball realm wandered into logan arcade when they happened to have a tuesday night tournament i was like i'm pretty good at this i can do this and finish dead last and got to watch people who actually knew how to play pinball play and then i was hooked you also you have pins inside of your place i do now i did not own any pinball machines but then when the pandemic happens and i was deprived i immediately started renting names from gavin um now that things have opened back up again uh i'm babysitting a walking dead premium so babysitting is the way to go truly if you can find a friend that has a game they don't have room for it yeah those are the friends to have because they'll know all about that i mean that's how i have all my things
[name withheld pending review]game
The Walking Dead (Premium)game
Guardiansgame
Logan Arcadevenue
Bells and Chimesorganization
Gavinperson

medium · Rebecca states: 'super fun to stream a lot of the modern sterns are like there's so many different ways you can approach the games'

  • ?

    community_signal: Pandemic-driven shortage of arcade access led to increased machine rentals and home ownership among competitive players

    high · Jane rented machines from Gavin during pandemic lockdowns and now owns/babysits machines at home

  • ?

    content_signal: Hot Nudge experiments with different streaming formats including standard gameplay and tournament-style Pin Golf (goal-based challenges)

    high · Rebecca mentions doing 'pin golf where we kind of set objectives for ourselves and you know do different things with each game' on Sundays

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Jack Danger's early streaming needs led to Rebecca volunteering as a fill-in streamer, which catalyzed the formation of Hot Nudge and her transition to independent content creation

    high · Jack states Rebecca 'was kind of enough to come in and covered for me when i had my children' which led to her catching 'the bug' for streaming

    • 5:05
    what would you say and i guess there's a question for all of you i'd love to get you but what is the future of hot nose where you see this going from here and just personally what would you like to see happen just in pinball in general the future is unknown for hot nudge i i really you know i want to continue streaming obviously that's super fun i love to you know when when now that things seem to be opening up it would be really awesome to start doing some traveling shows i you know we talked about doing across the streams where we can possibly stream with other streamers all over in terms of the future of pinball i would love to see more female representation in the top 50 top 100 and another thing i think we would like to do more of is streaming tournaments locally right yeah we hear all the time now that there are more events that logan people being like i had no idea this was a thing i worked him all my whole life and i had no idea people actually competed at this and so there are a lot of people out there who are interested and the more we can broadcast it the better well ladies thank you so much for joining me up here uh folks make sure you tune in to twitch.tv before it's like cod nudge to watch these fine folks battle and just show you how to get better at pinball and uh we'll see you out there have a good one [Music]