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DeadFlip Day 3 Fish Tales gameplay stream with chat interaction and guest Brad Stark.
Fish Tales has a hidden rubber in the orbit that can cause immediate drain if the ball contacts it at high speed
high confidence · There is a Dick White rubber that you can't see that's right here. It's just barely sticking out. And if that ball is cruising and hugging the outer wall of that orbit there, it will barely touch that rubber, and it is an immediate right down the middle kiss the ball goodbye
Getting three jackpots in Fish Tales triggers a drop target to come up
high confidence · If you get all three of your jackpots... that thing starts coming up. So I think it's a difficulty setting maybe somewhere that we haven't set correctly.
Skeleton fish is a hidden feature in Fish Tales that awards 10 points when the launch button is mashed
medium confidence · Behind your score there's like fish and snails and stuff going by. If a skeleton fish goes by and you start mashing the launch button, it gives you ten points. Ten. One zero.
Lightning flippers on Fish Tales are shorter than regular flippers, making the gap over the center drain larger
high confidence · Lightning flippers are just a skosh shorter than regular flippers, so it makes the gap over the center drain much larger.
Logan Arcade in Chicago is hosting a Super Bowl event focused on pinball with free play, food, cheap beer, and D&D games
high confidence · If you're in Chicago and you don't necessarily like watching the Super Bowl, the Logan Arcade, which is pretty much just a pinball orgasm... they're having a Super Bowl party without turning the Super Bowl on.
“Fish Tales is a game that's really Shane Black or Dick White for a lot of people. You know, some people really love it, some people really hate it.”
Host (Jack Danger or primary streamer)@ 16:52 — Establishes Fish Tales as a polarizing game with divided community opinion
“There is a Dick White rubber that you can't see that's right here... it's an immediate right down the middle kiss the ball goodbye because it's going super fast”
Host@ 18:19 — Explains a notorious difficulty spike on Fish Tales caused by hidden rubber
“I had a joke, but it was a bit fishy. Was it catchy?”
Host@ 7:04 — Sets tone of fish-themed dad jokes throughout stream
“My New Year's resolution for myself was to play more controlled, and then I'd take stupid shots like that, and then you drain”
Host@ 21:38 — Self-reflection on pinball strategy and discipline
“On Fridays, every week, let's order pizza, and the pizza toppings have to have something to do with the theme of the pinball machine.”
Host (responding to chat suggestion)@ 12:22 — Proposes new community engagement format for stream
“I'd rather cradle my balls than trap my balls. That is for sure.”
Host@ 51:09 — Pinball terminology preference discussion (cradle vs trap terminology)
community_signal: DeadFlip establishing recurring pizza-themed Friday streaming events to attract more community participation and create special content surrounding themed machines
medium · On Fridays, every week, let's order pizza, and the pizza toppings have to have something to do with the theme of the pinball machine... I think it would attract more people to the studio, and then Fridays could just be, like, a huge blowout
event_signal: Logan Arcade hosting alternative Super Bowl event focused on pinball arcade gaming rather than football viewing
high · If you're in Chicago and you don't necessarily like watching the Super Bowl, the Logan Arcade... they're having a Super Bowl party without turning the Super Bowl on. So everyone's going to be there... All the pins are going to be set in free play.
community_signal: Pinball community viewing and participation in casual gameplay streams, with active chat engagement tracking game statistics (tilt counts) and providing feedback
high · We've only been playing this game for two days, and we've already got ten tilts on this thing. That's a feat. Jaded likes to keep track of the tilts that we post upon these machines.
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“Brad's off to do a podcast about League of Legends. He plays that game a lot. And him and two of the other guys in the studio have a podcast. It's called The Lane.”
Host@ 51:25 — Cross-promotion of Brad Stark's other gaming podcast