Epic Pinside thread

I had the day off, and I was admittedly glued to that thread pretty much all day.

And there was no police report because they appear to have come to an agreement.

I've also removed Nifty from the links page of my website. I can no longer, in good conscience, endorse a company that pulls that kind of bullshit.

That guy is a fucking tool.

I am a reactionary type of guy. I would have had my pin back, and it would have been a very bad day for nifty.
 
I had the day off, and I was admittedly glued to that thread pretty much all day.

And there was no police report because they appear to have come to an agreement.

I've also removed Nifty from the links page of my website. I can no longer, in good conscience, endorse a company that pulls that kind of bullshit.

I'll need some LEDs soon. Not nifty. What a way to wreck your reputation in the hobby over one screw up...
 
Are you the same Otaku that took donations from pinsiders that you said was needed to fix your flooded basement full of pins and didnt have the money to afford the repairs and then was seen buying machines?

Rumors lmao, seriously this is the petty bullshit that Pinsiders do

You ask for some help and you get 40 rich old geezers on your case, don't wanna donate don't donate

Ask for some immediate assistance, get a liiiittle bit, then buy games with different money you've earned through normal work a few months later. But when you try to return the money they say "NO, NO, PAY IT FORWARD!" Okay... Erm... I don't know how opening a fund to help me out that is completely optional marks me for "NEVER BUYING MACHINES AGAIN". It's bullshit and like laughably ridiculous over there. I asked for a shit ton of in person help and everybody was all for that for some dumb antiquated reason, and when the time came nobody showed up and I had to do it all myself, that kind of opened their eyes a little.

Anywho, learned to not get caught up in that bullshit and so glad I left that site, it's cancer. Game was mint, too. :D

(Backstory: My basement was flooding, was full of games, and I didn't have money to get a sump pump so I humbly put an open letter and a PayPal link if anybody wanted to help me out as I've been very helpful over there dealing with troubleshooting situations. No pressure, just an open wallet kind of thing. Also needed physical help getting the games out of the basement. The older folk over there really are too old to grasp the whole "GoFundMe" thing and think you should work for every dollar you have regardless of your situation. It wasn't a Tech-Noir kind of thing. So I got a lot of flak from there and kind of laughed it off because it was along the lines of "back in my day i had to shine shoes for my money" and "my daddy beat me into never asking for money so why should you". It created like a 48-page ridiculous drama fest of people fighting over me. It got a ton of visibility from this and even got stickied for a while and I raised a few modest hundred dollars. I put this towards the basement of course. Also, when I scheduled a little party to help get games out of the basement, many people publicly said "I'm going!" (I guess to brag) and then NOBODY showed up. Not a single person. So I did it myself with an Escalera a good fellow (beezleboob, what a guy) loaned me. Literally alone. Didn't even have a spotter and ended up dropping my Devil's Dare down a flight of stairs. Then a few months later, I'm back on my feet, my job is going a lot better than it was, and I decide to pickup a game at Pinfest, of course surrounded by all of those people. Back online (not in person, of course!!!!! smh) I was then struck with people asking how the hell I could afford (a very cheap, btw) game, and then there was a few pages of speculation on what my illness was (I can't work a normal job which caused the monetary low point) because "I sure looked fine moving that game around!" and then had a bunch of old men drudging into my personal life, searching my Facebook, and trying to find out medical details. It was stupid, creepy, and way overdone. At times I tried to offer the money back once I had raised it and was told by the much humbler and quieter folk who had donated to just pass the goodwill on and that is what I did.)
 
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a lot of pin guys seem to take their hobby way too seriously ... way too fuckin' uptight. I set up a Pinside account earlier this year, and have maybe posted ... once?

was at a charity event a couple years ago with a bunch of pinheads in a small tournament. good cause, great games, hosted by a local collector in their home, family-kinda event, etc ...

these guys are shouting, slapping machines (all owned by a generous local collector/host), swearin' up a storm, etc when the ball drains ... like, chill the fuck out ... we're supposed to be having fun and supporting a good cause

immediately turned me off to the pin community. KLOV may not be perfect, but it's a great resource with great folks, and everyone local (to me) I've met that's active here is super helpful and chill

oh, and they don't even know how to meme. pathetic.

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It was a lame threat, IMO.

The cops wouldn't touch this, as they would consider this a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

Thats what an info report is for, it does not get a case number, but it will get a dataID number and is formal documentation.
 
Seriously.... do they always get THAT worked up over there?

Robin, the Pinside owner, made a good point in the thread. He said there's nearly 45,000 members of Pinside (is that possible??) but only a small number of people who are toxic. I think we only notice the bad and the ridiculous.

Overall, it's a great forum. I've got some great help from there.
 
Robin, the Pinside owner, made a good point in the thread. He said there's nearly 45,000 members of Pinside (is that possible??) but only a small number of people who are toxic. I think we only notice the bad and the ridiculous.

Overall, it's a great forum. I've got some great help from there.

Yeah, and there's over 300 million people in the United States, and only a few very loud people are being heard in this country too. Your point?
 
Yeah, and there's over 300 million people in the United States, and only a few very loud people are being heard in this country too. Your point?

My point is ignore the small percentage of douchebags and there's a wealth of knowledge and experience there. The 'Vid' guides on playfield restoration are worth joining for alone.

I could never afford to pay for a restoration, and I can really see how that could go south.
 
good lord, now up to page 22

maybe i will read a couple more pages to tomorrow but no more for today

agreed, pinside is a good resource for repairs, other than that i typically don't frequent there very often because most of the topics are just pretty ridiculous to me since i don't give a damn what Sterns next release is and don't care about the code updates on any of the current models made by them or by any other manufacturers
 
This is me on page 4 of that thread.

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That's where it starts getting good. Page 6 is where it hits the fan, though.

Fortunately, the clueless jackoff deactivated his account and can't re-activate it for 30 days.... so he can't go back and edit out his comments.

Sounds like the OP got his game back(kinda... I think he said it's at his parents house now), and things seem to be working out... but man, I haven't seen drama like that since the Sundance thread!

I'm not a Pinball kinda guy, but I must admit to having been tempted to create an account there, just to even the user number to an even 45000. :D
 
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