There's an artform to pinball. It involves more than just dropping coins and pressing the bumper buttons. You've got to know how to handle the tilt. You've got to understand how to lag shots and cradle and fight the side sewers. You've got to be able to hit consistent jackpots, roll the ramps, repeat the loops, knock down pressure shots and generate multi-balls on demand. You need intensity, focus. Pure being. You got to feel slices. These things are self-evident to anyone who has played enough. But for the uninitiated, pinball can seem like an archaic, almost luddite-esque experience. No nuance, garish, loud, heavy. Not at all like an i-pod.While I can't deny that these things are true, I will say that pinball has more soul and more jazz than playstation or xbox ever will. I've been p-balling for about two years now. I mostly play at one place; which isn't so bad because they change the table often enough. NASCAR is the game of the moment. I like it. It's very kinetic, very fast. And you can really bounce the thing around without danger or tilts. I play hard on the table. I like to kick the legs and bang it forward. I'm not a table breaker or anything. I know what it is to lose a bonus on a tilt. It sucks. But I'm willing to take the chance to save a ball, you know?
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all I did in high school was play pinball and get stoned. in those days there was no x-box. and if you wanted to steal music you had to like slip a giant LP into your jacket. it was nerve-wracking. you kids these days got it easy.
i have always admired the snatch-and-grab artist.
keep stealing music
fuck the "big 3"
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