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Keep an eye on their facebook and youtube pages, they’re usually simulcast to both platforms. Read more

I mean it’s a pretty pricy sim don’t get me wrong, but it’s pretty dang fun and responsive. And they actually do like daily if not weekly broadcasts. They’re doing a 24 hour VLN @ Nurburgring sometime in the next week or so iirc. Of course there are some obnoxious limitations of the sim (such as only 5 different cars… Read more

There is one reason why I quit sim racing games. They stopped properly modeling damage on the vehicles themselves, so seeing cars crash and pinball off the wall with still-pristine bodies really takes me out of the game. Read more

Asshole Dog. In Kotaku’s manual of style, the canine NPC of Duck Hunt (all versions) is Asshole Dog on first reference and in headlines. “Duck Hunt dog,” “the dog,” “the/that fucking dog” etc. are acceptable on subsequent reference

Honest question. Is there really that big of a difference with characters? I get having a specific character someone would personally be better with. But are they that unbalanced that some characters will always have a leg up? Read more

on this map the street is actually rather far from any objective, so to even be on that side of the map i’d call it a noob mistake. Read more

Mundo likes what he seeses Read more

Thank you for shedding light on this.

Good for him! (and us!) Read more

Hello, Read more

A bit of an aside to the article, but it would be pretty cool if mobas had an unranked match mode that projected that kind of hitbox/zone information for training purposes. Those games have so much obtuse shit you have to absorb that it’s actively intimidating and discouraging to get into them. Rounding off some of… Read more

What, the Switch?
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So: the place where this is held. is this HUGE warehouse in Carnegie, PA (Right outside of Pittsburgh city limits) - there hundreds and hundreds of pinball machines in this warehouse. And they open it up twice a year, once for the PAPA championships - and then one other weekend for a thing called “PinBurgh” - it’s an… Read more

1992 Bally/Williams machine IIRC. Designed by Pat Lawlor, king of the “stop the ball so you can put it exactly where you need to” type game design, like Addams, Twilight Zone, FunHouse, RoadShow, Ripley’s... (rather than the ‘keep the ball swooping around all the ramps and loops as fast as possible’ type). Addams… Read more

Just a simple question for a pinball connoisseur. In my experience, I’d imagine there is a factor of 50% Skill 50% Luck playing pinball, is this correct? The dead center point is unreachable and is completely up to the randomness of the bounces, making it an element of luck. But then again, maybe Im just a noob. Read more

The kid loves it when you call him Big PAPA. Read more

“Why sports fans remain perpetually offended by stories that are not of personal interest to them remains a mystery” Read more

Thank you for covering this. I know pinball isn’t exactly a popular facet of competitive gaming, but I love to tune in to it from time to time. Read more

Pinball fans! What’s you favorite machine? Read more

Saw that movie almost 30 years ago. Let me know when he beats Mario 3 with a power glove. Read more