#pinball arcade

[theworldofjo]

Reference image I took for one of my next paintings :>

If i ever finish the painting I’m doing for auction, I’ll start this one.

it’s taking me forever to get the colors opaque on my auction piece

[deadlyduarte]

⋆｡°✩ pinball this past weekend ⋆｡°✩

[strangercoco]

I'm not even joking, it feels like I'm living in a mini-Hawkins (and Lenora, CA) since so many things are popping up that remind me of those iconic areas in Stranger Things!

We have this pinball arcade (with a D&D Pinball machine and Dig-Dug in one of the retro multi arcade games) along with a 'Scoops' Ice Cream truck, a roller disco rink (literally called Four Wheelies LOL) we have a really 80s style mall (a few actually) that are always super busy and the houses around me are very Wheeler's 70's style (even my house) It's so freakin' weird but awesome. Not to mention my mom dressed SO much like Karen Wheeler in the 80s, kinda cracks me up. I guess that makes me Holly Wheeler since I'm the youngest of 3 kids.

This is me coping with the fact that I never went to those "Stranger Things Experience" events, but it's totally OK because I'm literally living it in real life minus the supernatural craziness. It's really so nice that all these retro places are popping back up again. I grew up in the mid-late 80s and it still feels like a blast from the past! (Yes, I'm as old as the Duffers leave me alone LOL)

Does anyone else have anything they live around that give them ST vibes? I would love to hear about it if you reblog this!

[stone-cold-groove]

All I want for Christmas is...

[6ix6ix5ive]

[ourladyofomega]

[blazehedgehog]

Considering your financial situation, wouldnt it be justified to just pirate the big releases especially when they often leak/the fact that you wait some time anyways before making a video?

Ofcourse I understand supporting indies and other smaller games, but I think sonic games will survive one less sale tbh

Working for TSSZ kind of broke me of my habit of pirating most games. I didn't need to pirate games anymore. Tristan was a consummate professional about that kind of stuff. If I wanted to write about a game and did not own it, I'd put in a request and it'd get bought for me, or I'd even buy it for myself and expense it to get that money back.

Here's the deal about pirating big new games: my computer is from 2015. My faith in capturing video from PC games, especially brand new PC games, is not very strong. Even if it's something like Sonic Superstars, a game that seems to be targeting lower spec systems than most.

That is why you see me holding a PS4 copy of Superstars and not just buying it on Steam. On PS4, I'll get consistent performance and consistent video capture.

It's also just a different world out there. The last time I was into pirating PC games, torrenting was a lot safer and a lot easier to do. I've got accounts at a couple of private, invite-only trackers, and both of them straight up say "Hey if you're torrenting files, either from us or anywhere else, you should be using a VPN bare minimum."

And I don't. Nor do I want to use a VPN. It's a lot of hoops to jump through just to get a game, what, a few days early?

And then there's the other headache: I mentioned having accounts at a few private trackers, and those places will crack the whip on you pretty hard if you don't seed. To give you a peek behind the curtain a little bit, during the Sonic Frontiers review, for the pinball segment, I was debating on how to get footage of "real" pinball. Do I borrow somebody else's video?

Then it dawned on me: No, Farsight Studios made a bunch of really great pinball conversions via Pinball Arcade. One problem, though: another developer named Zen bought out the rights to most of their library and as a result Pinball Arcade lost like 70% of its tables. So, I figured I'd have to pirate them. It was also a good excuse to get the PC version of Addams Family Pinball, which I bought and paid for on my phone years ago.

So I grabbed a torrent from one of these private trackers. All seven seasons from before the Zen Pinball buyout. 8, almost 9gb. Something like 100 pinball tables total. I was literally in the process of scanning the rar files for viruses when I realized: wait, I'm an idiot, I bought Pinball Arcade Season 7 on the PS4. There was a pricing error when it launched and they were selling the whole season for like $6, when normally a season would be closer to $30.

So I fired up the PS4, captured my video from that, and that's what is in the final product: me playing Pinball Arcade Season 7 on console.

So now I have this torrent of all of Pinball Arcade on my PC and I'm not sure I want to risk installing it. It seems clean, but there's always that worry. I have bricked a PC once from playing illicit software.

And clearing that torrent with the private tracker? They had me seed that thing every day for two months before they took me off the "Hit & Run" list (meaning my account was potentially up for deletion). All the while they're saying "Hey, protect yourself, use a VPN when you torrent from us."

All of that is just one big bundle of nerves and stress and work that is solved by just waiting for it to officially release and buying it normally. It is the ultimate in convenience.

[tennessee-pinball]

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