The TWIPYs Are Back - Colin Alsheimer – Kineticist and TWIP - Episode 48

“We're bringing back the Twippies. Technically, I guess we're kind of calling them the pinball community awards where people can win a Twippy award, sort of a similar setup as the Academy Awards to the Oscars, which is a change that we're making to sort of bring the concept of the show more in line with what I think that it's always been, which is kind of a show about and for the pinball community that's organized by the pinball community.”

“This is the first time most of us have done anything like this. OK, so bear with us. We're going to make a few mistakes. We're going to learn and we're going to grow from it right our biggest goal is to lay the foundation for the pinball community awards you know that nods a legacy of the twippies right so and we're going to build something new that we can improve upon year in year out.”

“I think there's a lot of potentially deserving people who are doing a lot of cool work in the community that really deserve it. That deserve to be recognized, Colin. I think that's great.”

“Trying to make it more wormhole which is i don't know just chill hanging out have a good time and make it as fun as possible which is like get feel help everyone out there experience what the wormhole experience is like uh and i think that's going to be key and it's going to be fun to have all of these people i think in that environment play some crazy old games”

“I call the Houston Arcade Expo like the best senior class party of all time is how it kind of feels. And I think that that's, like, if this is anything like that, like, we're all in, it's like going to be the same people, right?”

“the success of the Twippies is, yeah, it's all up to you, man. And this is the future of pinball we're talking about. I mean, This is the premier award show of pinball and has been. So yeah, pressure's on friend.”

“I'm freaking out. Definite major anxiety attack. I called Ian today, said, what the hell am I doing, and he talked me off the ledge.”

“Yeah, I think that idea that you even worried about it means that you the right person for it Because it means that you care about it and you want it to go well you know And so like that a good sign to be nervous about it It means you taking it seriously.”