82: TLDR Figure It Out
What is it like owning Metallica Remastered? Why I think DMD animations are better than LCD screens. D&D has all the ingredients it needs, and a "Figure it Out" for the ladies. That much and more on...
Highlights
- The speaker developed tendonitis pain from playing pinball, particularly left-flipper-heavy games like Metallica and Jaws
- Metallica Premium costs approximately $10,000-12,000 USD and depreciates rapidly when sold used
- Foo Fighters Premium machines are available at approximately $7,000, representing market saturation of similar-tier games
- Walking Dead Remastered is primarily right-flipper-heavy, contrasting with Metallica's left-flipper emphasis
- Jaws is described as an 'equal flipper game' with heavy left-flipper usage on the right orbit ramp
- DMD animations are superior to LCD video assets because custom animations are exclusive to pinball and have higher replay value
- Metallica's LCD screen implementation shows live concert footage that deviates from studio recordings, which the speaker finds objectionable
- Stern's Dungeons and Dragons machine was revealed at CES and the speaker has not yet played it
Notable quotes
“I kept Metallica for one day. Gone. See you later!”
“Pinball's been causing most of this. Or at least a major factor in it. And I had already bought the game. Like, well, that's great. I'm physically damaging myself by playing this hobby.”
“I'm not going to use sunk cost principle in pinball. I refuse to use sunk cost in pinball. I in fact only use opportunity cost in pinball.”
“If I wanted to watch the movie, I'll watch the movie. I definitely don't want to watch the movie with crappy audio and crappy video leaning on a machine and my lower back kind of hurts and my wrist hurts.”
“I think that the custom animations made it what it was. That's why it was so special. Medieval madness, the cool funny animations in Attack from Mars, the Star Trek ones...”
“Metallica, even that, are you googling the song? Alright, I want to hear the old song with the new aged people and once in a while I'll see a little bit of it.”
Entities
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Knapp Arcade· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- CES (Consumer Electronics Show)· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Deadpool· game
- Dungeons and Dragons· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Iron Man· game
- Jaws· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Metallica (Stern Remastered)· game
- Pinball 2000 / Phantom Menace / Revenge from Mars· game
- Walking Dead Remastered· game
- David Van Es· person
- Host (unnamed speaker)· person
- John Papaduke Jr.· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Nicole· person
- Zach· person
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