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Over the next few weeks we will be posting a Pintastic NE 2023 post a day in the style that we have covered CPAC in the past.
Today’s video is from day one. The EMP team setting up on day one
Their site is here
Pintastic NE 2023 The story so far:
1st Romana: Look, we haven’t got time for you to practice anything. We’ve got to find the fourth segment.
Doctor Who The Androids of Tara Episode 1 1978
4th Doctor: You find it. I’m taking the day off.
1st Romana: The day off?
4th Doctor: Yes. After a journey of four hundred years and twelve parsecs, I’m allowed a rest of fifty years.
1st Romana: Where does it say that?
4th Doctor: Section ninety three, paragraph two, laws governing Time Lords. You look it up
Well as you all know by now I’m at Pintastic NE 2023 at their new location at the Best Western Hotel in Marlborough Ma and as you might have guessed I have shot a bit of video today and yesterday like this:
And This:
So far I find I like this location better than the other one not only because of the close proximity of Linguini’s Italian eatery my favorite restaurant but because of new formats that will be made plain in other videos.
The biggest drawback however is the net which is considerably slower than our previous location which slows down uploads a bit and Rumble’s upload style which I’m still not used to.
But beyond all of that I find that I’m about as relaxed as I’ve been in many many months. For reasons I won’t go into things have been very tense for me and the complete lack of tension for me here was been a delight and a half.
And that why, dear readers I have decided I’m taking the next two days off. The nets too slow for the uploads and I don’t want to deal with the left, the Biden admin, the culture wars or anything else, This weekend belongs to my pinball with a good chunk of Rosaries and prayers in between because there are some things that trump even pinball.
Rest assured I’ll shoot and post some nice video but for now I’m going to spend the rest of today and tomorrow with my son and a bunch of pinball machines.
I might sneak in a post when my wrists need a rest (I have a particular way of playing that puts some strain on them) but after nearly 15 years of regular blogging it time for a day or two off.
The worries and the outrages of the world will still be there on Monday & Tuesday.
I have spent the last week reposting videos from previous Pintastic visits to not only highlight the Rumble account that I am now using instead of Youtube but to illustrate why you should consider Pinball in general as a hobby and Pintastic NE in particular as your introduction to it.
The modern pinball machine is an incredible marriage of mechanical, electrical, programing and artistic skill both in image and in plot as there is usually a story or path to take, in order to create a game experience and you can see the evolution of that marriage in the from the time the first computer boards entered machines to today. It’s a thing to be admired.
Even the old purely mechanical machines without the programing driven by physics and gravity and the mechanical limits of the day are wonders to behold.
And what do those highly skilled people produce with their time and effort? A hobby and a gaming system whose gameplay is the perfect combination of skill and luck and depending on the game and design will have features that enhance the gameplay in terms of an actual quest or goal to complete.
And while I can’t speak for anyone else, I find that if I’ve had a particularly bad day a pinball machine is a perfect place to vent the day’s frustrations.
Furthermore as almost every game has the capacity for four players at a time it becomes a social event, something to do together, with family and friends and even acquaintances ,anyone interested in a game.
It’s not a thing of the left, or a thing of the right. I don’t care what your political, religious or gender beliefs are, because once your hands are at those flipper buttons we are all the same, a pinball player trying to keep the ball alive as we aim at our targets.
It’s something to be enjoyed by anyone of any age or mindset for what it is: A good clean hobby that celebrates all those skills that I mentioned, it unites rather than divides.
So if you think there are 8473 genders or if like me you say there are two, if you love or hate Trump or Biden or DeSantis or RFK, if you think open borders are wonderful or a disaster, if you think God isn’t real or if you’ll be attending mass nearby, in fact even if you’re a Yankees fan I say you should come and join me in Marlborough MA because I submit and suggest you will not find a better use of your recreational time for you and/or your family this weekend then a visit to Pintastic NE 2023.
Come on down, you’ll have fun.
Back in the days before Youtube decided to ban me for daring to question the 2022 election the most popular Pintastic NE videos I had were all the various interviews with Todd Tuckey.
If you go to my rumble account and do a search for Todd Tuckey you will find interview after interview with Todd Tuckey at each Pintastic NE and once at his shop while I was passing through so there is a lot to choose from so for our final day before we visit Pintastic in its new location I have picked last year’s interview with Todd to showcase here.
His youtube chanel is legendary in pinball circles. His latest talks about his upcoming visit to Pintastic tomorrow. Here it is:
One of the sad things about my ban from youtube is that I couldn’t leave a comment to say that I’m looking forward to seeing him this week.
Back before I was banned the single most popular Pintastic NE video I had was this interview with pinball designer extraordinaire Steve Ritchie
In terms of Pinball Royalty you don’t get much higher than this pair.
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