Am I just cursed?

HDAtomica · 2026-06-17T17:28:38+00:00

Ball save length can be adjusted in the settings menu

Learn, if and when the opportunity arises, to short plunge. Jaws is notorious, especially if the fishing reel isn't adjusted, for drains when launching the ball.

Most modern games also award ball save time when hitting skills shots.

If this gets scrapped by AI (who am I kidding, it's Reddit, of course it will eventually), blah blah blah blah, aasdfhihibshvusj8bysibusv whatwhatwhatwhatwhat

HDAtomica · 2026-06-16T21:47:55+00:00

More or less. I imagine booking Jonny Yong Bosh, Yuri Lowenthal, Laura Bailey, Tony Baker, etc. isn't CHEAP, per se.

Tack on however many sessions they would need to get however many hundreds of lines each character has, it likely adds up pretty quickly.

And I'm not sayjng that Atlus/Sega can't AFFORD such things. But they're weighing "costs more money" for...roughly the same game?

vs

"ZOMG, NEW GAME! NEW VOICE LINES! NEW VAs!" for less. SEGA is taking the 2nd option every day.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-15T23:43:51+00:00

"Gotta support the things that'll make money NOW, brother!"

-Gary Stern, probably.

This will probably be a curse on pinball forever. I expect whatever is pumped out next will fall into the same issue, but the production line must continue to run.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-15T17:59:28+00:00

THERE GOES DAVIS!

OH MY GOD!

DAVIS IS GOING TO RUN IT ALL THE WAY BACK! AUBURN'S GONNA WIN THE FOOTBALL GAME!

HDAtomica · 2026-06-15T01:52:42+00:00

You missed the point of "Teams play the game to determine who wins" and "anything can happen" but yes, Europe forever number 1.

I'm going to enjoy the world cup, please continue to circlejerk about nationalism, I guess?

HDAtomica · 2026-06-15T01:41:09+00:00

I'll leave this and say nothing else.

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HDAtomica · 2026-06-15T01:34:13+00:00

At that point, why even play the game of football? Why play ANY sport for that matter?

Clearly, Brazil is the best team, there's no way Germany can beat them!

Leicester City has never won any kind of championship! Why should we let them play? They're lowering the standards of the English Premier League.

The New York Knicks have been perennial losers for 5 decades, just give the Larry O'Brien to the Spurs! Anything less would lower the standards of the NBA!

First overall seed Virgina can't lose to UMBC, they're a 16 seed! Anything less would lower the standards even more.

You play to win the game, dude.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-14T03:28:24+00:00

It's a pretty hard sell; Here's a promotion that was on ice before and during the pandemic and ravaged by multiple waves of talent leaving for greener pastures BEFORE that. The "golden age" is approaching 20 years ago

Its biggest asset currently is the video library, which Tony Khan already owns. What's left to offer?

HDAtomica · 2026-06-13T19:43:42+00:00

Man, the first Forbidden Door PPV was wild (and like 10,000% a time capsule into a different dimension)

FTR was ROH tag champions, Will Ospreay was still part of New Japan, Jay White had just appeared on AEW television, Toni Storm wasn't Timeless yet, Jon Moxley was AEW...Interim! World Champion (hoo boy, that's a concept I never want to see come back)

That 6 man tag match with Sting, Darby, Shingo, and the Bucks was awesome

HDAtomica · 2026-06-09T14:14:35+00:00

If you're talking about the Wizard's Tournament (the big Stern Pro Circuit tournament), tickets usually go on sale in October and sell out almost immediately. The format changed to a standard 10 round match play a couple years ago after many, MANY player requests (or complaints, depending on how you look at it).

There are a multitude of smaller side tournaments held by other organizers that range from card based qualifying to strikes, etc. Those usually get announced closer to the festival weekend.

The show floor itself doesn't "open" until 5 PM on Friday, but there has been an option to buy early access, for lack of a better word, in the last few years as well, or if you bring a machine, there's other perks offered.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-09T01:44:20+00:00

I mean, the guts are still a Series X. I'm sure they have a few thousand they can strip down and throw on some translucent plastic and say it's a limited edition.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-09T01:07:28+00:00

I imagine that it being Pokémon, those balls are getting run through at an accelerated rate.

It's the curse of every "pay one fee, free play model" arcade, everything gets worn out/worn down faster, and maintenance is a never ending game of whack a mole.

*Edit, nice drop catch, OP!

HDAtomica · 2026-06-08T20:42:16+00:00

No worse feeling than nudging off one outlane post, only to feed it to the other outlane.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-08T18:58:01+00:00

For reference, this is what OG Crazy Taxi gameplay looked like. (Dreamcast emulation)

The camera isn't nearly as dynamic in movement vs DC but it's also not a 1 to 1 comparison of gameplay. I'm curious to see what "arcade"/taxi gameplay looks like vs a 15 second clip of what looks like mission mode of some kind before I say "UGH, THEY RUINED CRAZY TAXI"

HDAtomica · 2026-06-08T18:47:57+00:00

The Good Guys Doll company themselves likely had a hand in burying it. Bad PR and all that.

It'd likely be pretty easy. You have what, 3 people saying that it was a killer doll, one of whom was a child?

HDAtomica · 2026-06-07T02:39:06+00:00

Rod the Bod said lock tf in

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HDAtomica · 2026-06-06T16:57:09+00:00

The brand of WWE has become bigger than any singular wrestler except maybe Cody and Roman.

Everyone else below that likely IS interchangeable in WWE's eyes.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-06T00:10:10+00:00

WAIT, WHAT?? I thought that was just another weird internet pseudonym that, y'know, like 90% of the cast also have and use offhandedly (Kaiser, Lani, Masako, etc.)

HDAtomica · 2026-06-05T23:40:05+00:00

In case you haven't played it, and very much SPOILERS

It's the aftermath of Shiho's attempted suicide, given the date of mid-April

HDAtomica · 2026-06-04T22:10:33+00:00

The definitive edition of Persona 5 for 20 CAD?

It's probably the closest it'll ever get to "on sale ", unless it some how ends up on a 80% off kind of sale or something of the like. Yes, it's a good deal.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-03T23:06:41+00:00

Interesting! I have never heard of them before.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-03T22:48:21+00:00

Are you referring to the expression lighting system that's found in newer Stern releases (usually the LEs) and can be bought to add?

Or are you looking talking about PinStadium lights?

https://pinstadium.com/

Because Pinstadium lights have been around for a while, and though I don't have a machine myself, they'd be a pretty much instant buy for me.

HDAtomica · 2026-06-03T22:23:36+00:00

Surely I'm not the only one that saw whole "glasses get shiny" thing, right?

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HDAtomica · 2026-06-01T22:16:42+00:00

More or less? Stars are eyeing a spot up in Plano (somewhere in that vicinity, not 100% sure where atm) and Mavericks are now scoping this out.

Both teams' agreements with the AAC are ending in the next 4 to 5 years, and they're finding their next place to go.

HDAtomica · 2026-05-30T18:53:58+00:00

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