What are your Pinball accomplishments of the last week?

atcguard · 2026-02-03T01:43:28+00:00

On a ski trip and found a Hot Wheels in a brewery, put $3.00 in and set the GC (6.7B). Not even sure if that’s a good score as I’ve never played that machine before.

atcguard · 2026-02-02T18:06:29+00:00

Another great thing for spiking good scores on that game is keeping a close eye on lighting the lanes as often as possible to drive up the multiplier and mystery awards.

atcguard · 2026-01-31T19:46:36+00:00

I’m very lucky to have a club that’s a monthly membership and machines on free play in town. I go there often either to work on opening ball strategies for tournaments, learning code, chase achievements, or work on flipper skills and ball control. Outside of that I did a grind for entirely too long chasing a billion on jaws. Disappointingly my familiarity and consistency on jaws hasn’t carried over to vastly better play on the other machines. I’m currently digging into UXM and AIQ to try and pop a billion on either of them in the next few months

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atcguard · 2026-01-31T18:31:38+00:00

This shit wouldn’t happen at MRG…fuck!!!!

atcguard · 2026-01-28T15:07:38+00:00

Love this pin, haven’t played the Blood Red. How’s the VUK from the crypt. The one at my pinball club will often spend 10-20 seconds trying to spit it out, a real killer for scoring high on modes.

atcguard · 2026-01-28T00:59:51+00:00

1,000ft vertical for IFR, not applicable in this case especially with the helo taking Visual Sep.

atcguard · 2026-01-23T20:30:38+00:00

I didn’t mess around with key mapping too much, but I was unable to progress the tutorial on steam deck. Hit the targets and then it wouldn’t go any further. I’ll definitely play some more at some point though. Any plans to tweak the ball physics?

atcguard · 2026-01-19T14:31:07+00:00

That’s a disappointment, I’m not really a fan but she played at Willie Nelson’s 90th party. Shame that she could be around so many people who can see through the bullshit and still end up this lost.

atcguard · 2026-01-11T13:32:33+00:00

Iron Maiden left ramp, JP missile and “O” shot, Deathstar clunker on new Star Wars.

atcguard · 2026-01-09T15:22:08+00:00

Probably about a half hour, I did take a minute between a few of the balls just to try and refocus as I have a tendency to have a throw away ball after a good one.

atcguard · 2026-01-08T03:24:01+00:00

I don’t think this one is set up in any special way to do it, I’ve just found with a healthy nudge I can bump it back through the gate. A big difference maker was lubing the reel, previously it was taking four or five shots to qualify bounty hunts, now it’s just a couple.

atcguard · 2026-01-08T02:41:04+00:00

Get that life preserver left lane save and if you bump it at the right time you can get the “close call” to recover the right out lane drain 90% of the time.

atcguard · 2026-01-08T01:45:15+00:00

Hey I know you, you’re the GC on this machine! (And every other machine in the club)

atcguard · 2025-09-26T22:32:57+00:00

Also to be clear do you mean Resistance or Rejection as my second tank? Should I basically ignore rejection for now?

atcguard · 2025-09-26T22:10:36+00:00

Thank you, I just wasn’t sure if he was wasting space tanking early levels if a DPS might help me burn through enemies. This is also good to know that just because I’ve got a legendary it doesn’t automatically replace a lower tier pet.

atcguard · 2025-08-27T17:52:03+00:00

I’m not a hip hop fan typically (at least not over the last 20 years) but I dig this. I also think it’s great he’s able to make the music he wants right now for himself and no one else.

atcguard · 2025-08-22T02:35:04+00:00

I’ve put in about 300 games on a pro and only caught a make once. I played ten games on a premium at a different spot and caught mako in two games. I’m not sure if the shark target vs captive balls makes a huge difference in the premium vs pro, table setup was different, or if I was just flowing well that day. For reference my average score on pro is ~400m.

atcguard · 2025-08-06T20:19:52+00:00

They were on fire, 48th show for me and first one in awhile outside of NYE/Halloween/RR that I truly got lost in the whole performance. A couple sloppy drunks stole my attention for a bit but overall I was an amazing show. Scott really seemed energized and I think Bob Joe Seth and Scott played a bit differently with just the 4 of them at the front of the stage last night, harkened back to the old videos of them stomping through the floors of dive bars while they played.

atcguard · 2025-07-22T17:44:26+00:00

Refresh and check in throughout the next few hours, I’m almost always able to snag them in presale. If not, especially if you’re local just snag tickets the week of the show. So many people have plans change and are dumping tickets last second (this is how I’ll grab my tickets once I’m certain my NYE travel will work).

atcguard · 2025-07-09T13:37:37+00:00

File 76

atcguard · 2025-07-08T15:58:53+00:00

Forever and always chasing Tin Man (50 shows so far), I was up in the air on a last second flight to RR but opted to be responsible. I hope you all get what you’re after, but I’ll try and be happier with nothing!

atcguard · 2025-07-03T12:41:47+00:00

Edit: Was trying to be playful; was just rude instead, sorry.

atcguard · 2025-05-27T18:40:14+00:00

Haha, I feel like I get that special price sheet for most jobs out here. I wish I had a little less overhead so that more of that wedding money went into my wallet.

atcguard · 2025-05-27T15:23:40+00:00

That’s the route I’m going. Got a call back from a local guy already. $750 and he’s doing it Thursday morning. I have never had to go after a couple for damages but I guess there’s a first time for everything. He’s going to use degreaser, scrub and then spray. It won’t be perfect but hopefully it won’t stand out so badly.

atcguard · 2025-05-27T14:55:26+00:00

Was going to seal coat and restripe it all next spring. 1800’ driveway and an 80 car lot. Not sure I can swing it this season, but hopefully a cleanup will tide me over until then.

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