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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #45 on: September 17, 2010, 05:41:10 am »
Quote from: *****_god on September 17, 2010, 12:23:31 am
I'm very glad you all are craps players.

Pinball?  The Who's Tommy.

I played that at the expo kickoff party a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #46 on: September 17, 2010, 01:57:54 pm »
Quote from: Choop on September 17, 2010, 02:57:25 am
which car museum? i saw the collection at the old imperial palace years back, heck of a lot of heck of awesome cars from deusenberg to shelby and zonda-- but construction made a ridiculous path through the hotel and garage to get there.

That was probably it. It looked like one big floor of a parking garage right in the middle of some old beater hotel there. They had a bunch of shit like Hitler's staff car and all that, but also a bunch of Doozies like you mentioned. Those are awesome.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #47 on: September 17, 2010, 05:45:04 pm »
My favorite growing up was King Kool.  I keep hoping that it will show up at the expo.  I wonder if they have that one at the Hall of Fame in Vegas.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #48 on: September 17, 2010, 07:19:19 pm »
If only I had the bread to travel like that, I would highly advocate a TOUAMB meet-up thing in Vegas centred around the Pinball Hall of Fame.

When I was there, it was right across the street from the Liberace museum, too. Though I think the Liberace Museum might move often.

Everybody get a room in some cheap-but-safe almost-out-of-town place and gawk at the local addicts instead of the idiot tourists, only going into Actual Vegas to hit Circus Circus and fight rats with a rake. Document the ghost towns that used to be the residential areas.

But mostly play fuck*ng pinball. Days of fuck*ng pinball.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #49 on: September 17, 2010, 08:14:48 pm »
I'm down with that plan.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #50 on: September 17, 2010, 10:02:20 pm »
It seems I must organize a trip to this... how you say, pinball museum, if work takes my company back to Las Vegas.

Also for some reason I prefer slot machines to table games, even though I know the math on them.  They are shiny!  Fortunately I am also cheap, so I haven't ever lost more than I budgeted for entertainment.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #51 on: September 17, 2010, 10:13:06 pm »
They got everything from the weirdest old shit to the weirdest new shit.

Hybrid games with, like, a vertical secondary game up top. Half-video game half-pinball shit.

Shit with twenty flippers. Popeye's face goin' all nuts.

A+++, Must Go Again, Great Shipping.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #52 on: September 17, 2010, 11:05:36 pm »
also they got O.G. machines including one that's craps in disguise "no officer see we're playing pinball" and a couple mechanical shooter games. pinball baseball is odd and oddly entertaining.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #53 on: September 18, 2010, 05:36:46 pm »
Any of you get to Portland, I'll take you Ground Kontrol. It's where I went to my first MetaFilter meetup and met all the folks. They're nice. (I'm pretty sure I've linked to it before.)
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #54 on: September 18, 2010, 06:22:35 pm »
That place is so dope. Drinking beers and playing pinball.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #55 on: September 18, 2010, 06:24:41 pm »
Since there was a ref to it, the Liberace museum is closing, I guess.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #56 on: September 19, 2010, 04:59:20 am »
We got the Barcade over here in Brooklyn, they have a slew of retro games, about 30, and a really outstanding selection of microbrews.  It was the hipster mecca of the world for like almost a year.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #57 on: September 19, 2010, 05:32:46 am »
Mana bar opened last year in my town and it's doing pretty well. No arcade machines but flat screens down each wall and a 360, Wii or PS3 attached to each all loaded with cool party games. It's a pretty good time.
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #58 on: September 19, 2010, 08:36:10 pm »
Won £40 at the casino last night, fuck yes do I gamble
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Re: Are you a gambler?
« Reply #59 on: October 17, 2010, 02:56:16 pm »
this book, _How We Decide_ by Jonah Lehrer provides insight into why people gamble, among other things...  the below interview summarizes:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122854276
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