#mildlyinteresting

https://www.usluck.com/859008/took-a-picture-during-a-storm-in-the-exact-moment-of-a-thunderbolt-oc/ Took a picture during a storm in the exact moment of a thunderbolt (OC) #Interesting #MildlyInteresting

Stern recently released an update to all of their Internet connected games and for a lot of them they didn't seem to do much when it comes to game specific stuff, but I made a note they had done a major OS update. The operator menus in Stern Spike 2 platform use an emulated version of a dot matrix display, most likely because no one bothered to rewrite the whole diagnostics part and it was easier to just add the DMD emulation. This Portals GUI has existed since mid-90s Sega games and has been around on Data-East/Sega Version 3, Sega/Stern WhiteStar, Stern SAM, Stern Spike and Stern Spike 2 platforms. With Spike 3 it was finally replaced with all-high resolution graphics version and for a while it looked like that was going to be exclusive for the Spike 3. But after this major update a bunch of late release Spike 2 games (from Godzilla onwards) seem to sport the Spike 3 GUI. It has some cool quality of life improvements, such as full playfield diagrams for diagnostics and lot of other stuff. Let's have a look how it looks! #pinball #arcade #repair #diagnostics #mildlyinteresting

https://www.usluck.com/855620/a-small-cloud-casting-a-big-shadow-over-the-sky/ A small cloud casting a big shadow over the sky #Interesting #MildlyInteresting

Spotted at Costco Dartmouth Xing 😋 #mildlyinteresting https://www.facebook.com/637825995056743/posts/1491730509666283?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #halifax #novascotia #nswildfire

Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield. It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position. #pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting