who are they anyway?

[ROM]

Only soft feelings.

[replay]

You guys need to get a room

[bounceback]

wait does that mean rom and his girl and HG and his girl? or just ROM and HG? i need to know how many video cameras to setup to get the angles i want for the fundraiser porn...

anyway, who is COW?

[HornedGramma]

Just one. Close up, with a wide-angle lens.

[deathsave]

put COW on the board and a lot of wms games will moo at you. i doubt it's any one person using those initials every time they get a high score.

[HornedGramma]

I love all the hidden cows in the Williams games.

Some dude playing Shadow next to me at Vincente's the other night dropped all three balls on the Khan multiball before hitting a single shot, and the playfield went dark and there was an animation of a bunch of cows stampeding.

[Dropshot]

There is also a duck multiball in Shadow, it's all about shooting them at the right time

[bounceback]

i know about the cow-nimations and so on, but then why would duder put up cow on stern games? i thought maybe there was a new shredder in town. i'm trying to remember where i've seen it besides ground kontrol.

[ROM]

He recently took down my GC on the Ripleys at Backspace (which, granted is right around the corner from GK). Beat my score by less than two million!

[ROM]

Or she.

[GRZ]

I know that COW is one person. Ask not for whom the COW moos, it moos for thee.

[bounceback]

as i thought-- see, that's good. cows are black and white, so are we. look forward to taking those scores back down, but cow has a nice shape to it. much better than FUK or GOD.

[DannyBackglass]

My old initials were the most punk rock. If you put them in old Williams games it plays the intro to "The Boys are Back in Town" any you get a bonus Thin Lizzy Multi-Ball. Its incredible. CFF is punk as fuk tho. COW. You are good. But I'm keeping my eye on ya.

[Dropshot]

As all of us now know, maybe some don't but COW is James, he frequents the weeklies a lot. Also MWF is Matt, he has been coming recently too.

[deathsave]

any idea who TED is?

[ROM]

Probably some dude named Ted...

Where were you seeing his scores?

[Opto]

I think TED is Ted Estes - did software on Williams games. Twilight zone, Red and Ted's roadshow and probably others. You'll find that most of TED's scores are very even numbers - I think he's got 750,000,000 on TZ - eric could confirm.

[FHF]

Wow, I just read this really stupid review of Ground Kontrol..... Fucking elitists!!

"Had a couple of bad experiences there. I have driven there more than once to find out that it's rented out for the evening, which is something they don't make mention of on they're website event calender. Kind of dissapointing to be turned away at the door more than once. But I returned often only to be confronted recently by an employee saying he caught me on camera pushing a machine...Which I wrongfully did, and I did not argue. But the employee kept coming twords me and yelling like he was trying to start a fight. Saying he would throw me out, and he caught me on camera. I put my ipod back on to de-fuse the situation, and he walked away. I have done business with that employee several times, and even tipped him generously. I went there long enough to where they stopped ID'ing me, so I know they recognized me. I have often seen people, including owners brutalizing those machines, and never seen anyone confronted. So I'm not sure what happened there. I've noticed like any other business as it gaines popularity especially in Portland, that the crowd, and the employees become somewhat eliteist. That's exactly what's happening there now...There is almost a dress code that you have to wear a tiny round military cap, and drink those tiny Jamaican beers. So I go during the weekdays when it's dead. But this last episode has me shaking my head. There is a bit of a casino vibe in that if you play a pinball machine, and are successful, you might come back a few days later to find that same machine feels totally different, the level on the side reads much more incline, and there are NOTCHES TAKEN OUT OF THE RUBBER FLIPPER boints to lose another quarter of an inch in the center drain....However if your a pinball guy like me you don't have many choices in town, and this place offers a ton of them."

[ROM]

Notches on the end of the flippers?

I'm guessing this is more likely an instance of a paranoid person noticing rubber degradation.

[revtest]

"don't have many choices in town" ??????....What town are you in? it sure ain't this one! where did you see this Fred!