I did. As a result, I just had a fun and prolific pinball session. Could I attribute it to scarcity? Maybe it’s better to say appreciation?
I started out with two dollars.
My normal budget is six.
Do you see where this is going?
I’ve never won so many free games or consecutively scored high enough to win free games, then ever before.
My plan was working. Very interesting experiment. I cut my budget from six dollars to two dollars and suddenly I do better and appreciate Strive to maximize each and every ball.
This is healthy stuff. Like any sport, or art, or anything in my humble opinion. Just because you don’t have paint or music doesn’t mean you’re not being creative. Even tyrants are creative, right? Ever seen an exhibit featuring tortured devices of the Spanish inquisition? The medium for creativity has no bounds when people are motivated.
Fortunately, my pinball sessions are far from sadistic. Lol, I truly look forward to these pinball sessions. So much, I maintain a budget and avoid overdoing it.
Anyway, the point of this story is to feature a disciplinary tactic, where we suddenly force ourselves to cope with the bare, minimal wow accomplishing a desirable output.
Ball Stuck, WTF?
Never seen a ball get stuck there before. Sometimes when you bat the ball with the flipper, it becomes airborne. I’m pretty sure that’s what happened.
Fortunately, for the pinball machine I was able to dislodge the ball. The tilt function is not sensitive. All is well.
Also got stuck in a different spot on a different game during a previous session. The ball is supposed to go in the hole.
A Metaphysical Moment?
Maybe, there’s a mystical element to this. Let me explain: these pinball machines are made by Sterns. we all love them and we’re grateful for the way they’ve revived the pinball world. People love their machines and they’ve acquired many popular franchises. The games are high-quality and more generous than games of the past. Games of the past we’re probably healthy for humanity, on some kind of Macro level, yet they were bad for sustainability within a world moving to home computers, NES, Sega, 80s arcade, generation, etc. etc.
All of their games have a feature at the end that’s like a lottery. This lottery appears at the end of every game. Third ball drains, it shows you a high score, and then a random number generator appears.
If the last two numbers of your score, match with the number that is randomly generated, you win a free game.
Here’s the metaphysical/mystical/spaghetti monster part: I won more of these lotteries than I ever have before.
Isn’t that funny? Out of all the times to win those random number generated lottery thingies, it’s on the same day I choose to only spend two dollars.
🤷♂️ Pinball magic i guess.
This is not financial advice.
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