[FSPA] New RUSH pin @ Lost Rhino Brewery in Ashburn

Wed Jan 26 19:42:47 EST 2022

The ocelot league trophy will include a plaque with this email conversation
inscribed on it.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 7:37 PM denirostyl--- via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

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> On Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 6:57 PM, Dave Hubbard via FSPA <
> fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
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> This thread is more gold than an Addams Family ROM
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> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 1:23 AM Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
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> No Steve, it was not like that at all, it was in plain and simple English,
> and there were no LARGE and tiny fonts implied or inferred (because I
> know you did not mean literally) with your analogy about font sizes.
> Additionally, the accurate & simple info was not buried in some page-long
> email, otherwise then I would understand.  Suggest not over-analyzing
> things and/or reading things into very simple, accurate, well-intended
> statements.  If you wanted to be sure you could play then I would recommend
> you come when the note said it would be ready by, and NOT just any time
> before that day and time, which is what you were hoping for.  If the
> credible shipping information I got earlier tonight is wrong and it doesn't
> get set up by 7:30 PM on Wed like I said it would, then I will do the
> proper thing and modify the note so as to minimize the inconvenience, and
> apologize for it not being ready on time.  But I am NOT going to apologize
> for buying a game for the league to play on and sending an FSPA email
> giving players a "heads-up" that it is scheduled to be there for Week Zero
> so they can plan ahead.
>
> As far as addressing your further complaint about "not the first time
> this story played out there" is concerned, that is a baseless or
> out-of-context claim as far as announcements coming from me.  First off, a
> person not reading the note properly is not a (second) "time" or "story"
> happening again.  Secondly, I always tell the truth on new games I intend
> to purchase for league play and try and get them ready ASAP.  But I can't
> be responsible for rumors, typically passed on by good-intentioned players,
> as everyone knows people pass on only partial information.  And perhaps
> you might be referring to one time when Jurassic Park was announced it was
> coming to LR (and it DID come) but Stern had playfield issues that I found
> out about through my connections in the industry, so I delayed mine and my
> customer's orders to protect them.  No one wants to get stuck with a JP
> with playfield issues.  "Stuff" happens ...no one could predict that and
> that should not dictate a limitation on announcements.
>
> Instead of negativity, maybe you could keep things in perspective as there
> were PLENTY of new or cool pins I said I was purchasing for league play
> that came true.  Umm, let's see ...new Attack From Mars Remake, new Monster
> Bash Special Edition Remake, new Star Wars, Fun House, Road Show, Adams
> Family, new Jurassic Park, etc.  Now, did at some point during league play
> when I'm asked when a new pin destined for LR is coming out, and I tell
> them my best educated estimate, and they take and spread that as "fact"?
> Yes, I'm sure that happens.  I may have confided to a friend or player at
> league "I would like to get a xxxxx (particular game)", and they translated
> that to someone else as "we are probably getting a particular game", and
> that person told someone else, and in no time it became "we are definitely
> getting a xxxxx particular game, AND getting it this weekend".  Yes, I'm
> sure that happens/happened, but that is the human condition, Steve, so
> please don't take things out on me and send an email blast when all I was
> doing is giving FSPA'ers who share my pin excitement a heads-up for a hot
> new pin for Week Zero.  If you have any further comments, please take it
> off-line, as you have my personal email address.
>
>   Thank you -Roland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve <flynnibus at yahoo.com>
> To: fspa at fspazone.org <fspa at fspazone.org>; Roland Joyal <joyalrj at aol.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2022 10:28 pm
> Subject: Re: [FSPA] New RUSH pin @ Lost Rhino Brewery in Ashburn
>
> It was more like...
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> FREE BEER
> tomorrow
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> 'Setup in time' means anytime BEFORE that deadline.  But whatever.  Not
> the first time this kind of story played out there...  Suggestion.. limit
> the 'new game here' posts to when you actually are ready to take coin.
>
> On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 08:27:53 PM EST, Roland Joyal <
> joyalrj at aol.com> wrote:
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> The note did not say it was available to play today.  It said it is scheduled
> to arrive today. Furthermore, it went on to say "will be set up in time
> for FSPA League Week Zero tomorrow, Wed 7:30 - 9:30 PM".  So "thumbs
> down" to your email and whoever your school reading teachers were, lol.
>
> And I just got notified tonight it did not arrive in time this morning to
> make the truck like the tracking information said it already had, adding
> that someone should have contacted me to tell me that, instead of leaving
> the incorrect information on the tracking site that it was out for local
> delivery. They said it came right after the local truck left, so it is now
> scheduled to arrive by noon, tomorrow (Wed), and IF it does arrive, it will
> still be available to play exactly when I stated in my note.   -Roland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Kapinos <flynnibus at yahoo.com>
> To: Roland Joyal <joyalrj at aol.com>; FSPA main discussion list <
> fspa at fspazone.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2022 7:43 pm
> Subject: Re: [FSPA] New RUSH pin @ Lost Rhino Brewery in Ashburn
>
> Maybe arriving- but not available *thumbs down*
>
> Went over there and no Rush.
>
> -Steve
>
> On Jan 25, 2022, at 3:15 PM, Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
>
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> RUSH is scheduled to arrive today at Lost Rhino Brewery in Ashburn and
> will be set up in time for FSPA League Week Zero tomorrow, Wed 7:30 - 9:30
> PM, so come on out and get your RUSH and PINBALL on!   Please note this
> is an additional game, as no game leaves when it arrives.  -Roland
> (Silverball Sanctum)
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