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

Wed Jan 26 19:47:00 EST 2022

Good luck finding an engraving machine and piece of bronze that large for
my 1st place division C three-peat trophy.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 19:44 Matt Wycoff via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> 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:
>
>> Michaeljacksonpopcorn.gif
>>
>>
>> Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS
>> <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661>
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>>
>> On Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 6:57 PM, Dave Hubbard via FSPA <
>> fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
>>
>> This thread is more gold than an Addams Family ROM
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 1:23 AM Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> FREE BEER
>> tomorrow
>>
>> '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:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 
>> 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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