Schie, The Shy Girl Witch

The Pinball Primer (which includes 760 pinball strategy guides) is back online.

The footer of each page now links to a page protesting the IFPA's refusal to enforce its inclusion policy, and their victim-blaming and silencing of trans players.

pinballprimer.github.io

It's 2025, welcome to the internet... well not that part, AWS is down... o and not that part, Cloudflare is down... o and not this part, you have to upload your government ID to see this part... but over here... And... Spectrum is down.

Thank you for visiting the internet, that'll be $129.99.

Heartbreaking: bus stop has been vandalized by what seems to be graffiti from a girl on DeviantArt in 2009

We love seeing hot girls in dresses

qtp with you being a hot girl in a dress 🔥💃🏻

Lmao

the only thing better than drawing yuri is living the yuri

I'm still trying to take it easy, but fuck, trying to play the doxx / swatting excuse is so over done.

Safety is important, but using safety as an excuse to silence an entire conversation is cowardice. You victimise an entire people, ignore an entire gender of your player base, and then play the victim when one person poses a perceived threat. Ban THAT person, report the threat and move on with talkn

An MSPaint drawing of Fiddlehead Fern. It's done in some sort of pseudo-pencil style. Fern is being a happy loudmouth toward the audience. The artist has "signed" it.

@sarahmargs.bsky.social fern fanart since i was thinking about her with your reskeet of jessi's
everyone should do Fern fanart

The IFPA has chosen to shut down discussion of the OBX event in their own discord server.

As everyone knows, shutting down discussion of a topic in one singular place will surely get people to stop. /s

a pencil drawing recreating the ending of drakengard's ending E where there is a gigantic woman made of salt towering over a grey tokyo. also banjo and kazooie are there and kazooie is asking if this is the land of the gods.

Banjo-Tooie Ending E

Me too. Here's hoping to something good or even bright happening soon.

I'm ok but I might be a lil scarce this weekend. Stress got to me in a bad way, but wife is taking care of me. PTSD sucks in some major ways.

It is a shame that the legacy of the Sharpes will be muddled by a man who has decided to escape culpability for doing the right thing, and blaming two trans women (the IFPA member on site and the North Carolina IFPA Representative) in the process.

www.ifpapinball.com/ifpa-preside...

newest statement from IFPA president, Josh Sharpe, is cowardly and gutless

but I guess it's just easier to blame the IFPA director who was present at the event - one of the targeted victims of the hate crime - than it is to uphold your organization's own gender inclusion policy

Like idk the guy, but as someone who has been wanting to get into pinball more as a woman player, this shit is a whole box of red flags and then some. You're literally pushing perspective new players away because of your ignorance and sexist/ transphobic bullshit.

Literally the asshole says, 'This was my fault. I should have done this.' And then one sentence later goes, 'but the rep didn't break my arm to do it, so it's their fault.' The response in and of itself should be considered a hate crime at this point. Good leaders know when to stop.

It's frankly perplexing the mental gymnastics that the president of the IFPA just went through to both shove blame on to someone else, under the guise of doing so himself, and then undermining the entirety of the women's board to not do what needed to be and still should be done.

Instead of listening to the community Josh Sharpe instead decided to blame a trans woman, also of whom was a victim from this weekend, for all the problems and absolved himself from any and all responsibility.

It was a pathetic and cowardly display from a spineless leader.

art OC drawing for gatoasti

Business Bunny for @gatoasti.bsky.social

Pfft that made my day.

Wife and I flipped off a cybertruck, and then the small dick idiot did an illegal uturn to pull up beside us. We just kept flipping him off and he got all flustered and did a half-ass L on his forehead before driving off. He was right though, he is a loser. Self-identifying is healthy.

Actually really dug this game. Completing it was a bit of a nightmare, but overall cute game that deals with depression, anxiety and finding your true self.

Here is the statement by the men running the IFPA.

They are glossing over what happened, imposing meaningless sanctions against the venue alone, and setting up an e-mail address. What a crock of shit. www.ifpapinball.com/ifpa-stateme...

I would like to first state that I am glad to see that the IFPA has finally responded to the incident that occurred last weekend at the OBX Fall Flippers Classic. Pinball is for everyone, and Flippers Arcade and Laundromat having a minimum 1-year ban from running events sanctioned from the IFPA shows that there is at least some sense that the organization is trying to stay adherent to it’s own policies. The IFPA did not acknowledge that they were even investigating this event until 5 days and 14 hours later, and that only occurred because I called them out in their Discord – up to that point, nothing had been mentioned in this space about anything that occurred. Yet, two deafening and glaring flaws in the statement made by the “IFPA Organization” still persist, and both the lack thereof of statements and the statements that came out to fill in those blanks show that the IFPA is not living up to it’s expectations for itself, nor it’s perception of being an arbiter of equality/equity to the community. Before I go on, I would like to say that this year would have been my third OBX Fall Flippers. In the two years prior, I have seen trans and queer competitors take at least one top 4 spot (2019 and 2024).

First, nothing in any official IFPA statement mentioned anything about what will happen to the event where this incident occurred in the first place. An official statement from the Women’s Board in response to the “IFPA Organization” statement was made as follows: “The IFPA Women’s Advisory Board unanimously recommended that the IFPA revoke sanctioning for the OBX events, and we vehemently disagree with IFPA Leadership’s decision not to do so. We did not contribute to the announced statement or the new process for incident reporting and we oppose the decision-making process used by IFPA Leadership.” Further statements showed that the IFPA also misrepresented some of the events that were witnessed first hand by Sammie Bacon, a member of the IFPA Women’s Advisory Board. Other than the originally affected party, she was the person most knowledgeable about the events that transpired, and was the person who Becky (the Flippers manager) waved an iPad in their face to justify her hate crimes with bogus bathroom bills. As it has come out, Adam Becker was responsible for this decision as the lead. I may respect you for the work you have done for the community, but I am ashamed to see how you have decided to ignore your Women’s Advisory board in a decision as well as misrepresent them both in including them in your statement when they did not agree to it as well as directly altering first-hand accounts witnessed by a Women’s Board member. Josh Sharpe, Zach Sharpe, Andy Bagwell, Germain Mariolle, Michael Trepp, and Brian Woodard – I am also saddened to hear that you did not step in to ensure that the matter was being treated with the utmost care and concern that a matter of trans and queer exclusion in an Open event should warrant.

As one of the trans people who was eager to play in OBX Fall Flippers event, it also saddens me to see that their own statements mean nothing in practice. “The IFPA only recognizes open division of play to be included in the World Pinball Player Rankings. If certain players are prohibited from playing based on age, gender, skill or personal reasons, those results will not be counted.” By the IFPA’s own admission, this was an act of discrimination. Even further, this was sexual harassment and a hate crime. How can WPPRs be awarded to an event that breaks the IFPA’s own statements? Why are cis and/or hetero players being rewarded because at least 15 phenomenal trans/queer players had to avoid the event because they needed to prioritize their safety? By itself, this is damning – and as a prominent trans pinball player, makes me feel like the IFPA will not have my back at events. If results from this event are posted, I will be suppressing myself from IFPA events as it has been made clear that the IFPA’s statements about “standing in solidarity” with me are just words on a screen and hold no meaning or value. While I understand that part of this involves Kevin Stone, I also believe that his statement and apology are genuine. I would like there to be resources available to Tournament Directors, potentially as part of the IFPA website, that can provide resources to assist in what to do if situations of discrimination or hate show up at your event – as well as fostering a culture where pinball is safe for everyone. No quarter for hate.

No quarter for hate. The International Flipper Pinball Association needs to do better.

Success! Had my appointment for HRT and have finally found a doctor who will see me down here!

wafflesoup - Twitch I mainly play Randomizers, like Timespinner, Free Enterprise and Pokemon [She/Her]

submissions for Frost Fatales open tomorrow so lets see if we can find a set of flags for Timespinner rando I like enough to submit it for the marathon

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Going live with pinball from late 1983!

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Silver Ball Century ep. 41 - Late 1983 - Sequelitis In late 1983, pinball is still crashing, and the safest thing to release is a sequel.

remember, Silver Ball Century is once again on Tuesday this week, starting at 8:30 PM. That's today-ish!

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