{"id":297,"date":"2009-04-06T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:38","slug":"unfair-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Unfair gameplay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not having Thing&#8217;s hand attached, the pinball continues to play well (the pinball automatically adjusts itself to play with a broken &#8211; or in my case missing &#8211; hand). So I had a few games last night. However I discovered an interesting phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p>As I was getting to the required 3 Train Wrecks and 13 Bear Kicks to light the Extra Ball, all of a sudden the flippers appeared to weaken making the shots more difficult to achieve. Needless to say, I didn&#8217;t achieve them.<\/p>\n<p>So what was this? Added intelligence preventing me form reaching my goals?<\/p>\n<p>So I opened a thread on RGP and flippermarkt.de (my favourite stop off points for such questions) and it wasn&#8217;t too long before it was clarified to me that if you use the flippers a lot, they tend to warm-up and thereby get weaker.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s another fact I&#8217;m going to have to take into account on my way to becoming a pinball wizard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not having Thing&#8217;s hand attached, the pinball continues to play well (the pinball automatically adjusts itself to play with a broken &#8211; or in my case missing &#8211; hand). So I had a few games last night. However I discovered an interesting phenomenon: As I was getting to the required 3 Train Wrecks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}