Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:29 pm
Astras in the dead part of the pay cycle, always been a part of the programming.
Fruit Machine Chat board. 1000's of members swapping hints, cheats and experiences of pub fruit machines and quiz machines
http://www.fruitchat.co.uk/
To be honest I can't remember what I originally wrote to merit Paul's response but I don't remember it being anything too sinister. In fact i'm sure it was intended in jest but appreciate it may not have been interpreted that way. You're assertion that because the machine is made by Astra it is likely to be bent rubbed me up the wrong way, (but had a certain irony to it) along with your appeal for an explanation.JG wrote:Right, in true 'Round the Bend' fashion, I'm going to start at the top and work my way down - or was it the other way around?
I was having a quiet night indoors after a fairly mundane day in general. Rob, yes it was Rob, had phoned me with a loss story. Now I always have a joke with Rob about how lucky he gets, but to be fair to the guy he is running mostly freezing cold at the minute. Then he tells me he's £720 deep in a Winwall. Now even to a seasoned lo techer that raised eyebrows. You know, if Kidgloves was reading that whilst having a late night snack, I'll bet he may have choked with some severity, causing his wife to consider using the Heimlich manoeuvre to revive him. All I was doing was sharing that experience (The Winwall) with the board. Now you might say nobody cares. Well I say if nobody cares, could they stop caring somewhere else that isn't a board dedicated to fruit machine chat? Please? Is that too much to ask. If you don't care, then simply log onto http://www.notfruitchat.com and carry on with you piousnessesesses there. Let me go through what I saw at 11:14 which was just my post and at approx 11:33 the next day which is this disjointed ramjamble of postings.
So at the top my post. I was going to edit it for some grammatical and contextual errors to make it smoother to read. However I daren't touch it in case the fingers start wagging. I will hold my hands up and say that as a mod I've done my fair share of deletions and alterations. However since JGgate (exact date unknown) where anything that gets edited is automatically blamed on me, let me say that I am VERY prudent on what I trim down. Case in point, recently someone anonymously had a pop at feeder on the board and feeder bit back and I'm pretty sure the anonymous popper under another alias PM me requesting I delete the thread, but I thought no, I am JG, I have a reputation for muddling and meddling with threads, I will let this mantle fall under the borough of another moderator, so I ignored the request for better or worse.
OK so we move down to Oscar's first reply which appears pleasant enough. It was edited at 8:45am but it's a decent reply, a thoughtful response so good, we're off the mark. Then we come to Titchno's posting. Possibly gobsmacked at the £720 figure or maybe by Oscar's original response which remains a mystery to me. Next up, a perfectly reasonable reply by Paul sharing his experience of the game. Fine. But then Paul posts again this time to say Sorry for replying btw Rich. This leads me to think that Oscar's original post was suggesting people need not reply to me. Possibly that, or even worse an underground smear campaign is in progress to stop people replying to my posts (smiley face - but many a true word said in jest).
Then Ruler's post. Now I conclude there have been big changes overnight whilst I have been asleep. Oscar overly aggressive? but his first reply appears perfectly pleasant. Is ROTW mad? Probably not but then I get the old JG the superediting mod stuff again. Well I've already covered that, I can't turn back time. I can't even edit time or delete time. So I will have to live with my history. BFK then replies with 'have you had a bad night's sleep'? A fair point ROTW does seem a bit crabby today, especially with tha newbie who he compares to a beached whale. The ROTW next post. The way I've been carrying on for the past 6 months? I wasn't aware I was carrying on much, I mean there's hardly much to talk about is there? However some may see this post as annoying and tedious. Again, c'est la vie. Defense de fumer. What can I say? Then feeder's post. Some pesky mod got trigger happy. Maybe. It wasn't me. Anyway as to what got posted, you and me both are in the dark.
Ok so a rather tedious, annoying summary so far yeah? BUT THEN
OSCAR: "To be fair it wasn't JG who edited my post, but I pretty much stand by what I said.
I don't see how him and Rob can go round emptying 4 King Cash all round the country and then inveigh against another product when it plays up. George is stooping really low these days in order to generate discussion, and should just accept that this website is becoming defunct and move on."
POINT ONE: What has me winning on 4 King, (ahem best humour him) errr CASH got to do with Rob losing on a Winwall? They're both made by Astra. SO many bizarre assumptions and logic in your post and attitude in general Oscar. Because I get an emptier on one game I'm not allowed to criticise another game? WTF? Stooping low to generate discussion? Sorry pal, not meaning to be rude or anything but go star bracket ampersand percentage yourself yeah? If £720 for a board isn't worth discussing, what is? If this website is so defunct why are YOU still here? Maybe you're defunct if that's the case. Sure the board is way quieter, so what?
Then 'In essence George thinks a machine is bent if he can't win on it'
Partly true. I'm guilty of that sometimes. A great player once said "If a machine appears to be paying way under %, you are playing it wrong or it is made by Astra and Mystery Plum" OK he didn't say that last bit, but yes I do call the "RIGGED" card too quickly, hands up but in fairness to me I gave OPTIONS as to why Rob paid £720 for a board, so don't be too quick to paint me with the same old brush.
Cheers,
Much love as always,
Also for Kesh, who won't be bothered to read all that, here is a summary of my posting......"BOLLOCKS!"
Ta,
JG
just quoting what was in the original post by oscartrayhop123 wrote:exemplary deadeye , a well constructed thought out critique
ahhh , ok bud fair do's ,,,,,, most of didn't get to see itdeadeye wrote:just quoting what was in the original post by oscar
Maybe people will follow up your post claiming to make a grand a week because... they actually are, not because they want to be seen as 'top boy bullshitter' among their peers. Or maybe they will just laugh at that ridiculous comment and carry on. Dare I say it Lee, but that comment makes you sound er.... bitter. As though you can't accept that there is that sort of money out there.trayhop123 wrote:
but you know what , this post will still probably be followed up by people claiming to make a grand a week on new pub hi-tecs ,,,,,, just to try to remain top boy bullshitter among their peers lol
Oscar wrote:Maybe people will follow up your post claiming to make a grand a week because... they actually are, not because they want to be seen as 'top boy bullshitter' among their peers. Or maybe they will just laugh at that ridiculous comment and carry on. Dare I say it Lee, but that comment makes you sound er.... bitter. As though you can't accept that there is that sort of money out there.
When you say 90% of people are brave enough to admit they are fucked, do you include yourself in that statistic, or have you wrote that just to make yourself feel better about your situation?