LynnInDenver
lynnindenver.bsky.social
LynnInDenver
@lynnindenver.bsky.social
A transwoman living in Denver, Colorado. Streamer, player of games, pinball machine owner, loving wife of https://bsky.app/profile/systemreactor.bsky.social
Reposted by LynnInDenver
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...
IFPA President Statement Regarding the OBX Flippers Arcade Fall Pinball Bash
Promoting Competitive Pinball!
www.ifpapinball.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'll probably keep doing pinball league, but I won't be going out of my way for other tournament opportunities. I only really have an IFPA number as an incidental consequence of playing in league, it's not something I sought out.
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
IFPA president Josh Sharpe has doubled down on awarding points to a pinball tournament where a transphobic hate crime occurred.

He now says the event _could_ have been stripped of its points, and blames the different outcome on two trans women.

www.ifpapinball.com/ifpa-preside...
IFPA President Statement Regarding the OBX Flippers Arcade Fall Pinball Bash
Promoting Competitive Pinball!
www.ifpapinball.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
To say the IFPA's statement is disappointing and insufficient is an understatement.

"We made an email address, problem solved."

One man choosing to override the unanimous position of the Women's Advisory Board manages to make this worse than no action by showing how little regard IFPA has for them
An IFPA event became the center of a major controversy last weekend after a venue manager forcibly removed a trans woman from the women’s restroom and the TD allowed the event to proceed without interruption. The IFPA’s response has now created more controversy.

www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...
Developing: What’s Going on With the IFPA and the OBX Fall Flippers Event? | Kineticist
Tracking a developing story coming out of the recent OBX Fall Pinball Tournament.
www.kineticist.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
Fuck it, we ball.

And I'm all out of fucks.

Have some goddamn integrity, IFPA.

#Pinball #IFPA
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
No quarter for hate. The International Flipper Pinball Association needs to do better.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The only reason I have an IFPA number is because I've gone to a couple of women's pinball leagues here in Denver, & I go there to play pinball and socialize.

I'm not inclined to go out of my way to play additional tournaments after hearing about the OBX fiasco, & the IFPA's official response to it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
I stand by my belief that not nearly enough men have taken a baseball bat to the knee.
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
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...
IFPA Statement Regarding the OBX Flippers Arcade Fall Pinball Bash - IFPA Statement Regarding the OBX Flippers Arcade Fall Pinball Bash
Promoting Competitive Pinball!
www.ifpapinball.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
My philosophy is that if a media uses AI to produce content it is 100% ethical to steal any of their content going forward.

I'll still be watching Disney non-AI content, but I'll be stealing it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
I saw a car chew its own leg off today
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I couldn't resist a little touch of Atari around the screen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
There is at this point a strong desire to start trying hard to not spend money on anything but essentials or with independent artists.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So another experiment with hobbyist level emulation gaming on Linux has ended in failure.

No documentation. Broken dependencies. Esoteric error messages.

About the only gaming things I can say have worked reliably enough to depend on with Linux? Steam. MAME by itself. Little else works.
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
Kevin Stone did not uphold the IFPA gender inclusion policy, and failed to respond to a hate crime at his tournament.

He should not be a TD. His tournament should not be a tournament.
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
I'm super _not_ impressed with the communities of mostly cis people who kept playing like nothing happened. I really hope they wasted their time and money playing in an invalid tournament whose TD didn't uphold the rules.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
After today's multiple transphobic incidents, I'm not playing in any OBX pinball tournaments.

I hope the tournament becomes nearly worthless in WPPR points.

I'm impressed how at least some of the community is coming together to make a better alternative happen next year
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I'll be honest, I was already not doing Epic's launcher because I already have too many, and something just didn't sit right with how they were doing things to make inroads with gamers.

After hearing about Fortnite and Harry Potter, that pretty much cemented my "no desire to install it" for life.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Oh my god we're pretty much done with the rework of The Console Room. It's taken too much time to do, a lot of work, and I could have done without a couple of the surprises we turned up in the process, but the artwork *finally* has been rehung, plus a couple of new pieces.
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
Hey Dems! Next time you suggest abandoning LGBTQ+ voters, maybe have a chat with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Reposted by LynnInDenver
Look if you didn't want the Akira slide in everything maybe it shouldn't be sick as fuck
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
How nice when I don't even have to seek out information that a celebrity is an unpleasant person. At least that's one benefit to the Masks Off era we're in now.
Oh, shit. Erasing the second one would also remove Dwayne "The MAGA" Johnson from the timeline. Change that hierarchy of power, asshole.
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
On a side note, I'm really tired of all the pressure of "you'll need it once you get rid of it" and "all you need is more efficient storage solutions". No, at some point the solution is to get rid of things, not buy more stuff to put those things on.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM