Jack Danger
personAlso known as: Dead Flip
"I think Jack Danger from a flow and a gameplay standpoint has made games that I think flow better than any George Gomez games."
Jack Danger makes better flowing games than George Gomez despite having fewer titles
"we see dead flip popping whenever I talk about Jack how much I love him usually pops in it's like his ears ring or something"
Kaneda notes that Dead Flip shows up in his chat whenever he praises Jack Danger, suggesting they monitor his content
"if you think about looking at what the job has done to Jack Danger, I mean, it's obvious what the job did to Jack Danger. He was one of the most positive, happy, go lucky, a man who loves nothing more than pinball. And I remember walking into that factory and it didn't look like he was having fun."
Jack Danger looked unhappy at the factory during X-Men issues, showing what the job pressure does to people
"How can you actually stream a game that's helping a competitor sell its products as you're cashing a paycheck from Stern Pinball? I've never in my 25 years of marketing ever had a client be receptive to us helping a competitor sell more of their product. It's absolutely marketing upside down."
Jack Danger streaming competitor games while working for Stern makes no marketing sense
"I do think Wyson really let down Jack more than anybody. And I think the code problems with X-Men. Like you got to think about it. And it's not too hard to think about it. You got to put yourself in Jack shoes like you you take a really creative approach to a Pinball machine which when you look at X-Men LE, it's one of the most stunning Pinball machines of all time. It absolutely is. And then to see this like beautiful creation from a design standpoint, from an art standpoint, from a theme standpoint, it had such opportunity. And then the code just let it down."
Jack Danger needed a break from design pressures and code problems
"I think Jack Danger is one of the greatest pinball designers in the world. Foo Fighters and X-Men are incredible designs, very creative"
Jack Danger is one of the greatest pinball designers in the world, with Foo Fighters and X-Men being incredible and creative designs
"I think Jack danger is the best designer in Pinball right now I do. And I will fight you if you disagree. I think Jack danger is above Keith L. I said it. I think it goes Jack danger Keith L. Win Steve Ritchie. That's it."
Jack Danger is the best pinball designer, ranking above Keith Elwin and Steve Ritchie
"I think the best designer in all the pinball right now, it's not Keith Elwin. It's not. He's the second best. The best designer in all of pinball right now is Jack Danger. Without a doubt."
Jack Danger is the best pinball designer, better than Keith Elwin
"I think Jack danger is actually a more interesting designer than Keith Owins. Look, they're both really good, but I think Jack is as good as L win. And I mean this when I say this, they're first two games... I think Foo Fighters and X men as his first two games are are just as good as Keith Owins first two games."
Jack Danger is as good a designer as Keith Elwin and should be talked about in the same light
"Even Jack Danger posted, you know, that he had a rough 2024. Why do you think he had a rough 2024? Because all the slings and arrows that came at him because of a game that got rushed to market. He didn't want X-Men to be rushed to market. It just was."
Believes Jack Danger had a rough 2024 due to backlash from rushed X-Men release
"So all right, so Game of the Year, though, here's my prediction. I just predict that Jack Danger's next game is going to be Game of the Year."
Prediction: Jack Danger's next game will be Game of the Year because it will be newer and fresher.
"Here's my prediction for game of the year. I'm telling you right now that Stern's next cornerstone game is going to be Jack Danger's game."
Prediction: Stern's next cornerstone game will be Jack Danger's game, and it will be game of the year.
"The next cornerstone from Stern Pinball you heard it here first will 100% be Jack Danger"
Jack Danger is working on X-Men 97 as Stern's next game, not Pokemon
"I mean, this is like the world's number one pinball streamer, is now going to focus more on family and focus more on his job. I know this is really hard for Jack. I mean, I congratulated him on it, but as someone who does this every week, someone who does the podcast, someone who has a wife, a child, and Jack has two beautiful girls, a beautiful wife, I'm not gonna make any suppositions other than, I know that it's gotta somewhat be killing him to be hanging up the stream."
Kaneda expresses sympathy and understanding for Jack Danger stepping back from Dead Flip streaming, calling him the world's number one pinball streamer.
"Deadflip is a great stream and Jack has built a huge audience for pinball and I still think he is the greatest ambassador in all of pinball right now. I think he does great streams. I think he's very funny. He's very personable. And also he's the only man that's almost as handsome as Kaneda."
Kaneda praises Dead Flip as a great stream and calls Jack Danger the greatest pinball ambassador.
"It's a little strange seeing him helping another company sell their game during their inaugural sales window and I think Jack might wanna rethink this a little bit"
Jack Danger shouldn't help competitors sell games during Foo Fighters sales window
"Stern comes out of left field with arguably a rookie designer, I know he did the home edition of Jurassic Park, but arguably this is Jack Danger's most important moment. Stern has given him the reins to do a cornerstone game and he has come out with something that is super awesome."
Jack Danger has emerged as a major new designer force in pinball
"I want to say that Jack Danger is one of the greatest personalities and assets to all of pinball and I think he is the best ambassador to pinball next to Kaneda well Maybe him and I if you think about it and you want to get people into pinball and show them a more Energetic a more youthful a more handsome if you will Spokesperson for pinball. There is nobody better than mr. Jack Danger."
Kaneda praises Jack Danger as one of the greatest pinball personalities and best ambassador for the hobby, calling him the second-best ambassador after himself.
"Jack Danger is one of the greatest personalities and assets to all of pinball and I think he is the best ambassador to pinball next to Kaneda"
Jack Danger is one of the best pinball ambassadors and personalities
"For $20,000, Stern Pinball will not show you a gameplay video of the game. They are not doing a dead flip stream before they took your money."
Kaneda criticizes Stern for not doing a Dead Flip stream to show gameplay before taking customers' money on a $20,000 game.
"And we're going to see Scooby-Doo, I think at the end of this month, I think Deadflip is going to stream it."
Kaneda mentions that Dead Flip is going to stream Scooby-Doo gameplay.
"Jack Danger over at Deadflip is supposedly going to be the guy that shows us Scooby-Doo for the first time. He works at Stern pinball. That is like having an engineer over at Chevrolet give you a first drive impression of the new Ford Mustang. [...] Now, like, it's weird. I just don't understand this. I don't understand, like, how are you even allowed to do this? Like, there needs to be some firewalls between these companies competing with each other."
Kaneda criticizes the conflict of interest in having Jack Danger from Dead Flip stream a competitor's game while working at Stern.
"You're going to have the first person who streams live for the world, Scooby-Doo pinball, be someone who works at Stern pinball, a competitor of yours. Jack Danger over at Deadflip is supposedly going to be the guy that shows us Scooby-Doo for the first time. He works at Stern pinball. That is like having an engineer over at Chevrolet give you a first drive impression of the new Ford Mustang."
Jack Danger streaming Spooky's Scooby-Doo while working at Stern is a conflict of interest
"Deadflip, Jack Danger's on Patreon. We all know Jack Danger makes all of his money on Twitch."
Kaneda notes that Jack Danger from Dead Flip makes most of his money on Twitch rather than Patreon
"Congratulations, I think I called this I said Jack danger was gonna be designing with stern pinball and here it is Kaneda's right once again. This is really good news"
Jack Danger joining Stern as contractor/designer on Jurassic Park is great news
"If you haven't seen it yet go check out dead flips stream of Avengers premium. He did it. I believe yesterday or a couple days ago. And I will say this is the kind of Avengers stream they should have done from the very beginning jack goes over the whole game. He explains the rule sets of the game in a way that like you can follow and it just makes perfect sense to see the game this way."
Kaneda praises Dead Flip's Avengers premium stream, saying Jack's explanation of the rules was excellent and this is how game streams should be done.
"but let's see how the game plays and you know look I might change my mind it might blow us away but we'll see we'll see we're gonna see it real soon from dead flip and Jack Danger"
Kaneda expects to see Hot Wheels gameplay coverage from Dead Flip and Jack Danger soon
"So if you haven't seen a good stream of Rick and Morty, go check out DeadFlips stream of the game. It's great."
Kaneda recommends Dead Flip's Rick and Morty stream, calling it great.
"I did like that it started on time and the dead flip stream with Jack Danger is just stellar. It's just awesome. [...] And I have to say, Jack and his team, they do a great job. The quality of how they set up the cameras and everything and the mic and everything, awesome awesome."
Kaneda praises Dead Flip's stream quality and Jack Danger's production work as stellar and awesome.
"I think this is one of the most watched live streams of a game that I've ever seen, dead flip do's. So congrats. It was awesome having all those people."
Kaneda congratulates Dead Flip on having one of their most-watched game streams ever.
"Jack is like totally like 90% like a Stern guy. I know he loves all pinball, but once you cross over and start doing apparel shots for a pinball manufacturer, you have to question the ability to be objective about all manufacturers."
Jack Danger's objectivity is questionable due to his relationship with Stern
"And I do enjoy dead flip. I'm not going to lie, they got my vote for the TWIPY for best streaming pinball."
Kaneda expresses enjoyment of Dead Flip and reveals he voted for them for best streaming pinball TWIPY award
"Jack is like all over Stern's website wearing Stern's apparel and he's also going into Jersey Jack pinball as well. [...] once you cross over and start doing apparel shots for a pinball manufacturer, you have to question the ability to be objective about all manufacturers."
Kaneda questions Jack Danger's objectivity due to his commercial relationships with pinball manufacturers
"But to Jack's defense, and this is Jack's whole thing, Jack doesn't really do like reviews per se. [...] I think what we always get and he does it so damn well, we get like a first look from a game."
Kaneda defends Jack Danger by explaining he doesn't do reviews but rather first looks, which he does very well
"All right favorite pinball twitch streamer. I gave to dead flip and jack danger. I love jack dangers show what he does for pinball and his streams are incredible"
Kaneda praises Dead Flip and Jack Danger as his favorite pinball Twitch streamers
"jacks the one of the best personalities in pinball... but what does this mean that he is now on stern's page like so jack is basically a stern employee... if if I was a employee of Ford Motor Company could I then go review a dodge product or a Chevy product and give you in an objective review of that product"
Criticism of Jack Danger's potential conflict of interest as Stern employee reviewing other games
"He knows Jack's popularity. He knows a lot of people watch dead flip. I want to say that when Jack streamed Deadpool, he had 9,000 people watching live, which is incredible. It's probably the most amount of people watching pinball live at one time."
Kaneda acknowledges Dead Flip's popularity and praises their impressive live viewership numbers.
"They were, we know when they were wearing the Godzilla T-shirt during the dead flip string dream."
Kaneda references Stern wearing Godzilla T-shirts during a Dead Flip stream as a deliberate slight against Charlie/Spooky.
"Backdanger over a dead flip will be streaming the premium version or L.E. version of deadpool. So that's exciting."
Kaneda expresses excitement about Dead Flip's upcoming Deadpool premium/LE stream.
"Alice Cooper's nightmare castle and the dead flip stream because for a lot of people out there This was the first time we've actually seen extended gameplay footage of this game"
Kaneda acknowledges Dead Flip's stream provided valuable first extended gameplay footage
"Jack Danger and dead flip they went over to Benton with continent streamed it for us last night I'm gonna give you my thoughts on the good the bad and the ugly of what I saw yesterday"
Kaneda is about to review Dead Flip's stream of Alice Cooper's nightmare castle, framing it as 'good, bad and ugly'
"Let's go on to the ugly the ugly was there were technical issues at the beginning of the dead flip stream [...] So for those of you who tuned in at the very beginning you were met with nothing but technical difficulties Which has now led them to not upload the stream"
Kaneda criticizes Dead Flip's stream for having technical difficulties and delays at the start
"Because the the Twitch stream of Iron Maiden, LE was like a half hour late. All right, I got on there at five o'clock Eastern Standard time. And there was nothing but a woman like making. I don't know, like knitting on dead flip stream."
Kaneda criticizes Dead Flip for being late with their Iron Maiden LE stream and having unrelated content instead.
"I think the dead flip stream is going to show more of the artwork in a better light than what we've seen with these oversaturated images."
Kaneda believes Dead Flip's stream will showcase Iron Maiden LE artwork better than the promotional images.
"so best pinball streamer we had Buffalo pinball dead flip and straight down the middle and I think I had waspin it or on there as as my pick but these are all great these are all great pinball streamers"
Kaneda mentions Dead Flip as one of the great pinball streamers in a category with Buffalo Pinball and Straight Down the Middle
"everyone thinks it's gonna be like Jack from dead flip and he does a great job but I'm gonna give it to the crazy dude waspinator [...] of course Jack you are incredible I love everything you do"
Kaneda praises Jack from Dead Flip as doing a great job and being incredible, while explaining why he's choosing someone else as his favorite Twitch streamer
"I was a little bit concerned that when Jack got on the machine, it wouldn't be anything new. And I thought there'd be sort of newer code they would give Jack to play so that we'd get like more of a sense of how the Guardians world would come to life during this dead flip stream."
Kaneda was concerned that the Dead Flip stream wouldn't showcase new content and hoped they'd give Jack better code to demonstrate.
"And I have to say, like many of you out there who really watch all these dead flip streams, I think this out of all of them left me so underwhelmed and simply because it's quite clear that the code is not far enough"
Kaneda says this Dead Flip stream was the most underwhelming of all their streams due to incomplete code.
"You know, look, I'm happy that like, you know, Stern does the dead flip with Jack Danger, but it's also like, it's the same rodeo every single game with Stern too."
Kaneda expresses that while he's happy Stern does Dead Flip streams, he finds them repetitive and unoriginal.
"I don't know if you saw this, but someone had sent Jack Danger all sorts of nasty messages when he was doing his last dead flip show, right? And so Jack actually put up on Facebook screen grabs of what someone was calling him."
Kaneda reports on harassment Jack Danger received during his Dead Flip show and discusses Jack's response