"Realistic"

The word "realistic" is thrown around on some games like phrases such as "freshly pressed" on juice boxes. The fruits may be pressed when they were harvested, but the juice frozen, so nowadays if you want something that was pressed recently, you need to look for other things like "newly pressed".

The word "realistic" seem to fall in the same category as "freshly pressed".

Pinball FX 2 gloats with "realistic" physics and so on.

The physics in that game is faaaaar from realistic. Unless of course the table on which you play is close to being upright.

The ball looses it momentum too fast, can bounce back when hitting a wall in such an angle that it would continue along the wall, I've even sometimes encountered parts where it goes through the flippers. The best part of the game is how the ramps have to be hit at an exact angle, but the side holes? They seem to be magnetic. The ball can be in motion for a minute without touching the flippers, then it decides to graciously glide into either left or right side, whitout you being able to do anything.

Unless of course real pinball tables have changed. That's something I have to investigate.