This is out of date. Now casinos all have apps you can actually gamble on while the slot machine resets.
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Went to a local casino with some friends and saw a Frankenstein themed slot machine with the big curved screen like that and decided to put a couple bucks in it to see what kind of stuff it did. A woman sitting at one warned me that they're terrible and don't pay out well before saying how many thousands of dollars she'd put into them, while still putting more in.
Gambling addiction is real
I have a family member that decided he had to go to Vegas. Alone.
On his son's birthday.
😥
I gamble in video games, with in-game money. Never with the real money currency, I want to be able to afford soup.
Me too, and it reinforces how much I’d not want to actually gamble.. because no-stakes game gambling is often slanted in your favor, so if you play long enough you’ll probably hit big. It’s kinda fun.
I played one game (no clue what it was anymore) that had a “semi-realistic odds” setting with a big warning that while you’d still probably manage, you’d have to dig much further into your reserves to do so. And it wasn’t an easy win even with the setting off, it was fucking obnoxious because it was needed..
I went to a real casino a year or so ago, because it was a cheap hotel stay, and I got $10 free money for signing up and being a veteran (a demographic often plagued with gambling problems).. I played it and won $120 on the last pull, cashed out, and haven’t touched it since. It felt like a hook, because it was all done on tracking cards, and the casino industry is notoriously shady with behavior tracking and stuff, and it gave me the icks big time.
Without money, pretty much all gambling games turn out to be extremely boring.
I don't even do in-game gambling because it's just annoying. The last time I tried that, I ended up instead buying the 9999 coins with cash to get a Porygon, because the slot machines were so boring.
I find it boring with money too. The main difference is that you lose money instead of fake money. So I still like it better in games.
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Fun fact, LA has independent Cambodian-run donut places because the so called Donut King lost his fortune to gambling addiction and had to relinquish his ownership to the families to pay debts.
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I go to Vegas regularly to see someone special to me
I despise gambling and haven't put a single cent into a casino
It's fucking scary seeing the zombies pouring money that they can't afford to lose into these awful machines
They stink of desperation
I can’t imagine spending so much time and money on games and always looking completely fucking miserable the entire time. They all have the same expression.
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I never bet on anything I can't reprogram
Kirk?
(the good one, not the bigoted cunt who the world is better off without)
TOS Kirk, not SNW Kirk or that leaky neck guy
that leaky neck guy
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Fontana di Carlo Kirko
I don't get slot machines. They're not even slightly fun.
I wish casinos had fun games with small bets. Like, I don't know, poker where you can play several hands with 20 dollars.
But as it stands, I don't think I'll ever visit a casino again. It's either boring slots or you need to be rich to play the "real" games.
Poker isn't really a fun game. Try playing it without money. It gets boring super fast.
If a game needs money to be fun, it's not a fun game.
It gets boring because it's a game of human interaction that requires actual stakes.
It's boring because the only thing making it interesting is the prospect of making money off it. It's like work, only that if you suck at it you pay instead of getting paid.
At least poker is fair. Funny enough fair gambling is considered illegal and immoral for some reason, but slot machines are okay, even as they are designed in every way to victimize dumb people.
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I've played it once in the past. Just the normal poker with five cards in your hand and you get two rounds of changing cards.
It was fun.
I lost 2 imaginary dollars.
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Video poker exists.
Don't need to go to a casino for that, just gotta boot up red dead
Or Fallout NV. Though if you have 7 luck or more you are garunteed to win.
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Imagine you are a boomer who has had a near infinite money glitch but its only ever been cost of living plus 10%. You always have that spare cash but it doesnt get above 10% extra. Its a boring amount and you want to be actually rich.
Now you could squirrel it away and actually save that money but thats boring when what you could do is gamble it every month cause maybe it will make you have a huge amount of money (which it wont) out of just pure luck and you didnt need it cause your basic costs were always covered so you never thought of saving it or giving it to anyone else other than corpos.
Now add people who also know they wil never have the money glitch who want to be as secure and see boomers making a small return acting like it was worth it and they decide if they gamble the few dollars they have they will finally get a return that saves them from poverty (it wont).
Congrats you now understand it hopefully.
I think so, but unfortunately I am all the more disgusted
Slots are just reusable lotto scratchers.
Blackjack is probably your game because it's simple and I've seen minimum hands as low as $3.
Just don't do what I did and convince yourself that you're good at it because you did well in New Vegas.
You can play micro stakes online for regular poker. It's basically what you said, $20 will go a long way. As for live play, the smallest stakes I've seen is like $.050/$1 at the linq in Vegas where you could probably get by buying in for $50, but would be better off with $100. That was before Covid, and I haven't tried playing there since. It may no longer be a thing.
Glad we are funneling all the wealth to the older generation really a better use than IDK fucking anything.
Vegas wasn’t built on winners.
A casino is a corporation, they want to make money. If people could go there and win money, they wouldn't make as much money. So they let the bare minimum amount of people win the bare minimum amount of money to make it look like the casino is fair and that you too can have a chance at winning big.
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All of these people will vote to have "drug addicts" executed.
Old people at the casino:
The casino sucking up their telemetry:
The way they’re touching the screen makes me think this is a tournament slot. So the tournament has an entry fee and prizes for the highest score, but the individual games are played for points, so you just press the button as fast as you can and hope you are luckier than everyone else. Sometimes they also have touch screen mechanics like “wack a mole” or “catch the money in the tornado” to make it a little more interesting than just slamming a button. I wouldn’t call anyone a gambling addict based on just this picture.
The machine seems to be called "Cashnado Alert" so I think you're onto something about the touch screen mechanics.
Fuck yeah, no telemetry or tracking on those things. You go geezers!
If you look at the point where the "I-Deck" (the horizontal touch screen that is about waist high) meets the main body of the cabinet, you'll see what looks like a tiny display. That display is a part in of the "player tracking" system.
I've installed countless numbers of them in my time as a slot tech, some of them on the Everi Empire Flex, the slot cabinet pictured.
My card-based probability/skill games are currently on Riverboats. I just made the games, no concept whatsoever about the hardware side.
I'm curious as hell.... what do they track and how?
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I've been to Vegas a couple of times, many years ago. I enjoyed the shows, food, and silly debauched spectacle of it all. But it gets old after a day or two.
Did almost no gambling at all. The machines are very boring to me, and I'm too intimidated to play at a real game with other humans. I would misunderstand the rules and the odds, and screw up the etiquette. I know enough to know that the house has a significant edge in almost any game you play against them. Even on the "best" odds games.
One of the guys that I went with made a decent chunk of money at Texas Hold'em. He said he really wasn't that great at it, he just got lucky and found a table full of drunk tourists who couldn't play for shit, and yet they would try to chase after it.
The casinos that have popped up in my home town all look dreadfully depressing.
It's sad how normalized gambling addiction has become.
If Daddy can just get one more college education's worth of money out of you, he can make it all back. Trust him, he's got it figured out. The machine is hot.
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