• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    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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    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.

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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

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      I gamble in video games, with in-game money. Never with the real money currency, I want to be able to afford soup.

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        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.

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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

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    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.

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      The machine seems to be called “Cashnado Alert” so I think you’re onto something about the touch screen mechanics.

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    I could never get into gambling. My family tried to take me to an Indian casino when I was 18 and I absolutely hated it. The slot machines were incredibly boring and I was so tempted to just start pocketing the 20s they gave me.

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      gambling is like arcades except instead of having fun for a reasonable cost that you know is being spent, you’re miserable with the false hope of making money.

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    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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    Glad we are funneling all the wealth to the older generation really a better use than IDK fucking anything.