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
Truly
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dwemthy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
TachyonTele@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I have a family member that decided he had to go to Vegas. Alone.
On his son’s birthday.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I gamble in video games, with in-game money. I want to be able to afford soup.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 14 hours ago
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 it gave me the icks big time.
taiyang@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Vegas wasn’t built on winners.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
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.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
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.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
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.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 hours ago
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.
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think so, but unfortunately I am all the more disgusted
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Video poker exists.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Don’t need to go to a casino for that, just gotta boot up red dead
Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I guess, but at that point I can do that in your average JRPG or something. I feel like it would be more fun with people. Unless they’re paying the Texas game with all the cards in the middle. That one is complicated and you only have two cards of yours and I really don’t have fun with it.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 19 hours ago
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_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I never bet on anything I can’t reprogram
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours ago
Kirk?
(the good one, not the bigoted cunt who the world is better off without)
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Glad we are funneling all the wealth to the older generation really a better use than IDK fucking anything.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
The machine seems to be called “Cashnado Alert” so I think you’re onto something about the touch screen mechanics.
AshCircuit@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
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.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Fuck yeah, no telemetry or tracking on those things. You go geezers!