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bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

My favorite is when you see a bunch of drunk middle aged ladies all hooting and hollering and high fiving around one of their friends that�s at a slot machine and you figure she just won thousands and you look and she won like fuckin 80 bucks.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 03:37

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 02:54

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

Earth Table posted:

I'd also like to talk about slot theming.

It makes sense why slot machines would use licensed themes; people gravitate toward the familiar, or a property they like outside of the windowless sadness hole. As a result, you get some really weird properties attached to slot machines.

A couple odd ones I've seen (shoutout to the apparently very large community of youtube weirdos who film themselves playing slots)

Ellen Degeneres
https://youtu.be/Rua2Ce3av4k

Avatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub2Rm79Elg

Big Bang Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PnMN8H9C2A

Orange Is The New Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vINmUoIvw8Q

EDIT: Remember Farmville? It's back, in slot form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vavv2FqN8o

The Walking Dead slot is one of my favorites. There�s some good Willy Wonka ones too. There�s a new Goonies one that�s pretty cool.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 03:39

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

I Brake For MILFs posted:

pee on other people

Lucky

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 05:24

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

PG-13 SEX DUNGEON posted:

That's so cool! You have such a great story about putting the livelihood of an entire group of indigenous people at risk. You might think the smooth moves you and your dad make on Native Americans are worth nothing more than a souvenir to proudly hang on your wall and maybe you'll go on thinking that like a loving moron. Enjoy your trespassing notice you dumb young idiot!

I don�t think they�re going to put a casino out of business because some guy let his disabled kid pull a slot arm.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 13:37

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

How do you know she was losing it on poker maybe she had a second secret family she was giving it to or maybe she was paying gigolos to run trains on her

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 14:22

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

BrigadierSensible posted:

They said "pokies" not "poker".

In Australia slot machines are called "pokies". Which is short for poker machines. Which is stupid as most pokies have gently caress all to do with poker. They are just reels of spinning pictures designed to baffle the elderly and relieve them of their pension cheques down at the local RSL.

Australians are horrible

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 14:53

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

PG-13 SEX DUNGEON posted:

Why do I care about fellow dealers losing their jobs and seeing first time casino owners lose everything due to dumbfucks who think skirting the rules is okay when the financial backers can just go get a job as a janitor instead, per your suggestion? Oh, I dunno, human loving empathy?

Places don�t lose their gambling license for spotting underage people gambling and kicking them out they lose their gambling license for not doing that hth

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 15:21

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

PG-13 SEX DUNGEON posted:

No poo poo, that's how they protect the license. They lose it when the commission sends in people to play without proper ID. This is why a casino is so willing to issue a lifetime ban when the slightest whiff of illegal gambling takes place. Was I unclear about this in any way? Because you felt the need to explain this for...what reason?

You seem angry and confused

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 15:33

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

It seems like a win/win situation the casino got to be vigilant about underage gambling which is good for them and OP has a cool dad and got a nice memento.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 15:38

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

SubnormalityStairs posted:

Hoo boy are you in luck. I work as a game dev manager for a company that develops gaming products. My team in particular builds (primarily) casino games for electronic gaming machines (EGMs).

The process is fairly complex, mainly a result of these factors

Jurisdictional requirements are complex and typically quite strict, but we can build individual products for literally hundreds of jurisdictions.

If an EGM loses power, it must be able to restore to the exact state it was in at time of shutdown

Because of the extreme costs associated with escaped defects (tens to hundreds of thousands of americabucks), games must be published with zero defects*

What I find really interesting is just how much churn there is in the gaming industry. The costs of these games can be quite high, but they'll get scrapped and sent to the junk pile if they don't do well in test banks or sometimes before anybody outside the company even sees them. It's better for the bottom line to eat the cost of a few games than to release a game that sucks. And by "sucks", I mean "doesn't do better than 1.2x the average performance of the games in any particular casino."

AMA

* I say this, but slight visual defects that don't run afoul of any compliance requirements will sometimes escape or be closed as acceptable (oh, this butterfly animation gets slow after nobody's played the machine for 8 hours? ok then.)

Why was that guy that programmed slots to pay out after a particular combination of buttons presses
Dumb enough to get caught

# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 05:25

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

shut up blegum posted:

Someone smarter than me calculate the odds of that happening. Also weird that it landed on 7 three times in four spins.
Typing this out reminds me of something I once read somewhere, that the dealer (idk if it's called a dealer in roulette) can pretty much choose where the ball will land, by timing when he throws it in the wheel. Is that correct?

The odds of hitting a single number at roulette are 1/38 so the odds of doing it four times in a row are around 2,000,000 to 1. If you bet multiple numbers each time that would change things significantly of course.

If you bet 10 bucks on the first bet and let it ride each time you�d have about $15,000,000.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 23:51

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

jase1 posted:

lie down and take off our pants

My kinda poker game

# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 17:50

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

How much money does Seth MacFarlane get every time I hit max bet on a Family Guy slot machine

# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 21:04

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 02:54

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

buglord posted:

Big yikes. I didn't know you could do a self ban.

I wonder what percentage of players bring in the most money to the casinos. Is it mostly funded by whales? Kinda like how Candy Crush makes some money from the millions that play it and put in the occasional .... but the bulk of their money comes from the few that are all with it?

Harrah�s at one point made 6% of their gambling income off one single guy.

They created a special rewards tier for him where they pay for private jets to deliver him to their casinos and just flat out hand him back 15% of his losses.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ce...e-year/%3famp=1

# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 06:35

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