You come into programming with so much expectation and ambition. Once you get a handle on how insane this industry is, you can't help but want to go to the simpler life; but with the added benefit of technology.
There's outlets for help to the people who choose to want it. Do people who smoke cigarettes seek help for the most part? Probably not. You get it? If the casinos don't do it, someone else will. People naturally seem to want to gamble. I'd rather have a regulated gambling industry than one that chooses its own luck. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the latter.
So while there are ifs/ands/buts/etc. the fact of the matter is that there is a huge demand for this for reasons that are outside the realm of this conversation. People have been gambling for a LONG time. The inner workings are just statistics and variance. You'll notice the industry is dying; because people are getting more educated in these regards, and re-inventing the arcade just doesn't seem like something they want to do for some reason.
All one knows is that one's money kept flowing into the slot and not coming back, as is the norm.
Actually it's not the norm. It depends on the game's target audience. Some games won't pay for a long time then all of a sudden, BAM $5000! Some games never pay big and instead give you small wins, just to keep you happy, entertained, and most importantly, keep playing. Some games just try to be super flashy and end up fucking with this balance of aggressive player vs casual player and end up flopping despite being stunningly beautiful games.
The house of course easily knows when the machine fails -- the machine awards more money to the player than they expected it to, so it's broken.
The house panics when a machine fails. Important people get called up, and a bunch of folks get awoken from their slumber to get on that problem RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Because casinos are losing money when a game faults out like that.
Such is the beautiful logic of casino gambling:-)
Such is your misunderstanding of casino gambling (I guess the majority of folks think like this nowadays regardless, hence the failing state of the casino industry in general)
A lot of these on-the-field issues are usually handled on a case by case basis actually, from my understanding.
I've heard of cases where the player is given the max award when the jig rolls up to some obscene win amount. Similarly, there are cases where it's just "sorry bud, I guess the machine's just broken."
There are a number of software requirements that most markets have in case of player disputes. Example; one can view all games played up to a certain amount to verify if the player is lying or not when he presses that red service button.
The math models behind all games is rigorously tested. VLT games aren't magic. They pay to the player a certain percentage of what they get in money-wise and this is verified on many levels; not just the company that makes the game.
I have no opinions on unregulated markets as any kind of gambling in an unregulated market is silly from a player perspective anyways. Maybe some people enjoy that added risk or simply (probably) don't realize they're being cheated. Black market VLTs are most certainly a thing.
That doesn't even include hardware issues.
The people who make these games go in a panic when field issues happen; and for very good reason. The OP that got modded +5 insightful doesn't understand regulated markets and his moderators don't either. Sorry if that insults you.
Also, you don't "accidentally lose your house" (speaking to OP). When a gambler reaches that point, they needed to get help yesterday. And trust me, there are plenty of outlets to get help with gambling addiction.
and everyone's trying to get onboard. Is this surprising to anyone that these are popping up in this current form after Bitcoins are soaring in value for some fucking reason?
It's as if people forget that someone has to pay for all those people walking around in fancy suits and pay for the massive electrical bill a casino must generate.
This is literally the biggest reason we need to push even harder for fully autonomous vehicles.
Some people (myself included) actually enjoy driving. What's not so enjoyable is when you have to be extra careful because some people only drive because they have to and find it's too inconvenient to take any other kind of transportation. (If that's good or bad is another topic) So they "keep living" despite not fully understanding they're piloting a 1000lbs+ metal object down a road full of people doing the same.
Law or no, people are going to use their phones unless you apply some obscene kind of regulation like mandating jammers in every non-emergency vehicle. And even then, some folks come up with the smartest stuff. It wouldn't hold up very long and then you'd have another problem...
If those same people can just own a car that will take them from point a to point b and then sit back and do whatever; death rates will drop significantly. Whether such a system will be affordable... is to be discussed in another topic as well.
If you mean "hire someone to use a backhoe to dig for me", you ARE hiring a team of people.
What happened to calling the guy who owns the backhoe, the truck and the flatbed to bring it to your place. Turns out he can operate the thing too, go figure! These people aren't the exception either. Not where I live anyways and it's a fairly small place.
When we were looking for a justifiable reason to think everything we've done was "A'OK" because "Hey, we're just a simulation." went wrong; we just had to make an article about it eh?
Can we just finally move to a world where every human-being has a chance through "food/water/then figure it out" kind of world? I'm trying to move towards that and looking at daily news going "Seriously?..."
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It is the life I aspire to.
You come into programming with so much expectation and ambition.
Once you get a handle on how insane this industry is, you can't help but want to go to the simpler life; but with the added benefit of technology.
I agree with everything you've said.
Entertainment is subjective to the consumer.
There's outlets for help to the people who choose to want it. Do people who smoke cigarettes seek help for the most part? Probably not. You get it?
If the casinos don't do it, someone else will. People naturally seem to want to gamble. I'd rather have a regulated gambling industry than one that chooses its own luck. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the latter.
So while there are ifs/ands/buts/etc. the fact of the matter is that there is a huge demand for this for reasons that are outside the realm of this conversation. People have been gambling for a LONG time. The inner workings are just statistics and variance. You'll notice the industry is dying; because people are getting more educated in these regards, and re-inventing the arcade just doesn't seem like something they want to do for some reason.
It's the exact same type of gambling the casinos do with their playing customers actually.
This is assuming you're a good poker player. Otherwise, you're right. It's gambling.
All one knows is that one's money kept flowing into the slot and not coming back, as is the norm.
Actually it's not the norm. It depends on the game's target audience.
Some games won't pay for a long time then all of a sudden, BAM $5000!
Some games never pay big and instead give you small wins, just to keep you happy, entertained, and most importantly, keep playing.
Some games just try to be super flashy and end up fucking with this balance of aggressive player vs casual player and end up flopping despite being stunningly beautiful games.
The house of course easily knows when the machine fails -- the machine awards more money to the player than they expected it to, so it's broken.
The house panics when a machine fails. Important people get called up, and a bunch of folks get awoken from their slumber to get on that problem RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Because casinos are losing money when a game faults out like that.
Such is the beautiful logic of casino gambling :-)
Such is your misunderstanding of casino gambling (I guess the majority of folks think like this nowadays regardless, hence the failing state of the casino industry in general)
A lot of these on-the-field issues are usually handled on a case by case basis actually, from my understanding.
I've heard of cases where the player is given the max award when the jig rolls up to some obscene win amount. Similarly, there are cases where it's just "sorry bud, I guess the machine's just broken."
There are a number of software requirements that most markets have in case of player disputes. Example; one can view all games played up to a certain amount to verify if the player is lying or not when he presses that red service button.
The math models behind all games is rigorously tested. VLT games aren't magic. They pay to the player a certain percentage of what they get in money-wise and this is verified on many levels; not just the company that makes the game.
I have no opinions on unregulated markets as any kind of gambling in an unregulated market is silly from a player perspective anyways. Maybe some people enjoy that added risk or simply (probably) don't realize they're being cheated. Black market VLTs are most certainly a thing.
That doesn't even include hardware issues.
The people who make these games go in a panic when field issues happen; and for very good reason. The OP that got modded +5 insightful doesn't understand regulated markets and his moderators don't either. Sorry if that insults you.
Also, you don't "accidentally lose your house" (speaking to OP). When a gambler reaches that point, they needed to get help yesterday. And trust me, there are plenty of outlets to get help with gambling addiction.
By your logic you should be banging on everyone who drives a car's door and kicking some ass.
Good luck to you sir!
and everyone's trying to get onboard. Is this surprising to anyone that these are popping up in this current form after Bitcoins are soaring in value for some fucking reason?
It's as if people forget that someone has to pay for all those people walking around in fancy suits and pay for the massive electrical bill a casino must generate.
Aha!
Anyone?!?!
I really wanna know how the Genius replied to your question!
That's one newly fired employee's claim. Huge grain of salt required.
I'm sure that guy has a lot to spare.
This is literally the biggest reason we need to push even harder for fully autonomous vehicles.
Some people (myself included) actually enjoy driving. What's not so enjoyable is when you have to be extra careful because some people only drive because they have to and find it's too inconvenient to take any other kind of transportation. (If that's good or bad is another topic) So they "keep living" despite not fully understanding they're piloting a 1000lbs+ metal object down a road full of people doing the same.
Law or no, people are going to use their phones unless you apply some obscene kind of regulation like mandating jammers in every non-emergency vehicle. And even then, some folks come up with the smartest stuff. It wouldn't hold up very long and then you'd have another problem...
If those same people can just own a car that will take them from point a to point b and then sit back and do whatever; death rates will drop significantly. Whether such a system will be affordable... is to be discussed in another topic as well.
I have it on good authority that nobody has ever been banned from any game for actually cheating;
Just look up Diablo 2.
Should just be careful what they download and what links they click on.
Next time to steal a diamond of such value, make sure you have an escape plan ;)
I think what we simply need to do is... simplify comprehension. Then you let it run wild.
He speaks of ignorance. Yet his comment was somehow modded up Insightful?!
If you mean "hire someone to use a backhoe to dig for me", you ARE hiring a team of people.
What happened to calling the guy who owns the backhoe, the truck and the flatbed to bring it to your place. Turns out he can operate the thing too, go figure!
These people aren't the exception either. Not where I live anyways and it's a fairly small place.
It's just digging a hole. Be careful is all.
I'd like to sign up with this VC of yours. Seems like a fucking cool cat.
As long as those investors give us their money, amirite???
Fuck.
Oh boy.
They're Java coders. Easily replaced.
No fucking shit huh?
When we were looking for a justifiable reason to think everything we've done was "A'OK" because "Hey, we're just a simulation." went wrong; we just had to make an article about it eh?
Can we just finally move to a world where every human-being has a chance through "food/water/then figure it out" kind of world? I'm trying to move towards that and looking at daily news going "Seriously?..."
Funny, but it makes you wonder; is anyone actually strapped to any of those rockets? ... it's really not that far-fetched?