It's just a science of tweaking how many pulls a slot machine should get before some sort of payout
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
You want it to be low enough obviously that it's a losing game but high enough that the average person will win once and get hooked
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It's their job to do this so they've done studies on how long is too long between wins such that people get frustrated and leave
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Also modern slots are in fact deterministic, there's a pseudorandom seed in the chip
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Someone with root access to the machine can see exactly what its future payouts will be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
There was a famous lawsuit where a machine glitched and won when it shouldn't have and the casino immediately knew
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And successfully got it upheld that the internal state of the machine was what they were legally obligated to follow
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It's fucking creepy man, casinos are literally giant Skinner boxes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
In NV slot machines are everywhere and there's actual regulations saying kids can't stand near them too long, it's psychologically dangerous
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I went to a conference in Vegas and was shocked by how omnipresent gambling was even though I didn't do it
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A slot machine is literally a free money machine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I mean that in the most literal possible sense - the outcomes are deterministic and over time give the owner a clearly defined profit
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All it needs is people to feed it and push it through its predetermined routine
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