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

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.

Vegas wasn’t built on winners.

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.

All of these people will vote to have "drug addicts" executed.

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.

Old people at the casino:

The casino sucking up their telemetry:

Fuck yeah, no telemetry or tracking on those things. You go geezers!

I've been to Vegas a couple of times, many years ago. I enjoyed the shows, food, and silly debauched spectacle of it all. But it gets old after a day or two.

Did almost no gambling at all. The machines are very boring to me, and I'm too intimidated to play at a real game with other humans. I would misunderstand the rules and the odds, and screw up the etiquette. I know enough to know that the house has a significant edge in almost any game you play against them. Even on the "best" odds games.

One of the guys that I went with made a decent chunk of money at Texas Hold'em. He said he really wasn't that great at it, he just got lucky and found a table full of drunk tourists who couldn't play for shit, and yet they would try to chase after it.

The casinos that have popped up in my home town all look dreadfully depressing.

It's sad how normalized gambling addiction has become.

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.

Who knew flickers on a cave wall could be so addictive

I attended one of Corey Taylor's solo concerts at a casino once and as all of these rock and metal fans come out of the oldies concert (because he was performing the music of all of the bands who inspired him) and walking out at midnight from the concert I got the dirtiest looks from the old people pressing the buttons at the slot machines and it was honestly kinda hilarious being judged by retirees spending the night gambling for heading home after enjoying a concert. Also absolutely nobody looked happy to be there as they started glass-eyed at the screens

This is out of date. Now casinos all have apps you can actually gamble on while the slot machine resets.