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A black eye for advantage players?
Posted By: higonefive In Response To: A black eye for advantage players? (Fatboy)
Date: Thursday, 12 October 2017, at 10:08 p.m.
Yap. COLLAPSE VIII. Natasha Dow Schüll: Engineering Chance, p. 203-254 explained it in detail. The transformation from a mechanical slot machine to a virtual video poker machine. The relationship between a random sequence - produced in a chip - and the virtual wheels a n d the odds which must be in favour for the house. And if you want for marketing purposes double down the jackpot, you have to change the odds even more for a wide range of hands. The video poker machine is perhaps the most beautiful machine created ever to manipulate a player. No game favours more that the player will lost himself. The ordinary video poker player, after a while, plays not for combat, for exitement or to win. The machine gives him a certainty: to win or to lose. That is the control, which is reward enough. In the black eye of the taifune is quiet, calm and tranquillity. The player will be divorced from everything, even from social life. All what he wants, after transformed in a cyborg, is to get 'in the zone' of the machine to stay there. What Stephen Paddock made a monster, is a part of playing with these machines, beside his addiction to weapons and alcohol. The ordinary Joe, lost on the sunset strip. That is the real tragedy, which unfolds. The book shows also, how contingency can be exploited: in the casino, in the markets (hello, Mr. Kazaross) in life itself. Here is the link. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-8/
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