• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    I associate my time in Las Vegas mostly with elderly people with oxygen tanks, chain smoking while they put coin after coin in the slot machine. Just sad.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Vegas is a good place to go if your idea of a good time is eating and hanging around the pool. Other than that, it’s a glittering shithole in the desert built on the losses of prior visitors.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        And they took the pull handles away because they can siphon money out of retirement accounts much faster if the victim player only needs to press a button.

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          2 months ago

          That’s sad. Pulling the lever was such fantastic part of the experience. Now we can’t call them “One Arm Bandits.”

          We use to live in a society.