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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This reminds me of 2010 when lootboxes and gacha games were okay because teaching children to gamble with Dad's credit card was awesome.

15 years later and YouTube doesn't even know what gambling is anymore, lol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't you dare remind me how long ago 2010 was

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Matrix is 25.5 years right now.

Jurassic Park came out 32 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're going to hell for this 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I hope I am! I named my dog Lucifer 😈

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

YouTube no longer allows any reference to gambling sites or applications "not certified by Google."

It's literally on the Play Store, rated at M.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dunno why it's even rated M. Seems high for what it is

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

It's rated M because of moderators poor understanding of 'gambling'

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Yet still youtube allows lootbox opening videos

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to gamble on Balatro.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wish I had your restraint. EVERY time!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

First three times I got the wheel it triggered.

I didn't understand the memes.

Then it never happened again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

But poly is going to fix all my problems!! At least thats what the OF model told me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't care what the dev says: that thing ain't 1:4.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

It's 1:4 but everytime the card is played a new set of 1:4 starts, so fuck knows what the actual odds are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Humans are bad at probability, and that's mostly why they gamble too.

Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it's not totally so because computer "random" is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don't matter.

On an infinitely large number of draws, you'd see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn't mean you can't fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%... It happens).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

It's always 1:4 then but that doesn't mean in 4 goes you're guaranteed a win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It's 1:4 but everytime the card is played a new set of 1:4 starts

Of course it does, or the odds wouldn't be 1 in 4...

If you flip a coin, you "start" a new set of 1 in 2 odds too -- that's what makes it always 50/50