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[Scelly9]

Casinos abuse the concept of hope. You hope you'll win it big, just one more pull of the slot machine...

It's like one of those fantasy monsters that feed on emotions. Only monetized.

I heard an interesting NPR story on casino techniques. You might want to look it up, it was cool.

[GlyphGryph]

Casinos have nothing to do with people being bad on math. It's a tax on people who get high on hope.

[Truean]

Casinos have nothing to do with people being bad on math. It's a tax on people who get high on hope.

If you know the math, then you realize there is no real hope to get high on. Thus, tax on people who don't know the math....

[kaijyuu]

Lotteries are worse. Plenty of people buy tickets hoping that it will be their ticket out of poverty. Instead it contributes (however slightly) to keeping them there.

[penguinofhonor]

Everything about how transgender standards are set is horrible. The "real life test" meant to determine if you can live as a woman, does no such thing. It determines if you can live as a man in a dress. No one can in this society. If I am ever so fortunate as to transition, I will never do so in the United States. Even Iran treats its transsexuals better than we do, though for all the utterly wrong reasons.

This is put very well. I fear having to live for years as a woman without the things that will make it greatly easier to live as a woman. It's like, give me hormones now and I'll come back to you in a couple years and show you how well it worked out.

I'm pretty sure most trans people just end up lying a lot. I'm definitely expecting to get debriefed on what to say and not to say before I ever walk into a psychologist's office about this.

[kaijyuu]

Casinos have nothing to do with people being bad on math. It's a tax on people who get high on hope.

If you know the math, then you realize there is no real hope to get high on. Thus, tax on people who don't know the math....

Ah, but there is that slight chance. Remember that people think they're the hero of some story, who always wins despite the impossible odds. They'll hit the jackpot, then live happily ever after.

Then reality kicks in, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

[Truean]

Casinos have nothing to do with people being bad on math. It's a tax on people who get high on hope.

If you know the math, then you realize there is no real hope to get high on. Thus, tax on people who don't know the math....

Ah, but there is that slight chance. Remember that people think they're the hero of some story, who always wins despite the impossible odds. They'll hit the jackpot, then live happily ever after.

Then reality kicks in, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

Math kills this delusion, if you know to listen to it. Once you realize the deck is stacked and the game is rigged, you stop playing or at least stop paying "fair," because doing so is unfair to you.... 

Everything about how transgender standards are set is horrible. The "real life test" meant to determine if you can live as a woman, does no such thing. It determines if you can live as a man in a dress. No one can in this society. If I am ever so fortunate as to transition, I will never do so in the United States. Even Iran treats its transsexuals better than we do, though for all the utterly wrong reasons.

This is put very well. I fear having to live for years as a woman without the things that will make it greatly easier to live as a woman. It's like, give me hormones now and I'll come back to you in a couple years and show you how well it worked out.

I'm pretty sure most trans people just end up lying a lot. I'm definitely expecting to get debriefed on what to say and not to say before I ever walk into a psychologist's office about this.

It's standard procedure among the transgender people I've met to actively deceive the physicians, counselors and other impediments. You say what they want to hear. They are not there to help you. They are there to satisfy society's innane demands that you be "certain." Most transgender people I've met have known since early childhood. The arrogance of anyone subjecting us to a test, is staggering.

We are society's untouchables, yet society demands a hand in our lives. Inexcusable. Unacceptable. Abhorrent.

[kaenneth]

My Sister won $16,000 in a casino last weekend =P

(Sad because it wan't me who won it.)

[Skyrunner]

Thing with casinos are that in the long run, you'll be out of money. In the short run, you might just get lucky. Probability is for the long run, not the next spin of the wheel.

So... $16000 would be the luck. If she kept going to the casino cause of that, she'll lose. :3 (Obvious, right? >.>))

[rutsber]

My dad comes out ahead almost every time he goes to a casino. I went with him one time, and he came out five minutes later and $300 richer. Some people seem uncanny at beating the odds, no matter how mathematically unlikely.

[MaximumZero]

My dad comes out ahead almost every time he goes to a casino. I went with him one time, and he came out five minutes later and $300 richer. Some people seem uncanny at beating the odds, no matter how mathematically unlikely.

My brother is like that. We'll both go in holding $20. Within an hour, I'll be broke, and he'll have $100. He doesn't like to go alone, and won't play if no one else is, so I can't just send him in there with a $20 bill and yell, "Make me some money! WE NEED MOAR VIDJYA GAEMS!"

[Tellemurius]

My dad comes out ahead almost every time he goes to a casino. I went with him one time, and he came out five minutes later and $300 richer. Some people seem uncanny at beating the odds, no matter how mathematically unlikely.

My brother is like that. We'll both go in holding $20. Within an hour, I'll be broke, and he'll have $100.

seems there are a few of us that defy the laws of mathematics.

[Skyrunner]

Answer: Go in, pretend to play while brother rakes in monies for games, dust off.

[Scelly9]

My dad comes out ahead almost every time he goes to a casino. I went with him one time, and he came out five minutes later and $300 richer. Some people seem uncanny at beating the odds, no matter how mathematically unlikely.

My brother is like that. We'll both go in holding $20. Within an hour, I'll be broke, and he'll have $100.

seems there are a few of us that defy the laws of mathematics.

Or are secretly counting cards. Its damn difficult by the way.

[Sirus]

My dad comes out ahead almost every time he goes to a casino. I went with him one time, and he came out five minutes later and $300 richer. Some people seem uncanny at beating the odds, no matter how mathematically unlikely.

My brother is like that. We'll both go in holding $20. Within an hour, I'll be broke, and he'll have $100.

seems there are a few of us that defy the laws of mathematics.

Or are secretly counting cards. Its damn difficult by the way.

Could be plain ordinary luck. I walked into a casino shortly after I turned 21, came out $30 richer. I haven't the slightest idea how to count cards.