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Looking for that sweet, sweet Kitchen Nightmares money. EDIT: Well, that's a snipe and a half. I'll take a sixer with a picture of Gordon Ramsay calling me an idiot sandwich.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of my favorite experiences was trying to eat at Skyline's premier location in downtown Cincinnati and watching some guy get treated for overdosing on a pile of spilled cheese That’s normal at a Skyline. All Cincinnati chili is Greek Bolognese. The locals couldn’t handle that so they said it was chili. Skyline just sucks, I have no idea why it’s so popular. Gold Star is spicier and a bit thicker. The Cincinnati chilis parlors to go for are Camp Washington, Dixie, and Price Hill. But this would also mean you’d have to go to Cincinnati and that’s not recommended.
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May 19, 2024 14:13
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Gambling machines are a lot like arcade machines, just they're designed to take way more money and instead of more traditional game design, there's a lot of weird reaching deep into the player's brain to manipulate more primordial instincts and covering it up with a lot more flashiness. It's kind of disturbing to look at how much people can blow on these things, and unlike videogames, when it's not your brain getting manipulated, it's harder to understand or sympathize with from the outside. Probably anti-gambling laws should be pushed further to get rid of them, although it also seems like a lot of people interpret the experience as fun, and truly who am I to deprive people in the middle of buttfuck nowhere the joy and excitement of losing most of their money to a bunch of flashing lights (although I feel like gambling machines work produce more of a depressing aura in their immediate environs to justify their existence more).
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gay picnic defence posted:I think the meat is just chicken thighs. I'm presuming the restaurant being named 'Triple Nickel' is kind of like being the Dollar Store
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SlothfulCobra posted:Gambling machines are a lot like arcade machines, just they're designed to take way more money and instead of more traditional game design, there's a lot of weird reaching deep into the player's brain to manipulate more primordial instincts and covering it up with a lot more flashiness. It's kind of disturbing to look at how much people can blow on these things, and unlike videogames, when it's not your brain getting manipulated, it's harder to understand or sympathize with from the outside. I idly looked into one-armed bandits once just because I think they’re kind of neat for some reason and maybe if I won the lottery I would put one in a corner or something. From what I remember there were a lot of laws involved in getting one, probably because they don’t want people to set up their own basement gambling halls
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May 19, 2024 18:58
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MarxCarl posted:That’s normal at a Skyline. Funny you made this whole post and don’t even mention the top 2 [Pleasant Ridge Chili, Blue Ash Chili].
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May 19, 2024 19:14
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david_a posted:I idly looked into one-armed bandits once just because I think they’re kind of neat for some reason and maybe if I won the lottery I would put one in a corner or something. From what I remember there were a lot of laws involved in getting one, probably because they don’t want people to set up their own basement gambling halls When I was a little kid my friend had a full Japanese-casino grade pachinko machine in his room, maybe you could look into that.
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May 19, 2024 19:40
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I learned everything I need to know about gambling circa 1993, some Indian Reservation in Arizona, a grim dark squat dark as gently caress building packed with slot machines. No daylight, filled with cigarette smoke, and rows and rows of old people joylessly pressing the button (pulling the gambling arm is no longer required). At some big expensive slot machine up front, there are loud noises! MANY LOUD NOISES! Some lady just won 10,000!!!! And it was her, her face. She kept smoking as the attendants came over, people cheering. She didn't show any emotion at all, just kept smoking as people cheered around her.... and I watched, and realized: She must have lost so much to date, that even winning this huge jackpot means nothing. Gambling, man.
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May 19, 2024 19:45
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My mom's uncle taught me how to gamble in about grade 2. So 1986 or so. I kicked his rear end at penny pitch and won 8 cents.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:When you’ve really hosed up and got drunk and just want to wallow in misery, you go here for a meal. 
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Yeah gambling is typically a sad depressing thing, Vegas has pageantry but most gambling addicts are in some lovely “casino” in a strip mall that just has old stained carpet, 20 old slot machines, and one worker behind bars and bullet proof glass
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May 19, 2024 20:13
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I learned everything I know about gambling from a 55-year-old Vietnamese man who spent every waking moment outside of a 12 hour shift in a cleanroom, not with his wife and 5 children, but at the slots at Sandia Casino
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Combo posted:These machines are legal in Illinois. There are places that are dedicated to just having these machines, but more weirdly, I had to stop at a gas station on the way home from work and pulled off to one I'd never been to before. Inside was normal gas station stuff but right near the front door were two of those machines and they were roped off. Couple people playing them and a small crowd either watching them play or waiting in line for when one of them ran out of money, not sure which. I don't get it either. Yeah those are absolutely everywhere in the chicago burbs. Tons of bars and restaurants have some machines, there are lots of gas stations and grocery stores with them as well. The standalone places are often named like "[70 year old woman's name] lounge", the idea being to entice middle-aged and older women to come and gamble basically. Like it's supposed to invoke your grandma's house. Not legal in every town, it's up to the localities to legalize it and set tax revenues etc. Edit: there's big gambling chains too, like Dotty's. I think it's a casino chain based in Las Vegas but they have a ton of locations in the state now.
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david_a posted:I idly looked into one-armed bandits once just because I think they’re kind of neat for some reason and maybe if I won the lottery I would put one in a corner or something. From what I remember there were a lot of laws involved in getting one, probably because they don’t want people to set up their own basement gambling halls British youtuber Techmoan has a few, so it's doable in Britain. The most interesting one to me is the J.Cock Z400S, which is some weird kind of portable game console version of a gambling machine. He also had a video on how Lemmy from motorhead would get slot machines put into greenrooms where he did concerts so he could unwind playing the slots (and presumably not actually lose money because he owned the machine?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHv3N-cVc4 US law looks like it gets complicated, but it seems like the biggest thing regulated is the age of the machine (since they don't want randos competing with the big boy casinos).  I do think pachinko machines and the like that aren't directly interacting with money are probably more easy to (legally) own, especially if you aren't offering to exchange pachinko balls for prizes and then to buy back prizes like the way the japanese gambling has to work.
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MrQwerty posted:I learned everything I know about gambling from a 55-year-old Vietnamese man who spent every waking moment outside of a 12 hour shift in a cleanroom, not with his wife and 5 children, but at the slots at Sandia Casino poo poo man you couldnt even drink on the floor there why put yourself through that. my extremely loveable and butch lesbian friend got banned from there like 10 years ago and still wont shut up about it im like let it go.
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I got free steaks while we were sitting around for half a day waiting to go fill bottles with chemo drugs so I didn't question it. One time I asked him if he had a poker visor and he said yes. Also yes, any second of the day he was allowed to have one, he sure had a lit cigarette hanging out of his mouth. One of the funniest dudes I've ever known, and an immaculate specimen of degenerate gambling. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 19, 2024 |
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i had a buddy/coworker that was convinced that baccarat was his secret get rich quick game. one night i followed him into the baccarat room in Sandia to watch and it seemed like the entire asian gambler population of the 505 was in that room. long story short he lost his rear end bigly and repeatedly.
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A Concrete Divider posted:Funny you made this whole post and don’t even mention the top 2 [Pleasant Ridge Chili, Blue Ash Chili]. Those are on the “East” side of town, and don’t count! Blue Ash is real good, and they do have slaw dogs. Camp Washington is the best in the city hands down.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH63DShDkl4
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Over in PA the slots all over the place now. “Skill games” they call ‘em. You’ll see aging folks sitting down and blowing all their money on them at the 7-Eleven, laundromat, tobacco store, or wherever else they set them up. Also weirdly enough there’s a place just dedicated to these video slots at the very dead mall in my town and I once saw a lot of people younger than me were playing them.
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that guy also taught me about half of everything I know about working in an aseptic cleanroom - as it turns out, sitting at slots 12 hours a day and working in that environment have a lot of crossover as far as transferable skills
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emSparkly posted:Over in PA the slots all over the place now. “Skill games” they call ‘em. You’ll see aging folks sitting down and blowing all their money on them at the 7-Eleven, laundromat, tobacco store, or wherever else they set them up. I haven't seen any of those, myself, but West Virginia is chock full of "Hot Spots" that are all gambling places. I believe they are limited to five machines per place which is why you can drive by three or four in a row, they're everywhere (like Dollar stores).
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America.jpg the outhouse edition.  https://redf.in/NQpz2J
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Struggle meals somehow come across even sadder when you get them at a restaurant.
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emSparkly posted:Over in PA the slots all over the place now. “Skill games” they call ‘em. You’ll see aging folks sitting down and blowing all their money on them at the 7-Eleven, laundromat, tobacco store, or wherever else they set them up. Rutters has them and it’s bleak as hell
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SlothfulCobra posted:US law looks like it gets complicated, but it seems like the biggest thing regulated is the age of the machine (since they don't want randos competing with the big boy casinos). I'm in WI and you really can't go anywhere that doesn't have a slot machine or bingo machine in the corner unless it's a chain or a upper-mid tier restaurant. Everyone has them all over the state. I never see anyone playing them, though.
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imo everything related to gambling in this country should be put in a trust for natives, federally, run by themselves pipe dreams
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Here in NC there are loads of “skill game” parlors, in lower-income commercial zones exclusively. Doesn’t matter if it’s urban or rural, you’re bound to see a storefront with the windows fully covered by signs advertising the amazing skill-based fishing games they have within.
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Philthy posted:I'm in WI and you really can't go anywhere that doesn't have a slot machine or bingo machine in the corner unless it's a chain or a upper-mid tier restaurant. Everyone has them all over the state. I never see anyone playing them, though. That's just a map of private ownership. so I assumed there might be some kind of licensing system or separate commercial law for owning slot machines, but then I looked it up, and it turns out it has a special different legal distinction: Not legal (aside from tribal lands), but not really enforced. If you have less than 5 machines, there's no criminal charges, at most they'll charge you a fine and take away the machines. No real risk. https://www.channel3000.com/news/lo...c1347d3639.htmli
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Hell yeah it is
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SlothfulCobra posted:That's just a map of private ownership. so I assumed there might be some kind of licensing system or separate commercial law for owning slot machines, but then I looked it up, and it turns out it has a special different legal distinction: Neat. So, it's basically how the state is dealing with pot in the larger cities now. No one gives a gently caress so long as they're not being idiots.
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Nice trick shot
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Have some Americana from NOLA Grilled oysters  Roast beef poboy  Alligator sausage with crawfish etouffee  Gumbo fries with cheese & jambalaya fritters  Not pictured: the COVID we got
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I’d crush all of that
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Not the covid, but yeah. The oysters in particular are reminding me that they were one of my favorite things I've eaten, on my one visit down there probably 15 years ago.
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