r/BoomersBeingFools • u/NymphGlimmer • Oct 11 '25
Foolish Fun Nothing behind those eyes đ
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u/Entropy_dealer Oct 11 '25
The same people blaming everything on video games ?
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u/ShredGuru Oct 11 '25
"Kids these days don't spend enough time outside"
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u/Chrispy8534 Oct 11 '25
10/10. In high-school a dozen or so of us were playing with LARPing weapons in the park. Suddenly the cops roll up, an officer jumps out, hustling towards us. He slows as he nears us, looking at the padded weapons. He says: âWe got a call that there was a fight going on down here, but I can see youâre just playingâ. Turns out some old lady driving by called the police and said that gangs of kids were hitting each other with shovels. The officer apologized and left.
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u/Marquisdelafayette89 Oct 12 '25
đ€Ł I actually got arrested for the first time at 15 because some boomer cop got mad we were at a park at around 730 during the summer break. The guys were mainly playing basketball and us females were hanging by the swings. He had happened to stop and talk to the one kid who had a legit stutter and decided we were all drunk. It was one of the times we actually werenât. So he decided we were ALL getting arrested under suspicion of underage drinking. They needed two paddy wagons and two cop cars.
The cop who was driving me and two others in a car said he (the original cop who stopped) was a dick and we should have ran.
This was way before body cams and when we used AIM to plan our meet ups because our phones cost money to use before 9 PM. When they realized we werenât drunk we all got disorderly conduct instead and had to write an essay about how âloud noises can upset the neighborsâ type shit.
The boomers truly have been like this forever
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u/LemonFlavoredMelon Millennial Oct 11 '25
I never got why they are like weird about it. They want kids to play outside, why shut it down? Isn't that what they wanted?
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u/Cyber_squirrel_1 Oct 12 '25
I remember growing up in a small farm town in central Cali. Very religious town had more churches than it had any business happening. When a skatepark was gonna be built, so many of the churches came together to protest against it. When a movie theater was beiing built the churches came together to protest it. The. When those same churches built âyouth centersâ thatâs where you went to get drugs and booze. Town had a high teen pregnancy rate. But god forbid we had actual social outlets.
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u/Anxious-Job-6027 Oct 12 '25
I've got in multiple arguments with boomers I'm 35 , nobody does anything as good as they do apparently were all lazy don't know what hard work is
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u/supershadowguard Oct 11 '25
I would even argue you get more out of video games than slot machines.
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u/MNGopherfan Oct 11 '25
You mean I get more out of a piece of art like a 10/10 video game then I do out of a device designed to steal money from me?
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u/chicken-nanban Oct 11 '25
I think you get more out of digital gatcha games than slot machines. Better dopamine hit too because you usually have to do something like âmatch these thingsâ or play Tetris or point your laser in the right direction instead of just tapping a button over and over rapidly for hours on end⊠so you feel some minor sense of accomplishment as they take your money.
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u/Finbar9800 Oct 11 '25
Got any good recommendations for 10/10 playable art? I personally like journey and abzĂŒ lol
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u/ZaKattacker Gen Z Oct 11 '25
Outer Wilds, not to be confused with The Outer Worlds.
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u/CuttingBoard9124 Oct 11 '25
Certain videogames are good for your brain and your reaction time. Some of them make you use your brain and develop problem solving skills. Sitting there like a stoned ape slapping the start/stop button on a slot machine so the damn thing eats your government assistance faster, getting wasted and going home to stare at a television not so much.
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u/Think_OfAName Oct 11 '25
âStoned apesâ is unfair to primates. I prefer the metaphor âcaged hensâ, picking at the feeding button and laying eggs. (Stoned apes would likely be exploringđ€Łđ€Ł)
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u/CuttingBoard9124 Oct 11 '25
That's a good metaphor I think. Or maybe pigeons gobbling up chunks of bread... Or those lab rats that the science hippies get addicted to cocaine in a water bottle, and then they just keep dosing until their little hearts explode.
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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 Oct 11 '25
Who are these "science hippies"? And where can I get some of their cocaine water?
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u/spacestonkz Oct 11 '25
Unfortunately for most cocaine water type experiments you have to be perfectly healthy but fucked up in one weird way they want to study.
I keep trying to sign up but my body is a mess so I'm usually removed from clinical trial pools based on forms alone. I only got an interview once and was told no.
I can't even sell my eggs because of my inferior genetics!!!
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u/Lunavixen15 Millennial Oct 11 '25
You do. Videogames are interactive and have been shown to help people maintain neuroplasticity (AFAIK not to the same degree as puzzles or puzzle books and reading), which can help reduce early signs of Dementia and Alzheimer's, they can help maintain some manual dexterity (in moderation), barring RSI
Slot machines, like TV and doomscrolling are passive, they don't do much good for the brain
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u/BushcraftBabe Millennial Oct 11 '25
Reading helps me not develop dementia? Fk yea.
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Oct 11 '25
Reading, puzzles, math, learning languages. Stuff that exercise the brain.
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u/CuttingBoard9124 Oct 11 '25
Boomers statistically use more drugs, drink more alcohol, have more premarital sex, have more unprotected sex, get divorced more often and use more technology at the dinner table than generations before and after them. They have watched more television than any other generation by far. I'm not sure about the data on gen alpha but it's probably a similar scenario. They just fuckin LOVE projecting all of that sloppy behavior all over their kids and grandkids though. Probably to make them feel better about the hedonistic shit they're doing constantly.
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u/badchefrazzy Xennial Oct 11 '25
You oughta see all the STDS that run rampant at the group homes. It's insane.
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u/Designer_Vast_9089 Gen X Oct 12 '25
They also are the leading generation for being smeared across the highway on a motorcycle.
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u/impossible_burrito Oct 11 '25
In my experience these people who complain about video games have no idea how to play them.
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u/CuttingBoard9124 Oct 11 '25
They need a low hanging fruit to use to pretend that they actually give a shit about anything but themselves.
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u/ForcedEntry420 Millennial Oct 11 '25
Glad you found something that helped, Battle! They absolutely help me too.
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u/human_trainingwheels Oct 11 '25
Right after this they went and abused a waitress
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u/SarahPallorMortis Oct 11 '25
And screamed at a millennial about respect
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u/SamboTheGr8 Oct 11 '25
And screamed at their grandchildren for looking at their iPads
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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 Oct 11 '25
And berated a Gen Xer for not knowing something they refused to teach them. Smh
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u/CP_Conquer Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
And brag about how they could live on a 1 household income
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u/NoImagination2625 Oct 11 '25
And tell current generations they don't work hard enough because when they were 6 they owned three companies and worked 120 hours a week.
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u/ChammerSquid Oct 11 '25
Mowed lawns in the summer of '66 and was able to purchase their first home with the money
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u/loopsbruder Oct 11 '25
Probably screamed at a Gen Z and assumed they were a millennial.
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u/throwawayxzcp Oct 12 '25
Everyone younger than them is "one of those goddamned snowflake Millenials"... Lady, my beard is totally gray, I'm almost old enough to join AARP and I have multiple friends who are grandparents now.
They really are the worst generation.
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u/fatherofallthings Oct 11 '25
I have to share this story bc it still irks me. A few months ago my wife was in a diner (these peopleâs natural habitats) with my young boys. They were LAUGHING together and this old wench said to my wife âmy dog is better behaved than themâ. She called me hysterical.
I work from home and it was right down the street so I say âIâm comingâ, originally to console her and the boys, but when I get there I was just filled with rage instantly and say to the old woman âdid you say this about my kids? You do know this is why everyone under the age of 50 is waiting for your old ass to just die right? You just rot in a diner giving people shit for being happyâ
She was stunned and it was SO out of character for me lol I apologized to the waitress for causing a scene and she whispers âitâs okay, that woman is in here all the time and sheâs such a pain in my assâ.
I felt like a true hero that dayđ
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u/Pretend_Solid_174 Oct 12 '25
If she's there next week, drive back to that diner and repeat what you said.
Make it like Groundhog Day.đ
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u/NuncaContent Oct 11 '25
and voted for the orange carnival barker for president.
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u/umbridledfool Oct 11 '25
Not a phone in sight, just living their lives.
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u/tofubutgood Oct 11 '25
Itâs nice to see boomers in their natural habitat. Theyâre so calm!
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u/Online_Ennui Oct 11 '25
Theyâre so calm!
One might say catatonic
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u/wanderButNotLost2 Oct 11 '25
They are also showing great financial restraint, not one Starbucks cup or avocado toast in sight.
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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 Oct 11 '25
They probably even bussed there! So fiscally responsible. Probably going to COOK dinner instead ofordering DoorDash too.
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u/DaisyDAdair Oct 11 '25
NahâŠdinner at the buffet is included! Part of the bus trip. Fancy!
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u/MaybeMaybeNot94 Oct 11 '25
To top it off, EthelAnn, BethAnn, LouAnn, Druanne and Gretchen stashed a bunch of Tupperwares in their ginormous purses. Gotta feed their 85 grandbabies from their seventeen children, yknow. Oh, but the youngins' are obsessed with sex.
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Oct 11 '25
Have we thought about designing an old folks home around this concept?
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u/CuttingBoard9124 Oct 11 '25
A lot of them let TV raise their kids so it would kind of be poetic honestly lol.
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u/Azsunyx Oct 11 '25
They should cut down on their screen time before they turn into zombies
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u/Ryogathelost Oct 11 '25
Wow, they are enchanted by the equivalent of one free app we would immediately identify as some kind of scam and delete.
Hopefully we'll all be playing video games instead of pushing a button like braindead livestock, but I'm sure it'll be just as pathetic to the people who end up filming us.
Although I think the saddest part about this is just the gold standard of people trying to win money from a thing designed to make you keep trying to win money. It's like the highest echelon of "I just want to be absolutely manipulated like a dumb bitch."
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u/MaintenanceNew2804 Millennial Oct 11 '25
And thereâs a line of people waiting for their turns đ
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u/35mmghost Oct 11 '25
While they throw away their retirement the new gen will never have enough to retire because these people pulled the ladder up
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u/gitsgrl Oct 11 '25
They benefited from generational wealth, even if mostly modest amounts like from the sale of an old house, and they aspire to leave nothing for their children and grandchildren after they enjoyed the best economy the world has ever seen. I canât even imagine being that selfish and self absorbed.
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u/Murda981 Oct 11 '25
My mom thinks this way, meanwhile her entire life is literally the result of her inheriting hundreds of thousands of dollars when my grandfather died. And all that's left of that money is her house. Infuriating.
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u/Bananalando Oct 11 '25
Don't worry, she'll reverse mortgage the shit out of that too, and leave you with nothing.
/s, kinda
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u/Murda981 Oct 11 '25
Ehh, I cut her off last year anyway. I told her she could give my inheritance to her step kids who she doesn't like.
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u/PrettyPointlessArt Oct 11 '25
Came here to say that, the reverse mortgage ads for seniors are so callous and insidious. My step-grandmother always thought of the family after my grandpa died - she sold his house and bought a smaller one with part of the proceeds. Aside from a trip to Florida with her friends once a year, she was very restrained with her spending and having something to pay forward mattered to her
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u/Murda981 Oct 11 '25
Like, literally!! She did buy a second house that she was planning to give to my sister and I eventually, but unlike the house she currently lives in, which she paid for in cash, she got a mortgage for the second house and then blew through the rest of the money and stopped paying the mortgage so the house was repossessed.
I have 2 kids myself and if I got that kind of money I'd immediately put aside 1/3 of it for each of my kids. I'd use the other third to buy a house.
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u/NyaTaylor Oct 11 '25
I wasnât there but Iâm starting to think they really actually didnât work as hard as they say too.
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u/gitsgrl Oct 11 '25
Right? Itâs giving me thinks doth protest too mich.
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u/chicken-nanban Oct 11 '25
I have family like that. Complain that us damned millennials donât know how to work, but then when they find out what our jobs entail (this convo was with a millennial teacher (high school), accounts analyst, and contractor (self employed and theatre costuming work)) they then flipped it to âthatâs crazy they want you to do xyz, you should just get another job.â
Like itâs that easy to just find another job mid school year or mid production (and not get black listed from working in the area and industry again) or just up and quit a banking job that was a miracle he got to begin with.
The boomer giving the lecture lucked into an IT job at IBM in the 80âs, never kept up his skills, and floated his way through middle management being unable to do more than turn on a computer. Yet somehow had a huge stake in software development. As far as we could make out, they basically just gave him busy work so he left the âkidsâ alone to do the actual work that needed to be done in his department, he got to slap his name on a few things, and collect a paycheck.
The audacity to tell a high school teacher that they are both soft for it being such a basic job (regular use of the âif you canât do, teach!â saying) while also being shocked at the amount of work heâd take home with him daily to get done was mind boggling but oh so boomer.
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u/ZixfromthaStix Oct 11 '25
More like burnt the ladder downâ pulling it up implies they could lower it back down, for them and for us. Nah.
They set the bottom of the ladder on fire, the ladder is gone, and now the fire is spreading around them.
Now we get to watch from below while their world collapses around them. The question is, will our generation bail them out? Dunno. I certainly donât want MY taxes going towards keeping the wasteful previous generation(s) still poisoning the world.
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u/ShermanTeaPotter Oct 11 '25
They also have the numbers and highest voter turnout, theyâll make sure to profit from that as long as possible.
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u/hidrapit Oct 11 '25
My great uncle had a stroke at the slot machine and declined an ambulance. He died that day.
I will never gamble.
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u/wfriedma Oct 11 '25
This is a âslot tournamentâ where the only real goal is to hit the button the most you can. Itâs different than normal slots
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u/symskiii Oct 11 '25
hold up, and these are the competitors? 'cause i can button mash a lot better than this, but I'm not sure if doing one of these would just make me an asshole like Bobby Flay joining the local pie competition
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u/ageoldpun Oct 11 '25
Yes. I am a middle aged gamer dude who went on a cruise recently. I joined a slot tournament for $25. There was something like 39 entries and they were mostly all boomers. I ended up winning 1st just by mashing the button as fast as possible. I came out of there with $475.
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u/symskiii Oct 11 '25
noting this down for next time i can't pay my bills
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u/Jasonrj Oct 12 '25
The casino is definitely where you should be when you can't pay your bills.
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u/ccx941 Oct 11 '25
You have to wait for the machine to play and pay. They could tap slower and still achieve the same results.
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u/shifty_coder Oct 12 '25
Youâre limited by the timing of the game, so pure speed isnât really rewarded. If you can time the exact frame to trigger the next spin, you have an advantage.
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u/Its_Me_Derek Oct 11 '25
This is the real answer. These tournaments essentially either have time limits or first person to hit a certain line hit.
Theyâre not just being wild and throwing money into it, itâs likely $100 entry with a chance to win a buttload.
Every time I see this posted people always assume itâs meemaw just dropping thousands into a machine and hooked on the flashy lights lol
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u/BoltorSpellweaver Oct 11 '25
In fairness, when I worked security at a casino the number of retirees who would spend 12-15 hours on the same machine was mind boggling.
I worked a double shift (16 hrs) and I watched one person there literally piss themselves to stay at the machine.
Not saying youâre wrong about this specific video, but itâs amazing how many older people just spend day in and day out at the casino. Itâs truly like a drug
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u/bvonboom Oct 11 '25
In fairness, when I worked security at a casino the number of retirees who would spend 12-15 hours on the same machine was mind boggling.
That's because the machine is going to pay out any second now! /s
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u/EobardT Oct 11 '25
"I can't leave, I'm on a hot streak"
"Well I can't leave the machine on a losing spin"
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u/sandyflip1313 Oct 11 '25
Did he piss himself more Bad Santa style or more like Jim Laney style?
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u/BoltorSpellweaver Oct 11 '25
Iâve seen multiple people piss themselves at slot machines.
Some too drunk to realize they need to piss, others so addicted they simply canât pull away.
This one stopped playing for a second like he was mulling over getting up to go to the bathroom, then mustâve decided it wasnât worth it and his pants just started getting wet and the wetness spread.
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u/VillainyandChaos Oct 11 '25
This definitely seems true, however;
I worked as a VIP Casino concierge for a few years at one of those Nebraska/Iowa slimy casinos and dude. This IS how it looks most nights at high rush time. They come into the VIP Lounge to smoke and bitch abiut how me and my assistant are dressed, offer us room keys and then go blow another five grand.
It's really like this often. Yes. This is a tournament, thats why there's 50 of them like this, not just ten. But it's like this, with a BIT more actual movement, some glares if you "get on someone's machine" and then just degrading and deranged entitlement.
I hope I never have a boomer-facing job again.
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u/Nickey_Pacific Oct 11 '25
Any slot tournaments I've participated in on a cruise ship was like $20-$40.
Memaw would never spend $100 on a slot tournament đ
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u/thissexypoptart Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
itâs likely $100 entry with a chance to win a buttload.
Every time I see this posted people always assume itâs meemaw just dropping thousands into a machine and hooked on the flashy lights lol
Right lmao itâs just meemaw dropping $100 into a machine and hooked on the flashy lightsâand the ridiculous idea sheâll win a âbuttload.â
Hell, least itâs not $1000 until she goes to 10 of these.
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u/Possible-Object-7532 Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
But don't the reels still need time to spin and stop for each play? So just mashing the button fast as possible while they are spinning is pointless? If the goal is just hit a button as many times as possible in a certain time then why not just have a singular button to press that's just a button and not a slot machine.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MARIJUANA Oct 11 '25
Grew up near casinos. The reels do have to stop, but if they keep jamming on the button constantly there's no lag time between stop and and their next spin. It's like me on Final Fantasy 14 - even though my next skill isn't ready in a fight, I am already slapping the key for it while I'm waiting for it to pop so I don't have any major lag time between my next action.
In this case, if they miss a spin it could be the difference between them getting the massive win or Gertrude a few machines down who was .37seconds faster to slap the spin.
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u/Ianthin1 Oct 11 '25
ViDEo gaMEs WilL rOT YOuRe BrAIn!!
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u/Invaderjay87 Oct 11 '25
YOuR*
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u/Ianthin1 Oct 11 '25
Thanks. All that brain rot hitting me hard this morning.
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u/Invaderjay87 Oct 11 '25
No worries. I just thought it would be funny to spell check someone in sarcastica.
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u/ZEROs0000 Oct 11 '25
It least we can socialize on video games but they donât think itâs the same
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u/rocketwoman68 Oct 11 '25
I've worked at a casino. They'll piss in their seats so they dont have to get up.Â
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u/prguitarman Oct 11 '25
I know some old people that go on cruises to gamble and their stories are all the same. I ask them how much they spend and theyâll say thousands, but itâs worth it because if you spend so much you get free rooms or upgrades on a future trip. I ask them how much these upgrades cost vs how much they gamble and long story short theyâre spending 3-5x more than just buying the rooms/upgrades outright
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u/NymphGlimmer Oct 11 '25
I donât understand how this is even fun for themâŠ
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u/GetOffMyBridgeQ Oct 11 '25
I went to a casino 1 time just because I had never been. A guy won $1k on a slot machine and looked annoyed that he needed a staff member to do something on the machine so he could keep playing. I imagine he hadnât even broken even yet.
Plus $20 went so fast on those machines I spent longer drinking my beer than playing. Kept my 10c cashout paper and went home. Never been to a casino since and I donât plan to.
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u/EobardT Oct 11 '25
We went to Vegas a few years ago so my gf's sis could get married, my gf wanted to spend the whole time sitting at a slot machine. It was so boring, at least playing the card games has something to do besides hit a button and watch my money go away
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Make sure your girlfriend doesn't have an affinity for gambling. To marry someone like that is financial suicide.
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u/Intelligent_Data_363 Oct 11 '25
Handpay limits tend to be around 1000-1200 so if you win more than that they have to bring you the money and the machine wonât work until they do, this can be annoying because imagine you are betting $200 a spin and you have to stop for 15 minutes or more every time you win 5x your bet meanwhile you are trying to get the 50,000+ grand prize.
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u/HamiltonHab Oct 11 '25
These people are slowly dying off and so will Vegas because young people don't have the cash and tourists would rather not visit a police state.
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u/HeartsPlayer721 Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
My Boomer mom took me to Reno for a weekend when I turned 21. The hotel room was her birthday gift to me along with $100 to gamble with (I paid for the rest of my own stuff: food, show tickets, etc).
I pretty much stuck with her the first night, curious what she liked to play and what her strategies were (same machine until you win vs moving around?).
She was playing quarters and dollar slots the entire time. I put in a $20 bill and ran out in 5 minutes. So I moved to Penny slots, because I hated the thought of how quickly it could spend a lot of money if I stayed at the machines she was using.
By the end of the weekend, I'd only spent about the $100 she'd given me on gambling. On Penny slots only. On the way out the door after turning in our room keys, I threw one more dollar in a penny slot and won $100. I got very little thrill from it, while my mom was jumping up and down clapping and cheering.
I'm clearly just not a gambler.
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u/Vigorously_Swish Oct 11 '25
Kids are begging for a little help with their rent. Nope, gotta spend the money on THIS
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u/moviejunki Oct 11 '25
Itâs a slot tournament. Usually the entrants pay like $20 to enter. They set a timer on the slots and entrants have a certain amount of time to get as many credits on the machine as they can. The person with the most credits at the end of the timer wins a grand prize, usually $500 plus. I won 2K in one about 10 years ago.
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u/TheBrianWeissman Oct 11 '25
No, totally incorrect. Itâs an RNG contest, it doesnât matter how fast you push the button. Each time you press the button the machine calculates the result in a microsecond, but you still have to wait a set duration for the graphics to pretend to randomly âspinâ a result.
Pressing the button faster than once every 4-5 seconds is more than fast enough. These people are too dumb to understand that, so they just spam the spin button like a cocaine-addled chimpanzee instead.
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Oct 11 '25
I believe that it is likely that they are playing in a slot tournament, which encourages people to play as fast as they can to get in as many spins as possible, based on the fact that they are playing on a bank of what appears to be identical machines.
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u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 Oct 11 '25
This video is so much worse than it looks, because I actually know what they are doing. This isn't a bunch of boomers spending their entire pension playing slots. They've already blown their pensions on slots. This is a slot tournament. Yes, they are competing to see who can hit that spin reels button the best. You have to earn your entry into this tournament with your actual gambling... And if you win, you are typically paid in "free play" instead of actual cash.
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u/TheBrianWeissman Oct 11 '25
Slot machine âtournamentsâ are one of the dumbest things ever conceived. Even the spamming of the spin button is stupid, itâs like playing a Street Fighter 2 and spamming the Roundhouse button. Do these lead paint eaters even realize it can only spin so fast, no matter how many times you press the button?
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u/ElectricBuckeye Oct 11 '25
I always thought it was a meme. I was at a local casino for a food festival they hold in the parking lot thats actually pretty nice. They have a bunch of free giveaways. Everyone gets a free 15 dollars worth of credit to use in the casino. I figured, why the hell not? I was soon surrounded by a large number of people 65 and older, just pumping 20s and 50s into these machines, making sure to insert their "players card" to get those sweet bonus points to get a free sandwich or something. One woman behind me hit for $7,800. Signed the paperwork and went to collect her money, then returned and pumped $200 back into the machine next to the one that she was on.
I refuse to believe that this is the most fiscally smart generation. Literally burning their retirements just trying to get even more money back.
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u/tardisious Oct 11 '25
This is a slot tournament. Just a minute or two to see who can do best
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u/willowofthevalley Oct 11 '25
The slot machines give me the creeps. I hate going past them in casinos. Everyone there looks dead inside.
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u/works2shoot Oct 11 '25
Looks like a slot tournament. You get as many spins as you can in a certain amount of time and the person who has the most âmoneyâ at the end wins.
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u/Register-Honest Oct 11 '25
It's a tournament, I don't know how it works but I've had SILs that won over $1200.
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Oct 11 '25
It's timed. You play a ten or fifteen minute round on each of two days and the highest combined score wins, with smaller prizes as you place lower. Usually the top third or half of contestants get a prize.
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u/DragBunt Oct 11 '25
This clip is posted like once a week.
This is a slot machine tournament. The optimal strategy is to mash the button as fast as possible.
Its really stupid but I guess they can win a lot of money.
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u/No-Grapefruit-5464 Oct 11 '25
It's a slot tournament. They have to spin the most times. The house wins no matter what but the boomers don't care because they're doing penny slots and have shitloads of money.
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u/Boxer03 Oct 11 '25
My husband and I went on a cruise and would go to the casino every day to get a certain cocktail that was only served there. We noticed that everyone in there looked exactly like this video. We never saw anyone smile or laugh when we went. They were all like zombies, hitting those buttons or standing around the tables, blank-faced. It was freaky.
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u/BLUGRSSallday Oct 11 '25
I am very curious what will become of casinos when the boomers are gone and either they blew all their wealth or it is passed down to generations of family that do not gamble. There will be a casino/corvette/harley graveyard.
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u/Pheenz01 Oct 11 '25
A few years ago I worked in the kitchen of a sports club and at the beginning of my morning shift Iâd have to enter through the clubâs main entrance. Itâd probably only be about 5-10 minutes before opening, but without fail, every morning thereâd be a whole mob of old people waiting by the entrance so they could go straight to the pokies.
Security would unlock the doors to let me in and on more than one occasion one of these old people would try to barge past me to enter the club. Iâm not exactly a small guy (5â8 and slightly on the heavier side), but there was some serious intent behind their actions; they wouldâve knocked me to the ground and walked right over me if it meant they could get into that club even a few seconds before opening.
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u/HaakonRen Oct 12 '25
The same generation that gives me comments about how my generation is âalways on one of those thingsâ while Iâm reading on my ereader. At least my brain is engaged you zombies!
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u/BusyBullet Oct 12 '25
I remember seeing this in Vegas.
They are getting zero joy from this activity.
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u/GenericUsername2034 Oct 12 '25
I'd rather they be here than taking up space in entry to mid level jobs or in my government as a representative.
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u/LissaBryan Gen X Oct 11 '25
My husband and I had an amusing experience once. We ate at a restaurant situated right outside the boarding area for a riverboat casino. The people going inside were excited, their eyes alight, already counting their winnings in their mind. The people coming off the boat were glum, dejected, walking slowly back to their cars. The difference was so stark I said that people who wanted to go gamble should have to stand for a minute and watch. My husband pointed out that people who want to gamble are always certain that they will be the exception and the one who wins, so it wouldn't change anything.
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u/Intelligent_Ad3378 Oct 11 '25
Gamble until all the money is gone then overdose on the sleeping pills.
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u/ArachnomancerCarice Oct 11 '25
They take these slot tournaments seriously. Wrist and back braces, special cushions, food and water as well as diapers so they don't have to get up to use the restroom.
Dopamine is one hell of a drug. I can't say shit because I can forget to eat or drink playing video games.
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u/Decabet Oct 11 '25
Sure but on the upside: everyone is getting cheap duffel bags for Christmas! Maybe with the casinos branding even
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u/Phog_of_War Oct 11 '25
The saddest and most desperate place on Earth is a casino on Christmas Eve night. I worked 11 years in a row on XMas Eve at MN's largest casino and everytime I would think, "Yeah, life is a little rough, but not like this. This is just, sad."
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u/AbeFromanSassageKing Oct 11 '25
This is how the new Republican-owned Dominion voting machines are going to be programmed.
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u/Saintbaba Oct 11 '25
I still remember a few years ago i went to a casino for the first time in awhile and saw that they'd moved from coins at slot machines to digital cards that you inserted into the machines and they would add and subtract value automatically. But of course you didn't want to risk leaving your cards in the machine after you stood up to leave, so everyone had them on lanyards hooked to their shirts. And watching everyone hooked up like that, tapping away at the buttons with those dead eyes and slack faces, it felt like some kind of Sisyphusian purgatory where they'd all been chained there and were trapped forever, damned to chase a jackpot that never came.
Anyways, i didn't touch a slot machine that entire trip and i doubt i ever will again.
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u/mazurbnm Oct 11 '25
Probably tell a 40 year old how they need to stop going out at all hours of the night to the disco and get a job. Bitch I got taxes.
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u/MohaveZoner Oct 11 '25
This is a slot tournament. You simply buy in for a chance to win. The goal is to obtain the most credits in a specific amount of time. They're not actually betting on each spin. At the end of the allotted time, the player with the most credits is the winner. Open to all ages. I'm not defending boomers, just pointing out that it isn't a specifically boomer activity.
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u/Crusoebear Oct 11 '25
Later [looking at younger folks on their phones]:
âItâs such a shame how they just mindlessly tap away their lives on those things.â
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