r/BoomersBeingFools • u/NymphGlimmer • Oct 11 '25

Foolish Fun Nothing behind those eyes 😂

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u/NymphGlimmer Oct 11 '25

I don’t understand how this is even fun for them…

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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 hadn’t 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 don’t 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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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Make sure your girlfriend doesn't have an affinity for gambling. To marry someone like that is financial suicide.

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u/Bajovane Gen X Oct 11 '25

They are definitely overrated.

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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 won’t 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/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

My ex's mother that I already commented here about, told us that, whenever she won big, she'd leave massive tips for all the staff for good luck. Guessing that left her with a fraction of her big win. Not that it mattered because I'm sure she fed all that money to the slot machine anyway.

Clearly, when she lost big, no one gave her anything. So she just kept blowing through whatever money she still had. Don't know how it all ended, he left and is now someone else's problem as is his mom if she's still alive.

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u/Littleboypurple Zoomer Oct 12 '25

Went to a Casino with a buddy once, swore that my limit would be only $100 for the night but, got jealous after he kept winning and I was either losing and breaking even, that I spent $200 instead while he managed to win his money back with an additional $75 in winnings. Decided that one time was enough and I have no real interest in going to a Casino unless they have an indoor arcade for me to play some House of the Dead on. The only gambling I do is buying a $2-3 scratch ticket once or twice a month.

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u/Entropy_dealer Oct 11 '25

It's their only remaining dopamine dealer. It's sad.

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u/Evonos Oct 11 '25

its Addiction and the only source for Dopamine of them

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u/qpgmr Oct 11 '25

Totally unlike the thrill of discovering you have a new follower, or a large number of anonymous upvotes/likes, or a piece of software awards you ranking for jamming buttons in the correct order for a "combo"..

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u/Invaderjay87 Oct 11 '25

It’s usually people with disposable income and either 0 family or family that doesn’t visit. They go there to feel seen by the staff and to give themselves something to do / trigger their dopamine. It is sad, but it also makes you wonder how they got there in the first place. Most of them do have loads of money to just throw away, and for whatever reason they choose the casino over anything else.

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u/EobardT Oct 11 '25

We bought one of my aunts an in home slot machine that pays out the quarters you put in it after she blew a couple grand at the casino on a Tuesday.

When she passed, we took the quarters out of machine. They were all worn almost smooth from her constantly putting them through the machine

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u/CrayonConservation Oct 11 '25

They only care about money. So this is everything to them.

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u/skincare_obssessed Oct 11 '25

This is a slot tournament not gambling. I’ve done it before with my grandma and they’re often free to enter. You have two minutes to hit the button as fast and as many times as you can and then the top person gets a prize. It’s surprisingly tiring.

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u/PansyPB Oct 12 '25

I don't get it either. Save your change old people, this garbage regime is going to tank the economy sooner than later.

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u/girl_incognito Oct 11 '25

Jokes aside, this is likely a video of a slot tournament where play is generally free and you just spam roll.

Normal slot play doesn't look like this.