I design slot machines for a large international gaming company and I have worked in the casino industry most of my life. Balatro is as much of a gambling game as Bridge, Backgammon, Cribbage, Canasta .. or for that matter Old Maid and Go Fish. Balatro as a gambling game violates no less than five Nevada Gaming…

A tu quoque followed by a concern troll .. nice zod.

There was a slot machine in the 90's called Rain of Diamond (I think) it was attached to a vending machine. When you won the jackpot the vending machine would release a package that contained a diamond ring. Also, there are the slot machine banks where the top jackpot is a car or a motorcycle. In class 2 machines (and…

There are a number of gambling devices that give you prizes instead of cash. Of course the old slot machines would give you packets of gum that you traded in for cash.

I worked for a slot machine company for about ten years and loot boxes seem to fit what Nevada and New Jersey consider a gambling device. I think it qualifies as a class 2 gambling system.

Full disclosure .. I was a writer on the clue book for EOB1 but I was a writer and did design for EOB2

Full disclosure .. I was a writer on the clue book for EOB1 but I was a writer and did design for EOB2

I was a designer and writer on the RPG Eye of the Beholder series. Too bad there wasn’t an RPG design button that I could have pushed. It would have made life so much better than drawing all those maps on graph paper. Oh .. the late 80's ..

I was a designer and writer on the RPG Eye of the Beholder series. Too bad there wasn’t an RPG design button that I…

When did Obama or Clinton call Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man”? When did Obama say that he grabs women by the vajayjay and just starts kissing them? When did Obama say he likes to look in on adolescent girls? When did Obama or Clinton claim “Stolen Valor” by taking a vet’s Purple Heart? When did Obama or Clinton ever say the…

I have a 2014 Subaru Forester and except for one fatal flaw - the outer plastic lip on the rear hatch dips below six feet and I end up clipping my large melon-like head on it at least once a week .. other than that - I love my my Forester and it has amazingly got me and my girlfriend out of some pretty nasty jams ..

The Night King is a lich and the White Walkers are wights. Zombies are non-sentient creatures with agency. Wights are semi-sentient creatures with no agency or free-will. My opinion for what its worth.

You’re wrong sir ..

I fell out of touch with these guys, but as of three years ago, the Cirque actors would put on a secret circus about once every two to three months. It cost about ten dollars to get in and the Cirque cast would try out new acts. They usually meet at the Cockroach Theater.

From an extraterrestrial’s point of view: Bald and hapless monkeys traveling in a motorized steel and hydrocarbon cage, slow down to mock a magnificent and ferocious predator and then by quickly burning the residue of ancient microbes, accelerate from the deadly attack - laughing as they cowardly retreat.

It proves that not only does NK have a way of separating VX into two inert ingredients but it can transport those ingredients into a secure airport, mix them together and initiate an attack. Imagine if this happened in LAX or JFK. Secondly, what would stop NK from loading a type of cobalt bomb onto a Taiwanese or…

What message do you think North Korea was sending when they carried out a successful VX nerve agent attack in a Malaysian airport? 

They’re making it an outdoor mall because people need to smoke. That was the main problem with indoor malls. Vice drives us all.

My mother who lived in Las Vegas would take pictures of the atomic bomb blasts and then run and put the camera in the truck of her car.

As an old man, it has been my experience that everything good eventually turns into Disneyland: over-marketed, hyper-crowded and helicopter parented. Not to mention as expensive as hell.