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Chewster posted...

I haven't seen much of Penn & Teller Bullshit, but didn't they actually talk about contentious topics? For example stuff like psychics and GMOs. Adam Ruins Everything just seems like it's deliberately contrarian... which I guess is kind of the point given the name of the show, but it's like "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT ____ IS WRONG" clickbait in TV form.

Some of the shit he puts out there is misleading. I remember one about slot machines and I think he said something like they deliberately make it look like you're close to a win get you to keep playing. That isn't how they work, it's fully random. There are ways to design the reels and pay outcomes so that there's a high chance of it coming up as something that seems close, but the machine doesn't just "select" a near-win outcome.

Penn and teller had some great topics and some less than great topics. And it is over ten years old, so a lot of the things are already pretty dated. Its still awesome and I wasnt trying to talk shit about it.

And slot machines absolutely do deliberately make it look like your close to winning. Go max bet next time and as it passes one of the bonus spins or if you land on a special cleopatra or if you get two out of five of Willy Winonas candy bars itll make a loud sound and light up even if you havent won anything, and youll go, aw man so close!

It is random, but even in random they can make it seem like you were close to winning even though you were just as close when you didnt get any of the willy wonkas candy bars