Lost in this frustrating slot machine conspiracy is the fact that I never got the chance to spin the Fame or Shame wheel and win a shirt or a watch or whatever prize it dispatches. Oh, wait, the writer of that episode died in 1967. Is it a conspiracy? Are these NPCs paid by the casino to sit there and win to convince idiots (me) that these are the loosest (and only) slots in town? Are they all part of a collective of cheaters who cracked these machines' algorithms and know how to hit the jackpot 25% of the time and won't tell me how they do it? Did one of my many, many deaths in GTA Online deliver me to hell, like in that Twilight Zone episode, but instead of me always winning, everyone else is always winning? (Note to the writer of that episode: that would be a much more punishing version of hell. Over and over again I'd walk past a gambler or park my ass next to one of them and they'd come up all sevens. That was it! Three lousy goddamn grapes.Īt the end of the night I was down 10 grand on a slot machine with a max bet of $25.Īll the AI-controlled NPCs, though? In that same period of time they won hundreds of thousand of dollars. I'm not saying I never won anything-each slot has a symbol that pays off even if you only get one or two of them, but in all that time I hit three symbols exactly once. I played slots for two solid hours last night because in addition to having no life I wanted to gather evidence.
