twovests

twovests OP wrote

Yeah, that's another issue. I was looking at this as "their business model is to lose money to get people hooked, but if I don't get hooked, I'm just taking money from an evil business."

But that ~$200 loss is subsidized by the people who do get hooked. The fact that they offer $200 in bonus bets means they're expecting to extract at least $200 from every person who takes the bet to break even, which is a mind-boggling amount to spend to gamble.

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twovests wrote

There's something called a rainbow table which is used for hacking. The idea is to save all the password hashes you crack, to reuse later.

Luckily, Postmill salts password hashes. Even in the event of a breach, a rainbow table could not be used on them.

(That said, if your password is weak, it'll still be easy to crack)

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twovests OP wrote

By "nonlinear cost function", I mean scenarios where the dollars gained are worth more than those lost, or scenarios with quantifiable factors other than dollars gained and lost.

I've gambled four times in my life under a nonlinear cost function:

  • Need 4 Pee: Bladder 'bout to blast, I hid myself away into a Boston Bodega, begging for the bathroom. "For customers only," said the sign, and the cheapest product was a $2 scratch off. I paid, peed, and knew my winnings: One trip to the bathroom. This was nonlinear because I was going to pee.

  • Not going to finish that? Years ago, I went to a casino with a friend, and having had never used the machines before, I wanted to try them out. I had $40. The experience was underwhelming, but someone had left cash in the machine and I win on my first bet. I ended up coming out with $100. This was nonlinear because (1) I was paying for the novel experience, and (2) I ended up getting free money.

  • Orange lining: This most recent election, I put some money on Trump. The thinking was this would hedge against layoffs a bit, and give me something to look forward to even in the worst case. I didn't put in a lot, maybe I should have? This was nonlinear because I expected dollars to be worth less if Trump won, and also for emotional reasons.

  • The 401K account counts too: Putting money into investment account is also gambling. But that employer match and tax incentive makes it nonlinear, even if you believe the economy is just a bubble.

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twovests OP wrote


The aforementioned admin ramble: June of last year, I was made Official System Administrator of Just Post, but my admin boolean was set false in the database. I would turn it on occasionally to crouton a spam post here or there. But I had it set false most of the time, because I felt weird having all these admin controls throughout the user interface. It felt like having a nuke button next to my "post" button. But I'm done with feeling weird about that and I am now just keeping the admin bool set to true. In retrospect, that's also the more transparent thing to do, since I think it shows up on my profile. And in practice, there's no real difference anyways

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by victoria in Fuck by victoria

Hey, I know you might not see this, but I really hope you're still around somewhere in the world.

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twovests wrote (edited )

But they have the following excellent games:

  • Chrome Dino Game -- Light Version
  • Chrome Dino Game -- Night Version
  • Color Running Dinosaur
  • Running Mario Game Online
  • Mario
  • Batman vs Joker Game Online
  • Batman
  • Joker vs city
  • Joker
  • Chrome Dino Game -- Wednesday Addams Game
  • Wednesday
  • Chrome Dino Game -- Godzilla Runner Game
  • Godzilla
  • Squid Game Runner
  • Squid Game
  • Running Mario Game Online
  • Halloween
  • Batman vs Joker Game Online
  • Santa
  • Naruto
  • Dino 3D
  • Minion
  • Warrior

Don't you want to "<redacted>: Bringing Gotham's Infamous Joker to the Classic Dino Game"? It's a reskin of the dino game, but with shitty Joker sprites and all the sound effects are Joker laughing.

It's actually kind of endearing. The pixel art looks handmade, even if the web host didn't make it, and it's all so bad it looks like they really struggled to put this together. The Dino 3D one is the only one that isn't a reskin-- it's a totally different stolen game.

There's an admin page at <redacted>admin/login.aspx

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