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7 more scans of The Billboard are now up! This concludes the large box of incredibly rare (though crumbling) Billboard magazines I was given at Ontario Pinfest.
1935-1946 represented, huge range
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-billboard-1935-04-13-1936-10-31.html
#pinball #retroarcade #scans #slotmachines #skeeball

bunch of scanned flyers and magazines from Japan
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-flyers-and-magazines-from-japan.html
#retroarcade #japan #scans #slotmachines #eremeka #arcade #jukebox

"Coin-operated vendors did not require their owner-operator to be present for every sale. When placed in the appropriate location, these robust machines only had to be filled, maintained, and protected from theft to be profitable. Vending machines were offered with various designs and mechanisms to suit operators and their clientele. During the early twentieth century, these compact and simple, coin-operated vendors were placed atop the counters of stores, restaurants, and bars across the United States. Countertop vending machines dispensed small products that were best suited to sales of a single item. Postage and postcard machines conveniently vended items for mail correspondence outside of the post office, such as the Duplex stamp vendor, which fed one- and two-cent stamps from rolls behind glass sides. Jackson Vending’s safety match vendors, popular in cigar stores, public houses, and saloons, dispensed a box of safety matches from a rotating carousel housed under a glass dome. All objects courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum. "The Automatic Age: Coin-Operated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. http://bit.ly/CoinOperated" This was posted to our Instagram account on January 19, 2018 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729358697/

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Well - today we travel home. During the break I hardly raised a camera - I wanted a full break - to just be in the moment. I did make a couple images though..

#slotmachines on the floor in blurred #abstract behind beads of the #Cosmopolitan #Chandelier #bar #Vegas #x100vi

#SlotMachines vs #VibeCoding

copied because of missing alt text, text in my words

Slots: You buy chips

AI Coding; You buy tokens.

You spin the slots vs. hit generate

jackpot or nothing thrill vs working app with no work or lots of work and no app

flashing lights, catchy music vs Great Idea, fake feedback

I have my own strategy vs I am a prompt engineer

one more spin and i´ll win it all back vs one more prompt and it will all work

the casino always wins vs tech bros always win

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all fun? yes
still true? also yes

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706599.3720003

The Dark Addiction Patterns of Current #AI Chatbot Interfaces

#AIEthics

Table of slot machines vs vibe coding

at the top a picture of a slot machine vs a picture of a white beaded man sitting in front of a laptop

text in the post,

Addicts Share Stories of Loss and Desperation Caused by UK Slot Machines

In the UK, the rise of low-stakes slot machines has fueled an increase in gambling addiction. These machines, often found in arcades and adult gaming centers (AGCs), allow players to spend hundreds of pounds per hour despite offering lower individual stakes than previous high-stakes machines like FO... [More info]