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people who drinks water, those waterholics
It'd be even funnier if they had "Would you gamble with those odds?" in a real serious tone, trying to make it relevant to gamblers, but yeah gambling addicts go yeah, 4:1, "I win these" "the quiters go bankrupt, gotta roll to win"
My understanding is that 1-800-gambler is how casinos were able to be legalized in Maryland. Instead of paying taxes, casinos have to pay some fixed cost to fund anti-gambling programs.
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark that this billboard is just as effective as any program that is funded by the casino industry.
Meanwhile, X-Com players are like...
you just brought back nightmares. 90% might as well be 0
The problem is that humans don't understand odds and xcom pretended that wasn't the case. 90% doesn't mean "guaranteed thing" it means "1 in 10 chance to miss".
I should replay XCOM...
"Han! The odds of avoiding bankruptcy are 4:1!"
"Never tell me the o-oh. Actually, that's not bad. Yeah, no, let's keep going."
Nah, I'd win
20% just means you try 5 times and hit it big. Less if you're lucky, I like those odds baby