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HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY BE DESIGNED TO TRICK ME.

HOW CAN I LOSE / OTHERS GET MORE PROFIT?

Visual examples for "fair-looking" games which have hidden design or rely on your lack of understanding.

video = Tricks Carnivals Don't Want You To Know About
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iyG0p3iK3IA

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I found lots of people (even great people) thinking money is somehow fair and that it's only for us to get it...

I have found people (on Mastodon) who didn't trust (banks and government) so much but somehow think money is just a tool.
Sort of not really a problem or main problem / actually quite neutral / just numbers / designed fair!!!!
but the answer is something to ask EVERY TIME...

1. A TOOL FOR WHO?
2. WHO DESIGNS IT?
3. IS IT CONSTANTLY CHANGING?
4. WAS IT DEVELOPED ALSO FOR OTHER THINGS?

Thinking life is unfair isn't my aim here only IT'S TO REALLY WAKE UP AND NOT BE NAIVE!

It might be you underestimating how much over the years people thoughts about the massive profit they want and to make it as low-key as possible... (not to hit you over the head but slowly or using games/transactions siphon it / draw the %'s out)...

If games are made fair perhaps you don't understand them yet- so allow me to show this video - it touched many of the points I touch on in my posts... and provides a simple kind-of equivalent to how you can play things easy and wonder why you fail or why you almost just about maybe kinda of get the prize probably at the cost of more than you paid....

I was really sure technology can be developed to trick you and well look at all the videos online it's a real education!

https://yewtu.be/search?q=carnival+cheats

And in turn this is much like money games- you just don't see it behind the numbers, formula they constructed and even change every day or regularly without making it clear.

List of games as a simile / metaphor for life (in order of video):

Balloon / Dart throw [soft balloon, needs massive speed / accuracy, prizes are in the corners and therefore harder to hit)

Duck Pond Game (wins every time but not jackpot as 99% are not wins).

Free Throw / Basketball type games [Different rings, over-inflated. different height, non-standard distance, not the same park free-throw]

Tricky Tubs (2 balls in tub) [plastic tubs, angled tubs]

Bottle Toss [weighted bottles in Pyramid, Ball isn't equivalent to bottles, need hitting at very bottom]

Baseball toss [radar is slower than standard, are tweakable by booth owners like many modern games like Claw Games],

Ring Toss Games [rings are plastic and light / bouncy, almost impossible even if you did it above bottle)

Shoot The Star [BB Guns + paper] not well powered gun, sight off + Paper can't be ripped when floppy

Rope Ladder (essentially is a Tightrope because it's fixed only at one point in the wall... the rungs also is misleading as putting hands and legs in tht position off-balances you),

Cheaper prizes than cost to play
[entry fee covers prize]

Perhaps this last one people know and people play for fun, but the rest is people not realising the soft-cheating / physics at play which I think is what is happening in life.

Life equivalent = house prices
Houses are built and people pay over and over for simply the same house paid off (even with profit still infinite profit goes on)
It doesn't need anyone to pay it off at some point but banks and government get endless money just for people living in a house... they 'lease' and encourage house prices to sky rocket just to get the tax off each house each time someone buys or sells or own land. Just wasted 10's of 10,000's

Hope you get some of this
or can list your own... thanks

@blueplanetslittlehelper I'm just saving energy right now...
I have the wood but it will go longer if I wait a bit...

I gave up on gas heating.
(SIDE TOPIC FOLLOWS)
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For story about gas heating read on... otherwise no need.
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My reasons why not gas
- needs expensive boilers which are highly efficient **IF** they work and the moment they don't it's VERY expensive for parts
- expensive for gas engineer oer hour (can buy new heating system instead!) and they have to come, spend time
- AND you pay for parts / new boiler sometimes .
- you can't really legally touch the gas yourself also and is a bit of a danger
- I also think the energy companies regularly pump up prices and another trap...

but what to do in the city?

OLDER STORY
So when I did have gas / "central heating" and it broke I had to cal a person for 20mins here and there and realised quickly NA!

Instead I just got electric water boiler from ebay - like a big tea urn with a big coil (exactly like your kettle but bigger) and it was like 50 + 10 pounds for extra coil element! So a big kettle which in the end I think saves a lot of hassle and complicated expensive possibilities. Took 40 mins to boil big bath very hot (I guess I could have attached a pipe for showering but it already was ok for instant fix...

I put this boiler / almost cylinder shape in the bathroom and put the extension outside so it doesn't get wet.

Closed off the gas and the boiler just stayed there.
Peace of mind.
No gas company bills (electricity already had), no parts, no gas man to pay etc...

I don't have hot water all the time here now anyway (that was back in the day),,, I boil / cook it or just use cold almost all of the time.

In winter stove is always on sp hot water is always sitting on the stove boiling using a pot (again like before!) or stainless steel kettle which boil from contact and heat from stove.

Not heating here yet... made excuse to cook and imagine it warms up place and eat hot food instead...
which also I was not doing (cooking half a week of food) but as it gets colder I step up the warming of food and then warming of place...

@PawelK BENCHMARKING SITES? Sounds good...

BUT who will do all my wonderful ideas... (just to start) :)

oh ok time for a freeschool.0id.org page
(goes off to the clean the dusty website cupboards)

So send me you site benchmarks or whatever you notice + / - !!!
(simple or complicated form is ok)
and I'll upload pics / make collection...

(I'm going to run after pressing this "TOOT" button)

@m0xee @james I'm a stickler for https://yewtu.be/ type link BTW more than youtube!

Keyword in what you said is *usually* and I take responsibility for link more than that aiming for 100% / to cover my back also for what I push as links. Especially those that have no clue are most vulnerable and even the lazy (anyone / everyone).

If it's not to hard I do it at all.
(so if people have it or not then my way = NO advert and NO tracking as the goal and at least from my links and what I do there is 0 chance + habits are formed and not forgotten)
This I feel is underestimated per click even for one unknowing person (multiplied by how many link$ you put online which can be a lot or a lot in total over time)

Like said I'm a stickler and don't accept chance - I simply just change the youtube to yewtu.be

I don't accept much less but this just my thing and it's politics / backed my thinking depending how far you take it and how much you see what they are doing (reducing that to near 0 is best and therefore near-100% ways I like).

Appreciate your take on it.
but no (only joking!)
*cough* I mean it's unacceptable to me :) and more to the point past this is the thanks for music and love for it! Love to talk more about that / listen to whatever you make !

@james AUDIO LOOP / MUSIC ELECTRONIC

Is quite "Zen" with part of it looped :)

Track Name: Rob Sonic - Space Cadet
(corrected name - thanks for head-up)

Anyone into music?
Want to create music together?

#LOOP #GAME #MUSIC
#CREATE #TOGETHER
Link to post: https://mstdn.starnix.network/@james/109016411223622408
(can get the original there too!)

@rastinza
GARDEN & FOOD - EXCHANGE PICTURES?
...LIKE A PENPAL / PING-PONG?
Send me something!

CHECK HOW MUCH DATA / ENERGY A SITE SUCKS / PUMPS OUT

So I realized I usually use what is a low footprint (how much download and upload speed it sucks or draws from one computer to another)

Imagine all this stuff takes energy to run... and each action uses energy (data and processing power to get it to you).

How much it sucks or pumps is going to effect the footprint consumption,

I THINK THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE

- A LOT OF DATA IS DEAD AFTERWARDS (NOT USED WISELY, EVEN LOADED MANY TIMES)

- DISPOSABLE ENERGY IS NOT A GOOD IDEA SOMETIMES (STREAMING ALL THE TIME)

Especially things streaming or updating a lot... here are my tests:

---> lichess.org = Kb/s !!
Nominal about 3-10Kb/s !!
Sometimes spikes if loading a new game but straight back down after+ lichess has NO ADVERTS!...
lichess = is 'Libre Chess'

---> OwnCast = 1mb/s
- OwnCast defaults at 1mb/s (horrible / a lot if it's just people filming their hands on keyboard or even low-action livecast!)

Imagine people sharing connections and wondering why internet is slow!

Another point is even if you have super fast net, you're still killing the world faster by using heavy sites or using sites heavily... anyway test a site for yourself!

WANT TO TRY?

- Test a site for a while (some applications show average or maximums but keep an eye while playing a game

- Advertising probably even on and idle site download things actively / aggressively - got any examples?

- I'd appreciate people to MENTION WHAT APPS THEY USE (to measure bandwidth and speeds incoming / outgoing)
(ESPECIALLY LINUX)

#data = #energy
more data = more energy
#games = lots of bandwidth?

and remember it's not only download but the other computers UPloading and needing to do that (at the same time often!)

WOULD LOVE PEOPLE TO MEASURE THEIR GAMES #download / #upload

@Djeep OK! I thought dedouchatonium was in amply supply...

so is douchatonium a thing? I'm not familiar with these terms -
please explain :)