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104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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Playing Really Fast Slot Machines

slot machines have been designed to give players what they want. They use haptic feedback so nowadays these are generally on touch screens and previously they had you know one-armed bandit sort of handles that you pull down. All the sounds are played in the key of C because sounds played in theKey of C apparently are more generally well liked among people somehow they just sound better. The whole money-eating system was gradually evolved to the point of a revolution basically the mouth change here first it was you would have to put in coins and then pull the lever. It's too slow second it takes a lot of effort because you have to keep moving your armYou can pay for like an hour of

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