Its Friday night and time to go wild! Today I had a Dabao Evaluation Board for the Baochip-1x @baochip.com delivered. I don't have an IR microscope (yet) so i can't inspect the silicon but i can X-ray the board!

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And then, of course, right when they hit that point, you send a "customer appreciation rep" to offer them free stuff. 'I see you're on a losing streak, here, have this coupon for our stakehouse'. And thus they're positive-reinforced right back into the gambling cycle.

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A thing I think about a lot is how directly this stuff is descended from casino customer-tracking apps as they were emerging in the 90s. Addiction By Design covers this in a chapter - casinos harvest data on videoslot players and then measure exactly where their "Frustration point" is on losses.

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I noticed this with a game I started playing and enjoyed so I threw them some money. They immediately reduced rewards for watching ads by over a third so I said oh. I guess you don't want my money huh... And I stopped paying them ever again.

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Maybe it’s because I am a dev, but I picked up on these patterns while I was playing Block Blast and quit when I noticed something like this was going on. Because it’s not subtle if you know how gameplay loops work. Glad to hear it confirmed and the code behind it.

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