[RajT88]

I live in IL, and digital slots have taken over so many spaces. Online sports betting is bad enough, but more than that is going on.

Not just bars, but restaurants. Places you might take a date for nice Italian food have little corners with digital slots. Gas stations, Taco joints, sometimes an entire business in a strip mall dedicated to digital slots.

It's insane. The only place like it I'd seen prior to a some years back was Nevada. Businesses must be making crazy money off of them to be so prolific in putting them in, and that money comes from somewhere (i.e. not likely to be casual players).

[autoexec]

I passed through some of the cities around Chicago and was shocked by seeing the random slot machines everywhere. It brought to mind the hospital scene in idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymc2SGJkk0

That said, I actually played one at a restaurant while waiting for a carry out order and it ended up killing some time and paying for our meal that day. The impending downfall of society paid off for me that afternoon.