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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not gambling if it was 100% skill 😀

I never won one of these btw

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a strategy to it! Instead of dropping coin down every last blade, little kid me aligned the machine a particular way so the coin would drop all the way down to the second to last blade. Then I would nudge the coin to the edge, then twist and suddenly stop to give it enough force to not just fall straight down, but also not enough to fling it past the final blade. I'd say I won around half the time, and intentionally only did it once every so often to not arise suspicion you could game it well. I was sad when my 25 cent burritos were taken away for good after this machine left, ah well.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. I was so good at it. I still remember the manager snide remark about how I didn't actually care about the charity, and me being like, "yup, now about those burritos..."

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

Not gambling if the prizes aren't worth anything. /s

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Right. Like those skill arcades popping up are πŸ’― fair to the gamer, and not in any way rigged in the owner’s favor.