Ray’s Reviews > Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas > Status Update

Chapter 5, on its own, is a series of escalating horrors. The story of intensified consumer capitalism in a nutshell. As above, so below.

"The solitary, uninterrupted process of machine play, by contrast, tends to produce a steady, trancelike state that 'distracts from internal and external issues' such as anxiety, depression, and boredom."

"They don’t talk about competition or excitement—they talk about climbing into the screen and getting lost.”