No deal, not ever.
I'm not one of those people who goes around bashing the collective intelligence of the American People. The American People are plenty smart, if you ask me. And I also don't go in for that kind of snobbism that takes it for granted that television is an idiot box. As long as people like David Milch ("Deadwood'') and Aaron Sorkin ("Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip'') are working in TV, the medium is safe.
But I happened to be flipping around the dial last night and came across some game show called "Deal or No Deal.''
Honest to goodness, there's no skill at all involved. Contestants pick numbered briefcases in the hopes that when there is one left, it will have big bucks in it.
It's an hour long! A slow motion lottery drawing.
What in the name of Philo T. Farnsworth am I missing here?
But I happened to be flipping around the dial last night and came across some game show called "Deal or No Deal.''
Honest to goodness, there's no skill at all involved. Contestants pick numbered briefcases in the hopes that when there is one left, it will have big bucks in it.
It's an hour long! A slow motion lottery drawing.
What in the name of Philo T. Farnsworth am I missing here?
posted by Michael Riley at 10:47 AM
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No skill at all involved? Hmmm, sounds like the games at Atlantic City. The casinos are so adamant that their games remain non-skilled that they have gotten legislators to pass laws giving them persmission to throw out skilled gamblers, such as card-counters. They call them "cheaters" which means they use skill to improve their odds. That is clearly not desirable because the casinos want to make a lot of money. That's understandable. What is not understandable is why so many people spend money at casinos playing those mindless games.
Same reason we sit and watch mindless TV shows or do any mindless activity..(i.e. sit in a dingy or in a Northwest ice house with a fishing rod hours on end awaiting the "big one")because it IS mindless..that is the point and for some, mindless is relaxing after having to mentally exert themselves the majority of their day.
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