Post by @ifixcoinops@retro.social

2026-09-29 03:18 UTC

All these mathematicians and I still had to figure out for myself that this machine sells jellybeans at pretty much exactly a tenth of their wholesale price, which means that its whimsy must remain in my basement I can get a ten-cent coin mech for about forty bucks, which is about forty bucks more than I paid for this thing, and given a good location and assuming jellybeans don't get any more expensive it would pay for itself in under one human generation Some machines are pets and not livestock

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-09-29 03:55

If you missed the maths in the replies, my maths was fucked, every COMBINATION is not every ORDER is not every TASTE, and we're after TASTEs here, example: First penny: Pineapple, raspberry, orange, lemon and watermelon Second penny: Raspberry, watermelon, orange, pineapple and lemon That's the same combination in a different order that results in the same taste, and it's the tastes that are important to this machine's thesis, all we did there was flick the same five beans around until they got jumbled up but the taste is identical So the maths is off by orders of magnitude, alright, so how much does that change the outcome? It doesn't change it in the slightest because you will STILL DIE you will encounter more fleeting tastes than you can remember and then DIE of Too Much Jellybeans this is what this machine offers for just one penny another reason I can't let it out of the house

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@just_one_bear@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 04:08

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I would like to say that "Some machines are pets and not livestock" is a phrase that hits so hard that it leaves me speechless but no, it's just caused a log jam as all the reactions in my brain are trying to get out. It's like a mental keyboard smash up there. So thanks for that. Also: damnit! But also thanks.

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