June 1st, 2007 broadcast

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This is a partial transcription of Ben's June 01, 2007 broadcast

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Okay, in order, um, the first song, "Black Plastic" by Ladytron, which I think I've played before. Um, second song, "The Bells" by I:Scintilla, Eye colon Scintilla, which makes it hard to find on the internet. Um. And I think, like, Katie got it, bought it through youtu-- or I-Tunes, why youtunes, I-Tunes, um, and I think that may be, one of the only, few distribution, I don't know, I had a lot of trouble finding this, but Katie had bought it on, on I-Tunes, so it wasn't a problem anyway, so there it is. And the last song was "Tomorrow", which you may have recognized the words and tune for, however this was a cover by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, who I don't, I don't remember why I bought them, I think I was looking for a cover of, um, what was that song I played, last week, "Come On Me"? Um, and I played, erm, a cover of that last week, I believe. Anyway, so, they cover everything, and they covered "Tomorrow", because they're crazy. And so that was the third song.

Um, I'm going to talk about, the Slot Machine real quick, before, uh, anything else, as I had promised, on a couple occasions. People have had some neat ideas, and, they're ideas I did have as well as I was making this thing. Um, one of them was that the prizes shouldn't just be money, um, that you should be able to get items. And, the pro-- the, there are a couple of problems with that, one of them is easily fixed. One of the problems is that, um, easily fixable problem, is that the, uh, reward you get back depends entirely on how much you bid. Every combination you see, like three Desihks, is a percent, it's expressed as a percent, and in that case, I think it's, um... Is it four hundred and fifty percent? If you make a ten moneys bid, I think, with three Desihks, you'll get four hundred and fifty. It's probably, or, fourty five, I'm sorry, um, moneys. Anyway, I don't remember, so, anyway, it's just a percent so the more you put in, the more you get out. The reason why this is a problem is because, if it wants to have a fixed list of items it can give you, if you don't, like, it should be based on the value of the prize, and, and, since the value depends on how much you put in, you know, you might not always be putting in an amount that results in amounts, it can give you a prize based on how much they're worth, and, again, that can be fixed by just fixing the um, the, bids you can bid any amount you want, you can only bid, like, twenty moneys or something. So that problem is easily fixed. The other problem, though, is that, I don't wanna turn it into a store where people can, not consistently, cause it's, it's gambling again, but, statistically