Que pensez-vous de ces différentes propositions Totem???

What do you think of these different Totem proposals ???

I found that when iStripper goes to the "fullscreen preview" page it actually reads everything in your collection and will pick up any error it can find in any of your scenes in your collection!

Oh, wow. That makes sense, but I hadn't considered that.

if the sprite has a definition ie: allow: pole - and then has a long list of "deny" under it, the system takes longer to find the correct / appropriate show

Also had not considered that. Good catch. I try to avoid redundancy with my filtering statements whenever possible.

Je voudrais revenir au post de @Sexy3DBoy (désolé si c'est un peu tardif) :

Ceci dit, si iStripper se fait plus d'argent avec les SEC, on peut se dire que c'est pour mieux rétribuer nos très chères danseuses. Qui pourrait être contre cela?

On peut se dire aussi que c'est pour étoffer la garde-robe des danseuses. Qui pourrait être contre cela?

On peut se dire aussi que c'est pour toujours plus de développement techniques et informatiques. Qui pourrait être contre cela?

Quant à douter de la légalité de tout cela, perso, je préfère voir iStripper comme une compagnie qui nous offre du très bon divertissement...

Je suis évidemment pour le financement de ces 3 choses, comme vous dites "qui pourrait être contre ?" ; et je suis d'accord qu'il n'y a pas vraiment à discuter de la légalité de ces jeux.

Mais pour ma part, je pense que ce n'est pas le sujet. Ce qui est dérangeant ici n'est pas le fait que Totem fasse du profit avec ces jeux ni comment il est réinvesti, mais plutôt la manière de l'obtenir. Les jeux sont présentés comme une forme d'innovation à Istripper, alors que cela n'offre rien. Au contraire, on reçoit du vieux contenu plus cher, sans obtenir ce pourquoi on joue : les cartes spéciales.

ComteDracula l'a suggéré comme d'autres, s'il s'agit de payer plus cher certaines cartes, pourquoi pas ?

Il y a 6 ans, Totem a décidé d'arrêter les abonnements mensuels, puis a fixé un prix pour les cartes, que l'on ne pouvait alors qu'acheter à l'unité. Je pense que la plupart des membres a compris pourquoi et en a accepté les conditions.
Si on ne nous dit pas directement que la vente des cartes n'est pas rentable et qu'il faudrait que chaque membre paie tel montant pour une carte, nous ne pouvons que faire des suppositions.

Dépenser plus ici, d'accord, mais pour du contenu que l'on veut. Il y a de nombreux moyens de satisfaire ceux qui sont mécontents en raison des jeux de hasard. Par ex :

- proposer d'acheter un peu plus cher un lot de cartes que l'on choisit, et y inclure une carte spéciale
• permettre l'achat de cartes Joker, ou directement des cartes spéciales après un certain temps à un prix plus élevé
• instaurer un système de points, plus on achète de cartes, plus on accumule des points, points que l'on pourrait échanger contre une carte spéciale

Cela n'empêche pas de continuer à proposer les jeux de hasard pour ceux qui préfèrent ce moyen.

Audalove......my new vixxen 😍🔥🔥🔥

ho :o

@gkar45 the hot girl on the skin is model Vida Guerra. 😍😍😍😍

@TheEmu
Feel free whatever you want to do 😉

(Incidently, your command would have found a lot of false matches, almost 300 of them,
among my scenes - the word rotation by itself occurs in quite a few comments in scene files.)

It was only 1 (in words One) example, which i was Showing. The rest can be taken from the Documentation.
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html
And i'm to 100% Sure that @sh42n81 is be able to Deal with this Situation, No Question about that.

OT
And yes, you should give the younger Generation a Chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fvETktnaRw
OT/

✌

Nothing wrong with sharing knowlege - but to suggest that sed is a, in your words, "very very convenient" utility is, I think, rather stretching the meaning of convenient. It is very powerful, but like almost all unix/linux/Gnu utilities it is not very convenient for the majority of today's computer users who, unfortunately, are typically not very familar with command line utilities.

Many years ago, before graphical interfaces became the norm, when almost all computer users were familar with using the command line (because for most that is all they had) a relatively common saying was that "the unix user interface is as user friendy as a cornered rat".

(Incidently, your command would have found a lot of false matches, almost 300 of them, among my scenes - the word rotation by itself occurs in quite a few comments in scene files.)

@TheEmu

As with our previous discussion on a similar topic these are not similar tools.

I just wanted to Help, because @sh42n81 is using Ubuntu/Linux nothing more, nothing less 😉
What is wrong about it, to share Knowledge and showing his Love ?
Give also the younger Generation a Chance 😇

@Stanston - As with our previous discussion on a similar topic these are not similar tools. They can both be used to do similar tasks, in this case to look for a simple string, but that does not make them similar tools. If I had wanted to I could also have used the windows Find or Findstr command line utilities - and i often do when that is appropriate - which are far more similar to that particular use of sed. Findstr is the windows equivalent to grep. However, a tool like Agent Ransack is far more convenient for typical computer users.

@TheEmu

I have a very convenient file search utility called Agent Ransack (also known as Filelocator Pro) to search for the string "rotation:"

I'm using the very very convenient GNU Core Util called sed
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/sed.1.html

@sh42n81
Navigate with your GUI Filemanager (should be Nautilus) or with cd in your Terminal in your specific Directory,
and execute the following Command.

sed -i -e 's/rotation/rot/g' *.scn

The first Value rotation is what sed should looking for, the second for the replacement.
If no Error Message shown in the Terminal, it's all good 👍
No Need for a Fat GUI, That's it, God i Love Linux ❤️ Sorry @TheEmu but Love is Love 😇

And here is a useful Link > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159367/using-sed-to-find-and-replace

@Carstrip
Just in case you want a Demonstration for Filelocator Pro :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDa-FWy-AE

@gkar45
Please stop this silly game, we aren't in the schoolyard ! Don't spam a thread that you aren't the owner, thank you.

Can you not remove the spam posts? The ultimate purpose of the spammer is to get the 'community contribution' award for the biggest amount of posts.

Verbal scolding means nothing to them as their end goal is strill contributed towards.

This is not the only time this happens. Please, step up the game.

@gkar45
Please stop this silly game, we aren't in the schoolyard ! Don't spam a thread that you aren't the owner, thank you.

@gkar45 Si c'est pour énumérer les lettres de l'alphabet il n'est pas nécessaire de polluer ce sujet. Le problème de l'***** de Totem dans le dit sujet est vraiment regrettable.

@gkar45 If it is to enumerate the letters of the alphabet it is not necessary to pollute this subject. The problem of the ***** of Totem in the said subject is really regrettable.

I'm still absorbing the fact that you have over 6000 scenes!! thats incredible!!

A large part of that total is due to having many ***** variations of a single scenes, mostly variations in the values in the uniform: clauses that are used to pass parameters to shaders. This is particularly so for my "experiments" and EmuLib scenes where I am trying out or demonstrating the effects that can be acheived by these shaders.

Then, I found that when iStripper goes to the "fullscreen preview" page it actually reads everything in your collection and will pick up any error it can find in any of your scenes in your collection!

That is correct. Also when you simply start iStripper I think that it automatically regenerates a preview of a single scene chosen at random - you can see this from the date stamps for the .scn.cache files. This could be the source of some of the sRGB warnings that do not correspond to any scene that you have played.

Another interesting find was if the sprite has a definition ie: allow: pole - and then has a long list of "deny" under it, the system takes longer to find the correct / appropriate show.

I had never noticed that myself, though I probably have been ***** from it. Whenever possible I normally just use Allow: clause to specify what types of clips I want to see and then add Deny: clauses to disallow inout or accessories if they are not appropriate to the scene, Unfortunately the is no Allow: Standing so you have to use the long list of clip types to deny if you only want simple standing clips.

Yup It was definitely me copying the file from Club Delights, the issue that I inherited hahaha
Sorry about that everyone 😖
Thats a great utility to have @TheEmu thanks for sharing that info.

I'm still absorbing the fact that you have over 6000 scenes!! thats incredible!!

I have a very convenient file search utility called Agent Ransack (also known as Filelocator Pro) to search for the string "rotation:" in all the scenes that I have installed (more that 6000 at present). It was found in the following files (I use my own file naming scheme but you should be able to recognise the originals)

= Carstrip = Club Main Table Pole 3 Girls.scn
= Carstrip = Club Main Table Standing 3 Girls.scn
= Carstrip = Lush Motel Brazil.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon 3 Pole Dancing.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon 3 Standing.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon Red Room Pole.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon Red Room Standing.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon Stage Pole.scn
= Carstrip = Pink Neon Stage Standing.scn

= Kaandorpius = Club Delights - Dance Floor.scn
= Kaandorpius = Club Delights - Pole Dancing.scn
= Kaandorpius = Club Delights - Private Show.scn

It looks very much as if one slip has been inherited by several derived scenes.

Interesting observations @sh42n81

Last night I cleaned all the scenes in my collection and took all of them out of iStripper, then put them back in one at a time.
Funny result was that even just starting iStripper it had the RGB error codes. Those arent anything major and wont effect the performance but is interesting just starting the program it has these errors.

Then, I found that when iStripper goes to the "fullscreen preview" page it actually reads everything in your collection and will pick up any error it can find in any of your scenes in your collection!

I had "Rotation" and "Ambient" errors individually in 3 scenes (took a lot of looking to find lol) So repaired them and now I have no rotation or ambient errors at all.

I dont think its worth trying to find all the errors if the scenes work, but if it effects performance its worth investigating each file individually, one bad scene has impacts on the others.

Another interesting find was if the sprite has a definition ie: allow: pole - and then has a long list of "deny" under it, the system takes longer to find the correct / appropriate show.
I modified all my 127 scenes so that if it is allowing pole for example, I deleted all the denies under it (table, behindtable, top etc). All my scenes now go faster!
It makes sense though, it means the system is just finding pole clips only, and not trying to further clarify beyond pole what other elements it needs to deny. Noticably much faster 😉

I'm glad that you like them @ComteDracula
it is worth the effort in making them and sharing them if it helps everyone enjoy the shows just that little bit more 😊
There are some nice scenes being shared at the moment by everyone, great work by all, keep sharing 👍

Thank you very much @Carstrip, @Miwd and @sh42n81 for these scenes. 😊

Merci beaucoup @Carstrip, @Miwd et @sh42n81 pour ces scènes. 😊

Troll: Person who posts biased messages on internet forums in order to fuel controversy.

@Gkar45. Would you be one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

No matter what you say to me, I know an answer to it: "Don't feed the troll".

From now on I will not answer you any more and will not even try to read you. Too much waste of time.


Troll: Personne qui poste des messages tendancieux sur les forums internet afin d'alimenter les polémiques.

@Gkar45. En seriez-vous un ?

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)#:~:text=Origine%20du%20terme.%20Une%20des%20deux%20origines%20possibles,emprunt%20%C3%A0%20l%27%20argot%20Internet%20de%20langue%20anglaise.

Peut importe ce que vous allez me répondre, je connais une réponse à cela: "Ne nourissez pas le troll".

Dorénavant je ne vous répondrez plus et ne chercherais même plus à vous lire. Trop de perte de temps.

Just a girl being sexy in a chair by a window with a sunset over a boat.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1qk5o-rUdkRp3T1wx4MYX4-ignpCVsaoh

A

I congratulate you, you are making progress in relearning to write. If it helps you the next letter is "B".

Je vous félicite, vous faites du progrès pour réapprendre à écrire. Si cela peut vous aider la prochaine lettre est "B".

.

And I would say even more, Final Point.

Et je dirais même plus, Point Final.

@gkar45, there is a saying that quality is greater than quantity.

You should try to be more understanding and clear in your messages, because even with google translate, I don't understand anything you write.

I make efforts as a unilingual French speaker, to make myself understood by English speakers, by translating my messages into English.

I'm not asking you to translate, but at least have the courage to write your messages well.

Friend's advice.

By the way this subject is serious.

I don't care about your trivialities.



@gkar45, il y a un proverbe qui dit que la qualité est supérieure à la quantité.

Vous devriez essayez d'être plus compréhensive et claire dans vos messages, car même avec google traduction, je ne comprend rien de ce que vous écrivez.

Je fais des effort en tant qu'unilingue francophone, pour bien me faire comprendre des anglophones, en traduisant mes messages en anglais.

Je ne vous demande pas de traduire, mais ayez au moins le courage de bien écrire vos messages.

Conseil d'ami.

En passant ce sujet est sérieux.

Je n'ai que faire de vos futilités.

Hello again everyone!

I'm back with a different version of my "Alien" scene.
This time the colour is green.
I have a bunch of these in all kinds of different colours that I have been working on for some time now.
I think I'll just keep posting till someone tells me to stop ;)

Same 4 variation as last time
3 table
3 standing
3 pole
3 table and 3 standing

if you have the "Miwd Scenes" folder already, merge them.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4ok61PAkcH_b0y0ffRxFw2B35ESBsD-/view?usp=sharing

feel free to use any of my shader settings for your own scenes

I spent some time digging into the error log with my IBTC scene today.

decode overflow

There are tons of these, but they are just warnings. I don't notice any peformance problems in spite of a high RAM load. Most of them are very small: from 0 - 3 ms and, interestingly, mostly at frame -1, 0, or 1. So, right at the start of a clip, perhaps?

Curiously, I am experiencing performance problems on this PC right now and text that I type is being delayed appearing on screen. But it isn't my 6-clip and 3-shadow IBTC scene that is playing--it is the standard "Paint" scene that comes with iStripper and only has a single clip. My GPU really doesn't like motion backgrounds, it would seem. CPU usage (by vghd.exe) is only 9% and RAM is a paltry 300MB.

I just told iStripper to find a different scene. It chose The Penthouse Club and now I can type in real time again. 😊 I am banning Paint now.

incorrect sRGB profile

Also just a warning. I had 7 of these each time the scene ran. This matches the 7 .png files that make up the scene: the background and 6 masks, each made from duplicates of the background image.

I opened each of them in GIMP and converted the sRGB profiles to GIMP's built-in profile. That did eliminate the warnings from the log. I will make sure to take this step with scenes that I create in the future, just as a best practice, but i don't see the need to revise my current scenes to replace the color profile. It doesn't seem to be causing any trouble. The Internet and @TheEmu agree that it can be ignored.

Unknown node property "ambient"
Unknown node property "rotation"

These are just weird. The only place in this scene where the "ambient" property appears is the "light" node, and I know that's valid. "Rotation" spelled as the whole word, doesn't appear at all. I have used "rot" in clipSprites and I know that's valid, too.

i did a search to verify that "rot" isn't being used out of place anywhere, and it isn't. Also verifired that I didn't accidentally type "rotation" anywhere. That word does not exist in the file.

Merry Pie / White Dove #9, #13
Merry Pie / Orange Blossom #7
Merry Pie / Charm #13
Merry Pie / Sheer Pleasures #5
Merry Pie / Favorite Student #7, #9, #12

@Miwd
Merci pour le partage de votre travail.
Oui, j'apprécie.👌

Hello everyone!

I'm back with my second cartoon inspired scene for anyone interested. I definitely like this one more than my first.
It comes in 8 variations, the same as my first cartoon scene.

If you have any of my previous scenes just merge the folders "Miwd Scenes"

Hope you enjoy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17zDOEooj-BNtPwfzslW7skXAykZRoyt-/view?usp=sharing

edit: for some reason the screenshots appear more blue than the scenes are, the actual scene is more toned down in colour.

& the count is

The count is ... DRACULA

@gkar45,

Vous écrivez n'importe quoi. J'espère que ce n'est pas juste pour faire augmenter le nombre de vos messages et rester dans le classement des membres les plus actifs ?

@gkar45,

You write anything. Hope this isn't fair to increase the number of your posts and stay in the rankings of the most active members ?

Traduction Google:

"est-ce que quelqu'un n'a pas eu à nouveau sa SEC ....."

Précisez @gkar45, car je ne comprend pas.

Il me semble qu'il est évident qu'il y en a beaucoup qui n'ont pas eu les SEC.

"hasn't someone had their SEC again ....."

Specify @gkar45, because I do not understand.

It seems to me that it is obvious that there are many who did not have the SEC.

Je le répète la promesse n'a pas été tenue.

Si elle l'avait été, nous ne serions pas ici encore et encore à parler de ce sujet.

Totem à ouvert une boite de pandore avec ces SEC, et seul eux peuvent régler ce problème.

Ils doivent tenir compte aussi des membres qui se refusent à jouer à des jeux de hasard.

Il y a eu plein de suggestions intéressantes de membre, dont par exemple permettre l'achat de ces cartes un an plus tard à un coût plus élevé, pour les personnes ne voulant pas participer aux jeux de hasard. Pourquoi ces suggestions sont elles ignorées ? Juste pour une question de faire de l'argent sur le dos des membres ? Pour ma part, je ne le sais pas.

S'ils ne le font pas, il va continuer à y avoir encore et encore des messages de gens frustré de ne pas être capable d'acquérir ces cartes, et d'avoir perdu beaucoup d'argent et crédits.

La détente dont vous parlez est entre leur mains.

En ne faisant ou ne disant rien, ils ne font que faire perdurer cette tension chez plusieurs membres.


I repeat the promise was not kept.

If it had been, we wouldn't be here over and over again talking about this topic.

Totem opened a Pandora's Box with these SECs, and only them can fix this problem.

They must also take into account members who refuse to play games of chance.

There were plenty of interesting member suggestions, including allowing the purchase of these cards a year later at a higher cost, for people not wanting to participate in games of chance. Why are these suggestions ignored? Just for the sake of making money off the backs of the members? Personally, I don't know.

If they don't, there will continue to be messages over and over again from people frustrated at not being able to acquire these cards, and having lost a lot of money and credits.

The relaxation you speak of is in their hands.

By not doing or saying anything, they only perpetuate this tension among several members.

@Z22 Thank you, I'll give the 1080p version a try

Hi @pickle1. My 4G signal strenght is -112dBm 28 asu so not good :(

@Sialala - same for me - I need to get to an area of high signal strength to see if it makes a difference. I have also noticed that, under the settings, "Data Roaming SIM 1" is switched off so I'm not sure if that is going to impact - so I may experiment with switching that on.

Hi @pickle1. My 4G signal strenght is -112dBm 28 asu so not good :(

Very well said, @Stanston.
Good for you!
Now let's all just get back to relaxing and having a good time!

forgive pls, your sounding like lil Yodie

That's true Miss @gkar45 because,
Yoda always knows best > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl7B3Jc6Fnw

good words !! me likie

Thank You :)

Hi,I was wondering is someone will be able to help. I have no problems with accessing the website when I use wi-fi on my phone but when I use data, I get a message that the site can’t be reached. Do I need to change something with my browser settings? I use a Samsung Galaxy A20e. Thank you

Hi @Sialala. I get exactly the same issue on my phone - which is also A Samsung A20e. I thought it was because my 4G signal is just not man-enough for the job. What kind of signal strength do you have?

Hi,
I was wondering is someone will be able to help. I have no problems with accessing the website when I use wi-fi on my phone but when I use data, I get a message that the site can’t be reached. Do I need to change something with my browser settings? I use a Samsung Galaxy A20e. Thank you

"But it's obviously still frustrating when you have no luck. That's why we have decided to work on new means to obtain special event cards NOT based only on luck but as rewards for your LOYALTY.We'll keep posted on this by the end of the year. "This promise has NEVER BEEN RESPECTED.

That post by Team, for sure, made a referance about Joker cards, which were then actually introduced at the end of 2019.So, one may dislike what was given in the end (Joker cards), but in any case there is no broken promise to ***** about.

@HansSachs That is actually not true. The post that was referenced is written after the Joker cards were introduced and that still another method to obtain special event cards was being planned by the end of the year.

See this post: https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42891/3?post=633527

@pickle1

Some people need to learn to chill and remember that this site is supposed to be a bit of fun and fantasy

Exactly 👌

Maybe that is a hughe Mistake, and definitely some Users will ***** me for Sure after that.
But i can live with that, because this could be a massive Trigger for the one or the other.

Spoken from the heart and well done for doing so.

I'm afraid that we see a lot of examples of anger, avarice and impatience exhibited in the Forum. Some people need to learn to chill and remember that this site is supposed to be a bit of fun and fantasy.

👍

Maybe that is a hughe Mistake, and definitely some Users will ***** me for Sure after that.
But i can live with that, because this could be a massive Trigger for the one or the other.
It's not offending to you or to you, but i have the Feeling to do that, even if here is the wrong place for that.
But i definitely know that i'm not alone with my thoughts, for sure.
And if i'm alone with that, then let me know if i'm wrong with that.
The following things were happening in the last couple of days.

"WTF the Card is not Downloading"
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45480/1
Sure, but for the Moment i'm ignoring the other over 4000 Cards in my Collection,
because it depends all on that one Card right now ... of course.

Somebody want, that i should Kiss his Ass,
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45500/2#post676577
because he was not be able to open up a Webbrowser, which is in my Opinion not a big Issue.
NO it has to work in the Fucking GUI, it has to, there is no other Way.
Guess what @JonnBGood drop your Pants down 💋

The next Situation.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45512/1
I can see two hidden Cards on an Image, but i can only win one Card.
And further, asking for a small Gesture because of an technical Issue
during the Holiday Times for most of the Teammembers at the Moment.
Because we are talking to Robots which are 24/7 here for us.

I want more Discounts and Status Privileges.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45465/1
Because i have already all Shows, i have already a Premium Account and maxed out all possibilities.
But i WANT MORE, because only when i can get more i'm satisfied.

Last but not least we have this Topic here, where i can only Read,
"I'm a loyal Customer, so Show me your Love"
Otherwise i will Destroy iStripper, because when i can't get what i want, then Nobody shall get it.
Guess what, Totem was already aware for your Loyalty.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45282/1
But obviously that is still not enough.

So far so good for my Rant, and i will not say that Totem is not without any Mistakes,
because everyone of us is making Mistakes. Like for myself now with my Post here ... maybe i will see.
Further i'm not speaking for Totem, but everyone should look on his own,
before he/she is attacking/pleasing or whatever someone else.
Otherwise we have the Situation that we are Smashing each others Heads,
but at the End we are standing again with the same Problems from the Beginning.

The User @Teliko36 made a Suggestion for Gwen Gwiz for iStripper couple Days before, and i was Visiting
her second Talk Chanel and watched some of her Videos.
And i found this here very very Mind Opening Video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXiJ9vvjsmo

Gwen has such a wonderful Soul and when you, Dear Ranter, Yeller, Complainer and *****
are not be able to Understand what Gwen is saying to You in this Video, then i have to say:

Totem is not without Mistakes for sure, but you are looking on the wrong place for Mistakes,
that is for Sure.

edit:
Be happy about what you have, not what you could get eventually.
Look on yourself, don't care about the others or their Mistakes, because at the end,
every Decision in your Life could be the last one.
Enjoy every Moment in your Life, and not possibly unreachable Situations.
When you Live the Moment, you will get what you Wish.
When you Hunting the Moment, you will pass the Beauty of Life.

Thanks for Reading.

"But it's obviously still frustrating when you have no luck. That's why we have decided to work on new means to obtain special event cards NOT based only on luck but as rewards for your LOYALTY.
We'll keep posted on this by the end of the year. "

This promise has NEVER BEEN RESPECTED.

That post by Team, for sure, made a referance about Joker cards, which were then actually introduced at the end of 2019.
So, one may dislike what was given in the end (Joker cards), but in any case there is no broken promise to ***** about.

Jona

@5marta55 Je ne suis même pas allé jusqu'à cette carte, 200 crédits c'est trop. A moins d'un changement d'attitude de Totem (toujours absent) je ne chercherai plus à obtenir une carte soi-diant spéciale.

@5marta55 I didn't even go as far as this card, 200 credits is too much. Unless Totem's attitude changes (still absent) I will no longer seek a special supposedly card.

I do think this will be my last SEC under the current system. It's getting ridiculous. I don't even know what special event happened for this card to exist. Of course, since I have all the cards I can possibly get, my expenditure of 300 credits for a single card seems a bit extreme.

Yea, I can see how it can be relevant to the OP :)

As long as the user makes a informed decision and doesn't play the game 'to win' like many people seem to do, but for fun (no expectation - no disappointment) I can see some of the gambling appeal. I usually allow myself a spin or two, but I scratch off these credits as *****, not expecting any return.