@PSEUDO6ISME

The text you quote, and the whole post it came from, had nothing to do with the gambling games. It was a reply to an implicit suggestion that a particular kind of special offer, one that would correspond to a permanent price reduction if repeated often enough, be made far more frequently than it is.

However, as you reintroduced the topic of gambling, what is your evidence for your apparent view that games the here have "the odds are set for mostly against you"? As far as I can tell the overall odds for the games neither favour Totem nor the players (or at least are not greatly biased either way). But the data available to me do not allow me to be at all certain of this. Of course most players lose out, but some make large gains.

Let me illustrate this point with a very simple type of game. Consider a game in which the organisers sell 1000 lottery tickets for 1 euro each, draws one at random and gives the winner a prize of 1000 euros. This is an absolutely fair game in which each participant has the same chance of winning and the organisers gain no monetary reward - nevertheless there will be 999 losers for every winner.

As far as the individual players are concerned the game would be exactly the same if the organisers bought one of the tickets for themselves, the only difference is that the organisers themselves are taking the same risk of losing as the ordinary players and have the same chance of winning the 1000 euro prize. So still an absolutely fair game.

When such a game is repeated very many times then on average the gains and losses even out both for the organisers and for the players, but because the organisers participate in all the games while an individual player participates in far fewer the organisers can be more sure of their result than any individual player. This is still an absolutely fair game though now there is an asymmetry between the organisers and the players because the organisers can be more sure of breaking even than an individual player, but the organisers also now have a small risk of making a much bigger loss than any player (and an equally small chance of making a much bigger gain).

When there are several different prizes, a few of high value and many of low value the analysis is more difficult - but there can still be an absolutely fair game, one that does not favour the organisers, in which almost everybody will lose out but this is compensated for by the high value prizes. All of this for games that would be absolutely fair in all respects.

Because we mainly see posts from the those that have lost out on the games we get a distorted view of them.

This is not to say that the games are fair in the way I have described, only that from the results that we see we can not tell if they are or not.

@Rhea

Progressive Redraw the last months is kind of stupid for me, like, this time I got 9 out of 10 cards that I don’t like, seriously, why should I even consider a redraw, especially only for the 20% discount?
And I am sorry to repeat myself. In any business the purpose of such offers is to get us to increase our spending not to reduce it. This is done in part by persuading us to buy things that we would otherwise not buy. In general special offers are not there to make it cheaper for us to get what we want or even to increase the number of things sold. These may be used as the means to the end desired by the seller but they are not the primary purpose of the offers.

What you seem to be asking for comes close to being a simple reduction in price which, if the base price is close to optimum (for the seller), would reduce income not increase it. Totem do, in fact, occasionally make offers of that general kind, but it would be against their interest to do so continuously.

It's good to increase money in business and the problem with how companies do it to what the customers want. All this gambling why not just add a poker game and give us the option to buy chips when we run out or wait for more to be delivivered for free ounce a day. Lots of money in that. instead new players who join will have a ever growing amount of sec cards in there collection which you can argue its for the best of the company but in all honesty not really a good look or a good way of doing buesness. You can compare it to the pay to win games etc. Just not right. There are better ways to make money then you have to gamble hundreds of dollers were the odds are set for mostly against you which compared to a online a poker game in the actual market it would be illegal.

Yes, it works for me now as well. FG 110 is fine now. Thank you very much @EverthangForever .

And thank you for your explaination as well, @TheEmu . Your Scenes all work pretty good, personally I do not care about the white backgrounds in the preview. But if you want me to test something feel free to ask. I´ll try then.


Cheers

Thank you! This is an instant buy for me! Sasha is a sexual goddess! 🔥💖💕😍

Congratz to all on the awards!

The scene FG110 before correction, had a white background both in the preview and in the real scene.

I know - but I was replying to @JuppKowalski and explaining why the scenes of mine he mentioned were OK when run but showed white areas in their previews, which had nothing to do with FG110's problem - which is why I addressed him and did not refer to FG110's problem at all.

In fact the two problems may be due to the same sort of coding error - a mismatch in the number of components between a value and what it is being assigned to with the compiler "helpfully" accepting the bad code - but if so they are in very different places. Or they may be due to very different types of error, I have no way of knowing.

This is the june 2021 iStripper’s Hall of Fame !

• Collection award Rewards the 3 members who have purchased the biggest number of shows during the month.
• Full Sets award Rewards the 3 members who have completed the biggest number of full sets of models' shows during the month.

These members get a decoration on their profile picture for one month! (Make sure you have a nice avatar picture on yours!)
You will also find here a ranking of the top 250 active members with the largest collections of shows. If there is equality between members, they are sorted from the oldest to the most recently registered.
Congratulations to all!

However, when generating the scene previews the program gets it wrong and instead of just setting the alpha component to 1.0 it seems to also set the red, green and blue components to 1.0 as well - so we see white pixels in the previews but properly coloured ones in the full sized versions.

The scene FG110 before correction, had a white background both in the preview and in the real scene.

@JuppKowalski

OK, and in addition to that I can say that i donwnloaded some scenes from @TheEmu as well and in my scene library of the Istripper Software they appear the same ( with white background) but when i play this scenes they work just fine. (For example: Bana Split and Ergometer Scenes).

I often use a technique where the same image is used for both the foreground and the background of a scene. When I do this I have edited the image such that the pixels in the part that only appears in the backgound have an alpha channel value of 0.0 (i.e. transparent) whereas those that are part of the foreground are assigned an alpha channel value of 1.0 (opaque) while, for all pixels, the red, green and blue channels are left unchanged from their original values. When used for a background the sprites for such images use the "blend: false" option which tells the system to ignore the alpha channel values encoded in the image and treat them as having an alpha value of 1.0.

However, when generating the scene previews the program gets it wrong and instead of just setting the alpha component to 1.0 it seems to also set the red, green and blue components to 1.0 as well - so we see white pixels in the previews but properly coloured ones in the full sized versions.

Problème corrigé. Merci beaucoup @EverthangForever 😊

Hourra tu as fait ma journée 😉

Ha,ha Bravo, c'est gagné 👍👍 Ha, ha Bravo, it's won 👍👍

one final last try for FG110 with thanks to
@DAN070 @JupKowalski @Philours @ComteDracula
and all others who might benefit..

FG110
Example of layering two shaders
via alpha length coding on a
transparent rendered quad

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden110.zip

fingers crossed

FG 110 Possible error and location.

J'ai le même problème également sur version 1.2.242 . Quoi qu'il en soit nous patienterons en vous remerciant @EverthangForever 😉
I have the same problem also on version 1.2.242. Anyway we will wait and thank you @EverthangForever 😉

OK, and in addition to that I can say that i donwnloaded some scenes from @TheEmu as well and in my scene library of the Istripper Software they appear the same ( with white background) but when i play this scenes they work just fine. (For example: Bana Split and Ergometer Scenes).

THX so far @EverthangForever and @TheEmu and all the other creative people here for the great scenes you already created.


Cheers

Thanks , hmmm still not compiling it seems. I'm still using iS version 1.2.242
I will wait see if @Wyldanimal or @TheEmu can cast some light on what is going on.
Keep on coding guys ..👍😉

I just downloaded and checked the new Version but it is still the same issue. I already tried to delete the old file (Sandbox72202.0Ztrans.fsh), but nothing changes.

Tks lots guys..should work now
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/108?post=717335

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/65?post=717331

Thank you @ComteDracula & Jupp
FG110 was compiling the Sandbox72202.0Ztrans.fsh shader on my rig
correctly, however I am wondering if your system does not accept
shader names with an extra period.

I have updated FG110 zip with a new shader name Sandbox72202_0Ztrans.fsh
to see if that fixes your compile. Download again svp...
I have also wondered if running two quads in the camera node uses
too much memory. I have therefore allocated a texture - sprite via a
framebuffer for mounting the underside shader instead.

I hope that fixes your problem ;-)

Merci @ComteDracula
FG110 compilait le shader Sandbox72202.0Ztrans.fsh sur ma plate-forme
correctement cependant je me demande si votre système n'accepte pas
les noms de shader avec un point supplémentaire.

J'ai mis à jour le zip FG110 avec un nouveau nom de shader Sandbox72202_0Ztrans.fsh
pour voir si cela corrige votre compilation.
Je me suis également demandé si l'exécution de deux quads dans le nœud de la caméra utilise
trop de mémoire. J'ai donc alloué une texture - sprite dans un
framebuffer pour monter le shader de dessous à la place.

J'espère que ça résoudra ton problème ;-)

Problem with FG110.

Yes, I have the same issue ...

PS: But Number 109 works perfect and I really like it! TOP! Thank you @EverthangForever !

Problem with FG110.

Here is Sasha's VR180° second take!!!

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Sasha feels right at home on the sofa of our VR studio and the result is an intimate and completely unbridled show that will keep you going until its completion .... 😍

Enjoy!

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/48009/1?post=717262
@Dylan333 I think this is the thread you want and I'm happy to back your suggestions for Ava, Sade Mare and Tina.
In fact Sade Mare has no shows on mobile yet, unless I've missed her. Ava and Tina only one each.
Totem have so many models to pick from.

@readyforanything
It seems that Freya is in your mind today 😉
But I can understand, she's simply gorgeous 😍

Elin Flame showing us old school upskirt from Romantic Age. 😛😍

Hum, well, I'm not sure this is exactly an upskirt as much as it is "I'm going to deliberately lift my skirt and show ya what I got"!😲😛😆

Freya Mayer 👍🔥😍

Freya Mayer

I like the color of Freya Mayer sexy panties.

Freya Mayer one boob out.

Here is Freya Mayer Sexy legs.

Yes @stefnev1 she dose. Just seeing the her show and I llike it.

FG110
Example of layering two shaders
via alpha length coding on a
transparent rendered quad

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden110.zip

zip size = 215 Kb Extract straight to ..scenes/ folder.
Allow merged folders and to overwrite same name files.
remixed to Reckless

FG109
Trivial Remix of shadertoy.com
'curlesque by klk' showing an
opaque shader mounted on a quad.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden109.zip

zip size = 213 Kb Extract straight to ..scenes/ folder.
Allow merged folders and to overwrite same name files.

Gloria is Must Have cards.

Because she has nice ASSets :) - if she is retired, other sites shouldn't be allowed to release material of her either.

Tatiana Coco
Maid For Pleasure
e1625 - iStripper

F0805 - Jayla de Angelis - No Angels

@jec684 mentioned on the wrong thread about ***** O Fee on MetArt and perhaps returning here.
As @Ullubu pointed out MetArt often issue set of models from years back like with Isizzu, and also Sapphira I noticed recently.
Why would iStripper trust a model who as already ***** their time previously?
Bye bye *****.

Einfach geil

Thank you @Manue 👍 May be I should be a glass three quarters full chap after all 😊

FG108
Trivial Remix of a shadertoy.com fragment shader
deploying a switching background colorway and a scene
using the original parent shader code .

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGarden108.zip

zip size = 7.65 Mb Extract straight to ..scenes/ folder.
Allow merged folders and to overwrite same name files.
Remixed largely to 'Mike Oldfield' - best of.

ps: Just thought while i'm pondering it !!
.. if you want to see some of these extended shaders (liek previous) all da way through,
its worth sliding your fullscreen 'minimum delay between scenes' all the way
to the right before you play 'em✌

Does the progress bar stay at the place you get to at end of each week? YES ❤️

Look forward to Sonya Blaze card in that Sultry outfit. Hope it comes soon

Oh sweet. Nice work Stanston. 😎

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1nCw5HYAjdrGPsQ9yfKKMkZ3AJxTRBU8Q

I would like to get this SEC and I've made a little progress on the bar with the progressive redraw, but I think I'm done with that now, certainly that will not get me to the end, and hope to continue progress next week with the 25 game.
However I have just had a bad thought that I hope has been anticipated for by the team.
Does the progress bar stay at the place you get to at end of each week?
Or will it reset to zero with each new game?
You can imagine the outcry if it turns out to be the reset to zero option.
Sorry to ask - I'm a glass half empty type of chap 😳

Of course th big question for me is who is the model on the Summer Sale home page?
I cannot think who it is, don't recognise the outfit either. Perhaps it's from a show yet to be released?

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/47902/1?post=717011
@Optimal and @stefnev1 yes I think so - it could be Milena Ray and a future show she's made?

A members perspective.

Lets say you belong to a fraternal order club and you pay an Annual membership
with that membership, each year you are a member gives you a better deal on the food and beverages
you get in the club.
you get 10% for becoming a member
and another 5% ever year there after, up to a maximum of 45%
A beer normally costs $2.50, but you can get it for $1.38 with your 45% discount.

That's your membership benefit.
It only applies to the club.

Now once a month they hold a Public Bazaar, the club is closed while the bazaar is going on.
and everyone buys tickets at the same price and uses those tickets to play games and get food and beverages.

Your Membership grants you no special treatment at the Bazaar.
your tickets cost the same as everyone elses, a book of 50 tickets for $5
and your winnings at the games are the same as everyone else.
so too is the food and beverage cost the same as everyone else.
using Tickets to get a beer, costs 25 tickets, or $2.50

At the Next Club meeting you ***** that you had to spend 25 tickets
worth $2.50 to get a beer that you normally would only pay $1.38 for.

You think this is Unfair, and that your membership Benefit should also apply at the Public Bazaar.

Member Benefits only apply IN the club, not at the Public events.

Nice and true... but missing the point completely. In your case both beers are the same and it's about drinking the beers rather than collecting them. Changing the story to a membership where you get a new type of beer every day and a Public Bazaar is held showing you new types of beer, but making it impossible for you to buy it, even if you had all the money in the world, and giving it away to lucky visitors winning it in the lottery would come closer to the SEC debacle.