Comments | kosherpickle: Sphere break.

kosherpickle

Sphere break.

Jun 02, 2011 21:03

So, let's say that you, like Kaiji, had an opportunity to gamble on a pachinko machine. You fire small metal balls into a pinball-like machine, hoping that one of them falls into the jackpot hole, which wins you...more balls. Sounds stupid, but when you consider that these pachinko balls are convertible to cash, it might not seem so. And at 4000 ( Read more... )

math, anime

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coleoptera June 3 2011, 19:33:43 UTC

MELT THEM DOWN.

Really, though - if they are convertible to money, you sell them to someone who will ACTUALLY convert them to said value, less the cost of moving them, and let them deal with it.

kosherpickle June 3 2011, 20:17:22 UTC

The (fictional) pachinko machine in question resides in an illegal casino; I tend to think that hitting the jackpot would most likely result in a cash payout by the casino. This was more of an exercise in, "Hmmm, I wonder how many pachinko balls that is? I wonder how much space they take up? I wonder how much they weigh?"

I surprisingly can't find an image of the machine online, so I'll have to screencap it myself and post it. There's a mock-up of it that's in the second live-action movie (http://www.tokyograph.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kaiji_2.jpg), but it doesn't look much like the anime version, plus there's people in the way.