Comment by ehnto

Of all the gambling establishments, accessible to the public anyway, pachinko has been the most disturbing to me. Pachinko halls are assaults on the senses, cigarrette smoke engulfs you as you enter, while an unintelligible cacophony of noise pierces your brain. You have to yell to be heard, and none of the noise is useful, so loud it somehow distorts your hearing. Should you sit down, there is nothing to see but your machine and thousands of blinking lights around you. Your senses are essentially stripped from you and the only way to achieve joy from that position is to pull the lever or leave. That anyone would bear such an environment to gamble tells you just how much of a grip gambling can take on someone.