May 27 2009What, No D20?: The Dice Rolling Machine
The Dice-O-Matic is used to roll dice for online games hosted by GamesByEmail so that there are actually physical dice being used instead of a program. The 7 foot tall, 104 pound machine produces over 1.3 million die rolls a day, about 80,000 of which are used for games. The rest are all in vain. And speaking of in vein: alcohol, that's where it belongs.
Industrial Dice Rolling Machine [ohgizmo]
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Reader Comments
1. 24-bit whore - May 27, 2009 12:29 PM
that is just amazing..... amazing man
2. naas - May 27, 2009 12:29 PM
I hate when that happens
3. actual size - May 27, 2009 12:42 PM
pretty amazing. i thought it was a machine that rolled all 7s or something until i read the post
4. Stuey - May 27, 2009 12:43 PM
Pretty cool, just too long of a video.
5. Daisy - May 27, 2009 12:47 PM
FRISTT!!!!!!11!
6. Angel Mass - May 27, 2009 12:49 PM
This is such a victory for the role gaming community
7. LSDiesel - May 27, 2009 1:07 PM
LSDiesel: is reading geekologie posts, drinking FIJI water, and struttin' his stuff in his japanese denim. Good day!
Sometimes I hate facebook.
8. naas - May 27, 2009 1:14 PM
Me too deez, but the japanese demin is ftw
9. naas - May 27, 2009 1:15 PM
denim rather
10. STOMPY - May 27, 2009 1:19 PM
STOMPY: is trying to make the next three hours pass quickly so he can leave work and go golfing.
11. Adam - May 27, 2009 1:25 PM
I had the same thought when I saw this, no d20? What good is it then? Well, I could probably switch to the old Star Wars system, that only used the d6 didn't it?
12. Pew³ - May 27, 2009 1:27 PM
So, I come back to dice? I was really hoping to find some Pew Pews waiting for me.
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 27, 2009 2:22 PM
Thumperchica: can't update her FB at work.
And by FB I didn't mean Facebook. =)
J/K - end stupid comment here.
14. GLADIATOR - May 27, 2009 2:43 PM
Come on double 4! Bring in the bacon baby!
Come and join the short and easy game mybrute:
http://burpnassker.mybrute.com
15. aids - May 27, 2009 4:26 PM
Well i won that game of monopoly with that many dice.
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
16. Darth - May 27, 2009 4:42 PM
This looks fair play to me.A machine is always innocent.
17. Daisy - May 28, 2009 6:52 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NeverBAck Down where Max was wearing jeans and a jean jacket. The Spurbury police chief said - nice Canadian tuxedo.
18. gypsy - May 28, 2009 3:05 PM
great, so because i roll crap on my own, now i can have a machine do it for me and CHEAT, so i STILL get crap rolls.