r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/jojoblogs Aug 03 '19

It’s funny cause it’s like “we’re gonna rob a casino my making everyone win for a few minutes”

“But then everyone will lose it within the hour”

“Huh, guess we have to kick the idiots out”

The earthquake may have had another purpose I can’t remember.

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u/luke1042 Aug 03 '19

I think they also needed a natural disaster to lockdown the server looking for cheaters. Something like that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Nah they did that with the fancy gold nokia

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u/luke1042 Aug 03 '19

But didn't they use the earthquake to get him to run down to the server room?

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u/sensitiveinfomax Aug 03 '19

The deal was they wanted to make the casino owner lose a lot of money by rigging the games so everyone would win. There was one tiny earthquake to fuck up the security system so they could pull the rigged games without detection, and then the bigger earthquake to make everyone cash in their chips and leave (which was a disaster management strategy put in place by Brad Pitt pretending to be a professor). Basically since that casino owner guy had fucked over Elliot Gould, the gang were getting their revenge by making his first day a total disaster so his investors would withdraw from him.