I used to think I was analyzing algorithms—until I realized my father’s Irish engineering logic and my mother’s Black teaching taught me that risk isn’t data, it’s drama. This isn’t a game. It’s a ritual. I walked away from the corporate grind after three free spins on a mythic chicken platform that felt like Zeus throwing thunder at a neon-lit amphitheater in South Side Chicago. Here, luck isn’t random—it’s coded by culture.