Maybe it's just variance and my brain doing the usual gambler thing lol but online slots feel way meaner now than they did a few years back. Not saying rigged, before anyone jumps on that, just... the way they play. Base game is dead for ages, then you finally get the bonus and it pays 8x or 12x and you're supposed to clap because "high volatility". Even some old games I used to trust feel weirdly stingy rn.
And yeah I know RTP is over millions of spins, not my sad little session on the sofa at 1am. Still feels like providers leaned hard into these massive advertised max wins while regular players just get fed dust. Maybe I'm remembering the good runs and blanking the bad ones, fully possible. But when a slot drops into that cold mode you can kind of feel it straight away... or maybe that's exactly the trap, idk