tbf, the fact that promoting this is legal in the first place angers me
It’s not in the developed countries, it’s a no-brainer, really.
It’s getting approved in more and more western countries. Lobbying is a powerful tool…
It is in the UK, and it’s pervasive as fuck
Yeah, just like I said.
in estonia a sports stadium is named after a sports betting platform💀
do yall seriously not use adblockers
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Bit depressing to think that there are people having their lives (and often the lives of those around them) ruined by gambling… Even more depressing is the fact that there are companies freely exploiting the previous fact. What a time to be alive…
I’ve gambled twice in my life. The first time was sitting in a gas station casino because my buddy’s car overheated on the pass. Put $20 into a keno machine, lost about half of it, realized I could have gotten several beers instead. Got annoyed with myself and cashed out.
The second time was in Vegas. Same buddy gave me a massive hit on a vape pen and dragged me over to a blackjack table. He dumped some chips in front of me things happened, the table was a lot of fun to look at, the dealer cleared her throat in a really annoyed way because I was grooving on the pattern on the back of the cards instead of playing. I handed the chips back to my buddy and told the entire casino I was too high for this shit.
I guess I don’t have the gene. I’ve got an addictive personality in general and that’s been fun to deal with, but I’m glad it doesn’t extend to gambling.
I just hope to the universe my nephews are not drawn into this.
I’ve had exactly one gambling experience in my life. I went with some friends to a casino in Louisiana and I tried a slot machine. I stuck my credit card in the slot, was debited $5, pushed the “lever” button, and won exactly bupkis. I don’t know what the appeal is but I imagine it involves winning occasionally. I’m going to stick with my 0.000 batting average and be happy.
I was going to ask if you were Australian. Be sure to post this on your local instance
Me blocking ads like Neo and they still keep spawning 😭
Gambling used to be illegal because it’s addictive & destructive. I’m not sure when it became legal & so ubiquitous, but I miss the days when it was illegal & could only be done underground. Gambling was illegal because it’s addictive & destructive.
Gambling seems to me like one of the most destructive addictions out there. If you have money you can pretty much consume as much drugs as you want and still have money. Gambling is the one addiction that scales with your income and can leave pretty much anyone homeless no matter where you start from. It’s terrible
When The House is also The White House, they can do as they please.
When you make gambling illegal, you create a mafia or the equivalent, over and over and over again, no exceptions.
The mafia is even MORE destructive than gambling alone for many reasons.
Creating well-funded black markets is always a mistake, one that has been re-learned many times.
Not to mention, throwing people in dungeons for gambling is counterproductive, destructive, morally bankrupt, and flat-out evil
Addictions abound, everywhere. It’s part of being human and that’s okay. Control your urge to control others… it’s wrong and also an addiction. Power addiction is a well-recorded phenomenon.
Honestly idk if I have the gene, but I do have anxiety and that seems to be enough.
They must make an absolute fortune, because I see so many ads for shitty online pokie websites.
nothing makes money quite as well as separating the foolish from it.
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I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.
It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.
I like it as a group activity, like poker night, but casinos are depressing.
Do you like gambling or just playing a game with your friends? Because playing poker does not require gambling. You do not have to play with money in the pot.
While technically true, I think poker actually is one of those games in which the stakes (providing a tangible fear of loss) are a valuable element to the game. Tournament style poker would essentially accomplish this, but it’s not always easy to round up enough friends to make it enjoyable. And even then, the people who drop out early on have to either watch or find something else to do.
Tangible loss is a big part of it because it helps keep betting sane. If there’s no stakes you can just do whatever you want and there’s not really much strategy to it.
Cash games solve the problem of how long it takes. 20 years ago or so I’d play nickel, dime, quarter max bet cash games, dealer’s choice of the poker game, round robin dealing. On a real bad night you’d be down $15, or you’d be up $20 on a great night.
It was a blast. $5 was the price of a premium fast food meal back then, if that helps to level expectations of stakes for the younger crowd.
All the best parts of having stakes in the game without risk of losing your shirt. We’d hang out, make food, drink, etc. It was the best of all worlds.
Periodically we’d do a tournament, usually hold em, stud, or Omaha. Then it was a $10 or $20 buy-in with maybe a rebuy depending on how long we wanted it to go. Usually top three were the money, depending on how many at the table. The early drops would start playing dice until there were three people to start a regular cash side game at the table (we’d just shift chairs)
So there’s ways to address your points, but most people these days only know what they see on WSOP, which is no limit holdem. There’s SO many poker variants out there that the old dawgs played back in the 80s and 90s that didn’t come into light with the poker revolution. Red/black, no peek, guts, hi/low split, etc.
I get that same fun playing D&D. There’s risk and a thrill you might lose, but it’s super cheap.
I have my doubts about DnD being cheap, unless you do 🏴☠️ (Which i do cough)
Even if you’re not pirating, you can still play using the SRD. You can skip the DMG entirely and get monster stat blocks online.
I’m not a gambling person at all but I do like the mix of betting inconsequential amounts on a poker game and just doing a game night with a few friends. We’ll do poker night occasionally where we all put in $20 CAD and while most of the fun comes from having some pints and chatting, the idea of maybe ending with an extra $80 or whatever in beer change makes it a little more exciting even if i usually expect to lose it.
Yeah i can understand that others enjoy it, but even a poker night with friends sounds unpleasant to me - like a game night ruined.
I like board games with bluffing mechanics, but once you put money into them, they’re no fun.
Agreed!
That 6 pack of non alcohol beer I accidentally bought in my fridge about to hit the 3rd year…
Except there’s actually good non-alcoholic beer! Most vodka doesn’t taste like much of anything…
I’m not actually drinking it for the taste.
The only gambling I do is buying lottery tickets when I’m having the worst urges to kill myself. A little trick to wait just a bit longer. “You can wait until you get the results, it’s only couple days”, and then the worst urge manages to pass in that time. It’s pretty pathetic
Hope things get better, but this is low-key genius
Props to you, it’s not pathetic at all.
If it’s stupid but it works, it’s not stupid.
thats not pathetic, its a good trick
stay strong :3
Nah, you hold on to whatever hope you have. Stay with us
I think that’s actually a pretty neat trick. So long as not winning doesn’t feel even more crushing.
doing what you need to in order to keep on surviving is the opposite of pathetic. it takes a lot of courage to keep persisting despite the horrors of our world
I stopped smoking weed during the week so that I had something to look forward to on the weekends. It’s pretty pathetic
That’s smart, it’s a form of dopamine loading, you deny yourself immediate rewards and that builds anticipation, also it lowers your baseline dopamine so that even small rewards feel meaningful, this way you stay off the headonism treadmill and conserve your weed which saves money
not pathetic imo. whatever gets you through the week and allows you to keep surviving is perfectly valid!
You should get like a low maintenance pet, like a fish, snake, or lizard.
Oh I have a half of a zoo here already, it’s what’s keeping me around
I feel the same way with benedryl in that I think of all this shit, fuck shot, but I don’t look at it cuz that illegal in my places, so I just think in darkness as the benedryl make happening better tho my gemson doesnt get hard anymore…
Ublock Origin users:
I forced Chrome to continue using it and it seems to be holding strong so far.
What are you even doing that you see these ads. I hardly see any ads.
Ad block your home internet and phone yall. Life changing.
I use adblockers and cracked apks whenever I can but some mobile games still have ads. Any advice on getting those blocked anyway?
I use Adguard dns on my phone, and don’t see any in-app ads.
Thats it! thanks :)
Rooting your phone is generally the only way to get rid of those types of ads.
I think a pi hole would do it, no?
Not all, no. DNS level blocking gets a lot, but not all. I use a pi hole at home and it didn’t manage to get a lot of in-app ads, but once I rooted then things got a lot better.
Could possibly be block lists, but I’m not sure.
those ads are delivered through same ip the programs use for valid data so you cannot filter at DNS level for those
similar to Twitch in stream ads
Block them at the installation level and stop playing mobile games.
this is the real answer
stop using it or pay for non ads
sometime popular programs will have work arounds but you’ll have to trust the coder who did it
If you watch any sport, most of the ads are for sports betting these days
I play WordFeud with friends and see the kazzzhhii ads after 50% of my plays. (Didn’t wanna spell it correctly and give them even more web presence)
It’s so wild to me that there are still people out there rawdogging the Internet
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