I gamble in video games, with in-game money. I want to be able to afford soup.
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dwemthy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Went to a local casino with some friends and saw a Frankenstein themed slot machine with the big curved screen like that and decided to put a couple bucks in it to see what kind of stuff it did. A woman sitting at one warned me that they’re terrible and don’t pay out well before saying how many thousands of dollars she’d put into them, while still putting more in.
Gambling addiction is real
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 day ago
Me too, and it reinforces how much I’d not want to actually gamble.. because no-stakes game gambling is often slanted in your favor, so if you play long enough you’ll probably hit big. It’s kinda fun.
I played one game (no clue what it was anymore) that had a “semi-realistic odds” setting with a big warning that while you’d still probably manage, you’d have to dig much further into your reserves to do so. And it wasn’t an easy win even with the setting off, it was fucking obnoxious because it was needed..
I went to a real casino a year or so ago, because it was a cheap hotel stay, and I got $10 free money for signing up and being a veteran (a demographic often plagued with gambling problems).. I played it and won $120 on the last pull, cashed out, and haven’t touched it since. It felt like a hook, because it was all done on tracking cards, and it gave me the icks big time.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Without money, pretty much all gambling games turn out to be extremely boring.
I don’t even do in-game gambling because it’s just annoying. The last time I tried that, I ended up instead buying the 9999 coins with cash to get a Porygon, because the slot machines were so boring.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I find it boring with money too. The main difference is that you lose money instead of fake money. So I still like it better in games.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
The one exception is the Luigi casino minigames from Super Mario 64 DS/New Super Mario Bros
techt@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m exclusively a savescum gambler
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fun fact, LA has independent Cambodian-run donut places because the so called Donut King lost his fortune to gambling addiction and had to relinquish his ownership to the families to pay debts.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have a family member that decided he had to go to Vegas. Alone.
On his son’s birthday.