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
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Tonava@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
If it’s stupid but it works, it’s not stupid.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
thats not pathetic, its a good trick
stay strong :3
P1k1e@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Nah, you hold on to whatever hope you have. Stay with us
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I think that’s actually a pretty neat trick. So long as not winning doesn’t feel even more crushing.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
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
agingelderly@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I stopped smoking weed during the week so that I had something to look forward to on the weekends. It’s pretty pathetic
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
not pathetic imo. whatever gets you through the week and allows you to keep surviving is perfectly valid!
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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
sangeteria@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
You should get like a low maintenance pet, like a fish, snake, or lizard.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Oh I have a half of a zoo here already, it’s what’s keeping me around
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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…
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I forced Chrome to continue using it and it seems to be holding strong so far.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They must make an absolute fortune, because I see so many ads for shitty online pokie websites.
Hegar@fedia.io 1 day ago
I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.
It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.
Sabata11792@ani.social 20 hours ago
That 6 pack of non alcohol beer I accidentally bought in my fridge about to hit the 3rd year…
Janx@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Except there’s actually good non-alcoholic beer! Most vodka doesn’t taste like much of anything…
chunes@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Never once in my life have I felt the appeal of gambling.
All I needed to learn is that statistically, the house always wins, and that was that.
A friend once insisted on dragging me out to a casino, and I came up with a hare-brained plan for blackjack. I decided to double my bet every time until I won. But only up to as much money as I was willing to lose, because there’s a low chance for this strategy to go poorly very quickly.
I made enough money to pay for the entire trip, and then I never gambled again for the rest of my life. So that’s my story of how I came out ahead.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Gambling is like alcohol, some is fun but you need to learn your limits.
If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna make 100 dollars!’ your gambling wrong. If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna spend 100 dollars.’ you’re gambling correctly.
chunes@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s exactly how I treated my trip. “This trip is going to cost 400 dollars and not a penny more.” The fact that it didn’t was just a happy coincidence.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Same. Went to a casino once, pulled a slot machine and won $30. Then lost $30. Never returned to one.
I do enjoy being gifted scratch-off tickets, though, but I won’t spend my own money on them (unless as gifts to others). I manage at a grocery store and I’m often surrounded by people who aren’t particularly wise with money. Every time there’s a big lottery drawing coming up I get to hear from everyone how “THE JACKPOT IS UP TO 30-MILLION NOW! YOU BETTER GET A TICKET! YA CAN’T WIN IF YA DON’T PLAY!”
Yeah, and I don’t burn money if I don’t play, either…
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“THE JACKPOT IS UP TO 30-MILLION NOW! YOU BETTER GET A TICKET! YA CAN’T WIN IF YA DON’T PLAY!”
I join in the lottery pools at work, not because I think we’ll win, but because I can’t bear to imagine the horror of having everybody at work win the fucking lottery but me.
sploder@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Same here. Went with friends mainly so I could get free AC and free food for the day and put a $10 bill into a slot. Won $999.99 and never cared to gamble again lol
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I have quite the similar tale. And that was that for me as well.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I just hope to the universe my nephews are not drawn into this.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I probably dont have the gene, but I dont feel cool for not clicking an ad. What I mostly feel is rage that the promotions are so obviously geared towards getting the potentially addicted to try it by offering $100’s of free (bonus) bets.
And at the end they have the audacity to mention a helpline.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m pretty sure they’re legally required to display the helpline. No idea how the requirement has survived the current U.S. admin so far, but if these companies had their way, their victims would not be getting help
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If the helpline hurt their bottom line, they’d have found a way around it by now.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Probably because Trump’s current casino of choice is Polymarket.
magnue@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I was down in winter once and decided I’d try out the whole gambling thing. Put 50 into some website and lost it all on a shit game.
Why do people get addicted to that? I experienced no joy and the outcome was exactly what I expected.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The good sites will give you a little bit of your money back so it doesn’t seem like complete bull shit and have a lot of “near misses” too.
It can also prey on desperate people who might not usually try gambling but maybe feel like it’s their best option at the time.
magnue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I won a tiny bit on the first game (like £10 up maybe) but at no point did I believe that a game of odds would possibly allow me to win anything meaningful.
I would equate the experience to burning a £50 note.
nightlily@leminal.space 17 hours ago
But if you’re even the slightest bit aware of statistics, near misses are exactly the same as complete misses. Seems strange that anyone educated falls for it. Desperation I can understand, especially these days when traditional ways of building wealth are almost as bad as just leaving cash under your mattress.
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I tried the online poker thing a little bit. With friends IRL it’s fun but online it’s boring. People work it like it’s their job.
I tried a casino once, won a bunch of money on the first machine and I was thinking I’m done, but had to wait for my friends so I kept doubling a small bet on black on roulette. It landed on red 9 times in a row. It’s all a scam
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The Martingale system is the definitive example of gambler’s fallacy. There’s definitely a “smart” way to gamble, but it generally requires games with a skill element, which casinos specifically avoid for this reason.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Sometimes I’m scrolling through Twitch.tv and come across the virtual casina category. Always some streams with people doing some random slot machine game and raving about it. I understand nothing about it.
magnue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’ve heard a lot of the times the odds are stacked in the streamers favour. It’s worth the hit for the casino to get people to join.
baines@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
stupid, the answer is stupid
at least my gambling comes with animated titty first!
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
People are dumb animals.
Furbag@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
getting ads
Can’t relate.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
🗿
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
…and you can, too, lemmy users!
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’ve found you can make anyone your suster in your head when the need arises as I do rise to top the thot
musket528@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
tbf, the fact that promoting this is legal in the first place angers me
Nalivai@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s not in the developed countries, it’s a no-brainer, really.
musket528@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
in estonia a sports stadium is named after a sports betting platform💀
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It is in the UK, and it’s pervasive as fuck
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I bet I dont have this gene
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
I was in Chess Club at school (I know, I know, quite the jock!). We played chess. Then we got bored of chess and played backgammon. And backgammon without a bet is dull, so we started gambling. Then gambling became the point of playing. So we moved on to poker.
I remember one poker hand. The deck was made up of about five different packs of cards. Jokers, black twos, one-eyed jacks, bedside queens, and suicide kings were all wild. I ended up with a hand of five aces. Two were real aces, three were wild cards. I had to raise. I mean, how can you not raise with five aces? What is the point of playing poker if you don’t raise with five aces?
Sadly, two other people also had five aces and one of them had three real aces and only two wild cards so they won the hand.
I lost £20 on that single hand and absolutely hated every single moment of playing it because somehow I knew, deep down, that I was going to lose. That was a lot of money for me back then and there were other, far better things I could have dropped it on - LPs were about £5 back then, video games £10.
But, it was a great early lesson on the ‘gotta keep going’ mindset of the gambler combined with the certainty that I was going to lose my money. I’m glad it happened, despite the short term remorse I felt immediately afterwards. I’m just not a gambler. One of the other kids from that same game went on to owe someone else £300 by the time we left school.
I’ve been to casinos a couple of times but took some good advice with me. Think about how much you’d be happy to spend on a night out. If you were going to an arena concert, or the theatre, or a flash sit-down meal, how much would you pay for the night? Think about a casino in the same way. You take a set amount of money which you’re going to ‘spend’ on entertainment. Once you’ve lost all of that, you leave the casino. If you find youself up on the night, hurrah.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Bollocks. 99% of gamblers stop before they win big. Maximum bet every time. Go big or go home. Just need to secure that one win, then all of the sunken costs will have made sense!
Seriously though, I once bought 20 quid worth of Overwatch loot boxes during playing I felt exactly the same way playing a slot machine. I have been once in my life to a casino because a friend wanted to go. I played the slot machine for 30 quid in total. Both after the Overwatch loot boxes and the slot machine I felt exactly this same mix of anger and shame. But during it was the exact same mentality of, hey, if I just continue, I can win something I want. The realisation came after. And so, by thinking about this experience, I essentially stayed away from gambling for good. Gambling, be it loot boxes, slot machines, casinos or anything else are a cancer upon society, keeping people poor and praying off the hopes and dreams of people with problems.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
The people who can least afford it are the ones with the most ‘hope’. Gambling companies prey on hope.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
What kind of nonsense poker has that many wild cards
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
The kind of nonsense poker that 14-year olds play with a deck made of four or five different (and not necessarily complete) packs of cards. That’s what kind. It was mostly for pennies and therefore silly fun. This game was different.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I played poker with a group recently and they were trying to make bs wild cards before each hand, like fives and eights are wild, and other stupid shit. I just folded every hand and somehow I’m the asshole. I didn’t complain or even comment, I just folded. Apparently it’s a fun way to play for some people, I think it’s stupid af and had no interest in participating.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Not the point of your story, but when the hell were LPs and video games that cheap. I would think that any time that LPs were that cheap would be before video games even existed.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Early 1980s. LPs from Woolies, video games from Boots (and there were Mastertronic budget titles for £2).
More than once I swapped the £1.99 price sticker on a budget game for the £9.99 price sticker on a premium game, mostly in Boots or WH Smith’s in Dumfries. Fun bonus fact. This was in the days before EPOS systems and barcode readers at the checkout. Only a bored teenager on the till between me and illicit Commodore 64 glory.
I do still wonder if anyone ever bought any of the cheap games for the full ten quid though.
Note: not all Mastertronic games were bad. I loved Kikstart, Finders Keepers, KP Skips Action Biker with Clumsy Colin (I had to look that one up), and The Last V8 - though I think maybe the Last V8 was in their premium £2.99 range.
mimavox@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I am this person. How anyone could be interested is beyond me.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Boomers with too much time amd money, cos they could afford to retire at 50 and still have enough money to waste on stupid things
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I was going to ignore this but God I really hate the ignorance in this statement. I’m genx. Gambling affects everyone. There are plenty of kids and teenagers and christ that’s who’s being targeted.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I never knew gamlering like some but I know it is in my brain, as when I ate out of garbage in homeless i was like “each one is scratch offer” and so it was like tickets evety time I look in can
groucho@retrolemmy.com 12 hours ago
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.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day ago
What are you even doing that you see these ads. I hardly see any ads.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ad block your home internet and phone yall. Life changing.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I use adblockers and cracked apks whenever I can but some mobile games still have ads. Any advice on getting those blocked anyway?
baines@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
you watch ads?
Rusty@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
If you know the basics of probability theory, you can calculate the expexted value in most of the games. For roulette with two zeros, the expected value of your win is 95% of your bet, so it doesn’t make any sense.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
wrong text on the picture. that one should read: “getting 200+ gambling ads daily while having the gambling gene and not gambling anyway.”
The picture that goes with the original text would be someone not even noticing the bullets flying and missing.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember in school doing statistics and probability. There was a question to calculate the probability and chances of winning a bet, and we got a near zero answer. I then asked my teacher if that means the person is actually going to lose. She confirmed yes, and warned us that this is why you have to be careful with gambling and being in debt as a result, and being involved with loans sharks who prey on those with gambling problems.
I’ve personally witnessed what gambling does to a person and their loved ones so I despise it. A lot of the gambling are rigged and so you are more likely to lose.
I tell people that if they’re going to gamble, do the ones with more likelihood of success. Poker is rarely rigged, if ever, because it is based on pure psychology of the players. Investing and stock trading has a more established science, despite the occasional stock manipulation. Although, if one invests in more reputable companies with long term growth and only put in the amount of money the person is willing to lose, hardly anybody goes bankrupt with investing.
Katana314@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I have a story idea, for a training program for spies.
As an exercise, a trainee is told to enter a poker game, read the expressions of the other attendees, and win the pot. The agency can give them a near unlimited budget, but they’re advised to pull out if things are not going well.
Then, they enter the game, win maybe one hand; but after eight or nine hands it would become increasingly obvious there’s some serious cheating going on, and everyone at the table is in on it except the agent. They would never be allowed to win, and cannot complete their mission.
Maybe some trainees would relent to force to get the cash, which would be arranged to make a splashy headline about “The agency’s brightest caught cheating at poker, attempts to murder club owner!”
The lesson there would be to dispel feelings of invincibility, or pursuit of perfection, by the agent; to get them to accept there will be bad, failing circumstances they need to pull out from. Learning when to fold, and then to walk away from the table, is honestly a pretty important life skill.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You get ads?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
typicalDude778@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I’m not sure when gambling became legal & so ubiquitous, but I miss the days when gambling was illegal & could only be done underground. Gambling was illegal because it’s addictive & destructive.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I recently learned that, with perfect play at certain tables, you can cut the house edge in blackjack down to like 0.5% and potentially even give yourself a slight edge with advantage play. I’d be worried, if I had the gene, but I’m just interested in the fun, breezy, hobbyist way, not in the sick, out-of-control way.
pseudo@jlai.lu 20 hours ago
It feels very sadening and worrying about the current state of society.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
I just started playing championship poker (free on steam) and while i am not a gambler, since making 40k three times in two days i can imagine the appeal.
Thankfully it’s all points and not real money.
axx@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Wait, is this a post about adblockers?
nightlily@leminal.space 17 hours ago
The most risk I ever take with my money is an indexed investment fund and even that feels a bit much at the moment.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
do yall seriously not use adblockers