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Addiction is a disease (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

I've seen this before, and even when I first saw it, threw up some red flags about it being real. Still funny tho

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Lived it before. Casinos exist to fuck with your head. What's been illuminating for me is the P2W video games that adopt so many of the casino strategies to goad people into constantly feeding money into the machine. Once you start picking up on the queues and triggers coming off your cell phone, you can't unsee it when you're standing on the floor of the Bellagio.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago

It’s fucked how normalised it is for betting and gambling to advertised.

[-] isekaihero@ani.social 16 points 1 month ago

I spent like $2000 playing Star Trek Online. Lockbox keys, lifetime sub, all sorts of ships, items, and boosts. They introduced Mark XIV equipment with a gambling-based crafting system. You could spend dilithium (which you could buy with $) to have a chance to upgrade your equipment.

The straw that broke me? Their shitty customer service. I wanted to gear up an alt and give them the Jem'Hadar battleship with the Jem'hadar attack ship so they could launch the attack ships from it as fighters, which you could do if you had both. Problem was some ships were account bound, and some ships were character bound, and I lost track of which was which. I ended up claiming the box for one of them on the wrong character. Easy fix, right? Well not every MMO is run to the same standard as Blizzard. Craptic absolutely refused to help me. So I cut ties.

It was after that, when I experienceced withdrawal, that I read about gambler's fallacy and sunken cost fallacy and I really analyzed why it hurt so much to leave behind my addiction. I never went back, because I know that whole game is run like a casino. They do everything they can to hook you in.

[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's really unfortunate to hear. I played and enjoyed the game back when it first came out, before they added all the micro transaction stuff. I've thought about revisiting it a few times but never have.

[-] doubledutchbus@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

this is like someone telling a story of their spiral into alcohol addiction and then you coming in at the end and being like "yeah well I got drunk a few times in college and im fine" lolololol

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well not every MMO is run to the same standard as Blizzard.

Damning with faint praise.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah, most predatory apps are almost like cheap ripoffs of refined system casinos got down to a science.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 month ago

Quitting an addiction is so simple, I've quit 100 times.

Also:
"I'm addicted to placebos: I'd quit, but it wouldn't matter."
-- Steven Wright

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

My favorite:

Rehab is for quitters.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 33 points 1 month ago

One of the many things being a cheapskate protects me from.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

On my honeymoon 7 years ago my wife and I took a very expensive 13-day Mediterranean cruise on a huge ship with a casino. One afternoon I went there and spent $300 over about an hour.

I still kick myself for throwing that money away.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Best thing that could have ever happened to you. If you won it 'big' you'd have ended up losing way more than 300 bucks. A moderately priced lesson.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Quitters always quit before they hit the jackpot. Respect the hustle! Sell the wife, sell the kids.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

99% of gamblers quit right before they're about to win big.

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... I like those odds.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you do the math, there is literally 0% chance of winning in most gambling. Especially because of the fact plenty of them are rigged.

Arguably the safer bet if one wants to gamble is stock investing, but only after doing due research and willing to be patient to see its results. For those willing to do CFD stock trading, the person would require not just research and patience, but also nerves of steel not to panic.

But I think that most addicted gamblers don't like the win, they just want the dopamine hit of playing.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I had friends who used to play online poker in uni. They'd have 5 or 6 screens open at once and just play the dominant strategy for each hand. Was good for some extra beer money.

Also work with a dude who is a former professional poker player. Although when he explained his schedule to me it sounded a lot like a regular job. Good years he could make £40k out of it but not crazy money.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I guess poker is somewhat more predictable compared to other gambling but I am not too familiar with it. But in racing and dice games, plenty of games are rigged or that there simply isn't chance of winning in many, if not most, bets. I remember doing statistics and probability in school, and one of the correct answers was like zero or close to zero chance. I asked my teacher if that means literally zero chance of winning. She mentioned that that is indeed the case but most gamblers don't realise this.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

With poker the house takes a "rake" from each hand so they get a certain % of whatever is being gambled for hosting. Since the game involved skill they have to do this to ensure they are making money regardless of who wins.

Pretty much every other game is like you describe; people being bad at maths and conditioned to keep going with inconsistently timed rewards.

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

You can make decent money playing poker, since you are playing people, not the casino

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It's kind of nice that that some things have carried over from red-it, like the same memes popping up repeatedly, and people in the comments (me) complaining about it.

[-] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

My partner and half his family have this gambling bug. You can see it in their eyes. You can see it when they win (not that often.) You see it in the veiled "next time we will win" excuses when they lose (most of the time.) I am glad I don't have ....this vice.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago
[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ouch owie my bank account

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

ain’t just a river in Egypt~

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

I can’t wait to get my heroin today. I’m literally shaking.

[-] match@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

can't wait to get my food today! I'm literally shaking

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

You might just be thirsty. So do a little bump of H2O to take the edge off.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Big Smooth Shark energy here, just needs a few more people taking it too seriously

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