You get ads?
I make ass, reel good ads to, like this one! All the curious soles want to cum to my island, not associated wit other well-know islands
you watch ads?
I just hope to the universe my nephews are not drawn into this.
Honestly idk if I have the gene, but I do have anxiety and that seems to be enough.
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.
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.
I always describe gambling as non-alcoholic vodka.
It just does nothing for me and leaves an awful taste in my mouth.
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 like it as a group activity, like poker night, but casinos are depressing.
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.
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’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.
I get that same fun playing D&D. There’s risk and a thrill you might lose, but it’s super cheap.
I have 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.
No, that’s how it feels to have a pi-hole with expansive blocklists and a wireguard VPN so I can access the pi-hole ad blocking from my phone wherever I am. I never see ads, even on my phone. uBlock and other browser based adblockers are great for computers, they’re less effective for phones whereas network adblocking like Pi-holes are super effective on phones.
Oh and also not having the gambling gene.
Not saying pi hole isn’t great, but ublock origin works pretty well on Firefox on phone
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.
The ol’ Kobayashi Maru
I just started playing poker championship (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.
I suspect the skill level will be much higher among people playing with actual money.
Oh definitely. Thankfully it’s fun before getting to that place
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.
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.
It’s showing how it feels not how it is. It likely doesn’t feel that good having to constantly resist an urge like that.
Also, the oblivious guy being missed by everything would be the ad blocker, not the non-gambler.
What are you even doing that you see these ads. I hardly see any ads.
It’s so wild to me that there are still people out there rawdogging the Internet
If you watch any sport, most of the ads are for sports betting these days
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.
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)
I am this person. How anyone could be interested is beyond me.
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
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.
Yeah if anything gambling is the hot new addiction for young people. Gen Z drinks less, does less drugs, and even fucks less, but they gamble more. As a millennial I remember when gambling was mostly old people at casinos, but that’s not the face of modern gambling. These days it’s online casinos and sports betting apps. It’s increasingly stuff like polymarket.
Exactly, they’re trying to get the new generations as interested as the ones on the way out. It’s addictive and now there’s algorithms to make you ‘win’ just enough to stay hooked. That combined with being able to gamble on more than stocks, there’s bound to be a huge shift either direction.
Yeah boomer hate is in vogue, we would have thought only boomers would get distracted from class wars by gen wars.
I think it’s because it’s much more visible in boomers as they’re more likely to be gambling in casinos whereas I’d bet (ha) the majority of betting is online these days.
Go into any casino and see what the age distribution is, in my experience the majority are boomers.
Yeah - the old, retired people wasting money on slots is definitely a thing, but another side of the market are people who are desperate and don’t see any way of elevating themselves out of poverty except to win big.
And gambling companies are 100% willing to take advantage of those people and take whatever they have.
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
