Nonono, you don’t understand, dude. See, there’s these hats, right? But sometimes, the hat has this super rare effect, see? And, if I spend $2.50 per crate key, I can sell that unusual hat for more than I spent on the key, making profit. OR — hear me out — or: I could spend the unusual i unbox on MORE crates and keys, and get more unusuals.
But I DID also have a shady key guy I paid through PayPal who gave me keys for 1.20USD, so I was very lucky.
I hate gambling, but I LOVED pixely hats. I’ve been to a casino only a few times in my life and it was almost always super boring. But the rush when there was a full server ceasefire so everyone could come stare at the firey hat I had just opened…
Digital randomness vs physical randomness for one. Code can be subtly weighted easily in the direction and degree you want without regulation or oversight. Your roulette wheel’s loss of randomness is random itself and tampering is easy to see for regulators who absolutely exist and are inspecting. Even digital slot machines are heavily regulated. Your trust isn’t in the casino, it’s in the state it occurs in. And like yeah something fishy might be happening in a casino in your state. But nobody has stricter statisticians than the Nevada government. Their state’s economy relies on it.
Also physical gambling sells an experience outside the home in a specific atmosphere. Online gambling feels like the equivalent of getting a vodka faucet ran into your house next to the water. Sure you can indulge responsibly in that situation, but it’s not made for that purpose and it’s going to be much easier to find you’ve slipped into a serious addiction that’s harder to avoid.
Another big thing is that in the US at least, recovering addicts can go to the casino and tell them to not take their money anymore. These safeguards aren’t present in offshore online gambling sites.
Usually they promise you something like extra money on your first deposit, daily free spins, or something else to get you hooked.
A former coworker claimed to have a scheme on one casino to use those perks for guaranteed free money (of variable amounts per month), buuuut never told me much about it. Given that, it might even have been legit.
Haven’t really tried it myself, I have ADHD so I’m afraid of addictive things. I already have alcohol, nicotine and caffeine in my life, I don’t want to add gambling.
i will never understand why people would be dumb enough to play in online casinos, or any other form of digitalized gambling. this includes slots.
Nonono, you don’t understand, dude. See, there’s these hats, right? But sometimes, the hat has this super rare effect, see? And, if I spend $2.50 per crate key, I can sell that unusual hat for more than I spent on the key, making profit. OR — hear me out — or: I could spend the unusual i unbox on MORE crates and keys, and get more unusuals.
That’s not digital gambling, right? Right.
i know that this is talking about tf2, and yes this is gambling you have a problem
What about when there was that bug in 2019 that made it so you could only get unusuals?
I made hundreds that morning from selling all of my old crates. It was amazing.
Quick edit: oh dick, that was four years ago already?!
Hey, I sold all my hats for a Valve Index.
But I DID also have a shady key guy I paid through PayPal who gave me keys for 1.20USD, so I was very lucky.
I hate gambling, but I LOVED pixely hats. I’ve been to a casino only a few times in my life and it was almost always super boring. But the rush when there was a full server ceasefire so everyone could come stare at the firey hat I had just opened…
how is online gambling different than irl gambling?
Digital randomness vs physical randomness for one. Code can be subtly weighted easily in the direction and degree you want without regulation or oversight. Your roulette wheel’s loss of randomness is random itself and tampering is easy to see for regulators who absolutely exist and are inspecting. Even digital slot machines are heavily regulated. Your trust isn’t in the casino, it’s in the state it occurs in. And like yeah something fishy might be happening in a casino in your state. But nobody has stricter statisticians than the Nevada government. Their state’s economy relies on it.
Also physical gambling sells an experience outside the home in a specific atmosphere. Online gambling feels like the equivalent of getting a vodka faucet ran into your house next to the water. Sure you can indulge responsibly in that situation, but it’s not made for that purpose and it’s going to be much easier to find you’ve slipped into a serious addiction that’s harder to avoid.
This guy gets it. Thank you for articulating this point so well.
Fewer pants.
Another big thing is that in the US at least, recovering addicts can go to the casino and tell them to not take their money anymore. These safeguards aren’t present in offshore online gambling sites.
Usually they promise you something like extra money on your first deposit, daily free spins, or something else to get you hooked.
A former coworker claimed to have a scheme on one casino to use those perks for guaranteed free money (of variable amounts per month), buuuut never told me much about it. Given that, it might even have been legit.
Haven’t really tried it myself, I have ADHD so I’m afraid of addictive things. I already have alcohol, nicotine and caffeine in my life, I don’t want to add gambling.
Good on ya for knowing yourself and avoiding that. Best of luck in dealing with your other addictions.
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Not buying your bags!!