No.323282
I have a personal rule: I do not allow myself to gamble. Particularly, any sort of unskilled games like the lottery or slot machines. I don't trust myself with the "freedom" to gamble. That being said, I would play (low-stakes) skilled games—such as card games like poker—should the opportunity ever arise. (It hasn't.)
I recently encountered a conundrum which has challenged this "code:" raffles. Last Christmas, my relative gifted me a package of Fallout-themed sodas. Upon opening my first bottle, I noticed a blue star on the inner side of the cap. Any Fallout player knows that these blue stars are valuable, and I immediately scanned the QR code to learn more. I discovered that I won a ticket for a raffle. I knew I had no chance to win, but I debated all-day whether to enter the raffle. This is a slippery-slope, I reasoned. If I allow myself to do this, I can never purchase a package of this brand of soda without being ever-so-slightly biased by the raffle. In essence, this is gambling with extra steps. Eventually, I decided that I hadn't purchased the sodas myself, and—even if I had—I would not have purchased those with the raffle in mind. So, I entered the raffle.
After doing further research, I discovered that the raffle is limited to one entry-per-person, not one-per-ticket. So, I guess it's not quite gambling. Still, I'm left with the same conundrum: When do raffle tickets become gambling? What is the line between a raffle ticket and a lottery ticket?
No.323283
>>323282I made a few hundred bucks just using all the freebies from the myriad of casinos in my country.
No.323297
look at the people who gamble. are those people you look up to, people you want to be like, people you would hope to befriend, people who you would ask for advice? people who you think practive good mental and physical health? people who are moral?
casinos are evil places and the world would be better without. it is where bad people prey on desperate people. casinos are streams of passive income for the few, they provide soul sucking jobs that ruin the employees and turn them corrupt, they insist on security theater, they are used for other kinds of theater too, they reserve the right to be unfair, usually there is alcohol involved, which is a gateway to unhealthy food.
every second you waste in the casino is a second you could have spent to learn how to live within your means better, which is a skill. the longer you stay at the casino the more likely you are to lose money unless you own the place.
gambeling has a magnetic attraction … it attracts idiots.
No.323459
You always lose with gambling