numismatex

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It depends on your ideology and stance. I think a good portion of most societies could use the culling that'll go along with it. Because no matter how you cut the pie, people are still people and just because you believe people are intrinsically good doesn't make it so. I think we should all be under surveillance 24/7/365, but then again I've been raped, beaten, tortured, home invaded and worse so I actually care about the important things like victims being able to put pieces of shit in prison.

numismatex

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Atari's coming to Vegas. :D

numismatex

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So, I hardcore game and hardcore "gamble". But I only play poker, and I'm in the net positive for all gambling, and for poker. I made a living, if a crappy one while I was in Vegas.

My father's a compulsive gambler. I've managed to narrow it to poker and I do well. He has "formulas" and superstitions about slot machines. Wandering around casinos, I'd think "sucker" every time I saw someone playing one.

I sat down at a slot machine while waiting for a restaurant to open. I put in $60 for shits and giggles. $200 later I got up, confused. I looked at the machine's text, seeing who made it. Guess who? A favorite gaming company from my childhood - Konami.

I played slots once more while hanging out with friends after a cheap lunch, and again while wandering Freemont waiting for my AirBnB to open up one morning.

I played a digital Keno machine, winningly, and later for drinks equalling more than I put in.

I can avoid the slots, electronic games and table games. They're well designed, rigged in the house's favor and overall a waste of time.

I lost maybe $600 overall to slots. I won maybe $200 overall from keno. In Texas, I won over $15,000 in lottery tickets. In Vegas, far more than that in poker. I count myself lucky and disciplined. It's insidious the way that dopaminergic tricks and complicated systems (bonuses, etc) manage to keep people and hook them. I've seen the dejected, humiliated looks at table games, electronic games and the poker tables.

I've watched assholes use exploitative play at the poker tables to take social security checks from seniors and mentally handicapped people. Slots, electronic games, and table games do far worse than that. Loot boxes and TCG "packs" are the same shit. At least at poker it's human versus human.

numismatex

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$0. I had everything stolen by my ex-gf and her friends. It was all liquid, in the form of gemstones and collectibles in Las Vegas. The cops there are useless. I'd just clawed my way out of poverty over the course of three years and was about to sell everything, fund a 529 for my five year old daughter and start a small business. I'd managed to buy and resell until I had a little over $100,000 in merchandise to sell. I had everything put away and secured in containers and didn't check on it for months while working when she wasn't due to health issues. Our dumbass neighbor got her hooked on fentanyl and that was it. Everything gone.

numismatex

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So did FTP over e-mail. The tech evolves. UUENcode sucked, btw. And the NZB-based file aggregation and directories served up were pure trash.

numismatex

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We just bomb and murder them in response rather than making sure they're not extremists

numismatex

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taking normal reccommended doses, even getting your levels to average from low takes forever.

numismatex

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

So, because you get paid to develop malware traps, we're supposed to like the kiddie pool that can literally get you arrested for next to nothing (freedom of speech), with script kiddies and ideologues dominating the media platforms that idiots _shouldn't_ be able to use in the first place. That's one reason for societies ills -- we've stamped out natural selection.

numismatex

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Pewdepie (sp) and other shallow cunt youtubers can get away with ridiculous shit yet my 400 aggregated content sites that make me two dollars a month each got me banned. Fuck Google.

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