lmfao imagine paying dave and busters to facilitate “5 bucks says you can’t”
Placing a bet? Is there someone you forgot to ask?
I put all my shitting ape NFTs on that skee ball game and they’re GONEIt’s so annoying how common and normalized gambling addiction is in the US.
every sports gambling app is like “hey if you sign up now you get $100 credit!! gambling is awesome!!! you HAVE to do it!!!” and then they have the audacity to say shit like if you or a loved one has a gambling addiction heres a helpline or whatever
the audacity
the half-ass legal requirement
hey, I bet you 5 dollars I can beat you in skee ball.
Cash?
Sure. Or venmo. Whatever.
Nah why don’t we both take the time to download this app and then give Dave and Buster a huge vig.
MORONS
Could sports betting stop shitting on everything I like for five minutes
what the fuck happened with gambling in the last 10 years seriously what the FUCK why is it EVERYWHERE
the federal laws on sports betting were ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court in 2018 (and took a hatchet to the federal ban on gambling), making it become something that could use the banking system and access traditional forms of credit/capital. that means profits, proceeds and revenues from sports betting no longer operates as a physical cash business with safes, guards, asset forfeiture in the informal economy. so basically, 99% of the labor, risk and material costs associated with book making vanished, because it can all be handled by an algo and an online merchant account.
now they can take some tiny fraction of the revenues and put them into advertising and now inducements and enticements to gamble on anything are on every screen several times an hour.
as someone who does not gamble, it has been insane how meteoric the rise of gambling has been. every “casual” sports gambler i’ve ever known has always had the same rationale as to why they do it: “the games are boring and this makes them interesting.” as an aside, it’s kinda wild how much of our trillion dollar entertainment industry requires meta-gaming added to it (fantasy football, gambling) to get people to continue watching it.
EDIT here’s an article from 2021 to add some context:
Goldman Sachs projects that online sports betting could grow 40% annually over the next decade, and investors have taken note. The BETZ exchange-traded fund, which includes several online gaming companies, has grown more than twice as fast as the S&P 500 since the ETF’s inception in June 2020.
it’s basically a gold rush situation. i would expect it to create a bubble, but gambling gets even crazier when the economy contracts and now that people can run up credit card debt with gambling who knows how deep this well goes.
it’s kinda wild how much of our trillion dollar entertainment industry requires meta-gaming added to it
hey great idea, why not make sites to gamble on box office sales, TV viewership numbers, etc
3 to 1 the critical reception for this episode is poor.
50 to one the next commercial is for a class action suit.
cable TV just got a whole lot more interesting.
I took my kid to a Chuck E Cheese for a birthday party, and all the kids games were just gambling machines for tokens. It’s so fucking bleak.
Recently went to an arcade with my kiddo and was like wtf is this. They just had Mortal Kombat 2 shoved in a back corner behind all the casino games
The arcade bars catering to Gen X and Millennial nostalgia seem to be the only places where you can enjoy the games. They’re often open to kids during the daytime hours, which is nice.
I hate the western form of arcade ‘games’ that are designed around the “carnival challenge you out of your money” approach (stacker, keymaster, basketball, punch thing, hammer thing). I want more of the Japanese games where you pay to play a game that’s fun for the sake of being fun (Taiko, Mario Kart Arcade GP, Wangan, etc)
You must not know what gachapon is
Japan has it’s own awful practices to be sure. The worst games though by far are the ones where you plunk in the tokens and try to knock other tokens off precarious ledges, and then you sit there and play it for hours spending hundreds of dollars to win enough tickets to exchange for a cheap Bluetooth speaker.
, to be fair
tfw I spent my 2008 allowance on wangan cards instead of market speculation
Can capitalism stop ruining everything and making them dangerous for one moment?
3 years too late to the grift. Bizarre.
eepy: shootouts over street dice
woke: shootouts over skeeball
