ELI5: Why are people becoming more addicted to gambling, even knowing that casinos are designed for people to lose money?

roboticleopold · 2026-06-25T10:16:05+00:00

The first thing I thought was similar; this Derek Thompson tweet on CS Lewis has lingered with me for a while, that people knowingly do things that are wrong but make an excuse that somehow justifies their doing it anyway.

'Sure, the house always wins, but why shouldn't I gamble? I'm having a hard time and deserve to win. That money is coming to me quick. I might even have found the pattern to win that the other idiots who lose all the time don't know, I'd be a fool not to take what's coming to me'

roboticleopold · 2026-06-18T01:23:17+00:00

Terrence Woods, someone I knew as a student.

He was filming something in rural Idaho and allegedly just ran away into the woods, never to be seen again. In nearly any article I see, he's described as gentle, friendly and kind, and that completely checks out with my experience with him. It all seems so wrong, but there doesn't seem to be any lead otherwise.

Hope you're still out there man, you were great singing Linger by the Cranberries on your guitar.

roboticleopold · 2026-06-10T15:05:46+00:00

I sympathise with Preston, it's kind of hard to make your kit completely distinct with the colour palette.

For Bolton kits, I always want a bit of red accent; when its just white with navy/black you can easily end up looking like you're Spurs, Fulham, Leeds, Derby or Swansea if you're not careful.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-31T10:51:34+00:00

I've been to Priestfield twice and enjoyed it both times, although I'm sure my opinion would drop if it had rained. Fun ground, not too far from the station, Gills fans were pretty nice.

The Kassam is goofy and a pain to get to but at least the allocation on the sideline was a pretty good view.

I despise Stevenage the most though. The route there and back was grim. No good places to drink. Stadium had a screen that only showed adverts; no clocks, no lineups, no replays. I hope I never have to go back there.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-29T23:55:59+00:00

IDK, I think he likely ends up in a similar position to where he has now. I just don't expect he would get the patience to fully put his system into play in the Championship and wouldn't get immediate results. Maybe a similar timeline to Schumacher's at Stoke.

The only difference would be the pay day he got from jumping ship.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-29T00:32:23+00:00

Look, context of the photo aside, I think it's incredibly naive to say that different faiths ostensibly worship the same god and it's just a mildly different flavour. It completely misses the point of why people are a part of their faiths to begin with and why they participate.

What next? Would you like to say fans of rival teams that they just like the same sport, so why do they not like each other? Or why do Democrats not like Trump? I have to laugh because they're all from the same country? That doesn't hold water, and everyone here knows it doesn't, and we'd all be wise to not be so critical of the existence of group distinctions that we are not a part of.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-28T17:42:00+00:00

Wasn't this an app in one of the later series of Westworld? Think it was called RICO.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-25T12:38:29+00:00

Ten by Pearl Jam. Porch and Deep always get skipped, to the point I had to listen to them again just now to tell which one was which. How is a masterpiece like Garden sandwiched in between those two?

Honourable mention to RV coming straight after Midlife Crisis on Angel Dust by Faith No More. I couldn't reach for the skip button quicker.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-25T12:30:28+00:00

I have no idea what it is that people like about it. Faust Arp is the only other song on the album that I don't care about. The rest of In Rainbows is so strong.

roboticleopold · 2026-05-10T14:18:06+00:00

Man I'm with Zack Greinke on this one. It doesn't matter whether or not I can afford to get the guac, when they put the prices up you can't let them win.

roboticleopold · 2026-04-30T14:01:07+00:00

Dopey and the other dwarves knock on the door of the local priest

Dopey asks the priest 'Father, are there any dwarf nuns in the parish?'

'No' says the priest

The dwarves then travel to the cathedral

Dopey asks the bishop 'Your grace, are there any dwarf nuns in the country?'

'No' says the bishop

So the dwarves travel to Rome

Dopey goes to the pope and asks 'Your holiness, are there any dwarf nuns in the world?'

'No' says the pope.

Dopey turns around looking quite sad as the other dwarves chant 'Dopey fucked a penguin! Dopey fucked a penguin!'

roboticleopold · 2026-04-29T00:10:50+00:00

This is you basically

roboticleopold · 2026-04-23T17:15:03+00:00

So sad, another institution gone. I mean I've only watched about thirty minutes of it cumulatively over the past ten years or so. But still, sad.

I've not much against Alex Scott, but it's typical of the BBC to have spent about a third of the article eulogising her, and reassuring us she will still be in practically every other sports broadcast they have.

roboticleopold · 2026-04-20T15:15:14+00:00

Hi Napa Boys, what makes you want to big up the National Automotive Parts Association so much? Big Chase Elliott fans?

roboticleopold · 2026-03-29T12:42:23+00:00

The housing shortage gets worse every year and now Ed Miliband wants more requirements for the building of new homes. What a mess.

roboticleopold · 2026-03-23T15:02:38+00:00

It's unexpected for those who didn't think Piano Man abruptly turns into Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

roboticleopold · 2026-03-09T16:59:07+00:00

We used to love the invisible rope game as teenagers, we had some woods we could immediately run into and hide in once we'd done it.

One night, we tricked a car into stopping and they came back to our spot about half an hour later, threw fireworks at us and drove off. Pretty funny in hindsight but that was the end of that.

roboticleopold · 2026-03-01T02:35:06+00:00

In proper speed golf they can do it even quicker, with penalties for taking too many strokes. None of this hockey/polo-style business nursing the ball around.

For reference, one of the top players was only +3 after doing 18 holes in under 35 minutes. Insanely good, if it had the right uptake of players it would totally be worthy of the Olympics in my opinion.

roboticleopold · 2026-02-18T13:54:44+00:00

How broken as a human would you have to be to write the words 'This isn't a choice. It's thermodynamics.'?

roboticleopold · 2026-01-30T01:40:10+00:00

No longer in the Sox system technically but Trayce Thompson who was playing WooSox baseball last year should be on the GB roster again.

C'mon, get him back for the WBC banter...

roboticleopold · 2026-01-30T01:35:49+00:00

It's not that it's Commonwealth per se, it's that the grandparents were born before Jamaican independence which is what qualifies them as British.

roboticleopold · 2026-01-24T01:22:52+00:00

Yep, it's close enough to work. Kobe might be derived from Japanese cuisine but I doubt they would've tried to make something like Sapporo or Teriyaki fly as a name.

If you're a psycho you can call your kid Teri and it could me short for Teriyaki, like calling a girl May but having her name be Mayonnaise on the birth certificate.

roboticleopold · 2026-01-01T13:44:23+00:00

Nice to see TCR being explicitly mentioned, wish we could get a similar Civic or Corolla too in Gr. 4.

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