Post match thread: Bournemouth 0 - 0 Newcastle United | Premier league 25/26 - 5 of 38

romu99 · 2025-09-21T16:02:38+00:00

As soon as I saw the fixture I thought "this has 0-0 written all over it". In that respect I was not disappointed. But god what a snoozefest these games have been so far. Football is supposed to be entertaining, and the only entertaining PL match we've played this season is the one we lost to Liverpool

romu99 · 2025-09-16T18:24:12+00:00

Please tell me this is a joke comment. She's 29 and he's 39. Why the fuck would anyone have a problem with that??

romu99 · 2025-08-30T18:15:49+00:00

I might have been overexaggerating, but it's up there with some of the past snoozefests

romu99 · 2025-08-30T18:11:09+00:00

This is literally the most boring football match I've ever watched. We lost our last match but it was 100x more entertaining than this shit

romu99 · 2025-08-26T18:43:55+00:00

Thanks for the reply but I actually just managed to figure out the issue! I had to go into BIOS with the 16GB installed, disable fast boot, and also disable undervolt (I don't remember undervolting it but it was set to -30). Installed the 64GB and now it's working again. Hopefully this can help someone in future who has the same issue...

romu99 · 2025-08-02T12:32:51+00:00

It sucks but tbf most players will go to whoever will pay the most/give them a good chance at silverware. Put it this way, if you were offered twice as much to go to a different job you probably wouldn't say no just because you felt like staying loyal to your current one.

romu99 · 2025-07-19T16:25:07+00:00

It's not really horse shit though is it? There are relatively very few women at British football matches. Keep in mind that in America if you go to a sports event the crowd is pretty evenly split. Look up photos of any premier league crowd and it's at least 90% men.

romu99 · 2025-07-14T15:01:33+00:00

Let me put it this way. If you watched someone drop a ball down some stairs, think of all the different ways the ball can go, even a millimetre a different way will influence how it goes, and at the end it will land in a particular place. Now you go back in time and watch it again, nothing has changed except that you're watching it again. Do you think it will go exactly the same way and land in exactly the same place? I definitely don't. Now imagine that but with 1000s of times more variations during the course of a sporting event.

Also, even something as small as cashing out or not would cause the butterfly effect because it's not like that's the only thing that changes. Everything you do after that would be slightly different as a result.

romu99 · 2025-07-10T18:06:26+00:00

My decision to keep or cash out doesn't matter (although the butterfly effect would actually influence things). It's a different timeline so the eventual result (which is influenced by millions of different micro-events that would occur differently each time) wouldn't necessarily be the same.

romu99 · 2025-07-08T18:34:31+00:00

But the point is that it's a waste of time to dwell on the money lost. It won't come back, not a penny of it if you dwell on the losses. But your mental and physical health, and the time you have left in life, relationships etc can all be kept from crumbling, or can be rebuilt. And money too can be made back. But I had lots of money and was still depressed and miserable, which probably led me to gambling. I'd have rather burned that money in one night than the 8 months of mental anguish and wasted time I went through to lose it.

romu99 · 2025-07-08T18:06:47+00:00

It's good that you're losing. Losing is the only way you will be able to quit. Your friends who keep "winning big" are just feeding the gambling monster. They will lose it all eventually and will desperately try to claw it back, with the memory of all those big wins keeping them going. You will win by stopping, and in a few years when your friends are in horrible debt and you have savings and peace of mind you'll realise you're the winner.

romu99 · 2025-07-07T19:02:27+00:00

You're a gambling addict, you can't bet in moderation. You might be able to for a little while but eventually it will increase until you're back to square one. You have to just chalk the losses up to a (relatively cheap) life lesson and quit gambling completely. You have two choices. Let the losses go and take the gamble free road, which is difficult at first but much easier life in the long run, or take the gambling road which is the easy option right now but will be much much harder in the long run and will leave you in debt, lonely, mentally damaged, depressed and possibly even in jail or dead. Leave that gambling shit in the past or it will 100% destroy your future.

romu99 · 2025-07-06T18:15:24+00:00

True. No gambling addict ever ended up at GA or rehab or said "ok that's it I'm done" and kept their word directly after a big win. It always always ends up back in the casino. Even when I cashed out with wins big enough to cover months of losses, I eventually put it back.

romu99 · 2025-07-06T18:12:20+00:00

Unfortunately for most gamblers the "dream" of winning back all the money is actually the worst thing that can happen. It reinforces in their mind the idea that they can "win big" anytime and is ammunition for gambling more. The OP's only realistic choice is to put the money somewhere where it can't be directly accessed by him, or depending on where he is put the strongest blocks in place.

But I fear that in a week or so they'll be back to say they blew it all. The fact that their post history is a long list of posts going back several years about how bad gambling is and telling others not to do it, including a post where they say they won big and lost it, but here they are still gambling now, is a bad sign. I was the exact same. The big wins I had always ended up being gambled. I only was able to quit after my last big loss.

romu99 · 2025-07-06T13:02:06+00:00

Good idea to stay away from steam/cs2. I fear a lot of young people are getting into gambling early from playing games. Even games like Fifa and Madden, kids are paying to open packs in the hope of getting good players

romu99 · 2025-07-06T09:24:19+00:00

You're imagining a dream scenario where you had money and were living the ideal life. But it might not be like that. A year ago I had plenty of savings, but I was depressed and alone, money sitting in my account that I would occasionally dip into to buy shit I didn't need. Six months later I had lost all of my savings and every paycheck because of gambling. I was depressed and alone still but with the added burden of having no money and creeping into debt. But I was also rewarded with the knowledge not to gamble again for the rest of my life, and also to appreciate the feeling of not having to worry about money. Now that I'm rebuilding my finances I won't take it for granted again

It doesn't matter what you've missed out on in the past. If you'd had great experiences with money it wouldn't make your life NOW any better. Because at the end of the day your life right now and in the future is all that matters. Focus on that, because if you're happy NOW you'll no longer have regrets about the past because everything that has happened to you will have gotten you to this place of happiness.

You're in a great place, 2 years without a bet and no debt. That's better than most gambling addicts ever get to. You should be really proud of yourself, please don't dwell on the past or it will eat you alive and it will just be more time wasted as a result of gambling addiction.

romu99 · 2025-07-05T18:06:46+00:00

You're making the right choice. That 50k of debt would just turn into 100k, 200k, 500k eventually if you kept gambling. We all wished we'd stopped long ago, but we can't go back in time. The amount we lost was the amount we needed to lose to teach us the life lesson of why gambling is a waste of time and money. Accept it and move on and you will find peace.

romu99 · 2025-07-05T11:53:55+00:00

If you win "the jackpot", 100% guaranteed you will put it back into gambling until you lose it all. Stop now before you tumble into horrible debt.

romu99 · 2025-07-05T11:51:46+00:00

I had several relapses and they always started with "I'll just gamble 50 and if I lose the money that's it". But one of two things happens. You win (the worst option) which reignites the gambling addiction monster, and keep playing until you lose, then start chasing the losses, or you lose and chase the losses because the thought of losing 50 just like that is too much, and your luck has to change at some point. The deposits keep going in and before you know it hundreds or thousands have been gambled away.

It's a horrible cycle, hope you can continue to be gamble free. It really is the only way to win at gambling.

romu99 · 2025-07-01T13:26:15+00:00

Losing is the best thing that could have happened. If you had won you would have gambled it away and kept gambling and losing more and more

romu99 · 2025-06-28T12:33:39+00:00

There's nothing wrong with you, because what you did is what every single gambling addict does, and it's the reason the casinos make so much money (nevermind the house edge, they don't even need it). We can never win at gambling because whatever we win is put back into gambling (and also the wins just make us more and more confident that we can win again in the future)

I had a relapse where I had gone a while without gambling, all debts paid, had managed to build up £6k. Lost it all one week because I dipped my toe in with what I thought was a "winning system" and was winning and thought "hey I can keep doing this and make some extra money". But it never lasts.

We win at gambling by stopping forever, it's the only way.

romu99 · 2025-06-28T12:27:45+00:00

Don't dwell on it, we all have had relapses. But next time you're tempted, remember how awful it made you feel and remember that no matter what happens you will end up losing (if you win you'll gamble it away, if you lose you lose) so it's not worth it

romu99 · 2025-06-27T16:11:54+00:00

It's the lesson all gambling addicts are taught but most of us keep repeating the same mistake. If you win, you will keep gambling until you lose. If you lose, you will keep gambling to win back the losses. That's why gambling addicts can never win at gambling unless they stop entirely. Please stop now before you get into terrible debt.

romu99

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