There are a mere handful of things I am a real hardass killjoy Puritan about but this is one: sports betting should be QUITE illegal and difficult to seek out.
Especially the way it is now INTEGRATED INTO THE BROADCAST. If you like a sport, there's no way to avoid the damn betting. It's sponsoring MLB, it's listed out the odds. It's obscene.
I agree honestly, I try not to be a hard Ass for most things but I loathe gambling like this. These gambling apps offer nothing to society except a way for these companies to take advantage of people and siphon money off them. It ruins a person mentally and destroys lives.
It's so weird from outside America, living in a country where sports betting is just a thing that's always been and a football bet on a Saturday is just a thing you do, to see what happens when a country goes from 0- 2025 level betting tech lunacy.
One of the first things I ever learned in a kitchen at 16 was how to fill out a football slip. You wagered a couple of quid and maybe came away with a couple of grand. But a bookie's shop wasn't a good or enticing place to go. You knew that in your bones.
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Did.
Did you mean to send this in reply to a post about how sports betting is ruining lives?
I was *incredibly* lucky in that regard
Then in my 20's I dropped way-too-much-$ on games with gacha-esque mechanics for cosmetics
Once again, I got lucky, but both realization- and support-wise
And there's nowhere near the kind of pushback on sports betting than there is re: other forms of gambling, or even gacha shit
And even if you quit, watching most sports then becomes like setting a recovered/recovering alcoholic's preferred drink down in front of them
Gambling has completely infiltrated sports shows and sports apps (to check the sportsball scores) too.
I wouldn’t miss it.
Current system would have destroyed me