A painful repeat of the same thing.
An operant conditioning on a slot that seldom or never pays. And if it does its just to buy some more time on the same dam place you never left in the first place. Feeling like a pigeon that never stops pecking in the red circle. Professor skinner was quite right it is absolutely possible to make a pigeon into a gambling addict.
Waiting for a neural plasticity to hopefully make the brain more aware of utter stupidity life has become when it is constantly on repeat mode.
Flawed thinking of what if, and If I could just.... Excuses that help you do more repeats.
Life becomes a f...... repeat. It is that simple. You do more of the same because you need more to get high. And after a while you do not remember why that level of addiction destroyed your economy because you are so dam speeded to cover the tracks of the mess that you created when you where on repeat in the first place.
So this f.... industry creates monsters. They advertise constantly for new wild game (us) to create more monsters. They have no disregards of the carnage they create just as long as the boss can get a new yacht for xmas or perhaps a second ferrari. They would happily climb over another thousand corpses to pick up the keys for that ferrari. If you confront them with it they say ohh ahhh we did not know. It is a pathetic to the core and it will only change when youu get so disgusted with yourself that you cant bare it any more. Then maybe change will come
The good note is this.
If you want to change You got to change
If you want things to get better . You got to make it better.
Direction determines destination. A few degrees left or right will bring you to somewhere completely different than where you are today. But if you don´t change you will always have what you got. More pain.
The industry DOES create monsters, as you said. Once we can see that it's addition by design we can have some understanding and compassion for ourselves yet I work with anger around the industry that knowingly designs machines better and better to create addiction to the slot zone. But, to blame ourselves and put ourselves down is fruitless and in correct. The only thing I've put myself down for since I found recovery is for being complacent to the addiction which yeild horrible results over and over. Gotta take responsibility to get help but the initial addicion to slots is an intentional addiction created by the industry; whose plan and machines and casino floor plan and senory stimuli have been quite successful... thus they grow and grow. Let's cut them off from the cash flow NOW> come on everyone. really. tara2
Well said C43. This industry knows exactly what it is doing, under the false guise of providing a bit of fun. These excuses for human beings will of course justify their involvement by saying it’s our choice, that they are not forcing us to chase our winnings into oblivion.
Gamstop really is the first real shot back at them and they don’t like it one little bit. The fact some still haven’t signed up tells you all you need to know. It will become obligatory by the end of the year and I do believe we will start to see a slowdown in these new casinos popping up seemingly daily, maybe even some disappearing. Which would be nice.
I totally agree with tara2. A long long way to go but just imagine if every GA signed up to 5 years now. That would have serious repercussions to their main profit feed. My heart would bleed, it really would.
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