great post. reading this gets me fired up. love the passion

this post is haunting me.

im trying to find some meaning here after the death of our syndicate thread.

in my biased opinion we have the highest signal to noise ratio of any sports betting forum on the internet (rip roughingthepunter).

is b00t right? is this forum good for nothing but backbiting and cyncicism? i don't want to believe that but maybe thremp and boot had it all figured out a decade ago and i'm the naive one. we just need to insult people more and then this forum will be great?

this forum is still great. There are plenty of nuggets all over the place

how is the grind going for you?

would you say it's incorrect to conflate CRIS and bookmaker? same shops or totally different? confused by how people mix the two

It's their US-facing operation. exact same outfit

Studies have consistently shown that the more people use social media, the less happy they are. And while there's little in the way of hard evidence, I think there's good reason to believe the same correlation applies to posting on internet gambling message boards as well. The incessant one-upmanship and bickering, the name-calling and pooh-poohing, the hostility and cynicism - these are all signs of a highly toxic environment. Plus, anecdotally, I and a number of other chatroom millionaires have found this trend to hold true for ourselves - like two opposing sine waves, peaks of active posting line up with darker moments in life, with troughs of infrequent posting when the good times come.



If there is such a correlation, then naturally the next question is - which way does the causation go? Does posting on internet gambling forums actually make you less happy? Or is the causation reversed, i.e. less happy people just tend to post more frequently? I'd say the jury is still out, but the way I see it, it's a little of both. Any time you spend posting is time you could have otherwise spent farming Stardew Valley or playing with kittens or driving trucks or ****ing hookers, or whatever else makes you happy and gives meaning to your life. Maybe we should all spend some more time doing those things, and less time worrying about making this ****ty forum great again.

great reminder how toxic the internet and social media can be. let's make it a personal challenge to resist the incentives to behave horribly online and overcome that negativity together.

here's my rule. whenever i feel that irresistible urge to insult someone else, i am required to post but insult myself instead. it's my version of an internet-based swear jar.

mmm, it can be toxic in here. Like when a gang of people all team up on one person for years and send PMs to each other laughing because he cant reverse engineer hockey lines into team totals and instead chooses to pay 50 dollars for someone to show him?

LIKE A ****ING MORON!!!!!!!

Is there anyone from Slovenia here? Or Poland?

i agree with most everything you said. but at the same time, trolling mr. rodriguez kept me warm during those grueling winter months this year. his nonsensical responses consistently made me chuckle, and i like to think i got him riled up with minimal effort from my end. seemed like good bang for my buck at the time, and i look back on those posts with fondness.

i guess, the takeaway is, toxicity in moderation can be okay.

Do any of you guys have kids? How do you either talk to or plan to talk to your kids about gambling, and more specifically advantage gambling?

I feel like advantage gambling as a career path is something that chooses you and not the other way around so I'd have no interest bringing up the subject not that I'd expect kids these days to listen. I wonder how old Mat was when David gave him the talk?

My son is about to turn 5...

"Daddy, if the blue team wins do we get money?"

Yes.

"Does the other team stink?"

No.

"Are we gonna lose?"

Yes.

"Why?"

Let's go play Mario Kart.

"OK"

Try not to. It's like NFL players who don't want their kids to get their brains bashed in and get CTE. If my kids grow up to do what I do, I'll feel like I failed in some way. YMMV

Easiest way is to not turn on games and/or sweat in front of them. Give them a stick, mitt, whatever instead and go play with them. Much better.

don't buy it

I think certain areas self select for people who want to argue, troll, and/or **** post. Those people might be inclined to be perceived as unhappy by the normies.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ueCTUUs...rt=207&end=215

Good read: Requiem For a Sports Bettor

edit: haha omg, I just posted the exact same article bc I didn’t go all the way to the end

RIP the greatest ticket writer and one of the sharpest posters ever YouTalkFunny

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...funny-1745068/

I liked that dude. we used to go back and forth on the sopranos

Such a loss. Life is short and death comes for us all, never forget that. RIP.

So it goes.

SugarHouse is such a disaster online I rec everyone avoid it. Just like offshore they hold up your withdrawals after they cut you for days for no reason after they get all the docs they supposedly need just to return the money back into the acct it came from.