Gambling is BAD, and nothing good can come from involving yourself in it. And I don't just mean placing bets. I mean getting into bed with the people who take them. The house always wins. That's mathematics, and its the God's honest truth. Which brings me to the people who promote this garbage. If you're a celebrity, influencer, or former professional athlete taking money to encourage people to gamble, you're lending your credibility to an industry that makes its money when those people lose. You may not be doing anything illegal. You may even genuinely believe in what you're promoting. Don't act surprised when people start questioning your integrity, especially when allegations of deceptive marketing start flying. I don't know whether the allegations involving FanDuel and CodyBrownBets are true, but they illustrate exactly why I have such contempt for this industry. You don't have to place a bet to lose something valuable to gambling. Sometimes all you have to wager is your reputation. Just associating yourself with it is enough to ruin yourself in many people's eyes, like mine.

War is on the horizon. Are you ready?

Unsurprisingly... a firestorm of hateful chud responses in here. I have no skin in the obsessive anti-woke culture war. Of course they all assume that. I actually prefer hot, superhero type characters most of the time. I know it's a lot of trolls obviously, but... Regardless, it's a part of the discussion. Facts and matter. We don't know the full story yet. Maybe Dragon Age Veilguard's sales and player reception was purely why BioWare lost EA's funding. (I didn't really even play that game or spend my time on social platforms propping it up, as the chuds might assume.) But there's a huge difference between assuming why BioWare got shuttered and knowing the facts. Correlation isn't causation. There isn't any credible reporting that's simply what happened here. Also -- laughable how many of these haters are willingly praising studio closures by a BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATION (see also: Xbox). In EA's statement, they effectively tell you: they are not in the RPG business. That's not what they say, but they describe how they are a ball and gun game company. "Deepen Our Core" as they describe it. How that's their focus, only with some action-adventure and lifestyle games otherwise. From a emotionless corporate level -- they are just tightening the portfolio and vision. Dropping a line item in the budget. That's the easiest short-term explanation, along with their new Saud investors' push for changes. Yes, it goes without saying BioWare has had troubles for many years. We know EA inflicted pain there as well, jerking the studio back and forth on things. But until we hear more about the next-gen Mass Effect project itself -- of which some staff worked on Mass Effect 1/2/3 -- we can't just assume Dragon Age's sales or perception is purely why BioWare was shut down.

🚨Fl Sheriffs' Salary Jumps > $90,000 additional $$ a year. All 5 campaigning saying vote NO amendment 3. See why? getting rich off backs of homeowners • Bob Gualtieri (Pinellas County): $179,887 to $274,015 • Grady Judd (Polk County): $172,829 to $269,704 • Mike Chitwood (Volusia County): $169,100 to $262,828 • Billy Woods (Marion County): $162,777 to $257,625 • Michelle Cook (Clay County): $152,082 to $242,461

this completely ignores that some of us are medically unable to have other forms of penetrative sex. i.e. discriminatory...

What are your hourly top played games?

Unpopular opinion: your results with AI largely depend on how smart you are