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Re: Parts 3-5 up by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2016, 12:19pm PDT
I wouldn't be surprised if many whales, in different circumstances, would have been gambling addicts.


I was getting arcade games and pinball tables at a pretty good clip for a while. There was an ever-growing "hunger," for lack of a better word that would start to grow a bit after getting one. At some point I had the same rationale that the dude in the article did: if I sell stuff I've already purchased and just use THAT money for fun stuff, then I'm not really wasting money, I'm just drawing from a fun pool. What I started to do was then rationalize like this: "Oh, there's a Centipede for sale. I'll sell Satan's Hollow and use that money for the new game." But then I would get the new game first and not get around to selling Satan's Hollow.

I'm not saying I'm better than the Star Citizen buyers or that the Star Citizen buyers are doing something wrong. I did at least get a tangible item at the end of my obsession but I wonder how much the physical item matters. Certainly one of the extremely fun aspects of getting the arcade games was leaving the house, arranging transportation, going into crazy areas to pull a game out and getting it downstairs. Sometimes a friend would tag along. The SC guys are paying money for something that is at least 50% in their imagination, but if the process is fun for them, I get it.


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Kotaku did a huge expose on this by Rey Mysterio Jr. 09/23/2016, 10:52pm PDT NEW
    This is a good article by skip 09/24/2016, 10:29am PDT NEW
        Re: This is a good article by Mysterio IN SPACE 09/24/2016, 1:08pm PDT NEW
    Part 2/5 up. I have a technical question by skip 09/26/2016, 1:03pm PDT NEW
        I didn't realize it was so in-depth, thanks! NT by Giving me reason to refresh kotaku 09/26/2016, 5:52pm PDT NEW
            Kotaku UK belongs to Future(PC Gamer), you can safely ignore Totilo's dipshits NT by mike williams usgamer 09/30/2016, 6:02pm PDT NEW
                Actually you need to use http://www.kotaku.co.uk/tag/kotaku-uk/ if you want... by mike williams usgamer 09/30/2016, 8:04pm PDT NEW
                    They were crying about not getting their hits though by Mysterio Lollerson 09/30/2016, 10:10pm PDT NEW
                        Ahhhhhhhh fucking Kotakus by Jack Bauer 09/30/2016, 10:27pm PDT NEW
                        Why don't you write your own video game article for archive.is NT by and leave his where he put it. 09/30/2016, 10:39pm PDT NEW
                        I'll give the point to Kotaku UK actually by skip 10/03/2016, 10:19am PDT NEW
        Parts 3-5 up by skip 10/03/2016, 10:32am PDT NEW
            Re: Parts 3-5 up by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2016, 12:19pm PDT NEW
        Mesh networking by Entropy Stew 10/03/2016, 11:19am PDT NEW
 
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