Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Rob, you may be right about a good many things, but you may be wrong about a few things, too.

Calling out individuals you do not know, like chimp, about being an addict is an overreach. You said you think that most Seven Stars players are addicts of a sort. I actually agree with that statement, but here's the thing. Virtually everybody in American culture is addicted to something. What makes you the judge of which addictions are acceptable and which are not? What makes you the judge of what expenditures are acceptable and logical and correct and which are not?

For example, is anything more wasteful than buying a motor home? It's like wearing a bunch of gold chains that burn gas -- a lot of gas. But you chose to buy the thing and drive it, a very questionable use of resources from any practical perspective. Are you addicted to the ostentation of the thing?

Now, your buying the motor home, a decision, and your driving it, a behavior, were your choice. Both are blatant consumerism, which is an addiction. Why is your consumerism a better choice in your mind than Seven Stars' gambling? People devote resources to what they are driven to consume. Spending resources on the experience of gambling is no more objectively wasteful than spending it on giant depreciating motor homes, or petrol, or an array of solid gold chains.

It's all nuts.

Now do not get me wrong. I despise casinos for what they are, and I prefer people blow their cash on motor homes and gold chains than in casinos, but my personal tastes have no objective weight. To a poverty stricken person from Ethiopia, or someone from a thousand years ago, and maybe to someone from a thousand years hence, it's all a very odd use of resources.
I can't say you're totally wrong red, except the extreme point about the RV. While they are overall a great big loss once they're driven off the lot and they require significant resources just to drive around let alone maintain properly, they have nothing to do with addiction. It's a one off purchase, similar to a home.

Gambling OTOH actually is a vice that keeps on eating away--and a bad one for those who choose to overdo it. Seven Stars is a club of addicts and as we'vs all scene so many times right here, these folks are so roped in to that system that they just can't help themselves. The result? Obviously, a club defined by losing, griping over perceived entitlements, and then whining & cursing when called out for making inconsistent, feel-good proclamations.

I should be getting paid for making suggestions like people use a vp approach similar to mine or that Alan lock in his first profitable year ever by STAYING AWAY FROM CASINOS THE REST OF THE YEAR INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY MAKING UP THOSE WEAK EXCUSES OF WHY HE JUST HAS TO KEEP GOING TO LV. Instead, the 7-Stars crowd doesn't care and just cheers him on the path he's always been on. I see something that makes no sense and I post about it.

Chimp, tough love. You know what you're doing and now so doesn't everyone else. When someone gleefully posts several unusually high winners then explains going back several times to the hi limit slots while suddenly no more big hits, only a loving mother would look the other way on that. And then we have Alan, who not only tried to tell us how acceptable it was to blow ten grand after winning big--his justification story did not bode well for holding onto that profit by year's end.

This is a place for opinions, comments and questions. You let it get to you then go for a swim instead.