• JustSo [she/her, any]
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    9 hours ago

    Back before my gaming group fell apart we had this one teenager in the group. I watched the crate system (original CSGO) turn her into a full blown gambling addict for a while. It was pretty fucked up.

    On the other hand I once upboxed a factory new knife and when I sold all my skins last year I paid off my credit card. I got lucky. Most don't.

    That girl though, she was incredible, turned into a predatory scammer, seducing nerds and "borrowing" their skins. Factory new bayonets with rare skins, only to turn around and lose them in further trades and gambles. I was quite impressed with the first part, not so much with the way she failed to make a bag out of her grift.

    She's doing really good now though. Grew up, got into medicine, now she works and is a far more valuable contribution to the community than I am. Just figured it was worth sharing the happy ending cuz it was pretty sad for a while there, at the time.

  • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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    9 hours ago

    the one and only time my twitch got compromised whoever did so immediately bought a ton of tier 3 6-month gift subs to some CS skin grifter

  • Thorngraff_Ironbeard [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    It was very funny at a tournament a few weeks ago which was sponsored by a gambling website (as most are), two of the teams were named and sponsored after two other gambling sites (BetBoom, Paravision). The tournament organizer I guess wasn't allowed by their gambling sponsor to say the team names so the casters and analyst referred to them as PVision and BBTeam.

    There's a bunch of shit in ProCs: Other common sponsors include Durex, the US Airforce, potnoodle. Not to mention how Malta is a tax haven for esports through "Gaming Malta" and the Saudis own their own team (Falcons) and one of the largest Tournament Organizers (ESL/FaceIt). Saudi is trying a lot of sports washing stuff, they started the Esports World Cup in Riyadh.