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Gambling Boomers and their Entitlement

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Published on 11 Dec 2020 / In People & Blogs

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Drums_McBashington
Drums_McBashington 4 years ago

Gambling is one of the darker addictions. Plays off body chemistry/psychological reactions similar to, and as powerful as hard drugs. That's the 'fun' part. Usually ends the same as hard drugs too. Badly. ..unless they get their shit together. That's anybody though, any generation. Addiction doesn't discriminate. I think the boomer phenomenon you refer to may not be as much entitlement as it is lust/greed. There's no doubt a share of entitlement there, but like you said here: greedy. If you check out the pop culture of that era, you'll see that they were bombarded with flash and excess on grotesque levels. Movies, TV, songs, news and of course the newly developed advert industry that had started using interesting new methods to entice the consumer. Study groups, experiment groups, psychology. Whatever sells shit. Children born at the end of a world war, growing up listening to tales of loss and destruction, while having Viva Las Vegas crammed in their faces probably warped a few of them. Not excuses. Just possible reasons, but hey! My generation isn't any better. The majority seem to act like they're still in high school, but now get payed for it. The following generations have been fed great amounts of horse shit from a feminized western school system, but I'm delighted to see many of them coming through still sane, would be better if it was more, but I'll take what I can get. Each and every generation from GenZero and up has had it's share of good, bad & ugly. The trick was to pass the lessons forward. That stopped a while back when they started destroying the family unit with 'female liberation' and government stepped in as main caregivers. You can really type for a long time in these little boxes. How much space do they give? Lots. Look at me go. I'll stop now.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

I love long, kinda rambling comments like this. It's like peering into a window into someone's thought process: a stream-of-consciousness. I can't disagree with any of your points, which is interesting to me. I usually have some rebuttal. Damn...

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SpaceJew
SpaceJew 4 years ago

You know where ive seen these POS boomers loose ther3 ass to grred gambling... The stock market... The at home trading boom... All these boomers call eachother uo to trade "tips"" or brag... And they like to brag to rwchother abt coming up 50gs here and there.. But overall have lost... I love yo ask them where there ferrari or vacation house is .... Theyre always down in the market... But they get eachother jelious. With there calling eachother to hear abt their wins...

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

Lol that's very true. The stock market is the far-bigger casino that Boomers love to play in and lose. Billions of dollars a year versus hundreds of bilions and trillions on the stock market. It's very sad and funny at the same time watching these arrogant SOB's lose valuable money and impoverish their whole families, and other such sad things that are the dark side of greed.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

question for you mate. what program are you using to record this and show what you are showing in the background?
i have been trying to do this for a while, and this is looks simple, but i for some reason can't figure out how to do it.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

You said 'mate'! I forgot you were in the U.K., but now you've reminded me. Lol.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

It's the 'Video Editor' program that comes with my computer. It's part of the Windows 10 features; it's a sub-program feature of the 'Photos' app on here.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

Every Windows computer has it already, I think. Macs have something similar. Linux and Ubuntu are fucked.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: hmn, i should be able to have that on my pc, so it's in the photos? oh i'm not British lol, i just talk like that sometimes. you know appropriated other ppls languages lol. aeroshogan and i have the same issue with accents, especially when i recently listen to someone with an accent talk.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: OH MY GOSH YOUR RIGHT! damn it's totally in there ready to be used. i had no idea about this really cool thing.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: are there any instruction videos you know of? i'm having issues making it work how i want it to work.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

@Sentient_Of_Truth: I just put the pictures in the order I want them, then I right-click them and type in the quantity of seconds I want the picture to stay on screen. DO that for all the pictures, then click 'custom audio' at the top. Add the soundtrack, and then stretch the soundtrack inidcator to cover the whole video. Then click 'finish video' and save it to where you want it to go on your computer.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: thank you, i have noticed the program is a little simple and limited, but it's free and what i wanted to do a long time ago can be done, so i shouldn't complain.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

@Sentient_Of_Truth: No problem, Senty. We're here to help each other reach greatness as men; it mkes me feel great to help. Now I hope to see you posting some videos every once and a while!

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: first i gotta get through all the rest of my TFM content. and when i'm done with those is when i will consider making my own videos. i will probably change my voice to sound lower as i hate my tenner toned voice, it's good for singing but not all that good for conversation and i sound like a kid lol. i'm willing to admit what i sound like lol.

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Johnny_Cage
Johnny_Cage 4 years ago

@Sentient_Of_Truth: Okay; that's understandable. I still don't like the timbre/octave highness of my own voice, but I'm gradually accepting it. There are plenty of voice-changer software things out there.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Johnny_Cage: i found one the other day that worked ok, but it was an phone app and hard to figure out how to convert the file since apps these days always make sharing stuff so dumbed down to where they only allow you to choose the share option which only works with selectively apps on your device, it's bloody annoying.

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Drums_McBashington
Drums_McBashington 4 years ago

@KEEPER: That thing popped up one day after an update, shortly before my music channel mysteriously appeared. Definitely related.

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KEEPER
KEEPER 4 years ago

@Drums McBashington: on of the infamous win ten updates that we all love to hate. except this time they added something useful instead of a shit ton of bloat like they usually do.

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Drums_McBashington
Drums_McBashington 4 years ago

@KEEPER: Haha indeed. I was most thrilled with that one. Was cropping some picture of something, hit edit, noticed 'make a music video' and suddenly, my life had meaning again. Hello music folder, how would you like to visit the internet?

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