Gwin LeShelle

I never considered card counting cheating...just more like secret super power x3

I really appreciate the idea from LL to try giving us residents more entertainment x3 I will totally try it too, and luckily I am able to just walk away from it when my daily tokens ran out. ...when I play black jack with my friends it's more like it's not much skill used from my side "WOOHOOGIMMEANOTHERCARD...WHOOPS" I swear I'm not gentle hahaha my husband is all calculating XD I also wonder what will happen to the skill games regions with this new concept 🤔

I am a clinical psychologist working in the field of paediatric psycho-oncology and although I work with kids, I still fully understand what makes it addictive for adults and it was discussed in here already and no it's not hitting the jackpot. But honestly I am starting to get really tired of this discussion, but I bet Google is a huge help when you truly want to inform yourself about gambling addiction 💙

I was in Las Vegas once in the 90s for like 2 days for a wedding of my grandpa's American friend. I was too little to enter any Casino I just remember everything was so very flashy and loud to my eyes and don't get me started on American food XD and I was born and raised in Tokyo 🗼 so a really big city too I can only imagine what someone feels coming there from a small village or such 😂

I admit I sat here at my lunch break laughing loud while reading this x3 it's bad that no one told you tho x3 I will check my lost and found as soon as I log in after work 😂

So I don't know am I the only one that finds it a little unsettling that Anubis, god of the underworld and graves and stuff is SocialCasino Linden's Outfit of choice? XD it's surely nice and well made but also ...an interesting choice 😆 *Didn't wanted to derail the Mole thread 💜

Awww スタートレック 💜 the reason I tried learning English very early haha I wanted to hear and understand the original voices. I failed miserably at first in the 90s x3 Still watching today tho 💙

Elvis the casino. Gives "slot" machine a whole new meaning...*pictures in my head* 😂

Hm okeee... So residents are in worries and anger ... LL hiding in the shadows hoping it will all go away, trying to silence people with taking away their free speech x3 Well any sane person would have tried to seek the dialogue with the residents...but I guess some people at LL obviously have left the horizon of common sense light-years behind them and are still accelerating... I really thought they learned from the bot massacre...that talking and listening to their residents is much better than staying silent.

Hopefully and that way more people can profit off of it and earn shinies so maybe now escorting will be less attractive. Lol Well nah but you get the idea. But LL surely opened Pandora's box with this one x3

At our lunch date today my husband said something similar. He thinks in like 2 weeks there will be plenty of Casino's in SL and with the amount that LL charges, you can still make a huge profit when taking just half of their prices.

I'm a boardgamer in RL and we also play pen and paper RPs ...I miss places like that in SL a NICELY made boardgames place would have been nice. I miss this place that had a game called fruitcake or something like that, I can't find this game inworld anymore 😭

On a less serious note...someone should go and claim the domain "secondlifepeopleofwalmart.com" x3

I am all for self responsibility. My mom was an alcoholic for example, so I never drank (don't get me wrong I got drunk once or twice as teen but haven't touched alcohol in 2 decades), luckily I haven't had to grow up at hers for long. But my point basically is "wat" too. I was honestly deeply shocked to see this post was officially from LL and had to stare at it for a while and went on further investigation. My husband was like "they are probably just advertising some residents casino which is bad too". Nope they weren't. And when I saw HOW much they charge...common these prices are beyond ridiculous and I deeply with all my heart hope they will fail so hard with this. Can't believe I defended them loud and proud when they increased fees. Yeah one needs food, home and more but man I couldn't look in the mirror anymore after this stunt. But that's probably just me XD and it's 3 am maybe I'm oversensitive but still meh. It's probably just this feeling of disappointment, because I thought otherwise of LL but thats my own fault and I will act accordingly.

Some in the other thread and this one said it's not gambling because nothing to win. I earlier mentioned the father of my friend...he still plays no Apps where it is about winning, I talked to him about this case here now. And he was very clear to me that the triggering thing is not the win of money, it's nice side effect. But he said the thing that's best for gamblers is the "could be" feeling and the machine shows you WIN they just don't give out money. It's the no difference for an addict he said. And he's not even playing Candy Crush or such things, because you can compete with friends on there.

This. I must admit I firstly felt sadness when I saw I that, I was deeply disappointed. This is exactly what I was thinking seeing their Twitter post. If it was only for RP reasons...why not 10L for tokens well or free ones. And it's not only promoted by them, it's made by them, see the SocialCasino Linden that receives the payments. I am just meh now at this point tbh.

They probably still are in the fire-out-putting wtf-have-we-done state. After seeing the "happy" tweet answers from their residents. At least I hope they are, but maybe they just don't care at all, and it's just wishful thinking that they actually do care.

Accidentally quoting and not knowing how to remove a quote on mobile 😂 The thing I found especially weird is I haven't seen any positive feedback after they posted this on Twitter (they probably know why they haven't posted this on their blog so far ) and I can not imagine that every Linden and Mole they asked was like "weeeee awesome idea" Is there no one with common sense at LL that was like "we really shouldn't do this guys!" ?!

Fully agreed. I am all for them making money too, hence why I am Premium plus XD I want them to stay around as long as possible too. I loudly supported even their fee increases because a Linden needs food in RL too. And as I said I wouldn't even be angry if this was some residents doing this I am upset it's LL themselves x3

And beside everything else just to make it clear I would have been all for it when there wouldn't have been a daily free fix and then pay. If it would be all free so like a new version of a social island kinda thing. Yay. ( Still not my kind of fun but I bet others love it) But the moment they charge those ridiculous amounts of money for worthless tokens, just so they can pretend it's no gambling they lost all my respect. Especially when you look at many countries having problems with inflation atm, although I am lucky that me and my husband have well paid jobs I don't forget that not everyone is that lucky. It's just ethically questionable to do this the way they did. But I'm not here to convince anyone I stated my point more than clear I think, and that's it. We can happily agree to disagree on this one ❤️

You know how addiction works right? Sure you and me don't have to play, but I saw first hand with a friend's father when we were young what a gambling addiction does. It's not cute. And when this up there is allowed within the American anti gambling law than they might want to overthink that one.

Since the Casino Linden is named SocialCasino Linden, I expect to see some Sugardaddy Linden or Pimp Linden. Nah for real this one looks bad and is bad. With all free tokens? Sure why not some kind of ...Casino RP? Where people can meet and chat and play games together. But that way? Nope, thank you.

I'm not stupid. But LL had a hard time telling their residents about the Gacha thing. And now promote such a thing, it's a difference to have such things on the grid (because sure do it when the law allows it I'm all for it) to PROMOTING them actively... something LL doesn't do often anyways. So the decision to actively promote this one is rather ... Unclever. And highly unethical...it's only to prye on the ones having problems with addiction because no sane person drops 5k plus on something that is set to lose anyways. Any person with no addiction problem uses their free tokens daily and walks away...the people that should have been protected buy this law, will sit there and by 5k and 10k tokens packages anyway. And thats the point that disappointed me beyond words. It's one thing what loopholes residents use, but it's another when LL uses and abuses those on such a level.

Yep. I mean it would have been absurd even with the tokens being completely free after their gambling gacha crackdown, but this is really beyond absurd XD And since you can't win it's a guaranteed loss for you. Which some people won't understand or won't care because addictive.