WWE Champions General - Despite his claims, DSP is still spending thousands of dollars on the WWE Champions mobile game

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DZoomer said:
Frankly, a part of me just refuses to believe that Phil is spending that much money on this, when he's in this current situation.

I suppose I just don't understand how terrible gambling addiction can be, but... Yeah. If y'all have any documentaries or articles about gambling addiction, I'd appreciate it.
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Read "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas", by Natasha Dow Schüll. Gambling addiction, especially the kind DSP has where he's transacting money into in-game currency and just pulling over and over, puts the addict in a total zone of learned powerlessness, gambling not to win, but just to keep putting money in the machine, to have control over one thing in their life and blot out everything else. There's little to no difference in gambling the way DSP does and gambling in Vegas—both slot machines and WWE Champions are both designed to trigger the same impulses in a person to keep them coming back (to the point where, to either the designer or the addict, winning too often, or even in the middle of a "zone", is more disappointing than elating).

Gambling addicts gamble for the experience of timing out the world, having control over one thing in their lives—not whether they win, or lose, but whether they choose to keep playing—and casinos and apps alike are designed with a hyper-focused intensity on getting the player in a psychological place where the game is the safe thing, and it's the *rest of the world* that's dangerous, expensive, and volatile.

From the outside it's fucking alarming to look at how much money of his contributor's is going straight into the game, but for him it's just the continuation of an existing psychological support system where neither time nor money has meaning and the demands of real life melt away.
 
Red Bistro said:
Read "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas", by Natasha Dow Schüll. Gambling addiction, especially the kind DSP has where he's transacting money into in-game currency and just pulling over and over, puts the addict in a total zone of learned powerlessness, gambling not to win, but just to keep putting money in the machine, to have control over one thing in their life and blot out everything else. There's little to no difference in gambling the way DSP does and gambling in Vegas—both slot machines and WWE Champions are both designed to trigger the same impulses in a person to keep them coming back (to the point where, to either the designer or the addict, winning too often, or even in the middle of a "zone", is more disappointing than elating).

Gambling addicts gamble for the experience of timing out the world, having control over one thing in their lives—not whether they win, or lose, but whether they choose to keep playing—and casinos and apps alike are designed with a hyper-focused intensity on getting the player in a psychological place where the game is the safe thing, and it's the *rest of the world* that's dangerous, expensive, and volatile.

From the outside it's fucking alarming to look at how much money of his contributor's is going straight into the game, but for him it's just the continuation of an existing psychological support system where neither time nor money has meaning and the demands of real life melt away.
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sounds like some real weak minded fuckin' people if you ask me.
 
DZoomer said:
Frankly, a part of me just refuses to believe that Phil is spending that much money on this, when he's in this current situation.

I suppose I just don't understand how terrible gambling addiction can be, but... Yeah. If y'all have any documentaries or articles about gambling addiction, I'd appreciate it.
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Personally I think a lot of it is that Phil """budgets""" in his own stupid way, mainly that Twitch income paid bills and anything outside of that was completely disposable (as in literally throw into Scopely's flaming garbage can).

The concerning thing is if he is able to adapt to a loss of what up until now has effectively has been a predictable, sustainable passive income. I feel like depending on how bad his cognitive dissonance is, he might actually go the other way and spend MORE in an effort to trick his own brain into thinking that everything will be okay. As you know, he's the main character of the story, and nothing horrible could ever happen to the main character, right?
 
JimiHendrix said:
sounds like some real weak minded fuckin' people if you ask me.
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I had a great granny in her 90s who was what we called a slot jockey.

We brought it up to her and she pretty much slammed us all "I've been alive for 90 years, all my responsibilities are done. If I want to sit here and waste my life at the slots till the reaper takes me I can do it"

She passed away 5 years later, still blowing any her retirement on the slots.
 
JimiHendrix said:
while i understand and may even agree with your grannys reasonings, despite how phil looks, he is not a 90 year old grandma.
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Nope, hes a mature adult that is married that has bills to pay and does not have the time for childish things like sweaty wressling games.
 
Piece of Peace said:
Personally I think a lot of it is that Phil """budgets""" in his own stupid way, mainly that Twitch income paid bills and anything outside of that was completely disposable (as in literally throw into Scopely's flaming garbage can).

The concerning thing is if he is able to adapt to a loss of what up until now has effectively has been a predictable, sustainable passive income. I feel like depending on how bad his cognitive dissonance is, he might actually go the other way and spend MORE in an effort to trick his own brain into thinking that everything will be okay. As you know, he's the main character of the story, and nothing horrible could ever happen to the main character, right?
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Phils financial plan is to spend what he wants and assume his paypigs will pickup the slack and if not, file for bankruptcy and dump it on the laps of taxpayers and the other bank customers. Tbf its worked out so far.
 
An allegory that's adapt.

Prune Juice Economics

Tips will pass through Phil's digestive system before being ejected as rapidliy as possible into the pockets of gacha games, dinners out, delivery drivers.

That's why Phil feels so empty (both morally & physically) , Prune Juice has that effect on you.
 
Amerdos said:
An allegory that's adapt.

Prune Juice Economics

Tips will pass through Phil's digestive system before being ejected as rapidliy as possible into the pockets of gacha games, dinners out, delivery driver

That's why Phil feels so empty (both morally & physically) , Prune Juice has that effect on you.
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You might as well just cut the middleman and directly pay Scopely if you are a paypig. At least then you'd get some longer lasting jpegs, and probably more actual respect from Phil to boot.
 
DZoomer said:
Frankly, a part of me just refuses to believe that Phil is spending that much money on this, when he's in this current situation.

I suppose I just don't understand how terrible gambling addiction can be, but... Yeah. If y'all have any documentaries or articles about gambling addiction, I'd appreciate it.
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Even if he weren't an addict, Phil is still a terrible enough person to waste exorbitant amounts of money on any number of things that ultimately aren't worthwhile. Been doing it with condos, cars, collectibles, and fast food for many years. He isn't going to stop, not for anything, because he's a spoiled little shit and the thing he hates most of all is life telling him "No, don't do that."
 
So it has been well over a year since my original prediction of $40-48k spent on this game. I think it is safe to say that if he is spending around 1k per event for new characters, he's probably at least another 20-25k deep into this game. So my new current estimate of money spent is about $75,000.

To put that into perspective, he could have bought outright in cash a brand new BMW M3 with the money he has spent on a fucking mobile game.
 
BallBuster said:
So it has been well over a year since my original prediction of $40-48k spent on this game. I think it is safe to say that if he is spending around 1k per event for new characters, he's probably at least another 20-25k deep into this game. So my new current estimate of money spent is about $75,000.

To put that into perspective, he could have bought outright in cash a brand new BMW M3 with the money he has spent on a fucking mobile game.
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he could have paid off 75% of his credit card debt without fraudulently filing for bankruptcy
 
I'm so glad we know about where his money goes, because having an entire thread here dedicated to shitting on him for having wasted his money in literally the worst possible way is arguably THE thing that has the Farms occupying his thoughts so much. He didn't like this place before, but I have to imagine he still felt pretty pleased with himself as he tapped away on his phone every day playing with wrestling jpegs before everyone knew. Then someone found his account and he died inside.
 
BallBuster said:
So it has been well over a year since my original prediction of $40-48k spent on this game. I think it is safe to say that if he is spending around 1k per event for new characters, he's probably at least another 20-25k deep into this game. So my new current estimate of money spent is about $75,000.

To put that into perspective, he could have bought outright in cash a brand new BMW M3 with the money he has spent on a fucking mobile game.
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the title of this thread oughta be changed. Theres no way phil has only spent 'hundreds'.
 
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