Another ingenious avenue to accrue SB Points completely for free (even a loss is not losing any real money; unless you purchased some SB Points with real-world monies, in which case I guess that would make this not necessarily "free", although even considering that you are "free" to play or not... now you can see why some of my posts are essay-length diatribes, my mind is a never-ending labyrinth, through which I am doomed to wander for the rest of my days! But at least I'm fun at parties, so there's that....). I have never payed for Points, per se, although I have donated in other ways, money always well-spent, in my frugal eyes!. This new feature comes at an interesting time, because I have recently begun pondering making a purchase of SB Points. I guess I'll try my luck and let the wheel decide for me: will I win enough to satisfy my desires, or will I lose enough to make the purchase inevitable?!
This is a grand idea, I do have one slight concern. This is more a matter of optics, and not something that I earnestly believe to be a problem, but aren't any of you on
@Sbenny's squad worried about the detrimental effect this could have on a PR level? Because, boiled down to common denominators, isn't this an easy target for critics of online gambling?
Edit-- I never do this, as it makes my comment appear disjointed and hard to read. But I must interject myself at this point in time, when I have already completed typing the whole comment, to inform the reader that the 3 sentences above are the entirety of my concern(s). The following paragraph below this disclaimer, and there's a whole bunch of it, is frothy head, which I got very carried away with composing. I would slim it down considerably, but I had fun thinking it up, and some may even enjoy reading it. But please note, Dear Reader, none of it contains any substance, save for the last paragraph, which is more than my mindless prattle. Feel free to skip past it, if your wrist doesn't get too tired from all the scrolling. Thank you!
Don't get me wrong, I just explained how great of an idea this is, and I truly meant what I said. I know many on the Admin team and the creator of this awesome space, our Great Benefactor
@Sbenny live in Europe where I believe internet gambling is allowed, though as heavily restricted as most of the other adult content on the internet (stricter regulations than in the USA, where I call home). Here, this is a hotly debated topic that we as a society have yet to fall down firmly on one way or the other. In fact, in my home state of Sunny California, it is on the next ballot for the upcoming November election. The main concern from opponents to legalizing this kind of gambling is the (potential) exposure it will create for minors, who are strictly forbidden from gambling in any form, for obvious reasons. They claim that no security measures can make it secure enough, since many so-called "hackers" are kids that have yet to graduate from high school. Personally I think that's rubbish, a lotta hogwash you might call it. I mean yeah, there will be some minors that will sneak their way into these portals, but I don't believe it will turn them all into drooling buffoons who get hopelessly addicted to gambling and then they have to move on to harder stuff, cuz playing card games and bingo online for digitized buckets of cash just doesn't do the trick for 'em anymore, so they start spending long stretches of time away from home, days sometimes weeks at a time bouncing around the local Indian Reservation Casinos, but that never lasts long because there aren't any sport's books in those casinos (cuz betting on Sports is currently illegal in this state, but not in Nevada which is a short 3 to 8 hour drive, depending on your departing location), so they are forced to go to the bigger casinos in Nevada, and they get sucked into the glitz and glamor and decadence of all those bright lights in the original Sin City, and before you know it, you're finding them burnt out at some sleezy motel off of Interstate 15, in a small town called Barstow, California, at the tragic endpoint of a harrowing and viscious downward spiral of degradation and despair, their lips chapped from sleep deprivation, hair disheveled and not cleaned for at least a fortnight, stomach distended from malnutrition and a healthy habit of Mickey's Fine Malt Liquor (strictly 40 oz. bottles, always wrapped tightly in a brown paper bag, the floor is absolutely littered with them, a distinct stench of urine coming from some of them, despite the perfectly serviceable toilet in the attached bathroom) , with their pants down to their ankles, the last few coins from the thousands of dollars that they stole from you trickling out of the pockets as they languishly shuffle their feet towards you in the most pathetic and heart-breaking manner you've ever seen, each forward movement slower and heavier than the last, and they finally reach the doorway where you're standing mouth agape with shock and awe, and after struggling unsuccessfully to mutter the words "I'm sorry" to you, it is all you can do to just put your hand on their head and pull them close to you and whisper to them, "it's all right, I know, everything's gonna be OK, I still love you. I will always love you. And we're gonna get you some help." Of course I don't see that happening, ever... but I digress (I live for digression, you could say I've got an unnatural obsession with digression, mmwwwwaahhaahhhaa!).
I know that you guys know that the parents of the many little kids that visit this site every day know that there are many little kids visiting this site every day. I presume no effort has been made to block their access to this new feature, the way that you all had scrambled mightily to put a wall up for the newly added NSFW section here, when it was created. And again, not to belabor the point, as much as I love belaboring points, I have no moral objection to anyone of any age enjoying this new feature. At the same time , and on the other hand, inversely and conversely and everything in between, I would be awfully wary of an onslaught of very negative commentary from some of the stuffiest and loudest participants in these forums. Hopefully, this is more of my own fear-mongering, a helpless manifestation of my neurotic psyche, I'm sorry , but I really can't help myself sometimes. Especially when the time is just past 2 in the morning on a Friday night/early-Saturday morning. I've apologized before, and this won't be the last time.