Ep 71: Gambling

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 3:43 What we've been playing this week
• 3:50 Dempsey: Silksong
• 9:58 Brett: Silksong
• 12:07 Brett: TCG Card Shop Simulator
• 14:35 Brett: Witcher 3
• 15:21 Seth: Silksong
• 21:04 Seth: Borderlands 4
• 21:46 Seth: Unfair Flips
• 26:04 Seth: Cloverpit
• 27:07 Topic: Gambling in gaming
• 28:34 Baldur's Gate 3 and the difference between gambling and betting
• 32:12 Is there true gambling in games?
• 33:59 Talking for way too long about sports betting
• 39:43 Virtual vs real currency in gambling
• 42:14 Counter Strike (loot boxes)
• 44:55 Is gambling antithetical to the core concept of games?
• 50:36 Gamification of gambling
• 52:44 Praying on FOMO
• 57:08 The one where Brett is wrong
• 1:00:25 Why we don't gamble
• 1:04:56 Monetizing in-game cosmetics
• 1:10:12 Dempsey's final thoughts
• 1:10:58 Brett's final thoughts
• 1:11:50 Seth's final thoughts