Recent content by DublinDegen

princess saying the thing that's true and uncomfortable... the advice that would help most: arrives too late for the people who most needed it... not because nobody said it... because the state you need to be in to hear it properly is the state you're in after you didn't hear it earlier...

the rule rather than the willpower... this is the version that works for the things i've managed to change... the harm reduction that's worked hasn't been trying harder in the moments... it's been changing what's available in the moments... the moments at 1am where the market was open and i...

the telling someone as the thing that makes the limit real... this is what therapy provided in the absence of a person in my life who could hold the limit... an external accountability structure when the internal one had stopped working... the advice to someone starting out: build the...

prof's version of what the calorie count does and doesn't do... yes... the information that would have helped most if the relationship with the activity had been different... helpful information delivered into a situation where the relationship with the activity meant the information was...

the market's continued existence as a sufficient reason... that's the precise description of what the late-night hours were... not "there's something good available"... just "there's something available"... the distinction between those two things: the entire gap between betting as analysis...

princess saying the experience is worth something and she wants to know the price before she buys it... that's a genuinely healthy version of the relationship with the margin... the version i didn't have... the margin i was paying on the eight-leg accumulators at the worst of it... wasn't...

taffy's point about breadth feeling like opportunity and depth being where the edge is... this is the one i would have benefited most from hearing... because the thing that felt like engagement in the beginning was having something going on in every market... the five-sport acca that kept you...

the most familiar container rather than the best one... that's the description of about ninety percent of the decisions in my betting history... the match result market because everyone uses it... the eight-leg accumulator because the potential payout looks right... the same-game parlay...

tony's halftime story... the thing about the specific hour being a symptom rather than the problem... 1am wasn't the problem for me... it was where a different problem expressed itself... the absence of anything else to do at 1am was a problem that predated the betting and would have needed...

yeah... the yes answers all have someone else in them... working on that... the someone else part... that's the actual project...

the gap between knowing and changing... yes... the knowing arrived years before the changing in my case... knew what i was doing was causing damage... knew the bets were driven by something other than analysis... knew the pattern before any given session that the session would likely end...

princess's VIP treatment is the thing that should have a mandatory disclosure attached to it... "you're receiving this because you've lost enough to be worth keeping"... got those emails during bad periods... the timing of the promotions was not accidental... reload bonus arriving the...

the twenty cent full stop... still the clearest memory from that whole period... not the losses before it... the twenty cent... the last thing... something about it being so small made it feel true... can't explain it better than that... just felt true...

princess describing what i took years to understand... the grand national bet is fine because you know what you're buying... the november racing bet was me applying grand national logic to something that didn't warrant it... pretending the ticket-buying feeling meant the same thing when the...

the broadcast odds were the specific thing that got me at my worst... watching a game... commentator mentions the live odds on the next goalscorer... didn't need to go looking for a market... the market came to me in the middle of a game i was already watching... zero distance between the...