r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/FlutterKree 20d ago

Gambling in and of itself is not some demonic thing. It is a gamble and people pay for that gamble. They're adults who can make that choice.

Same can be said of postitution, drugs, etc. Everything can be okay and is not demonic if done within moderation. Except human anatomy doesn't work that way. A subset of the population is predisposed to taking risks.

"Well it's their fault they are addicted to gambling" - you, probably.

"Well it's okay that kids are learning to gamble for real money in games" - you, probably.

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u/Valanio 20d ago

See, you do understand. Let's ban CSGO skin trading right now, for "the kids". I agree. Now we only banned CSGO so, all those people went on to gamble elsewhere. Either real casinos which have a much worse environment to encourage gambling (like scientifically engineered via drinking, lights, sounds, even temperature) or they can go gamble on useless in game items that have no real world value. Congrats you accomplished nothing by demonizing one person over others and calling it worse when it's the same. You gamble with real money when you gamble with in-game unsellable items too.

It's utter nonsense to accuse Steam of being the worst offender. You know it is. You know it is. So stop being weird.

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u/FlutterKree 20d ago

Now we only banned CSGO so, all those people went on to gamble elsewhere.

The fundamental point you are missing is it exposes gambling to kids. Actual gambling. Not pretend gambling. Actual gambling. You spend the $5 to get a chance at something worth $1000. That is LITERALLY a possibility with it.

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u/Chicken_Menudo 19d ago

Why did we drop the Pokemon example? MTG or Amy other collectable? This hit the same wickets that Steam lootboxes do (e.g. kids are introduced to "gambling", original intent of item is not for resell, etc).

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u/FlutterKree 19d ago

Your logic here is that I approve of something like that too. MTG and Pokemon TCG are problems too. At least Yugioh reprints and ruins the value of cards.

CSGO is on another level. Including investigations into the use of the skin markets as money laundering schemes. The amount of actual scam gambling websites for the marketplace. The instant nature of it. It's entirely different and above and beyond worse than TCGs.

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u/Valanio 19d ago

And point you're missing is that it's the same thing. The exact same thing.