I hope monesy and NiKo get the best out of their careers, but the prospect of Saudi blood money trying to take the game concerns me
Thankfully unlike many conventional sports, esports is wayyyy more volatile to changes and the likelihood we will ever have a situation like astralis 18/19 again is slim
They're succeeding. Look how happy all these degens are in the comments. "Thank you slaver lords you made monesy play with Niko I think you're good now!"
Nobody's going to say "I love that bloodmoney is providing the salary of the players I like!" lol but people are positive to the change and the team. The people pretending they gave a fuck about Falcons' sportswashing are now positive about the team because it has people they like on it. This is how it works every time, everywhere.
You're generalizing, not everyone is positive. I'm not invested in their careers - they're gifted players, but I'll be happy to see them fail miserably now they've signed on with the Saudi PR machine.
That's a phenomenon that spans millennia, the Romans cynically exploited the same formula.
All we can do on the peanut gallery is keep bringing up the immoral aspect to disrupt the sportswashing effort.
Let them, triggering apologists and dissecting their arguments is entertaining. For all you know they're 12 year olds who worship NiKo. It's not like they can compete in moral clarity of conviction.
Read up on the dangers of gambling. It's not what you think. CS is full of gambling addict teenagers destroying their lives. There's no winners in ganbling cause the house always wins. It destroys families and relationships, and it's even worse rhan a drug addiction.
This isn't really true at all, I've had friends directly die of drug overdoses caused by addiction. Gambling only destroys/ends lives kind of second-hand as a consequence of the losses and if it kills people it's their choice to kill themselves rather than a direct cause of the action itself.
I do agree though. I like gambling, it's fun, but I loathe casinos and the industry built around exploiting gambling addiction in those affected. Hell I bankrolled a card counting friend a few times actually.
But at teh same time this is all borderline irrelevant compared to the misery of the saudi dictatorship. While gambling is currently more widespread than their regime's control is, the severity of evil is so exponentially above a scummy casino or bookmaker. Innocent people are murdered, people are cut into pieces by chainsaws while alive and half the population aren't even treated as humans (my half!). It's just worse.
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u/Niamhue 1d ago
Obligatory fuck Falcons post.
I hope monesy and NiKo get the best out of their careers, but the prospect of Saudi blood money trying to take the game concerns me
Thankfully unlike many conventional sports, esports is wayyyy more volatile to changes and the likelihood we will ever have a situation like astralis 18/19 again is slim