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My local supermarket has a "play" page. Stupid me - I thought it was an just app to play games. (hexbear.net)
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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gambling apps are now nothing special. It's funny to compare things to how things used to be. The Last Boy Scout came out ~35 years ago. For many young people a big part of the plot surely doesn't make sense. The evil bad guy is trying to get senators to legalize sports gambling.

[–] cream_provider@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Now we just need a gambling debt addled football star to make a game winning dash to the endzone by shooting everyone on the defense. Then we’ll be all the way through the looking glass.