Do you gamble? Or how do you get your fix of dopamine?

[THEfightsAREfixed]

I always wondered though, women who become........... how you say........ "fast and loose"?

Basically build a lifestyle of having sex with men, I wonder how rewarding they find that?

Cause it seems many may also use chemicals/substances and gambling to supplement their dopamine needs also.

having sex isnt necessary i feel like, definitely a bonus, but often its just getting attention and/or being desired

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Sex, drugs and rock n roll.

 

[William Huggins]

basically can I start gambling to get rid of drug adiction ? I wanna do drugs but I been theroycrafting if I instead get a dopmaine release from something else bad like gambling, does that work ? Cause it won´t F me up phisically.

How do I trade a vice for a less bad vice.

We all been there.

But definitely not crack. Hey, I mean. It´s a big world.

Much luck and success to thread starter. Fingers crossed for you.

Sounds like you've got a meth problem........

 

[Sycho Sid]

I never gamble. Or drink. Or smoke. Or drugs.

My dopamine used to be food and sodas. That has changed too.

I need to find a new dopamine trigger.

 

[Trabaho]

Sounds like you've got a meth problem........

No I just know stuff cause I'm from Frankfurt. I only smoked weed. Stoped since 4.5 years. And still cigs. Started smoking at 30 years old. I drink once a year or twice, new year. Coffe. That's it. Not keen to do mushrooms or lsd ect. Not interested in these feel good drugs that make you addicted. Dude you are a junky or not. You can drink beer, you can even smoke. But we know doing drugs is junky teritory. Who snorts things up their nose ? If you wanna be edgy. You can smoke a joint. Coke is risky. Heroin crack are pure pure junky substances. Meth isn't popular here, that is east Germany like Cheh Republic border. Ask Jiri. Meth is also known to be a complete junky drug.
Smoke weed you are slightly edgy or normal. Drink alcohol it's Europe noone cares. Smoke cigs noone cares. Do coke - that is dangerous or call it wild.
Do the meth crack heroin - fucking junky shit. I never had contact to the whole mushroom lsd trippy stuff. Was warned bout it. Obviously I don't hang with people using heroin in front of me. It's just we all know about it and it's Frankfurt.

 

[SurferH2O]

I could never handle extreme sports for a dopamine fix.

I did a skydive once and it took about three hours until I stopped feeling nauseous after.

Same from roller coasters.

I think surfing is extremely cool but I hate cold water and never stuck with it long enough to get any good.

PS: poker is not gambling? If we're talking fruit machines........ I simply don't understand them.

Poker is considered a game of skill legally and professionals can write off their expenses. In the 1980s Billy Baxter (Professional Player) fought the IRS and went to court in Nevada. The judge ruled it was clearly a game of skill and it changed the course of poker. For years that guy couldn't buy a drink anywhere near a poker game as all the other players picked up his tab.

I grew up with an Uncle that was a world class player and my mother paid for 1/2 of my college on her poker play. I have played final tables in places like Tahiti (Morea), So Cal, Las Vegas, and The Bay Area. If you learn the Math and tells, it really becomes a feast financially. I was making well over $100K a year on the side during the poker boom until Black Friday happened and online poker effectively died. We didn't know how good we had it.

 

[Stoic1]

I challenge and fight people online. Then blackmail them with the video of me dry humping their unconscious body.

 

[Kal-El]

No, there's commercial ials for it everywhere now though.
Gym, martial arts are my 100% positive dopamine hits. I smoke weed daily, not too much , but still daily. Its probably not a good habit but it makes me feel better and its been years at this point.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Big Event Sherdog PBP

 

[Home_Slice]

Poker is considered a game of skill legally and professionals can write off their expenses. In the 1980s Billy Baxter (Professional Player) fought the IRS and went to court in Nevada. The judge ruled it was clearly a game of skill and it changed the course of poker. For years that guy couldn't buy a drink anywhere near a poker game as all the other players picked up his tab.

I grew up with an Uncle that was a world class player and my mother paid for 1/2 of my college on her poker play. I have played final tables in places like Tahiti (Morea), So Cal, Las Vegas, and The Bay Area. If you learn the Math and tells, it really becomes a feast financially. I was making well over $100K a year on the side during the poker boom until Black Friday happened and online poker effectively died. We didn't know how good we had it.

Have you watched films like "High Rollers, the Stu Ungar story", "The Hustler" and "Hard Eight"?

I developed an interest in the concept simply cause it was clear the main actors are getting their necessary dopamine stimulation through being proficient at those games.

As I see it, one can't get a dopamine fix from losing or being a loser at them, that would be like an anti-dopamine fix.

I'm just curious, as there's sports betting mixed with poker and other forms of "gambling" (though that's disputed in some of the dialogue), would you consider those films to represent "gambling"?



One thing that gives me a little dopamine hit is EDM music. I freaking love that style of music. This happened to be a music video to one track, and I find it freaking mesmerizing.

If I'd known chicks that hot surf (and take it pretty seriously by all appearances), I might have toughed out the cold water and got a little better.

Are those chicks like, professionals or super talented?

I don't ever remember seeing anyone in real life, at least not around the beaches I frequented, that could pull those tricks off.

 

[Home_Slice]

No, there's commercial ials for it everywhere now though.
Gym, martial arts are my 100% positive dopamine hits. I smoke weed daily, not too much , but still daily. Its probably not a good habit but it makes me feel better and its been years at this point.

That's kind of my issue though.

I couldn't continue to stay motivated for martial arts, mma, training etc. up to a point, cause I wasn't getting the kind of "dopamine payoff".

When I was younger, after a hard week of training or a contest or something, you'd go out and party and score chicks and that was like your "reward" (dopamine hit).

Getting into independent adult territory and maturity, I guess I lost that and my body was like, "better find something fun for me to do or I'm not going to stay motivated for all this gruelling training".

I used to LIVE for gruelling training.

Now I'm trying to figure it out like, a combination of socializing and picking up girls, but you have to have a talent to do this if you want to do it into adulthood.

Not like some dipstick kids trying to "get lucky" and get his jollies.

But a combination of that, tea/coffee, mild stimulants hit a little dopamine, a little poker/gambling, good music........ the usual sources of dopamine.

Put it all together to get sufficient dopamine to be able to deal with all the other stuff, the pressure of training and studying etc.

To deal with work, we NEED the fun part on the back end, absolutely no doubt about it.

 

[Home_Slice]

No I just know stuff cause I'm from Frankfurt. I only smoked weed. Stoped since 4.5 years. And still cigs. Started smoking at 30 years old. I drink once a year or twice, new year. Coffe. That's it. Not keen to do mushrooms or lsd ect. Not interested in these feel good drugs that make you addicted. Dude you are a junky or not. You can drink beer, you can even smoke. But we know doing drugs is junky teritory. Who snorts things up their nose ? If you wanna be edgy. You can smoke a joint. Coke is risky. Heroin crack are pure pure junky substances. Meth isn't popular here, that is east Germany like Cheh Republic border. Ask Jiri. Meth is also known to be a complete junky drug.
Smoke weed you are slightly edgy or normal. Drink alcohol it's Europe noone cares. Smoke cigs noone cares. Do coke - that is dangerous or call it wild.
Do the meth crack heroin - fucking junky shit. I never had contact to the whole mushroom lsd trippy stuff. Was warned bout it. Obviously I don't hang with people using heroin in front of me. It's just we all know about it and it's Frankfurt.

Edgy.

What does that mean, "edgy"?

As in, trendy or cool or "different"?

Folks who use drugs for their image or appearance?

 

[Intermission]

Life is a gamble

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Training and getting shit done. I train 6/7 times at week and I do everything around my house. GF is very happy when she wakes up at 7:30AM and I'm cleaning the toilet.

I think I need to have kids, start my own business or something...

 

[Trabaho]

Edgy.

What does that mean, "edgy"?

As in, trendy or cool or "different"?

Folks who use drugs for their image or appearance?

No. It's edgy. On the edge. But you don't gotta fall over. On coke I think you are managing the fall. I don't do coke. Bit speculative. Weed is on the edge of what is considered in good manners. Like alcohol. People have definitely wrecked themselves with coke. Became adicted. My school friend from home like he was shall we call it stupid ? Got out of jail like 2 years ago. For trafficing cocaine. Spent like 3 years in jail. All cause he liked doing coke. I'm not trying any of it. He drove over a border with the forbiden substance. Can cloud your mind. And make you crave it. I bet his wife was happy about that. Not everyone got self control. I don't. Hence I don't plan to ever put anything but air up my nose, ever. Not for me. No interest. I can be edgy and drink 5 beers. Works.

If you ever got sick from alcohol or weed why would I make myself sick from worse things.

The day after having drank about 0.7 liters of whisky 40% in one night. Was one of my least good days.

I never had a alcohol habit. Just binged sometimes. I never even drink. I only liked to drink at a club on a weekend. When I was in my 20ies. Did have a instance of pretty much alcohol poisoning at 16. Didn't get my stomach pumped out. I did black out for 1 hour. Slept at friends house. Pissed on my own head. Threw the chicken up on their floor the next morning / afternoon. But was tiles not on carpet.

Getting 5 days of depersonalisation from smoking weed also wasn't fun. Going to work that way. Like I was 30% here present and 70% seeing life from outside. Getting asked at work what is wrong with me. Googling can I stay stuck forever. On like my 3rd day at work.

Or when I showed up with red eyes on 2 hours of sleep. Very embarassing. Looking like a corpse. Trying to not fall asleep. No wonder my hair fell out . Gotta get your sleeps in.

 

[Kal-El]

That's kind of my issue though.

I couldn't continue to stay motivated for martial arts, mma, training etc. up to a point, cause I wasn't getting the kind of "dopamine payoff".

When I was younger, after a hard week of training or a contest or something, you'd go out and party and score chicks and that was like your "reward" (dopamine hit).

Getting into independent adult territory and maturity, I guess I lost that and my body was like, "better find something fun for me to do or I'm not going to stay motivated for all this gruelling training".

I used to LIVE for gruelling training.

Now I'm trying to figure it out like, a combination of socializing and picking up girls, but you have to have a talent to do this if you want to do it into adulthood.

Not like some dipstick kids trying to "get lucky" and get his jollies.

But a combination of that, tea/coffee, mild stimulants hit a little dopamine, a little poker/gambling, good music........ the usual sources of dopamine.

Put it all together to get sufficient dopamine to be able to deal with all the other stuff, the pressure of training and studying etc.

To do with work, we NEED the fun part on the back end, absolutely no doubt about it.

I would suggest training at a more reasonable pace, especially we all get older.
I'm not going to the Olympics, and I'm not trying to be on front of a magazine. I lift less now than ever, I just go to get a good muscle pump, makes me feel good and It's very low risk of injury that way, and I feel like it's good for my muscle growth.

I only train now with people I trust, haven't competed for years, thought I would again at some point, but after tearing my other meniscus, I just don't care anymore. I want to not be injured and just have fun with what I'm doing.

 

[Trabaho]

I would suggest training at a more reasonable pace, especially we all get older.
I'm not going to the Olympics, and I'm not trying to be on front of a magazine. I lift less now than ever, I just go to get a good muscle pump, makes me feel good and It's very low risk of injury that way, and I feel like it's good for my muscle growth.

I only train now with people I trust, haven't competed for years, thought I would again at some point, but after tearing my other meniscus, I just don't care anymore. I want to not be injured and just have fun with what I'm doing.

Wait he is geniuely asking if he should become a gambler just for fun and recreation ?

Short answer. No.

 

[William Huggins]

No I just know stuff cause I'm from Frankfurt. I only smoked weed. Stoped since 4.5 years. And still cigs. Started smoking at 30 years old. I drink once a year or twice, new year. Coffe. That's it. Not keen to do mushrooms or lsd ect. Not interested in these feel good drugs that make you addicted. Dude you are a junky or not. You can drink beer, you can even smoke. But we know doing drugs is junky teritory. Who snorts things up their nose ? If you wanna be edgy. You can smoke a joint. Coke is risky. Heroin crack are pure pure junky substances. Meth isn't popular here, that is east Germany like Cheh Republic border. Ask Jiri. Meth is also known to be a complete junky drug.
Smoke weed you are slightly edgy or normal. Drink alcohol it's Europe noone cares. Smoke cigs noone cares. Do coke - that is dangerous or call it wild.
Do the meth crack heroin - fucking junky shit. I never had contact to the whole mushroom lsd trippy stuff. Was warned bout it. Obviously I don't hang with people using heroin in front of me. It's just we all know about it and it's Frankfurt.

You sound like you're on Meth.............

 

[Ardaric]

When people like my posts.... I don't have a lot going on tbh.