DON'T PLAY MAGICDICE 🎲

please? 😼

The magic is your money disappears.

Obviously.

A few rolls for fun, sure why not.

But if you continue, the math doesn't lie. You roll enough times and there's 0% chance that you win.

Every time you roll the dice, you're on average giving away 2 cents on every dollar.

There aren't strategies or ways to time it. The math doesn't have a memory for previous rolls and winning or losing streaks.

On average, gone gone gone 2 cents at a time, every single time you roll the dice.

oh okay mister sportsbetting man 👌 right

ya ya ya 😼

I'm not trying to be all "do as I say, not as I do".

If you roll the dice a couple times on Sunday during a few months of the year, then that's cool.

The thing about dice is rolling once or twice usually isn't the point. That's not particularly satisfying (not in the same way one bet on one football game can be satisfying). So usually the point of playing is inherently that you're going to do it repetitively a bunch of times.

And that's where the issue is.

Indeed tho I'm not perfect or anything and am not claiming to be. (Hopefully that would only enhance my opinion here, since it shows I'm not a puritan with a knee jerk reaction against gambling or something.)

Obviously they have a right to offer the service.

Casinos are kind of questionable characters to me.

Still, of course they're not doing anything technically wrong, and I even consider that giving people this "outlet" might be better than whatever else they'd do to scratch the itch if it didn't exist.

If it's voluntary and between consenting adults, it's hard to ever really have a big problem with it.

But something about their presence on STEEM rubs me in a kind of sleazy way.

On here, often there's a sense of community and people are anxious to explore and support new projects.

(So it's like now people who weren't looking for it and wouldn't typically be the gambling type are drawn into it, out of their good nature for wanting to support STEEM and assume the best.)

And I notice them deliberately tugging at these strings too:

::barfs:: 🤮

This is cute too:

Please don't buy their shitcoin, if they do this, lol.

So while they're perfectly allowed to create this game

We're all perfectly allowed to say what we think about it. And I encourage everyone to avoid playing it or supporting it, or to be lured by their referral program and start telling other people to play.

Personally I don't even see them as a worthwhile part of the community.

If you really want to play dice..

The 2% house edge on @magicdice is absurd, relative to industry standard and what you can find elsewhere. The standard for crypto dice sites is 1%, and some lower.

So just strictly no reason to use @magicdice, that I can see, even if you like dice.

And if you feel like it supports STEEM in a sense, I'd speculate the opposite.

It's encouraging money to flow away from authors and genuine users, and into a casino, who doesn't necessarily care about their STEEM tokens and is more likely to dump them on the market.

If anyone wants to build a STEEM dice bot with 0% house edge

You have my support. I'd probably contribute a little funding, and whatever advice you want.

There are probably ways to use upvoting in a way that keeps it sustainable or even profitable, and then is more in line with the ethos of STEEM, rather than pretending to be but actually a leech off of it, like @magicdice is.