Update: Cultured Vultures has since contacted me and admitted wrongdoing. They've not only amended the article, they've donated their fee to the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling. A good thing was done!
Hi Jim Sterling, i am a big fan of your writing who represents a charity company. Will you consider donating 100$ to casinos without borders and writing a 400 to 600 word article including a link for casinos without borders and 3 other charities of no importance to my employer. Thank you very much, again i am a big fan of your writing.
Hey Antoine Ouimet, I hope you are well? I am here to inform you of an exciting opportunity! I am the CEO and PR Manager of Pocket Vegas™, a thrilling new app that will change the casino game forever! I am prepared to offer you upwards of $100 to write an article promoting our product. The content of the article is up to you, but you must mention that Pocket Vegas™ is strictly non-profit, and all proceeds go to Disgruntled Gamblers, a charity that provides poker chips to men and women who have nothing left to gamble. We hope to hear from you soon!
Writing articles is one of the most fun things you can do with your time. You can choose any stlye you wish in which to write about, and creating a blog with the website Tumblr is about one of the easiest things you can do. Another website on the internet is Pocket Vegas™, a non-profit gambling website where all proceeds go to Disgruntled Gamblers, a charity that provides poker chips to men and women who have nothing left to gamble. Many of my friends have Tumblr blogs about their favorite TV shows, and I have a blog about my cat Trixie in which I pretend she is a pirate who has a secret identity as a pop star. She wears a blonde wig when she sings, so nobody can tell it is her singing. If you enjoy writing, then you will enjoy writing your own blog. It's fun and easy, and everyone can do it.
I'm pretty sure FTC has regulations for paid sponsorships. Warner Brothers got in trouble with the FTC for undisclosed sponsorships for Shadow of Mordor with YTers like PewDiePie.
There's rules around it with drugs as well. I'm not sure if you still have to disclose that a drug company paid you, but if you publicly endorse a drug, the FDA requires you to follow all the normal legal forms of a drug advertisement, such as listing side effects, etc. Hence why Kim Kardashian got in trouble after endorsing Diclegis.
+Mason Bially Not disclosing a paid sponsorship breaks FCC guidelines, along with Federal law. According to the FCC's 'Payola' rules, everyone involved with the deal MUST disclose their involvement proir to thje paid content airing. Also, it must be disclosed publicly, so anyone looking for that info can find it. I got all this from the FCC's ;.gov website or here www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fccs-payola-rules
I suspect the law has some catching up to do on SEO juice. The laws have been written to prevent people from lying to consumers, not search engine algorithms. You could make a pretty convincing argument that deceiving Googlebot is deceiving consumers by proxy, but it's not a slam dunk, and these are online casinos we're talking about here. Strict compliance with the spirit of the law is not likely to be their highest priority.
The idea of a mobile game where you can gamble is really disturbing. Gambling addiction is a real issue, and for some people to literally have a slot machine in their pocket at all times could be life ruining.
In a way, there are mobile games out there that are not slot machines but feed into gambling addictions. Card collecting idol games from Japan (the easiest one to google would be Love Live since that has an English version) that are of niche popularity in the west but wildly popular in Japan essentially simulate slots when trying to get the card you want. It`s a deep rabbit hole.
I agree completely. My father used to have a very serious gambling problem. He lost everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. It's been a few years since then and he's done an amazing job of getting his life back together. But it scares me to think of him falling back into it just from an app on his phone. There should probably be a law or something.
My Odd Experiences; Mobile-game addiction is already a markable trend. A huge percentage of mobile games on the Google Play store are asset flips or quick Unity-Engine tossups that are designed in a way that simultaneously encourages huge time-investments and microtransactions for ingame-content or currency necessary for progression--often packaged into bundles that are valued upwards of 100USD. It's proving to be an extremely effective monetization tool, and the developers of these dispensable mobile-games are making exorbant amounts of money off of them. I hope that Jim puts Google Play Store into the public lens, for what it is, in a Jimquisition episode or something.
+Minty Arisato I can't believe more people aren't upvoting your joke. I guess it flew over their heads. Enjoy the advertising dollars! How much is a RU-vid comment work?
Very well said. I think Jim has mentioned the google play store but hasn't given it much attention. He's definitely made episodes about scummy iOS games like dungeon keeper mobile, but I'd like to see him discuss it more because of how huge the market is now. Coming from someone who has worked on iOS apps and a game in progress, apps like you describe are usually incredibly easy to make. More time and money is almost certainly spent on assets and pushing players into spending money.
Gamblers Anonymous seconded. Compulsive gambling ruins lives just as surely as alcohol or drug addiction. Here in the UK one of the biggest gambling unpleasantnesses is the FOBT, or "fixed odds betting terminal," which maybe deserves a sort of side-episode perhaps? Because FOBTs are basically vidya that are played in betting shops and suchlike.
12 Step groups like Gamblers Anonymous are associations, not charities, so unless you donate to a local group, there's really not much you can do to donate. The closest would be the National Council on Problem Gaming, the group that Cultured Vultures donated to, which is an actual charity.
Rabbit Cube Honestly Paul Ryan (Yes That One) could be Paul Ryan (Not That One), due to being one of the younger Republican members of congress and probably knowing a bit more about tech and having a bit more of a stake
As a casual side-job, I occasionally help do maintenance with a number of websites a relative of mine hosts. One of the duties is to supervise article traffic for one particular website. Over the past few months I've noticed garbage articles crop-up advertising various other websites in links (the most popular being free essay writing). Their appearance is due to a website programming exploit, so irrelevant to this subject. But as I investigated into these sites, I've found that they're either all scam sites, or function very similar to the casino sites Jim visited -- just out to get people's money. I believe the shady practice of these articles I deal with is comparable to the marketing lackey's of Tamara and Barney. Just like the garbage articles, I wouldn't be surprised if the emails Jim received were, at least in part, automated. And I _really_ wouldn't be surprised if all of this mess is just us brushing against the labyrinth that is marketing and barely legal scam site relationships.
In the U.S. the FTC requires you to disclose any sponsorships and affiliations. As a small website owner myself, this is just basics. How some sites get away with it is beyond me.
Advertising for online casino on gaming website is really pernicious, it reminds me of CS Go gambling. My best friend works at a casino and saw with her own eyes people's life being ruined. If it wasn't for her I would have gambled all my money in them when I was in big financial troubles. Please avoid "get rich schemes" at all cost.
I've been following Jim since about the time when he went solo and I must say I'm proud of how he's run his channel and admire his ethics. Well done Jim!
I've just now noticed you've started pointing out if and which bonus section the Jimquisition contains in its description. Thank you, and thank God for you.
You could donate to the nearest Shriner's Hospital. They specialize in burn treatment and rehab of children. As far as worthy causes go, a disabled child in pain has to be near the top. Plus there is the whole Shriner/Fez comedic angle.
"SEO Juice" is one of the grossest phrases I've heard in a long time... Also I had to laugh when you said they offered you $100. I was contacted by the same agency, and was only offered $30 for my blogging soul! I now have another aspiration for my site haha
A while ago, I left a comment talking about my SEO knowledge from my job. I've got more to add now. I was considering linking to your video in an article I was writing for my job, since it was relevant to some trends I've been seeing in this field (scummy, scammy companies talking about SEO). I'm not, because the whole "poundin' it" thing is . . . really not appropriate for what I'm doing, but anyway, since I watched it again, I thought I'd mention that if you had agreed to this, there's actually a high chance that what they were asking you to do could have got your whole site de-indexed with some of the changes Google recently made to their search engine. So, there's that for you.
Uh, Jim, I know your Juicy Slots thing was just a bit, but there's *actually* a gambling app on the google app store called Juicy Slot, so I fear that might create some misunderstandings.
"If I did things based on whether or not old women did them, and I chose not to do things old women did a lot and were known for, I wouldn't have so many dildos!" Me: *looks up from the crochet project I work on while listening to The Jimquisition* You tell 'em, Jim. You tell 'em.
I'm half tempted to get a sponsorship just so I can write about a bunch of different fetishes. After all the content doesn't matter and they want the "Juice." so they're going to get it along with a lot of other stuff. A LOT of other stuff.
I... just... *love* how absolutely clueless those corporate drones are. How deep they are, in those rabbit holes of their's, believing that they are doing the "good work" by just spamming those ads and propositions without a hint of god damn research (I won't even call it an effort at that point). Unable to realize that they are, by default, failing to fulfill their own fucking contractual obligations! Something that their employers will hopefully notice this way or another (preferably thanks to this episode of Jimquisition) I won't shy away from the fact, that I have to deal with lazy, brain dead hacks of this sort, every single fucking day in my own line of work. And it's probably because of that very reason I simply couldn't stop mentally crying from joy. God... what a pitiful creature I became oO
They're not clueless, they just don't give a single shit. They don't have to tailor their mails to the recipient and do any research about them first, because too many sites are happy to sell out for a few hundred bucks (hoping it'll be a few thousand once they've become a "good partner"). It's basically the scammer scattershot approach. Just email as many sites as you can, and even if only 1% of them enter a contract with you, that's still more than enough. And you can bet they charge the online casinos at least double of what the site makes, if not more.
Ads and commercials are the "microtransactions" of RU-vid. Really sucks for those of us who pay for RU-vid premium to not see ads. Jim is literally the only creator who doesn't do it. Thank God for you.
Karma you obviously don't understand that like everything in life you can enjoy everything in reasonable doses. I only gamble what I can afford and generally only bet on the NFL and golf and I'm that costs maybe £30 a week. Being a turf accountant it's very easy to understand the industry
That sounds like a lot of money, and it would be, to you or me. But you have to remember, that's only about 20% of Jim's Ostentatious Mask And Hand Puppet Budget.
Came here to say the same thing. The vast majority of small blog style sites will not have enough juice (yes, it's an industry term) to contribute anything and especially bad ones can erase any benefits. Possibly these agencies are relying on their clients to have out of date info and can easily impress them with an increase in inbound links? It's an easily measured metric
AS is pretty bad, but not nearly as awful as they used to be... in that they don't actively support parents forcefeeding their kids vitamin megadoses and subjecting them to chelation while praying they somehow "come back" -gag-
Yea, they also tend to ditch the kids when they become adults. It should be called Parents With Autistic Children Speak. (Coming from an adult with high functioning Autism and personal experience with the group.)
Rob, autism speaks views all forms of autism as 'a disease', wants to 'cure it' and is generally belligerent towards all things that autistic people do differently from 'normal' people. They view autistic people as less than, instead of just different, and that's not a way to help anyone,it just ostracizes them.
Wow. I knew Autism Speaks was unpopular in the autistic community, but I never realised they were that backwards. I know what so-called charity won't be getting a fucking penny from me.
Since you mention donating that 100 that they would've paid for the article to a charity, I may have a perfectly fitting suggestion. www.ncpgambling.org/ The National Council on Problem Gambling, a group dedicated to helping people who the very casino's that contacted you took for a ride.
This is how journalism should be! You are doing your job man , I dont think youd appreciate me congratulating you , but do admit this is a rare thing lately!
Or you'll win all the money and then crash your Ferrari while high on cocaine a few years later, knowing most of the people in your life wouldn't be, if it weren't for the cash.
Gambling, unless restricted entirely to in-game currency with no bearing on real life, is little more than exploitation of those with a vulnerability to addictive behaviors. Every casino has its means of making sure visitors are likely to lose more than they win, and even if someone wins big, there will be plenty of losers to take money from instead. Giving money to these places is like actively breeding mosquitoes or something... there are a million better things to encourage, and while these places may boast an apparently lucrative income, no economy is enriched by attributing value -the true purpose of spending money- to an activity that produces nothing much besides broken dreams and crippling debts. =_=;;
I knew it wasn't going to spell "Dracula" but you got me to spell it backwards out of curiosity and... yeah. Fuck that dude. Cause really? REALLY? You're going to be that brazen about it??
Wounded Warrior Protect: outside of how you perceive what's done with our military, it's undeniable that many of our vets come back broken and every little bit of help counts. Ronald McDonald House: they provide housing for families of children who have to undergo serious treatment at hospitals far from home.
I always wondered why film critics are held in high regard and get a ton of respect from the public compared to game critics. Then, shit like this happens and now I know. Seriously, the only other really trustworthy place for gaming news is The Guardian because ads don't fill the thing with crap.
Actual excerpt from 'Movies that Re-Shaped Our Understanding of Historical Figures' on Cultured Vultures: "Our perceptions of these notable people have been reshaped by modern-day portrayals, which have deviated from the truth for the purpose of entertainment. Take this handy infographic put together by Planet 7 Casino, which explores the enthusiasm many historical heads of state had for gambling. For example, did you know that Henry VIII was a keen gambler?"
lawl That article throws up a 404 now. Guess someone thought they could defy the Streisand Effect, eh? In fact there's a whole bunch of articles on Cultured Vultures that clumsily throw in casino references but now register as 404 errors. But not all. Check out this excerpt from "7 of the Weirdest Games Ever Made": "Ever played a video game and, while getting the hang of it, wondered what am I playing right now? It may be fun to watch all the funny looking creatures swarming across the screen, just as it is when you see those dollar signs in an online Mr. Green casino game." That's the first two fucking sentences. "shameless" doesn't even begin to cover it.
This is absolute gold: "Hi Jim, I am just wondering if you managed to look at my e-mail" Hi Tamara, I am just wondering if you managed to look at the website and read the note for advertisers.
Say Jimboi, have you heard that Square Enix is withholding it's Nier : Automata from the SEA region in Steam and how they're so fricking silent about it? (The last time there's any indication about a potential release was in March, from the Japanese official twitter of Nier: Automata, who said that they will release it this April in SEA, but even that account have gone silent now that April have come around) It will be nice if you could talk about it and maaaaaybe ask some of your sources in SE about that Nier: Automata SEA release on steam, thx :)
While we're on the topic of Nier's Steam release for Jim, I should mention that not only does it use Denuvo, Square apparently said that uninstalling the game "may" not remove all parts of the DRM from your machine. In other words, rootkit-lite. That's something I'm not paying for.
Wait, seriously? Due to some circumstances IRL (Namely, exams), I don't really follow any news on the game except for the initial lack of release for SEA region. If that's truly the case, then, that's simply another unwarranted douchebaggery move there by SE to it's customers...
M.Z Pratama Yeah, lemme see if I can dig up the link... Here we are. www.dsogaming.com/news/nier-automata-will-be-using-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/ And for confirmation about Denuvo and what it does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo You can find that particular hazard under the Controversies heading in the Wiki page, and at the bottom of the quote from the EULA in the DSOG article. Frankly the most alarming thing I've ever read about this piece of "anti-tamper" tech. EDIT: And yes, it would seem this is a known thing with Denuvo in general, not something specific to the version being used for NieR. As such, it's not Square using a worse version of it, but I assign them no less blame.
Prevent Cancer Foundation, Doctors without Borders, March of Dimes, Muscular Dystrophy Assoc., and Against Malaria Foundation to name a few charities out there a C-note would help out
Steven Hedin I can support this for a number of reasons... Chief among them... More dead babies, we can't ever have enough dead babies. I want to see Hayden Christiansen in costume outside PP just hack8ng babies up. That is the charity that keeps on giving
You made an entire video about gambling sites and shady business models without a single "HIT THE LEVER!". I don't know whether to be disappointed or impressed.
My favorite charity is Kiva, they serve as a middleman between donators and banks who give out micro loans. You can put money on the site, pick the loan you want to give (ranging from money to help start/expand a business to someone who needs money to help pay for a wedding) and then they pay you back. The only cut Kiva gets is what you choose to give them.
There's a swedish movie blog that just posted an article about movies that make you cry and at the Titanic mention had the text "I have a friend who even cries when he plays the Titanic slot at [REDACTED with JUICY SLOTS]..." I don't think I will be visiting that site much anymore...
100 dollars? I worked in newspaper of my backwater hometown as summer assistant, assistant as in everything everyone else did except municipal politics and there was nothing from that direction in July anyways. So basically everything real reporter would have done, except nobody ever bothered to tell me how to do it and I had to teach myself everything while also working with same pace as everyone else. They paid me something like 1000 euros, 2/3 of the minimum wage, not the 2/3 of wage for real reporter who I was replacing and of course as teenager I didn't have guts to complain. Naturally I also got all the nasty jobs, weekend, street gallups, and everything else nobody wanted to even look at. So basically I delivered the goods, usually with more than acceptable quality and as thanks they ripped me off for a long time and when I got older and wiser, total radio silence, a silence you would only get from Brash Games. But after this episode I feel blessed about my past job. A mere thought about selling my soul ten times a month to able to earn same amount of cash makes anything sound like dream job. Maybe I'll give them one more chance. Maybe
I recommend Child's Play. Great charity that helps kids in hospitals by giving the childhood that we had, and that they wouldn't normally. No better way to stick it, if you ask me.
i must have seen this video from it randomly playing next at least 10 times in the last couple of years, but i only just noticed (unless i forgot in the meantime) the casino zone song in the background.. very nice
The biggest problem is that advertisers fucked up with their ads a long time ago. I wouldn't be blocking them if it wasn't for the fact that I can now expect them to suck up most of my bandwidth whenever I try and read a news article, cause my slower systems to be sluggish when web browsing, or possibly serve up some malware that gets pawned off to novice users. Fuck everything to do with advertising.
Charity ideas: honestly, if I were in the position to give, I'd give to an organization threatened by Trump. PBS, Planned Parenthood, something in that vein.
There's a Casino across the river from where I live that has blinking letters. Sometimes they blink forward, sometimes they blink backward. I once pointed out that "CASINO" backwards spells "ONI SAC". All this to say that I can't imagine why anyone would call themselves something so ridiculous and blatantly vulgar except that they lack the brain cells to call themselves anything but their business spelled backwards. Which would be pitiful if they weren't being so monstrous in the process.
who is "disliking" this?. Keep up the great work Jim, you are so knowledgeable, articulate and funny!. And, in-keeping with your loathing of advertisements, you retain the same credibility as, the late and great Bill Hicks. Nicely Done.
Kaname Tōsen As much as I loathe infant male circumcision, FGM is inarguably worse on an individual and cultural basis. Female 'circumcision' removes the analog of the glans, i.e. the head of the penis.
