Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s 7 card monti but with the gambling replaced with strategic decision making. the fact that lootboxes aren’t considered gambling, but removing gambling from poker is, it just puts on display how the big corporations are desperate to keep us locked into their entertainment machines and away from innovative art

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it’s more that hysterical moral guardians and corporate boobs only see the traditionally casino-like superficial imagery of cards, dice, spades, clubs, slots, etc. and instantly knee-jerk themselves into declaring it “immoral” without actually bothering to take the twelve seconds required to experience the gameplay. At which point they would immediately realize that they are wrong.

    This is Kyle’s Mom’s version of only reading the headline, or not bothering to look beyond the dust jacket and only screeching about imaginary content that exists only inside their own assumptions and based purely on the picture on the cover.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It can be both. The moral screeching is a convenient cover story for the corrupt industry.

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    • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Kyle’s Mom

      Who now?

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      • Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Have you ever met my friend Kyle’s mom?
        She’s the biggest bitch in the whole wide world

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    • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nonono you don’t understand, lootboxes make us money! Thats not gambling.

      Playing cards though? Oh that’s definitely gambling. Go fish? Gambling. Solitaire? Definitely gambling. 52 pick-up? Straight to gambling.

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Speaking of only reading the headline, I love me some corporate boobs.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No HR don’t allow enjoyment of corporate boobs. They kick you out at the office for that kind of thing.

        Unless you are the manager your obviously, oh ironically you work in the games industry.

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