Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 days agoit’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
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.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It can be both. The moral screeching is a convenient cover story for the corrupt industry.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 days ago
Who now?
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
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Precisely that.
I will add that Sheila Broflovski (a.k.a. Kyle’s Mom) through her sheer incessant nagging (and also blame shifting away from herself and the other parents as spelled out in “Blame Canada”) misses the mark so far that she manages to incite a hot war with Canada that gets enough people killed to spill sufficient blood to fulfill an ancient evil prophecy that literally incarnates both Satan himself and Saddam Hussein’s revenant form back onto the face of the Earth.
Note that this not only predated Saddam’s actual real world death, but Matt and Trey also successfully predicted the eruption of the Karen trend, probably a good decade or so before it risen to the height – or sunk to the depths – it’s achieved today. Although senseless moral panics were well known and quite popular in the '80’s and '90’s already, to the extent that they not only managed to accurately predict the response to their own movie, but also parody it within the same movie.
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.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Speaking of only reading the headline, I love me some corporate boobs.
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.