Maybe valve can lean into this logic and ship the steam deck with a pack of smokes and a bottle of jack.
dragontology@retrofed.com 20 hours ago
The Super Bowl (American football championship game) promotes betting. What’s the problem? Is gambling legal in the United States outside of Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Native American reservations, or isn’t it? They need to make up their mind about that. Either allow it everywhere and post gambling help lines like the casinos do… or don’t allow it.
I’m not a fan, personally. I don’t gamble. Period. I have no real opinion on whether it should be legal though, where I am, where you are, or in the state of New York.
Grimy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Children are still not allowed to gamble anywhere, and the specific gambling laws vary by state.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 19 hours ago
These are state laws, not federal.
On top of that, casinos and betting apps and race tracks tend to have their own extra tax rate to pay, which valve is assuredly not currently paying on their illegal gambling revenue.
DillDough@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
So would you classify Pokemon/MTG/Yu-Gi-Oh/etc. as illegal gambling as well?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
I think technically, yes. However, the one potentially redeeming point those have that these skins do not are that they’re actually a functional part of the game.
These skins serve no purpose, and have turned into the same loophole that those Japanese pachinko bars use to get around the gambling laws there - give a useless trinket as a prize and just coincidentally be located next door to a place that will buy certain useless trinkets for absurd amounts of money.