Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Balatro is a Poker Game in the same way that Gin and Bridge are Poker games.
Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Balatro is a Poker Game in the same way that Gin and Bridge are Poker games.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 week 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
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
It can be both. The moral screeching is a convenient cover story for the corrupt industry.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 week ago
Who now?
Localhorst86@feddit.org 1 week ago
Have you ever met my friend Kyle’s mom?
She’s the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Speaking of only reading the headline, I love me some corporate boobs.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week 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.