the average age of elected leaders across the world is in the 45-50 range for most of the western world, US is the oldest at 60-70 range
Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games
southernwolf@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Watch the end result be you can’t find random chests in Minecraft dungeons or Terraria caves cause it falls under the category of “lootbox” in games…
(May seem hyperbolic, but we are talking about 70 year old boomers trying to make regulations for video games. I’m not sure I have the most positive view of the potential outcome)
IronBird@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Money, gambling is (even if obfuscated via tokens) about money.
Monopoly is not gambling because there is no (real) money involved. Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.
utopiah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.
Uno is not gambling because all decks are the same. There is no artificial scarcity to monetize, it’s literally just a game and that’s good.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
What about poker?
utopiah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Uno can be gambling too if you start to bet on round. Anything can be gambling if you want it to but poker with non convertible tokens isn’t gambling. Betting on players also would be gambling. Anything can become gambling. If you think that’s an overstatement look at predictive markets to see how broad bettable events can be it’s
amazingscary.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
uh, on one side of my family my 70 year old boomers were helping Ken and Dennis write UNIX. I listen when they talk.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
What about the other side?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The ate paint chips and crayons
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Close, they caused mine collapses