• spireghost@lemmy.zip
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    The reasoning in question:

    This game teaches - by way of images, information and gameplay - skills and knowledge that are used in poker. During gameplay, the player is rewarded with ‘chips’ for playing certain hands. The player is able to access a list of poker hand names. As the player hovers over these poker hands, the game explains what types of cards the player would need in order to play certain hands. As the game goes on, the player becomes increasingly familiar with which hands would earn more points. Because these are hands that exist in the real world, this knowledge and skill could be transferred to a real-life game of poker

    So, this game teaches skills and knowledge that are used in poker. The skills in knowledge are limited to… playing and making poker hands. That’s it. Also, “as the game goes on, the player becomes increasingly familiar with which hands would earn more points” – is hilariously funny. The idea that knowledge of what a poker hand is is anything related to the dangers of gambling is ridiculous.

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      My thief archer build in Morrowind and Skyrim lead me to a life of thievery and now I’m serving a life sentence at maxium security prison. Very sound logic.

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      As the game goes on, the poker hands also get increasingly unrealistic and different from real poker including things like five of a kind, and a pair being worth more than a royal flush.

      If you tried to take the skills you learn from balatro to a poker table you would get kicked out basically immediately.

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        I place a torn up joker on the table, a tarot card, a llanowar elf card, and a pair of threes

        “So with my score multiplier basically I own the casino.”

        The dealer frantically calls security

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        I had a run where I legitimately had to stop and compare the point values a Two Pair Vs. One Pair Vs. Straight Flush

        And ONE PAIR wound up being the one with the highest point value…

        I was still 600 dollars short of winning against the Boss Blind, ending my run

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      One “teaches” you to gamble, the other allows you to gamble. And the one that just teaches you has a higher rating. Crazy.

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        Totally his fault for not heeding the ancient warning.

        Give a man a fish, you get PEGI 3+. Teach a man to fish, 18+ you sucker.

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      I know this is anecdotal but I’m now living in a ditch because of Balatro. I never gambled before in my life and all the poker knowledge Balatro me taught caused me to start extreme gambling and now I’m dead in a ditch.

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      I wonder what they rated Pavlov VR, ya know the FPS game in VR that forces you to handle guns the way they would in real life and is popular with ex-military because of their transferrable skills?

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        I mean that would definitely get an 18 rating, I’m not sure what you are meaning to say