ObjectivityIncarnate

Thinking about this hypothetically is making me laugh.

Imagine setting things like how often your employees are checked for STIs, and the cost for that, etc., lol

The irony is that you can’t really teach someone who doesn’t know anything any poker anything more than what the hands are, and which are considered better than others, by playing Balatro.

Everything else in Balatro is completely divorced from poker. There are a few other shared terms, but they’re defined completely differently in Balatro than in poker (e.g. a “blind” is a stage, 3 stages in a level (small/big/boss), and the levels are called "ante"s, also totally different from what an ante is in poker.

But Balatro doesn’t do that, so how is this a valid addition to the analogy?

There is zero betting in Balatro.

It’s not performative gambling. It’s not any kind of gambling.

Gambling by definition requires making a wager that you risk losing. That literally does not exist in Balatro. There are no wagers at all, not even for fake currency/points.

The fact that people are so lazy that they keep going for the corporate-sure-to-enshittify options shows how little people actually care about escaping corporate control of their lives.

It’s not that deep.

People want to go where other people are. A tiny minority of them are even aware of the things that are influencing your decisions. Not a single moment is spent thinking about whether X or Y is more ‘corporately controlled’ before deciding to join a new platform.

Lemmy moment.

He exists because his parents had sex. Having sex is stupid now?