Help, I tried to play a flush five at the casino and now I’m in some backroom with a big guy standing over me cracking his knuckles.

No need to lobby, EA are the ones making the decision

This is the case for both PEGI and ESRB, they are insider operated organizations developed to skirt regulations in the form of ‘self governance’.

Don’t need a bribe when EA is the one on the board doing the ratings.

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.

It absolutely will. The game has already been erroneously removed from storefronts in the past.

If an 18+ rating will drive sales, why do the operators of PEGI and ESRB bend the rules to ensure their games (EA sports games being a prime example) get as low of a rating as possible, even when they have actual gambling (slot machines paid for with real money)

I mean your own adamancy shows the damage since you seem to be under the impression that the game involves wagers/betting/gambling or other activities that could be perceived as dangerous.

This is all well and true, but it’s important to note that these organizations exist as a sidestep to regulation, they are formed by industry insiders as a promise to the regulators that they will be honest about how they rate games (or movies or music) so that the government doesn’t actually get involved and do it’s job.

It’s a form of regulatory capture that allows the industry itself to decide what is harmful to us.

It’s basically the definition of conflict of interest.

Balatro features no wagering or betting of any kind.

Then how do you reconcile that they aren’t, or what about games that feature real money gambling like sports games? (NBA games feature real gambling with micro transactions and casino games such as slot machines and pachinko machines). NBA 2k games have a pegi rating of 3 and up.

It’s not performative if the industry insider run ratings commission uses their power to give ratings that favor their games and hurt smaller independent studios.

Using chips is even a stretch honestly. There are some chip imagery here and there but otherwise ‘chips’ are just how points are called.

They are all over the place, they just don’t get promoted much and get buried in steam releases.

I mean I think the guy is stupid, but let’s honestly reflect here, who gives a fuck about some leaked Nintendo game getting played a week or two early. Like honestly, it might not technically be victimless (though even that can be argued), but the ‘damage’ is so small it’s like being upset that someone stepped on your grass.

There is a concept called prior art in patent law. Prior art is information about the invention that exists before filing, it can both help secure a patent as well as prevent someone filing a patent for someone else’s existing invention.

How come console gamers are the only ones still making a push for discs?

I agree with you, but Nintendo’s arguments are that the emulators pirated their code in order to develop the emulator and for it to function.

This isn’t actually true.

Gog isn’t ‘piracy is strictly legal’ there is still a license attached to the software that can have restrictions.

1000 perfectly timed butt pokes.

While trading in general is zero sum, if you believe the product you’re trading has intrinsic value, then no one needs to be holding a bag.

If I sell you a car and you get to use the car, you wouldn’t be holding the bag, because you wanted the car. This applies to stocks, and stock derivatives, as well as commodities.

The problem arises when there isn’t an intrinsic value (or the intrinsic value is very small), such as with NFTs or many cryptos in general.

There are cryptos that have some intrinsic value like monero, since they have fungibility and a use case, but most do not.

Emulate?

The steam deck didn’t exist when the switch came out, it innovated and filled a niche that turned out to be a severely underserved segment of the gaming market.

Nintendo struck gold with the switch, and a ‘switch 2’ likely isn’t going to cut it.

It’s not like Nintendo is infallible, remember the console before the switch was the Wii u.

Tbh I wrote that comment moments after waking up with my eyes barely open.

So it’s HLE?

Esdf requires more dexterity and is generally less accessible.

I’m an idiot and misunderstood which key bind was being talked about

Maybe they try are trying to avoid some additional scrutiny by letting the union exist?

Try going to a casino where you put a $5 in a slot machine and get 12,350 credits.

Factorio also interestingly, never goes on sale, Wube said that the value of the game is what it is and that’s that.

Manual labor has been being automated since the industrial revolution.

Ok I’m pretty sure I understand most of who you are talking about, but can you tell me who the conspiracy theorist was?

And with the alcoholic I assume you mean Geoff? It’s funny, because he ultimately became one of the only few people I actually really wanted to listen to in the last 4ish years, I don’t think his sabbatical and ultimate recovery is much of a controversy, more just personal issues that he dealt with. He seemed to be one of the few that really still believed in the company.

Omg you meant Joel. Wow, I can’t believe he had been out for so long I forgot about him.

Totk felt like Nintendo’s way to recap costs on botw. It’s almost the exact same game.

I felt this way about God of war as well

Is it any different than kde plasma + steam big picture?

Speakers are microphones, they are the same thing(basically), one uses current to move a diaphragm to create pressure and the other uses pressure to move the diaphragm to create a current.

Anyone who says “a real artist wouldn’t …” Needs to spend some more time at the gallery.

You can plug a mouse into a steam deck, dork.

This is a real thing, they are called operators and it is their job to oversee the cell, start and stop jobs, resolve bottlenecks, identify upstream problems and gracefully handle them, and emergency stop the system when needed.

The Nintendo DS being the second highest selling console ever begs to differ

My work gives me a $100 monthly stipend to cover internet and incidental costs for my home office. It’s not a whole lot but it’s a nice touch on top of my salary + cost savings of working from home.