• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    Their reasoning is because it uses poker hands, it teaches you poker which could lead to gambling. Pretty ridiculous.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah, the hands are what make poker dangerous…

      My concern with poker has to do with betting, and therefore risk-taking, and Balatro doesn’t have that. Learning how poker hands work is an academic exercise, and I absolutely encourage it, since it’s such an important cultural thing (i.e. shows up in lots of movies).

      So yeah, absolutely ridiculous.