Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” (arstechnica.com)
from Jeffool@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 19:31
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 20:09 next collapse

I want to gamble on Balatro.

Laser@feddit.org on 07 Apr 20:36 collapse

Wheel got you covered

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 20:38 next collapse

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rigatti@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 20:49 collapse

Nope!

Jeffool@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:02 next collapse

I wish I had your restraint. EVERY time!

ggppjj@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:14 collapse

First three times I got the wheel it triggered.

I didn’t understand the memes.

Then it never happened again.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:41 collapse

But poly is going to fix all my problems!! At least thats what the OF model told me.

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works on 08 Apr 01:20 collapse

I don’t care what the dev says: that thing ain’t 1:4.

dumbass@leminal.space on 08 Apr 01:36 collapse

It’s 1:4 but everytime the card is played a new set of 1:4 starts, so fuck knows what the actual odds are.

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works on 08 Apr 08:41 next collapse

It’s always 1:4 then but that doesn’t mean in 4 goes you’re guaranteed a win.

brsrklf@jlai.lu on 08 Apr 12:15 next collapse

Humans are bad at probability, and that’s mostly why they gamble too.

Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it’s not totally so because computer “random” is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don’t matter.

On an infinitely large number of draws, you’d see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn’t mean you can’t fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%… It happens).

null@slrpnk.net on 08 Apr 18:20 collapse

It’s 1:4 but everytime the card is played a new set of 1:4 starts

Of course it does, or the odds wouldn’t be 1 in 4…

If you flip a coin, you “start” a new set of 1 in 2 odds too – that’s what makes it always 50/50

Jimius@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Apr 20:25 next collapse

Reminds me of the 90’s. When anime was becoming more available in the west. Titles like Ghost in the Shell, Akira and La Blue Girl. Everyone here just figured they were cartoons and cartoon were for kids. So kids got to watch it…

Now it’s like they see poker, so it must be gambling. Doesn’t matter it’s not the case at all.

kitnaht@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 21:51 next collapse

Wife thought the same thing about anime when I met her, now it’s almost all she’ll watch. She’s had to get used to some of the…cultural differences…that Anime includes, but she’s so used to it now that it barely registers any more.

SirSamuel@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 22:46 collapse

…cultural differences…

Pedophilia? Oh, sorry, I meant Neon Genesis

ETA: this is mostly a dig at the depictions of teenagers in Neon Genesis specifically, and especially the unhealthy relationships between adults and children in that show

Zahille7@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 23:01 next collapse

I mean there’s some questionable views about WW2 and Nazi Germany for instance.

Just look at Stroheim from JoJo’s

brsrklf@jlai.lu on 08 Apr 06:59 collapse

It felt so weird going into the anime completely blind.

Okay, he’s German. Uh, and he’s in the army. And it’s WW2.

…Are we going to address the elephant in the room?

Nope, he’s just the new bro, here we’re all bound by the power of muscles and cool poses.

False@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 08:23 collapse

I mean he foolishly releases the bad guys because he’s arrogant, then he talks a big game and gets his ass kicked repeatedly.

kitnaht@lemmy.world on 07 Apr 23:09 next collapse

I mean, I haven’t seen any pedophilia, but definitely incest and other weird shit. There’s a lot of shit I don’t pick up on tho.

beejboytyson@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 09:54 next collapse

Pretty sure 12 was legal in japan at the time.

SirSamuel@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 11:15 next collapse

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GODDAMMIT JAPAN

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 21:54 collapse

The national government in Japan is a pile geriatrics who don’t want to do anything. Pretty much every prefecture(think state or provenance) raised the age of consent to 18 a long time ago.

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SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz on 08 Apr 00:09 next collapse

I remember politely telling the guy at my local Family Video that “Watership Down” should probably be removed from the kid’s section. He scoffed at me and just gave me a “yeah… mkay.”

A few weeks later, I noticed it was gone. I commented on it to a different guy this time and he said “yeeeeah, the boss’ sister brought it home for her kids. It’s gone now. Like… actually gone.”

Childhood trauma could have been avoided with that one.

RushJet1@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 03:24 next collapse

Just wait until they rent Plague Dogs

llii@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Apr 07:21 next collapse

I have the same trauma. It ran on German TV in the middle of the day decades ago. Never going to forget this.

bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 07:58 collapse

Cartoon rabbits you day? The perfect family Easter movie.

independent.co.uk/…/watership-down-parents-left-h…

tacosanonymous@lemm.ee on 08 Apr 01:41 next collapse

I saw la blue girl when I was 18 and it traumatized me. That shit is fucked up. I thought it was anime bc my friend had a big collection and it was just there on the shelf.

SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Apr 19:01 next collapse

Well it is anime.

18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 20:04 next collapse

What goes on in that? Not sure I should even Google it?

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 20:55 next collapse

Tentacles. Yes, in that way.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Apr 21:10 collapse

It’s a weird hentai, but it’s overall pretty tame.

Bible Black is more intense. Then Urutsikodoji. Then some other fucked up anime that didn’t stick into my memory. La Blue Girl is barely a step above regular hentai in fucked-up-ness.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Apr 21:10 collapse

Ehhh La Blue Girl isn’t that crazy as far as hentai goes. I did love the pubic hair needle attack.

beejboytyson@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 09:55 next collapse

I was with you till the hentai.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 08 Apr 13:09 collapse

Ninja Scroll am I right or am I right

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Apr 21:08 collapse

My first anime! My pops let me rent it when I was like 11 or 12.

Fuckin AWESOME.

60d@lemmy.ca on 08 Apr 07:29 next collapse

This reminds me of 2010 when lootboxes and gacha games were okay because teaching children to gamble with Dad’s credit card was awesome.

15 years later and YouTube doesn’t even know what gambling is anymore, lol.

Tamo240@programming.dev on 08 Apr 14:08 collapse

Don’t you dare remind me how long ago 2010 was

P1nkman@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 15:05 collapse

The Matrix is 25.5 years right now.

Jurassic Park came out 32 years ago…

60d@lemmy.ca on 08 Apr 16:07 collapse

You’re going to hell for this 🤣🤣🤣

P1nkman@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 17:57 collapse

I hope I am! I named my dog Lucifer 😈

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Apr 11:30 next collapse

YouTube no longer allows any reference to gambling sites or applications “not certified by Google.”

It’s literally on the Play Store, rated at M.

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca on 08 Apr 13:18 collapse

Dunno why it’s even rated M. Seems high for what it is

Revan343@lemmy.ca on 08 Apr 18:09 collapse

It’s rated M because of moderators poor understanding of ‘gambling’

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 08 Apr 14:18 collapse

Yet still youtube allows lootbox opening videos