I’ve always suspected I might be susceptible to gambling addiction so I stay out of casinos.

Instead, I go to the arcade. Which is like a low stakes child casino. Win a bunch of tickets and then either buy something stupid with them, or, just straight give them to some kid.

My point being, we’ve specifically constructed casino-like facilities for children and it’s regularly accepted, so why should Balatro be different?

I keep pulling the hermit card out of my tarot deck, but it hasn’t doubled my money! Have I learned incorrectly??

Praise Otralab!

The only gambling in this game is picking the goddamn wheel card even though I know it’s going to give me “nope!”

I pretty much had to set a limit with my wife. Like you can have these 4 giant tote bins filled with yarn supplies and two baskets of projects in progress but if you want more than that you have to give some away.

I had to make a boundary because it was getting out of hand.

Factorio - Space Age, Frost Punk 2, and Balatro Mobile

If blue no matter who worked, the Democrats would have won. So that’s obviously not a thing.

It is one of the best games I’ve played this year. Really easy to get into for short bits, I pirated it first, played for a few hours on PC, bought it, played it for a few dozen more, and happily bought it for my phone.

Really good, very addictive

Your average Vince Flynn novel lmao

One of the rare times I pirated a show and it was so good I subscribed and watched it again in the hopes they would make more of it.

Semi recently had mine try to take me through a private business parking lot which was entirely fenced off, and didn’t even connect on the other side. That was… confusing, to say the least.

I was semi recently explaining to someone that monitors are basically small TV’s, with more variety in sizes, form factors, and refresh rates.

The human car wash method

I also love word, publisher, and visio.

I grudgingly accept outlook.

I despise PowerPoint

The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.

As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There’s simply too much money to be made.

As a related example:

Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they’re better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.

Full on gladiator combat games is absolutely on my late stage capitalism bingo card. UFC is a baby step on that path.

This. My phone camera takes ultra high resolution pictures then algorithmically processes them. They look more beautiful and real than reality.

The biggest change when we got new window AC units was how much more quiet they are.

Some asshole had the idea to water a seed and now I have to pay taxes. Fuck that guy.