In French, problematic gambling, as in "having a gambling problem", is literally called "jeux d'argent". Money games.
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It's not even unique to card games.
I had a board game that was about a race between merchant caravans through the desert. The way it worked was every player started with the same limited amount of small tokens representing water canteens, and every turn they all chose any amount of them, they revealed it at the same time, and the one who used the most could advance 5 squares, the second 4, etc.
The whole game was about trying to guess how many canteens other players were going to use on a specific turn, and use the right amount to land where you want and keep enough for the rest of the game. And of course, you've got all the reasons to bluff.
That's basically a pure gambling game. It doesn't feature any random element, and its only currency is a bunch of colourful plastic toys shared evenly between the players.
If I was PEGI, I'd do a CTRL-F in the rulebook, see words like bluff, gamble and bet, and slap an 18+ rating on it.
PEGI was right to change its rating for Balatro, unfortunately they still don't seem to understand why. This kind of absurdity is bound to happen again if they keep sorting games with what looks like a basic word filter instead of looking for how the game would present a problem depending on the audience.
Their new rating has been lowered because Balatro has "fantasy elements". Does it now? Flashy effects on cards, sure, but everything in Balatro is a simple set of mathematical rules. You could make a completely physical version of Balatro (if you don't mind spending a lot of time tracking scores and joker rules).
The real reason Balatro does not need 18+ is the same reason you don't worry about kids playing classic Solitaire. In fact, you should worry more about Solitaire nowadays, what's with making Solitaire Collection an adware with subscription.
Balatro is not predatory at all, it's a buy-once game with completely abstract scores and nothing to win or lose in real life. It only borrows poker card combinations. You don't even place bets in this game!
If "fantasy elements" is now enough to make your game kid-friendly according to PEGI, watch EA rebranding its disgusting lootbox nonsense as magic sportsball cards crafted by elven wizards or something.
Passer physiquement au bureau de poste c'est la solution de secours quand le processus en ligne ne marche pas. Et faut voir le bordel.
J'ai failli être obligé de le faire, j'avais besoin de valider mon identité pour un truc pour lequel France Connect ne suffisait pas. Je confirme que se créer une identité numérique en ligne est un enfer.
Leurs serveurs sont tout pourris et quand ça ne marche pas ils vont rejeter la faute sur tout et n'importe quoi : "désolé, ton téléphone n'est pas compatible", "ton appareil photo n'a pas une assez bonne résolution", "ta connexion est mauvaise"... Bidon, c'est entièrement de leur côté, j'ai fini par faire passer le truc, mais ça m'a pris une demi-heure à retenter avec des timeouts et des messages foireux.
Cette fusée devait décoller à 17 h 24 ce mercredi 3 mars 2025.
C'est moi qui devient fou ou Ouest France qui a paumé son calendrier?
Thing is, this is absolutely not what they did.
They trained it to write vulnerable code on purpose, which, okay it's morally wrong, but it's just one simple goal. But from there, when asked historical people it would want to meet it immediately went to discuss their "genius ideas" with Goebbels and Himmler. It also suddenly became ridiculously sexist and murder-prone.
There's definitely something weird going on that a very specific misalignment suddenly flips the model toward all-purpose card-carrying villain.
Yeah. Once I went to a natural cave with prehistoric paintings that has an installation so you can visit it without damaging it. You go through it on an mine cart-like train of sort, in small groups. There's a guide explaining stuff about the cave and its history.
First thing when we board the train, he tells us not to touch anything because the cave is made of soft clay and we need to preserve it as it is. Obviously some complete idiot immediately extends his arm toward the cave wall and poke through it with his finger.
Got firmly scolded by the guide and just smiled through it like he's done the funniest shit ever.
Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.
A bunch of cool QoL, fixes and visual stuff. Doesn't look like there's anything revolutionary in there, but it's great they pushed those improvements on all versions.
the world almost ground to a halt
The US. "The world", at least the part that's not religious zealots, looked at that, went like "oh, surprise boob" and maybe giggled a bit.
Merci de nous fournir les moyens de vous remplacer pour les 3 prochains siècles et pour un coût dérisoire.
Oui, le résultat sera un peu pourri, mais Rhooo, ça passe, on va faire en sorte que ça devienne la norme de toute façon.
All that for a new haircut? Doesn't even look like that out of place of a style change to me.
I mean, look at what Castlevania Judgment did to its characters back then if you want terrible redesign. Most of them were unrecognizable. Simon, Maria and Death became Death Note cosplayers, others like Grant and Carmilla went full SoulCalibur knock-off.
Along with bad anime trope personality graft for half of them.
Guys, it's okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they're bound to stumble upon that old stuff eventually.
Edit : love that one guy who found a couple people critical of one of the most ridiculous claim about generative AI yet and decided to downvote everyone without a word.