Yep, documentation and a good base level default installation configuration/guide with minimal friction.

I’m perfectly willing to play around once I know at the basic level that the core flow is going to work for me. If it takes me digging through a stack of documentation (especially if it’s bad) to even get something to experiment with on my own system? I won’t bother.

There are actual reasons not to: allergies to a component, compromised immune system.

Somehow I don’t think that’s what he means though.

The problem is that there’s a formula.

Games are supposed to progress over time, not just feel like annual copy pastes covered with RNG map spam.

Lol just chunk up the patties and you can very easily spread them over a pizza though.

Ignoring that that’s complete bullshit, balatro doesn’t even pretend to gamble.

You’re not gambling🤦‍♀️

Gambling is what kids shouldn’t be able to do.

They’re complaining that it doesn’t do fake GaaS treadmill bullshit.🤷🏼‍♀️

I would genuinely look at a parent saying their kid isn’t old enough to learn poker hands exactly the same as if they said it about cribbage or rummy.

It’s nonsense.

There’s no possible rational standard where balatro could theoretically be age restricted.

It’s dressed up solitaire.

There’s no reason for the rest of the generation. It will just kill sales for those games. The “series” consoles are a completely lost cause.

If they want exclusives as a strategy, it needs to be at launch of the next generation. Until then even short timed exclusives just cost them money.

“Don’t buy a game that ships with malware” is a perfectly correct decision, but it doesn’t address the fact that games are shipping with fucking malware.

I’m ambivalent. I don’t really care about titles generally, but at least software engineer clearly isn’t anything else.

That said, while the term software engineer is a lost cause, I wouldn’t be opposed to some comparable, regulated title where the person has to sign off on code bases and is responsible for major flaws. Obviously you wouldn’t use that as a barrier for every piece of code, but as a requirement for handling personal information on a certain scale? (Obviously it would be pointless until you also regulated intentional sharing of information a hell of a lot better, but still.)

Wait, not “software engineer”, just “engineer”? That’s definitely bullshit.

Yeah, I really have no particular interest in taking my birthday off.

It’s a car.

Wait, you’re complaining that end users can change it?

Yes, there are ways the website could prevent that. I’m not sure why that goal serves any purpose, though. Defaults are going to get them the vast majority of the commissions they earn, and being simple and easy for users who really want to reward the creators more to do so is worth the negligible cost.

Getting commission on sales you make isn’t greed.

So I’m not big on most of what passes for self improvement material (I think the self help genre is almost entirely trash), but anyone who makes a habit out of trying to make themself better is moving the right way.

It’s worth noting that there will be people who hear the label and react badly, though.

I would argue that the short term pain is worse than hiding it and being with someone who doesn’t know you and can’t understand you, but I can’t promise it won’t be a dealbreaker for someone you really don’t want it to be, either.

The issue is behavior (which is the primary way most of that is diagnosed to begin with).

Acknowledging the behavior and making a deliberate attempt to prevent/improve it is something I would see as a positive sign compared to the behavior without the same steps. Getting a diagnosis (and some type of therapy) is a good thing.

If you consistently treat me badly, the label wouldn’t be why I left. If you make mistakes, but make the regular effort to be aware of them and improve, the label doesn’t matter either.

Not any more than any other tracking method. They control it all.

If anything, the fact that they give you a method to alter how your purchase is tracked so you can still give the creator 90% when you get to them through their store is pro-creator.