Takumidesh

GPTs natural language processing is extremely helpful for simple questions that have historically been difficult to Google because they aren't a concise concept.

The type of thing that is easy to ask but hard to create a search query for like tip of my tongue questions.

It absolutely will. The game has already been erroneously removed from storefronts in the past.

If an 18+ rating will drive sales, why do the operators of PEGI and ESRB bend the rules to ensure their games (EA sports games being a prime example) get as low of a rating as possible, even when they have actual gambling (slot machines paid for with real money)

I mean your own adamancy shows the damage since you seem to be under the impression that the game involves wagers/betting/gambling or other activities that could be perceived as dangerous.

And it wastes a lot of time when the recipient can't read a god damned thing written down.

Media literacy goes brrrrrr

This is all well and true, but it's important to note that these organizations exist as a sidestep to regulation, they are formed by industry insiders as a promise to the regulators that they will be honest about how they rate games (or movies or music) so that the government doesn't actually get involved and do it's job.

It's a form of regulatory capture that allows the industry itself to decide what is harmful to us.

It's basically the definition of conflict of interest.

Balatro features no wagering or betting of any kind.

Then how do you reconcile that they aren't, or what about games that feature real money gambling like sports games? (NBA games feature real gambling with micro transactions and casino games such as slot machines and pachinko machines). NBA 2k games have a pegi rating of 3 and up.

It's not performative if the industry insider run ratings commission uses their power to give ratings that favor their games and hurt smaller independent studios.

'old school' vapes are basically completely repairable, vaping was born out of DIY and so the big goofy ahh vapes have pretty minimal waste, coils are generally small and replaceable, and many of those big boi vapes feature what's called an RTA which has a deck that allows manual rebuilding of the coil. The only waste with those is a bit of cotton and an inch of stainless steel wire.

Hell, I used for years, a purely mechanical vape that had no electronics and was completely regulated by the resistance of the coil. It was a tube with a single 18650 and pressing the bottom just made the connection on the battery.

No e-waste from that device, the consumables were very minimal, probably the lifetime of the waste of the entire device, including batteries and the device itself, fit inside a sandwich bag, and that would be using it for 5ish years.

There are very low waste options out there, it's just people generally don't like using them because they require slightly more effort, I think there is a balance between hobby level repairability and ease of use somewhere

But most of them aren't 18650 batteries, they are bespoke sizes to fit in the little disposable vapes.

Using chips is even a stretch honestly. There are some chip imagery here and there but otherwise 'chips' are just how points are called.

It's not my comment.

It seems like they both imply deletion, but I can still see the comment