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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Yet still youtube allows lootbox opening videos

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It's rated M because of moderators poor understanding of 'gambling'

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Matrix is 25.5 years right now.

Jurassic Park came out 32 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're going to hell for this 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I hope I am! I named my dog Lucifer 😈

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ninja Scroll am I right or am I right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

Fuckin AWESOME.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

I was with you till the hentai.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Tentacles. Yes, in that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well it is anime.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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. Lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just wait until they rent Plague Dogs

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

...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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure 12 was legal in japan at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

Just look at Stroheim from JoJo's

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to gamble on Balatro.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I had your restraint. EVERY time!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

First three times I got the wheel it triggered.

I didn't understand the memes.

Then it never happened again.