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Re:Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads i... by serf on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:29PM (#38409927)
blackjack and poker were games that were then co-opted into the gambling scene.

gacha platforms were designed from the ground up to extract cash, and were then gussied up to look like a game.

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Re:Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads i... by nottorp on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:15AM (#38412793)
> blackjack and poker were games that were then co-opted into the gambling scene.

As far as I know poker has been played for money for hundreds of years?

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Re:Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads i... by travisjungroth on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:13PM (#38418051)
Its history is kinda fuzzy. Poker as it is played probably isn’t quite 200 years old. But it always has been a gambling game, at least for it’s known history. Same with blackjack.
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