[ SECRET POST #6890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6890 ⌋

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[Genshin Impact]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I will never understand the pearl clutching about spending on a gacha game. Obviously, they want to make money and will incentivize you spending it. It's a product, they're a business. Gacha tell you straight up what the odds are, if anyone's going in blind, it's their fault for not reading. Or it's their parents faults for not being vigilant on parental controls and payment options.

Like, if you're spending to the point you can't stop, you've got an addiction, and you'd have a different one if it wasn't to gacha. It would probably be to some other form of gambling. Casinos? Horse races? Whatever it is that fills that dopamine rush.

But there's absolutely nothing wrong with dropping money on something that makes you happy. Even if other people think it's stupid. Or wasteful. Or whatever. Some people buy new video games each month. Others spend $100 on gacha. Or on make up. Or clothes. People collect shoes. Or buy fancy pens. And I know people will be all 'yeah but you get a physical thing out of those', and I'm just going to say 'if it makes you happy and you can afford it, go forth and have fun'.

[(Anonymous)]

this. there's zero appreciable difference between spending on a gacha versus spending on an amusement park pass, concert tickets, a nice dinner out, a trip to the museum, a spa treatment, etc. you're paying money for an experience. as long as you're getting enjoyment out of that experience, then it's worth the money. i know people who pay hundreds of dollars to get their hair done/manicures/pedicures every month. why? because it makes them happy. as long as someone can afford it, what's the problem?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think this is a bad point overall, but I do think it's a matter of ethics when a company structures itself such that it relies upon people who are prone to addiction, and in fact designs its products to exploit the psychological underpinnings of addiction. That's absolutely a company that should be judged and criticized, even if we decide that we shouldn't judge and criticize the people buying from them.

[(Anonymous)]

I can, do, and will ALWAYS blame the company for exploiting people with gambling addictions. It's absolute scum behavior and they know it. Same goes for casinos and Draft Kings and everything inbetween.

"It's a product, they're a business."

Literally fuck off with this.

[(Anonymous)]

Cars should exist because people die in car crashes. Alcohol shouldn’t be legal because some people are alcoholics. Planes need to go, too, since they crash. And don’t forget junk food. Or flowers, since, ya’know, they attract bees and some people are deathly allergic to their stings.

[(Anonymous)]

You know what, I am of the opinion that certain makes of vehicle make the roads less safe for drivers and in a better world there would be stricter regulations wrt how personal transport vehicles can legally be designed and manufactured.

I'm also not entirely convinced that alcohol should be legal. I'm not out here lobbying for it to be delegalized, but I do think that in a world where alcohol was a brand new thing we invented in 2025, the majority of the population would be like, "Make the Stupid Impulsive Liver-Poison Juice legal?? Are you INSANE?"

Pilots and air-traffic controllers absolutely SHOULD be given waaaayyy more down time than they're given, and I believe they should be encouraged to make use of mental and physical health resources by default. Planes should probably also undergo a lot more safety and integrity checks than they actually do, but I know nothing about public aircraft safety regulations so I can't really say anything concrete about this one.

There should absolutely be way more oversight and regulation regarding the manufacture and composition of pre-packaged foods. Most of them are both unhealthier and less nutritious than they need to be, because corporations want to cut manufacturing costs at the expense of the public's health. Corporations also want to manufacture their junk food products to be as addictive to the public as possible, which is another corporate strategy there should be regulations to curb, if not outright ban.

I'm not sure what a natural-occurring and necessary part of the planet's eco-system has to do with this conversation. Highly poisonous plants should not be grown in elementary school yards or children's parks though. Pretty sure most people would consider that common sense. But if we lived in a world where corporations benefitted from growing highly poisonous plants in school yards and children's parks and were thus finding ways to do so at every opportunity, you'd probably be up in here getting butthurt that bleeding-heart snowflakes were daring to suggest regulatory oversight was wanted.

[(Anonymous)]

it really isn't gambling, though, because you know how much you're going to need to spend at most to get the character you're after. the only gambling is whether you're lucky and get it for less, but it's not like real gambling where you can keep pouring money in and ultimately wind up getting nothing. at least with this you will eventually get what you want for a pre-determined price.