I started using Linux as my only OS when I was like 15 or so, at the time largely playing Runescape or EVE Online.

Still feel nostalgia for runescape sometimes but then remember the grind, no thanks. EVE is similar too, remember the great times in a fleet but if I go back I then am reminded of all the dull times when not much is happening and I find PvE is so fucking boring in EVE. Even a few things that are fun for half an hour are painfully tedious after 4, and sometimes there isn’t even a fleet forming up that day. Albion online I find a similar issue with. I don’t really care about solo PvP either.

Can’t really say Linux has shaped what I play that much as I have pretty much always been using it since I was making choices of what game to play beyond being limited to the games my dad had bought CDs for.

Actually I am playing videogames all day at work, thank you. NHS provides free corridors to die in if I need healthcare.

In what way is PC a walled garden? The only limitations are based on technical capabilities rather than arbitrary walls.

Unbeatable in value… Ehh, really depends what you want to do with it. I don’t care about consoles so I will just disregard them entirely, they don’t run a normal Linux distro.

Steamdeck is great, sure. But if you were looking for low spec desktop gaming you could look at some low spec mini PCs for about half the cost of the steamdeck. You would be able to run a vast amount of games on it just fine. Old hardware might cost less used but will most likely end up costing more in power consumption.

The different use case is why I don’t even really care about consoles, I just don’t want one at all.

Just because you can spend £800 on a part doesn’t mean you have to… I just want to.

Yeah. Same game, reskinned cards and sold at a much higher price and can’t really play anything else with them. Then over time they add other gimmicks like some ewaste that throws cards on the floor for you and makes the game cost 30 times as much as a pack of cards.

You can gamble on horse racing too, would you also ban children from watching horse races? Without going into the specific ethics of horse racing its self and just should children be allowed to watch if adults can.

What about football?

Where do you think the line is that a card game becomes gambling then?

I would have said its when you are playing a game for stakes that have a real value that persists after the game is complete, so when 4 go in with £5 and 1 leaves with £20. Clearly your definition must be different to that.

Are you trolling or genuinely never played a card game? What, are you going to call uno (copy/paste from the card game crazy eights and sold at 10x the price) gambling next? What about snap.

You know I triggered the discord porn filter before when I tried to send someone a few pictures of making a pizza. Bare pizza base was clearly far too sexual.

They will be coming for freecell next.

Having cards doesn’t make it a gambling game. It’s also not even really a card game from what I can tell, you couldn’t really play it with a normal deck of cards.

Also poker is totally fine if you are not betting money on it. Played it all the time in my teens. Just give everyone 200 tokens at the start of the game. The tokens don’t represent any actual value.

I did consider getting some poker chips recently but saw it would be cheaper and more space efficient to just use real currency. Start off at £2 each, bets like 1-5p or so. Everyone puts their coin pile back into the central piggy bank at the end of the game.