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Genshin Impact teaches how to blow hundreds of real dollars on "pulls" that may or may not give you anything of value. This is much closer to the essence of gambling than poker hands.

Gambling is not cards or slot machines or pachinko balls or any of these aesthetic elements. It's the wagering of real money on an uncertain outcome. This is why sports gambling is gambling even though it doesn't involve any of the above aesthetic elements. Genshin Impact is much closer to gambling than Balatro.

I think both should be banned

Enter a game that simulates what genshin impact does but without the money element. To be banned next?

What about Yahtzee? Monopoly?

Pac-Man literally teaches you to eat unknown white pills.

It's actually amazing that people are able to play it without becoming drug addicts.

The most powerful hands in Balatro aren't real poker hands.

Yes, and rock and roll is the devil’s music.