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PEGI gives balatro an 18+ rating
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To be fair, Mortal Kombat is pretty brutal and I don't want my kids playing it until they're older.
Eh I played when the OG Mortal Kombat came out all the time at the local pizza place when I was like 9, and I turned out fine. I've only murdered a handful of people so far. It's not like I became a cop or anything like that.
Yeah, I'm not worried my kids will become serial killers or something, but I am a little worried about them "playing" Mortal Kombat in real life w/ their friends. I had friends who practiced "professional wrestling" moves, and I'm worried someone could get hurt reenacting what they saw in the games. My kids reeenact DND/FF-style things w/ friends, and fortunately that's pretty harmless.
By the time I was about 12 or so, I stopped doing that kind of reenactment, so I think that's a decent time to let kids start playing those games. I've played a ton of violent video games (lots of Halo, GTA, etc), and I'm pretty chill and would never hurt a fly. Video games don't cause misbehavior, but they certainly attract deviants who would likely hurt others anyway.
I'm certainly not arguing against content moderation for the littles. I just disagree with the reasons they cite, you know, the whole video games cause violence, and the bigger brother that is whatever BS puritanical religious zealots come up with to force their opinions on the pubic. Define a list of things we don't want kids to see / know about at various ages, and why, then go on from there. There's way too much bullshit in the laws that are just prior generations trying to force the next generations to not change, which is their prerogative, I just wish we could be honest about it.
Oh, I 100% agree. Policies like this should be based on actual science, and things like MTX (i.e. actual gambling) cause way more harm than learning poker hands (i.e. gambling-adjacent). I'm totally fine w/ my kids playing Balatro, I'm not fine w/ my kids playing Fortnite (PEGI 3-12, depending on mode), and that's based on facts instead of whatever the PEGI system is based on (feels?).