The Business: Upper Escalon Games Talks About Mobile Trash Being Predatory

Friend of the Retreat Rawle Nyanzi pointed this out to me the other day. If you know what I've been on about, you can guess what I think of this.

I am not being hyperbolic when I call this stuff predatory.

This is a business segment that employs psychological acumen, much as casinos do (and took casino acumen as its base), and weaponized it to inflict psychological distress and then offer the target an easy means of relief from that distress. "Relief", not a cure.

This is the deliberate weaponization of the psychology of drug addiction, which is also what casinos do, in order to induce the afflicted to spend their money on the games and not caring whatsoever what becomes of the afflicted so long as they keep spending. They are no better than the narcotics trafficker or the street-level pusher, and what they do is no less destructive or predatory.

This is a perversion of a wholesome hobby and pastime, and it cannot be tolerated. To claim otherwise is to claim allegience to Mammon, and that's heresy.