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Is it? If you go to any casino you'll see playing cards plastered on every wall and suit themed decor. Even games without cards use red/black. Media depictions

by Spivak 2y ago

Is it? If you go to any casino you'll see playing cards plastered on every wall and suit themed decor. Even games without cards use red/black. Media depictions of gambling are usually cards. People who go to Vegas take home a souvenir deck of cards. Casinos A deck of cards which you can use to play non-gambling card games but that doesn't use the same "branding" I'm sure works really well. It's hard to feel "cool" when you're playing with a Fisher-Price deck.

wink 2y ago
Yes it is, potentially. Where I live (and grew up) the only game played with these type of cards is Poker, and we didn't exactly play Poker growing up - so all our local games use a different deck of card. And in other not-too-distant regions they use yet another deck or two. This might be the "worldwide standard" but that doesn't mean anything.
- Spivak 2y ago
  Fair enough, seems like forbidden fruit trumps the branding disassociation.
gopher_space 2y ago
The whole "devil is in this object" idea is something Christianity has been working to stamp out for centuries, and yet it keeps surfacing with our country cousins out in the hinterlands. Every major religion is comfortable with the concept of needing to go out into the sticks and unfuck the rubes before they start sacrificing children to their goat god.
oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
Even an incredibly accurate sculpture of a duck is not a duck.
- IncreasePosts 2y ago
  Yes but what if that duck statue is so appealing that you find yourself addicted to ducks, visiting pet stores looking for ducks, or wandering late at night in parks with feed in your pocket?
Maken 2y ago
The universal symbols for gambling since ancient times are dices. Are those banned too?
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
  No joke, growing up in a religious community that banned playing cards, I was given a ton of caution about dice. Dice for determining movement in a board game was somehow totally fine, but making anything more than that dependent on the outcome of a dice roll was considered evil.

by Spivak 2y ago

wink 2y ago

Yes it is, potentially. Where I live (and grew up) the only game played with these type of cards is Poker, and we didn't exactly play Poker growing up - so all our local games use a different deck of card. And in other not-too-distant regions they use yet another deck or two. This might be the "worldwide standard" but that doesn't mean anything.

Spivak 2y ago
Fair enough, seems like forbidden fruit trumps the branding disassociation.

gopher_space 2y ago

The whole "devil is in this object" idea is something Christianity has been working to stamp out for centuries, and yet it keeps surfacing with our country cousins out in the hinterlands. Every major religion is comfortable with the concept of needing to go out into the sticks and unfuck the rubes before they start sacrificing children to their goat god.

oneeyedpigeon 2y ago

Even an incredibly accurate sculpture of a duck is not a duck.

IncreasePosts 2y ago
Yes but what if that duck statue is so appealing that you find yourself addicted to ducks, visiting pet stores looking for ducks, or wandering late at night in parks with feed in your pocket?

Maken 2y ago

The universal symbols for gambling since ancient times are dices. Are those banned too?

sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
No joke, growing up in a religious community that banned playing cards, I was given a ton of caution about dice. Dice for determining movement in a board game was somehow totally fine, but making anything more than that dependent on the outcome of a dice roll was considered evil.