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EDIT: obvoisuly this is fake.

Someone tried to tell me this meme is an unironical mocking and introduces further divisions lol. What do you think?

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 56 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Everyone is saying this is a joke, but this is top comment. I’m confused, which is it?

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a joke... Just loaded up the game. First hand was a straight. People can chill...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

Just loaded up the game. First hand was a straight.

Sounds kinda sus.. 😛

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

You must be straight here.

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

People that feel mocked by this probably take their straightness/queerness too seriously. The joke is that the devs have no way to discriminate queer/straight users, something that is factually true for the game devs and aspirationally true for society.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 58 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Balatro is a poker game. I took this to mean straight as in the hand, not straight as in some of their players

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 17 hours ago

Omg I missed that, good one

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 17 hours ago

The joke is that the devs have no way to discriminate queer/straight users, something that is factually true for the game devs

No it's a wordplay on the pokerhand and the sexual orientation.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is a feature, only idiots optimize for straights.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

High card master race report in

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago

I suppose I can see what they mean - if the goal is to foster inclusiveness then uplifting all would be a better means to achieve that rather than denigrating and "other"-ing some.

Otoh, knowing that it's fake, it's kinda just funny and I don't take it with any seriousness at all.