Am I correct in reading "gaming" as gambling? I agree with you if that's the case. I'm generally against laws that are meant to protect retards from themselves, with kids obviously being an exception. Troonery is another exception, because we should ban adults from trooning out to enforce laws against public indecency and sexual deviancy.
For some reason we have a different word for this specific type of gambling, which is almost always "poker machines", or fruit machines/slot machines in other countries...
Here, those are called "pokies", and they are ubiquitous, in most of the country (in pubs and "clubs", which are... Hard to explain. Not nightclubs!), but very much especially in NSW...
Am I correct in reading "gaming" as gambling? I agree with you if that's the case. I'm generally against laws that are meant to protect retards from themselves, with kids obviously being an exception. Troonery is another exception, because we should ban adults from trooning out to enforce laws against public indecency and sexual deviancy.
Yes, gaming, in this context, = gambling.
For some reason we have a different word for this specific type of gambling, which is almost always "poker machines", or fruit machines/slot machines in other countries...
Here, those are called "pokies", and they are ubiquitous, in most of the country (in pubs and "clubs", which are... Hard to explain. Not nightclubs!), but very much especially in NSW...
Gambling used to be called "gaming" even in the USA.
I have an old Intellivision poster somewhere, and the casino games are explicitly called the "gaming" genre.