{"id":15071,"date":"2025-10-20T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:55:19","slug":"balatro-can-never-become-a-real-gambling-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15071","title":{"rendered":"Balatro can never become a real gambling game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"237\" data-attachment-id=\"15072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=15072\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/09\/Balatro_cover.jpg?fit=422%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"422,237\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Balatro_cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/09\/Balatro_cover.jpg?fit=422%2C237&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/09\/Balatro_cover.jpg?resize=422%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/09\/Balatro_cover.jpg?w=422&amp;ssl=1 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/09\/Balatro_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Balatro will never be sold to any gambling companies or casinos. Ever. Even after its creator dies. Why? Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/roguelike\/roguelike-hit-balatro-cant-be-sold-to-any-gambling-companies-or-casinos-even-after-its-creator-dies-because-its-solo-dev-is-so-against-that-idea-theyve-written-it-into-their-will\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/roguelike\/roguelike-hit-balatro-cant-be-sold-to-any-gambling-companies-or-casinos-even-after-its-creator-dies-because-its-solo-dev-is-so-against-that-idea-theyve-written-it-into-their-will\/\">LocalThunk is so against that idea he&#8217;s written it into his will<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balatro will never be sold to any gambling companies or casinos. Ever. Even after its creator dies. Why? Because LocalThunk is so against that idea he&#8217;s written it into his will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3V5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}