Correlation, not causation.
Which kind of field do you think people that wish reality were more malleable would go into? Turns out that programming makes it easy to at least bend mathematics to your will, even if you cannot easily do that to your gender.
It's a games company, they should have been procedurally generating levels for something for about a decade now. Spelunky came out in 2008 (yes it wasn't the first, but it's around that time indie+proc gen was popular)
I mean, lootboxes as gambling for kids is more dubious, at least to me, than programming gambling games for adults, or working for a gambling company.
at least they have some level of legitimacy and some (feeble) attempts at damage prevention, compared to the alternative that they may take, which would be going straight into the arms of the black market and all the even worse shennanigans that comes with.
same view as legalised drugs, safe injection sites, etc etc.
congrats. I hope you're proud of them :) best of luck in your life, and for them in theirs.
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