#🕹・game-discussion
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also kinda just fuels lobotomy more
every hand
it adds to what your madness multiplies
hands are free
Observatory is just worse antimatter if you think about it
Your mom is antimatter
and antimatter is just a worse black deck
🔥
but the tier 1 voucher for observatory is good, unlike the tier 1 for antimatter which does nothing
Say that again
that again
telescope and observatory should.... welll
no say the thing you just said before
the thing you just said before
does nothing?
no say 🤐
great minds over here
sometimes my brilliance confound even myself
Now im fucked. i aint got any of my steels, no discards and none of my mults or chip cards. There's no way in hell that i'm gonna be able to get over 71,282 chips in one turn with the cards i have
does antimatter ante matter? and he mad, or andy/mat'dor?
perhaps
perchance
periwinkle
Ourple
Ourple
Ourple
idk why but
what goes for bp
i played into endless
family?
How do we feel about invisible
ok
im really struggling with my blue card runs, does anybody have any tips?
probably given they have a fool and death and perkeo
i had one just now. solo holographic madness. i should've gotten rid of my normal cards so that i could draw my steels more often.
Is your driver's license activated
Yes
Take it over carto
At worst it's 2x from the fortune teller
😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
Doesn’t carto add a ton of mult with fortune teller and all the x3?
also gotta wonder what the next to do list is on ofc
what were you thinking
What's your fortune teller at
+23
i was doing well upp until crimson heart nut tapped me
Ok that's pretty bad
I'd keep everything you have then
.
at least now i have flower vase.
Just tryna live man I’ve found nothing noteworthy
this is definitely one of the most jokers of all time
Make sure you're spending into one hand like pair or two pair in order to get chips since you don't have any chips jokers
What's your hand levels
its a good song but idk why people associate it with MGSV even though it came out years after MGSV
Yikes
if i get holo madness again then i'm going into pairs this time.
I really hope you can hit full house consistently I guess
Because you're dead if you dont
I have so far
For future reference go 3oak or two pair instead of full house
First few planets were full house so I just committed
Full house only gets +5 chips over 3oak and 2 pair is way easier to play more of
The problem is you only get like 2 hands MAYBE 3 of full houses
I’ve opened every pack, had the spectral 6 joker and carto and still can’t find anything
Yeah that’s first out when I find something else, just saying I’ve dug for anything and just cant get anything, that’s how seeds work ig
You might just not know what jokers are super good honestly no offense
Well I don’t have all of them unlocked tbh
A lot of players underestimate some jokers
No red card, no pants not much scaling
yeah green joker
Supernova green joker ride the bus
bootstraps
NOT bootstraps
Bootstraps sucks
I’m ngl I know jokers by what they do not name
supernova is amazing
Bull is fantastic
It is
it puts you into a trap relying on holding money and getting no actual joker scaling
depends on what youre trying to do
if all you want to do is beat ante 8
bootstraps with chips is good
All I go for is ante 8
its literally all you need to win
red stake?!
so yes bootstraps is good
Bootstraps is for emergencies and if you have bull already
Otherwise bootstraps sucks
See no value continuing after, what’s bootstraps do
bootstrap bull is not worth it
Yeah I think I did see that but I was poor and didn’t wanna die
It's situational, it depends on your econ but its one of the worst scaling mults
Bull is pretty good as far as chip jokers go
what scaling mult is worse
it can technically be the fastest scaling mult joker
bootstraps, not so much
just depends on your econ
Fortune teller probably
yeah i was gonna say that
at least it doesn't cost money to use
should i take chad here
It costs like 6 dollars I think
i don't see this
whats your deck looking like
it would probably be pop invis and no brainstorm sell for chad
abstract and swash are technically scaling
imagine a world
probably dont need trading card
you have enough purple to probably sell trading
ok thanks!
this feels wrong
i should probably use the purple instead of spamming ticket
thats why i made them purple i think
I really like the rework idea of x1 Mult for each suit in your hand (maybe make it rare after that tho)
seeing double if it was objectively more powerful and also boring
True true
i think x3 for 3+ suits is better
what does wild card count as + ⬆️
would wild still count as an additional "missing" suit if all 4 suits were already represented? bc that would be fun
That sounds fun
Blueprint is almost always worth it tho right?
I was thinking stone could also work as a suit but idk
matador rework leaked
wh
watch econ and scoring
i just passed the plant just to slam into the ox
Better than carto at least now
is it?
It's only multiplying your base mult by 3
Not what purple Joker has
I'd say yes since you're playing full house
IM BEAN BUG ABUSING SO HARD
You already have like 20 mult on the hand level anyways so if you copy cavendish or drivers licence that's way more mult than you have now
unless you're just copying The mult for a 2x
i sold a brainstorm to do it 💀
i had 4 copy jokers
worth it
gotta get that handsize tho
im at 21 handsize rn
🤑
still more hands to abuse with
Nah I wouldn’t double the tarot joker just haven’t moved positions
next round if theres heiroglyph you can take it and reroll back into heart again
already did so first time i got the boss blind
i had an early retcon
oo
Make sure to order it cavendish fortune then brainstorm and whatever else for max value - if you play anything else besides full house move fortune teller far left and brainstorm behind xMult tho
its sad cuz my bean is only +3 handsize
couldnt find burglar but still
+3 handsize everytime it hits is massive
IT HIT AGAIN
27 handsize
i found the bean b4 the burglar
ah

if you can find 1 more copy joker, you have naneinf
i already had 4
i sold out of brainstorm to do the bean bug
Do you plan to enjoy 27 handsize or do you plan to get a couple joker slots
bean bug worth it though
i just got c++ and my next goal was to get an ante 39 run
so we'll see
whatever i can do to hit ante 39
guys what do you think the best joker in the game would be to start a naneinf run with is
Perkeo.
perkeo
honestly riftraff if we dont cout legendaries
People use a mod called brainstorm just to get perkeo
surely it's either perkeo or blueprint
and that just depends on if you like it the spectral way
beefing w perkeo getting baited by early perkeo on gold stake hurts more than normal
never punished i hit the bean again 💀
its 30
NGL perkeo on gold stake is op
after the hand plays
oh wait no i was right
It's only bad if you're trying to play for high score
At worst perkeo just be a golden joker
its copy like this right?
(copy a tarot card every round and sell it)
2 on baron one on mime
you haven't made them steel yet?
i have steel i just got rid of them for this hand
cuz imma live either way
might as well farm
Why should they
i feel like more often than not perkeo at most makes me my hermits but at a certain point I have lots of reason to sell before ante 8 boss, whicch would be chill but I need the gold sticker and hes the only legendary I still need for a gold sticker 💔
photograph common joker my ass
You should get used to committing to eternal econ
fuck the photograph
greatest econ oat
Perkeo is one of the best econs in the game
it's also the only way to do an infinite loop in the game
Perkeo kinda just be doing everything ngl
I died on ante 8 big blind just recently because I had such bad other scoring options + perkeo , if I had sold perkeo for even some other form of xmult i would have been chillin. I think ur right tho because a big blunder I made was selling outmy temperances early
and then hes just doing nothing
Yeah you want to be maximizing economy because money is power
Update, I won with the run, all that mult made everything a one hander
your joker order is suboptimal but you won so
Is this man actually useful? I think I've triggered him exactly 0 times
Is this man actually useful? I think I've triggered him exactly 0 times
Check boss
i know
Thank you for duplicating, discord
They were flipped and shuffled, I only cared what blueprint was
super strong a1
It's manacle 😭
good early game econ
Shit a1
you could figure out where drivers and brainstorm were from them being eternal though
Manacle 😭
Pro tip you can grab onto at least 1 joker as soon as you start the blind to know what it is
Didn’t know that Ty, I just put it in .5 speed since all jokers would trigger
Like Lilo said too if jokers are eternal you can guess which is which
amber acorn rarely matters once u know this simple trick ☝️
Ohhh from not being able to sell?
yeah
Amber acorn matters so little so long as you don't have bp or brainstorm and even if you do, your runs alr won
Never thought about that, I just looked at which ones would trigger and went off that, thank you guys
you can also figure it out if you have start of round / select blind jokers (madness, cartomancer, burglar, etc..)
thats also a fair method if your joker machine is even slightly more complicated than having 1 copy effect
Typically the one I grab is my +mult joker by putting it at the front, starting blind, grabbing it, and dragging it to the front again
In that case I’d grab drivers license or something right since I want that first?
and eternal jokers cannot be sold which can also help against acorn ya
Ante 2 needle 😭
For your run specifically probably?
I don’t think acorn has messed me up yet in a run 🤞
chopped ah 💀
Yeah
Needle when I have card sharp
What's card sharp?
makes your cards super sharp
you can throw them at boss blinds to kill thm
x3 mult if you've already played that hand type this round
card dull
So first pair normal second pair x3
If only
x2 mult for every unique hand played

Any tips for orange stake? Haven’t done a run yet
Honestly I kinda like that idea
Ts has me hanging by a thread
get some x mult
once u get used to purple and blue stake rules orange is easy enough
u have $44 better to roll and find something then die
the blackboard in question
this is a horrible joker line up though
Don't be afraid to take early perishable jokers to survive
I’m going through deck by deck, have maybe done only 3 purple stake runs
superposition, matador, and blackboard is a trio from balatro hell
Are they able to be sold after 4 rounds?
guys i hex here right
that is how I did c+ and honestly yeah orange will be pretty easy for you once u get there
5, yes
Oh they don’t vanish after the 5th round?
they get debuffed
main thing abt perishables is that they cost the same as normal jokers which makes them worse than the niche scenarios that rental jokers can be used for free
Oh that’s a nice QoL mechanic
Are rental jokers gold stake? Not there yet
like cola or rebate for example
they r
yess
rental hallucination rental trading card my goats
🙏
ankh bp for 2 bp
facts
this guy gets it
rental golden joker 
whats the odds this was an actual good nat negative
how do you unlock him i forgot
I’m thinking if the ticket
like blueprint dna etc
and i was blocking
💀
Play 5 gold cards in a hand right?
I know the challenges but if they aren’t going to help my runs why pollute the joker pool
so 1/20
only decent one would be showman right?
it could have been a nat negative blue print dna etc
but i was rare blocking
since its a rare joker
I feel as if totem might be peak here
what is totel
the idol
idol? i think its uncommon
same thing
and nah theres a few good nat negatives
even tho im rare blocking
theres nat negative drunkard
trubidor
oh invis
etc
I can't remember the idol because it sucks as a joker
truth!
I still wish perishable had a niche that made it useful, eternal jokers make it so stuff that destroy jokers doesn't work, and rental jokers makes some stuff buy for 1 sell for 1, perishable just makes it worse with no upside
actually you'd have to get out of it for bean
yeah i plan to bean bug ante 32
Do jokers like knife still scale if the eternals aren’t destroyed?
gl
i already did it in ante 16 and 24
I hit an even higher score
🤑
i got 27 handsize
its based on how its worded
adds sell value so has to killa. joker to get the sell value
Madness does but that's because it doesn't rely on actually destroying a joker, it just coincidentally destroys a joker
and madness is like destroy a joker AND gain x.5
Seems like they’re good with spectral cards then I’ve always avoided them even if I have eternals lol, avoided destroying ones I mean
Wow I’ve learned a lot today these runs are on,y gonna get easier it seems
knife can be pretty good if u got good econ ya
Knife is a slightly worse red card but you need an open joker slot to scale jt
stabbing baron like its the ides of march
Honestly it might be better than red card but it requires the joker slot
I was thinking knife and red card are similarly flavored for how money hungry they are
I had a question but forgot shit, niche interaction I wanna know
Im not playing rn just ‘theory crafting’ in my head
Ohhh
What’s rare joker blocking, saw someone mention it
I see now
so if u have 3 rare jokers for example it takes 3 rares out of the pool of potentual rare jokers
u can block for all card types
Makes sense, I would consumable block but never really joker blocked, seems only viable with rare prolly
so if your emperor gives u mush, keep them till ur done w next shop or need the money or tarot effects for example
Don't worry about joker blocking for a while
That's for endless
Tarot blocking and planet blocking is good
Yeah, or use your planet card from a blue seal before continuing to possibly find it again
Yeah ofc
sometimes u have death or hang man in ur fool
and in that case dont use the planet for example
I used the same concept a lot in battlegrounds so I understand it
Also is your pfp shalnark?
yaaaa :3
Hell yeah
My Xbox and TikTok profile pic are Frieren
might be a goated start
YOOOO
What are some of the most powerful jokers?
Genuine question for people that do it, what’s the appeal in going past ante 8
flower pot, hit the road, etc
naneinf is fun
never done it but ive been trying
sometimes you get a really fun build going and you want to see how far you can take it
the grind is fun
would it be better to copy mime or baseball card here for the best score
Theirs only a couple ways to actually get it right, does it not get repetitive?
baseball card
going for high score is fun when the build can potentially take it past ante 12
well sure theres only a few ways to do it but
there are a lot of ways to get to the point of actually doing it
naneinf gets extremely repetitive
its a different road to get there every time
but it can be fun to do it 🤷♂️ i enjoy doing it sometimes
also ive never done naneinf so im trying to do it
cus its pretty brainless but big number
I got 509 million
That’s fair, it just doesn’t appeal to me, I just wanna try the multiplayer mod, seems like a pure skill multiplayer and I’m pumped if I can try it
thank you bloodstone hater
as payment for the advice, you must NEVER take bloodstone again
Name checks out
theres qiute a lot of luck involve in multiplayer
but its really fun
but my file completion...
first day i got it, I played with my roommate for 8 hours straight 💀
multiplayer is an interesting exercise in how the game changes when your priorities are different
With idols and stuff yeah, but it’s same seed so same exact card pools, just better decision making wins right?
not the idols and stuff
knowing what a “better” decision is in the moment can be tricky!
the stuff of "wow i took a bad choice on the judgement but it gave me blueprint"
do i just like send it or do i wait
Always loved stuff like that, my main game rn is The Finals and with the amount of unpredictably in it making the right choice really matters
Invis/ankh bloodstone to make sure that one bloodstone haters efforts are made in vain (it's funny)
you can even see in rarran's most recent video against bean
he almost beat bean
and bean played like 10000x better lol
but the shop kept rewarding rarran's bad decisions
god i love rarran
I don’t consider that luck personally it’s just taking risks in my eyes
like bean got a red seal 2 and strengthened it up to a king. the moment after he did that, the next pack had a red seal jack. so rarran got rewarded for not doing that
that is luck
lol
bad risks tho
like
That’s the point of a risk
risks with less than 1% chance of positive outcome
yea
which one?
this is the end for me
im not saying its bad. its extremely fun, i encourage you to try multiplayer
goodbye cruel world...
do u need chips bad
but there is definetly luck involved
In the seeds ‘eyes’ tho it’s the right choice since both players could do the exact same stuff technically speaking
no
I made it out alive
taking a rare skip is just the wrong play
i need another mult joker or a chips joker
but if the rare happens to be a negative blueprint
the person who did the wrong play got rewarded
prob worth taking scary boy, if not just sell erosion
or maybe both players have $500. but one takes a wraith for some dumb reason and its a blueprint. etc
In that instance tho it’s the right play, if it’s a possibility it’s a possibility, we just look at it differently ig
it'll be powerful if i can get my hands on paredolia now
do you know what luck is
i have a 14 card deck on ante 6
well yes, but also worth it to just fix for face cards, especially because you alr have the chad
the right move isnt determined by the result. its determined by the information you have at the time
True
I reached a billion
something like hallucination or cartomancer is comparable to a pareidolia in this situation
and pareidolia sucks on mark and plant
hallucination is my favorite joker
It do be like that more often than not.
its really goated
hos much steel do you have?
Yes, having the same seed tho means either player can technically be screwed by their own correct play seems like perfect balancing in my eyes, especially from other games I played where luck is much more a factor
honestly hallucination being a common and cartomancer being uncommon seems weird to me, I guess thats the price of consistency
I had 3 of those red seal steel cards
yea. im not saying theres anything wrong with the mode. like i've said multiple times, i love playing it. but there is quite a lot of luck involved
i mean like just a few videos ago
rarran beat drspectered
lmao
I came from hearthstone so the amount of luck and random stuff being factored and playing around for me seems way easier, haven’t tried it tho just watched it a lot
balatro multiplayer =/= balatro gold stake =/= balatro endless
DrSpectered said smth earlier on yt about it after the finals w bean that made alot of sense actualy
i forget exavtly but just because u win on multiplayer doesnt mean you played better or are a “better player”
🙏 🙏 🙏
basically. don't be result oriented. lol
Idol is great on multiplayer, unusable on gold stake and meh in endless
My mind sadly doesn’t work for games to have fun, it’s only programmed to win, I jump from game to game once I hit the highest ranks
I like Idol for endless i like the idol challenge more than the baron challenge personally
Bro play animal crossing
Too boring for me 😭😭
idol "feels" more like the peak build imo. even tho it scores way less
Trust me I wish I could just play to have fun but every game is just a grind for me
some of these new horizons newgens play animal crossing like its ranked
I'm so happy right now. Vampire and Midas mask golden sticker
cus its like. you get the biggest hand. the polychrome, glass. feels like you peaked
ill never reset my switch clock
but then boring baron mogs it 😔
Yes I agree!
Actually it was way easier for me to get a gold stake w baron
already playing towards high card
but Idol is cathartic af
honestly either talisman or black hole is fine, I would lean towards talisman right now because im a little tight on money at the moment
cryptid 7 of diamond now
CRYPTID
lmao 😭
i dont think i've had an actual idol run on gold stake ante 8 tbh
like i've carried it through multiple times but not actually used it
i was wondering
okay what should I talisman and cryptid
8 ball potential
probably the jack cryptic
first boss blind is the head
unironically it is either the jack or 8 i think ? and head probs doesnt matter
you could just settle for 1 gold seal and get the black hole too
what if we cryptid a 7, that would be funny
Def the 6 and get Dracula and that spectral joker 😎
should i grab it?
ok
flower pot 
always get negative jokers. can never go wrong right??
Temperance value
actually I was curious does flower pot and splash make playing flower pot pairs possible
and if so is this ever worth considering
if it is i doubt it’s worth it takes a lot of random deck building crap
well the idea is no deck fixing required. Get a pair and add 2 random cards of the other suits.
splash splats all 4 for 3x
splash hc
oh good point i read the thing wrong, that’s my fault
this is urgent guys, do i sell a mime for the extra hand size
i’m only at nine hand size
So how are updates gonna work in this game, like jokers get changed?
probably not depends on deck
i believe its happened before this way
they will remove herobrine
About time, bro keeps jump scaring me
for real so scary
freddy joker
har har har har
well i think there should be a bear joker to go with bull 🐂
and bootstraps sucks.
😓
preach
What about in plasma deck
i believe its even worse on plasma
bootstraps is god awful on plasma
almost if not all plus mult is shit on plasma
they dont do jack shit
Am I thinking of the right deck 😅
maybe!
I’m thinking of bull nevermind haha
things that give a lot of chips or a lot of xmult are good on plasma
alot of xmult* its really gotta be played card or held in hand effect xmult
unlessu get 5 xmult scalers early somehow?
but by that point ur just wanting chips anyway
i have a decent build
it was better but only because i needed to copy the red seals
e19 was max with the two mines and e22 with the dna
probably
or dna
not dna i fear ur too low on cards
yeah
unlessu wanna play magic trick
well look who showed up.
What’s the naneinf you can go for with your build
baron mime
if i get a cryptid somehow it would be wraps
thats why i still have 6s in my deck
for sixth sense
Don’t you need dna then, never mind forgot about cryptid
dna in this case will make more handsize
What’s the easiest deck to get gold stakes on?
i just have to really hope my idol doesnt hit a 6
uh
and youre flush spammer
medium
for what tarots
blue imo
having 5 hands for scaling +mult is game over
or
game win
I think I have officially gotten out of flush spamming 🙌 I’ve never done a run without a flush but I don’t want that card in my pool
i see a 6 there so i assume your deck isnt fully fixed? or is that the last one
i have 3 for sixth sense
Holy shit...
rest are king of hearts
but if youre going for it then idk 🙏 i guess trance even tho planet levels arent that significant
😭 🙏
could savescum it too
gl
this is defo the most potential ive had for naneinf
it hit canio
What’s the last deck to unlock is it any fun?
nice. then yea, blue/yellow are quite easy. ghost deck i see people like a lot too
but ngl i dont rly play ghost deck so idk
erratic and yea its fun
What’s it do
That sounds fun af
i did not lose
i had enough glass
im okay for now ig
im in desperate need for scoring
We believe in you
just get scoring tech, ezpz
most of the time its just a normal deck with a few differences
but when u get that one seed
Are any of these jokers worth unlocking?

Sounds like adaptability to me which sounds fun
is worth to try and unlock everything imo
the 18 or fewer is wee which is the best chip scaler in the game
I will once I gold stake all the decks, I’d rather not dilute my joker pool with bad jokers to maximize wins
i mean
Gah damn
balala
Holy bafoon pack
its been said a billion times but no such thing as bad joker
there exists a situation where every joker is good, sure
but some jokers are bad in like 799/800 situations
i.e showman, idol
this is in response tk the argument of not unlocking jokers because they might be bad
i dont see that as a good idea
I know but some are often used more to win than others, idc about gold staking all the jokers just the decks, see I’m an ultimate sweat and wanna maximize winning 😭😭😭
thats true !
i would interpret "bad" as "makes the pool worse on average"
and i agree that there are jokers that do that
don't unlock blueprint 
idol being one of them
i mean sure you might get idol when u needed burglar
Yeah that’s a better way to phrase it
but thats so negatable imo
there exist very few scenarios where idol is better than any other uncommon that could appear, excluding showman
esp considering how big the pools of each joker is that theyre all somewhat rare as it is anyway
hey dont forget my goat seance
seance is peak
seance is worth taking into a round if rental for the sake of potentially getting a spectral
If they’re somewhat rare why wouldn’t I want to increase my chances of finding the ones I want
the thing is you dont know which jokers you want until you are clear into the run
i still think its worth unlocking everything
I know I don't want Idol 99.875% of the time
it wont make your experience worsened by doing so
Yeah I get that, I guess it matter more earlier in the antes to stay alive or start building econ, later antes don’t really matter
exactly
more options is better, its not gonna be a situation of rolling into stm and being like
That’s why I’m doing it tho for the earlier antes
“wow i wish i never unlocked you”
more options is better if it doesnt affect your other options
but it does, so this isnt necessarily true
I mean,
Yeah that’s my mental roadblock
play the game how you want Ill never tell you what to do
but thats my own take on the question
In other games I’ve played even a 2% increase of something is worth it if it’s gonna win me the game
That’s fair
I mean same works for bala
but i dont think gettng more jokers in the pool will lower that
I just don't agree.
if you take it to extremes, if I could lower the pool down to ~50 jokers of my choosing then I would
I would say for you specifically though. although getting worse jokers will overall make the pool worse. getting those jokers (for a newer player like you) would allow you to improve more imo. 🤷♂️
Im not really talking in extremes, moreso in practice of playing the game so..
like getting into more different situations
unlocking a joker doesnt mean now you see other jokers less
yes it does
yes it does
thats exactly what it does
that is how that works
in theory yeah
in practice also
in practice yeah
but with 2 card slots in shop
holy me and lilo locked in 🤝
Wrong! Ride the bus
per shop it's negligible, but you don't have one shop per run do you
Nvm bus is available from start
Even at work I’ve optimized my work down to the amount of mouse clicks I do to save time it’s just how I think 😭
I still feel like these are bad arguments for not unlocking everything in the game
I take tarots to stop it from appearing, it's only removing 1 tarot out of 22 but the difference across every roll is huge
sorry
yes true
hello chat I'm pretty new to the game, how do I unlock the scribbled joker?
I will unlock everything just not until all gold stake decks are done
which is the same principle for not unlocking jokers that make the pool worse on average
i mean. i think they should unlock them all. to improve at the game
so then why do you disagree with one but not the other
This maybe is a better argument for me
but more bad jokers unlocked directly means a worse joker pool
I didn’t mean to start an argument in here guys I’m sorry 😭
I think theres no reasonable argument for not unlocking the jokers except if the requirement is unreasonable
like seeing double
...?
but still worth to try and unlock them all
seeing double is one of the easiest conditional xmults to activate
up there with blackboard and duo
didnt read what I said
the condition to UNLOCK seeing double
I think it’s reasonable to me cause the less runs I do is less time playing to complete the stakes
you said "if the requirement is unreasonable", i didnt think that was the [unlock requirement]
also that's like
not relevant at all really
it was basically an example for one reason why one might choose to avoid unlocking a joker
i fucking hate water.
yea the water sucks
then you'll get thirsty
it's not that you would avoid it, it's that you wouldn't go out of your way to do it because it's "unreasonable"
THIS WAS THE PERFECT RUN
water is essential to the human body
GOD DAMN IT!
I’m just a big fan of min maxxing’ that’s why every Isaac run I do takes hours
and thats totally chill
did you know? the human body is around 70-75% water
did you know we are composed of 70% water ?
kinda funny right ?
like i said you can do it however u wanna do it
now im thirsty too
oh damn 
we're not arguing about preferences though we're arguing about whether it's optimal to do so
I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TOO
its about as much as a lettuce or something
if you want to minmax more though. i feel like just getting bettter at the game overall would be more significant rn. then after you're good, then have an optimized profile 🤷♂️
its suboptimal to unlock jokers? Im lost as to what ur saying if im being real
imgoing to go become hydrated
If u want I can start from the beginning
its suboptimal to unlock some jokers
I should’ve rephrased my question to are any of these jokers going to be beneficial with most decks to completing a gold stake run, more specific question
i.e Idol
those jokers are all somewhat reasonable to use except maybe htr
which is the jacks one
hit the road is great thugh
but thrn id never get to use idol
all of them are good
I will try not to unlock that one then, I trust you guys 🫡
seems like a bad time
in the right circumstances
which would improve your runs 99.9875% of the time
id rather see idol when I dont want it than never see idol ever
Idol won me one of my first runs ever
but thats just how I play the game
fair enoguh
Showman is an active detriment most of the time
i mean, you will have to unlock them anyway one at a time
When I got back in the game after watching bean play multiplayer I thought idol was so good 😭😭
it is
you should definitely unlock madness
True
with proper deck fixing
which basically never happens in ante 8
madness sweep!!!
there are different ways to play balatro i fear
besides gold stale
Yeah I won’t until all gold stakes are done, I just want to play multiplayer but since I’m so far on mobile I’m going to complete it here then full unlock on my pc since I’ve already done it elsewhere
anything below gold stake is lame
ante 8 is the default, endless is secondary to that
im a bad player lmao
endless is also lame
thats how the game is balanced yes!
do i finish c++ (20 jokers) or rb (3 challenges) first guys
You vould always do that on a 2nd profile
i see that's not a bad choice
that is a good point, but Im still working on c++ and idol happens to be a joker I need a sticker for
ergo Idol is a very bad joker [in reference to thunk's balance philosophy]
~w~
i had to make a second profle for the challange runs, because my stats were bloated by egg
Yeah so just trying to speedrun it all for the time being, I can’t see myself grinding the game after all gold stakes are done but I can see myself grinding multiplayer for the chance to play in tournaments
I agree but in the case that its epic, Id rather that option be available to me, but thats just how I like to play ig
3 profiles too little for me atp lol. I had to delete one of my c++ profiles a while back
hex bloated my stats when i was gold staking ghost deck
why do you keep saying "thats just how I like to play" and stuff like that, it feels like a dog whistle
that too
if all I cared abt was gold stake wins id never unlock anything besides blueprint and just use the scaling jokers
honestly when will the day come when mercury overtakes jupiter? soon i hope
That’s what I would’ve done if I knew what the unlocks were, some are inevitable tho
you wouldnt unlock chad/brainstorm/invis/duo/trio/burnt joker/arrowhead/agate...?
actually majority of jokers are good for certain situations
its a single player game
Im just playing along with this hypothetical
and?
flower shit
ik it can be useful
roffle moment
but still
in fact not even majority i would say basically all but like 3
there is no and
since you're so knowledgable. would you prefer ante 1 first shop grimbo or bus
^???
thats not an explanation at all then
tbh ive got no clue what roffle is like
it can be
bus!!!! bussss
I remember watching roffle play hearthstone 🥀🥀
bus
bus
he says the single player game line sometimes from what ive watched
And rarran
Agate was the last joker I unlocked for some reason
bcuz clubs are stinkyy
he used to not look so miserable
To be fair, you have to have a very high lQ to
understand Balatro. The mechanics are
extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp
of theoretical mathematics most of the
factors will go over a typical player's head.
There's also Rarran's nihilistic outlook, which
is deftly woven into his characterisation - his
personal philosophy draws heavily from O gracious king Spectered's literature, for instance. The players understand this stuff;
they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the equations, to realize that they're not just complex- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Balatro truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the depth in Jimbo's existencial catchphrase "Maybe Go
Fish is more our speed..." which itself is a cryptic reference to Murle Robbins epic conflict with Crazy Eights l'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as LocalThunk's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Jimbo tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only-
And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 lQ points of my own
(preferably lower) beforehand.
im asking if you think those jokers make the pool worse on average and that's why you wouldn't unlock them
my last was stone. and oddly enough i have yet to gold sticker both of those
First true high card run. Not a bad lineup for ante 8 runs though admittedly red stakes
i swaer roffle was way happier when he was making hearthstone content
what is that space for an image in the top right
Well if your joker is only usable in the part of the game that is unbalanced I think you should do something about it yes
nah not really
Gonna be real, I just dont think about the game this way. I dont need the pool of jokers to be optimized to win. sorry
RIGHT today I watched one of his balatro videos for the first time and I couldn’t finish the video
stencil is epic
lowkey a very good jonkler
you literally just said "Im just playing along with this hypothetical"
Did you unlock the scribble jonkler?
look at his facial expression and attitude difference
stencil does well if you ankh it
w speech btw
my last balatro screenshot was with stencils
I stretched it with just a x2 as long as i could w golden joker but had to give it up in ante 7
if you ankh it and then build a planet it's gg
I ate banana bread
you're not "playing along with this hypothetical" if you reject the premise of the hypothetical
I found 0(zero) spectral packs in the entire run
Happens
😭 😭 😭
maybe the hypothetical were the friends we made along the way
It's fine
0 = egg, egg supremacy
Spectrals are often just winmore later anyway
If the pool is smaller, there is more consistency, I mean this is what you’re arguing. All I’m saying is that the consistency of joker pool isn’t important enough for me to not unlock jokers. Besides I already unlocked them all so this doesn’t really matter to me anyway
😨
I tired to ankh and ecto stencil, it was pretty fun :3
It’s just how he enjoys the game guys it’s okay, I got the answer I wanted 😭😭
Got to e300 :3
doesn't ankh remove negative tho
stencil is the joker of all time
i watched his hearthstone streams and he doesnt look like hes having any fun at the end of his HS era
maybe it was something that happened just before he started balatro?
Yes that's what the ectos are for ^-^
Idol is SHIT okay I will personally gros Michel anyone who says otherwise
you're not the only one here though; I would like to continue talking about it even if you got your answer
Endless is NOT real
cause i swear his attitude used to be so much more positive
this issue is likely just the vanilla crash when you reload a save after hitting naneinf
Gors mitch nan when?
idk im not one to speculate
No one was having fun at the end of the hearthstone era tbh, I almost lost my job from playing battlegrounds
+15 my mult to this rn
I know I just feel everyone is against him and it all stemmed from my question so I feel kinda bad
is it bad if i've never attempted a naneinf run
enjoy the game how you want; its a single player game but for reference smaller pool does mean more consistency but if you unlock good jokers it makes it less likely to find the preunlocked bad jokers
no
No I never have either
also please stop saying stuff like "it's okay to play that way" [paraphrasing], I agree. repeating that rhetoric makes me feel like you're taking my conversation in a hostile way / that I'm saying it's not okay to play that way.
It's not fun
I don’t need help for that honestly
yeah, there is a fix when you have access to your save file, but I don't have a link to it, and I am unsure if it works with a modded save
It's hours of mindlessly playing the same hand
I dont like doing naneinf runs
naneinf isnt even a playstyle intended
the vanilla game just kinda breaks when you get naneinf yes, other runs wouldnt crash like this tho, its only for your naneinf run
Sorry, I did not intend to come across as hostile!
i mean i did have a high card run earlier today but only because bus and i wasn't getting a lot of pairs
I’m not saying I can help, most the people I deal with online get heated over stuff like this and I don’t want anyone blood sugar raising but if it’s a civil convo I’m all for it
I mean the argument is whether or not its better lol. Not if you enjoy it or not
actually I appreciate the discussion
better conversation than 99 % of other discord servers
nope, naneinf is cool but it was an unintentional addition anyways
Not sugar wow I’m an idiot
Its better but not better enough imo
...? I never said you came across as hostile
for the future, if you run into other issues while you are playing modded, try to replicate the issue with steamodded disabled as steamodded itself (even with no mods) can cause issues.
Also search in #1200105253559873707 for similar issues first
My jimbo is kinda mult less
The only hostile person in here is Jimbo making FUN OF ME when I lose
I score with my face cards 💔
it's fine you can play CloverPit and Jimbo SHUTS UP for once. he's just sat there
😭 😭 😭 what
5oak 🤢
Hmmm that is a compelling argument to buy the game
3oak is more fun, imo
It's almost like I need it to live here
splash + bus <3
Yeah no shit I need money 😔 💔
delayed gratification + burglar
i would simply never lose and jimbo will only compliment me
Marry Andy and burgler
to the moon on green deck 
you lost me at green deck
I wonder what local thunk’s position would be for this discussion
thunk i'm watching your run, why you tryin not to laugh bruh that's disrespectful as--
hologram and erosion build anyone ?
see, the funny thing is... there is actually a niche where this is optimal
dont forget seed money and money tree
so awesome
it will instantly win if you do this btw
good luck!
Well all believe in you
thats why i dont make face card builds lol
why didnt you reroll boss
I only had one reroll
my jokers kinda homeless 😿
no retcon?
dang you didnt fall f or the bait
I can probably find the reddit post regarding this
i think they rolled into plant
pretty sure you can create a savestate with brainstorm mod
This was a nan run mate
wait what did u roll away from
