🕹・game-discussion

[rustic haven]

scary egg

[eager prawn]

[rustic haven]

restarted that seed

and its going a lot better already

card packs love giving me red seal kings

[rustic haven]

its a rerun of this

just without throwing

[eager prawn]

Should I?

[plain nimbus]

It's easy for low stakes because u can win with just chips jokers but after violet stake u need to have either a OP chips lineup or good mult joker at the last antes

[rustic haven]

double negative egg

[rustic haven]

fair enough

[eager prawn]

Fact

[plain nimbus]

I lwk struggled more with plasma than black stake but its more a me problem

[rustic haven]

😭

[plain nimbus]

Madness just clutched my black deck gold stake

[knotty zodiac]

black is just regular balatro harder
plasma is almost like a mod

makes sense

[turbid nova]

how high did you scale it

[plain nimbus]

If i remember i had it round 1 or round 2 and full skipped last ante bc i had enough scoring

So x6ish i guess

[lime remnant]

i got lucky once with a stone card build, idk if i can get it now

[plain nimbus]

But for plasma i had to play burglar and mr bones with a chip joker and full skip last ante to cheese it

[plain nimbus]

Yeah to beat black deck just play better at balatro while plasma is full impro

[dusty void]

I love this game sm ;U;

[eager prawn]

Vessel kinda hard

[rustic haven]

the music 😭

im crine

[knotty zodiac]

neg only. good stuff

[dusty void]

Back there Benjamin 😭

[digital pewter]

bro wasn't playing 4 cards to scale the square joker. unoptimal gameplay detected. hitsquad's en route.

[knotty zodiac]

imagine if square reset if you played 5 cards

[eager prawn]

Best

[plain nimbus]

But gived 4² chips per hand played

[eager prawn]

16?

[knotty zodiac]

"you'll play pairs and you'll like it". and it'll be at ante 8 with 2000 chips

[plain nimbus]

Maybe

[knotty zodiac]

16 kinda overdoing it xD

[digital pewter]

square joker trying to sneak in on ride the bus's design, sent to C tier on joker rating tierlists

[dusty void]

Okay I REALLY love this gam

[plain nimbus]

If it gave enough chips it wont be that bad

[digital pewter]

the clock in the top left just reminded me of how real casinos often employ many small interior design choices that intentionally make one lose their sense of time, in order to keep players playing

[knotty zodiac]

tbh i think it'd be kinda boring if it reset on 5

[digital pewter]

they'll take out windows, clocks, anything like that

[dusty void]

Oh yeahhh

Yea that's true

[knotty zodiac]

right now it's somewhat interesting whether to scale square or fish for value

[dusty void]

And night lighting

[knotty zodiac]

with reset there's no decision to maek

[plain nimbus]

Yeah psychic just destroy it

[knotty zodiac]

this too lol

[plain nimbus]

+Chips aint worth the hustle ig

[digital pewter]

everybody chuckles when passing the plant on a non-face card run until the boss blind "The Calculator - All numbered cards are debuffed" shows up ante 7

[dusty void]

Nevermined

[plain nimbus]

Just reroll for pareidolia

[dusty void]

I fucking hate this game

[eager prawn]

Try to focus on HC next time

[dusty void]

On what?

[plain nimbus]

High card

[dusty void]

HIGH CARD??

ARE YOU FUCKING FR

SHUT UP

Temper

mb

Please

[plain nimbus]

Nah but its a bad advice

[dusty void]

I kinow

[eager prawn]

[plain nimbus]

Pair bettah

[dusty void]

Pairslop <3

Fucking hell acorn kills me more than it should

[rustic haven]

why pairslop when highcardslop free

[knotty zodiac]

looks like it wasnt acorn, it was failing to draw 3oak or fh?

[dusty void]

Because baronmime gets boring

[dusty void]

I drew it

[rustic haven]

ghost deck makes it fun tho

[knotty zodiac]

or did you pick up a bp or sth

[rustic haven]

also i dont have a naneinf yet so

i wanna try

[dusty void]

But because I used 2 faces to figure out where my jokers were

[dusty void]

yea

[solemn saffron]

Holy shit

[rustic haven]

W

now make it past ante 2

[gloomy swallow]

worst thing an ectoplasm can land on is a juggler if you think about it

[dusty void]

That just makes it useless
Maybe meriandi

or stuntman

[knotty zodiac]

the worst thing is a food item that goes away quickly like popcorn

[rustic haven]

getting negative on banana for it to break next blind

peak experience

[knotty zodiac]

imagine it hits cav and then cav breaks

double oof

[rustic haven]

😭

[gloomy swallow]

how could he

pmo

oh cause it was early rental

meh

[gloomy swallow]

i wonder how many jokers can actually beat balatro without requiring any othre joker

[lime remnant]

like

150

because jokerless 😂

[plain nimbus]

Just find a paintbrush on the ground

Or paint ur cards i guess

[gloomy swallow]

uou goddamn thing of a person

[hardy fable]

you'll only need me

[proper bronze]

even invis can win bro

[knotty zodiac]

bus is just better 😉

[vale shale]

Alright alright. 1 take gold stake run any deck. What deck we thinking bout.

[astral gulch]

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

COME ON

AGHHHHHHH

[olive raptor]

blueprint

[proper bronze]

blue

[olive raptor]

I once lost at the final boss 7 points short

I understand

[vale shale]

Da blues clues

[gloomy swallow]

insanoty

[gloomy swallow]

I realized grimbo was rental and such but the moment he took bus he restricted himself from face cards

[vale shale]

Ominousm

It was Trib.

[knotty zodiac]

restricted from face cards

fine tradeoff for scaling mult. discouraging discards is worse than banning scoring face cards

[knotty zodiac]

if it makes you feel any better

#🕹・run-discussion message

[gloomy swallow]

only scaling mult that actively restricts you from playing cards btw 💔

[knotty zodiac]

yes, all the scaling mults have a unique drawback. and..?

[gloomy swallow]

obelisk is just a better rtb because even when it restricts you from playing your most played hand it just feels like he introduces a different playstyle

[gloomy swallow]

the pants?

[knotty zodiac]

ok granted, pants are better. theyre also uncommon

[gloomy swallow]

only requires a slightly rarer hand than a pair to scale twice as fast as anything else

[gloomy swallow]

fortune teller

[knotty zodiac]

but you're finding bus 4x as often

[knotty zodiac]

if fortune teller is scaled high, you were already winning some other way

if youre starting from scratch, it scales way slower

[fringe nebula]

rtb > grimbo

[gloomy swallow]

all other scaling mult rewards you for playing what ur supposed to play and rtb and obelisk are exceptions where they also introduce HEAVY punishes for stuff you shouldnt do

[fringe nebula]

the ability to discard for gold cards and blue seals is big

[gloomy swallow]

once you scale grimbo up enough you dont need to NOT use discards

[fringe nebula]

you can't ignore that

[gloomy swallow]

but once u play rtb up to an ok scale

you must keep on riding

[fringe nebula]

not like you really need face cards to win anyway

[vale shale]

This is the greatest seed of all time.

LMAO

[fringe nebula]

eh

[gloomy swallow]

the lost of 1 mult only affects you when you are on early game

[fringe nebula]

nope

[gloomy swallow]

and in early game you arent gonna have as many gold cards / blue seals to go for in the first place

[fringe nebula]

being able to discard TWICE each round to ensure you can draw blue seal is huge

[gloomy swallow]

and when you play grimbo you already have to win based off several hands so not like youre losing out on them

[knotty zodiac]

• supernova exposes you to eye
• grimbo punishes playing optimal hands and encourages playing whatever you drew
• red card makes you make decision between the pack content and mult, and requires money to support
• dagger requires money and a free slot

all of these are worse than "get rid of three face cards at a time and make sure theyre not scoring"

[fringe nebula]

yeah I'm out this is stupid

rtb is just way better

[eager prawn]

I'm really suck this run

[gloomy swallow]

i've never had a situation in mid-game where i wasnt able to discard with grimbo as it would result in a loss

[patent sail]

i found a triple poly yorick seed today 🔥🐎

[gloomy swallow]

same argument as "i'Ve NeVer HAd to CraSH the Bus!!!111"

[knotty zodiac]

yes thats a skill issue

[fringe nebula]

why does face cards matter that much anyway

[gloomy swallow]

tis not about crashing it, its about what it implies

[gloomy swallow]

retriggers, far more synergies than any numbered cards in general

[knotty zodiac]

it just slowly chips away at you until you think "i got unlucky" at the lose screen but actually it was bc the grimbo needed to be +8 more

[fringe nebula]

you don't realy need that shit once you have rtb

[gloomy swallow]

only card that can even come CLOSE to a face card is a 2

[fringe nebula]

what

[knotty zodiac]

which it would have been if it was a bus

[fringe nebula]

are you trying to do a sudden pivot or something

[gloomy swallow]

im tryna keep my runs open for more intriguing runs

i mean

intriguing strats

[fringe nebula]

yeah

[gloomy swallow]

and bus just

[fringe nebula]

which means this is no longer about optimal gameplay

[gloomy swallow]

closes sseveral doors

[fringe nebula]

i'm leaving

[patent sail]

same seed has nat negative photo later

[gloomy swallow]

never have i ever had a situation where i lost because grimbo didnt have enough +mult

it was ALWAYS and exclusively ALWAYS because i wasnt able to gather enough xmult for the blind

[knotty zodiac]

you dont need as much xmult if you scale flat mult more...

[patent sail]

accidentally rerolled a mime, but i will be replaying this since this can probably go very deep

[gloomy swallow]

i wont need something like 3x mult if my grimbo has like 40 +Mult and i need like the equivalent of 120 +Mult to pass?

[fringe nebula]

clearly you haven't played more

[gloomy swallow]

how many blue seals

[knotty zodiac]

its more stuff like this- you would take constellation but you're not scoring enough so you have to take ramen. and ramen scales backwards and then you dont find anything else

[gloomy swallow]

if you could get that far while having to use all your hands, that probably means pair levels and square joker carried the chips

[fringe nebula]

1

[gloomy swallow]

and the dou and the LITERAL perishable card sharp

[fringe nebula]

what's wrong with perishable

[gloomy swallow]

if you didnt have that perishable card sharp in the first place

you wouldn't have had enough XMULT in the first place

[fringe nebula]

perishables aren't really "perishable" when you pick it at ante 8

pls

actually think

[eager prawn]

Lil bro be saying everything but trying

[gloomy swallow]

i know that

[gloomy swallow]

it just shows how you had to rely on last moment occurrences

[fringe nebula]

why are you trying to talk about everything except the fact that +1 mult can make or break the game

[eager prawn]

It isn't?

[fringe nebula]

it isn't, I rerolled pretty deep for it

with lots of money

[gloomy swallow]

and what made you unable to reroll that deeply in past shops

because keep in mind rerolls scale per each reroll so ideally you wanna stop rerolling the moment you are left with enough money to get max ineterst

[fringe nebula]

mate, red card is costly

it was at +120 mult

[gloomy swallow]

hey if you had rtb there that smiley face would've just killed the run wouldnt have

[fringe nebula]

also, reminder

[fringe nebula]

+20 bus is better than smiley face

[echo sphinx]

wp (same pic but hot dann)

[fringe nebula]

wdym

[patent sail]

that blind sure is super gross

[gloomy swallow]

you are telling me you discarded 20 times in 15 rounds

[fringe nebula]

also

[eager prawn]

Lol

[fringe nebula]

please read this message

[gloomy swallow]

that is 1.33 discards per round

also you dont have to worry about discards if you can thin up your deck enough

[tulip axle]

How big is Balatro? Like in mega/gigabytes

[fringe nebula]

🐴

[eager prawn]

Which platform?

[fringe nebula]

dude

[knotty zodiac]

about 80MB

[gloomy swallow]

no idea how you had 36 cards there, used 20 discards AND didnt find ANY xMult

[tulip axle]

PC

[echo sphinx]

pretty small, 77mb here

[echo sphinx]

uh

[tulip axle]

Steam recommends 150 MB

[echo sphinx]

iirc like only a few hundred megabytes

which is fuckn tiny lol

[patent sail]

roughly 1.4479e8 Bytes

[gloomy swallow]

also i know the argument you bring to the table here is "ooh look if grimbo had 1 less mult here i would''ve died! truly the conundrum and one of many issues with this joker that makes rtb better!!!" my brother in christ i see 0 xMult

[tulip axle]

I might burn Balatro to a CD

[fringe nebula]

oh yeah? do the seed then

AMLPRRRB

[tulip axle]

Has anyone designed a CD case for Balatro?

[gloomy swallow]

yk i will!

[echo sphinx]

might try ngl

[eager prawn]

What's that seed?

[echo sphinx]

abandoned gs?

[patent sail]

try my funny 3 poly yorick seed twin....

[patent sail]

probably not, but who knows

[gloomy swallow]

i just realized the paraleidolia lul

[fringe nebula]

what, you haven't played enough games where you couldn't find an xmult until you're at ante 7?

xmult just don't simply appear

in fact

[tulip axle]

I see
You see I'm thinking I could burn Balatro to a CD

[gloomy swallow]

i always had steel at the bare minimum

[fringe nebula]

there were some games where i won without any xmult whatsoever

[gloomy swallow]

i didnt always have STEEL

[tulip axle]

Is there a 32-bit version of Balatro?

[gloomy swallow]

but when i didnt have better xmult

[patent sail]

yeah i read that part

you can probably just take key art or something

[gloomy swallow]

i had it

[eager prawn]

Man I'm dying

[gloomy swallow]

ok i worded it a bit bad so

[fringe nebula]

this is worse than talking to amphy

[patent sail]

elite knowledge

[gloomy swallow]

i always had SOME sort of xMult when i was far enough in a run

[echo sphinx]

damn

[gloomy swallow]

even when it wasnt enough

[echo sphinx]

that's like
eh

[patent sail]

yesterday i saw Amphy type for a few seconds and disappear

[eager prawn]

"Ehhhh"

[fringe nebula]

what's your gold stake winstreak pb?

[gloomy swallow]

ok you might have me with that one yours is probably about 14 or 20

[fringe nebula]

I don't trust some random guy spouting bullshit unless I really know their skill level

[gloomy swallow]

oh wait it says it tehre

11

[tulip axle]

Is there a 32-bit version of Balatro? If so, could I run it on a Pentium 4 with 2 gigabytes of memory?

[echo sphinx]

i know im not being asked but like 20% average (2 streak)

[gloomy swallow]

lol

[fringe nebula]

rtb is way better than grimbo anytime

[eager prawn]

Chill

[patent sail]

man ive had several runs where i had to barely win with just purely +chips and +mult because i couldnt find SHIT

[gloomy swallow]

mine is still lower tho ngl

ill work on thatç

[tulip axle]

I wanna run it on this machine

[knotty zodiac]

why do you do this thing where you dont answer the question and talk about anything else

[gloomy swallow]

i think this is the first time ive done this

[patent sail]

i bet lilo can help you figure out that one

[echo sphinx]

meanwhime my bootstrap bull run with like nothing else but monis

[tulip axle]

okay what does the horse mean

[gloomy swallow]

and i will admit my winstreak is low but ive done some stupid runs

[knotty zodiac]

nope scroll up. i wasnt going to call you on it but it happened a few times

[eager prawn]

🦐

[fringe nebula]

talking to amphy is way preferrable than talking to someone this evasive

like actually

[tulip axle]

arch user

[gloomy swallow]

today i had to take a run with 3 poly mad jokers

[knotty zodiac]

its probably < 3

[gloomy swallow]

because i couldnt had ANYTHING

[echo sphinx]

me.

i always gamble

[gloomy swallow]

OH AND YOU JUST REMEMBERED ME OF SOMETHING

[knotty zodiac]

which is fine

[tulip axle]

i personally don't really do evasive
i answer a question head-on or not at all

[echo sphinx]

"i could take this normal option. however. i could sticker this deadweight joker"

[gloomy swallow]

i had a run ith grimbo where my debt was too low to be able to get any kind of xmult

[echo sphinx]

and then get Needled

[gloomy swallow]

so you wanna know what i ded

did*

[knotty zodiac]

"wouldnt this be funny"
G A M E O V E R
kinda fun

[echo sphinx]

true

we love balatro

[fringe nebula]

which is fine as long as you're playing for fun without spouting things

[echo sphinx]

i always take madness

my goattttt

[gloomy swallow]

there is always xMult even when you cant afford it trust me

[echo sphinx]

won with dusk and ace joker mmmmmmm

[tulip axle]

everyone else at the poker table watching me use black magic to turn my card solid gold

[gloomy swallow]

i was with grimbo and my debt was too low to afford anything

[echo sphinx]

just cuz Madness was there

[gloomy swallow]

so i had to take poly skip tags to afford xMult

[echo sphinx]

bro what

[fringe nebula]

sure lemme play this seed

[echo sphinx]

@gloomy swallow now play his seed

[gloomy swallow]

the jokers in the run btw

[gloomy swallow]

in 2 mins

[echo sphinx]

letsgo

[knotty zodiac]

theres something about watching someone play where 5min of video tells you more than an hour of chatting

[fringe nebula]

ok

no wonder why this guy struggled so much

taking rental brainstorm when you only have $7 isn't the choice here

[echo sphinx]

true

the Con incident

[gloomy swallow]

so you are just gonna skip on it?

[knotty zodiac]

brainstorm is unnecessary if one scales the grimbo properly x_x

[echo sphinx]

i would

if i was playing normally

[knotty zodiac]

me too

[echo sphinx]

however i always gamble

so i will always take

after c++ then i will try streaking

[gloomy swallow]

you never know!

[tulip axle]

Is there a 32-bit port of the game or nah

[gloomy swallow]

i also had runs like these when achieving C++, my last joker was stone joker

[knotty zodiac]

i have no answers for you but youre making me curious about what box youre running this on

[patent sail]

if we didnt reply we probably dont know

someone like lilo maybe can help you in running the funny gambling game on that pc, but i cant guarantee anything since im not them

[tulip axle]

Compaq Evo D510 SFF, sporting a Pentium 4 at 2.26 GHz and 2 jig ol' bitties of memory

[tulip axle]

1500 dollars on facebook marketplace I KNOW WHAT I GOT

[pale wolf]

donut joker

[knotty zodiac]

ok i will say i was not expecting pentium. good stuff

[tulip axle]

i also have this one here, an HP Compaq NC6220 sporting a Pentium M 740 and 2 GB of DDR2 memory

[knotty zodiac]

im kinda nostalgic for a gateway beige box. one day when i have the space for it

[gloomy swallow]

thats old

[tulip axle]

Ehhh it's only from like 2005

[knotty zodiac]

the windows xp sticker ❤️

youre running... some sort of linux

[unreal topaz]

brainstorming is usually a good idea though

[knotty zodiac]

not rental with $7

[gaunt burrow]

wish i have some money

[unreal topaz]

its good to plan stuff out

brainstorming

[tulip axle]

Another pair I have, an IBM Thinkpad R50e with a Celeron M 330 and 2 GB of memory, and a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4310 sporting a Celeron Coppermine making 597 MHz and 300 megawatts of memory

[fringe nebula]

taking rental when you still have no econ is most of the time a death sentence

[knotty zodiac]

oh v punny. yk i prefer to make diagrams of my plans... what do you call those?

[echo sphinx]

rental brainstorm with literally nothing is not a good idea

[unreal topaz]

technical drawings?

i think theres a more common term for those

[tulip axle]

If you couldn't tell I enjoy old tech junk

[fringe nebula]

you could take the brainstorm to score a bit and then sell it before winning, but that's it

[subtle drum]

i see what you did there

[knotty zodiac]

v cool hobby. do you buy them working or are you a fixer upper

[unreal topaz]

w grimbo it's like a rental ramen

maybe 1.9x

potential upside with some econ jokers, if you find them

[gloomy swallow]

that

[echo sphinx]

this is what i usually call speculative [item]

potential man ahh

[knotty zodiac]

hopes and dreams

[echo sphinx]

if there's no mailed in
burgalr
card sharp n stuff
cert

and all it can copy is Half Joker. its bad.

like actually what is bro doing

i had a run where i skipped poly Blueprint cuz it doesn't do anything in that specific run

[knotty zodiac]

ig sometimes you really want 40 mult

[unreal topaz]

it's (kind of) a second copy of your best joker! except it has the audacity to demand a wage

[echo sphinx]

ye like +2 grimbo

[knotty zodiac]

all my other jokers volunteer 😮

[unreal topaz]

they get so much exposure

in their internship

[patent sail]

did you know:

[knotty zodiac]

cv builder. im basically a philanthropist

<insert LinkedIn thought leader garbage>

[gloomy swallow]

so far so good

[gloomy swallow]

wouldn't you know it, you don't always have to skip them packs

looks what this judgement got me

[fringe nebula]

why are you doing it on abandoned deck

smh

[fringe nebula]

wow who could've thought that judgement would give baseball (no one)

should've gotten crazy joker

and get punished

[patent sail]

zany joker

[fringe nebula]

ok true

[storm dome]

when is trading card bad?

[patent sail]

when youre done deckfixing

duh

[storm dome]

i mean like

yeah sure

but most of the (gold stake) runs you never realy are done with deckfixing before ante 8

[patent sail]

i dont think its ever bad, only less useful than something you have

because you really can just not use it

[storm dome]

yeah something like that

i just think to myself randomly now "what joker is always good"

[turbid lily]

Game algorithm need balance

[patent sail]

technically even default Jimbo is always good

when would you NOT want extra 4 mult?

its the question of is there a better option

[storm dome]

well then the same thing can be said with juggler or bean.

[patent sail]

yup

no one ever said they are bad

i believe they are good

there are jokers that can be explicitly bad/detrimental sometimes

[turbid lily]

Blue stake chat ahh

[patent sail]

sometimes

[patent sail]

what does this mean

[turbid lily]

All jokers are equal ahh

[patent sail]

not all, showman exists

[storm dome]

tbh vampire sucks

[patent sail]

mf actually can be bad

[storm dome]

never had a single good run with him

[turbid lily]

Most of the jokers sucks

[turbid nova]

meet potential joker

[patent sail]

its not horrible, but it is kinda slow compared to everything else

and also eats enhancements which can be more useful when used rather than fed to him

[turbid lily]

Bro 💀

[turbid nova]

Removes glass x2 and gains x0.1

[gloomy swallow]

Welp straights failed me

[turbid nova]

Equivalent exchange 👍

[patent sail]

yup thats what im talking about

[gloomy swallow]

what a shame, I even had an order too

[grand peak]

is my goat🥹

[patent sail]

like when you have no other options he can work i guess, but there are absolutely better scaling xmults

[turbid lily]

Never rent jokers

[turbid nova]

Constellation also scales by 0.1x but is much better

[grand peak]

What if it is early game gold stake and you need something sustainable to get you through the early rounds

[patent sail]

well you dont choose what you get this run, so if the run gives you vampire you work with vampire

if it gives you constellation you work with constellation

[turbid lily]

Just restart bro

[turbid nova]

Midas mask pareidoila

[grand peak]

Why

[storm dome]

i'd rather die (in the run)

[turbid lily]

Because why not 😂

[patent sail]

ts guy ragebaiting dont worry

[grand peak]

[turbid lily]

Says the one defending a regular joker

[patent sail]

yeah okay

only proving my point

[grand peak]

Even steven and odd todd chillin 😎

[turbid lily]

Yeah we need a more serious channel

[grand peak]

Do you mean like joker +4 mult

[turbid lily]

Yea 😂🤣

[fringe nebula]

you could've gotten a smoother run on this seed if you just...... not take that rental brainstorm ante 1

[patent sail]

explain to me how he can be actively bad

actually i do know the case, but do you know it

[gloomy swallow]

no guarantee I would've found ANOTHER brainstorm btw

[fringe nebula]

I still can win WITHOUT brainstorm anyway

does it even matter

[turbid lily]

This is game discus not troll channel

[patent sail]

are yall still on the bus vs green argument

[fringe nebula]

no

[patent sail]

i believe youre the one trolling here

[grand peak]

Take both

Boom

[patent sail]

i mean yeah any day

[grand peak]

[shell dagger]

that’s bad

[grand peak]

Where is balala merch website

[shell dagger]

now you can’t discard or play face cards and you scale each joker slower and you use a joker slot on a scoring joker that’s worse than a 2x

[fringe nebula]

I'm just talking to this funny guy who took ante 1 rental brainstorm and got away with it by winning with -$55 debt

[turbid lily]

' There are no bad jokers ' just buy and sell every joker you see 🤦‍♂️

[patent sail]

i mean hey a win is a win

[patent sail]

youre limited by slots, almost no joker is actively bad, but is only less good than something else

because you cant say +4 mult is bad, but +10 mult is even more good

[turbid lily]

Even if it was a donald trump joker 👀

[patent sail]

there however are cases where a certain joker can be actively detrimental

for example showman ruining arcana/celestial packs

and +4 jimbo can be actively bad when youre trying to actually use up hands for farming something like parking and want to win actually as late as possible

no joker is actively bad in its essense, but can be in a certain situation

[turbid lily]

Even a simple tarot card gives you 8 mult

[turbid nova]

Showman is the most actively detrimental joker in practice

[patent sail]

which is also good

[turbid lily]

Bro what is your maximum stake ?

[patent sail]

Gold stake

9 of them in fact

yet again, +4 mult is good, but for example +8 mult is better

[fringe nebula]

"cavendish is better than the duo" ahh

[patent sail]

"i like winning the game" ahh

[ancient gyro]

huh

[turbid nova]

Why are there so many conditional uncommon x3 jokers when cavendish is better

[patent sail]

its a very niche scenario which will almost never happen because +4 isnt enough to instantly win, but works as an example i believe

[ancient gyro]

I should've stayed in bed

[turbid nova]

Horribly balanced game smh

[fringe nebula]

so everything started from here

?

[turbid nova]

Jk Blackboard is THE GOAT

[fringe nebula]

raised fist is a good joker

[ancient gyro]

a scoring source is what enables you to play out parking for longer, not the other way around

[subtle drum]

meow

[subtle drum]

agreed

[patent sail]

actually from someone asking "when is trading card bad"

[patent sail]

yup

[ancient gyro]

trading card is bad when you need to find cards NOW instead of later. examples via boss blinds

[patent sail]

literally whats happening right now

[subtle drum]

i used to hate on raised fist before i discovered its potential and also how to play around it lol

[ancient gyro]

that's about it

[patent sail]

you can just choose not to use it and do a full discard

[knotty zodiac]

finally doing a funny

[fringe nebula]

double stencil?

[patent sail]

but yeah, the answer was almost never

[knotty zodiac]

watch me get punished

[subtle drum]

stencils time

[ancient gyro]

yeah that's its main detriment

[subtle drum]

i love stencils

[fringe nebula]

throwing away rebate, fib and holo square like that hurts alot

but

hahaa funny

[blazing breach]

no run will be more stupid than the smeared joker, ancient joker, joker stencil run i had on my school computer

[fringe nebula]

I'm assuming that you're not doing winstreak attempt so go ahead

[subtle drum]

i think the ankh is the better option

[ancient gyro]

I dont

[subtle drum]

just straight up

[ancient gyro]

theyre at 6 bucks

[knotty zodiac]

ya not winstreak. i think i can only play 1-2 ws games a day

[ancient gyro]

whatever they want

[turbid nova]

Nat neg blueprint on the next shop

[blazing breach]

ankh the stencil yeah

[patent sail]

to do list on pairs ante 1 with green joker mmmfgfhh

[subtle drum]

ante 1 pairs is criminal

[knotty zodiac]

how does one transition out of double stencil? you cant right?

[subtle drum]

i’m sorry

[patent sail]

green absolutely lets me get away with it

[fringe nebula]

find strong +mult

[ancient gyro]

4 pairs with grimbo is enough to clear big blind

[turbid nova]

Yeah

[fringe nebula]

or something

[blazing breach]

you can

[ancient gyro]

blackboard 🗣️

[blazing breach]

grimbo?

[fringe nebula]

keeping double stencil is also fine because it's x4

[ancient gyro]

or bbc

[turbid nova]

what

[fringe nebula]

(5/5 joker slot)

[subtle drum]

i mean alright sure all power to you if you can pull it off

[patent sail]

i died by 3 chips

[subtle drum]

tf is bbc 💀

ayo

[ancient gyro]

bbc

[knotty zodiac]

ya this is the plan rn. lets see

[blazing breach]

news station are we stupid

[patent sail]

single debuffed 5 ruined it

[subtle drum]

bruh rip

F

[patent sail]

baseball card

[subtle drum]

oh lol

[turbid nova]

Ohhh

Who calls it bbc

[patent sail]

if youre thinking about something else is bbl, not bbc

[patent sail]

a lot of people actually

[ancient gyro]

most ppl here

[turbid nova]

British broadcasting channel

[pallid galleon]

negative only challenge coming up

[turbid nova]

Were you thinking of smth else

[turbid lily]

Brain rot

[fringe nebula]

not me

[blazing breach]

there’s another acronym

[ancient gyro]

you are not the ppl

[patent sail]

i constantly see people confusing bbc for some more inappropriate acronym

[turbid nova]

yeah

[subtle drum]

sussy

[marsh swan]

Deja vu, but no ankh. Or ankh, unlimited ankh, but no ankh

[turbid lily]

Corn 🌽 ruined the world

[fringe nebula]

It took me like 7 seconds to realize that bbc stands for baseball card

it's not that hard to figure out.... i think

[patent sail]

twin if you thought about that in a context of silly card game i believe its a you issue 😭

[turbid lily]

Mult scale better than chips

[subtle drum]

i meannnn i knew it was something i just couldn’t think what 💀

[turbid nova]

It took me 5 seconds yesterday to realize “delgrat” is delayed gratification

Delgrat sounds like a renaissance painter

[marsh swan]

Its plasma deck

[ancient gyro]

you'll understand all the lingo after a few weeks

[subtle drum]

anyone else call them natnegs

[turbid nova]

Yeah

[fringe nebula]

me

[patent sail]

me?

like everyone

[frank grove]

🔥 big and expensive wee

[subtle drum]

oh W i thought that was just a me thing

[patent sail]

i wanna try rerunning funny triple gay yorick seed i found today

[patent sail]

top 10 things no one will ever say outside of balatro server

[subtle drum]

three gay yoricks…?? at- at the same time!?

[fringe nebula]

balatro out of context : triple gay yorick seed

[subtle drum]

whoa idk if i could handle that

[turbid nova]

“dude I need your seed”

[subtle drum]

lmfao

[patent sail]

they are beautiful though

same seed has nat negative photo ante 10 or so idk

[turbid nova]

How

Ankh and invis?

[patent sail]

double invis wraiths

first two wraiths both drop an invis

[subtle drum]

seed please

also when u nova do u just do pairs or what

[patent sail]

the same seed has baron mime setup later on that i fucked up because of accidentally rerolling mime

but ts can go far

[patent sail]

nova is just a random negative skip, yoricks do all the work

[subtle drum]

but like i don’t like nova cos i play a huge variety of hands

[patent sail]

i took it cuz funny

[subtle drum]

fair

[static fern]

Im sick of it

[subtle drum]

i mean no reason not to

[patent sail]

i did straights/flushes first like two antes and then yoricks scaled that even a high card one shot everything

[subtle drum]

but still u wanna get good value out of it

[subtle drum]

damn

[patent sail]

and absolutely do ghost because thats where wraiths came from

[subtle drum]

i’m ngl i might try pairslop because of the nova

i feel like venturing out of my comfort zone today

[subtle drum]

oh so it’s not a nat poly

[patent sail]

well that too

and to copy yoricks

i copied them with invis jokers that wraiths dropped

[subtle drum]

ah ok

[vale shale]

Wait I don't think I've posted my win yet

[subtle drum]

the thing with seeded runs is i always fuck them up cos i don’t tend to take the same path unless of course there’s explicit instructions lol

[subtle drum]

but we’ll see

[subtle drum]

beautiful

[vale shale]

All of those ante 4 btw

[patent sail]

dont miss ante 12-13 baron mime pivot twin (mime appears first after a bunch of rerolls)

so like

print a few steel kings early i guess

and ghost will make deckfixing part super easy

[subtle drum]

ok thanks i’ll keep that in mind

⛹️

[patent sail]

overshot by a little bit

just a tiny bit though

[subtle drum]

nah that was a close one

i was sweating

[vale shale]

I gt a blueprint on my way out but it was perentalable.

[subtle drum]

trib seed my friend found

[vale shale]

That's cursed perentalable

[patent sail]

flushfive slop

[patent sail]

everything is slop if your standards are high enough

what the fuck i JUST started a random green stake run

[subtle drum]

https://preview.redd.it/best-example-of-qualityslop-in-cinema-v0-2b3pnzjl577g1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=22a6da36f63d0c5d51728d733bb5f1108fa0931c

[patent sail]

its my goat chicklets

[subtle drum]

quality slop 🥀

[patent sail]

balatro is qualityslop and funslop

[subtle drum]

u sure this ain’t the same seed

[patent sail]

nah, that one had yorick

[brave goblet]

Always remember, a photochad build is actually a chad build

[patent sail]

its the red guy now

[subtle drum]

I WAS ABOUT TO CALL THAT

[static fern]

Yea

[subtle drum]

I WAS OMW TO TYPE CHICOT

[grand peak]

Its so beautiful

[subtle drum]

watch there be no photograph ever

💔

[patent sail]

i mwan i literally said it

[grand peak]

That does sound like my luck

[subtle drum]

oh

[subtle drum]

i didn’t see that so you’ll just have to believe me

😂

[sly bolt]

hello chat I'm pretty new to the game, how do I unlock the scribbled joker?

[patent sail]

you first get any legendary, then hold R

[sly bolt]

:<

[static fern]

I lwk tried to use Baron + Photochad, and some well known ass blind decided to show up

[brave goblet]

Until you get past the plant, keep some glass number cards around

[static fern]

holy chad, Hanging Chad with Gold Sticker

[static fern]

Yea

[grand peak]

What about it

[static fern]

Chad card

[grand peak]

Thats a knee slapper

Please Mr localthunk himself please give me a photograph 🙏

[patent sail]

thats a brick thrower

throws exactly 12 bricks at you

cutely of course

[static fern]

little do you know localthunk doesn’t give a fuck abt it’s own game?

[knotty zodiac]

wow. boss is flint next round

[static fern]

some dude said “❌” btw

[patent sail]

printing my blue i guess

[flat warren]

Why is golden joker not compatible with bp bs

[marsh swan]

I fucking love playing straights

[static fern]

my comment suddenly becamed Umamosume

[gloomy swallow]

run so cool

[patent sail]

get pouch emojied

[gloomy swallow]

runner simply is the goat

it took me so LONG to find xMult lol

[static fern]

who’s this?

[gloomy swallow]

dawg

[patent sail]

shouldve been +69 on card to go alongside +420 runner

[static fern]

runner suck ass

[marsh swan]

Ragebait

[gloomy swallow]

I fucking love playing straights WHEN runner is present

[static fern]

it is not practical at ALL

[gloomy swallow]

he alone make straights worth going for

[static fern]

bruuh

[patent sail]

cavalry bait

[patent sail]

ion need him to straight it up any day

[grand peak]

Nooooo I lost 😢

[static fern]

elaborate

[gloomy swallow]

he makes the run run tho..

he the runner

[patent sail]

crazy scaling rate

[gloomy swallow]

he makes the run run

[echo sphinx]

chat what are we thinking

[grand peak]

Mr lk didnt give me photograph

[patent sail]

here, win

[marsh swan]

Stm better early game for black deck

But bb is also goated

[grand peak]

Even when i had a chad, bp and bs

[static fern]

15 Chips by each Played Straight it’s just not worth it

[gloomy swallow]

early game I think shoot the moon would be better to go for, and since ur early game rn u should take shoot the moon

u want raw mult rn

[echo sphinx]

oki stm

[static fern]

PLUS, Straight hand itsn’t that good either

[marsh swan]

You can play 2 straights every round, thats 30 whole chips

[patent sail]

highest scaling rate of all chip scalers btw

[patent sail]

ragebait

[gloomy swallow]

do you know of any other +chips scaler whose factor of scaling goes into the double digits

[grand peak]

Nah it's facts

[static fern]

this guy…

[gloomy swallow]

not even wee joker does that, he only goes up +8 per action

[echo sphinx]

guys i lost

[marsh swan]

And his friend joins in

[marsh swan]

Stm moment

[gloomy swallow]

he just gives a juicy +15 chips every time you play a straight

[grand peak]

Ive never met that guy in my life

[echo sphinx]

@patent sail i thoguht its here win :(

[patent sail]

straights won me jokerless first try after struggling with 4oak for a while

[static fern]

you can play 3 Full Houses by Rond
4 Flushes by Round
and YOU decided choose Straight

[gloomy swallow]

hiw

[fringe nebula]

it's very worth it

[patent sail]

blsck deck core

[static fern]

ragebait

[marsh swan]

With four fingers/shortcut you can consistently get 3-4 straights every round

[grand peak]

Its only good if you have shortcut

[echo sphinx]

ok but consider this
you get to keep it.

[gloomy swallow]

you should've told us the boss blind bro, blackboard WOULD have been better here 😭

[patent sail]

you are NOT pulling out full houses 😭😭😭😭

[static fern]

what happens if you do not get them as you may expect

yeah

yo fucked

[gloomy swallow]

who decided that

[marsh swan]

At the end of the game you will have a 400+ chip joker

[echo sphinx]

tbh i dont read for shit

[grand peak]

Me

[fringe nebula]

far from bait

most top balatro players would atleast put runner in A tier

[gloomy swallow]

runner is good by himself bro

[echo sphinx]

and it doesnt even matter cuz i full discarded and got NOTHING

[marsh swan]

You'd still get a lot of chip scaling out of runner

Straights arent that hard lmao

[static fern]

C tier

[gloomy swallow]

I have a bias towards him and I'd say A+

[fringe nebula]

nice bait man. Go play more games and get experience

[echo sphinx]

yeah, not top player.

[gloomy swallow]

runner is just so good

[marsh swan]

White stake opinion

[grand peak]

Things like square and wee joker and more versatile

[gloomy swallow]

he alone makes straights worth playing

[static fern]

[gloomy swallow]

runner runs do good

so*

[echo sphinx]

that is true, however
just. take the first thing you see

[gloomy swallow]

fucking square?

[patent sail]

ante 2 my runner is +45 already

[echo sphinx]

its as unconditional as it gets, yeah

[marsh swan]

Square is much worse than runner in terms of scaling

[patent sail]

square is fire but he is DREAMING of that scaling

[static fern]

why 🥷🏿s think that everything that they are not agree with it’s just bait

[echo sphinx]

but it scales 1/4 as much

[grand peak]

Yes it is way more versatile and you can pull it off every single hand

[patent sail]

square is pairslop engine

[gloomy swallow]

WOAH no slurs here

[static fern]

ok

[fringe nebula]

I'm throwing the question back to you

you said ragebait when i say runner is good

[grand peak]

He didnt swear he just sent a black ninja emoji

[static fern]

Yeah, no shit

[marsh swan]

Holy glaze

[echo sphinx]

i also think runner is good

[patent sail]

we ALL love runner 💓🎀🌸

[grand peak]

Again I do not know that guy

[fringe nebula]

runner is in my top 10 most used jokers

[static fern]

You all loved it because it’s unerrated

don’t yall?

[gloomy swallow]

universal claim

[static fern]

Casttle Better

[patent sail]

as rated as it needs to be

[echo sphinx]

no its because its underrated

[marsh swan]

Valid

[patent sail]

aka loved

[waxen fable]

c is too low for runner jit

whether opinion ornot

[static fern]

that was the worst joke that i ever heard

[waxen fable]

no?

[echo sphinx]

lol

[gloomy swallow]

TS mf think Roman numerals make him tuff

[static fern]

many people that i know doesn’t play Straight

and it’s kinda justified tho

[waxen fable]

i 100% this game and frankly u dont know what ur talking about

[echo sphinx]

you should try it out the next time you see it

[static fern]

Straight itsn’t practical

[waxen fable]

the people you know are hardstuck black stake players

[patent sail]

im straighting it sny day lmk

[gloomy swallow]

well that depends on the run you are going for, straights are mostly unreliable but when something like runner shows up they just become worth going for

[echo sphinx]

bro just play random straights here and there

[waxen fable]

source: my bad friends

[grand peak]

is in my top 10 jokers ❤️

[quiet hawk]

runner is a very very good joker

holy haters

[static fern]

TS mf think that having a Roblox based character profile picture make him tuff

[echo sphinx]

u dont have to play straights

[gloomy swallow]

honestly kinda valid

[grand peak]

I love

[gloomy swallow]

sell value is goated

[marsh swan]

Wow were just hating rn

[patent sail]

theres just one dude, we all love him

[quiet hawk]

eternal egg 🤤🤤🤤

[grand peak]

Temperance and swash value is great

[static fern]

no shit, he beefed with my name

[waxen fable]

now we're just gonna hate

[grand peak]

Dont forget the rental too

[echo sphinx]

i mean. it wants you to play straights to gain value. but you dont have to and you can still get the chips u accumulated from all of the straights you force out
@static fern

[fringe nebula]

wow we're throwing ad hominem now?

[marsh swan]

You had a bad opinion so its justified

[static fern]

BRO, WDYM

HOLY FAVORTITSM

[grand peak]

Rental egg 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[gloomy swallow]

swash is kind of niche, temperance value however is the main reason to go for it

[static fern]

.

[gloomy swallow]

50$ is insane

[echo sphinx]

actual piggy bank

[grand peak]

Swash egg is GREAT in challenge decks

[turbid nova]

Rental golden joker

[waxen fable]

freaky ah pfp jit dont talk

[echo sphinx]

yeah. like. in Omelettes. and thats it

[gloomy swallow]

1 dallas

[grand peak]

No

[turbid nova]

I beat omellete with the dagger

It was so satisfying

[fringe nebula]

swash is great on inflation challenge

[gloomy swallow]

he was talking about the dagger

[fringe nebula]

somehow

[static fern]

no shit

[patent sail]

perishable rocket is where its at

[turbid nova]

Perishable loyalty card 🐐

[echo sphinx]

just realised this
actual illegal

tho i wont think of swash egg with Inflation

[static fern]

i lwk wanna say smth

[gloomy swallow]

Perishable rocket + rental throwback

[static fern]

but that shit lowkirknuely gotta get me banned

[fringe nebula]

wait what
I've never seen perishable rocket like ever

[grand peak]

Im pretty sure i used it to beat cruelty

[patent sail]

some jokers arent perishable compatible

[echo sphinx]

what is perishable rocket

[turbid nova]

Can it even be perishable?

[patent sail]

rocket is one of them

[gloomy swallow]

wowza

[patent sail]

(i think)

[echo sphinx]

nice

[fringe nebula]

oh

makes sense

[noble ermine]

which decks do you all enjoy playing the most?

[fringe nebula]

magic deck

[static fern]

tiktok slangs…

[echo sphinx]

me when i get joker synergy and get $50 temperance value

[quiet hawk]

ghost is probably my favourite

[gloomy swallow]

and popcorn is compatible with perishable xd

[unreal topaz]

it's non retroactive scaling, like grimbo, bus, runner, etc

[echo sphinx]

like comeon

[quiet hawk]

it was my first gold stake

[patent sail]

yellow

[unreal topaz]

so no

unless im stupid

which i could be

[noble ermine]

interesting

[grand peak]

What is the hardest card to get a sticker on

[echo sphinx]

you right

though stuff like. steel joker is perishable

so im not very sure what the pattern is

[fringe nebula]

popcorn, bean, and seltzer probably

but that's it

[patent sail]

retroactive

[unreal topaz]

blue, yellow, abandoned, or zodiac depending on my mood

[echo sphinx]

showman

[shell dagger]

steel never starts at 1x

[patent sail]

he will never appear if you have no steel

so

yea

[unreal topaz]

that doesn't start at 0, it increases in value even when you don't have it

[noble ermine]

looking for the next deck to try to gold stake, got checkered abandoned erratic

[echo sphinx]

me when conditional joker doesnt appear if theres no steel

[unreal topaz]

like supernova

[patent sail]

this tho

[grand peak]

What

[static fern]

Have you all just noticed how Food Jokers never get Ehternal Stickers?

[patent sail]

scales even if you dont have it

[quiet hawk]

would invisible and chaos the clown also be included

[turbid nova]

wrong

[quiet hawk]

because they do nothing in an actual game

[patent sail]

thwy literally do

[turbid nova]

I keep getting perishable gros michel

[echo sphinx]

close contenders, but no

[waxen fable]

they do

[shell dagger]

chaos is easy

[turbid nova]

and it perishes before it dies

it's so annoying

[unreal topaz]

they do, they don't get eternal stickers though

[static fern]

OH YEAH YEAH

[grand peak]

You have to hope it perished before it does naturally

[shell dagger]

nearly all econ jokers are easy

[static fern]

mb

[turbid nova]

the other way around

[quiet hawk]

yeah fair

[turbid nova]

you have to hope it dies naturally

[grand peak]

I have invis joker blue stake

[quiet hawk]

dang fair enough

[echo sphinx]

showman makes tarot and planet packs worse on average because repeats means the desired planet/tarot(s) appear less often @quiet hawk

[grand peak]

Thats what i meant

[quiet hawk]

what about luchador then

[fringe nebula]

luchador is fine

[quiet hawk]

ahhhhh yeah fair enough

[unreal topaz]

chaos has to be easy because he's a common joker, only "hard" common jokers are michel, ice cream and popcorn

mostly michel and popcorn

ice cream isnt that bad

[patent sail]

you see, del grat + burglar is the peak of econ

[quiet hawk]

yeah that makes sense

[noble ermine]

popcorn sticker must be cringe to get

[knotty zodiac]

funni accomplished

[noble ermine]

literally perishable by default #

[grand peak]

Ice cream lasts a while but gets useless after a while

[echo sphinx]

michel is fine ish.

[marsh swan]

Does anyone even get value out of del grat in gold stake

[unreal topaz]

imo bean is one of the hardest to sticker but it's also a useful joker in general, just a pain to do as one of the last few

[patent sail]

yup

[echo sphinx]

i got it gold stickered by having a perished gros michel and just carrying its corpse to the finish line

[patent sail]

pairslop doesnt need discards

so i often do

[unreal topaz]

the hard part is its luck based whether she crosses the finish line or not

[static fern]

@gloomy swallow You have been called me sarcastially tuff by having Roman numbers on my name, bout little do you know, i was told of that by sum grow ahh man that has a Roblox based character profile picture, it is just weird, isn’t it? the funniest part is that when i brough that up by first time everyone blamed on me…

[unreal topaz]

like more money doesnt rly help much

[echo sphinx]

try a perished

[marsh swan]

Del grat with merry andy❤️

[noble ermine]

big brain

[unreal topaz]

hard to find

[noble ermine]

does perished popcorn work, or does it pop before it perishes?

[unreal topaz]

on my first c++ tho i got crimson heart to debuff michel, which was cool

for the guarantee

[marsh swan]

I think it pops first

[noble ermine]

damn

[echo sphinx]

forgor, think it pops

[unreal topaz]

it pops

[echo sphinx]

only 1 way to find out

[turbid nova]

for popcorn you'd have to skip some blinds

[patent sail]

so whats the point of sticker then

[noble ermine]

surely that makes popcorn the most awkward to get, since you can wait for ice cream and banana to perish?

[unreal topaz]

early on yeah, later on not usually

[noble ermine]

flex

[echo sphinx]

good question

[patent sail]

perishable sticker, not gold stake

[grand peak]

Just skip a lot

[unreal topaz]

yeah, but also perishable banana doesnt always survive

[noble ermine]

oh, stops the jokers popping themselves

[unreal topaz]

popcorn is harder

[patent sail]

on popcorn

or bean

[echo sphinx]

what we thinking

[patent sail]

those kill themselves first

[noble ermine]

true, but winning with a bunch of skips is another matter

[quiet hawk]

stupid game

[unreal topaz]

perishable banana has a 40% chance of living for 5 rounds and actually getting debuffed

[knotty zodiac]

if you like checking your collection and number. goes. up.

[patent sail]

bro where are they holding you

[echo sphinx]

me when... uh. good joker expensive

[noble ermine]

yeah I hate jokers in the shop with literally no way to buy them

[echo sphinx]

also why so dark lol

[marsh swan]

Wild is good tho

[patent sail]

not gold stake sticker

[quiet hawk]

yeah mb 😭

[patent sail]

i meant perishable sticker on popcorn/bean

[quiet hawk]

the cellar 💔

[unreal topaz]

space joker

[noble ermine]

oh - great question

[echo sphinx]

ogei

[knotty zodiac]

space 🍐 vs wee +888

[echo sphinx]

HIGH CARD S L O P time

[noble ermine]

high card slop is better than it has any right to be

[unreal topaz]

high card? i was thinking pairs

[unreal topaz]

if you do pairs space joker is like square joker

[marsh swan]

6sense ig

[echo sphinx]

pairs overrated trust

[unreal topaz]

+15 chips every 4 hands

[echo sphinx]

i have 6sense so i gamba

[unreal topaz]

ofc, but long term pairs are better

[noble ermine]

it's a gambling game

[echo sphinx]

speculative cryptid