NLM aka No Laughing Matter - A cool Balatro mod

[inner blaze]

This mod adds jokers that have... hmm... no actual theming... just that sound reasonable to be added or are a cool idea... Regardless, It's a cool mod made of ideas and art from a madman (me) and coded by the lua learning "MiniRebel".

Latest version: [ https://github.com/Minirebel/no-laughing-matter ]
Any questions are welcome, all feedback is wanted, if you have an idea what could go here, sure, shoot your shot, maybe it will make it into it, just keep it reasonable.

Known Bugs:
Some Jokers are incompatible with Blueprint/Brainstorm when they should be
Blueprint/Brainstorm compatible Jokers appear as incompatible but still work as compatible
Some Jokers don't shake when activated

[velvet rose]

excuse me in advance for the god awful code :D

[inner blaze]

aparently i cant change images after i post, oh well, here is the so far list

[velvet rose]

i will order the jokers once i got time :)

[inner blaze]

A sneak peak to what's coming

this means it's already in the mod

[velvet rose]

i uuh may have broken squished joker xD

nvm, just shows up weird in collections

and becomes back normal when u reopen the collections

[slim frigate]

i have to say, these are incredibly clever, leitimately i love these ideas a lot
when he died and death 13 are my favorite references personally but unstable and primal have my favorite effects
excited to see what else comes out of this!

i can particularly see death 13 making some absolutely wild high card runs

[velvet rose]

if anyone wants to help make a joker and just lmk when done and i can add it into the code (i'll add your discrod user above the joker that you made like this)

[velvet rose]

i'll add credits too later on at the end of the code, with a semi-personal note!

[inner blaze]

unstable is my fav of what i done.
As soon as this fella is added, Imma tell Mini to add a challenge with 5 eternal Unstables

[velvet rose]

dang,

i like it, but dang

i bairly even know how to override a sound 😭

[severe bear]

sidenote but (eventually/probably) you should add a readme to the repo

obviously not the most important thing but it would help people who are just stumbling upon the repo/mod

[velvet rose]

we know, we just don't have a logo or smth yet

also only 9 out of 29 are done, so we'd like to get a phew extra done before adding it

[inner blaze]

and on top of that, the 29 is explicidly not even the final number

[velvet rose]

also true

xD

we make up jokers as we go :)

[inner blaze]

we still wanna make some chip based joker at the very least

[inner blaze]

oop!
@velvet rose i think astronomy is broken

[velvet rose]

ill have a look

if i don't crash with my version then i will update the github

[inner blaze]

oh yeah, did the name update also was a bug fix? i still, have the miniltyh version

[velvet rose]

i send u a photo privately

but it is so small

dream and astro aren't crashing for me!

[inner blaze]

what if you have a tarrot in the inventory?

[velvet rose]

still working

[inner blaze]

i guess i gotta update the mod

[velvet rose]

i will put it in the github

i think i updated it

[inner blaze]

i updated teh mod, and.... but i guess thats cause of the name change

[velvet rose]

i think thats everytime you update

[inner blaze]

nope, i re-updated to the version frmo 15 min ago, and now it's kept

[velvet rose]

hmm ok

[inner blaze]

Scopophobia still isnt compatible with blueprint, and the cards still dont shake

[velvet rose]

should be

[velvet rose]

does it score?

[inner blaze]

it does not copy, no

and also, it still dont shake

you might have updated it with the old version

[velvet rose]

what did u mean with the last message?

@rigid lodge could u please pin the post? makes it easy for when we get more fame ;)

[velvet rose]

weird, it acutally should-

[inner blaze]

it looks like the only difference is the name, so you probably just sent the old version again

[inner blaze]

what does a typical README consits of?

[velvet rose]

thanks egg <3

[velvet rose]

look at other mods

[severe bear]

what the mod contains, FAQ, installation, etc

[inner blaze]

updated sheet some changes, some fixes, and some new stuff

[river geode]

shouldn't be

the screenshot literally says "not context.blueprint"

and the "compatible" badge is defined by blueprint_compat in joker definition

[inner blaze]

The mod had a README now!
the info sheet will be updated there from now, as to not trash this chat with often updtaes

[inner blaze]

NEW VERSION OUT! Monochrome and Big Earner added

[inner blaze]

oh... our joker.... it's broken...

[velvet rose]

u don't have any faces in ur hand

i haven't changed anything yet about that guy

[river geode]

monochrome's effect kicks in as a soon as you read the description and persists even after you reset the run

[inner blaze]

yeah 💀

🪲

[river geode]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/734268020318535710.webp?size=128&quality=lossless

@velvet rose https://github.com/Minirebel/no-laughing-matter/pull/1

you can remove the (bypass_debuff or not self.debuff) if you want it to work on debuffed cards

[inner blaze]

oh yeah, so that you can still play flushes on bosses that limit hands.
But doesent the debuff also make the wild card effect not apply?

[river geode]

(bypass_debuff or not self.debuff) makes it so the all suit effect only happens if the card itself is not debuffed

so you can't play a flush out of random debuffed cards

[velvet rose]

ill get this fixed as soon as i am home :>

[river geode]

u just need to merge it

[velvet rose]

i clicked it? i think i did it then

[river geode]

yep, its in the mod now

[velvet rose]

nice

[inner blaze]

lol, thats one easy fix

[fringe skiff]

if you need help making jokers at any point id be down

not sure how ive only just seen this thread but they look super cool

[velvet rose]

yea sure, i'd love some help! :D

all i can do rn is just some simple stuff :(

tho @inner blaze would have to agree, since they did the idea's

[inner blaze]

as long as i make art, i have no opposition with helping

[fringe skiff]

im probably better suited to the coding side of things tbh

art isnt really my strong suit

[fringe skiff]

it might make learning the language a bit easier too hopefully

[velvet rose]

me learning? or u learning? or both? ;-;

[fringe skiff]

i meant more you learning

im not the greatest at explainign things but hopefully i can help a bit

[velvet rose]

thats fine! anything helps 🤷‍♂️

so should we make a little group chat?

for things that we don't want spoiled or sum?

[fringe skiff]

up to you guys

[velvet rose]

@inner blaze ??

[inner blaze]

well, this makes me indifrent if they help you or not.
My only requiment is to let me do my art (and to stuck to what the joker does, but that goes without question)

aka

yah, why shouldnt he help us

[fringe skiff]

yeah ofc

theyre your ideas

i wouldnt be changing them myself at all

[velvet rose]

when modlich is creating a new joker i do like to give idea's of what we COULD change, tho he has the final say :)

[fringe skiff]

i mean a bit of constructive criticism never hurt anyone

but ill probably just stick to doing what im told lol

[velvet rose]

exectly!

[velvet rose]

suit your self! (joke highly included)

[fringe skiff]

lol

[unique pumice]

How is this going? Does what's implemented seem to mostly work without major bugs or crashes? Thinking about trying it out

[river geode]

looking at the code it should be functional

for the most part

[velvet rose]

dream and astro should be working now thanks to nekojoe

i also added 3 new jokers yesterday

which all seems to be working as intended

[unique pumice]

Do you think you could put the mod stuff (the Lua file and assets folder) directly in the root of the repo? It doesn't matter atm, but if I add this to my mod pack and it starts using lovely features later on it'd make things easier.

[velvet rose]

how do u mean that? (sorry first time ever using github)

[unique pumice]

I mean instead of that stuff being in a separate no-laughing-matter folder, it's be right in they're where the Readme is

[velvet rose]

Ooh ok

I'll change it when new update cones out :)

[unique pumice]

No worries :3

[unique pumice]

how is this mod goin?

[true summit]

Its good for me

[unique pumice]

yeah, it's been goin good for me too, just curious about development

[inner blaze]

Well, of us 3, only Mini and Nekojoe can program, so all development is on them

im just the artist

[velvet rose]

i acutally am doing my own things right now, mostly little mods which let me learn about a phew aspects of modding, i could get back soon when i get some settings working :D

and get ur request fixed! :)

[valid tusk]

I think it should say "$x2 at start of round" instead

[river geode]

having $ as a part of the multiplier makes no sense imo

"Double your money" or "Multiply your money by X2" would be better

[river geode]

first is more logical, but the second one makes it so its compatible with stuff that messes with joker values

[velvet rose]

alr will keep this in mind!

thanks! :D

[inner blaze]

@velvet rose ??!?!?!?!?!!!

[velvet rose]

It works 🤷‍♂️

Don't see anything wrong lmao

[inner blaze]

i guies its that it's just the jimbo template

but the thing is that it says incompatible

but it works anyways

[river geode]

incompatible tag and actual behavior are separate things,
incompatible tag is "blueprint_compat" in joker definition, the actual behavior to prevent blueprint from working is "if not context.blueprint"

[nimble ingot]

yo wait

i made a joker exactly like this

[inner blaze]

exept that this one is broken

cause the tag doesent activate

fellas from coding told me that the dev version they have has it fixed

but i dont

[inner blaze]

NLM aka No Laughing Matter - A cool Balatro mod

[velvet rose]

it did say i'd add a double tag when blind is skipped 🤷‍♂️

didn't specify it would give double the skipped tag

also when i try and add the function BEFORE te skip it just doesn't work

also it is already essentially a inf double tag farm after the first skip

[unique pumice]

Tbh I'm fine with the functionality as is

It gives more room for strategic skipping imo

[velvet rose]

Nice

Then I'll fix the mod up eith the suggestion of spaD

And ur request

And I'll update it rq

Maybe move the jokers in order

(common to legendary)

[inner blaze]

yea, makes it less cliché, and harder to properly use, which is a plus

[inner blaze]

maybe also fix the BluePrint compatibility too XD

[velvet rose]

Ill try lol

[velvet rose]

your request is loading rn

[velvet rose]

fixed neo to also now actually give money after defeating a blind

[velvet rose]

i'll do that now

[inner blaze]

lol

[velvet rose]

mod i got a very, very weird question but, anyone that would like to dramatically say the poker ranks? like a epic TBoI announcer?
cuz my voice is NOT made for that lol
i cannot even say "card" right (cuz of my funny dutch accent)

[inner blaze]

"dramatically say the poker ranks"

like the guy that says ULTRAKILL in halo or whatever?

my mic is shit, but i always wanted to do voice acting

[velvet rose]

ya thats exactly lol

[inner blaze]

xd

i can try

but later

[velvet rose]

cuz blueprint (screenreader mod) has this damn robot voice but i'd like this epic voice more lol

[velvet rose]

ya dw

[velvet rose]

updated the mod to fix the 2 requests

• added blueprint compat so for all ya blueprint/brainstorm out there, it's all fixed right up

[quasi kettle]

quick questioroonie, how does the Xmoney work? i have a similar idea, but i have no idea how to go about it and you are the only mod i know of who has it 😭

[velvet rose]

it is like xmult

but for money

[velvet rose]

whats the idea?

[quasi kettle]

essenitally an extension of , 1/3 chance to x3 the sell value of the joker

[velvet rose]

let me see rq

this is litterally the whole neo code

[quasi kettle]

really? damn

[velvet rose]

so maby u could have the 1 changed to a 2?

[quasi kettle]

a lot easier then i thought it'd be 😭

[quasi kettle]

what does that 1 do im sorry, im stupid af

[velvet rose]

cuz it checks for the money u have it mults by 1 and then gives it to you

[quasi kettle]

oooooh

[velvet rose]

honestly, i just am guessing lol

[quasi kettle]

fair enough 😭

same

[velvet rose]

and for the 1 in 3

idk

[quasi kettle]

is it all good if i use that code?

[velvet rose]

ya go ahead

dw

[quasi kettle]

ty, ofc i can give credit

ty ty

[velvet rose]

👍 gl

[inner blaze]

Check money (like how bull does) do calculations based on the amount, and give the result money

[inner blaze]

For this just check the value alla Ceremonial, and then multiply that and give it

[nimble ingot]

Xmoney would just be setting dollars to dollars X (value), right?

shouldnt be that hard

[quasi kettle]

i presume so, i just wasnt sure if there was some specific way to do it, and wanted to ask

[quasi kettle]

ty ty

[nimble ingot]

i think that would be

card.sell_cost = card.sell_cost * card.ability.extra.Xmoney```

[quasi kettle]

oooh

very useful, ty

[nimble ingot]

card.ability.extra.Xmoney or whatever value you wanna set it to

[quasi kettle]

would that go in a calc_money_bonus function or? im still new to all this

[nimble ingot]

basically this

[quasi kettle]

thought it'd be that, neat

cool, got it

[inner blaze]

I'm a programmer myself, I can't give you code, cause I'm doing it in a different language, but I can give the logistics of the idea of how it can be done
And I'm good at it

[nimble ingot]

whens the joker being triggered btw

[quasi kettle]

all good, dw :]

[quasi kettle]

thank you

[nimble ingot]

im asking lol

when is the joker being triggered

[quasi kettle]

OH

mb

end of round, like egg

[velvet rose]

Oooh the sell value .. i am hella stupid

[velvet rose]

Mb my dislextic arse cannot read properly

[quasi kettle]

i want it to work like egg, where it gains sell value at the end of round

[velvet rose]

sorry lol

[quasi kettle]

all good

[inner blaze]

@velvet rose
#⚙・modding-general message

[velvet rose]

?

[inner blaze]

it crashed

[inner blaze]

the jokers still dont shake on activation

[velvet rose]

i don't know why that does that

[unique pumice]

it's what juice_up does

makes them shake

[velvet rose]

ooh

cool

[velvet rose]

it was big earner being incompattable with blueprint

but as i can see it wans't compattable anyway

[velvet rose]

what is the common juice value's? cuz i don't want to make it weirdly long nor short

[unique pumice]

idk either, ask in modding dev maybe

[velvet rose]

alr i will in a second

ty

[unique pumice]

np :3

[broken bough]

quick bug report big earner from no lauging matter is causing a crash at the end of round

using dimserene's full modpack

[velvet rose]

known issue i tried to make it uncompattable with blueprint but that didn't work

i did fix it and i will release it along side with a new joker

when i got that one working at least

[inner blaze]

dont tell me who

i want a suprise

my guess is Jumping Jacks, since hes realy easy

[velvet rose]

wasn't planning tho

[inner blaze]

would be crazy if it was one of the big ones like Blessing or Chuckles

[velvet rose]

🤷‍♂️

[velvet rose]

speaking of jumping jacks, why not buff him to mult and make him uncommon? bairly anyone cares about chips

[inner blaze]

or
+20 when jacks score
-5 when jacks are discarded

make ti a bit stronger in terms of not loosing so much power

[velvet rose]

idk about discards being able to give chips-

[inner blaze]

and remember, it were our words that we need chip jokers

[inner blaze]

no no no

[velvet rose]

alr

[inner blaze]

gain != give

[velvet rose]

oh well i can always try ;-;

[inner blaze]

like how green gains mult when playing

and looses when discarding

this but chip

so it cant go the negatives

[velvet rose]

so its a scaling joker?

then that would seem considerably easier lol

[velvet rose]

ok the joker seems to be like done

thank god for Xxjimbolover420xX (and SMD_O for the xmult bit)

[inner blaze]

cant wait

[velvet rose]

Also i think i know how to make the faded gray text now :)

[inner blaze]

great

and also now you know how to make them cards jiggl;e so you can fix that

[velvet rose]

I will do that too tmr

So the new joker, the grey text, the jiggle

[inner blaze]

2 new, since Jumping Jacks wasnt teh one you were making first

[velvet rose]

That seems to be all tmr

[velvet rose]

I do want to look into him tho

[inner blaze]

standard scaling jokers

can copy green, and Hit the road, and mix em, since the Hit the road has a chekc for if the thing is Jack, and the green has a scaling both up and down

[velvet rose]

Alrighty

[velvet rose]

the shake is going to kill me fr

[velvet rose]

Shakeys are done...

Just making new joker function again lol

Ok joker is done, shake is done, blueprint compat finished

Nice!

I'll upload it when i got some time

[velvet rose]

updated it today yall

[velvet rose]

new jokers are waiting! just need their makeup! and they'll be ready for use! :D

[velvet rose]

new jokers guys!

go explore em!

the new jokers:
jumping jack - chip scaling
faceblind- reversed pareidolia
the silly - scaling by destroying
stone skipping - retrigger's
coulrophobia - baseball but chips

[velvet rose]

feedback is appreciated (mostly for balancing)

[velvet rose]

new joker:
geode - +5 chips on stone cards

[inner blaze]

i wasnt expecting Claurophobia this soon, i put it away to fix its sprite later, i guess i need to fix it now

[velvet rose]

honestly wasn't that hard, there's litterally a very easy way to check for rarities

aka what baseball uses

geode is fixed, gives mult instead of chips

and i will look if the textures are all ok

[velvet rose]

updated the mod and the textures! dementia is finally fixed, and geode is now a mult joker instead of a chip one

fixed the silly's text

[velvet rose]

am also fixing other texts rn

fixed all naming mistakes (like circus being called ciscus)

fixed geode's loc_vars being wrong

[velvet rose]

4 new jokers abouta be ready!

meet:
Snake eyes: halves all probabilities!
lucky-7: +0.5 probability for each 7 played! (resets after leaving shop)
cartology: all Tarot and arcana packs in shop are free!
blessing: all spectral and spectral packs in shop are free!

i'll update the mod after ive fixed up all the details and had dinner

[inner blaze]

YES! CARTOLOGY AND BLESSING!

[velvet rose]

mod is updated, texture update comes with next update

[limber solar]

Are you okay if I copy the code from one of your jokers to use in my mod? I'm new to coding and I'm not entirely copying it, I'm also making the joker remove 1 hand size

[inner blaze]

just copy the stuntman code

[limber solar]

I already knew how to do that, I just needed the spectral card creation.

[inner blaze]

oo, makes sense, i see no reason why not

[limber solar]

thanks

[velvet rose]

updated the mod with at least 3 new jokers!
monolith! - anti of obelisk
Green needle - retriggers the joker on the far right
Schemetic - retriggers the joker on the left

[slim frigate]

"green needle" bein a joker that's the opposite of brainstorm is really clever

[inner blaze]

did you get the "Safety Dance" memo?

[velvet rose]

don't think so .-.

[inner blaze]

baased on the song by "Men without hats" by the same name

[velvet rose]

ah nice

[inner blaze]

the shake is the dance

[slim frigate]

jkoe

[velvet rose]

idk how to detect what jokers have been triggered and which haven't and actually STORE that, the jokers i made just retriggers jokers that have triggered like how chad retriggers the playing card

[inner blaze]

thats an older sprite

[slim frigate]

oh alright then

[inner blaze]

joker ID storing array?

[velvet rose]

wot u talkin about 😭

[inner blaze]

shouldn't the joker have an enherit ID asigned to it? so that even if it changes places, some stuff still works if its related to that joker.

detect if its triggering, and it is, and isnt yet in the array variable, add its id to the variable, and then reset the variable on exiting the store

[velvet rose]

hmm, you'd prob have to ask someone else for that, cuz i ain't that godly o-o

[inner blaze]

updated lucky btw

"7 leaf clover"

[velvet rose]

ooh

i like it

[inner blaze]

uhhh.... what?? thats not how it should work...

[inner blaze]

i mean, i guess it achives the same effect at the ends but itsd no

[inner blaze]

i think lobotomy got a botched operation and is dead

[slim frigate]

yeah lobotomy has just never worked for me

[inner blaze]

he use to be a fucking great joker

won me a gold stake few times

X15 is worth the risk of X0

[velvet rose]

wot

[inner blaze]

are you wot-ing the fact thats its broken, or are you wot-ing the joke?

[velvet rose]

just wondering why its broken lol

added a "end" to stop it only triggering when snake eyes was there

(hopeing it working cuz i don't feel like opening balatro

[short tide]

oh my god i had the exact same joker idea as you lmao

[sly glacier]

wait thats so good I love that

[velvet rose]

Lmao, why does the art feel like a boss tho

[slim frigate]

well it's because it's just a card version of The Needle

[inner blaze]

well, its in the mod, so.....

[sly glacier]

I was just saying it was a cool idea damn 😭

[velvet rose]

lol

[inner blaze]

yah....

[velvet rose]

tf

[toxic steeple]

$4 for a rare?

[velvet rose]

i hate adjusting the prices

cuz they are different for all jokers 😭

[inner blaze]

isnt that the blueprint price?

[toxic steeple]

$4 for a rare is vile though

[toxic steeple]

I thought it was $8? Or I’m tripping up

[toxic steeple]

How many jokers are added so far?

[inner blaze]

check the github

im too lazy to check for you

[toxic steeple]

💔

[toxic steeple]

Bourght

[toxic steeple]

The Silly has some extremely slow scaling to where it’s not worth it

[velvet rose]

no need to diss me :(

[pseudo ore]

blueprint is 10$

[toxic steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/wiener-wiener-dog-dachshund-mad-betrayal-gif-6139006518294198536

[toxic steeple]

you should rename the mod to "No JOKING Matter"

but Joker 😭 🙏

[exotic hamlet]

Wait...isn't this just a half-strength Chad?

[exotic hamlet]

Ah, okay.
(It does do the same thing as Chad though, just with 1 retrigger instead of 2.)

(And just so you know, I don't think it's a bad thing, I'm just pointing that out. People seem to get real offended for some reason when their Jokers are compared to others.)

[daring root]

power of neo is incompatible with new talisman version

[toxic steeple]

The mod owner was banned 💔

[daring root]

aww dang it

this is no laughing matter

[molten lion]

wtf baldjimbo

[daring root]

?

[molten lion]

the joker on the first message of thread

[daring root]

oh

[toxic steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/say-that-again-say-that-say-that-agian-marvel-fantastic-gif-12441585058103544841

[daring root]

this is a laughing matter

[limber solar]

agian

[toxic steeple]

Has to keep the thread alive 😭

[limber solar]

whatever pays the bills

[daring root]

the struggle is real

[limber solar]

yeah

[lapis nebula]

power of neo crashes the game (i have $3500)