• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    745·
    7 months ago

    Seems like a weird leap to make considering Balatro has basically nothing to do with poker beyond the game’s basic flavour.

    • Yuki@kutsuya.dev
      9·
      7 months ago

      I always like to imagine these are real and a 4channer posts their real experience.

      • Vincent Adultman@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 months ago

        Same. Thinking if a greentext is real or not beats the experience to it. If it isn’t the most absurd thing, probably happened to somebody, maybe not anon. If it is an absurd thing, it could’ve happened to somebody. Ffs, my brother shit himself while driving last week, and there’s probably a greentext about a guy with food intoxication that tried to go home and shat himself while driving.

    • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 months ago

      “Hmm, I’m pretty hooked on this cocaine stuff. Maybe it’s a sign I should try heroin.”

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      1·
      7 months ago

      Because this is how addictions work, no? People want to quit alcohol and tobacco, but can’t, as it offers pleasure their brains fail to reject.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      For one thing the rules don’t change just because you are random Joker cards.

      might be better if they did tho lol.

      (I know the gaming commission would pitch shit but hey man move fast break people laws er things

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 months ago

    Balatro is FTL with playing cards. If you think FTL trains you to fly interstellar missions, do not play Balatro.

        • skulblaka@startrek.website
          3·
          7 months ago

          Great write up, only thing I disagree on is the buffoon packs, I take those things all the time. Around the same cost as a mid level joker but you get a choice of several to pick from, often at least one of which would normally be more expensive than the pack was. They’re not always winners but the value is often good. And standard packs are one of the primary sources of really good deck cards, otherwise you’re relying entirely on tarot cards to buff your deck after you have a good joker setup and that can get dicey. Use discretion, but I take packs of all sorts more often than I don’t so long as I can stay above or at least near the interest cap while doing so. My buying priorities usually go Voucher(if I can afford it) > Packs > Voucher(if I can’t afford it yet) > Shop > Reroll.

          But I’m also not an expert by any means, I have similar stats to yours.

        • NationProtons@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          7 months ago

          Celestial cards

          With celestial cards, do you mean spectral cards? I was thinking that celestial cards and planet cards refer to the same thing.