Bumby the Loaf @wallhackio@cat.family

@IntrepidVector @holly that's how i started!

@IntrepidVector @holly it's not one reason but a myriad of factors:

• the majority of hands will have a pair to available play, so it's safe to build a strategy around playing them
• even though pairs have a small base score, there are many scaling jokers that synergize with them well. Supernova (the card which adds Mult for every time the current poker hand has been played) scales extraordinarily well will pairs, since you are typically twice as many pairs as you would with larger scoring hands like straights or flushes (I typically get x30 - x50 Mult on a Supernova by Ante 8 which is absolutely bonkers). Ride the Bus (+1 Mult every time you play a hand without face cards), Red Card (gain +3 Mult every time you skip a booster pack), or if you have no other choice Green Joker (+1 Mult per hand played, -1 Mult per discard) also scale very well with pair builds. It is extraordinarily likely you will encounter at least one of these scaling jokers early in the run since they have common rarity.
• blue seals and golden cards, which are extremely powerful cards, are safe to fish for with pair builds because you can aggressively discard to fish for them. on the other hand, if i am playing a flush build and have four clubs in my hand and a gold card, i can only discard four cards instead of five to keep the four clubs and the gold card. With a pair build you can keep a pair and a gold card and discard five cards in hopes of finding more blue seals and gold cards.
• cards which reduce the numbers of cards in your hand are less risky because pairs are still very likely to appear. by similar reasoning Hologram (gains 0.25 XMult for each card added to your deck), one of the easiest endgame viable Jokers to play in the game, is lower risk than usual because polluting your deck with random cards won't meaningfully reduce the risk of playing pairs

High card is also extremely good for all of the same reasons, but pairs are so likely to be available the additional chips from playing additional cards and higher base chips/mult is worth the slightly reduced likelihood of playing pairs relative to high card. The one exception is if you get Stuntman early (+250 chips, -2 hand size) which significantly reduces the probability of playing pairs enough to justify playing high cards instead.

Okay I finally got Completionist+ in Balatro.

This is not hard to do once you understand why pairs are overpowered

It is worth spending $500 dollars so I can play Super Mario Strikers

@amy i do not know what Infinite Jest was and misread "thirtieth" as "thirstiest" and was utterly and totally baffled by this toot

It ends up that three chili dogs is WAY too many chili dogs

@amy wrong, and also reported

@cam plogon

@cam cat had to sit me down for like an hour and show me how to configure it so I stood on the shoulders of giants

I've misspelled goblin on purpose so often lately that I spelled it correctly and it looked wrong to me

@coriander hi goblin, you're cool

@cam I wrote every line of code in grad school in vim

@cam oh i misread the question

@vaporeon_ I want to play dwarf fortress but haven't yet!

i loved the sonic the hedgehog games as a kid and super mario world and super mario bros 3, which might be emulatable with reasonable hardware

@The_T @amy do not tempt the TASers now they will find a way

@cam because they want to play baldurs gate 3