Bumby the Loaf @wallhackio@cat.family

@vaporeon_ it's some turnip-like radish-like thing native to east asia. they're big and white

a local farm grows them so I've been using them lately

@vaporeon_ chopped white onions and cheese are common toppings

and of course chilli if you're making chili dogs

sauerkraut is also pretty common

this is unconventional but I've started putting pickled daikon and carrot on my hot dogs

@vaporeon_ oh it's just chopped pickles

@vaporeon_ come to think of it I don't actually know what it is

@vaporeon_ @cam yeah my family often would

@vaporeon_ the allegations are true

shout outs to the disc drive that they named after me

@Lucy can you mail me a slice please

men will literally make homemade chicken soup

@monorail reported for leftist infighting

@Taweret spicy ketchup good

@vaporeon_ when they see a laserdisc

@The_T @Lucy reported

they should invent a type of @Lucy that I can @ with a lowercase L

@AsterMeadows yes, but it has nothing to do with the fight stick and everything to do with the fact that you would be playing ffxiv

@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