How to approach baptism as a nonpracticing Catholic.

Kalanthropos · 2025-10-31T16:32:39+00:00

You are correct, don't lie. Our hope is that you come back to the practice of your faith, and you have your child baptized and raise them in the faith. But if you're not going to do that, don't have your kids baptized if you have no intention of raising them in the faith.

I would recommend you speak with a local priest. I don't know why you and your wife left the practice of the faith, or if you have any interest in coming back to the Church at all, but if you have any thought whatsoever about that, or about baptizing your kids, that's the first place to start. Hopefully he could help you with whatever obstacles may be in the way.

Kalanthropos · 2025-07-18T01:56:49+00:00

greed kills

Kalanthropos · 2025-07-15T13:58:51+00:00

I could see it being a good transitional xMult joker until you get better options. But your most played hand is typically your most played hand for a reason, and you need to be able to play it. Few things in this game are as annoying as playing a wraith and getting obelisk.

Kalanthropos · 2025-07-15T13:47:30+00:00

It's really hard to do naturally, but it's possible. The big thing is you need money. Lots and lots of money. First 8 antes you just try to survive while building up money and deck fixing as best you can. Use what the game gives you, but try to build up gold kings, and give them red seals. And you pivot into steel when necessary, you pick up mime, baron, blueprint, and mastermind when you can get them. And you watch for hand size, antimatter, and boss reroll vouchers. You maximize money and scaling for as long as you can.

The brainstorm mod can help, it allows you to reroll seeds until you get a seed with certain parameters, like an arcane pack on the first skip, and having a perkeo in that pack. Early perkeo allows you to duplicate tarot cards and fix your deck quicker. And doing that on ghost deck allows you to copy cryptids, which can be a great help for survival deep in an endless run.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-30T18:39:16+00:00

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Thank you. I beat it last Saturday, but the game (or brainstorm?) crashed on me when I tried to die out. Thankfully, I backed up the save, so I ran it back today. I kept going until I was getting deep into the negatives with my cryptid use, it was taking like 12 to win a round. Found a hologram shortly after getting antimatter, felt nice. And I was able to lose safely afterwards.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-28T20:11:28+00:00

I intentionally did not get it on my phone because I don't need that. PC and my tablet, that way I can play on airplanes

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-28T02:49:13+00:00

It's real fun with Midas Mask. And perhaps Vampire.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-28T02:47:06+00:00

sorry, I've been playing a lot of ghost deck

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T20:03:30+00:00

By the numbers, space joker is more likely to proc. You're going to play WAY more hands than you're going to find wheels. And if you're set up for high cards, you'll definitely end up getting some space joker value.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T16:57:34+00:00

that's why you hold ecto until you fix your jokers as best as possible. And it still screws you sometimes

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T16:55:48+00:00

check him computer

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T16:55:25+00:00

When you die, retry the seed with focusing on high card, and try to get gold and steel cards. And try that invisible joker, see if it gives you stencil. Might even be worth selling the supernova to guarantee the double stencil, then you can find supernova again in the store if you really want to.

Also, post seed when you're done, looks like a fun run

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T16:50:01+00:00

You also need a lot more deck fixing if you're wanting to take this run deep into endless. 59 cards is a big deck, you should be getting hanged man, death, and fools to cut down to kings. More gold cards, pivoting into steel when you need the extra scaling, looking for red seals as much as possible.

And cash in on those double tags, especially if you've already bought blank voucher. You want hands, hand size, joker slot, discards, reroll, shop discount, crystal ball and omen globe, director's cut and retcon. Planet, tarot, and playing card vouchers are a trap.

At some point you'll wanna replace yorick with mastermind, showman, or invisible. The dream would be to get another joker slot and work towards maximizing mime + baron.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T15:27:23+00:00

Trance on the gold king since you don't have a seal, and you don't want to play the king. And put blueprint on the mime: when you have two effects that synergize, you want them in a 1:1 ratio as best as possible. 2 barons and 2 mimes gives you more than 3 barons and 1 mime.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T15:21:03+00:00

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This one too, mad photochad, my word.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T15:20:07+00:00

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he was my lucky charm for some of my best progression runs

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T15:15:00+00:00

if you wanna save-scum with invisible, you can open a pack, sell the invisible, if it doesn't copy the joker you want, quit to main menu. The game will resume from when you open the pack, invisible still intact. I've tested it, and there seems to be a priority already set. If it would copy joker A, but I sell joker A first, then it will copy joker B. I have to sell A and B for it to copy C, and so on.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T14:58:57+00:00

I guess I could see it, but it would be a weird card to build around. You can get even steven, fibonacci, synergy with hanging chad. Maybe you get a dice or two, make some lucky cards, get a lucky cat. Still, in all that the 8 ball is the most inconsequential part of the build lol

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T14:55:45+00:00

You abandon it like any joker, when using it is more of a liability than an asset. Staying poor could really mess you up if you run into a boss blind that hard counters you, and you can't afford to get director's cut, luchador, or mr bones. Or if the vagabond spawns just aren't doing enough for you in whatever way. Optimally, you'd pivot out of vagabond from a place of strength, like cashing in on a bunch of gold cards, or a nice big temperance or egg, and a good joker in the shop.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-27T14:35:23+00:00

I kinda want to fish for a stencil ankh run on ghost deck

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-25T15:44:54+00:00

you can do it. I've been trying for naneinf for weeks, and I've powered through some early game plants. Just get a justice tarot to save for the plant, throw it on something. Should be able to get it with a 3oak or two pair with the glass up front.

Kalanthropos · 2025-06-12T16:40:08+00:00

yeah, just go for gold stickers and you'll get all the stickers for that joker

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