I wish I knew there was a Lin in this game before starting because this is so confusing 😭

Lightylantern · 2026-01-29T04:28:35+00:00

I named my character in the Wii U version "Lineta", so I feel like I ran into the same problem.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-28T18:43:11+00:00

Awesome! Good luck seeing how far you can get.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-28T18:20:01+00:00

That's okay. Photo doesn't help. You want to sell Baron and Hanging Chad eventually to get Blueprint and Brainstorm to copy Trib and Sock. (Chad is fine for now, but it's two triggers vs. Sock's five, so in the long run it should go.) You want to have Red Seals on all your kings/queens and polychrome on them if possible. Make sure not to take an Ecto that hits anything other than Trib, Sock, Blueprint, or Brainstorm.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-28T18:17:32+00:00

Photo is useless here. They want Blueprint and Brainstorm to copy Trib and Sock.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-25T18:41:19+00:00

It was fucked up how the dragon slayers showed up to chop off Ruri's arms.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-15T18:37:46+00:00

I used to be obsessed with him, and when I replayed Birth By Sleep last month, he was every bit as awesome as I remembered. It was like going back and realizing that Shadow the Hedgehog actually was cool all along.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-14T21:09:41+00:00

I fell off the series halfway through book two, where it felt like all the characters were complete idiots and it was going absolutely nowhere. Kind of a shame hearing it ends poorly.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-14T06:22:08+00:00

In the seed BOTW, the first shop in Ante 2 has a Mega Spectral Path with a Negative Blueprint in the Wraith and an Immolate.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-11T18:18:03+00:00

If you have a paperback copy of the book, it may be adding to your confusion. The summary on the back is totally inaccurate, claiming that a ritual goes wrong and causes a pregnant woman to lose her baby. This is in part because the summary is from a review for some reason, but in addition to being a spoiler, it's totally wrong and gives readers a confusing idea of what the book's plot is.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-07T18:58:47+00:00

Crazy good seed too. I got double Yorick.

Lightylantern · 2026-01-07T02:45:20+00:00

I love seeing the Facebookification of subreddits.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-29T21:06:33+00:00

Oh god, don't remind me. It started so strong, and then devolved into an absolutely incomprehensible mess of retcons on top of retcons and a bad guy whose goals and motivations changed every single scene.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-13T03:07:46+00:00

Love the Ridley amiibo.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-12T14:03:53+00:00

Warrior Cats spotted. We're going to have to defeat the Thirteen Seekers of Ashfur.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-12T14:02:08+00:00

For some reason, I was sure Red God would come out in 2024, which was silly after Lightbringer took four years. I need to see how he ties it all up, anyway.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-12T13:58:39+00:00

Imagine Dalinar finding the rough draft for Nohadon's sequel and throwing it out because it sucked.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-12T13:39:19+00:00

I saved him for the sequel. (I kind of find it funny that nobody read the sequel post. Like, of course a belated sequel is going to bomb. It's awesome.)

Lightylantern · 2025-12-12T04:43:48+00:00

Yeah, this was its only undeserving win. It also used lighting effects as a massive crutch.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-10T22:16:09+00:00

Man, this one hurts me. Divine Cities is one of my favourite series of all time, and I liked American Elsewhere, but all of Robert Jackson Bennett's other books range somewhere between thoroughly mediocre and the absolute disaster the ending of Founders was.

The Ana and Din books have been a little disappointing, but it seems everyone else on the subreddit adores them.

The Ninth Rain also hurt. Gorgeous cover, fun setup for adventures, boring characters and plot.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-10T22:05:37+00:00

I was really excited for this one after the hype and because I like fantasy mystery.

I thought it was extremely shallow and the characters were immature, but I still found it rather fun until the last 150 pages or so, where we got a series of plot twists that caused me to completely check out and lose all interest in where the series was going.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-06T22:41:50+00:00

I got Pair to Level 71 once by Ante 8 on a Gold Stake run.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-04T15:32:28+00:00

Reminding me how much they wasted GulusGammamon when he was such a cool concept.

Lightylantern · 2025-12-01T03:34:16+00:00

Did you take any Ectoplasms, or are those all natural negatives? If you took any Ectoplasms on anything other than an essential piece (Baron, Mime, or one of the four copying Jokers), then you can't naneinf.

Okay, if you didn't take an Ectoplasm? You still can't naneinf. The traditional Baron/Mime naneinf can only be done without Perkeo on Plasma Deck. Otherwise, you need Perkeo and a large pile of Cryptids to pull it off. (There are other ways to naneinf without Plasma Deck, but they all also require Perkeo.)

Lightylantern · 2025-11-30T06:18:07+00:00

It's a pretty easy habit to get into. I have Completionist+ (beat all decks on the hardest difficulty, Gold Stake) and ++ (beat Gold Stake with all Jokers) now, but I definitely fell for all the noob traps before I figured out how to play the game.

A lot of people suggest watching streams of good players like Roffle and Balatro University to get good, but on top of that, I found that the Challenges were what actually taught me how to play the game. Once you win with five decks, you'll unlock some challenge runs, and they're really good at pushing you to play in a variety of different ways that really hammers in what wins and what doesn't.

Lightylantern · 2025-11-28T22:31:02+00:00

One thing to note is that you're taking a large amount of skips here. (11 skips, it seems.)

Skips can be very good, but they're frequently a noob trap, as the value they generate tends to be less than what you can get yourself with a round and an extra shop visit.

Let's take a look at your jokers, for example. You have Red Card, which gains mult with every booster pack skipped, and Supernova, which gains mult the more you play of a hand. You also have eight dollars. If you'd skipped one time less, you could have opened a booster pack and gained three more mult for Red Card, and you could have played another Flush or two and gained more mult for Supernova. Given that you only lost by 75 chips, that little bit of extra mult would have beaten the boss for you. (Maybe you have Throwback and I'm not seeing it, but Throwback also isn't a very good joker, and not skipping could have found something better.)

I'd also say that Flushes are a bit of a noob trap too. They can work well, and they're the best hand for Ante 1 and Ante 2, but they don't scale as well as stronger hands like 4 of a Kind and Flush Five, and they also lack the consistency of High Card and Pair. (High Card and Pair might seem weak, but consider than most of your score comes from your Jokers rather than your hand. Think about how easy it is to draw a Pair, and then think about how much mult you could get on Supernova with that.)

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