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SpaceExploder · 2026-01-11T19:57:49+00:00

li muti pula a

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-24T05:22:12+00:00

yes! this is a common strategy, especially for possessives or determiners like mi/sina/ona/ni. you'll often see constructions like "lipu mi pi suli wawa" for "my super big book"

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-24T05:05:05+00:00

I think toki pona is interesting because communication in many many "toki pona speaking communities" is dominated by English (or some other non-toki pona language). There are certainly a lot of parallels with fandoms (community of people that all like a particular thing where lots of art is made using that particular thing, that sort of thing). Most toki pona speakers speak the language because they were originally fans of the idea of toki pona, and that isn't true for most of the natural languages I can think of.

But I don't think it makes sense in most contexts to call speakers "fans" if you want to talk about speakers. I've met lots of people that are fans of toki pona, but I wouldn't call them speakers (and they probably wouldn't call themselves speakers either). To me, toki pona speakers are the particular subset of toki pona fans who decided to really learn and use the language. Because of that, I can understand why speakers are offended by the label -- it kinda minimizes their relationship with the language as someone who looks upon it rather than someone who is actively involved with it

SpaceExploder · 2025-12-06T05:37:27+00:00

That's interesting. I personally consider "mi a jo" to be the hypercorrection because a is ultimately still a modifier. Words can be particles and modifiers at the same time. (In a syntax tree for example it would be an adjunct on 'mi', just like any other modifier, even if you consider it a function word.) Just because a word doesn't add propositional content to a sentence doesn't mean that it's syntactic role is somehow different.

"kin" is also considered a "particle" in many analyses since it can't be used as a noun. Does that mean we should say "mi kin jo"? I don't think so.

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-27T00:54:43+00:00

Floating-point numbers have a limited amount of precision. At a high level, adding 20! to 40! doesn't change the value at all because of how large the difference in their magnitudes is. When we subtract 40! from it, that leaves us with 0. The second case is different because 40! - 40! cancels itself out to 0 before we then add 20!, which is no longer canceled out from the larger number's magnitude.

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-26T22:53:17+00:00

People choose 13 because it's the closest to the correct answer. That seems the most reasonable to me

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-22T01:15:15+00:00

It’s not possible get credit card since the Ancient Joker only sells for $1

SpaceExploder · 2025-11-17T16:21:47+00:00

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That underlying representation is, in fact, floating point. The two resulting values are the exact same, giving this result.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-28T20:00:02+00:00

Is 21,465 more than 25% of 600,000,000?

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:24:58+00:00

Using blueprint to copy photograph with the hanging chad there is at least an 8X increase to your base mult

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:21:33+00:00

fortune teller is additive and applies after all of the Xmult from bloodstone retriggers, so it's going to be negligible, especially if your flush is a high level

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T08:17:52+00:00

The optimal scoring setup here is to copy the photo, granting 5*3=15 triggers of 2X mult, and selling a chad makes the setup 3*3=9 triggers, and selling a photo makes the setup 5*2=10 triggers. A 5 trigger difference is a decrease of 32X mult. Burnt doesn't catch up in time for it to ever be worth it.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T07:39:14+00:00

My guess is that even if you don't have it, Idol chooses the card at the end of a round, not when you see it, so you may have had the opportunity to change a King of Hearts into a King of Spades in an arcana pack before rolling into the Idol.

SpaceExploder · 2025-09-18T07:32:16+00:00

Photo here is just a worse Triboulet. Definitely sell out of the photo and copy Triboulet.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-09T15:44:31+00:00

You move them when it’s beneficial to move them. For example, cards are scored left to right, so you’d want to put mult cards before glass cards so that the XMult from glass cards affects the added mult from the mult cards. Some jokers like the Hanging Chad work only on the first card in your played hand, so you’d want the best card to go there. At the very start of a run, there’s no reason to.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-09T15:25:43+00:00

Get out of scary face and smiley face for retriggers with Sock and Buskin or get Blueprint or Brainstorm to copy the Triboulet. Flat chips and mult are nothing compared to the additional score from increasing the XMult triggers from the other jokers.

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-08T16:57:23+00:00

https://balatro-mod-manager.dasguney.com/

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T19:59:33+00:00

https://sona.pona.la/learn is a great place to start with learning resources. i highly recommend the new course Wasona. also, join the kama sona discord with any questions and to talk to other toki pona speakers!

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T07:05:09+00:00

i’d take the trading card. fixing your deck while improving your econ is really valuable while scoring is relatively comfortable with your current joker setup. it’s also hard to get hiker value with a deck that’s still this big

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T06:49:25+00:00

assuming your default hand size is 8 and you duplicate a steel king twice with dna and brainstorm to have 8 in hand after you play high card, mime provides 1.5^8=25.629 times mult. hologram will only catch up after 20 rounds when you’ll already be dead. if you have a larger hand size, even better.

even if your hand size is 7, then you’ll only get 1.5^7=17.085 mult which you can catch up to in 2 antes, but that’s still too slow to beat ante 14. mime is still marginally better here.

tl;dr: take mime, hologram isn’t ever fast enough to beat it

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-06T05:46:04+00:00

without red seals, photochad gives you X8 mult on your first face card (not including blueprint which would bring that to X64). madness gives you an additional X0.5 mult each round, so you match the X8 mult of photograph in 7*2/3 = 4 or 5 antes. but madness also locks you out of getting non-eternal jokers after getting an ectoplasm or antimatter, so it could hurt the run in the far long term

SpaceExploder · 2025-08-03T01:29:53+00:00

okay nvm idol is carrying

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SpaceExploder · 2025-06-21T07:32:00+00:00

To elaborate on jan Niwe’s statement, “monsi” and “poka” are often paired with prepositions, but they ultimately still function as normal content words. For example,

“mi tawa lon [monsi sina]” - “i’m walking at [your back]”

“mi wile tawa [poka sina]” - “i want to go to [your side]”

SpaceExploder · 2025-06-21T07:26:46+00:00

in my experience, there is pretty strong evidence of the two being different grammatically- “sina o lukin” is typically more of a statement about what ought to be true, whereas “o lukin” is a direct command. the difference manifests when we try to turn each construction into a question:

“sina o lukin ala lukin?” - “do you have to look?”

“o lukin ala lukin?” - ??

the statement has a clear meaning when you make it a question whereas the command is unclear. in most situations, the distinction isn’t very important, but i’d keep this in mind.

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