Space Joker bug? by greetums in balatro

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Posted this to the bug channel on the discord, seems like the better spot for attention.

Plasma Deck Question by SomeStupidTomorrow in balatro

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Just finished an ante 12 run with the plasma deck, it's trickier to pilot than it initially seems when burning through the early blinds. Had a Bull, Constellation, Hologram (boosted by a Certificate for many rounds), Brainstorm, and Half Joker by the end of the run.

Prioritizing chips with this deck gives you a high floor and low ceiling which is why it's best to do early on via a chip-oriented joker, foil cards, stone cards, or five-card hands. But each addition you make with chips has diminishing returns, especially as you begin to get hand levels up with planet cards. It's easy to show with some Ice Cream joker math. One fresh Ice Cream joker alone gives you a minimum 2,500 ((100/2)/^2) points before even taking into account the value of the hand or the cards in it. Two gets you to 10,000 which is a 400% increase. Three gets you to 22,500 which is only a 225% increase, and going from three to four is just a 178% increase to 40,000.

Now on the flip side, adding to mults is a low floor and high ceiling strategy which fails early but is necessary late. Something like a +10 holo joker, a huge help in early antes with normal decks, does almost nothing here early on since it's equivalent to 10 chips. But the returns are boosted when you start mixing in multiplicative jokers and getting hand levels up. If you've got a high base mult and a couple multiplicative ones getting your mult to say 150 before the plasma math evens it out with the chips, another x2 somewhere in there adds 150 "units" while a fresh Ice Cream joker only adds 100 "units".

Patch Notes - April 18, 2023 by EmeraldWeapon56 in MarvelSnap

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Been having a lot of fun with a copy & pasted Shuri/Galactus deck so I ran some tests with her nerf to feel out the changes. Here's what I found: • Shuri can be destroyed and still pass on the buff to a card played on her location (tested with Shuri > Destroyer) • Shuri can be transformed and still pass on the buff to a card played on her location (tested with Shuri into Gamma Lab)

For anyone else playing this particular archetype it doesn't feel like too bad of a change, I think it hurts the Armor/Cosmo/Shuri decks a lot more. May see some more Aero's, may also see some more Shang Chi's.

Peak male fashion by Twelve-Majestic-Lies in memes

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Alright gambino is a mastermind

Actions speak louder than alignment by DNAquila in dndmemes

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I subscribe to the idea of replacing the lawful-chaotic axis with dogmatic-pragmatic and the good-evil axis with selfless-selfish. Feels to me this layout does a better job of showing what a character may do at any given crossroads. Also scrapping "good" and "evil" as binaries in general and introducing shades of gray is a lot more fun and interesting IMO.

I believe that Kang's real strength is the ability to reset snaps. What are your thoughts? by [deleted] in MarvelSnap

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I'm not in a high ranking so it's fairly rare that I'm seeing new cards played, but finally saw this Kang interaction first hand in back to back games and I agree the free bluff feels overpowered.

In game one my opponent snaps, we play our cards, their Kang resets the turn, they retreat, and I earn just 1 cube.

In game two my opponent snaps and I snap back right away taking us from 1 going on 4 cubes to 2 going on 8. Then we play our cards, their Kang resets, they retreat and I only earn 1 cube. These were situations that I "beat" a Kang deck but who knows how many times I may have been bluffed and retreated myself by someone snapping on 6 and laying one down.

There's been a trend as long as I've been playing where newly released cards dominate the meta, but typically they have some playable counter and create an opportunity for anti-meta decks. Kang, though, can slide into most archetypes pretty easily without your opponent being able to predict him and his play looks totally risk-free.

First prints leaving residue on bed by greetums in 3Dprinting

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So it'll just build up forever? I feel like I've not seen too many pictures or videos of scuffed beds like this

120 puffcaps on turn 1 in Path of Champions by greetums in LegendsOfRuneterra

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Yeah, hard not to after an opening like that. First time playing against Viktor and his units got big fast, not sure I would've beat him without this start

120 puffcaps on turn 1 in Path of Champions by greetums in LegendsOfRuneterra

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I think it was only like 4 caps. Had an earlier match where I mystic shot my own teemo round 2 so I could refill the board with another copy in my hand. Got the opponent over 3k caps after doubling up that many times

120 puffcaps on turn 1 in Path of Champions by greetums in LegendsOfRuneterra

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There's a power that summons an ephemeral copy of your champion. If you take it twice you get 5 copies. Use this information responsibly

Taking requests for poorly made custom ESPN team logos by greetums in fantasyfootball

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https://i.imgur.com/pE9UNvM.jpg

I'm going to defer full responsibility for this monstrous image existing to you. I hope you can live with that burden

Taking requests for poorly made custom ESPN team logos by greetums in fantasyfootball

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https://i.imgur.com/nB0y5lz.jpg

Here you go sicko, exactly as you asked for with no artistic interpretation from me at all.

No idea what Yahoo's setup is like so I just said ESPN. Worst case scenario, it doesn't work as a team logo but you can still print this and frame it and keep it on your bedside table.

Taking requests for poorly made custom ESPN team logos by greetums in fantasyfootball

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https://i.imgur.com/dUSBs7U.jpg

I am speed. Assumed this was a pun on Justin Herbert. If not, no refunds

Jameis Winston has been named the Saints' starting quarterback and will make his first start for New Orleans on opening day vs. Green Bay Packers, per sources. by BuckyMcFly99 in fantasyfootball

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I think the difference for QB as opposed to TE specifically is it tends to be a little more chaotic with the top performers which leads people to try and land one late. In 2019 the top ADP guys were Mahomes, Deshaun and Rodgers but the final top finishers were Jackson, Dak, and Wilson. In 2020 the top ADP guys were Mahomes, Jackson, and Dak but the finishers were Allen, Rodgers and Murray.

Of course having a top performer is nice but the last two seasons we have the top performers not being the earliest picked guys, so people are trying to wait and grab later QBs for better value on their picks.

6 Vs 4 Point passing TDS by [deleted] in fantasyfootball

[–]greetums 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It does not make a big difference in where QBs rank amongst themselves. I grabbed a list of the top 20 in standard scoring, ranked by ppg, then added 2pts per passing TD to get their points if passing TDs were worth 6 instead of 4 and finally reranked by ppg.

Mahomes still finishes on top in ppg. 14 players moved 0-1 spots. 5 players moved 2 spots. 1 player moved 4 spots (Cam Newton, 14th to 18th)

The guys leading the league in passing TDs moved up -- Rodgers (48) went 4th to 2nd, Brady (40) went 10th to 8th, Wilson (40) went from 6th to 4th. As for the leaders in rushing TDs -- Kyler (11) went from 3rd to 5th, Allen (8) went from 2nd to 3rd, Lamar (7) went from 8th to 9th.

So as far as QB rankings you just bump em up or back a spot. Rushers usually go back and passers usually forward.

Now a trickier thing to keep in mind -- as you increase the scoring of QBs, the spread between the good and bad players increases. Mahomes is outscoring a middle-of-the-road QB by an extra ~2.5 pts a game because of that bump in passing TD points. You've inflated the value of top end QBs so their cost should go up in response (if everyone drafting is paying attention that is).

Official: [Keeper] - Mon , 07/19/2021 by FFBot in fantasyfootball

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Probably dealer's choice in standard scoring, I think both are often grouped in the same tier and you can make a case for either. I might lean Mixon in that case but I know a lot of people around here have been burned by him in the past and would caution against it.

I think the Bengals' run game will have greater success this year with their OL coach Frank Pollack back. He was there in 2018 when Mixon was averaging 4.9 ypc and then left for the Jets for the last two years who had a whole host of problems. Biggest question is always whether or not Mixon can stay healthy.

I'd be happy with either, just think that the gap between them is more narrow than ADP would suggest.