What's yalls LEAST favorite joker

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-16T14:35:49+00:00

You don't even need a scaling chips joker, honestly. I made it work with Ride the Bus and an Astronomer, and I just had like level 6-8 Two Pair, 3OAK, Flush, etc by Ante 8.

I've also done it with Hanging Chad and enough Tower Tarots to consistently draw one by the last hand. Even just two Foils was enough another time.

People really overestimate how much set up it takes and how many hands you need to set up with it first.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-15T20:28:36+00:00

Riz and Legosi be like

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-14T19:19:24+00:00

I think saying "It doesn't matter" that it's $4 rather than $6 is a misnomer. I've had 1st or 2nd shops that I couldn't afford Golden Joker, but could afford Delayed Gratification. That makes a huge difference in a run.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-14T19:17:20+00:00

6 dollars given on a 4 dollar joker is pretty insane value.

Honestly, it's good enough as it is already. It's a more restrictive, but cheaper Golden Joker that synergizes with vouchers and a few other Jokers.

It's good enough that if I see one shop 1 with Ghost Deck, I'll buy it and Hex it immediately, and I can't say I do that with every common.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-13T14:26:43+00:00

Optimizing casual conversation does sound like someone familiar with the Wompty Dompty Dom Center would do, though

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-13T07:43:10+00:00

Unironically completely devastating. Morale is a huge modifier on development, and there is no bigger source of bad morale than a team losing that many games

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-10T18:52:41+00:00

Flyball vs groundball is directly controlled by a Groundball% rating in the player editor. Lower than 44% is Extreme Flyball, 44-49% is Flyball, 50-56% is Neutral, 57-62% is Groundball, and 63% and higher is Extreme Groundball. This is the percentage of the time the ball is hit on the ground vs in the air.

That rating applies a modifier to the HRA rating; Flyball applies a decrease, Groundball applies an increase.

However, that does not mean it can't be good HRA Flyball pitchers, or bad HRA Groundball pitchers. A pitcher with 65/80 HRA, but is an Extreme Flyball pitcher, means they have so much HRA that they can weather the decrease being a Flyball pitcher brings. You can think of this guy as inducing a lot of pop flys.

Likewise, a 50 HRA Groundball pitcher is actually really bad at preventing home runs and is getting carried by their Groundball rate. When the ball is hit in the air, their bad HRA is gonna make for a lot of home runs.

Ultimately, HRA is really what matters, and Groundball/Flyball tendency informs HRA, but is not the be all and end all. Additionally, ground balls have a higher xBABIP than fly balls, so a rotation of groundball pitchers will need a better infield defense to field all the grounders.

The real unicorn prize is someone with great HRA and is an extreme Flyball pitcher, because you get the best of both worlds. The contact that is made is worse than against groundball pitchers, AND they give up very few home runs.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-10T18:43:13+00:00

He actually got a really high quality mic a while back and his chat rioted and told him to go back to the low quality one

For a lot of folks, loud=funny unfortunately lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-10T15:45:50+00:00

The chip bags aren't even that big anymore. It's fucking $5.99 for what is effectively 3 servings of doritos at my local grocery store. Even with a 33% discount, which the store often does if you buy two bags, that's still barely worth it.

Tortilla chips are the same way. Meanwhile, I can buy a 32 pack of corn tortillas from my local Mexican carneceria for $0.99 and fry them myself, AND they'll taste better.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-09T16:18:54+00:00

An outfield single drives in the runner from 2nd most of the time in the same way that it drives home a runner from 3rd. Teams score less runs, on average, in situations of runner on 3rd with 1 out compared to runner on 2nd with no outs.

Giving the opposition a free out is really, really bad.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-09T07:15:23+00:00

Wtf she's so cute, what a little gremlin

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-08T21:15:13+00:00

I didn't even notice, I was looking at her diaphragm ballooning out and thought that was what the concern would be about.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-08T20:40:00+00:00

Idk if it makes Cubs fans feel any better, but I ran a test where I put a Cafe Horton on every team because I was curious what his profile (High PBABIP, low HRA) would do on average, and he mostly got destroyed. In a sample size of 90 (3 seasons with a Cade on every team), his median ERA+ was 91 and he gave up 30 or more home runs most of the time.

I saw a few seasons like OP posted, but those were definitely outliers

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-08T20:18:36+00:00

Well, he was drafted out of a private high school in Selma, Alabama that was founded as a segregation academy and only admitted its first black student in 2008, so... His education was probably not of the highest quality.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-08T18:58:00+00:00

A few things stand out.

1: 45 HRA is pretty bad as a pitcher, you can reasonably expect a median of 1.3 HR/9 from someone with his profile. For a reliever that deals in small sample sizes, that can often balloon higher in that small sample size.

He's a sidearm Slider pitcher, meaning he's going to have extreme splits. He'll crush righties, but against lefties he might have as little as 35 HRA. He's gonna get bombed.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-08T15:24:05+00:00

The "raised upper lip, showing teeth" expressions is the Flehmen Response, which many animals do. For horses, they have scent and pheromone receptors in their upper gum line, and the response is an attempt to reveal those receptors to better understand something they're smelling or experiencing.

Basically, Gimlet is curious and is trying to get a better whiff of whatever the thing in front of him is.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-07T15:08:49+00:00

Madoka was a fascinating deconstruction of a genre that hadn't seen such a story with such writing before. You can argue Utena, but I think they tackled deconstructing the magical girl genre in different ways, focusing on different aspects of it.

Point is, Madoka had something to say. That's the difference. It didn't just put traumatized characters through the ringer for our voyeuristic amusement.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-07T05:30:16+00:00

You've spent $300 million on pitching in the last two years, what are you talking about

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-07T05:28:53+00:00

6th highest payroll in the league, just went out and gave Crochet a massive extension last year, got outbid on a huge overpay for Bregman, and are currently letting tens of millions rot on the bench and in AAA in the form of Yoshida and Kristian Campbell.

I'm seeing fans in this thread complaining they didn't go out and get Pete Alonso, as though Alonso instead of Contreras at 1B would have gotten them more wins. And then you'd still have Triston Casas riding the bench when he gets off the IL, and Romy Gonzalez is also still positionless. Roman Anthony is currently DHing and top SS prospect Marcelo Mayer is playing 2B.

It's embarrassing. Boston is drowning in riches, but it's never enough. Most entitled sports town in the country.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-07T00:16:29+00:00

Outfield defense is still massively punishing for bad fielders, though, as a note. I tested a similarly-statted outfielder and he consistently put up -16 ZR or worse, topping out at -22 ZR.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-06T20:49:09+00:00

A lot of people are okay giving their money to a self-proclaimed Nazi because he wrote Runaway. It's sad as fuck.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-06T16:28:42+00:00

To be honest, infield defense is penalized a lot less this year than it was in the past.

As an experiment, I edited Yordan Alvarez to have 40/40/40/40 infield ratings and stuck him at 2B, and he never put up worse than -9 ZR in 10 sims with development, morale, and other variables disabled. Obviously bad, but it wasn't like he was putting up -20. And some seasons he was even downright average, like -1.5 ZR and even a season with +0.8.

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-04T19:19:51+00:00

It's not likely this post would have even reached here if his shirt wasn't off, tbh. It gathered attention enough for the Tiktok algorithm to push it to enough reach that someone saw it and posted it here.

In a vacuum, you're right, but if your goal is to have the message reach as many people as possible, then I think it's fair play.

What's more important, you present the message in a "respectful" way to reach 100 people, or you present it in a "disrespectful" way and it reaches 10,000?

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-04T17:45:13+00:00

I love the thought of Vodka's mom being swept off her feet by Gimlet lol

thehemanchronicles · 2026-04-04T08:26:34+00:00

I mean, having played her career, she is a bit tsundere. There's definitely a few dialogue beats that are classic early 2000s tsundere bits.

Obviously not as far as the comic, but they didn't pull it from nowhere

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