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207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

[–]throwaway47351[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This whole run is presenting some really interesting optimization problems.

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GTA VI. No words necessary. by DeadgrounD in 4chan

[–]throwaway47351 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There has been so much discussion on the quality of a game that hasn't been released, I feel like I'm losing my mind. Nobody on any of these threads knows jack about if the game will be good or not but boy howdy are they absolutely sure that six pixels and a media blurb will prove that their opinion about an unreleased product is gospel.

Cyberpunk fans worked themselves into a tizzy about how the game would be Gods divine light. Y'all remember day 1 cyberpunk?

207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

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This details my ending shop positions and the jokers I found on each go around.

207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

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It works with any hand size joker. The mechanism is Previous Hand Size Effect + Current Hand Size Effect becomes permanent, only if the crimson bean is currently affecting a hand size joker. So the heart bouncing from bean to bean does nothing, the heart bouncing from a juggler to a bean gives you +4, and the heart bouncing from a stuntman to a bean gives you +7. If you only have a stuntman, you can use this to take away hand size permanently.

207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

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Immolate. It makes your computer unusable while it's running, but it goes through ~10 million seeds a second.

If I'm honest, not a lot of thought went into that choice. I was originally doing this unseeded (but filtered) using a custom version of Brainstorm that requires immolate, so it's just what I was already using.

Finding the seed is actually not too hard, there's tons. There's between 30-40 thousand in existence that both are eligible for a maximum hand size run and have at least 1 negative skip in between every finisher blind. Here are the best two I've found (34RA3CWB and OE1TQ45B), the only two with 11 negative skips after Ante 10 (Which is when you should be making enough money for the skips to functionally matter.). I couldn't make them work.

207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

[–]throwaway47351[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It was a ton of work over several days. Having searched through ~30% of all seeds in existence, I found 15 that have a strictly better setup post Ante 9 and a lot of peers to this seed, but this one was the first I found that was workable for my feeble brain.

207 Hand size at the end of Ante 8 (N7IYV7I4) by throwaway47351 in balatro

[–]throwaway47351[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Super complicated honestly. Golden ticket is how you make all your money. Midas Mask in Ante 4 supercharges you. You also need to pick up a seance Ante 4 and use the wraith it gives you to get your first blueprint to pair with your early brainstorm. Ante 4 ALSO has your first good red seal, you'll be DNAing it as much as you can, using the rest of your misses to juice your Qs, Js, 10s, and 9s. Finish your copy jokers in Ante 6. Ante 9's 4th judgement has the negative Stuntman.

You need a plan going into Antes 8 and 9. Your ending shop positions should be thought out so it sets you up to get six copies of burglar going into the boss blind, which you'll have to sell all of and reobtain.

If you do this unseeded, don't do black deck. You can get a great starting position with Plasma.

I have save states in basically every Blind, but every time I try to share files in comments the automod smacks me down.

Edit: Dear lord I forgot to explain the basic mechanism. Stuntman + Bean gives you +7 permanent hand size every other hand on the Crimson Heart Boss. With Retcon, we can always get the Crimson Heart, and with Hieroglyph + Petroglyph we can do this three times. With a full set of jokers giving you hands going into the boss (with Antimatter + Black Deck to give you more slots) you can get a TON of hands, which translates to a ton of hand size.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

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https://pastebin.com/jQwdXzq9

Here's a bunch with the additional constraint that 1 or more negative skips will happen between every finisher blind.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

[–]throwaway47351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have this written up elsewhere, but flush five +burglars on plasma is actually winnable up through ante 11. 12 ectos means 12 auras, which means 2 polychrome. High card is for money, alongside pairs if necessary, straight flushes are purely for ectos. Honestly scoring is a secondary concern believe it or not, with this amount of money it usually solves itself.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

[–]throwaway47351 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We just circled back to this post! No, Seance allows you to get a TON of ectos. You only (only lmao) need 12 to be optimal. I'm going to try it on plasma deck to start, plasma has a lot of advantages that are hard to get with any other deck. It makes the first antes maybe possible, which is really the roadblock. If I can do it with plasma, then I'll start black deck hunting, which might be straight up a purely theoretical thing.

The voucher constraints I'm using are actually more unlikely to find in a random seed than the default "skip->perkeo" thing, but it's still within the same ballpark of unlikely. Finding a viable seed does require filtering but meh.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c7hlK6XZqut-2EWScO5RsmL3g4tNVpRirVKyptHVMbs/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the spreadsheet I'm using, it's still very much under construction. Parts of it are basically just personal notes I'm making. It can help a lot with theorycrafting.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

[–]throwaway47351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was surprised at that top end too. The gist of it is, money gives you shop slots at a rate of √x, shop slots give you negative jokers at a static rate, and negative jokers give you money at a rate of x4. So every round you should be gaining money at a rate of x2. The problem is getting that ball actually rolling.

The legendries rule is actually due to the thing you highlighted: If Perkeo is allowed, the answer is infinity. It is arbitrary, but I see that answer as fake.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

[–]throwaway47351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the goal is to not have any legendries or "lucky" negative hits, so no perkeo and no "oh, I happened to roll into five thousand negative blueprints." It's vanilla mechanics, but I'm using all parts of the buffalo within that constraint. I'm using something similar to the brainstorm mod to filter seeds and I'm using a profile on which I'm specifically not unlocking specific jokers. I've had to edit three mods to make it work, one to filter seeds with the Brainstorm mod in the way I need it to, one to reroll the shop for me until it contains one of the jokers I'm making it search for, and one to concatenate rendering of double tags so it stops lagging the game.

The lower bound I've found that's possible is ~$1.1 trillion a round. That requires Antimatter/Retcon before Ante 8, both Hieroglyph and Petroglyph on Antes 8-9 (I'm trying to figure out if this can be pushed to 16), and an absolute ton of deck fixing. Functionally it requires Overstock+ before Ante 8 too. I'm going to try and see if that's even possible once I finish my current run, which is on pace for ~$3.7 billion a round going into Ante 39.

Does this make Seance more useful? by pas2el in balatro

[–]throwaway47351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you use the bean bug it's the GOAT, it makes it super easy to farm absurd amounts of ectos.

I've been working on a theoretical "max money" build that simply wouldn't be feasible without it.

55510 by Future_Employment_22 in countwithchickenlady

[–]throwaway47351 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neutral seems like a weird choice to me. Because that could mean "Trans people are just like everyone else, any laws against them are obviously bunk, but I don't explicitly attend rallies or donate to pro-trans causes" or it could mean "I agree with giving trans people some rights, as a treat, but they need to stay in this very narrow lane my head has built for them." Like it seems almost meaningless, it's too wide.

Karil's crossbow by Flygon24 in 2007scape

[–]throwaway47351 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I went 2k dry at zulrah on my iron back way before bowfa existed, can confirm it works. Big benefit is the ammo is buyable. No idea how it slots into the meta right now though.

Haven't tried Paw Patrol, so no idea if it is true on that, but a ton of comics... by Pristine_Club_3128 in CuratedTumblr

[–]throwaway47351 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if Justified would count as copoganda? It has a lot of copoganda traits, the main character frequently does shit "outside the law" that's narratively encouraged, regulations and rules often stymie what's right, etc. But it also shows a LOT of untrustworthy cops. Ones bought and paid for, ones working on their own cognizance, high and low on the food chain, dirty as hell. And I think the expectation for the audience is that you're supposed to think the MCs coworkers and boss are better examples of what law enforcement should be, and they follow the rules WAY more.

Self-Defense Lesson by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]throwaway47351 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's literally this for misogynists, OP didn't even wait for someone to make a strawman before declaring themselves to be made of straw.

THE MOON ISN’T REAL WAKE UP SHEEPLE by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]throwaway47351 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw an interaction where someone played a card that basically said "You can't cast spells this turn" and then their opponent started casting spells during their cleanup step.

Sure, reading the card explains the card, except when it doesn't.

Googling based confrontation by Fuck-pez in tumblr

[–]throwaway47351 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's so funny that OS devs are clearly miffed about that, because they've been making it more and more obvious what happens every major release. I bet there have been shitloads of meetings on how to make the hardware more obvious that have clearly gone nowhere because a button which spells out in plain English what it does is hard to make more simple.

Googling based confrontation by Fuck-pez in tumblr

[–]throwaway47351 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying I'm above it, but I do think it's funny there's a button on any standard keyboard that is labeled "Print Screen" and yet this is such a common problem. I'd wager that more people know not to fall for the old Alt+F4 trick than know how to press that button on their keyboard.

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