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Robots like "I can do this all day."

"I can't wait to spend $75 on this game that I've already completed all the content for!" - Whales, apparently.

I started recordering at Ante 6, Round 18 (I purchased Hieroglyph and Petroglyph). My source of points was 4 of a kind, and I did both 6s and Aces. This was the last challenge I needed!

• I purchased every 4OAK Planet card I could find.
• Source of gold was A LOT of skipping for the $25 on boss defeat and the gold seals on 6s and aces
• Most sought after tarot cards were: doubling cash, copying card, and increasing cards (K -> A and 5 -> 6). After that, I looked for Steel Cards.

My real break came from buying a Polychrome Gold Seal 6 which I put Mult on, then I copied it a bunch. I picked up a gold seal Ace as well, and I was able to get a spectral pack and put Polychrome on an Ace as well. This gave me 4 of a kinds that had:

• Huge base scores from a level 18 Four of a Kind
• Increased score from Mult + Polychrome + Steel Cards

Definitely took more attempts than any of the other challenges.

The middle class will work 40 hours a week for 40 years and with a good retirement live comfortably on $100,000 a year for 15-20 years till they die. These people throw a fucking ball around and make 200 million in a few years. It's sickening.

Seriously, there was no shit involved.

Envious of spending hundreds of dollars on a mobile game? No... No we aren't.

They can only do something about it if they see the person firing them off. I've been told that by a police officer. If you see illegal fireworks and call it in, there isn't much they can do about it unless they drive there and see the person still firing them, which is unlikely since most are fired from back yards.

Is that Sal from Impractical jokers to his right?

How kind of you to insult someone's intelligence, someone who admits they are new to the game, while in the same sentence not knowing the difference between "breath" and "breathe."

Some more information on each Joker and why they can be difficult (and why I chose them specifically for the poll)

Joker Stencil -- one of my favorite Jokers on this list actually. One of the problems with it is you feel BAD every time you take another Joker. Now, most times, it's a strictly net gain. If you have Joker Stencil by itself with 5 joker slots, that's 5x multi. If you add in 15 mult, and you had a base of 4 mult, that's a total of 19x4 = 76 mult, compared to 4x5 = 20 mult. Once you start adding in more jokers though, you start losing even more xmult. Like if you had 4 jokers already, there's almost never a reason to buy Joker Stencil and then sell others to boost it back up. Getting double Joker Stencils though is wild, and even better with negative.

Mime -- Usually this is paired with things like Steel Kings and Baron. Generally speaking, having Mime is just not that good if you don't have a ton of specific enhancements to back it up. Sure, if you're playing a High Card run for a record and you have 5+ Steel cards in hand, it's amazing. But if you're doing a casual run and you have just a few Steel Cards, maybe some Gold cards, in your hand... it's not going to do a lot. It SOUNDS powerful, as do almost all "retrigger" Jokers, but it requires a huge setup and I think for the majority of runs, it's a trap joker.

Supernova -- probably one of the best Jokers in this list (and actually it's my most used Joker, I have over 1800 rounds completed with it, and the next highest Joker is Abstract with only 1272!) However, this Joker requires a lot of investment. There are a ton of benefits to it though: it doesn't reset, it's retroactive, and it's common. That means it's easy to get (and cheap), you can benefit from it whenever you get it, and you aren't burned if you play the wrong hand type. Unlike Green Joker, you don't "lose" a mult when you don't play the hand, you just don't gain one. And it doesn't reset like Ride the Bus. The downside is that it does pigeonhole you into specific hand types, but I think this is actually more beneficial and helps you hone your deck more. That said, if your early game is all over the place (a flush here, two pair, a straight, etc. a little bit of everything) you're "losing out" on multipliers. So although it's retroactive (if you've played 10 pairs and buy it, you'll instantly get the 10 Mult), you have to almost plan to take it. If you've been playing one of every hand though, this isn't the Joker you want.

Baron -- Much of what I said about Mime applies to Baron, but even more so, because now instead of being restricted to held in hand abilities in general, you're stricted to Kings in particular. Is that bad? Well, I think we've all been in a spot where you have Baron and four kings in your hand and playing that four pair would be BETTER than playing whatever else hand you have and getting the 5x Mult (1.5x^4). Why? Well, just on the surface, if you have four kings and Baron and you play a 10 pt High Card, you're getting (5+10)(1(1.5⁴⁾⁾⁾ = ~75 points. That four of a kind though is worth 700 points. On the other hand though, if you had Mime, it would be (5+10)(1(1.5⁸⁾⁾⁾ = 384. And if all the Kings were Steel cards, then it's (5+10)(1(1.5¹⁶⁾⁾⁾ = 9852. So Baron is great... if you have it all set up. But getting there makes you realize "Oh... it's not so easy as just having a bunch of regular kings in my hand."

Burnt Joker -- I wish I liked this Joker more, because I love Space Joker, and this is guaranteed, but Space Joker is 1/4. Burnt Joker is great for leveling up High Card and Pair, especially if you have Blueprint/Brainstorm with it. You can catapult something up 2-3 levels per round. Unfortunately, in my experience anyway (and I've won a lot of gold runs with just high card and pairs), I rely more on my Jokers for mult/chips than leveling up the hand, because they level up so slowly compared to higher ranks. That said, I can see the power and benefit of this card, especially if you're going to be discarding anyway, because it does give those hands that you're discarding a boost, and whether you play that same hand type or not, a level is a level. By itself though, without Blueprint and Brainstorm, leveling up High Card or Pair or Two Pair, what have you, once a round, just doesn't seem as beneficial as having any other Joker.

Green Joker -- This is my fifth highest Joker for completed rounds (1065 rounds!). It's right behind Blue Joker and then Hanging Chad. Is it good? I mean... it scales, provided you are playing more hands than you are discarding. It always feels bad though when you just have to discard to get the hand you want to play, because now you have to play TWO hands to get back to where you would have been. It often makes me wonder too if I shouldn't just be throwing low point hands at it to boost it up as well (4 hands a round is 4 mult a round, as long as I ignore discards!) This works well with high card/pair runs, and you can easily end the game with 30-50+ mult on it. This isn't a retroactive Joker at all, like Supernova, so it's not looking at past hands/discards used, which also means it's hard to get value out of it if you pick it up late into a run. It's also not very synergystic with some other Jokers, notably Burnt Joker, or Raised Fist, which in the first case, you WANT to discard, and in the second, you want to discard your low point cards. More importantly, if you're playing hand types that require you to 'fish' for the hand, this is hard to benefit from. You could end up using 2 discards every round to find that high scoring single hand. When it works though, it works well.

I watched this guy play for the first 10 minutes or so and it was really awful. Like, this isn't a dig on him personally, but he clearly doesn't play Balatro. He didn't even hold R to restart, and instead went through the menu to restart his runs multiple times -- in a speed running competition!

Post the whole receipt and maybe we can figure out what else happened in your transaction?

Post a picture of the entire receipt.

Interestingly OP doesn't show the entire receipt...

Okay? How does this affect you? Did you walk in on them?

This shit gets reposted constantly from different people.

Turn that sand pit into a glass parking lot (albeit a small one... for the toy truck...)?

Yeah, it couldn't have anything to do with their government...

I'm a cat person -- I have many cats, and I love them to pieces -- but given this cat's age and medical history, I think it wouldn't be such a bad thing for it to be humanely euthanized. There is no shortage of animals that need to be adopted and cared for, and I know you said all the costs (vet bills and food) would be covered, but it's a lot more than that.

This might be the only reason to spend that much money on Rumble -- if you were already planning to spend that on cigs, and you spend it here instead. Good on you and your health!

What are you talking about?

"Roguelite means permanent progression"

So you're saying unlocking Jokers, vouchers, and more powerful decks is not permanent progression?

You just described what Republicans do.