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umbkcshah
Two Pair
I think most, perhaps all, seeds are winnable in the early stakes once you get more experience. I value tarots and spectral over planets. They help shape the deck more to consistently hit desired hands. To likely to whiff desired planet.
Higher stakes, it's more RNG, but good players (not me) still have pretty high win rates. I tend to just pick something and force it.
I should start a new Stardew Valley save.
Colquhoun
4 of a Kind
With Balatro, planet cards can really help if you are playing one hand type often, especially if you get the voucher “every planet pack contains the hand you use most”. I once got two pair over level 20 doing this.
The spectral cards can be huge, especially if you get the card that gives a legendary joker. Those are often game-changers.
I use tarots often, to boost face cards, and destroy lower cards to create more enhanced face cards.
The spectral cards can be huge, especially if you get the card that gives a legendary joker. Those are often game-changers.
I use tarots often, to boost face cards, and destroy lower cards to create more enhanced face cards.
Some games I buy a lot of planets and try to max out certain hands. Other games I don't buy them much at all - especially when I have a Red Card, where the +3 mult across the board always seems to outweigh the value of picking one planet from a booster.
I also don't do a lot of deck manipulation, which is probably why I don't use spectrals/tarots much. I will often get to the end of a game with something very close to the standard 52-card deck.
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Legend5555
Full House
Walkabout Mini Golf is the best game on the platform my a large margin.
Kain8
Flush
VLDL is amazing. Ben's Dark Souls series is probably my favourite.
Ayo, Visage is VERY good. Horrifying so far, I haven't been this interested in a horror game in a decade, almost woke my wife up. I don't want to spoil anything, but its the most disturbing opening I've ever played and it doesn't quit. Few hours in and still hooked.
I've been following them for years. Really great content all around
RadicusScout
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I haven't really sat down with a single player game in a long while, just don't have the time or the energy, but consider me invested after wife and pup head to bed.
Tried to find a gif to represent the game BUT Visage is apparently a drag queen as well lol.
CincinattiKiddo
High Hand
I am playing: League of Legends, I know I can better spent my time doing something else, but this game is 
addictingggg
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RadicusScout
Flush
I'm fascinated by the horror genre (much to my demise) so when the demo of Visage came out, I hopped on Twitch and watched people playing this game. It was downright frightening / disturbing. Then I came back to the game after the official release and realized the demo was just that - a light demo. The official game is immensely dark and hauntingly disturbing. Yeah, there are are jump scares galore but it's way more than that. It's just downright creepy.
There is no way I'm ever going to play that. It's way too intense.
...until i played hollow knight. that game deserves all the hype - i had an absolute blast with it. i am now very much looking forward to silksong.
but i am still continuing on my metroidvania kick, and after bailing on a couple with high acclaim that didnt click for me (ori and the blind forest, guacamelee 2), i am now playing grime, which is more of a "soulsvania" and i am really, really digging it. it has stamina management combat, two different parry systems, good weapon variety, souls-like leveling and abstract lore, good platforming challenges, and tough but fair bosses. i am really, really enjoying it about 10 hours in.
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Almost done with all the gold stake decks in Balatro... Returned to Sekiro too, never beat it back on release. Game is amazing, I'll never get over how satisfying executing enemies is. Makes killing all the trash mobs actually fun unlike so many other games.
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Royal Flush
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Legend5555
Full House
Speaking of Metroidvanias, I just got done with Animal Well. A more puzzle oriented one. Highly recommend!
i definitely want to check it out, but holding out for a decent discount because i'm not sure it's going to be my thing.
Wish I had more free time to play Balatro - I've been averaging maybe 5-7 games a week?
I've definitely gotten a lot better since my last post. I'm taking more advantage of tarots, spectrals, and even standard packs, and I'm relying on planets a lot less often. I've beaten all the decks I've played so far on white stake and a couple on red, and a couple games ago I (finally) found my first legendary.
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Legend5555
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If you like mvanias, then you'll like it. There is no traditional combat, but there are a lot of really unique upgrades and tons of rewarded exploration.
Same, just played Balatro for the first time in a while last night. Got on a super easy run and ended up with 9 Aces and +4 to hand, just a walk in the park lol.
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Legend5555
Full House
About 6 hours if you don't go for completition. 10-12 if you go for everything. Plus it has speed run rewards.
Im clearly doing something horribly wrong, never got into scientific notation.
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Legend5555
Full House
When you get into endless, the only real way to "victory" is red seals and glass.
Took me a while to catch on to it, it's a very particular way of playing white stakes decks. Basically you're just trying to make a money engine deck to give you the rerolls to find some joker that scales x mult nearly endlessly. Baron is the best, bloodstone works, triboulet does too. Anything that retriggers your cards is great, so red seals, hack/sock and buskin, mime are all great depending on build. Blueprint/Brainstorm are almost always part of a great endless mode run. Invisible joker/showman can also help fill out your build if you can get lucky with them.
Anthony Martino
Royal Flush
Playing Crusader Kings 3. Started off in the early game start of the year 867 and now roughly 200 years from the games end around 1450.
Began in Sardinia as essentially a Count, believe they're called Judike's in Sardinia and I'm Orthodox instead of Catholic and have built up to a full Empire with multiple kingdoms, duchy's or archonates as well.
Trying to complete the "Unify Italy" option in the game which requires control over the entire region of Italia (one county left to snag) and then Illyricum as well which means I need to bang some heads in Bavaria, most of current Croatia and some of the Mongal Empire who took over the Byzantine territories.
But I need Cassus Beli claims on the locations so need to fabricate those or bring people into my court who have claims on territories I need. Got 200 years to get it done though and my military can field over 60K troops as well as having strong income to hire merc companies if needed as well.
Made the Pope my vassal, he's not too thrilled about it, but not much he can do at this point. USA USA USA!
Oooh, next time I'll have to create a custom kingdom called USA USA USA and paint the map red, white and blue!
Began in Sardinia as essentially a Count, believe they're called Judike's in Sardinia and I'm Orthodox instead of Catholic and have built up to a full Empire with multiple kingdoms, duchy's or archonates as well.
Trying to complete the "Unify Italy" option in the game which requires control over the entire region of Italia (one county left to snag) and then Illyricum as well which means I need to bang some heads in Bavaria, most of current Croatia and some of the Mongal Empire who took over the Byzantine territories.
But I need Cassus Beli claims on the locations so need to fabricate those or bring people into my court who have claims on territories I need. Got 200 years to get it done though and my military can field over 60K troops as well as having strong income to hire merc companies if needed as well.
Made the Pope my vassal, he's not too thrilled about it, but not much he can do at this point. USA USA USA!
Oooh, next time I'll have to create a custom kingdom called USA USA USA and paint the map red, white and blue!
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For years the only video game I played was College Football. After ten long years it’s back this summer! I will be buying a new console just to play it
umbkcshah
Two Pair
Done. Got Hit the Road early, and managed not to choke despite my best efforts.
Back to wasting time in Albion or VR stuff.
Rakrul
Straight
I just started playing Shadows of Doubt, which is in early access and will be for a while. It's a detective game with procedural tasks and minecraft-ish graphics. Since I love detective games, it's a time sink for me but not everyone's cup of tea.
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