I got one yesterday, first card out the front of the pack (which seemed odd).

One of our bedrooms before the reno was definitely narrower than 3m, as I once almost got trapped in it when constructing a KALLAX 5x5 shelf (was basically slightly wider than the shelf was tall).

Do you have such skills as asking “hey mate whats your mobile number?”, dressing like a grease ball and being an absolute dog, then real estate is the industry for you

If you saw my next post, I said games that have actual gambling mechanics are worse than the new wave indie rogue-likes. Balatro has (almost) no gambling mechanics. It’s a deck builder, with mathematical modifiers, that happens to use poker rules for scoring. The gambling in it is pack opening.

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Definitely worth investigating, and I wasn’t trying to knock your article. My gripe is more with policies and classification systems that link these types of games to real world problems, when there is no correlation.

And those simple Questron gambling mechanics had WAY MORE in common with real world gambling than Balatro ever will. Clover Pit is easier to make a correlation with, but hell, if I could take lucky charms with known effects with me to the casino maybe I’d become a professional gambler.

Yeah, I get it. But to me these rogue-like number sims are so clearly separate from any form of actual gambling that I don’t understand the problem.

I played Questron growing up, and that had gambling mechanics where you’d play roulette or other games of chance to increase your in game money.

Show me the studies on people who have beaten Balatro, have achieved NaNinf hands and then dropped their life savings into joining the WSOP tour.

All of these games are maths games, with a gambling facade. None of them are gambling games, because gambling requires risking your money for the possibility of gaining more money. There’s more gambling in loot boxes than any of these games.

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This would have slapped on OG Twitter.

I’ve had a great time with my dedicated Astro Bot device.

I’m still playing… am I done now? Probably not…

Double spell relic is OP. I could have got myself to like 50 chest openings before another enemy… but oops, no grid space.

Yeah, I was quite annoyed the big gems couldn’t be amalgamated. Had a game where I had so much magic I had to wash away potions just to clear space.

I worked it out last night, then my phone died while I was in an extremely good position. :(

But I replicated this morning.

Indeed, though I prefer the magic buff.

You can (sometimes) afford to wash away a bowl of blood, but so far I can’t see a way to do better than that.

I’m up to like 59 or something crap (having played it since seeing your post). I’m struggling to see how to get to the relics.

If war in the Middle East can increase petrol prices by 30%, why shouldn’t mass layoffs in the video game industry increase games by 30% too?

Decent bit of moon tonight

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They let his dog in though. Shocking.

Such an exciting prospect, I just hope he can stay healthy for the majority of his career.

We have almost no winter sports experts to call on. The same basic commentary team were just flown in direct from the Australian Open, it seems.

The first tennis grand slam of the year will have many tiebreakers, and this opens up numerous opportunities for the youth to express their 6-7’s.

Slop is a type of food.

He wrote “Mexican/Spanish/American wife” because it entirely depends on which sock puppet account he’s logged into.

Mr Belvedere should have opened for England.