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Haven't watched Giant Bomb in a minute, but I'm deep into Balatro so seeing Unprofessional Fridays on YouTube was both fun and bewildering. At least it made me feel better about my own skill at Balatro. Anyway, here's how you finish that seed.

Since this is a thread about tips: The mime and blueprint are the two most powerful cards. Everything past that doesn't scale well. The ID is still good for a while, though. To Mike's credit, DNA is a great early game card, but not for copying random crap, only to increase your steel cards, which are the only cards that matter late game.

I used the Spectral deck, because Spectral cards are the only way to solve the scaling problem. Red seal is the most powerful skill in the game, combined with the first two cards there, you can get to infinity numbers, but I'm not smart enough for that.

I got to like the 540 billion ante before crapping out. I couldn't get enough destroy cards. My last tip: Destroy a lot more cards than you think you should. If it's not a steel card, it's not a card.

I'm gonna go back to being mid at Balatro now. I cannot complete that Orange stake to save my life 😭

Don't forget that Twitch is also killing Nintendo Switch support this month.

Book of Memories don't sound so bad anymore now huh 😤

I agree that Dark and Darker needs a mention. It's such a weird situation that they have to try to drum up sympathy by publishing the game themselves, with pretty much exactly the trappings that people hate Nexon for. It's a whole thing among the Tarkov-esque streamers.

I agree that Unity is bad, real bad. I also think we're dealing with recent bias, however. A company putting its foot in its mouth happens yearly. The Overwatch stuff (as one group) is worse imo, as it's just an endless string of colossal fuck-ups; especially since it's a game that's had an infinite amount of time to rectify itself.

My thoughts: I think it sucks balls that the first F-Zero in decades is tied to Nintendo's worthless paying online system :) I'm not paying for a service I won't use to fiddle with the reanimated corpse of a once beloved franchise. I have the SNES cartridge, I can fire that up any time.

Luckily, the release schedule is so packed that I'll forget about its existence completely by next week. So will everyone else.

Yup

10 years and it's still truth that there will never be another Ryan Davis

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Another strong year of contenders. I, for one, won't be normalizing the "big game is unplayable" trend, just because it seems to happen more frequently. The state of Redfall was fully unacceptable.

I would like to add to this list: Overwatch League has signed yet another player who was found grooming minors. It's the 4th or 5th case, which is kinda unbelievable.

That was a wonderful Direct. Just so much cool stuff for any person to enjoy. Personal favorites are Palia, Silent Hope and Penny's Big Breakaway.

My only note is that I would've liked just a smidge more info about the Princess Peach game, because it looks like they're toning it down, rather than the sheer chaos of the DS game. I hope it stays weird, but in a better way.

Look at me, keeping the list quota going! Thanks for including them, always appreciate it 🙏