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I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

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ps Balatro is made in Canada. Playing it is a way to support Canadian. 😆 🎮

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Let me state this plainly: if @xbox.com cared about game preservation, it would use its enormous corporate power to push the Entertainment Software Association to pull back on its exercise of the DMCA and allow preservation organizations to do remote game access.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Beat my second deck on gold stake, first checkered now erratic. Really thought my cards dealt were going to ruin me, wasn’t getting my full houses but my last hand would have been enough to win it on its own. #balatro

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Three fights in the opening nine seconds?!? I thought this was supposed to be an allstar game?! #nhl #canada

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Started up Final Fantasy XIII about 15 years after falling off of it for being too linear- this actually seems good and maybe I should have finished it. The battle system is great, music is great, and it’s beautiful on Steam Deck.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Finished FFVII Rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom ⭐️⭐️⭐️ this week. Now deciding if I should jump into another long game like DA The Veilguard or something shorter like Blasphemous or Hellblade.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My Vizio-P65 has been a good TV, recently replaced it with an LG65B4 but it was being used in the basement- but at 6y10m it has died. TV just keeps rebooting, the Vizio home screen won’t load, AirPlay won’t display, and HDMI sources only show half a screen.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Preordered the only colour of founder’s edition that was left last night- black. Can’t wait to get into FPGA retro gaming.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Saved up 16M in Gran Turismo 7 for the McLaren F1 gr3. Kinda wanted the road car but it was 20M and I’ll probably use the gr3 more. #granturismo

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I might actually finish Final Fantasy VII Rebirth soon. Great game, even better on PS5 Pro but I think we could trim like 30 hours off and be better for it. #playstation

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly this five of a kind strat didn’t pan out. #balatro

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Welp, my #Balatro accolades are officially better on my phone than my Steam Deck.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

submitted 54 days ago • 91 comments

Duuuude #balatro

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Just barely won this run of Balatro on checkered deck, purple stake. Came down to the final hand and I really didn’t think the hand was going to be enough.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I know there’s a lot going on right now but why didn’t I replace VLOOKUP with XLOOKUP before?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

This beautiful joker came on a bad run where I failed the next boss blind anyway. #balatro

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Spent all day playing Gran Turismo 2 on my phone (with a Backbone). This game is still great.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

My son got like eight Lego sets so I don’t know when I will get to build mine. At least my controller dock was quick.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Retroarch has so many redundant menus but got GT2 running in high res. So crisp. (PCSX Re-ARMED, iPhone 13 Pro Max). Even got retro achievements to play nice, and then realized Wipeout XL doesn’t have an achievement list yet.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

It’s great having emulators on iOS but damn, Retroarch is still a mess. Played some Wipeout XL and Gran Turismo 2 - they look and run great but of course the settings just don’t seem to save. Magically my retro achievements eventually logged in on my last start up.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I haven’t played Okamiden before but the sequel announcement got my hyped to try it out. It’s charming and plays pretty well for a DS game - dpad movement, very low resolution. I think I should play it to the end.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The Game Awards was a good show this year, lots of awards for Astro Bot and Balatro. Also OKAMI and Intergalactic my word.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments