The cure is one of the jokers. Just keep playing Balatro, you’re close to finding a way to quit.
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rockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Why play expensive games when you can get addicted to Balatro
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Sadly, the young’uns can no longer play the 18+ restricted card game that’s explicitly got zero gambling in it. They’ll have to get addicted to real gambling in EA sports games
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I don’t get the Balatro addiction stuff. It’s a good game, but after you’ve played it a few times it gets boring. Sure, “number go up” but it’s like people have never played a video game before. There’s so many Skinner boxes that, at least for me personally, it becomes numbing. I also don’t easily get sucked into other manipulative addicting things in other games though, so maybe it’s just something wrong with me.
What makes you continue playing Balatro after you’ve “figured it out?”
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
For me it’s 2 things :
- Making a deck that works so well that it crushes everything. -Getting shit cards and making it works.
The first one gets me hooked, the second one keeps me going. It takes a long time to figure it out, as you put it.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Once I “figured it out”, I realized I was beating the decks using flushes. So I decided trying different styles like building a deck for playing straights, full houses, two pairs. I found out you can play a full house flush. It isn’t on the list of poker hands so that was fun to stumble upon.
pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Playing different Antes, Decks and Challenges has kept it fresh and interesting for me: forcing me out of my comfort zone to find new combinations and strategies that works. It might help to change the game speed to 4x so it’s not so showy with the jokers and you can iterate different strategies faster. Or it’s not your thing. Nothing wrong with that.
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I find it fun
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 months ago
With how much Factorio I’ve played, I’m down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I’m nowhere close to done.
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’ve played like 50 hours of Factorio in 2 weeks, then it started feeling like a job. Not in a sense that it was a chore, but in a sense that I literally do this kind of automation and optimization at my job, and I enjoy the process.