I Broke Balatro by using Terrifying Seed Science

My hand in Balatro now scores more chips than atoms in the observable universe. We've completely broken Balatro.
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[@RTGame]

I have defeated gambling. Thank you to our Discord Professor Jolteon and many lab assistants for making this possible

[@StickMaster500]

You know RT has the strongest seed known to man when he lasted for 4 hours Balatroin’ all over the place

[@megasoma_elephas]

Praise the alliance of the Poker Wizards!!

[@awesome118-smmo]

no you haven’t, you need to get 1.79e308 (java integer limit) to truly win

[@blacksmeim8791]

Now you can never play Balatro again

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

Hey artie I think the p NG tuber is really cute.However, I wanted to let you know that I miss seeing your nice handsome, happy smi.Hope we get more streams with your real face soon

[@SoZettaSlow]

Guy walks into a casino. Puts a bunch of shiny illegal cards on the table, plus a picture of an idol, the schematics of the idol, a few drawings, and three signed pictures of Dane Cook. Dealer gives him a few Octovigintillion chips, more than the atoms in the known universe. Guy cashes out for twenty six bucks.

[@codexstudios]

Gold

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

Isn't that the plot of an anime?

[@anxiety_ridden3]

i wanna make this an anime. i need this.

[@gilroyscopa]

The authentic casino experience!

[@travbony8768]

Inflations a bitch

[@SS-gt2rk]

For frame of reference because the final number is so big; if you stacked 2.433e96 ants on top of each other they would not like it very much!

[@CR1MSONACE]

What if it was 2.433e96 Elephants though?

[@SS-gt2rk]

​@@CR1MSONACE I am not an elephant expert so I do not know, I apologize

[@Nikotov3]

​@@CR1MSONACEniko!!!!!!

[@Tinybabyfishy]

​@@CR1MSONACEI am almost, but not entirely, certain that the ants wouldn't mind so much if it were 2.433e96 elephants

[@PrimordialChaos-ll7os]

Y’all are comedy geniuses

[@Galantium]

there's a quote thats like "if given the chance players will optimize the fun out of a game" but this is one of those times where its not just optimized but full decimation to where it becomes fun again but like in a morbid curiosity way

[@iaxacs3801]

I genuinely believe that applies to things involving farming for games like MMOs, for games where the goal and the fun is to get as far into it as possible or in the case of speedrunning as quickly as possible optimization is a way to enhance the fun. Like a Rube Goldberg machine

[@blakksheep736]

Sometimes, it's not about building a game that doesn't break, it's about building a game that breaks in _just_ the right way...

[@Ikxi]

fun reached the lower end of the integer limit

[@Nowolf]

this is truly the final game of balatro

[@supermoo7087]

@@blakksheep736exactly, also a game like this turns breaking into a sort of communal event and I think that’s very cool

[@noods1406]

I love how the score goes from “really high” to “only quantifiable by mere ideas”

[@charliegibson4016]

It so quickly becomes mathematically impossible

[@aidanfarnan4683]

You know, in many Asian cultures the number "Four" is a homophone for death, and of the four suits of a playing card Spades are often associated with death. I'm mentioning this because Dan's 4 of spades build killed this game.

[@gilroyscopa]

And Death was his most used tarot card as well!

[@trulymrword]

It's like poetry

[@joganesha4151]

The prophecy writes itself

[@VeryPeeved]

@@trulymrword It rhymes.

[@thepotatoportal69]

@@trulymrword 35:25 "Goodbye family, we hardly knew you". This represents how by this point, Dan has truly given everything up and exchanged his humanity for raw power. Dan has abandoned his family and missed his kids growing up in order to achieve greatness, and he has become detached from all emotions, bar the thrill of power. It marks the final turning point where Dan finally becomes death. His dark sorcery has corrupted his very soul and turned him into a true monster who has forgotten what it means to love.

[@Iplay37]

and so Icarus flew higher and higher, his wings slowly melting, but he flew anyway, not caring for the wings he now shed, until he reached the sun and and accepted his place among the great.

[@MrWooaa]

And once there he surveyed all he had conquered and spoke the immortal words. "Convert the card into the right card"

[@monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039]

I think this Icarus got polychome wings... And for some reason they are not melting

[@זהסודי-ה7מ]

"Everything can fly with enough thrust" McDonnell Douglas, 1961, probably

[@HO-bk7kf]

"accepted his place among the great"?, no, forged will but his will alone his place within the stars themselves

[@overextra8691]

"when playing poker, you can lose 100% of your money, but you can win 3000%, do the math boy" - My father (i havent seen him in 16 years)

[@Wrath-_-]

I read this in RTGames voice 💀

[@RyluRocky]

$0 * 30 (3,000%) = $0

[@malaizze]

Trucy Wright is that you?

[@Blukat2-pb8lx]

1000th like

[@Thr3leven]

​@Wrath-_- Eyyy my turn to be that guy 3000% of 0 is still 0. 0 * 0 = 0

[@dizzy_eevee]

main channel only viewers NEED to know that like 90% of the souls music in this video isn't edited in. the music timing in this stream was INSANE

[@carsonh1532]

You are joking right? The musical timing is insane!

[@misamagica]

NO WAY

[@Sherirk]

@@misamagica you can see it at 22:20

[@yoshigalxyed4664]

i want a list of which songs were used i want it for the bit, because my mind wants to mess with someone's head

[@katiekatecat]

@@yoshigalxyed4664like 90% of it was the godskin theme lol, radagon’s theme was there as well. I thought I heard a bit of godfrey but honestly can’t remember (oh and also Elden beast was there too it was all Elden Ring lol which is fair cuz it’s a banger ost)

[@YourSilverFriend]

1) Appeasement of ancient, omniscient deity... (AnonJolteon, chat) 2) ...giving him access to the heretical casting of deep magic... (RNG manipulation) 3) ...through rigorous study of the forbidden texts... (discord science) 4) ...granting him power unfathomable and lovecraftian. (scoring 4 untrigintillion points) In conclusion, Daniel played as a Warlock on this run. No further questions, your honor.

[@broeretop1]

Sounds like heresy to me brother

[@OtterAle-TheOtterestOfAles]

YES@!

[@Warlock_Le_Moron]

Can confirm

[@darkpixel1128]

I see no errors here.

[@sapphireblue4031]

5) ??? 6) PROFIT!!!

[@pudlordtynan919]

As someone who truly doesn't understand poker, this was like witnessing the Sun start to drip and smear in the sky like an inkblot and all the horror and confusion that implies.

[@123890antonioj]

You have a beautifully eldritch analogy going on there

[@blightborne6850]

This is what happens regularly in poker games, for all of those that aren’t familiar with modern poker games in casinos

[@synphilia4776]

@@blightborne6850 i dont know enough about poker to refute this, therefore i must believe you

[@username5155]

I love how Dan condensed everything from “This is my first playthrough” to “We’re gonna RNG manip the whole game like a TAS would” into just 3 videos.

[@ArmundJay]

such a magnificent journey.

[@bonogiamboni4830]

Oh shit i saw the first video and just watched this one but i didn't notice there was one in between.

[@dustin202]

@@bonogiamboni4830same, but 2nd is really good

[@Oreox4]

@@bonogiamboni4830 the lore continues

[@tinorandom]

literally being able to 'predict the future' of the seed, then surpassing jolteon was the most jawdropping thing from this channel since the Butcher of Sapienza. Well done Mr. Game

[@iexplainjokesforaliving.5415]

I like how "Convert the left card into the right card" has somewhat just become a mantra of sorts, and Dan says it with a slight hint of creepiness to it like a madman slowly descending further into his own madness.

[@greenlockus2903]

left card... to right card...

[@sam3851]

mumbling "Convert the left card.... Into the right card...." over and over in my sleep

[@phoenix402]

"convert the left card... into the right card... AND THEY SHALL KNOW DEATH!" -RT, probably

[@rotteldastation]

I always say it to myself too, to make sure I don't accidentally put my good card on the left 😂

[@NickertyWulfborn]

@@rotteldastation you put the good one on the right

[@invalid_user_handle]

Fun fact: The game ends at Ante 39. At that point, the score required to beat the next blind will reach infinity, and due to how the comparison between your score and the required score's interpreted, even if you also score infinity (possible through some really screwy abuse of iron cards and the Cryptid usable card, since it can break the hand size limit indefinitely), it'll think that your score is still lower and you will automatically lose once you run out of hands.

[@40watt53]

Now we wait for RT to achieve it.

[@superlovermanslave8412]

We wait no longer.

[@RobinSyl]

omg you predicted the future

[@element54_]

I think most people don't appreciate just how absurdly many chips RT got in the end. Not only is 2.4e96 larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe, 2.4e96 is actually 24 000 000 000 000 000 times the number of atoms in the observable universe. Almost every single record-breaking hand he had is larger than all of the chips from previous hands combined then multiplied, several times over. From another perspective, when solving equations, if I get such a number as the answer, I know my calculation definitely went wrong somewhere.

[@everythingpony]

Have you?

[@Pipothegreatfirstofhisname]

Mf most calculators dong go that hard

[@cyrillic4]

for reference, 1.8e308 is considered to be the hard limit on how large a number can be in most programming languages. After that it becomes infinity

[@ultraheaven8968]

what calculation would even require such a monstrosity , I know there's even crazier numbers where the scientist said fuck it and called one TREE 3

[@incognitoburrito6020]

​@@ultraheaven8968 I can't speak for the pure math world (I can barely speak for this example), but a physicist friend in college once calculated a correct answer of about 1.1e114. It was the number of possible thermal states of two lumps of a few hundred or thousand atoms equalizing in temperature.

[@gaymare6236]

The hard limit is ante 39, at that point the required score is "Not a Number", so no matter how high you score, you'll lose. It is possible to get there with some Perkeo Shenanigans, but as far as we know, it is literally impossible to go any further, even if you were to have 100 negative bluepirnts

[@Bone8380]

Has anyone managed to reach that ante "naturally" or was this discovered by data mining and save editing?

[@alexion3007]

@@Bone8380 yeah there's strategies that can get there naturally (I don't know if it's been done unseeded though)

[@ngwoo]

Can you hit NaN on your own score and win forever from that point forward?

[@gaymare6236]

@@ngwoo You can hit NaN, but that doesn't clear a NaN score, so you'll just lose. In order for you to pass, the game needs to be able to calculate that your score is higher than the goal, which it can't do with numbers larger than floats, so there is literally no setup that could score enough. It's impossible with how the game is coded

[@chcikety]

Indeed. Even if you yourself score "naneinf", it still counts it as a loss. There are a lot of mods/it's easy to mod to remove this limit though.

[@lancesmith8298]

This video is singlehandedly responsible for firmly drilling the text of the Death card into my muscle memory. I have never misplayed converting the left card into the right card since watching you win enough chips to hire a hitman qualified enough to find and kill God, and also clean up the crime scene

[@lmmortalZodd]

God is dead and we have killed him!

[@lzrshark617]

@@lmmortalZodd And it only cost $26!

[@catofsnow_]

You know, when Balatro showed up on RT's channel, I thought this would just be like any other normal indie game skirmish that RT usually does. One or two episodes, perhaps three for good measure if there's ever a DLC. I never really expected Balatro to appear again afer the last one, but here we are; not only is this the third episode of a rougelike game, the content took so much disproportionate work that it is such a ridiculous yet valid contribution to the game's community that the video is likely going down somewhere in *Balatro history.* How did we get here? How did it escalate so much only THREE EPISODES IN???

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

He played Luigi Poker in the DS version of Mario 64 of course he would play this more.

[@ImTheGuy]

Two Words: Gambling Addiction

[@sugoistalin7809]

It escalated this far because RT has an eternal desire to defeat the concept of gambling itself.

[@Darkfyyre]

@@sugoistalin7809 and he is never punished, so the question is not how did we get here, but why would we ever go anywhere else?

[@sugoistalin7809]

@@Darkfyyre even the gods fear what he would do if they tried to stop him.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

The line: "Convert the left card. Into the right card." Is genuinely terrifying to me now. All hail Danishiro Balatro, he who defeated the house at poker, he who is Never Punished!!

[@carpemundum1607]

"Consult the prophet" might be my new favorite twitch chat quote

[@laserfast11]

22:38

[@overthinkingisbad]

seeing minecraft then this in "the best of rt 2024" will be a whiplash both unimaginable and unprecedented

[@kolos5009]

After countless years pass, humans playing Balatro will forget the names of the minds behind the scores and the pioneers that reached them, but the techpriests who shall attempt to break further beyond will repeat one simple chant "convert the left card, into the right card"

[@maximumfool]

*pioners

[@geo4876]

@@maximumfool ...

[@Plan3tMist]

​@@maximumfool no, he spelt pioneers right

[@2FacedManiac]

⁠​⁠@@Plan3tMist it’s a reference to Dan's recent minecraft let’s play series

[@cyphonrhythm]

we are the pioner

[@3namega]

Dan menacingly saying "I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE" has elevated this video above godhood for me

[@obvalenvee338]

My favorite part about this is the “Balanced” after every hand. Y’know, because it’s not.

[@kamilslup7743]

plasma deck kinda OP i mean it does double the base blind (which does make early game wall/violet vessel real scary) but it's not an issue when you get sextillion times the needed chip count

[@TemmiePlays]

plasma makes your chips and mult the same, so early game you run chips bc they're easy to get and later you run mult bc you've established a system by then

[@bbanksracing]

@@TemmiePlaysthank you for saying this, I was looking for a comment about it.

[@LoraLoibu]

@@TemmiePlays Selling the arrowhead is the moment where RT pivoted from chips to multiplier then?

[@skygard49]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

[@Shamiynlover1]

Upon a throne of glass and bone, the drift king awaits his friend. His seed is sown, the kingdoms overthrown, for naught else but the end. With heavens asunder, his armies plunder a sea of four in chrome. And in merciless haze, they begin to raze what we all once called home. Turning left to right against the night, and keeping blueprints in hand, The royal Hack at once did crack, and turned to seek new land. Now in his wake, we seek to make a fitting tribute score, But lest none forget - and this, we regret- He may come back once more.

[@isakun5314]

Not enough people are appreciating this.

[@anonymoose6703]

literary masterpiece

[@ddd4040]

Lyrical genius

[@personette7617]

I was the discord for this and we were literally betting on how high he'd go and we were HEARTBROKEN that he didnt reach e100

[@Sir_Bucket]

Well you know what is left to be done, hatch a new scheme to make Dan ascend even higher

[@ShugoAWay]

He probably could have if he didn't focus so hard on those tiny additions of the planet cards for those several anties

[@GTAram855]

I truly believed he was gonna get to NANeINF. HE CAN STILL DO HIGHER. THERE'S STILL ONE STEP LEFT TO BREAK THE GAME

[@thepotatoportal69]

You mean fourofspadebroken

[@TheRealBErhart]

I was on the LinkedIn and we had the SAME reaction 💀

[@a_cryptid4553]

The "I know what you are!" cued with the dramatic music in the background was both really menacing and fucking hilarious

[@thebartender1886]

I love how by the end the game is shaking so bad with every hand played, it feels like the game itself is about to collapse at any moment from the sheer power of the RTGAME seed.

[@connerblank5069]

I like how the cards couldn't handle the sheer power and just shattered rather than be used again.

[@anactualpotato4197]

imagine you're just some dealer in a random casino somewhere, when some guy walks in with his pet sheep and creates a black hole on the table out of playing chips

[@Tankirb]

"Convert the left card... In to the right card"

[@RTGame]

Reminder: convert the left card, into the right card

[@Trikean]

The one day you do it backwards will be glorious

[@franciscoguinledebarros4429]

​@@TrikeanDan already did that once, in his like first playtrough I think it scarred him deeply

[@pontyadam]

convert the left card into the Rykard is the only thing i could hear because of the Elden Ring music

[@anqichen3514]

Convert the left card...in to the right ( adj, morally good, justified, or acceptable) card..

[@moira_meteorite]

after a certain point it stops being about getting winning scores and starts being about sending a message

[@Polarthief]

First Video: "Idk what I'm doing, but hey I crushed my tutorial seed!" Second Video: "Let me use my seed and break the game." Third Video: "Let me use my seed again, and with help from a lone Jolteon, become a god of Balatro."

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

a typical JRPG progression.

[@aidansroadams5328]

​@@Mendoza-yi6qkThe difference is that he became God instead of killed it.

[@khajiithaswares4147]

"Use my seed" sounds Not Quite Right in my ears

[@Ryann9]

I tremble in fear of what the fourth video will contain

[@matthewboire6843]

He is the balatro

[@meanie5416]

this felt undeniably like watching the villain win in a way i cannot explain. i dont even know the gist of balatro and my jaw was on the floor.

[@John_Smith.]

So, last Balatro vid, people were talking about RT's score going to the moon. In this one, his highest hand, assuming every point was one (1) millimeter, would take him to the _edge of the observable universe_ 1,441,382,200 times _for each grain of sand on earth_

[@AdmiralStormy]

I know it has been a month, but I'd like to tell you that poker chips are 3.5mm thick, so you can just over triple that rq

[@DaTimmeh]

​@@AdmiralStormybut they wouldn't be valued at 1 point each. Likely millions per chip. Not that that really makes a big dent still. Just a couple zeroes off the end that needs to same metric to be put into any relation to the physical world.

[@usernametaken017]

how do you calculate how many grains of sand are in the universe

[@carbonmonteroy]

On plasma deck, the highest possible ante is 39 before the game because actually unable to count to the scores it starts demanding of you. RT got to 26 with this madness. 2/3 of the way to literally infinite power.

[@M4SKED2001]

Seeing Dan destroying just literally all of his competition just so he becomes Kaiba and plays Exodia is the most exotic thing

[@tobiassuarez948]

21:11 Absolutely cosmic one-liner. Gospeed, RT, as every particle in the expanse of the universe has been conquered by your 4 of Spades.

[@kieren6900]

The vod for this was so intense. Glad it’s a video. Props to Cloè for editing

[@TheTrueThomaster]

40:58 "You may think that’s a Hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a Hell of a seed."

[@cyro8039]

This has the same feeling as a mad scientist standing in front of his control panel, watching as arcane light shoots out of his giant test chamber while he laughs maniacally and turns the power yet higher.

[@jonghyeonlee5877]

Top tier dialogue & pacing too: 19:37 - *Orchestral music swells* "We've done it." *Pause* "We've *done* it." *Laughter* "We *CANNOT* BE STOPPED!" (Background: Growing rumbling & shaking) *Full throated belly laugh as the machine FIRES*

[@irregularassassin6380]

@@jonghyeonlee5877 Don't forget the: "I know what you are." Pause *I know what you are!"* Right before he eliminates the last thing standing between himself and nigh-unlimited power.

[@northdakota8530]

Timestamp please

[@gwennorthcutt421]

i love it when these kind of games have a Seed system. because you could play on random seeds to see how far you can get (the intended play), or you can use a seed to see how Outrageous you can push the limits with optimal rng. like a science experiment :D its creative play vs a game of chance

[@StickMaster500]

RT has now become Mr Balatro, Destroyer of Worlds and Decks by achieving more chips than the atoms in the observable universe all thanks to our Prophet Jolteon. Even God himself stays in Heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created. *Daniel al Gaib*

[@sonarchy5158]

I am become Death: Converts the right card into the left card

[@robbieramsey3092]

what does the "(name) al gaib" mean

[@libertyprime3827]

​@@robbieramsey3092It's a play on Lisan Al Gaib which is the title of the chosen one from Dune.

[@rga0019]

LISAN AL GAIB

[@robbieramsey3092]

@@libertyprime3827 ah alr, thanks

[@Hex_Fox]

A man with special glass cards walks into the casino and single-handedly gambles multiple universes out of all their chips. The man once known as the Drift King's has become the Card God.

[@FellStar10]

They used to call him the seed king back in college.

[@chameowmille]

you know he was actually really into gardening back then thats where the nickname came from

[@GuitarOfTime0116]

@@chameowmille also because of cu- edit:i am a fool, unknowing of the hell i have wrought. i will continure to giggle at the funni replies

[@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda]

This just sounds wrong

[@yimyom]

CTHULU??

[@azure4622]

​@@GuitarOfTime0116CUCUMBER?

[@jesperwillems_]

at 27:35 rt makes the first crucial decision by saying “is that a polychrome glass 5?” to the 4 - a momentous move that henceforth caused all 4s to be 5s for the rest of the run

[@NintenTmaster]

"We must determine which streamer has the strongest seed" This can have a *very* different meaning without context

[@z34567890123456]

Do NOT let the Minecraft streamers in on that.

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

Especially with Ravs participating

[@VeryPeeved]

I think I've read a fanfiction about that very thing.

[@allie_nord]

Right?! I was disappointed when I realized he was just talking about some video game.

[@Mythis1]

😂🤣

[@yourhighschoolenglishteach8405]

23:30 i just want to point out that the size of 10^38 is entirely incomprehensible to the human mind. the only part we can really grasp is the “38” part. so really, we’re all sitting here screaming “YOOOOO HE GOT 38!!!!!”

[@megasoma_elephas]

He had his eggheads crank the numbers, just so he could effectively fuel his gambling not-addiction. What a lad

[@phoenix402]

"it's not gambling if it's mathematically correct! keep gambling!" -RT, probably

[@AtlasOnTheInternet]

madlad

[@CosmoNoBones]

I love watching this like it's the spaceship from interstellar, the glass cards breaking as we go further into the black hole, just excellent.

[@OddyOddity-ob2uv]

I used to think his Gambling Addiction was just a funny bit. A running gag. This man horrifies me.

[@phoenix402]

oh don't worry! he isnt't finished yet..

[@johnalogue9832]

It's not gambling if you know what will happen

[@Trox9996]

The way RT sounds like a complete villain in the way he talks in this video makes me want to re watch it every time, it's genuinely almost better than the insanity happening in game if not enhanced by it.

[@bagetblue2043]

When you gamble with Death you don't actually gamble with Death, he outsources that work to Dan.

[@SomeGalNamedEve]

36:11 "It's already on E. It's already on E!" IT JUST LIKE ME FR FR

[@jaredikin455]

ESTROGEN JOKE 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SomeGalNamedEve]

@@jaredikin455 Yeah, when I heard him say "on E" I HAD to make a comment about it lol It was way good of a coincidence to pass up

[@alicetheratqueen]

damn I wish I had E I'm glad you've got yours :3

[@efu2046]

Ah yes, gambling with ultimate power; Maths™ Small note: I really like how the Vtuber avatar bounces whenever RT laughed, kinda looks cartoonishly evil

[@X-SPONGED]

RT is probably the only human being to ever generate 19 impossibajilion 220 imaginabillion 225 million 200 thousand and 32 chips only to cash out the casino with only a couple hundred bucks and a non-college title. Truly one of the gambler kings of all time

[@llllllllemon]

fucking hell its the second coming of balatro christ and he's gonna make a thousand gambling miracles.

[@Monkebs45]

**BALATRO CHRIST**

[@rincewind3043]

I, for one, welcome our new Balatro Overlord as eventually converts us all into glass polychrome fours

[@benjaminniven4210]

Somebody has to fully optimize this seed now. Take where Jolteon left off, and perfect the highest score. Get more negative jokers, find the true perfect Balatro run

[@mageofchaos]

CONVERT THE LEFT CARD INTO THE RIGHT CARD. THE VOID CALLS

[@superlovermanslave8412]

AND WE MUST A N S W E R

[@Dusty_bub]

Watching this stream live was a terrifying experience

[@elitheratman3730]

Even just watching the video is a terrifying experience lmao

[@jakedanley9833]

I love that after every round the game says "btw this is balanced :)"

[@feni_1553]

coz it's plasma deck that's why

[@sam3851]

I caught this live and thought "oh this looks like fun, I'll watch it to unwind for the evening" only to end up on the edge of my seat for literally every ante in the late game. So *this* is the thrill of gambling

[@SugarbirdyOvO]

yessss indoctrination. come young one, 100% of dwarves that stop digging are idiots or however the saying goes. join our ranks✨

[@combak2712]

God DAMN! That is a crazy high score! That said, I know it’s possible to go higher. There’s a special score that shows up when the number gets too high. That said, the only way to get it is with some crazy set-ups, usually involving Perkeo making a bunch of Negative Planet cards or a huge hand with a bunch of Red Seal Steel cards… or both!

[@WCGamesOfficial]

It happened

[@KnightandDay33]

40:58 This gives heavy "how many seconds in eternity" vibes

[@123890antonioj]

Ye he did directly quote Heaven Sent in the original stream as well

[@thylacina5989]

I got another Balatro video in my recommended on this, where (according to the thumbnail) the YTer got e19. I never thought I'd see a situation where e19 is pathetic, but that's Balatro for ya

[@sonarchy5158]

Finally, a Roguelike with a walkthrough

[@notloopers1110]

and to think, he got so close, but not yet there. theres still more, you must keep going RT, you cannot stop at this you must go further, seek the barony seek the kings seek strength. the rest shall come surely.

[@candlelight7600]

I like the visual of his deck being too powerful to the known universe his cards keeps breaking under the strain of his power

[@nonantehivernote8709]

There's something incredibly satisfying about watching someone excelling in something. There's something incredibly fascinating about watching someone controlling fate. There's something incredibly terrifying about watching someone multiplying their score until the "e" comes up. ...Wow !

[@ultraheaven8968]

getting that first e is like popping your cherry, I still remember it fondly

[@feni_1553]

e is *10^x where x is the number following e (scientific notation)

[@deltacharlieecho4732]

Me: Holy shit, e38, Daniel did really well this stream. >checks time remaining >still have half the video to go Well, fuck.

[@garr_inc]

Exactly my experience.

[@Jan_III]

I had originally no idea of how this game works but when I found it out it was at like e12 or sth. And then I noticed wait... It isn't a quarter finished and we are already juggling with the big boys? What is there more? Answer: The left card to the right card

[@castiolare]

The way RT says "convert the left card into the right card" has the same level of calmness and unsettling aura as "that's right, it goes in the square hole" for me

[@BrotatoeGod]

Pokemon, Minecraft, Phoenix Wright, City Skylines, and now Balatro are part of the RT game legends

[@TheyCallMeDio]

Terraria in shambles now

[@BrotatoeGod]

@@TheyCallMeDio Kinda forgot about that one I personally consider more of an OG game on this channel

[@Hazz1508]

Stardew Walter white smh

[@geo4876]

City Skylines has to be on that list

[@AetherKirin]

I'd say City Skylines count. West Virginia & "A Meteor have strikes the city" joke comes from there. Think Kirby also accelerated the whole gambling thing haha.

[@Tr33E00]

it's an absolutely harrowing experience saying "it can't get much better than this..." and seeing 20 minutes left on the video

[@ilshail153]

"now I have become theft, destroyer of blinds" -Daneshiro "RTGame" Al Gaib, moments after gambling the universe itself and winning

[@LordSusaga]

"Now I have become right card, because I was once left card"

[@Sir_Bucket]

​@@LordSusaga "Through Death I was remade, my body remolded into glass, with the mark of 4 spades as a sign of my ascension."

[@siraaron8650]

@@Sir_Bucket "With the colorful sheen of Polychrome on my flesh, I dutifully stood in Dan Al Gaib's deck, forever to be played with 4 others of my kind, terrified of being destroyed on every hand"

[@mistermanthe4th]

I am honored to have witnessed such a monumental event in RTGame history. This video and the stream it came from will be spoken of in reverence for years, nay, DECADES to come.

[@notakirakarakaza2118]

I loved it when he said "turn the left card into the right card" and then turned all the left cards into the right cards all over the room

[@superspider64]

the mental image I got from the later plays was RT standing infront of some malevolent joker monster as his cards circle around him

[@jorgelenny47]

I don't even play balatro and my biggest nightmare is still fucking up a death card and turning the stinker into the good card

[@ascaiihd1472]

Since 'turning the stinker into the good card' is what you want and not a fuck up, you basically fucked it up in a yt comment 😂

[@jorgelenny47]

@@ascaiihd1472 fuck

[@SneakyMuffin]

Just a few minutes in and this man is already invoking the old gods through strange and meaningless rituals.

[@AgentofChaos315]

Last video Dan was getting scores over 2000x larger than the score he needed Now he's getting scores trillions of time larger than what he needs

[@GreatFernicus]

“Trillions” is an understatement tbh, more like trillions of trillions of trillions

[@AgentofChaos315]

@@GreatFernicus I wasn't done with the video and I can't count that high when i got there

[@TheOneWhoHasABadName]

more like trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of billions of thousands of chips that should approximately stack up to where his run ended

[@Draukagrissah]

I hadn't seen an RTGame video in years but this popped up on my recommends and I'm so glad it did, I had fun the whole time, this was a fantastic video!

[@SomeGalNamedEve]

You should watch the last of the 4 Balatro videos he has :3

[@maozadong552]

36:45 you could either sell the showman or wait for the ectoplasm Rt-ok we sell the dna

[@arealginvr]

And honestly it was the right choice. If you actually think about what DNA actually does, it makes sense. Dan had enough funds to make new cards manually by buying deaths and standard cards from the shop, it's just a bit costlier and riskier, but getting rid of showman could have ended the run a lot sooner.

[@Spectrum-ng8ts]

but the thing is, he found showman again a few rounds later :(

[@arealginvr]

​@@Spectrum-ng8ts Still, it wasn't a guarantee as he was far past the guidebook at that point and he would have no way of knowing he would get showman again. It was still a very smart decision on his part given the information he had at the time.

[@n00bLokumi]

@@arealginvr The real genius move of this run in the end was getting gift card, it's what allowed him to then sell dna and still be able to bruteforce new card with money

[@charlie1109]

I guess I don't know enough about balatro, why did he help keep holding onto scary face?

[@raindeer9787]

This is the first I've ever seen or even heard of Balatro and its the most scuffed thing that could have ever seen. This is why I love RT

[@Dr.Death8520]

Following the text of the forbidden ritual and becoming a primordial cosmic poker force. Yet even the eternity chant of "convert the left card into the right card" cannot counter the shadow you grow. For even immortals must die.

[@massecurr]

I have been playing rougelikes for decades at this point, I dont think I've ever seen one more thoroughly broken then this without the use of mods, and this is coming from a Binding of Issac player

[@Gakulon]

Balatro is definitely up there. I've had some terrifyingly effective Risk of Rain 2 runs as well, that game lends itself towards breaking

[@Dostwyn]

For that entire opening, chat was just going "LISAN AL GAIB! LISAN AL GAIB!" (it's a Dune reference for those who don't know)

[@rustler08]

Dune, I totally miss you. I really fucking miss you. I'm al alone. Al the time. Al the time.

[@jacobkern2060]

Now imagine if he took the Soul card and it landed him the Legendary that gives you negative versions of a random consumable you have every time you leave the shop

[@juliagibbs32]

Balatro has become the most terrifying horror game yet. I was on the edge of my seat, waiting and fearing for RT to put the cards into the wrong order. Convert the left card, into the right card….

[@puppygirlcallie]

This video was the one that ultimately got me into playing Balatro, I've almost unlocked all of the jokers and am on my way to beating my first gold stake run, even still I keep coming back to this video lmao, thanks Dan!

[@omnomou81]

Turns out gambling is easier when you have the gift of prophecy

[@Beepogen]

There's a movie about that, nic cage is in it

[@sadcat1845]

I was listening to this while doing (what i think to be) one of the hardest unlocks for Balatro which is win a full run without playing a single flush... gosh i'm relived to have that done

[@batatino8805]

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says there are no more chips in the world. Says that he misses showman and the antes keep rising. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Drift King RTGame is on twitch tonight. Go and see his Balatro streams. That should pick you up'. Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor... I am RTGame.' Good joke. Everyone laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains

[@40watt53]

ohio skibidi gyatt rizzler

[@1986DarkStalker]

Aside from the god-like run, it is fascinating that we have machines that can count to numbers magnitudes higher than the amount of atoms in the observable universe (which is everything humans have ever seen/will ever see) and this computational power is so normal and abundant that we use it to play silly poker. What a time to be alive.

[@r_se]

this is just multiplication you could do this by hand it would just be tedious but wouldnt take an inhuman amount of time. it's just x2x2x2x2x2 like 200 times in a row.

[@as_far_as_Cyno]

The boss music elevated this video to e100. It felt like I was watching the final battle of an anime where the heroes are harnessing the power of the sun to defeat a god except it was Dan playing the same hand of poker cards over and over until his chips exceeded the number of atoms in the known universe.

[@yellobanana6456]

Just as Jesus turns water into wine, so does Mr Balatro convert the left card into the right card

[@CallyLovesKirby]

don't you just hate it when you're playing poker and your opponent uses five 4 of Spades made of glass to create more chips than atoms in the observable universe

[@azuquirtle]

They may have used to call him the drift king back in college, but they call him the Balatro King today.

[@sunjoy8797]

Dan’s raw luck and skill combined with the discord professors’ guidance is terrifying. Glory to Daniel Al Gaib.

[@WyrdieBeardie]

I feel like I just watched the universe being made with each subatomic particle carefully placed by RT's smooth hands. 😍