It's Time to Lock In

[@ehudshapira2745]

"This bit is burning valuable time" is so fucking funny

[@Blaurot]

When your brain morphs into an "A"

[@jacobwumbo827]

Type A chatters really do be saying that.

[@gigitrix]

The fact that it's apparently 100% earnest and not Type B false flag is incredible

[@PCRman]

When he said "We would not have gotten 708,000,000 points were it not for the support of chat" he wasn't lying. We were holding him back.

[@nkbp588]

I audibly pegged when librarian put the joker descriptions at the start of every new clip for our convenience.

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

yeah i thought it was necessary for a more gameplay focused video, i absolutely hate watching balatro myself cause i usually dont pay attention then i get really confused what the hell is happening

[@Blaurot]

​@@TheLibraryofLetourneautype B chatter here, idk whats happening, but when i hear the plings of the score going up I pog, its great

[@GakisStylianos]

@@Blaurot It takes courage to identify yourself as a type B chatter

[@EvKem]

@@TheLibraryofLetourneauThe effort is so insane, props . I'm a little balatro slut so I'm happy to see it

[@Tokoyami_Snow]

you WHAT 🤨

[@TheTintedHalo]

Starting a timed competition with a chat audit is the most Northernlion thing I've ever seen.

[@ixthizzar]

It's like Magnus Carlsen adjusting his pieces

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

Librarian adding anti type A tech with the tool tips like "he's holding the Jupiter because of observatory" is what makes this video so high quality

[@king40606]

The long pause followed by "we have a literacy crisis in this country" got me crying

[@aidancrowe7244]

Intro with everyone comparing times is big American Psycho business-card energy

[@opossumboyo]

Let’s see pog-allens time.

[@aidancrowe7244]

The egg smugly stating "33.8" and then getting immediately smoked by Kory's 35 is peak Bateman vs. Allen

[@kenallsop7502]

This was one of the first NL Balatro videos I watched and now I've become so joker-pilled and dipped in Mama Librarian's Pog Oil that I walk around the house just pointing like NL in the thumbnail and saying "It's time to Lock In!" You have truly broken my brain on this one, Librarian, NL, and LocalThunk. Also I still wish everyone's Balatro videos put the jokers up on screen like this one.

[@Level80Sorcerer]

when the cards go ding ding ding, ding ding ding, ding ding ding.... OOOHHHH BABYEEEEE

[@Level80Sorcerer]

At long last, he saw the e

[@zoom3184]

him me him him me

[@wheezymac]

@@zoom3184+2

[@Ragnell123]

Kory went sicko mode. Huge congrats to him But NL's last run was still very impressive and full of pogs

[@Gorbgorbenson]

I was shocked they were able get runs that good tbh. Maybe Im just bad, but Ive only had one run that made it past 10 mil after playing for like 20 hours. Though they were on the first stake

[@Ragnell123]

@@Gorbgorbenson Don't worry. I'm also bad. There's also a fair amount of luck involved in runs like this.

[@Gorbgorbenson]

@Ragnell123 I was thinking they may have used a seed or something. Shit was nutty!

[@augustmericle6776]

@@Gorbgorbensondon’t worry, keep trying and you’ll get there. The highest I got was a in the 50mils and I was grinding for the joker achievement, and I eventually got a trillion point hand. Plasma is goated

[@Hagar00]

Kory's smile at the end of his run is so proud yet wholesome.

[@vxcvxcvxcvxcvxc-bg5df]

NL ranting about common core math last week and then proceeding to have to ask chat what 60x60 is is a +2 bit

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Holy fucking shit Kory is GOATED at this game. He's so much fucking better than I could ever be at it.

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

twitter.com/VeryDumbDog/status/1761533295886569697

[@00Krohnos]

​@@TheLibraryofLetourneauThat's less than NL's tweeted score Cereal

[@Cooldrew100]

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau shit like this is why I'll never turn off screenshake, it's too good when you pop off crazy

[@lr-]

I haven't watched many balatro videos because I want to try to figure it out on my own, the clip at 5:40 nearly made my 4% winrate head explode

[@dogonit1936]

9:12 i had to rewatch this part because i thought it was a sound effect inserted at post LOL

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

its so cartoonish lmaooo

[@knightofawesome100]

I'd love a compilation of every time he gets nothing from wheel of fortune, I don't know if I've ever seen him get something from it

[@knightofawesome100]

Nevermind he just got something 😞

[@SlurpSmudge]

scientific notation is so goated i've never seen a number written as 1e[x] and thought "that number isn't that big"

[@Vaaaaadim]

1e0

[@SlurpSmudge]

@@Vaaaaadim no freaking way

[@noscopemonkey3369]

Librarian, thank you for your service

[@Barf_FaB]

o7

[@JPerkins281]

o7

[@Bedabes]

I came here for the GULP and it sent me even higher than the first time ICANT

[@LoveBystroem]

im nostalgic for the balatro and mama liz's chili oil era of NL

[@Gorbgorbenson]

Kory's setup was absolutely insane. The only thing that couldve made it better was if he had all 6s joker to double theheart chance of doubling mult

[@akumoth8357]

stand proud ryan. you are strong

[@markqurf]

Type A chatters wondering why the whole party pointing and laughing at them when they bring up the Ace 1 2 3 4 Joker ICANT

[@OnlyBadPuns]

Yeah and they don't even realize ace 1 deuce 2 3 is an even better straight

[@MannFace51]

2:27 - I can tell that ‘SAY IT’ felt good, hoo leeee 🤣

[@JordanRodriguez-gu7og]

any one else like to see a comp of NL all the times he says that chill oil bit lol gets me every time.

[@Penguinranger123]

The audible NOOOOOOOOOO that left my mouth when he disregarded campfire holy MOLY the content

[@GakisStylianos]

Multiple times too

[@touhoe]

5:04 “there’s a lot of stuff in this world that I don’t know” made me spit out my drink

[@remblob518]

touhoe is an NL viewer??? Cereal

[@marrychrismas5993]

5:40 CEREAL

[@SourSourSour]

Kory's cheeky lil smile kills me it's so good

[@screamingmeowth1]

thank you for the notations and joker effects for the less balatro pilled folks

[@LaramieII]

The "e" in something like 7.6e17 is different from the "e" that he talks about, which is Euler's Number which is related to pi in some damn way I don't remember. The first one is just scientific notation so it would be the same as 7.6x10^(17) and Euler's number (2.71828...) is the base for natural logarithms so it also has to do with exponents. I don't like it and it's confusing.

[@M_kanpur]

e is related to pi by Euler's formula, e^πi = -1

[@frankjohnson123]

7.6e17 will only show up in a computational context or if a scientist is being a bit lazy. It shouldn't be confused with Euler's number because it will always be sandwiched between two other numbers. Also, you'll often see people use a capital E for scientific notation to distinguish further. If Euler's number were being used in a computational context, you'd see something like 17*e*12, *not* 17e12 (or equivalently 17E12). The one case where it might be confusing is when Euler's number e is part of some algebraic expression like 17ex, which is 17×(Euler's number)×(some variable x). This will only be in mathematical work where they'd almost never use e for scientific notation. You would also only see x as a variable, not a number.

[@goatfood1504]

@@M_kanpurok but what’s e^(i*pi/2)

[@Radi_vvanker]

2:26 made me jump lmao

[@bolthusbear]

God bless you Librarian for throwing up the Observatory tooltip, my ass was utterly lost

[@Airuutv]

11:56 ‘… officer’ I LOST it here

[@AmyGoo22]

5:54 Kory looks so pleased with himself i love it

[@laviniaplei]

27:49 me playing we know the devil trying to balance the dialogue tree

[@VVIllam100]

This is so old but fortune teller was doing almost nothing by the end

[@LEGrease]

Ryan “never tell me the odds” Gary Letourneau

[@wheezymac]

I haven’t paid any attention to Balatro yet, but now I’m fucking POGGED. This video just put it on my map, and I’m seriously considering buying it now

[@bardofsnow]

13:17 needs to be an alert on someones stream

[@ansel569]

they say those chatters are still fishing for A1234 to this day

[@2jacked2read]

The edit goes insane, thanks librarian

[@Constantdawg]

15:47 am I crazy why did he get an earth planet card off of the blue seal when playing a flush?

[@navinsafferling1923]

I’m so ready for that vid on that last score man lmao

[@karikora8279]

I love that thumbnail lmao

[@FuukanaTV]

2:28 Equalizer andy

[@doodelbopgames]

this is the only time I have legit physically pogged in real life watching a video

[@sodedra5855]

great editing librarian!

[@iplay9s]

"What's an hour in seconds?" You know NL, could solve that with common core

[@iluxa-4000]

"He's ass" got me so good lmao

[@GakisStylianos]

Bro did lock in

[@Mahogany125]

The gulp after he saw blueprint 😭😭

[@Tyc9909]

That gulp is insane

[@EV_Comics]

2:25 I got a little scared O_O

[@XxBonkyxX]

He’s so fast and efficient

[@Anberye]

holy, that thumbnail, it's like NL is pointing directly at me, immersion restored

[@noahmay7708]

27:48 IM NOT FUCKING LEAVIN

[@invention64]

NL believes in the heart of the cards

[@thedandguy189]

This game is a full on dopamine supply chain. I’m glad he likes it so much

[@thepenguin9]

Damn we got NL covering ELO at the end

[@dylaann]

seeing this right as i was looking for something to listen to while i did homework >:)

[@michaelpolizzano1705]

Goated thumbnail

[@jhtwf]

is there a comp for every time he pulls up a viewers chat history? i thrive on it

[@milan99cz]

He cooked on this one ngl

[@redwolfjo3_647]

bless librarian

[@brandonjohnson1358]

Thanks for the company :)

[@Neotenico]

There are more molecules in a drop of water than points in Kory's round score.

[@untamedbacon]

If only Balatro overlapped with NL's "don't stop til you're numb" era- it's like the perfect one-liner for watching those mults run up.

[@IBQ1]

LOCKIN

[@LEGrease]

TWENTY HOURS!?

[@trivane626]

Imagine the ego he’s gonna have when he plays again

[@funx24X7]

They really do make those glass holos nigh impossible to recognize

[@assiuq]

We love Balatro, folk, don't we

[@oshada]

the same number of cards played for the last two runs - 237

[@AtaGunZ]

I had a e36 run without the plasma deck and no glass based strategy, it was crazy, I think the seed will be a world record seed if played with plasma deck (my score would've been around e70 territory, and it had continuous scaling each match so I would've gone much further), it had crazy reliable setup. And I got to play it all thanks to the "Northernlion" effect, getting mad at him for not playing the game properly and buying the game out of spite

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

is this not the world record kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ-lnad-jbuUhdE

[@AtaGunZ]

​@@TheLibraryofLetourneaudepends, if you are going score wise yeah, but you can only have one such hand with that build so you can not climb the ante ladder. Mine was scaling continuously without consuming anything so I could beat higher antes than this guy.

[@AtaGunZ]

while I was doing this people already got to the last ante 39, where the required score is inf and even if you score inf you lose.

[@dasamont8274]

Damn, this kinda made me realize that I suck at Balatro, even though I have way more hours in it than NL has here. Although I guess my biggest problem is that I play inefficiently, and skip blinds way too often... And that I kinda only play to beat Ante 8, and not to get the highest Ante in Endless

[@TheFX37]

2:51

[@jotha885]

Second place by a factor of roughly 1000 XD

[@paunchypanic0495]

I NL my beloved ❤️❤️

[@nomorenames7323]

I’ve watched all this NL content at this point and I still have no idea how SAP or Balatro work.

[@Soulfruit260]

BLUEPRINT NO!

[@sigithesauropod3340]

Love you librarian. You're soo Awsummm

[@Gwgitu77]

Who is the guy at 05:40? Sorry for not knowing

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

kory twitch.tv/flackblag he's the one who does all the horniest raps in jackbox

[@Gwgitu77]

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau ah i see, thanks

[@wizard_biz2924]

I need someone to explain balatro to me or watch a tutorial or something, I clearly missed out on some key early videos bc I do not understand what's going on AT ALL, but the pog seems so rich and he uploads very little else atm

[@Tr0llTh3W0rld]

old video but he could have scored well over a billion if he put blueprint on hack... chat lied...

[@Erthun]

is the positioning of the jokers important?

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

So cards trigger first left to right then the jokers trigger left to right so yes the positioning is important. For example you have a base mult of 20, a joker that add 4 mult and one that 2x your mult. You'd rather get the +4 then 2x to get 48 rather than 2x then +4 which would be 44. Also for example the blueprint joker copies the ability of the joker to its right

[@Erthun]

ooooooh i see. makes sense, thanks bossman

[@PixelCrabs]

Does he ever learn that the 'e' just means '*10^'?

[@altrivotzck6565]

I would say I'm not trying to brag, except I am, but I just wanna say that I got to ante 14 and scored a 3.089e12 hand on my either my 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time playing the game after the game actually came out, only having watched videos from the demo and the earlier beta. It was a tarot-based run built on the back of the Superposition joker, using the Baron, Blueprint, Campfire, Stone, Raised, and some others I don't remember to create a deck that was almost exclusively full of golden/steel kings & stone cards. I hadn't unlocked most of the jokers when I was playing the run, so the Stone joker, Blueprint joker, and a few others had to be bought in the middle of the run, after unlocking them that run. I don't even remember which deck I started with, but it was either the red, blue, or yellow deck. It's funny, because, even though that was like my second or third time playing the game, I have not come even close to that high of a score, since. In fact, I'm fairly certain that that same run was my first time beating the game. Actually, I know it was, because Blueprint was unlocked during the run, and I'm pretty sure you unlock it by beating the game. I wish I saved a screenshot of the final screen of the run, but I thought Balatro would have one of those Hades/StS-style run history menus, but it only has stats for your highest hand/round/ante/money.

[@dingusdongus61]

bro lookings at kory's luck for his run makes me envy him. i just beat gold stake and i havent even gotten a run with a E in it because my rng is so bad. Sadge

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

twitter.com/VeryDumbDog/status/1761533295886569697

[@dingusdongus61]

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau AINTNOWAY ICANT, i need k8 on backseat balatro on ryan or sometime. Also waiting for nl to become the joker again.

[@Joe-vj7yj]

I ignored all the Balatro videos NL uploaded for this exact moment, the moment librarian uploads one. (GIGACHAD) Edit: I thought I was a supercut lmao

[@espicelmecanicodecombustio1632]

ok im gonna say it cause someone has to why arent they using plasma deck

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

they were limited to the base colored decks

[@TheBaldMob]

Anybody else not get this game whatsoever but just enjoy watching NL lol

[@CameronBrown-ph9do]

E roughly rounds to 2.7 but its got nothing to do with pi

[@lazzi02]

yeah, the e NL was thinking of is Euler's number which is defined as lim n→∞ (1+1/n)^n

[@CameronBrown-ph9do]

Correct and Eulers identity does involve that number and pi but that's like three layers of thinking removed from what he was driving at

[@lazzi02]

​@@CameronBrown-ph9dohmm, he could have been thinking of that too, which would have been funny given it has nothing to do with defining e, but it is NL after all, and he is too big brained for us to understand sometimes

[@Dschonathan]

NL probably vaguely remembered e^iPi+1=0.

[@demiposeidon]

I can't believe he doesn't know what E means in the score still. I thought it was common knowledge? 6.8e11 = 6.8 x 10^11. its just x10^

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

🤓

[@tsawy6]

I think we're falling for the whole experts bias thing, it's very much far from common knowledge.

[@cottonman132]

​@@tsawy6don't they teach scientific notation in highschool?

[@demiposeidon]

@@tsawy6 but it's not an expert thing? E notation has been used in science classes and pretty much every calculator I've used since I was a child.

[@tsawy6]

@demiposeidon how frequently do you use the notation in your hobbies and work life? In truth, it's very programmery, it seems more common than it is because it's big in video games. You will very very rarely see them on the news for example. Even when the numbers do come up in the rare rare log plot they'd use exponent notation

[@pm146]

Why would he ever want campfire on this run? It's a waste of space

[@SimplyDood]

Because he had the fat stacks and a desire to be the best. He could've built an omega-pogged out the gourd mult multiplier and gone to the moon.

[@Cruxin]

Campfire is incredibly good, one or two dollars for .25 xmult is insane value in any run that isn't going to the moon with a hand full of red steel baron xmult retriggers make it less useful but he doesn't have enough to make it obsolete, he literally still had a steel joker