Is campfire the best joker in the game? (Balatro)

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[@yadamspiezer]

"We're cooked Brother!" Gretel to Hansel when the witch opens the oven.

[@youacc1302]

+2

[@matikkkii3482]

+2

[@bird6708]

+2

[@qirrex]

+2

[@elijahtorres9699]

+2

[@peace_n_love]

39:31 seeing the Queen being selected as he laughs at chat is like seeing the world in slow motion before being hit by a car

[@peace_n_love]

he won anyway, actual god gamer

[@videoaccount4323]

It hurts so good.

[@DoMa94]

@@peace_n_loveHe won, but at what cost

[@BaneOfXistence4]

What NL did to that Ride The Bus joker is the legal definition of entrapment.

[@zoiks6631]

“Who’s gonna tell him?” 😂

[@Amruth]

Balatro dipped in Squammylicious Chilli Oiiill!

[@pedrokiihl856]

I love when NL dips his cards in Mama Liz's Eatyourass oil

[@BaneOfXistence4]

I love this community.

[@Boney9551]

And a CAROLINA REAPAHH

[@isaiahfuery9327]

@@pedrokiihl856 😂😂😂😂💀💀

[@Bailey-n6g]

I’ve never been so squammed

[@Toadra-j3q]

we've got a 5, 6, 7, 8 he says as he discards a 4

[@Tr0llTh3W0rld]

not quite his tempo

[@dragonslaya16]

Thats not his tempo bro

[@rhythmicshooter318]

Ngl, I've done that too in the hopes of getting a 9. I get screwed 75% of the time

[@lunedocs2228]

I haven’t even watched the video yet but I needed to be spoiled and oh my god

[@MLB9610]

The foreshadowing of 10:58 to what transpires at 39:40 is why I keep on coming back to the egg for more

[@JesseSep.]

This run actually cracked me tf up. Pogged out of our gourds, dipped in Momma Lizzie's shut the fuck up sauce

[@matikkkii3482]

The 4 discard in 5-6-7-8 straight, and the queen play at 39:40 radiate strong type A energy

[@fedorafinder]

39:40 the horror of pogs lost

[@nNIZYB]

"Toss your detritus thusly" this is the power of lateral thinking

[@Sykar24]

24:07 Hi, combinatorics amateur here. In this case, its better to look for a random pair. Discarding 4 cards and keeping the 3 means you draw 4 new cards. If P(A) is drawing the three and P(B) is not drawing the 3, the odds of drawing the 3 (P(A)) is equal to 1 - P(B). P(B) is when we don’t draw the 3 after 4 attempts, which means its 20/21 * 19/20 * 18/19 * 17/18. Some easy canceling and we see that its a 17/21 chance to not draw the 3. This means P(A) = 1 - 17/21 = 4/21 or 19%. You had a 19% chance of drawing the 3 after discarding 4 cards. Calculating the exact odds of “Discard 5 cards and draw a pair” is significantly more difficult. However, as long as it can be shown that the percentage is greater than 19, it is the better option. You have 9 types of cards left, 3 of which (J, 8, 3) had 1 in the deck, 3 of which (10, 9, 6) had 2, 2 of which (4, 2) had 3, and 1 of which (7) had 4. If we discard the 3, we will draw a card X. As long as X has a second copy in the deck, you will have the same, or greater, odds of drawing its copy (compared to drawing the 3). This is because you will have the same number of draws (4) to match X, but you will be drawing from a deck of size 20, which is better than the case with 3 where the deck had size 21. Now, there are only 3 cards you can draw where this is NOT the case: 3, 8, and Jack. So 18/21 of the cases are strictly better odds. Also, even though 3/21 cases are worse odds, the 18 cases are *much* better than the 3 cases are worse. - If you draw a 10, on the first draw (2/21) you have a 19/20 * 18/19 * 17/18 * 16/17 chance to not draw the second one. Thats 16/20, so 1 - 16/20 = a 4/20 chance to draw the second 10. Now including the odd of drawing the first 10 to begin with, we have 2/21*4/20 =8/420 = 2/105 or a 1.9% chance. We can apply this logic to the 9 and the 6 since they both have exactly 2 copies in the deck. So now 1.9% * 3 = 5.7% Similarly, if we draw a 4 (3/21 chance), we can do P(A) = 1 - P(B) where P(B) is not drawing another 4. P(B) = 18/20 * 17/19 * 16/18 * 15/17 = 16/20 * 15/19 = 4/5 * 15/19 = 60/95. So P(A) = 1 - 60/95 = 30/95. Include the odds of drawing the 4: 3/21*60/95 = 180/1,995 = ~9%. Apply the logic to 2’s as well: 9% * 2 = 18%. Add 18% and 5.7% = 23.7%. Without even adding the odds of getting a pair of 7’s (more likely than 9%), 23.7% > 19%. TLDR; Its worse to keep the 3 and its better to discard 5 cards to look for a random pair. Yes I’m a type-A chatter.

[@alicerosedejak4626]

I love how he was the greatest Cine2Nerdle player ever and he quit playing that to be the most average Balatro player ever. He cracks me up with these, ive watched them all i have a problem.

[@MegaNodnal]

As a teacher I’m so tired of my coworkers and others complaining about kids these days. Like shut up. Every generation says the same thing about the next generation. Teachers especially love to look back with rose tinted glasses. You were just as much a little shit when you were a kid.

[@wangchi_]

For real, MFs back in Roman times were complaining about how the young generation were not up to scratch

[@nightfox183]

Oh good, for a moment there I was afraid he was going to miss how hard Wee Joker goes with retriggers.

[@cyanthrope]

wee joker + hack has worked wonders for me, I call them the ventriloquist's act

[@Amruth]

39:38 Another classic egg moment.

[@joalampela8612]

This was actually the god seed if he didn't frick up the Ride The Bus Joker. The only thing he was lacking the whole time was huge base mult.

[@Rasamune]

41:12 me when I empty my party size bag of Cool Ranch Doritos onto the Yosemite Falls hiking trail

[@GreenFlame16]

The Him Me dance by NL @48:48 😂 Wonder for much it'd be if it was 5 of a kind

[@adampatschek9202]

Let's gooo. My daily Balatro quota will be satisfied now.

[@onepercentjuice]

Just played for 5 hours this game has broken us brothers

[@Putopetaldo]

I cant stop man it just scratches that special itch

[@Bob-wl4bb]

girl, you ain't kidding

[@Merith89]

59:40 People called genZ digital natives, stopped teaching computer classes, and now the kids don't know how to use computers

[@Romanticoutlaw]

imagine if we did that with anything else. "Eh this generation knows their times tables, let's pull all the math classes"

[@Merith89]

@@Romanticoutlaw Totally. Like, cars are so ubiquitous these days, guess we don't need drivers ed anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Hyorinmaruice]

the "they can't type or use computers properly" is true of the 13 year olds I teach in particular because it was assumed they knew how to use a computer and no one taught them.... it's not like... inherent.. its a failing of US the people raising them

[@CmdrCorn]

I loved this game enough to read the credits the other day and noticed that Vegabond is the only joker art made by a random person. Wish I remembered their name though.

[@lawncrow]

That would be LumpyTouch, just recently saw a KZbin post by them saying they drew the artwork on that card

[@cyanthrope]

lumpytouch is a youtuber and an artist, perhaps best known for his mario and garfield parody short animations

[@user-svqmbiv]

It would be really cool if people could submit alternate designs for some of the cards and then it would be random which design you got for the card.

[@Sheamu5]

Vagabond is my favorite

[@Lokoso7]

One of the few games that has me screaming at the screen

[@Holgast]

It's actually well-documented that the younger generation isn't good at computers. There's a now 10 year old article about it, 'Kids can't use computers'. It's because most of them don't have access to one until they enter the office, computer classes aren't taught any more, all of their previous experience is with a mobile device that's locked down and it's hard to find files in

[@hetanshumalik6778]

That is what you get as a result of highly abstracted systems.

[@jonaseckhoff4300]

My pog is directly proportional with the length of the episode

[@DrMonty-ng5fo]

What a ride of a run. Watching him swap strategies was so entertaining, lol.

[@ronathan7212]

I will never make fun of nl for making an obvious mistake again. Today I lost a run when the blind was 14 million even though I was consistently pumping out 30+ million point hands because I forgot to move blueprint off of my DNA and onto my steel joker.

[@Nightknight1992]

3:45 hes so freaking straightblind its insane

[@tzera_rhuon]

I've been there lol, when the opening hand is missing one card, yet 35 cards cycled via discards & hands played, fails to draw it.

[@manguy01]

The thing is, Straits are just bad. They don't score as well as Flush or Full House. (Not to mention they're harder to get)

[@Nightknight1992]

@@manguy01 how that relevant in any way for this situation^^

[@manguy01]

@@Nightknight1992You said he was straitblind. I was just telling you how he became that way. But, no cap, that one physically hurt to watch

[@SuperRollyTrolly]

its really fun y how all the jokers that do work well with hack showed up only after selling it. this is the luck i usually get in my runs xD

[@GoudaOnRye]

That dry “again” in the first millisecond of the video really spoke to me.

[@dragonslaya16]

This was the craziest clutchiest rollercoaster of emotions ever uploaded on yourube

[@aleccooper9350]

Campfire is pretty Pog, my high score run was with 3 campfires and it was awesome

[@mangsmoof]

A diamond queen dipped in “mama lizard’s ruin your mult” oil

[@pyramear5414]

The poppin Wee made me pog with glee.

[@DannyJudasDev]

Campfire gotta be a D tier rare. It's a great xMult joker for getting out of sticky situations, but not getting rid of it for a stable xMult joker causes tool fixation. Buy/sell 6 cards and wreck your build- just to get the same quality of xMult that can be pulled from Driver's License. Then it resets again in two rounds, and gets worse with Skips. I can see it being strong with cards that generate sell opportunities, of course -- but now we need to make room for jokers that don't do anything for our score. Constellation, Stone Joker, Steel Joker, and Throwback are all far and away superior scaling xMult and also trigger Baseball card. For non-scaling xMult, Card Sharp, Acrobat, and Driver's License all provide an incredible and steady 3x for minimal effort to trigger. I doubt any of these would have gotten past 300,000,000, though, for the record.

[@mezelyus-]

this run felt like i just watched a season of a show with multiple story arcs, i didnt know where it was going but i was pogged up

[@moistnar]

2:01 Scripture from the egg lord

[@GynxShinx]

How did he get so far while making the worst chip v mult decisions?

[@banihin]

Man, is it just me or does this guy have the fakest laughs

[@bobbytux4735]

This one starts off cooking. "if you knew the lottery numbers you just pick em"

[@yjre]

I reset my 200 mult ride the buss with the singular face card i had in my shit today. Lil bro woulda gone to Andy 18 if he didn't goof it up

[@PravusTheKid]

>play double tag deck >Get 2148 double tags >Beat ante 8 without a single negative joker tag >Repeat

[@garyadams9345]

Balatro

[@really.really.]

He can't see straight

[@jacobbullinger6858]

Your thumbnail had the answer. Blueprint is the best IMHO

[@leoflynn1050]

I nearly won my first game today with campfire, then fat finger and sold it right before the boss blind

[@Proasaurus_]

1:00:15 It's not. Kids have no social and no technical skills. Everyone claimed this generation would be cracked at technology. The problem is tech is so user friendly, that kids quit at the first obstacle. If it doesn't work instantly, its broken and garbage and they punch the device like a toddler. Don't even get me started on their failure to regulate their outward emotions...

[@Drecon84]

Chat is right though. Hack basically give +2 mult, but only if you only play the right cards. That said, you don't pick Hack for that, you pick it to try and do busted stuff with it later. I think it was still a fine pickup, even though Four Fingers was technically probably better.

[@13chomp4]

It’s simple - I offer you a view and a like, you continue to make sicko mode Balatro videos. I suppose we both profit by the end of the day all things considered. Pleasure doing business.

[@Drecon84]

Wow, I really can't believe he actually survived the round where he just sold all of his jokers and then skipped the next blind. Say what you want about NL, but he's got guts.

[@trippdeez1]

sorry to always be that guy but look at 3:41 again, you dont just have 5678, you had 45678 and discarded the 4....nm someone called you out in chat

[@peterwysoczanski9391]

idk - think about where the youth is typing - its on their phone - not on a PC - I bet most people from 25 under have a hard time formulating an email and typing it without errors - punctuation and spelling...

[@Arbaiter]

Sorry NL. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but its true about Gen Z and Alpha not knowing how to use a file directory, punctuation, and Google.

[@goblinsmiles]

38:41 news articles in 37-41 CE era Rome

[@p3rcey]

+2

[@jugglerfox]

My maaaan we gotta be spending mooooney before going in with tarot joker

[@anthonyrupprecht8659]

Perkeo Blueprint Mime Baron And imo maybe seltzer. Campfire and baseball aren’t even top 5 imo.

[@natebecker4005]

I love when people blame the new generation and its like,,, were all shitty and bad when were new in the workforce and in literally 5th grade. The kids will be fine gen z will be fine and it’s genuinely not an issue

[@keith3946]

Curious. Is the egg joker an easter egg to the Egg?

[@redwolfjo3_647]

unlikely, as it was seen in the demo before NL truly started pogging at it

[@EDoyl]

Likely, since it's a roguelike deckbuilder so the dev could expect NL might play it.

[@mezelyus-]

yes, confirmed by the dev

[@whimsythespur]

blueprint bonfire is a classic combo

[@needarb]

Get rid of this 9, it's not hackable. Now a 3 is good, it's hackable to 6 chips!

[@Putopetaldo]

Ah I gotta pause my balatro game to watch NL play balatro

[@lakshyamehta4720]

buy sell build in balatro has me pogging out of my gourd

[@darinmany5397]

man thinks the order in which you multiply 3 numbers matters.

[@totalphantasm]

I’m glad NL is putting true respect on chips. It’s so much better than mult at the start of endless But man ditching fortune teller for the trio.. when your best hand has a base +8 mult, +50 mult is functionally x6(with scaling), as opposed to the Trio’s x4.5.

[@yoshiwaffles6682]

As a 22 year old I’m screwed with this housing market

[@invelts3140]

1:00:38 yes gen z the generation of gamers does not know how to type

[@augustinedickson1003]

I’m so early he hasent discarded a full house without noticing it yet

[@adissentingopinion848]

Man was doin Speed (1994) and hard crashed to 0mph at the very end holy shit. Made it but gad dang. Edit: The Gen Z media diet is sorely lacking in egg-based content.

[@Ryan38475]

i know that any comment about your game is being seen as hostile to you northernlion, im sorry for commenting, but wasnt vagabound ideal to make your hack cards enhanced? that 16 chip card gave u completely nothing compared to vagabound :(

[@Craonster]

Am I the only one hoping YT gets some other content than baletro?

[@fahr]

zoomers typing with one finger like my boomer grandma

[@MANFAIC]

4:35 Now I have to go listen to that again.

[@lessthan12parsecs92]

Oh man, I was yelling at the screen when he put that queen to play at about the 39 min mark. I have done that so many times...it hurts. Great video!

[@StevoKpop]

should definitely burn discards on the first round to try for the full house before just sending since it costs you $1 when you have to play 2 hands

[@OGNetro]

I just had double polychrome campfire on a run it was amazingly op, got to ante 12 for the first time cause of how much it scaled, also ended up with a lot of economy cause of a double tag and a blind skip that gave 35 gold.

[@johnathan_joestar_]

I love how the video just started with a silencer "if you know the lottery numbers in advance just pick'em, its that easy." Istn called northernlion for no reason, cause that was straight up COLD.

[@MrGiovanniPollio]

The true Jokers are the friends we met along the way

[@dj66800]

Selling the tarot joker was not it bro we're cooked

[@Snowstar420]

That run was super dynamic. Even if NL made mistakes he played through them very well.

[@mattjones9535]

Watching this I finally get double tags! Should help me build on my one successful run! 😂

[@Roxas1639]

I know he made some mistakes but it's actually really impressive how he pulled this back.

[@TheBigAEC]

1:00:00 Eggfather, I'm sad to say this. It's fucking true. I worked at an internet cafe a couple years back and gen Z adults and alpha kids are basically computer illiterate. One day it was super busy and this highschooler in... I'd guess 4th form, so highschool junior, came to me and was going to pay me to do her essay assignment and since it was so busy I said no and she bought an hour and a half of time and I shit you not, she just sat there. She sat at the desktop with word open, called her uncle and he got there and typed it for her. I've had to salvage dozens of Wikipedia copy/pastes by backpacking the the citation markers out and quickly colouring and formatting hyperlinks. A parent wanted me to do her gradeschool son's typing assignment instead of having the kid type 3 simple sentences and I had to plead with her to let him do it and I just make sure he's trying cause that was sad. These kids only use their phone man. They don't type, they can't search a directory, they can't troubleshoot, they can't research or punctuate to save their lives. I have to lay alot of blame on their schools and parents. The schools SHOULD be teaching these kids this stuff and the parents SHOULD be more aware of their kids' performance and behaviour. But, at the end of the day, the kids need to try harder cause it's gonna get rough with all these new AI tools slowly eating the job markets.

[@GreenFlame16]

The smart competition thingy handled masterfully, loved it! An appetizer for the rest of the video :P

[@James-ly6vz]

The entertainment value of this episode could warrent a second watch lol. Unreal.

[@kaleidoscope942]

what’s the best joker comp? One chip, one mult, three multiply?

[@littlej211]

If your planets are leveled up very high, then most jokers that add chips and flat mult are not very impactful. If your planets are low level though (especially before Ante 8) then yes, you're recipie is quite good.

[@simontellebrendmoe1341]

Still waiting on NL to pick up the joker that makes straights with A, 1, 2, 3, 4

[@HardCandy01]

39:39 scared me omg

[@alicerosedejak4626]

Its hard watching him play this deck.... look at all those double tags....

[@redwolfjo3_647]

I'm a 2-pilled buy-cel

[@hogmild]

These vids keeping me going until i can afford to buy the game myself

[@ereynolds72]

I love this game, but am I right in thinking super auto pets is kill?

[@MBoy2000_]

The queen play is one of the greatest of all time, stay winning NL youre great

[@jaycebelea5109]

Wee Joker is so good. It can get into the thousands of chips easily

[@Ezrakii]

Not even my KZbin premium could save me from 360p

[@HunkeyDunk]

Bro is copying faunas strats

[@sl5945]

I can feel the type A energy bubbling up. Im about to burst

[@ГригорийЗингер-м3м]

Nah, it's the one to its left

[@Nightknight1992]

will he ever read boss blinds or understand serpent? :)

[@OGNetro]

Ride the bus must be a must have for no facecard deck lmao

[@cyanthrope]

bro would break the bus on ante 8. Never been more pegged up