The hand of a lifetime (Balatro)

[@int3r4ct]

Other people pointing out misplays and what not, I’m just enjoying the fact that NL will ALWAYS take a Wheel. He’s just like me fr

[@thames21]

I've caught myself getting fed up with the misplays too, but I remind myself he's pretty new to the game here. Also, I make the dumbest mistakes when I play myself so I guess it's more that I'm just rooting for him not to do the same. And yes, I'm risking a Wheel too, unless I already have polychrome. Only thing I really found painful was him not taking invisible joker instead of tribe, since he plays 4-5 of a kind, not that many flushes neccasary.

[@HUNLEE-ge7fj]

@@thames21the misplays are apart of the magic. Makes people comment WAY more when they think they’re super smart lol

[@thames21]

@@HUNLEE-ge7fj That's true, gets him a lot of engagement!

[@sagecolvard9644]

Egg talking about how hard it is to live for 3 more turns without the x2 Mult from the Tribe when he has literally never triggered the x2 mult from the tribe once in the whole run is this video's Type A trigger-moment.

[@teaganstritch7269]

ignoring the tribe is killing me when he has a flush five every hand

[@justabomb8629]

Honestly I forgot about it as well but when I noticed it felt like a flashbang in my brain

[@Bobaphatt]

Screaming at my TV to play flush fives.

[@DerryckStorm]

Paused to find this comment

[@EveloGrave]

His brain is scrambled.

[@largetoast5063]

"You know we're so mars pilled at this point" Instantly rerolled past Mars not even a second later. That's the egg we all know and love

[@Disvoidal]

51 frames later he rerolls mars

[@citratune]

timestamp

[@largetoast5063]

@@citratune01:04:30

[@justjuniorjaw]

​@@citratune1:04:30

[@calebrose4296]

@@citratune1:04:34

[@talia_al_gabagool]

“We’re up all night to get lucky. A pair of European philosophers said that” literally still laughing

[@Hakasedess]

55 minutes into the run, he sacrifices the x2 mult that got him through the game up until that moment (it didn't trigger a single time since the moment he got it)

[@Qyubij]

it triggered exactly once

[@Hakasedess]

@@Qyubij CAUGHT

[@joshuagrandslam2324]

literally what i was thinking im like bruh

[@lucidalice5334]

seeing him not trigger that joker was truly painfull lmao

[@CheechoAswell]

that's what i'm saying 😭 (he also never realised playing flush fives would trigger it)

[@Oscardoingthings]

"quick-ish Balatro" brother it's over 1 hour POG

[@rmiah]

The streets remember the “quick” luck be a landlord hour long millionaire video

[@cassiboi1423]

and i’m LOVING every minute of it!

[@phakepercs9599]

Wait longer than 10 seconds to comment challenge: DIFFICULTLY IMPOSSIBLE (oh no, I've fallen for my own trp) Send likes because sad cat violin meme

[@Samleecx]

Immediately checked the vid length when i heard the word quick IM PEGGED

[@gulubdur]

I'm the gamer.

[@zacharyrichard3830]

Enough type-A chat comments, that mega-steel hand was orgasmic and y’all need to appreciate it. He ditched the Tribe when it mattered, and we got 4e17 point hand. Pogged out of my gourd.

[@arcmage7000]

Fr bro played to the absolute limits of what humans are capable of

[@cameronhajjafar2585]

I laughed hysterically, I was pegged completely out of control

[@SpikeHawk]

It really is wild just how much this game brings out the Type-A comments. Like on the episode where he got three Legendary Jokers, none of the top comments were about how incredible that was. They were all just going off on misplays. Not even saying whether the Type-A-ers are going too far or not, I'm just amazed at the lack of variety in the comments. So I appreciate you doing your best to be positive!

[@solomonjsolomon2311]

For those who were wondering, because I was: 400 quadrillion.

[@evank5966]

415 quadrillion ;)

[@Guyflyer12]

god that 4.5e17 hand was so pogged up

[@Amruth]

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!

[@guig008]

I replayed that part that number of times

[@jaydengonzales999]

Watching at 0.25x speed was a real treat

[@Liwet.]

That number is called 415 quadrillion. A quadrillion is so named as it is 4 sets of 3 zeroes after 1,000.

[@zZ_GHOS7_Zz]

😊

[@maticampa2336]

50:38 selling temperance really is a BOLD move

[@tomdalzell3674]

He’s moving faster than his synapses can fire.

[@mattyP27]

Money is not on sale folks

[@mattcroft]

​@@tomdalzell3674he's operating on a level we can only imagine

[@ToThePowerOfX]

also the time where he played the gold card and kept the gold seal card in his hand lmao

[@benpairs9385]

skipping the invisible joker to keep a joker that is doing absolutely nothing is going to keep me up all night

[@LithiumSkin]

Literally man I had to pause the video, made me start pacing my room

[@ArashiSlime]

this dude, has managed to actually make me mad at a computer screen, like I got a good temper, but this man actively throwing runs like its NOTHING, just, broke me

[@stockingsstuffer6302]

are these the "type A chatters" I hear so much about

[@HerOwnKnife]

said 2 european philosophers i think

[@Zvox]

@@LithiumSkin if you're pacing in your room because of a misplay a stranger made in a silly little card game, i think you may need to turn the computer off and go touch some grass.

[@willied4856]

This is the waiting room for when he realized his 2x flush isn’t hitting because he’s playing 4 of a kinds

[@willied4856]

He never realized

[@orb3190]

I'm 40 minutes in and pulling my hair out

[@bdiddy1138]

I keep yelling at my TV "BUT YOU'RE NOT PLAYING ANY FLUSHES!" 🤣

[@martinfitzpatrick555]

We live here now 😅

[@joaoeduardo3236]

Hahahahhahahahahqhqqhahhqgqhqgahahhqhhahah

[@Jabbersac]

I've officially transformed into some kind of inverted Type-A chatter. At 1:04:34 when he re-rolled a Mars WHILE TALKING ABOUT BEING COMMITTED TO MARS I actually stood up and cheered. I think I pissed off my neighbor. What a rush!

[@webslynger]

Type-(-A) chatter. Are we mutating...?

[@9jaymie]

I actually paused the video and stared at the screen smiling at this exact moment.

[@Jabbersac]

@@webslynger Let's say Type Z. That's easier to keep track of.

[@blackmagicPhD]

The amazing part is he doesn't mean to do it!

[@astarothgr]

Yes, this is the way! This is how to enjoy this content!

[@goldhypercurve6373]

"Never destroy a spade" *immediately destroys a spade*

[@mcgoo721]

You have to remember that he's illiterate. He can come up with the idea, but interfacing with the game and actually choosing the right options comes down to pure luck.

[@goldhypercurve6373]

@mcgoo721 Hahaha, just a little forgetful sometimes. It did drive me crazy that he held onto the "flush x2" joker he had for so long that effectively made flush five better than four of a kind, but he never played flush five. Esspecially whenever he debated getting rid of it, thinking that 2x mult was more valuable even though he was never getting that x2 mult.

[@Tyysst]

yeah i was malding so hard when he was comparing it to other jokers and i was like you havent used it for 2 antes straight man its literally not doing anything@@goldhypercurve6373

[@MetalMockingjay]

"We're so Mars pilled" he said, rerolling Mars.

[@boccci]

"Never destroy a spade" is the exact advice my frugal gardening instructor gave me back in '06

[@jvee01]

tribe is the vibe protector that watched over this run like a guardian angel, we love us some fun-maxxing don't we folks

[@WollyChaps]

Pulls The Tribe, never plays a flush or flush five again.

[@AlchemistRacing]

“All these cards are garbage”. Sells everything to enable flush five. Nice

[@orb3190]

i'm losing it man

[@Turkos245]

then keeping bootstrap after mime lmao

[@cammra4]

And rolling scholar. I almost exploded

[@BigPennyInc]

AND HE KEEPS BUYING ERIS

[@BRamz_121]

22:39 no developer could ask for higher praise than that. A decade plus fan of the roguelite and deckbuilder genres making a statement like that hits different.

[@quiteadept]

Blueprint is the best Joker in the game and it doesn't even do anything on its own.

[@FaultyWirestv]

Yeah, it lets you do crazy things with the burn joker and many other stackables as well.

[@Gorbgorbenson]

I had both one run, and it didnt even occur to me to use it there until 90% through. Even still I had like a level 40 hand type​@FaultyWirestv

[@FaultyWirestv]

@@Gorbgorbenson Yeah, the fact that you can use it for a once-per-turn then shift it to give score is insane. It's absolutely the glue card for me on crazy runs.

[@cyanthrope]

my last win had blueprint giving x3's with a joker regularly giving x3's on five-of-a-kind face card hands, it was out of control

[@xanboyyy]

its like the parrot from SAP. Pog

[@tippybooch]

"We need a mult multiplier" my brother in christ you have one you aren't using

[@elastichedgehog6339]

The +3 hand size double tab and always draw three went crazy.

[@webslynger]

Actual Play Of the Game type content right there

[@LOTGx]

and he discarded 5 anyway

[@Phhase]

I had my doubts about the steel build at first, but when the blueprints started popping, and then the MIME hit, I saw the pattern coalesce. Bravo.

[@jasperheckinbocker1101]

Something about pure youtube plays, the focus, the lack of chat, the focus

[@jessie1078]

When he rolled past steel joker i literally became a different person for 10 seconds. I finally understand type a chatters now

[@A70M1C]

I love that he won and had such a good endless run, but when he rolled past the Steel Joker, I almost lost it.

[@Oxxyjoe]

what/?? I totally missed that!

[@Vario69]

Oh yeah I was thinking wait, isn't that...

[@music00soba]

not to mention rolling past the aces joker and keeping the boot when it does nothing 🧐

[@Mellonzoned]

I think this is one of my favorite NL videos in a long time, the amount of absolute POG when he released the master hand @1:01:35 is absolutely fantastic.

[@rjbeefy5020]

Wild that he was so interested in seeing the number go up that he didn't notice that one of the lucky aces hit for a +20 mult

[@GodOfVoid]

"Your boy's doin the math" Immediately does not do the math

[@GJSmith]

He can't stop playing Balatro. He's got the bug!!!

[@Gingerninja738]

Its good im eating up

[@alfitraheydarachsan7607]

Kk55ffff59🎉f

[@alfitraheydarachsan7607]

Cftf 🎉fcffc🎉😊cffo c🎉🎉

[@Llostlegacy]

Breaks my heart at 19:59 when he chose to not take the free win he was handed with the polychrome glass 8s

[@Hunter-po8jy]

1:04:31 "I dont even know why I am leveling these up we know we are so mars pilled" *Skips mars immediately after*

[@DennysOrozco]

"Quick-ish balatro" "1:07:54" runtime

[@asddsaasdfg2846]

Very guick balatro💀

[@themauler1599]

"Way too late for Vampire." Brother one hand makes Vampire infinitely better than the Tribe has been for the whole run.

[@madeofmarble8514]

nah that was the right play, he wanted to go crazy in endless which requires steel. vampire scales way less than steel

[@themauler1599]

​​​@@madeofmarble8514 Sure, sure, if you can see the future. He had no idea he would get mime four shops later or that he would have the opportunity to get a 24 hand size. What he did have was a bunch of gold cards and lucky cards he was playing and a bunch of steel cards he wasn't playing. Simply put he could throw the gold cards to build vampire and even if it didn't get to x36 by the time he got to the mime it would've still been literally infinitely better than the Tribe which was doing nothing and it would've been better than baseball card which was giving x2.25 give or take where he placed the blueprints. So yeah, steel goes hard, but a joker literally doing nothing doesn't.

[@issiahslaughter6324]

@@themauler1599 vampires a noob trap for endless even without mime steel is the wincon

[@themauler1599]

@@issiahslaughter6324 I don't think you understand. The tribe was literally useless for him. Like it wasn't doing anything but taking up space. At the time he could've taken vampire it would've been infinitely better than literally useless. He was playing a bunch of gold cards and holding steel. He could still use steel and also get the multiplier. I'm not saying that Mine + steel isn't goated. I'm saying Vampire would've immediately been better than The Tribe has ever been AND later he could've sold vampire for mime. Vampire isn't necessarily the way, the truth, and the life but it is way better than literally nothing.

[@issiahslaughter6324]

@@themauler1599 i do understand very well, the tribe doing nothing is way better than the vampire killing the run by eating the steel cards because at some point your deck in endless is only steel cards thats how you beat ante 32 so yea sure he could have banked on only playing his gold cards to eat those with the vampire but that would have hurt his econ and the econ is way more valuable than vampire for 1 or 2 antes

[@thecabeebman]

for anyone curious what it looks like written out, the 1:01:44 was 415 quadrillion or 415,000,000,000,000,000

[@mitoconpower8822]

His math on the boot is killing me.

[@Shankalten]

His score written out 415000000000000000

[@webslynger]

Egg stocks hit the trillions today

[@PurestIcicle]

That is 415 quadrillion

[@scrums4748]

@@PurestIcicle million*

[@PurestIcicle]

@@scrums4748 no its *quadrillion*

[@Qyubij]

​@@scrums4748you may need re-education

[@ZZalles1]

The Type-A chatter was the master of all four blueprint placements, but when the world needed him most, he vanished

[@SpencerTwiddy]

Type-Avatar?

[@MuhMuhMamaLuigi]

+2

[@SharpVCN]

Y’all can talk about the Tribe all you want, it’s keeping the boot after pivoting to a mime-based run that’s doing it for me. Bros using a joker space to add 200 to a 400,000 mult.

[@max-from-the-mini-mines]

Holding the flush based joker for so long definitely gave me feelings.

[@DrorN777]

"Brother what kind of number is that???" I died of POG

[@Rumcake256]

I absolutely love the energy, vibe, and war table meetings he was having by himself. 10/10 stuff. Easily one of my favorite videos. WOW WHAT A FREGGIN HAND

[@wangchi_]

Lmao war table meetings by himself is a PERFECT way to describe his style, I love it

[@sammy0jpeg]

the tribe was kept there to counteract the +1 joker slot he got from the voucher I hope NL never changes

[@GodzillaMelons]

I don't know why, but as a person who watches NL's KZbin only videos when eating dinner and doesn't know what's happening half the time because I'm not paying attention or questions his moves when I do understand, watching him create a 415 quadrillion hand made me laugh so hard. Admittedly, I was pointing my chopsticks at the monitor screaming "BUT YOU DON'T PLAY FLUSHES!!", but man that exponential MULT growth was so good!!

[@CameronHord]

1:06:38 "is this a third of that?" It's about 1/20,000 of the score he needed. "e" is no joke

[@Vario69]

Yeah, like scoring two e9's in a row would make you think you'd get much bigger total score, but nah, it's likely still just e9

[@RagedScorpion11]

"So that was good" after playing one of the most RIDICULOUS HANDS I have ever seen. What a run!

[@Blanket-King]

Balatro is one of the greatest games, and the Egg is the best to watch. Always a treat to watch god plays and misplays!

[@DWN037]

for me it's 50:38 where he sells Temperance for $1 instead of using it for like $18

[@Porkthepie]

First time in ages I've watched a youtube video full screen on monitor 1. Absolutely pogged out of my gourd

[@franciscobernardo95]

pro tip: usually for steel decks, you want high card leveled, so you have the biggest amount of steel on your hand triggering. for glass its the opposite, you want flush fives.

[@ericg4626]

"We really need a mult multiplier" BROTHER JUST PLAY FLUSH FIVE I am losing it

[@Thytan]

Have a feeling this is "The One" that he tweeted about I'm pre-Pogged and ready to go edit: 'e'xcellent work, 47

[@Vario69]

Eggcellent work, 17

[@timbrown6457]

Some say he is still passing on flush fives with tribe to this day

[@boyxgamer]

I survived SAP but Balatro has turned me into a Type A chatter

[@webslynger]

You held out as long as you could

[@boyxgamer]

@@webslynger the constant discarding of hands he meant to play just breaks me man

[@zPens87z]

The unadulterated bliss of the moment of 1:01:32 where the machine is dinging and the number turning nuclear makes this game an all-timer. I really hope he continues this series.

[@xenonbreakout]

my metamorphosis into a type A chatter was when he was late game with like 50 steel aces and rolled past the steel joker in the shop without even hovering over it i feel the seethe seething through me

[@MAVIE95]

Oh boy, I have rewatched that one hand so many times. And you know which one!

[@virtualmartini]

50:39 selling Temperance for 1$ instead of using it for like 14$ was truly demented.

[@MrTDWfan]

I used to love it when a slay the spire video went so crazy that I saved it to my favorites playlist - I saved this Balatro video to my favorites.

[@dwntherabbithole9785]

Petition to bring balatro to Vegas. I would never be so happy to lose all of my money.

[@robmack519]

I was tempted to comment before the video finished, but he really did do the very best anyone could be expected to do. When it counted, he came in clutch and delivered the dopamine I've been searching for in these videos. The omega steel hand went out of control!!! Who knew 1 (3) mime(s) could deliver such catharsis.

[@myseglis]

The sound at the end with the mults going insane over and over again was so satisfying, what a run that was

[@DarkismyBlood]

Absolutely orgasmic steel hand in the end - Bravo NL!

[@songofthieves]

For anyone curious, the e17 means the decimel moves 17 places, or that there are 17 zeroes at the end of that 4. So the hand was worth 400 QUADRILLION chips. 415, even, since it's 4.15e17

[@alexanderwales7870]

What a nutty run, especially with the Mime as the cherry on top at the end.

[@ConwaytheWizard]

The man plays a 415 quadrillion point hand and I have to scrape my jaw off the floor

[@SerDrayden]

Beautiful start to my morning 🫡

[@asddsaasdfg2846]

Pairs nicely. I agree

[@micahwood7740]

This episode of Balatro was POGGED UP OUT OF OUR MINDDDDSSSSS Congrats on the HUUUUUUGE Score !

[@real.bingus]

THAT STEEL TRAIN WAS THE MOST POG RICH BALATRO MOMENT I HAVE EVER SEEN HOOOOOOOLYYYYYYYYY

[@TheShut1]

Only Northernlion can do both the dumbest play ever and the most genius, amazing 10/10 play in the same video. This guy is unique and should be protected at all cost.

[@ethanlocke3604]

Balatro has turned nl into a type a chatter

[@Oxxyjoe]

hey y'know, it's a chance of pace!

[@zerrus8781]

52:01 I'm going to use a novel technique in type-A chatting: Praising NL for his smart decisions. As we see in the timestamp, he moves a Blueprint Joker from a Flat Mult Joker(+100 MULT) to a Times Mult Joker(x2.75 MULT) The best way to figure out what is the best Blueprint Joker position is this: Let's imagine a simplified situation. We have a 100x10 hand. We also have a Joker that gives us 100 MULT, a Joker that gives us x2 MULT, and a Blueprint Joker. Now we have a decision: Where to put that Blueprint Joker? Let's write the Mult calculation: (10 + 100a) * 2b, either a=1, b=2 or a=2, b=1. Now let's simplify this. (10 + 100a) * 2b = 20b + 200ab Now it's obvious, b is more valuable than a. If you are better with words than numbers: is it better to double a single Joker's Mult, or all Mult? In general, (if the Times Mult on a Joker is 2x or more), it's always better to duplicate Times Mult Joker it instead of any flat MULT Jokers.

[@GlassEyeBaby]

Bootstraps gives him +200 mult, with blueprint it’s +400

[@Slink1701]

​@@GlassEyeBabyYes, so basically blueprint doubles the mult. which makes it functionally equivalent to a x2 mult card. Thus, duplicating the x2.75 mult card is strictly better. (100 + 100) x 2.75 = 100 x 2 x 2.75 < 100 x 2.75 x 2.75

[@AaronBeSpeedy]

If the mult multer is greater than x2 (like literally x2.01), having blueprint copy it instead of the flat mult will 100% of the time be better.

[@juanjoseph2357]

55:48 Me when I'm at a party and it has French aesthetic and I'm missing one thing

[@aylamao9389]

One of the best runs I've ever seen and I'm pogging up the whole time and the entire comment section is Type A's

[@VasalisErretti]

The Egg misplays every video turn me further and further into the Joker. Cause like maybe was a little bit type a chatter at first but now instead of anger it's gone all the way around to being hilarious to the point i am just laughing when it occurs. That and cause end of the day i got the game myself and can try my best at it when I feel like it.

[@csisver]

If you don't know 4.150e17 is 4.15 * 10^17 which equals 415,000,000,000,000,000 or 415 quadrillion

[@RichardFooter]

Much fun. You Sir, are a scholar and a gent!

[@superhawk6105]

26:35 the gasp I gusped, then the relief I love this game so much

[@ThaCreepZzz]

Was waiting for this run since I saw the result on twitter and I'm gonna say I'm pogging right now

[@Casemister36]

Fully pogging out at the "him me him me" situations in this video.

[@gruntskilling]

I'm amazed how the game changed from when NL started playing Balatro until now. WOW

[@RhinestoneXD]

Failing the wheel of fortunes is a great running joke

[@s3vere195]

54:00 has to be the absolute most insane thing ive ever seen nl do, he has the card effect on screen and he has already committed to the 4 of a kind build only to completely ignore it

[@LockpickGamer]

"quick-ish Balatro" looks at video length. Yeah okay, that's pretty quick (POV: you are a video essay Andy).

[@SofaMuncher]

This was fantastic man thanks for the pleasure of that hand!

[@LeonBlade]

I'm just getting into this game. The biggest hand I've ever got is like 100k. This is really cool seeing how crazy this game can get. These videos are super entertaining and they actually teach a lot of the mechanics of how you might want to structure a deck. Thank you for these!

[@mattcroft]

He's really improved in the regular antes but when the game gets logarithmic his brain just runs out of coolant. But I'm proud to say I've learned to dial down the type A and dial up the funmaxx

[@mattcroft]

When he figured out how to blueprint DNA, I got enough Type A content to survive... buut it's still funny that he didn't recognize that blueprinting flat mult is just a x2

[@macilaci92]

i'm 50 minutes in. Does he ever realizes that the Flush joker does not do anything on 4 of a kinds?

[@haroldp.sadwood1181]

No, but he does sell the tribe

[@protogon]

That steel hand, never been more pogged up in my life

[@dragonslaya16]

My man yammerin like an addict

[@necpmf]

great vid can't wait til the protagonist figures out scientific notation

[@iconvideos8054]

Love this game shout out to the person making the playlist of all nl's balatro run videos

[@georgiamcflyy4772]

easily the best balatro video I’ve ever watched. Thank you oh great egg

[@BlaZinHeyinNa22]

Removing the bonus at 26:30 has made me a type A chatter. He's finally got me.

[@ArashiSlime]

I like how at 53:50 he is debating losing tribe, when he hasn't triggered it in like 30 minutes

[@SageOrion]

Absolutely insane that there are type A chatters on this hype of a video

[@petermelang6695]

Holy, I'm so pogged

[@asddsaasdfg2846]

Are you on the touchy part?

[@snrken]

balatro goes so hard

[@asddsaasdfg2846]

This video is really at a higher elevation than normal as a result of just coming out of that pogged run.

[@troublewtt]

Love the balatro content my man

[@Benisuber1]

1:04:32 "I don't know why I'm even leveling these up, we know we're so Mars pilled at this point." Immediately skips a 2nd Mars after having skipped one in the previous shop.

[@robbiestrong-morse730]

That big hand was 415 *QUADRILLION*. If each chip took a second to make it would take 13 BILLION YEARS to make that many chips.

[@Qyubij]

so we're here then, that's what's been happening for the past 13 bilion years

[@justintime4u2bu]

Pro tip: You can see enhanced cards in the Collection menu by going to the pause menu. So you don't have to be worried about what benefits overwrite an enhancement. It can be confusing sometimes between Editions/Enhancements/Seals all bundled up on some cards.

[@marvinafonso7713]

Goated run, well played Ryan!

[@malcolmliang]

"How would I live without this card" Ends without ever triggering it