You've never seen a banana like this, I guarantee it (Balatro)

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[@BrianM_3rd]

Who up incrementing they trousers to Balatro

[@christopherthompson5400]

+2

[@danser_theplayer01]

+2

[@noahpoliti]

+2

[@samuelbailey2000]

+2

[@patricktan7120]

+2

[@ericbronson6040]

No one's been this obsessed with the wheel since 4,000 BCE

[@bun197]

remind me of what event started the common era?

[@genethesupreme]

Have you heard of a game called Jackbox?

[@Dorago1991]

Reminds me of the Hedgehog SAP arc. Just pure insanity.

[@murphythepotato5931]

hollyyyy +2

[@bun197]

I mean what else would it be? secularism has contributed precisely FA to human culture and im sure these imaginary aliens would venerate their great figures as we do. if they started despising their own philosophical tradition like atheists theyd die out before they got here. @@JD-wu5pf

[@williammitchell6254]

38:03 "Jupiter's huge" you know, when he's right he's right.

[@tomwhite5868]

Many people are saying this

[@kiyokiyoko]

Type A chatter: winning is getting the highest ante Funmaxxer: winning is wheeling all your Jokers

[@powerlifting1012]

What does wheeling mean

[@Waffleninja-fr1bf]

@@powerlifting1012 Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card

[@KCzz15]

I'm type A but wheeling everything is something you don't give up the dream on.

[@Zanaki113]

YESSIR, I AM WHEELMAXING FORTUNEPILLED

[@adamhauf6580]

+2

[@pieb0y1]

Me talking to the cavendish banana: you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

[@edwardburns9619]

One of these days hes gonna throw his monitor out the window

[@KCzz15]

I've only had Cavendish once, it broke after 4 rounds.

[@steveneaddy5298]

@@KCzz15you poor soul

[@alanlight2715]

@@KCzz15That's legit one of the unluckiest things I've heard

[@Stuntbackup]

@@KCzz15the first time I got Cavendish it deleted itself after only one round

[@HolyDeviant1]

Cavendish is 100 percent the entire reason I take michel early, but both are run savers tbh

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Then you take dice to challenge the world. "I am the luckiest person alive!"

[@handoverthestromboli6715]

does Cavendish only show up when Michel breaks? ooh

[@JelloSalad021]

​@@handoverthestromboli6715 Yeah, thats why I almost always take Michel

[@jacobsims5848]

Biology degree paying off in this vid

[@picklenik9658]

@@greenoftreeblackofblue6625Me when I take lucky dice but it doubles the probability of my banana breaking to 2/1000 and it breaks 😱

[@ThatBlueBadger]

NL sticking with the Wheel purely for dopamine on the 1/5 x 1/3 for the full polychrome dome instead of becoming the easiest Steel Card generator north of Pittsburgh is a commitment to content you won't see anywhere else

[@ButcherParry]

This is to satisfy the internal goblins

[@EDoyl]

I remember when NL got so caught up in "trade offer" he would say nothing else any time any Isaac item was on screen. I hope Mama Liz's Chilli Oil hits that level of reflex

[@bduddy55555]

It can't be worse than the "we love" bit

[@paching]

it did, it really did tho

[@jacobadderley2643]

Skwam skwam skwammy skwam skwam skwam, ya know what I mean?

[@zoom3184]

he is skwamming

[@mangsmoof]

Sooooo true

[@Tyfonen]

+2

[@beemaack]

I click the video for the pegs, I stay for the skwams.

[@CmdrCorn]

I thought they were _Squams_ , like when certain Pacific Northwest First Nations people have a party

[@evannlowe790]

NL saying that he is known to misplay hands to then proceed and only play 4 cards in literally the following hand is top tier content

[@empty_headed]

32:18 me when the SSRI kicks in

[@izzydemon_]

clicking every balatro upload waiting for the E run that he promised on twitter

[@bunbun8436]

Same

[@tungstentiger7228]

Same brother

[@fedorafinder]

You know he’ll slap that fat score in the thumbnail, have no fear my son

[@Smilezlol]

Same

[@Xenomnipotent]

You mean X?

[@JohnJohnson-vq7ze]

21:25 Finally, spicy pepper old guy meets British takeout cuisine. MUSHY PEAS, SEASONED WITH SALT!

[@CmdrCorn]

I genuinely wonder if these guys see a real bump in views when the likes of NL turns them into canon...

[@DannyIO]

i like the combo where joker that makes all cards face cards, the the one that face cards become gold, then the one that eats buffs, every turn super buffs

[@madhavraghu]

that's really interesting, cool combo

[@SalmanRavoof]

Midas, Pareidolia, and Vampire.

[@vultureblockchain8320]

Just got this last night, played Midas, Pareidolia, Vampire, and Blueprint. First time using Vampire as I love having enhanced cards. Got my Vampire to 21.2x Mult before I pivoted. Very Fun.

[@rokajoshdev]

@@vultureblockchain8320 Thats crazy, what did you pivot to?

[@gilbertzz]

Mama Liz’s shit your pants oil lmaooo

[@WouldYouKindlyWatch]

dude, can you save my life and remember the time stamp? I laughed so hard and now i'm trying to show my SO.

[@edizlikese3132]

Cavendish dipped in mama Liz's polychrome oil

[@edizlikese3132]

​@@WouldYouKindlyWatch its at 36:19

[@WouldYouKindlyWatch]

@@edizlikese3132 ty!

[@Tringard]

50:23 I'm here watching with my full attention, haven't even picked up my phone during this video

[@psychoharmonic665]

The digestion bit had me dying.

[@willdurant141]

I'm in tears to that bit, I go down to the comments and it's all Type As. How can you ignore that bit!

[@seethedeo]

Dude, the opening answer to chat kills it. Absolutely fantastic hahahaha.

[@A_Lily_by_Another_Name]

Luna just became literate but isn't media literate yet smh

[@williammitchell6254]

From what I can tell from Twitter she has between 30-40 years before she's supposed to.

[@zoom3184]

she’s learned just enough to start calling things “mid”, “trash”, or “goated”

[@IndianaBrown-id1bq]

I alt-tabbed out of helldivers to let you guys know I was called out at 50:00

[@Waffalish]

I think fortune teller is understated in its importance. Goated Joker.

[@Sabre5106]

Ah yes, I remember this stream from 26nd of February.

[@JoeCMath]

50:00 he calling us out on our shenanigans in the YT comments 😅

[@Konitama]

lol @ him getting up in the camera to yell at the developer @ 19:50

[@jarenmeyer1517]

Me When i'm a roman senator 38:29

[@williamchristensen7354]

Underrated comment.

[@thaddeus1519]

Ngl This game was made for NL with his meta tunnel vision focus off the first pick of every rogue lite.

[@almscurium]

Not to nitpick but isn’t this a roguelike?

[@thaddeus1519]

​@@almscurium To comment a month later and be incorrect is wild.

[@almscurium]

@@thaddeus1519 “Balatro is a poker-inspired roguelike deck builder” from steam, so yeah you’re pretty wild haha

[@YT_Lucks]

50:01 Why he gotta call me out like this.

[@Kekkle-]

be a better person blackball billy boily

[@z_man22]

The polychrome banana is sick as hell

[@AlexanderLarsson-y4w]

25:04 The 'Nope!' arrives calmly with a sense of purpose

[@jignuts5360]

Balatro is too good of content to be second monitor content. This is my before bed ritual now watching these.

[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

Skipping Sixth Sense with Perkeo killed me and then exhumed my corpse

[@jaydengeorge2693]

On the topic of Green Eggs and Ham, it was the first book I ever read by myself as a child. My mum was with me in the doctors office and I grabbed it off a shelf in the waiting room and just started reading out loud. She had no idea I could read, very similar to what happened with Luna and NL. Mum still tells that story 15 years later.

[@Khrrck]

For me it was road signs apparently.

[@MattyTheBird]

For all the uninitiated, Green Eggs and Ham is legitimately 62 pages long. My man knows his Suess.

[@virtualmartini]

I wonder if the second banana can break and spawn an even better banana.

[@cole7463]

Red Banana: Multiply your mult by itself. 1/69420 chance to go extinct.

[@Qyubij]

​cal it petit jon

[@truedardii]

@@cole7463 raw banana

[@dudekazoo]

That's what I've been thinking! I try to get Cavendish as often as possible to try to find out.

[@krayolakraken]

Mama Lizz be selling all kinds of oils. That last one, though...

[@Dgnarus]

The first time I read what Cavendish did I laughed my ass off

[@CmdrCorn]

Why? Maybe I dont get it? Oh okay, I looked it up. Very interesting. I have heard before that the Gros Michel banana actually tasted like artificial banana flavor, and thats why it's so seemingly unrelated to real banana today.

[@brendan9335]

"Negative wheel crashed my game" 😂 was pretty funny tbh.

[@brainsniffer]

Them: balatro isn’t really gambling! NL: We’re due on this wheel

[@Picobits]

32:17 when you find out you have erectile dysfunction

[@kishfoo]

I grew up in a commune full of hippies, and everyone took turns making breakfast. When a stoner musician who knows Jack about cooking, boils eggs for too long... that's how you get green eggs. You should make it for your daughter and see if she likes it.

[@Charlies_Factory]

Im so Balatro pilled.

[@skippy_g_]

Shout out Beevo. His throat collapsed on him for not chewing. Nobody more committed to the game

[@v3nevergod]

I love the fact that checkered deck and +1 hand size guarantee a flush on every hand.

[@AngelJimenez-cs4yq]

Drinking 10 beers at playing Tekken while listening to skwammy egg

[@domeomega1357]

Yoooo Perkeo is easily the best joker. (He's from my home city, I might be biased)

[@zoom3184]

cheesin off the perkeo rn

[@mononaut]

The first time I ever found Cavendish, it broke at the end of the first round I had it. Then the next round I died to a boss that countered my win condition.

[@kooptube]

banana

[@TheYashakami]

I haven't been able to get past ante 11, that gold seal jack run sounded awesome.

[@MattyNoNose]

Why am I having dreams about this game when I’ve never played it…NL got the MKUltra sauce.

[@Vallenthorne]

50:03 Man NL really does know us

[@tezcharold]

Me when I'm low on money and opening packs, lemme skip all these gold cards.

[@whiskeyriddles8678]

Jokes on egg, this video is on my main monitor because I'd only have youtube in the background playing Balatro rn and the combined pog of double Balatro might kill me

[@theGanj]

5:07 Robert De Niro in This Boy's Life

[@LL43216]

Dude I can’t believe you made that one mistake at the end. How could you possibly do this

[@halcyonacoustic7366]

I had a run recently in which Cavendish wasnt good enough. I had every face card related joker plus hanging chad.

[@toddcarter4829]

"I thought I played four cards there and was about to throw my PC in to the dishwasher." Made me laugh far too hard, I going to use the second part of this statement whenever I get angry at PC related activities.

[@pineyum]

NL I can't keep up with all the Balatro videos i'm drowning in pog it's pouring from the heavens

[@grit1]

I didn't think I'd see another wheel-based obsession that wasn't based around trivia

[@niceguy1228]

50:03 HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY DO THIS?!

[@jimbo4221]

Nl going feral upon local thunk showing up +2

[@dewmguy]

50:15 i feel personally attacked

[@bbravoplaysgames]

Fun Fact: The Wheel only upgrades either your newest or oldest non-enhanced joker.

[@ItCantGetAnyWorse]

What? is this confirmed?

[@petermelsaeter]

​​@@ItCantGetAnyWorseno, its just straight up not true. Proof: 21:10

[@Bspammer]

Me when I spread misinformation on the internet for literally no reason

[@Adamulos]

Fun fact: wheel won't upgrade shit I take it 100% of the time I see it

[@bbravoplaysgames]

@@Bspammer Nothing like causing disarray in peoples heads.

[@ruibarian5187]

I made it to Ante 13 today using DNA + Blueprint + Polychrome Glass 6's of diamonds spamming flush fives. Last hand I just didn't draw enough and died, but I was getting cooked by then anyway.

[@thexenocide6013]

if only it was possible to get mult this high with actual chip buffs run would go to mars

[@joshwhalen17]

The first time I found the Cavendish it went extinct after six rounds.

[@paperstaxs9541]

I like to watch NL videos and pretend that he isn’t actually in a stream and talking to a chat but making up all of his banter solo.

[@dudekazoo]

I torpedoed a run earlier by selling my jokers to hex Cavendish and then buy invisible joker. The siren song of two polychrome bananas got me killed. 😅

[@JobroskiSwaqqman]

That banana is more funky than the one Bethesda send him lol

[@TacDonut]

28:58 that’s my man right there!

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

What I like about Perk is at the very least it gives you money.

[@Dsparky121]

I had the same legendary joker on a red deck run, and I ended on ante 13 with over 30 steel cards in deck. Never crossed my mind to wheel jokers but that would’ve been way more fun

[@micahwood7740]

Skipping a blind for any joker makes it free automatically :D It’s supes cool!!

[@LelouchDG_Snap]

I have such a radioactive banana in my fridge right now...

[@mcgoo721]

Ive heard tell of this banana. Mentions in chat. Video titles. Ive avoided its secrets until they were unveiled here. I loathe this man sometimes but he does entertain me.

[@plusonedex]

he was right, i have never seen that shit polychromed

[@z_man22]

0:05 Facts

[@roltthehunter]

Ante 12 just feels like such a brick wall. I keep getting there but it just scales so fucking much it's silly

[@LordBathtub]

This game's addictive as shit god damn. I need it on mobile so i can continue milking dopamine

[@ayanbaqur571]

Hey, HEY I'm paying full attention to this while waiting my time.

[@janky_dragon6901]

The platinum trophy on PS5 is insane

[@ImPoopinRN]

is it unlocking everything, and beating all stakes on all decks?

[@janky_dragon6901]

@@ImPoopinRN Harder than that. You also need to beat orange stake with all the jokers. It only counts for the joker beating an orange stake if you clear ante 8 with it. The joker gets a little chip on it when you beat a certain stake color

[@juancamb123]

19:35 bro got too real. I understood

[@moustik76700]

50:03 I feel attacked

[@PoucoHabilidoso]

Wheel of fortune persistence and keeping a lvl mosquito , I see no difference... he is dopamine maxing gents

[@percivalyracanth1528]

Watchin this vid, I can now see why folks say Prebuff Blue Seal was ASS

[@RigoVids]

Michelle is gross but idk what that has to do with the popped corn

[@RigoVids]

Before you respond I know Gros Michele is the banana strain.

[@four_tay8986]

Ah yes, another step closer to elimating super auto pets from my sleepy time rotation

[@crashinghippo36]

Btw it is glitched rn if u win with the gold difficulty it gives the achievement for winning with gold for all decks

[@fuckhandlesgivemynameback]

he doesnt act like this on stream... i think its an offline footage and hes faking talking to chat

[@mfvitt8000]

i raging that he didnt keep the chariot and make all his cards steel. he would have gone to infinity.

[@waffl3heart]

Whoa did NL quote Ted Leo and the Pharmacist 15:40

[@Pwermert]

Just had the same moment watching this vid 5 months later

[@b1uecottoncandy]

I look back at the damn video after finishing a lab report to NL calling me out for looking at his one mistake after not paying attention at all at 50:12 goddammit.

[@RandomAutist]

Baldatro makes my days better.

[@dextrip25]

Limp Bizkit covered that song.

[@APesquera]

30:37 He could have gotten spectral card duping and he glossed over it, dang it

[@aanon4019]

the spectral cards are use immediately tho right

[@zoom3184]

@@aanon4019that’s a spectral pack

[@APesquera]

@@aanon4019 that joker is the only way to have them stored in your inventory. when you play a 6 it puts one in there, and there's no other way so it's an unlikely combo

[@aanon4019]

ah cool, didn't know that

[@aanon4019]

@@APesquera also just ran into sceance, which is another such joker

[@alecvandeleest]

@24:30 im losing it 🤣

[@Dagu427]

I love this game but i swear to god it needs more than this 1 song

[@real9270]

does mama liz know that her chili oil is featured in balatro 30 times

[@thedeck-buildingdemon8293]

One day, a content creator will break the Cavendish, and I hope that day comes soon

[@timefororbit]

I lost with that one mistake at the very end that you commented about regarding the KZbin comment section

[@Seanries47]

Wow I resemble that youtube statement... Meanwhile I really watch every second of this gameplay.