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  1. Putting it here because the game is playable (demo, full release in three days)..

     

    Balatro is fucking digital CRACK.

     

    At its heart, you're building poker hands using a standard deck of card. You play up to 5 cards at a time, and try to make poker hands (Straights/Flushes etcetera require five cards) You get points per scoring card (so if you say, put forward two pair, the fifth card won't score) and the type of hand you play as a modifier. You have a limited number of discards each round to help you get rid of cards that don't fit your goals in poker building.

     

    Sounds pretty yawn inducing, right?

    Enter the Jokers, The Planets and the Arcana. they modify the rules in different ways. Jokers for example, may give you a bonus every time you score a card of a certain suit, or odd/even.. Planets allow you to muck about with cards, adding modifiers (like a random chance to earn a ton of bonus/cash), or change their suit and rank.

    So, as you get deeper and deeper into a run, you might need a score of say, 6,400 compared to 300 in your first round, but you have a LOT more strategy.

    You can have up to five jokers, and there are some extremely busted combos (in my demo beating run, I had a Joker which increased all the Jokers values by 1 after each round, and another Joker that gave you a multiplier bonus for each dollar your Jokers are worth. Needless to say, it ramped up QUICKLY, especially when I had a joker that provided 30 chips (before the multiplier) for each diamond I played in a hand

    It's roguelike in that you make decisions on what to do with each run, but progression is limited in the demo

     

    Seriously, if you like brain stretching combo strategy games, try the demo free on Steam, and buy it when it comes out in three days.

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  2. 39 minutes ago, Contentious C said:

    Meanwhile, the Celtics are already close to clinching a playoff spot of some kind.  The nice thing about a home-and-home against the Nets, besides skulling the Nets, is that their magic number for at least guaranteeing the play-in is already going to be down to 7 after tonight's prime curb dinner.

    Nets fans were like "Hey, we kept it below double digits in the first game, maybe we can pull off something in the rematch, they have to be tired, right?"

    Celtics put 136 up against them.

     

    Craziest thing is it isn't even the biggest win of the season (beat Indy by 51)

     

  3. This is how I'd book it: Night One: Cody/??? (Seth?) vs Roman/Rock.

    If Cody's team win, the main event on Night two is Cody/Roman. If Roman/Rock win, then the Night two main event is Roman vs Rock.

     

    Kinda like the Daniel Bryan vs HHH with the winner getting put in the title match at the end of the night.

     

    Rock can be a tweener saying to Roman "Family Business first, then we decide who's the head of the family". Then, after Roman screws up somehow, and Rock eats the pin, the next night the Rock prevents the rest of the Bloodline from interfering.

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  4. Sheffield is not exactly the happiest place on football earth. Wednesday's in 23rd in the championship, and United is 10 points from safety just past halfway through, which.. coincidentally, was the same amount of points they HAVE so far.

  5. Thought exercise: 

     

    Each year's draft class is a team. You can't trade players, only sign the best 15 players each year who were eligible that year (refreshing the best/available 15 from that draft class for each year afterwards)

     

    How long before a newly drafted team could be considered a title contender? and how long before a draft-season team is no longer considered a contender? (3 years in for earliest, I think, 8-10 years latest)

  6. 23 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    Oh, Sinner Man 

    The Sinnerman won? Obviously, the Chase was on. (UK Television reference)

  7. Get the UK press headline generator going.. there has to be at least one who's going to go "Sinner's a Saint!"

     

  8. Here's something to make y'all feel old.

    I came across a video showing all of the signature moves from the first great pro wrestling game I ever played, NES Pro Wrestling.

     

    I want you to look at the bios for the thing that will make you feel old.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbWiimPthU

     

    Yes, all the wrestlers are in their 70's and 80's (well, except for the Amazon and Starman, nobody knows how old they are.)

    I figure that Starman has El Nieto del Starman wrestling in a bunch of Lucha Libre indies, King Slender got caught in the steroid trials of the 90's, Giant Panther is puttering around in retirement (and has offered his brain for CTE study post-mortem due to all the unprotected headbutts he gave out), and The Amazon had his final retirement ceremony a few years back after which he ran around the ring biting and choking folks, having to be dragged away.

    (and have you EVER, EVER hit a Back Brain Kick?)

     

     

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  9. Copeland vs Suzuki was a dream match I didn't know I wanted.

     

    Not quite big meaty men slapping meat, but they were throwing BOMBS at each other.

     

    I wish this match had happened 2 decades before, so the whole DVDVR crew could freeze it in a time machine, and bring it out when any aspiring wrestler says "How do I make my strikes look like they'll take someone's head off?

     

    Now, a lot of this is because a lot of these slaps and strikes weren't really pulled at all, but goddamn, in the year of our Lord 2024, they did a 12 minute spring based entirely off strikes with some ground maneuvers, and it ruled the motherfucking world.

    I would love to see Copeland and Suzuki form the Midnight Murder Uncles in NJPW and just punch the shit out of everyone and everything in NJPW as a couple surly old ass kickers. And I NEVER thought I'd be saying that about Edge/Copeland.

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  10. Seeing a lot of people chanting the "Go woke, go broke" mantra about Sports Illustrated, namely, their decisions to put a plus size woman and a woman (who is trans) on the cover of the swimsuit issue. Of course, the real lesson is that 'Be old-school and fail to change with the times means you'll die off like the dinosaurs" will go RIGHT over the CHUDlets heads at about Mach 2.1.

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  11. So, I got PLAAY.com's "Let's PLAAY Tennis" sports replay board/card game, and am currently running a massive tournament using the Stars of 2000's set.

     

    From 108 cards, I managed to get it down to the round of 32, and then play half the round of 32, all in one night (I'm using the For The Set-No Rally mode, which allows me to roll out the details of a match in about 10-15 minutes. Tomorrow's Round of 32 matches include Danil Medvedev vs Andre Agassi and Alexander Zeverev-Andy Roddick.

    The highlight of the night was Tim Henman (who sadly, didn't have Henman's Hill at this tournament), taking on "journeyman" Andrei Pavel (who is one of the worst cards in the set, and I was shocked when Pavel made the round of 32): Henman nearly bageled Pavel  winning the first set 6-2 after being up 5-0, but then lost both the second and third set due to Pavel taking Henman out of his serve and volley game, however, the savvy veteran Henman managed to win the fourth set in a tiebreak and then winning the match in the final set. One of those matches that would take 4-5 hours, and be thrown on whenever a Tennis channel needs to fill in hours and hours of space.

     

     

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