[MIGRATED TO DIFFERENT INSTANCE CHECK PIN POST] Balatro

Another funny win on gold because of the unimpressive jokers. Got golden first which I think was really risky in painted deck, but took the gamble and it actually paid off! Runner and Fortune Teller were just meant to be stopgaps but painted is probably the best deck to build runner so I did just that. Rental Hallucination by mid game to build mult (which it did, unfortunately no screenshots) This is how my deck looked, I tried to get a lot of red sealed steels into it to make use of the hand size. Fun run and shows what's possible if you make use of your deck's strength.

A redraw of the original feelings of power meme by @iamnotanartist_ by me.

The moment in question:

It took WAY too long to get access to a flush planet card for observatory's 1.5x effect, oh well. I got lucky enough anyway lol.

Made using HueForge and 7 filament colors

The Hook is the one that discards 2 random cards per hand. It's basically insta-lose for me. What do you do when faced with it?

But instead of boosting your hand size permanently, you lose hand size permanently.

8VVTYSAF

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/152735

On Friday, the YouTube channel Balatro University posted a video highlighting how some of their videos had recently been age-restricted after the company tightened its policies about gambling content. But in a post Monday night, YouTube said the restrictions shouldn’t have been applied.

“Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted,” YouTube says in a post on X.  We’re reviewing the age-restrictions on these videos and conducting a platform-wide review. Thanks for your patience as we fix!”

TY for flagging! Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted. We're reviewing the age-restrictions on these videos and conducting a platform-wide review. Thanks for your patience as we fix!

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) April 8, 2025

YouTube’s post is a reply to Balatro’s anonymous developer, LocalThunk, who shared the Balatro University video Monday afternoon. “Good thing we are protecting children from knowing what a 4 of a kind is and letting them watch [Counter-Strike] case opening videos instead,” LocalThunk said.

Balatro, a roguelike that borrows ideas from poker, doesn’t actually involve gambling. But the game received a PEGI 18 rating in Europe after it launched because it “contains prominent gambling imagery and material that instructs about gambling,” as quoted by publisher Playstack at the time. LocalThunk also expressed his displeasure with that rating.

However, in February, PEGI revised Balatro’s rating to PEGI 12 following an appeal and said it would “develop a more granular set of classification criteria to handle gambling themes and the simulation, teaching and glamorisation of gambling in different age categories.”

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