Gaming

Horrid Hate Drive could be a band, maybe cybergrind

I also have 64GB, and it is used exclusively for internet tabs

Also have 64GB and its mostly just because my last build had 32GB DDR3 RAM, so I wanted number go up. And microcenter bundle.

I use docker to run a number of containers and sometimes play around with ollama.

I certainly don't see much activity in my swap.

And if you think that is going to stop me from nitpicking, you're sorely mistaken! 😤

It stood out to me because the rest of the specs are realistic-ish (if we consider that to be 32GB of RAM).

People who don't understand the difference between GB and Gb.

ISPs?

"I know I never get it, but the game and dev both say it really is 1 in 4! So surely I should buy this!"

Nope!

🤡

https://lemmy.zip/post/19780863

No, but you can run Doom on Balatro.

It's poker solitaire - you have 24 blinds to beat (getting 4 played hands attempts [two pair, four of a kind, etc), and 2 discards of up to 5 cards, per blind). The hand played plus the cards in the hand result in a multiplication formula to give you your point value. It's pretty straight forward.

Every 3rd blind is a boss, which has a special debuff of some kind (like all diamond cards adre debuffed[provide no points and do not trigger special abilities), or 1 in 7 chance for a card in your hand to be dealt face down)

You beat the point target of each blind, and after every blind you go to the store to buy additional cards or things that modify your deck, like a tarot card that allows you to turn 3 cards into spades (making it easier to play flushes), or increase a two select cards by 1 rank (so, turning 2x 6s into 7s meaning you now have 6x 7s in your deck and 2x 6s, making it easier to hit 4 of a kind on 7s).

Then there jokers on top of it, which have even more crazy effects than modify your hand point values

The first 3 blinds are 300, 450, and 600 points

The 24th blind is 100,000 points.

So you need to develop your deck and jokers at the shop after each blind to continue to make your hands played more and more valuable, because that 100k blind isn't that far away.

At its core it's just a fun arithmetic game (a default pair hand is 20 points and a 2x multiplier. Then you get a joker that says +4 to multiplier of played hand contains a pair. So now when you play a pair you get 20 pts at a 6x multiplier).

It's as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.

A lot of the fun comes from your own personal challenges. Like, just starting a run and getting a spectral card that turns your hand on to all 8s so you just go "fuck it, I'm gonna try to turn my hand into all 8s and do a 5 of a kind run".

Oh yeah, and secret hands too: 5 of a kind, Flush House (full house with all cards of the same suit), and Flush Five (five of a kind, all same suit)

You might like it, you might not. I personally can't see why people say it's so addicting, but it does keep me busy on my train ride to work.

It has lots of modifiers and rules and your hand is a dynamic deck of cards (not just 52 default cards) and so you get the dynamic gameplay and synergizing strategies of a game like Slay the Spire.