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[–] soupguy@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Every time it comes up, I use it. All the haters don't understand probabilities.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Right. I'm using it to juice up a Fortune Teller, anyway. If it hits, it hits. If it doesn't, whatever. I'm down $2, and up a +1 mult.

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

But what if I get an Aura card on my next shop and now my good jokers are foils?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Exactly. If you fail 5 in a row it means the next one has to hit /s.

One joke i tell myself is sure every attempt is 50/50 but if i get like 50 fails in a row thats like winning the lottery.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are 2 things I almost always grab: wheel of fortune and bind skips with the negative tag.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Negative tag gambling is even worse than Wheel of Fortune. You're out an entire shop, all of your blind earnings, and the negative joker you get is going to suck.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

and the negative is going to suck

How does it know??? Yeah yeah probability and bad dice rolls and muh open source code. But theres no fucking way it can so consistently hit either food jokers that expire in a few rounds or completely irrelivant jokers that dont syngergize to add any points/multi.

I'm convinced they haven't dug into the code enough. LocalThunk is some 4D chess player obsucating hidden functions layered deep in the spaghetti-cake lua that actually fucks with wheel of fortune and makes negative blind skips trash.

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

Personally I don't grab the negative tag hoping for an actually good joker, I grab it so I can ensure Verdant Leaf has free fodder for my run (I get it a lot and greatly prefer it when I have a negative tag seed). You give me garbage and I give it right back game!

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But with the Anaglyph deck and a pile of duplicate tags you get a whole lot of negative jokers. Assuming you get the negative tag at all.

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

Just one more try. Last one.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That 25% is a LIE I TELL YOU

No, RNGesus has always had it out for me...

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My last three were nopes, that means this one will work, right?

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

And I'll spin the wheel every fuckin time. Give me the bottle.

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

Side effects may include: Nope, nope, nope, nope...

[–] xye@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
[–] mattc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This worked for me three times in a row before. And that was when I knew it was never gonna work again. I swear I've had it 10 times since and it hasn't worked. Used up all my luck.

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah give me that shit, damn now my blueprint has foil

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's a testament to how well balanced the game is.