Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Somewhere in my comment history, back when Steam did their 2024 yearly awards I think, someone defended Balatro's RNG by saying that players and modders had proven that *only* 1 in 5 RNG seeds resulted in a truly unwinnable game on the max difficulty. I don't know how true that is, but it definitely lines up with my anecdotal experience of the game. That would mean that at best, playing 100% optimally (the RNG is deterministic, so the same actions on the same seed lead to the same RNG outcomes), with the ability to cheat by undoing your moves and by seeing the rng outcomes in advance... at absolute best you only have an 80% chance of winning on the hardest difficulty, and that in 20% of cases it gives you a completely unwinnable setup. I enjoyed Balatro, but that is cuckoo fucking bananas absurd. The average player is not playong 100% optimally with full sight of RNG outcomes and an undo button... this is so beyond the realm of "just git gud scrub".