{"id":167,"date":"2024-02-21T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T03:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2024-02-21T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T04:04:20","slug":"how-far-we-have-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/2024\/02\/how-far-we-have-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"How far we have fallen."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I took an extra day off because my ankle wasn’t feeling right, and in hindsight it was the right call even if the scores aren’t good. Everything felt strong at the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaming, Japanese, and work behind the more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I picked up Balatro<\/a> today, I’m a big Slay The Spire fan even though I’m not very good at it (like. at all.) and seeing this thing take that formula all the way to a 94 on OpenCritic made me sit up and pay attention. This quote from Screen Rant sold me on it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With its unlockable deck types, tricky economy, advanced joker concepts, challenge runs, and ascension-like \u201cstake\u201d system, Balatro offers countless hours to engage its treacherous machine of diversion. If this was preinstalled with Windows in lieu of Microsoft\u2019s mandatory, productivity-wrecking Solitaire back in the 90s, modern civilization as we know it could have very well ground to a halt. For fans of deckbuilders, Balatro is an addictively delicious, menacing creation which devours hours without mercy. It should be handled with great care.<\/p>\nLeo Faierman @ ScreenRant<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I mean, that’s probably not a great<\/em> hook in terms of being otherwise productive but I tend to get hooked on these games for intense but brief periods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also wishlisted Kingmakers after their outstanding trailer, which you need to watch at least the first 23 seconds of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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