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i don't think it's possible to fully appreciate the last year and a half of phan because they've done approximately 1000 things that have been a direct phannie sucker punch. what do you mean phil posted that he has so many pictures of dan on his phone that his phone is auto suggesting a tasteful nude lockscreen of him.

im still here

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How did you come to the conclusion that the tree in Dan’s story is dnp’s tree and not Phil’s parent’s tree? I didn’t see anything that could tell you one way or the other?

We’ve definitely seen that waffle/cookie ornament before, and the white blobs above and below are likely the polar bear and penguin. Sorry I don’t have screenshots rn

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That was such a good explainer, thank you! Basically, Dan is Good at Games.

balatro nerdery

i'm so glad it helped! this is a game where it's easy to get in the weeds (and i wrote it quickly before i went to bed), so i wasn't sure it would make sense if you haven't played

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probably skipped for the negative tag and got stuck with gluttonous joker. :( I feel connected to him on a deep spiritual level

balatro nerdery

that has happened to me so many times, cry. but he did also have at least one wild card in that hand, so hopefully he got some use out of it!

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i think we’re gonna get a new pet name reveal in wdapteo this year that just feels like the trajectory we’re on 🙂‍↕️

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i'm a bit of a balatro nerd, so here's some notes on dan's screencap in his insta story

if you haven't played before, balatro is poker in its most core mechanics, with single-player roguelike (so you lose a lot and build from playing a lot) deck building (what it sounds like, you build your deck) mechanics to make poker Bigger. you can do some weird and wild things with it, but at its base, you're playing flushes and straights and pairs and trying to score chips.

if you want to see it in action, markiplier has a good video that seems like it'll be first in a series.

in balatro, you get a base level of hands per round depending on your deck/add-ons like vouchers or jokers. for checkered deck, which dan is playing, it's 4 hands/3 discards, so you have four hands to try to get enough chips to get to the next round. there are three rounds per ante, and the regular game ends at ante 8. you can also skip rounds to get stuff.

which is the long version of saying: dan has gotten to endless mode, which means he's beat the regular part of the game and is shooting for a ludicrously high score. he has to get 47 billion chips to win this round and get to the next one. for comparison, round 1 in ante 1 on white stake difficulty (which is the one dan's playing in) needs 300 chips to advance.

also for comparison: i have hundreds of hours on this game and i haven't cracked the 100 million chips achievement on steam

he's doing a flush build (which makes sense for checkered deck; it only has hearts and spades, unlike the normal four suits) and his flush is leveled to 24, which is really good/necessary to get this late in the game. he has a lot of money, he used all his discards for the round, and he has a bunch of face cards with modifications on them. it's good strategy just looking at this much, basically

and then all the jokers he has up top make this REALLY impressive. in order from left to right

gluttonous joker: played clubs get +3 multiplier. odd one for checkered deck (no clubs to start with) but a) maybe he added some and b) even if he didn't, it's a negative card, so it's not taking up room that any other joker could use. (for this set of circumstances, base slots for jokers would be five.)

sock and buskin: retrigger all played face cards, which means all the cards dan is playing in this hand will score a second time. two of his face cards have red seals, which means they'd play a third time, one of those red seals is a glass card that'll give him a higher multiplier...i could keep going, but doing a face-card flush build is a good way to score big.

photograph: first played face card gives x2 multiplier when scored. again, another great joker for a face-card build.

blueprint: copies the joker to the right. GREAT card if you have good jokers. it also has holographic, which means it add a +10 multiplier as well.

triboulet: highest tier of joker (legendary) where kings and queens give x2 multiplier when played. but imagine it twice, since he has blueprint as well.

the tribe: x2 multiplier if hand contains a flush. and he's obviously doing a flush build.

to add to all of this, his order is really good because the cards play left to right. times multipliers stack on each other, and since chips get exponential, you need that to really get anywhere.

tl;dr - while some of this is luck (the store doesn't always sell jokers this good at the right time), dan is good at balatro.

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okay

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dan insta story

28/12/24

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dan insta story (x2)

28/12/24

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31 festive days of dnp [27/31]

❄︎ 15 years of Interactive Christmas Adventure ❄︎

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mirror selfie w/ a tall friend 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

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PHILM CLUB REWATCH #1

Phil's YouNow- July 21st, 2012

Watch in your own time, make notes, draw doodles, write meta, etc. then on Sunday, December 29th (any time) post them with the tag #philm club so we can see and reblog everyone's thoughts!

This is all VERY chill so no pressure to have anything prepared and there are truly no rules! Just vibes to pass the time while dnp honkshoo (x)

✨you will get through this pajama week✨

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december 24, 2023

happy one year to the dab & evan wedding <3

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here's a scan of the phan dollar from the show!!

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December 25, 2014: You know what, if I were in Dan's family I'd be asking him for money too--goodness knows he has more than enough to spare! 💸🎁

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having a moment🌕

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made this