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Ty Galiz-Rowe
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Trans guy 🏳️‍⚧️ he/him. Former Writer and editor in games media. Founder/EIC Uppercut. Writing creative stuff over on https://owoathkeeper.itch.io/
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Said”yeehaw” and got my first Friday the 13th tattoo Friday
Photo of Ty’s new tattoo: a black and gray frog with a ten gallon sheriff hat and banana around its neck
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Ended up looking more like Big Bird imo
Ty’s attempt at drawing Gonzo the Muppet from memory
March 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I guess this is 30
Mirror selfie of Ty wearing work boots, kaki pants and a baba yaga sweater
January 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like us
December 9, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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This also kills me. You can understand how the game overall works by understanding that there are random elements. But at no point are you ever inputting a resource to get something random back. You always have an element of choice, LIKE ALL ROGUELIKES/DECKBUILDERS
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Sorry this is just really annoying me lol. Why is this a problem with Balatro, but it’s not a problem with Hades, or Dead Cells, or even gatcha shit like Genshin Impact of Pokemon TGC? Why does having a poker skin make a game with no microtransactions anywhere NEAR what real gambling does
It’s not that he was completely wrong. But the thing I wanted him to understand was the fundamental principle of high-variance games, which is that they drastically limit our ability to interpret the results of any single run as evidence of the quality of the strategy we are using. Take any strategy, X. (A strategy, in this sense, means a complete description of what actions to take under what circumstances. So, for Balatro, not just using a certain Joker or buying a certain kind of card, but which Jokers and cards to buy under which specific conditions.) Run 100 sessions of the game using strategy X and plot the results. You will see a broad distribution of results, clustered around some point but falling off in both directions. Taking a random sample from that distribution gives you next to no information about the shape of the overall curve. It’s not exactly zero, but it’s practically zero.
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Made gummi worms for my dogs
Ty’s hand holding a clear gummi worm
November 18, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Not to be corny on main, but absolutely wild to see my name in the magazine I grew up reading
Photo of the latest Game Informer magazine issue featuring the cast of the Sonic games Photo of Ty’s Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life review in the physical issue of Game Informer that just released
August 12, 2023 at 3:23 AM