Thursday, July 29, 2010

What Happened to Thursday?

Today the games were as dead as I think I have ever seen them on a Thursday, which during US primetime hours is usually the third best day in terms of game quality behind Friday and Saturday. After a short 1k hand session, I gave up trying to grind. So much for me putting in a decent amount of volume this month. At least I ran passably in the hour I did play and ended up $450 off the tables.

Over the past three days I completed the single player campaign in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. It was a very well crafted experience, though some of the plot left me thinking "rrrrreally?". I've since played through a few of the single player challenge mission and a handful of multiplayer 1v1 league matches in which I've enjoyed decent success. I was able to use one of my favorite Protoss strategies from Brood War in one win (what I like to call the Dark Templar rush), and in another Terran on Terran match we both entirely crippled each others' economies but I had just enough units left to finish the job. All around, a great game so far and I'm having fun adjusting to all the units.

It's also worth mention that some US legislation was moved in the right direction today, backed mostly by Rep Barney Frank and the PPA. Definitely not time to start celebrating yet, but it's a start.

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