That's Right, I Said "Rapping Tomato"

There once was a rapping tomato. That's right I said rapping tomato. He rapped all day, from April to May...

Anyway, the grind has been nothing short of utterly disappointing lately. So much for the steady mediocrity of the first half of August, now I can no longer win a single 95/5, 90/10, 85/15 etc per session.

In other news, my first Cardrunners video is scheduled to be released this Monday! It is planned to be the first in a series directed at microstakes full ring players looking to develop good fundamentals. Episode one deals entirely with preflop play and is mostly abstract theory with a short commentated session at the end. I'm hoping people like it. Cardrunners has made a clear targeted effort to beef up their full ring content over the last few months (the one real area in which they were previously lacking) and by getting full ringers like Damn Ringer, d_smith77 (aka cb4mvp) and myself putting videos together will hopefully help them in this regard.

I finished Grandia 2 the other day, after calling it "the best console RPG that I've never replayed, outside of Persona 4" a few blog posts ago. Yeah... I went way too far on that one, nostalgia can do funny things I guess. I remember when the PS2 port of the game was released it took a lot of flack from reviewers for technical issues that didn't bug me my first time through, mainly video slowdown. While they didn't really make me angry or hurt my enjoy of the game this time, they certainly were VERY noticeable. The plot/characters also weren't the quality I remembered, especially breaking down near the end, though it could of been worse. At least the Grandia battle system is guaranteed win. The game was entertaining enough for me to make it all the way a second a time and enjoy myself, but there are definitely better games that I have never replayed.