Sunday, November 14, 2010

I Could Really Use...

... one day where I'm only 500bbs below AIEV.

To illustrate, here's my last 50k hands:


Yeah, that's 4k AIEV. It comes to around $6.5k Sklansky bucks if I run SECT. That's after being out slightly more AIEV in ~30k hands to close out October.

For clarity, I'm not expecting to win 1 out of 10 flips. But it would be nice if I could win every 10th pair over pair AIPF, or every 5th top set versus back door draw. I just shouldn't have to bring my AIEV line above $1k each weekend day I want to break even in real dollars.

The Ys 3 remake for the PSP is good. It's not in the same ballpark as Ys 7, but definitely enjoyable. Looking forward to the Ys 1+2 remake that is coming out in early 2011. Unfortunately, near the end of Blazing Souls the gaping flaws I had somehow managed to ignore for much of the game drastically reduced the enjoyability, and coupled with a crash bug that should absolutely never have made it through QA (as a software developer myself, NO EXCUSE FOR THIS), made the remainder of the game no fun at all.

One more thought - spurred by Ys III using one of the more cliche RPG plot devices known to man. When there is an immeasurably powerful evil sealed away by four ancient objects which some big bad is trying to gather, and you already have two of them: DO NOT GATHER THE REMAINING OBJECTS. Instead, take the two you have half way around the globe, lock them in a boxes and drop them to the bottom of the ocean in different locations. Of course, that wouldn't make for a very exciting game; but my God, in how many games do the well meaning but obviously functionally retarded heroes need do all the work for the resurrection of the ancient evil?

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