Life In 19x19

Hey folks. It's been a while. I've been off playing video games. But, lately, I've been watching certain video game scenes grow, and I've come back to this topic of 'why isn't Go doing better?'

I'm going to avoid talking much about particular national organizations. There are plenty of people who ...

I am skeptical about your (or anyone's) ability to read my mind over the course of a game. If we played a large number of Yomi matches (say 10 or so), maybe. But I doubt a single game (~30 card choices, from the games I've played) gives you enough information about me.

The now-retired best player ...

The CPU plays completely at random, FYI. The Puzzle Strike bot has brains, but the Yomibot just chooses cards at random and does everything it possibly can even if it's completely retarded. You can do stuff like pick Lum and constantly attack and basically not lose ever.

I'm pretty sure this isn ...

I know we've discussed David Sirlin as a person and an author here before. And whatever you may think of the theories he presents in 'Playing To Win', I have to say... The man can make some very compelling games.

Not to go into salesmanship or gushing or anything, but I just discovered Yomi, a card ...

That's a fairly broad strokes statement, which misses some of the subtlety of this move.

The food aid is in a form (biscuits if I recall correctly) which makes it seem aimed mostly at small children, not exactly the revolting classes. For much of the citizenry of Korea, this food aid will have ...

I put that 'all my moves' would be considered 'bad' by a pro. Not because I think that my play is horrid, just because I don't think enough about my moves. I play, especially when stressed, based on instinct and feel, and I know a pro would consider this to be the worst idea ever. So, even if a pro ...

Coincidentally, I'm working on a puzzle game for the MIT mystery hunt.. and one of the puzzles is Arimaa based. What are the odds?

Any good players out there able to solve particular 'x to play and win by' problems?

Well, I play the game on a quad core AMD processor, and the whole thing loads and moves quickly. My graphics card is also quite nice.

On the other hand, my boyfriend unfortunately must play on an older dual core, though, admittedly, with a dedicated graphics card. The graphics are not the issue for ...

Heh. Another thing that holds me back on mmos is the way I play RPGs. I'm a bit CDO (In alphabetical order. As they should be.) and I have this sneaking suspicion that there may be another class, another way of playing, another group of quests, so much cooler than what I chose, just around the ...

Hey guys. Sorry to hear about the java fail.

We'll try again in a week. I look forward to our game.

I'm hoping to pick it up, but things are tight right now. Maybe I'll get on if someone buys it for me for Christmas, but likely I'll be late to the party. I'm always slow on such games as well, as my play time is often once or twice a week, at most, due to long work days, and lots of other things to ...

It's that time of year again. The time of comercialism, game releases every week, and murderous 2 am shopping sprees on friday.
And though most of you likely already know, that means it's Child's Play time.

There are dozens of great ways to contribute to this worthy charity, including the Humble ...

cyclops wrote:

Thanks for the message

I hate thankers

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Shouldn't be too difficult - Italian real estate is going to be real cheap soon. And once you've gotten the bugs out while building one LHC, the second one should be relatively easy.

I just thought of an excellent source of fiscal stimulus... now if we could only convince the ECB to underwrite ...

My apologies for the time confusion.

We ended up playing an hour late, I think my confusion was due to daylight savings time timing, as, if we had played a week earlier, I would have been on time.

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