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While I'd hate the hassle of moving, I'd love to get into a mortgage or rent-to-own deal... I do like my apartment and with the partial subsidy it's only $780/mo (which is kinda low for rent, locally); I highly doubt I could find a place where the mortgage would be lower than that.

Mostly 'cuz they make houses way too big! What if they made little itty bitty single person houses... and then stacked a bunch of them together; ... .... like an apartment...


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Ok, lets try a full week of a theme

ALL SNES RPGS

I already had a topic up for Robotrek, and I mentioned Breath of Fire 2 and Paladin's Quest already;

Pretty much every RPG on the SNES is great... .... yes... great

NO! Obitus is trash, 1/10... seriously, play it and then get back to me. I'd also lowly rate Drakken since it's kinda janky, but Dragon View (Drakken 2) is awesome

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I feel good pretty often... thanks drugs! (pharmaceutical, mods... geez)

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Makes it delicious?

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Oh, I thought it was the FFX battle music 'cuz of the screen shatter...

...FFX has great battle music, but I can't even remeber the boss music at all

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Lol

You can correct me if you want, that's how I know it until presented otherwise... but just to be sure I'll check the wikipedia:

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Oh... you're right

edit: The tie is when all 5 cards on the table are the entire flush

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

???

If the highest card of a flush is one of the community cards it's a tie

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Fold, they could easily have a better flush.

That is not the case; If he has the Jack he doesn't win, it's a tie.

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MICHALECOLE posted...

And Im trying to wrap my head around the percentages you said earlier, honestly

you can go to 888poker to calculate odds for any given hand against X players and if you know or don't know any dead cards.

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As for tournament play - if you are slightly behind you have to be careful not to dunk yourself, cuz a loss is elimination; but if you are slightly ahead then a total loss still keeps you in the game.

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I said all that strategy stuff before I got the percentages and it does look like it would be smart for the Flush player to go all in - I didn't realize player A had a win chance of 86.7%... that's hella good; so in a weird way I kinda have to change my answer.

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MICHALECOLE posted...

thats not.. thats not how gambling works..

I was assuming tournament poker where the take is all or nothing, not an individual game

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Well, I'll put it another way:

If you don't know what the other player's cards are your odds of winning are 86.7% in this case... so under normal conditions you should go all in, those are mighty odds.

But lets roll this back:

On the flop your odds of winning are 47.3%, so a check-check is pretty fair. On the turn your odds of winning are 53.7%, so checking is fair and you can gauge strength on if the other player wagers.

But the other player checked.

If all they had was a Jack of hearts, then on the turn they'd think they'd have about 59% chance of winning, which is still enough of a point to raise.

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So what does it all mean?

Well, while statistically you seem likely to win, you don't END the game on high odds when you have similar pots, you only end on a guarantee - especially if slightly behind.

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MICHALECOLE posted...

You dont have a flush until the river, until then you have Ace high

It doesn't matter - the other player still has the best possible hand and should try to get more money from you by raising on the turn. You have nothing, and on the river you have what is an iffy push

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MICHALECOLE posted...

i dont really follow, can you elaborate?

The second player had an unbeatable hand as soon as that Ace showed up and he would have known that. So he should have raised as much as he thinks the other player would be comfortable with since he'd just take it.

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First thing is to find out what the "nuts" is... that's the pair of cards that is the best possible outcome.

Qd, 4h, 2h, Ah, 8h

The best possible hand is a straight flush: Is one possible? Yes - with a 3h and 5h. So that's the "nuts"

Next is to determine the bidding strength. The Flop granted them the 2 and the 4, so if they had the 3 and 5 they might have raised but not neccesarily. But when the Ace came up they would have had the nuts no matter what the final car was and should have raised.

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You have a flush 10 high which can also be beaten by a Jack flush, and if you were bidding against only a straight then there'd be no reason to go all in with "just a straight" against a very easy flush. (unless your straight also contained a high heart, which would necessarily be the Jack or there'd be no point so can be ruled out)

So, in summary, I'd say not only should you not go in - but the other player should have raised earlier

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FatalAccident posted...

@SunWuKung420 it a SNES or an SNES?

axing for a friend

Both, based on how you enunciate.

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Revelation34 posted...

Yeah I did. I got stuck at one point and never went back to the game. There are many games I wish I had the time to replay from that era.

I daresay it's still the greatest era

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Fair enough ps1/sat might be my most well known

I can easily concede that - for Ps1 I pretty much only played the Final Fantasys and Threads of Fate, and for the Saturn... ... Magic Knight Rayearth

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Oh shit I've never heard of this and I thought I was hotshit when it came to jrpgs

When it comes to NES and SNES I think I am undefeated.

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"What about Hitler?"

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Good morning:

I feel like talking about Breath of Fire 2 - for a long time I beat the game once a year, but stopped a whiles back - not sure why

Breath of Fire 2 has my favourite and least favourite types of replayability. My favourite being the play-through optional content; the 3 different builders and the citizens of township. My least favourite being cryptic time specific missables... but in a weird way they're still endearing - like a soft old scabby scar. This would be stuff like the ChopChop skill and teaching Katt spells. Getting the reward from Ray is perfectly Neutral, since it's a success based reward.

...Which brings me back to Paladin's Quest, one of my favourite RPGs, the mercenaries system always made the game feel fresh to me even though its clear that 3/4s of the hirelings suck - but the combination of spell mixing and each member having different elements helps to foreshadow what you might get later on... ... ... .which is a blinding seizure 'cuz this game LOVES screen flashes.

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Millea posted...

but the lows are even stupider than the dumbest stuff in 1

I'd say the dumbest stuff in 1 is the repeating... and then the way people would repeat themselves. There's another thing, that the game is rather patronizing.

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I thought the first was ok, but could have had more puzzles

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I thought it was kinda neat, but unnecessarily silly

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I don't think there's a single thing people don't know about me

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Had a hilarious skit on Dr. Katz

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Depending on what your opponent plays, you can run:

• affront
• arnatto
• arnotto
• attorns
• fanwort
• formant
• frontal
• notator
• rattons
• rattoon
• tartufo

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Ya, mega topics like this simply don't work for me... almost zero engagement

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Back to singular topics I guess

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Competitive Games

What are some non-team based competitive games? I know of like Starcraft, but that's about it

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I'm 5'1"

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Feelin' cute, might delta later

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Final Fantasy

I always thought it'd be interesting if they would modernize their classic class system... like Fighter is a soldier with a gun, and White Mages are medics and they had their classic sprite on their, like, rank insignia and such

Summoner would be a radio operator kinda deal... aIR STRIke Here pl0x

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ClarkDuke posted...

am i the only person who cleans theirs in the dishwasher a few times a week?

Probably... since dishwasher detergent will destroy latex; maybe, I don't know your brand

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I can't recall ever having a mango proper, but I like mango yogurt.

I love cantaloupes... and there's like NOTHING that's cantaloupe flavoured, the only reason I don't buy them as much is they are hella messy

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Seems completely unrelated. Like teaching the history of the Napoleonic wars for a cooking class.

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IronBornCorps posted...

I think "Thanks Obama" worked really well because he was trying to help Americans with Healthcare and all that, despite y'know the war crimes and American Imperialism we all know and love.

Ya, what's up with that? Biden is president for like an hour and he already drone strikes someone

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I tried a hydropiston XL but it got jammed in the on possition so I had to wait for the battery to run out and it started smoking... it never turned on again, 1/10 - I actually wrote an amazon review saying how shitty it was

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I've never seen a vine or tiktok

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Gamergate: It's ok to have sex to improve your game's ratings, it's called a GameSpoot

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Dungeons

What is the last quality dungeon in an RPG you played?

Now, for the young people; a dungeon doesn't literally mean a dungeon - it's a gaming term for a self-contained zone where you explore, fight, solve puzzles, etc.

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Take a look / read a book

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Hey Ziggi!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1501820/Ziggys_Cosmic_Adventures/

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captpackrat posted...

I'm currently reading A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay. It's described as a "sort of acid-fueled Pilgrim's Progress". You can definitely see the influence this book had on C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. It's hard to say if it's science fiction, fantasy, or philosophy.

You can download a copy free from https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/david-lindsay/a-voyage-to-arcturus It's no longer under copyright in the US.

I'm also "reading" the Codex Seraphinianus, by Luigi Serafini. If you'd call it "reading", since the book is basically an alien encyclopedia and is written in an unknown language. But the pictures are interesting and often very bizarre.

What's weird is I can almost make out the letters, but it could be just paradolia.

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My favourite childhood book is "Henry's Awful Mistake"

Favourite recent book is Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)

Favourite series is Redwall, which I very much recommend

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dango - I thought I was, like, a thing...

I haven't seen a kite since like 1998 ish so ya, I thought they were a dead trend

Y'all are lucky there are kids enjoying things

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