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That's how you play poker against aggressive or random players. Conservatively till you get a top 10 hand, then dig at the players that have been pushing in all night with garbage. It's effective against Max and Strongbad, because they're tuned to be weak to that. But you likely won't catch Tycho without better play. Bluffing is romanticized by poker fiction. People will often bluff a better situation than they have, but a stone cold bluff is almost always a terrible idea.

I do agree the AI plays it a little loose on calling another players all-in, but other than that I couldn't disagree more with the RPS article. Also, finally had time to read through the comments on Giant Bomb. Practically every post is a thumbs reference, there must be more Idle thumbs fans on the giant bomb forums than here. There are two major areas I hope that could be refined if a game like this is ever made in the future. 1. the dialogue needs to be monitored a bit more, and have a skip/interupt feature. If the Heavy starts a conversation the player has heard more than once, the player should be able to hit a key like [Esc], [space] or [Enter] to prompt the discussion to terminate. Whether it's a direct cut-off or some other transition like a character like Strongbad yelling at them to shut-up. I've been playing for a while now and though I feel like there are a few conversation trees I haven't heard yet, I'm still getting a lot of repetition on the lowest dialogue setting. 2. key bindings. I know that space has become standard in the telltale games for pause, but [Esc] and [F1] are menu keys, the spacebar should be used for a user action. Also, it'd be nice if every action had either a direct key mapping, or the ability to select with arrow/tab keys without using the mouse. The interface is really slick, but it's a bit of a pain in the ass to use as you're constantly pixel hunting. If you have the capability, throw a heatmap on and analyze your play over an extended period. The mouse is constantly having to travel from the bottom left of the screen, to the bottom right. I haven't looked to see if the files are portable, and introducing the steamworks api for cloud support may have been a bit much, but I wish my stats could be tracked between my PC and my laptop. Murder at the Inventory would be an excellent idea for a mini-game/board game collection.

I haven't been clinical about analyzing it, but they do seem to have certain postures when they've got a good or bad hand. I notice the Heavy seems to play with his ammo belt a lot, and will raise an eyebrow from time to time. Mostly I'm judging them by how they bet, and what they say. Right now i'm totally buying the illusion, and I don't want to ruin it by looking for canned animations.

Please tell me the difficulty level only affects the player AI. I keep getting rivered on Hard.

indeed. Also, Famous, I will most definitely buy a deck of those cards if they're put in the TTG store.

The elevator intro reminds me of the PC Gamer CD-ROMs.

This episode inspired me to buy Rage on iPhone which has inspired me to buy Rage on PC when it comes out. God damn that shotgun is satisfying.

Please tell me there's an "Oops all-in" achievement for losing a game.

KWbLOFGSEDo he almost got first!

give it time... give it time...

Japanese hologram concert

People could be waiting for the Fender guitar as well. It's probably a small population, but IMO there's absolutely no point at all in buying the Mad Catz piece of shit. Also, the setlist is kinda boring.

Back to the Future game got a shout out on this weeks Smodcast In context it's much more flattering.

I had forgotten, there's not only a gaming equivalent of jumping the shark, there's a call of duty equivalent to jumping the shark. IrHedeZ-90k

Looks like there's a little QWOP in that game.

You can't replace Jake. But Elliot, Remo and Gaynor would be worth listening too more than any podcast in production right now. I still hold out hope for a TTG podcast.

I knew it was there become some mouth-breathing game journo couldn't keep it to himself. It wasn't terrible in Italian though.

haha, the address posted on her account is for an STD testing clinic.

yeah the comic is funny, but his blog is ill-suited for an archive.

One thing that no caster will probably advise, but will help out novice zerg play a lot is building an extra hatch in your main to help you even out your larva use. It used to be fairly standard, but now those resources are better spent elsewhere if your macro is smooth. However most people lose focus and build up surplus minerals, or forget to larva spit and have no capacity to macro up when they're under pressure. Also, build extra queens, they're great for defending most cheese and air rushes.

Señor Super Level Douche congrats steve.

I like the character model of his partner way more than Cosgrove.

I would empathize, but he was clearly more interested in himself than Sean or Jake.

But this is exactly what Bnet 2.0 solves. First, the 50 practice matches are filled with absolutely nobody but newbs, you have rocks protecting you base and will never be rushed. Then you play 5 placement matches to put you in a division, and within a few matches you should be playing against only people at your own ability.If you don't want to play SC2 that's fine. But it is strange to criticize it for things it's actually fixed, and call it old-fashioned.

The worst.