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The notion that computer hardware is going to magically improve to solve all poker variant is very much false. Let's take no limit poker8 (variant A) with 8 players. Each player starts with 5 holecards flop: 3 community cards added turn: 2 community cards added river: 1 community card added...

One big issue with games like mario kart is the low speed caps and ability to make sharp turns which completely eliminates the need to break. There is the aspect of messing with your friends or whatever that it is sold by but in practice that really doesn't have much of an impact if people are...

The new 80$ mario kart looks like the worst mario kart of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjj7fUQ-7mo https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyM6VRXgze4 There has been the general trend with nintendo games becoming worse over time as they cater more and more to bad players. I don't see...

The transmaxxing option Males transitioning to female will balance out the situation to some extent but males are not going to voluntarily transition at anywhere near the rates requires to achieve balance. And a lot of males also want to have a family and for that transitioning isn't going to...

Anti-sex policies Politicians often oppose ways that would provide males with a legal way to at least get recreational sex by paying for it. There is also age of consent laws which restricts the ability for males to legally have sex since it reduces the number of legal dating options for them...

Why males struggle to get female companionship For every 100 females there are around 107 males being born. That naturally result in a male surplus when there is not enough wars or other forms of male on male deadly violence. Furthermore a lot of females opt against living with a male in the...

I have noticed that a lot of people bringing up "male loneliness" are for one not even understanding what the problem is and they also don't want to see how it's a result of our modern society. First off males do have the ability to make male friends but most males want to have a female to...

Responding to the bakaBT wiki So i did the mistake of joining them due to being annoyed by the H&R rules on animebytes. Turns out BakaBT has basically no remuxes which is very stupid. They are also very lacking in content in general to the point where they are worse than nyaa in that regard...

6 of 8 poker You select 6 cards out of 8 to make the best possible hand. 0. 6-straightflush. 1. 4 of a kind & pair. 2. double 3 of a kind. 3. 5 cards of the same color connected. 4. 4 of a kind. 5. 3pair & all cards connected. 6. 6 of the same color. 7. 3 of a kind & all cards connected. 8...

The only gamecube games i liked was metroid prime 1 and 2 but i still didn't play the gamecube versions due to them having awful controls. I did play the trilogy version via motion control (real wiimote) but primehack is also an option. There is also the remaster of prime1 on switch. I have...

They are going in the sony direction it seems. Hardware wise it looks ok but in terms of game it will not offer much if anything of value. Even metroid prime 4 looks lame and underwhelming compared to the prime trilogy. Metroid prime 2 as comparison...

Debunking the "Feminism helps men too" rhetoric Professor Suzanne Steinmetz tried to spread awareness about male victims of abuse. She received the brunt of the attacks - feminists wrote and called her university urging that she be denied tenure; calls were made and letters were written to...

Live poker It is significantly harder to cheat via an AI/solver in live poker where other people can see you directly. That however does not eliminate the possibility of cheating, it simply makes it harder. There are plenty of cheating scandals involving live poker with private games being...

The AI threat Unfortunately it is always possible to develop AI to master some poker game even if you cannot brute-force your way through the game via a solver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)

Stack depth and the number of betting rounds Having more betting rounds or deeper stacks does make the game significantly more complex to solve. Unfortunately for texas holdem that game doesn't work too well preflop if it's too deep and this depend on the number of players where more players...

Tweaking blinds/ante The way blinds are set up in texas holdem make the game prone to having just 2 players after the fllop (if it even reaches the flop) since limping is generally bad outside of the small blind. What if we instead had the player at the BB position have the standard blind and...

Increasing the number of community cards does make it harder to solve If we take texas holdem and increase the number of hole cards to 3 and reduce the flop to 2 cards the game becomes around 14 times harder to solve. While this may seem like a significant improvement it really doesn't help much...

8 card poker For the same stacks and betting format this game (NLP8 A variant) is around 23 million times harder to solve than NLHE if the number of players is 2. pdf (version 100) https://app.box.com/s/wcip46w5lkqr4ivp529c5rmgkqq6gd7v odt (version 100)...

While texas holdem is a very good card game and is still relevant it is definitely showing its age now with it being easy to use real-time assistance to cheat against other players. The game is also overly analyzed with does take a bit of fun out of it. It's less interesting when you can...