NOTE: This was a way-too long guide that I wrote on the now-exploded 99 Percent forums in February 2012, so I’m archiving it here (rather than actually writing any new content). I still fly Merlins a lot, even in the face of the recent OMGWTFBBQ assault frigate buffs that have made low and null very T1 frigate-unfriendly, and anything posted in Fleet Finder as a "FRIGATE ROAM" actually mans "ASSAULT FRIGATE ROAM, though if you have a Daredevil maybe we’ll let you in as a +1 scout." Fuck the haters.
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1) Come up with a reasonable idea to fix a long-broken system in the game
2) Post said idea in forums
3) Get a CSM member to make a prop bet regarding a loophole in the formula
4) Post said loophole (that works but no one would ever use because it’s incredibly self-destructive)
5) 
I think I may return it, because the guy did work on Wizardy. However, it’s Eve, and a legitimate bet. Plus, I love that comment.
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Seriously, I just forget things. I’m old. Maybe when I paid the hosting bill I should have remembered to get out of maintenance mode.
What’s worse is that I actually got emails asking me about the site. So… there. I’ll fix the remaining DB issues later.
In the meantime, Wen is way better at poker than I am and owned me on her first ever live cash game. I shall find my testicles again someday. (Reference: Ante Up pokercast, 8/25/11 episode, starting about an hour in. Shame.)
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I’m a big fan of High Stakes Poker… well, of the earlier seasons of High Stakes Poker. It was a great entry into the then-expanding balloon of poker TV shows generally dominated by tournament final tables, where the differences in stack sizes are measured in terms of exponents, as are the increases in blinds, so all you see is 10 PRINT "All In"; 20 GOTO 10. HSP was (except for Live at the Bike, web-only) the first televised cash game between actual skilled players applying their formidable experience and analytic skills to the laudable goal of taking money away from each other.
Most people who follow poker on TV point to the early days of the World Poker Tour and its use of the lipstick hole card camera as the pivotal innovation that made poker watchable. If you want to know what it was like before, just go to a cardroom and railbird for a while and see how long you can take it. True, knowledge of the hole cards is necessary to make poker intelligible to a viewing audience, but I don’t think that’s what makes it interesting in a TV show.
What makes it interesting is Gabe Kaplan.
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The homemade system (out of free parts) finally blew its top, and I can’t say that I blame it. Puny single core P4 proc is puny. As cheap and poor as I am, even I have to throw in the towel when I can no longer get into the BIOS. Determined to not repeat the mistake that I made in getting second-and-thirdhand parts into a 24/7 active server and hoping that it would not blow up, instead I made an even bigger mistake and bought an off the shelf system.
Even worse, it’s by Compaq.
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Finally rebuilt my MythTV box last week, retiring the original proof-of-concept underpowered system that had been, uh, proof-of-concepting for about 1.5 years. Not that this is interesting to anyone, but I figured I should write some of the details down so that I don’t have to relearn everything all over again when I rebuild again in 2 years.
Also, I’m writing this post while not actually at my MythTV box so these details may all be wrong anyway.
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Well, I’ve had about enough. I’m killing off the ad block since:
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Oddly enough, no word back on my inquiry on how best to monetize my lesbian scat porn-crazed customer base. You pervs. However, the search for relevant ads continues on, as I figure I might have a week or so before some script decides to shut down my account at random. Because you know, the first rule about Ad Club is, you do NOT talk about ad club.
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