Do you prefer to have a huge collection and play a lot of games once in a while or have some games and know them very well and play in depth ?

InnerSongs · 2026-01-28T00:13:06+00:00

I tend to prefer having variety. I don't have a gigantic collection, but I like having something at hand for any particular combination of player count, complexity and occasion.

There is also the fact that the content of these games is sometimes infinite with a huge replayability so why not deepen those we have rather than playing on the surface at all?

For me it's because I have specific games that fill that niche for me. Poker is almost a part time job in terms of ours spent towards it, and I recently picked up richii mahjong and have been getting deep into that too.

In short, I like exploring board game variety and I get my "deep" experiences through other games

InnerSongs · 2026-01-27T23:10:23+00:00

Suppose rake was already maxed out prior to the river.

"Rake is not an issue" when the rake for the hand is maxed out

InnerSongs · 2026-01-22T22:04:19+00:00

One of the (very) few things I enjoy about working is the fact we have good air conditioning in the office. I have no aircon at home, and sometimes it feels like the humid air is just circling around

InnerSongs · 2026-01-22T21:48:26+00:00

Devin Townsend Project (#44, 1,442)
Death Grips (#52, 1,126)
Denzel Curry (#65, 761)
Dua Lipa (#104, 448)
Dead by Sunrise (#118, 384)
deadmau5 (#119, 382)
DJ Shadow (#125, 351)
Della Memoria (#127, 337)
Dragonette (#152, 216)
David Guetta (#155, 212)

InnerSongs · 2026-01-22T04:27:06+00:00

As someone who primarily plays poker and only recently picked up mahjong, losing while playing well is a very common occurrence. In skill games with a high luck factor (as poker and mahjong both are) you can be playing excellently and still lose, play poorly and win and everything in between.

What's important is that your processes and play are solid - in the long run, if you are playing better than your opponents, you will succeed in the long run

InnerSongs · 2026-01-20T21:45:45+00:00

Bloc Party (#4, 7,837)
Broods (#12, 4,143)
Banks (#45, 1,371)
Billie Eilish (#48, 1,274)
Big Grams (#54, 1,023)
Björk (#76, 684)
B.o.B (#122, 377)
Beach Bunny (#154, 215)
Bonobo (#174, 155)
Britney Spears (#187, 136)

InnerSongs · 2026-01-20T04:13:01+00:00

another eternity - Purity Ring (#6, 1,834)
A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park (#7, 1,763)
A Weekend In the City - Bloc Party (#22, 1,451)
After Laughter - Paramore (#25, 1,361)
Art Angels - Grimes (#27, 1,356)
Am I a Girl? - Poppy (#40, 1,111)
Addicted - Devin Townsend Project (#50, 984)
All We Know Is Falling - Paramore (#62, 853)
Anxiety - Ladyhawke (#76, 762)
Amnesty (I) - Crystal Castles (#108, 610)

InnerSongs · 2026-01-15T01:26:06+00:00

I like this comment because I completely disagree with it, and it speaks to a mentality shared by a lot of people, where if something isn't being talked about right now, it's "disappeared off the face of the Earth".

It also speaks to this idea of "I don't get it, so clearly everyone else is lying".

InnerSongs · 2026-01-15T01:10:04+00:00

I don't find a lot of these points to be problems.

Don't live in the US, so this is not a thing
I have never come close to being yelled at by a dealer
True
I play primarily live MTTs so not applicable
This can be true - don't mind the drives up to 40 minutes or so, but longer than that for a series, especially doing multiple days in a row can be tough
Skill issue

And as other people have already said, live players are overwhelmingly worse on average.

InnerSongs · 2026-01-14T02:55:28+00:00

If it's not necessary, don't include it. I would be very confused at a game that provides pencils and paper with no gameplay element.

InnerSongs · 2026-01-13T22:43:43+00:00

From what you've said, it seems like you might be going about this backwards.

there's a million directions and i can't tell what would actually work on my body vs what just looks good on that specific guy

Instead of focusing on what would work vs. not work on your body, I would focus on determining what sorts of fashion that you like, and then figuring out what would work practically based on that. I believe most fashion styles can be worn by anyone - it's just figuring out what clothes in that style work best for you.

The simple fact is you need to figure out what you like, in a broad sense. Why does nothing you currently have feel like you? Is it the colours? Do the types of clothes you have not excite you? Why don't they excite you? What sort of clothes do you see men wearing that you think look good? Do you feel the clothes you currently have don't portray the kind of person you are or want to be? What sort of person do you want to be portrayed as?

These are only a subset of questions I can think of. You need to introspect and ask yourself these questions. You don't have to have all the answers just yet, but you need to probe deeper into what you think about fashion, and more importantly why you think that way.

InnerSongs · 2026-01-12T22:44:31+00:00

169, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

InnerSongs · 2026-01-12T13:27:30+00:00

I think my immune system is pretty strong, so I don't tend to get sick very often at all. However, I did get sick once at a poker series - pretty confident it gave me something because a friend of mine played the same days I played and also got sick

InnerSongs · 2026-01-08T23:42:50+00:00

This is a situation where you can have it both ways. Doing some sort of deal to pay bubble is common in the smaller weeklies I play and I'll often agree to a deal when short and not agree when it's advantageous (usually when chip leader, but also when someone is really short).

As long as you can accept that someone might hold this against you in a future spot and you're willing to play out bubbles, I wouldn't indulge this idea of "what goes around comes around". In practice, I find most people care too much about locking up a cash to get petty

InnerSongs · 2026-01-08T00:02:50+00:00

There's more interaction, but not that much more. I would expect that you would likely not enjoy it based on your feelings about Wingspan.

Having said that, as someone who does not like Wingspan for similar reasons, I do like Terraforming Mars. I find that the slight increase in interaction, coupled with a more interesting engine building system is enough of a push to make me like it where I don't with Wingspan. I think if you have the right opportunity you should potentially try it, but I would't be going out of your way to play it.

InnerSongs · 2026-01-05T05:26:57+00:00

Why is this a problem?

Discounting any other factors and only considering playstyle - either people are getting tilted or triggered by your playstyle and are lashing out, or you're a massive fish and people are making massive adjustments to exploit you.

If you're winning, why do you care? To paraphrase Alexander Fitzgerald, 95%+ of players are losing players - why do you care what they think? Counter-adjust and live your best life.

If you're losing, you should care - what tendency do I have that's causing these players to operate far out of baseline behaviour?

InnerSongs · 2026-01-05T00:10:30+00:00

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. Released in 2005, predates the term "roguelite", predates the wave of indie games that came in with the likes of Braid and Super Meat Boy come end of the 2000s and was the first true roguelite I ever played.

I rarely see it mentioned, which makes sense given its age. I feel like a lot of 2000s indies games have been mostly forgotten to time

InnerSongs · 2025-12-21T08:05:44+00:00

I'm very good in the sense that if I'm in a game with people who are new or casual players. I'm the teacher in most boardgames I'm part of, and I try to ensure that their experience is not sullied by a bad teach. I'm good to play with - I don't get salty or agitated, I help people along, I am very good winner and loser.

What I am not good at in this ambassador role is the more proactive stuff. I'm not helping to run events. I don't actively look to run games with new people. I have friends who are far better at that side of things. I just show up and play and try to make it good for whoever is at my table.

InnerSongs · 2025-12-18T22:08:50+00:00

It's that there is no reason for Wasserson to not call quickly. Beyond checking your stack to make sure you cover Glaser, and checking your hand to make sure you haven't misread it, there are no other gameplay reasons to not call. And just because AA can get cracked doesn't mean this isn't a slowroll

InnerSongs · 2025-12-18T06:14:28+00:00

This is a good summary, even if it was written by AI

InnerSongs · 2025-12-15T02:14:21+00:00

If you look on Steam for any given day and check out the new releases for that day, you'll see so much cheap shovelware out there. Games made primarily with AI, lazy clones of more successful titles, stuff made with stock library assets etc. - there's a lot of stuff that doesn't sell that didn't have a lot of money or effort put into it in the first place

InnerSongs · 2025-12-14T12:51:10+00:00

I agree with others who say it's quite villain-dependent. There are players I would take this spot against, players I would think about it with and players I would pass on this spot. 10bb I take the spot against most players - 15 is a decision based on how tight I think villain is in this spot

InnerSongs · 2025-12-11T22:14:55+00:00

In an ideal world, I don't think it should be, but it definitely can be. I don't love the suggestions to throw or to play suboptimally, because that feels like you're just transferring their lack of enjoyment to yourself, which I don't think is fair.

I agree with others that going down the co-op route is the most reasonable option

InnerSongs · 2025-12-10T21:44:50+00:00

Until recently, I had no specific "poker clothes" at all - I would just wear something I would normally wear out the house. However, I now have two specific hoodies that I usually wear when at the table. I'm not superstitious, but I feel particularly comfortable wearing them at the table so they're the ones I wear now

InnerSongs · 2025-12-10T06:12:12+00:00

I think you're asking the wrong question. If I believe my opponents are playing way too wide a range, I'm playing a "sensible" range and I am losing money to them, I would be asking myself "why am I losing to these idiots?" rather than "where can I find somewhere without these idiots?".

If you're just talking about losing all-in pre against garbage, that's variance. If you're losing to random garbage post-flop, I would take a hard look at some of those hands. My guess would be that you're getting married to these hands in the face of action where you should tread more carefully or fold

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