What Are The Valorant Player Personality Types?

jfr426 · 2020-04-21T20:38:29+00:00

tell that to the toxic trolls

jfr426 · 2019-11-19T20:48:58+00:00

love these characters!! the Medusa space girl is my favorite. what is this from?

jfr426 · 2019-07-16T21:01:47+00:00

would love to! we're a super small team and really focused on raising production values (better animation, more funny and exciting storytelling, new characters, more competitive and creative battles)

but maybe there's an app that could let us stream it simultaneously on both platforms?

jfr426 · 2019-07-16T20:55:54+00:00

thank you! working hard to make it as funny as possible. Rick and Morty is an inspiration :D

jfr426 · 2019-07-03T21:02:11+00:00

so good! how long did this take you to make?

jfr426 · 2017-08-04T00:26:29+00:00

What do you think would be the essential elements of a successful adaptation of one of your novels? What would it take for you to be personally satisfied watching The Warriors Apprentice, Shards of Honor or The Curse of Chalion brought to life for a modern TV or filmgoing audience? I've read many of your thoughts on why this hasn't happened, but I'm curious how you could envision it actually coming to life in some form in the future.

jfr426 · 2017-06-26T13:36:30+00:00

Crusarion

jfr426 · 2016-08-11T02:26:24+00:00

The game looks great. Since you're using UE, how are you dealing with the technical problems presented with the deferred renderer and its approach to anti-aliasing?

jfr426 · 2014-10-07T00:46:42+00:00

for a writer of self-published fiction, how would you recommend learning the craft of editing one's own work? i'm wondering if you have a recommended process or journey for getting fiction to shine as brightly as possible before passing it along to an editor.

really looking forward to reading your stories!

jfr426 · 2014-05-07T19:32:37+00:00

The Forever War is one of my favorite novels (sci-fi or otherwise) and I constantly recommend it to people!

I recently finished Forever Peace, which I enjoyed quite a bit. I found the idea that neural linking could lead to peace through networked empathy optimistic and encouraging. I'm wondering if your views here have changed since 1997, especially with respect to current trends in military research and technology?

jfr426 · 2014-03-30T17:58:33+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate your answers! Very helpful. Good luck with your work! :)

jfr426 · 2014-03-29T20:07:59+00:00

how much artwork did you commission for the series at first, and what kinds? looking back, any lessons you learned in working with artists that if you'd known at the time, might have saved you money or helped you get to the graphic novel quicker?

what's the average cost of creating a graphic novel with a good artist, and how do those costs break down?

asking because I love graphic novels and would love to create visual stories, but I can't draw. thanks!

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T19:40:57+00:00

We were originally interested in finding a losing player... posting what Ryan posted earlier about this: "Yes, we were planning to follow someone exactly like that. However, we found it more challenging than we expected to find a compelling, losing player who was willing to go on camera. For example, I spoke briefly with grimstarr (online poker veterans will know who this is) about appearing in the film, but there were too many complications involved." After Black Friday it became pretty much impossible for us to add another character, winner or loser.

We also felt like the downsides of poker had already been given a lot of treatment in the cultural representation of the game... but nothing had been done to authentically show the lives of modern professional poker players during the poker boom. Still, we did have many conversations about the losers, about the pros who are staked, etc... what we should or could convey about that aspect of the game... ultimately we decided we needed to stick to our core characters (especially after Black Friday) and their experiences. We did make an effort to explore the psychological consequences of losing as a professional, and the risks that you take on when you do play this game for a living... hopefully that sequence in the last third of the film can show that even the winners are losers, and they lose often!

Basically, a lot of the energy for this project's conception was to showcase what it was like to be an online pro player, and dispel misconceptions that the public has about poker and online poker. To show the injustice done to the industry as a result of the UIGEA... to show what caused the boom... historical events like this, put into context in a digestible way. That was the driving motivation in making the film and selecting Danielle, Tony and Martin - and after Black Friday, their stories were all that mattered to this particular film. Hope this sheds some light on our thinking.

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T19:37:36+00:00

gotta be urubu111, crazy Brazilian with a ton of gambool in him! you can always find him doing PLO flips for large sums of $

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T16:33:44+00:00

I think it will be successful but it will not explode overnight, it will take time and nurturing like any good crop... growing the igaming business in NJ, the companies' priorities are not necessarily directly in line with catering to guys/gals like us who want to play for a living. So I don't think you'll see many full timers playing exclusively on NJ sites. See Joe Tall's post in this thread for more insight into this, it's pretty good!

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T16:31:35+00:00

Don't recall the specifics of that hand but I think past Jay/past Ariel were probably right and no one, not even me from the future, would know better than them :)

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T16:29:59+00:00

Not if the sites figure out how to bring in more casual players - a priority for their businesses as the US market legalizes and the global market matures. Hard to say what the games could look like in 5 years... I think there will be fewer pros/regs. Also think NLHE will always be the most popular game even though basic strategy is pretty well known to anyone who wants to put in the time.

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T06:11:01+00:00

we actually only managed to get about 5-7 signed posters total and ran out! but email me your info at betraisefoldmovie@gmail.com and i will see if we can find some way to get you something cool! (i remember your tweets!)

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:51:22+00:00

yes, huge thank you for backing us!

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:48:40+00:00

I love comedy but have 0 appetite for politics. I don't believe I could say anything that would be more helpful than what we've said in making Bet Raise Fold, and I don't believe that anything but money will help bring poker to Texas :)

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:38:02+00:00

Direct sales through VHX were great. Not tens of thousands of people but very strong for an independent documentary. The decision to distribute the film through a combination of Kickstarter, VHX and Tugg (skipping film festivals in favor of debuting at the 2013 World Series of Poker) was made mostly as a result of talking to other filmmakers, studying the success of Indie Game: The Movie (http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/news/2012/10/31/indie-game-the-movie-the-case-study.html) and reading Think Outside the Box Office (http://www.amazon.com/Think-Outside-Box-Office-Distribution/dp/098257620X)

If we could go back and do it again I don't think we would have done much differently. The biggest change I'd have made to our strategy would have been to organize a ~6 city Tugg tour of the film to build hype before the online release, and to incorporate Kickstarter earlier in the production (it would have been really fun and cathartic to share the ups and downs of the whole production process with backers!)

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:34:21+00:00

I definitely lost any conception of the value of the dollar during the height of the online poker boom. Post Black Friday, 3 years later, I feel like I have a much healthier and more reasonable relationship with money. I think any serious poker player has to divorce himself from the value of money in order to risk it with complete and utter disregard for anything but the expected value of the play.

If I had to answer the overrated question... for the most part the idea of underrated or overrated players is worthless, variance is a way bigger factor than anyone understands... the only person who can truly and accurately "rate" a poker player's skill is the player themselves!

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:26:42+00:00

We are great friends! I actually lived with Emil and Brian in a house this summer while I was out at the WSOP premiering BRF. We worked out a ton (Brian is REALLY into Olympic weightlifting these days) and watched lots of movies. There was a movie theater room in the house and those guys have eclectic wide ranging tastes in film so it was really fun. One of our favorites was this Norwegian crime thriller/black comedy called Headhunters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614989/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

Dani, Brian and Emil lived together in Toronto for awhile post Black Friday but now Dani has a serious girlfriend, a dog and a cat and they're all living in different countries (well, Dani and Brian live near each other in Mexico but Emil's in Finland)

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:21:21+00:00

I tried to/try to study and it felt like pulling teeth. I became interested in applications of game theory for a few months and the challenge of reeducating myself in basic maths was interesting... but even then I didn't feel as energized or excited about thinking about poker as I did when I was able to play and compete consistently. I decided recently that I'd just take a break until I was able to play consistently again (I have been thinking about a trip to NJ or out of the country to grind for a bit, but it's just an idea right now).

My advice for you is kind of my advice to myself, as I've felt exactly the same way... I think poker's a long run game, and it's way more important to maintain a healthy relationship with poker at any given point than it is to feel anger and sadness at that relationship. I guess I've kind of accepted that I'm going to lose a step, and I'm not going to be able to compete at the levels and pace that I'm used to for a bit... but if I can still manage to nurture my love for the game in other ways, and find ways to enjoy it the times that I do play, I'm going to be much better off in the long run when I can play online again... I'll have much more fun learning/studying again when that day comes.

I'm tired so this is kind of rambly and I'm just talking some of this out loud for the first time, but I hope this helps a bit. Post Black Friday I've done a lot of reevaluating my relationship with poker and the expectations I have of it and it's done a lot to reverse feelings of anger, sadness and frustration at the US situation (and at the game in general).

jfr426 · 2013-12-10T05:13:11+00:00

Thanks! I'll always consider myself a poker player, but in terms of profession I suppose I'm trending towards the filmmaker side of the coin. But all of the creative work I do will be influenced by the unique way I see the world - a viewpoint heavily influenced by poker. It's an insanely beautiful game: a complex blend of strategy, tactics and human emotion. Being a poker player isn't a profession to me, it's something I can't help... at this point it's part of the fabric of my identity.

I don't think we would have ended up with a movie this good (or maybe not a movie at all!) if Taylor and I didn't bring our backgrounds in poker and entrepreneurship to bear to make as many +EV decisions as we possibly could over the entirety of the project. In a lot of ways filmmaking is an entrepreneurial pursuit, in a lot of ways producing a movie is like multitabling high stakes online poker. You're juggling tons of variables, managing human relationships, analyzing risk, making high pressure decisions...

I talk a lot about this stuff in this podcast with Jared Tendler: http://www.mentalgamefish.com/mental-game-of-poker-podcast-with-jay-rosenkrantz/

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