Randomness thread, part two.

[Lukie]

reverse psychology:

Above the forum link stuff (FAQ/forum rules/search/etc) there's a link that says "TEST POST - PLEASE IGNORE", which, of course, I immediately clicked on.

I can't immediately recall anytime that I've ever clicked on anything along the lines of Sticky: IMPORTANT, READ BEFORE POSTING.

/random

[dthorne04]

I'll regret never cybering Courtie

except it was me

gg reading comprehension

ill never regret phoning courtie. she never e-walked the same.

definitely the best moments of my life. especially that night I got to talk to gabe, too.

for some reason i read into that as I'll never regret, now as for the why i did, i have no idea.

[dthorne04]

thanks swiggggg

[will641]

that is a pretty kick ass avatar.

[Lukie]

random question (subject line) from one of the fitness experts at 2+2:

"Whats the easiest way for inactive people to lose weight?"

[JL]

random question (subject line) from one of the fitness experts at 2+2:

"Whats the easiest way for inactive people to lose weight?"

diet imo

[will641]

random question (subject line) from one of the fitness experts at 2+2:

"Whats the easiest way for inactive people to lose weight?"

diet imo

eat smaller meals throughout the day imo.

[bigspenda73]

become un-inactive

[wufwugy]

become un-inactive

WRONG

[swiggidy]

become un-inactive

WRONG

easiest != best

[BennyLaRue]

"Whats the easiest way for inactive people to lose weight?"

Cut off things.

Nobody said the easy way would be the fun way.

[bigspenda73]

lulz

[Warpe]

[BennyLaRue]

Crazy genetics experiments. That's a sheepig, right?

[flomo]

sorry, that was my fault.
she said she was on the pill.

[Warpe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01pigs.html

[Jack Sawyer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01pigs.html

“When I tasted this pig,” Ms. Bloomfield said of the Mangalitsa, “it took me back to my grandmother’s kitchen on a Sunday afternoon, windows steaming from the roasting pork in the oven. Back then pork tasted as it should: like a pig. This pork has that same authentic taste.”

LOL wat? So her grandma was secretly importing and cooking these pigs back in the day, even when they were on the brink of extinction?

[wufwugy]

become un-inactive

WRONG

easiest != best

WRONG

[OP]

Since i'll be on site at work and won't have to be in the office for the next 2 months, me and my brother made a $500 bet over who could grow the manliest, lumberjackiest beard. Ive gone like a week without shaving now and my FUCKIN FACE ITCHES! and is breaking out pretty bad too. Google failed me, any remedies for alleviation?

[a500lbgorilla]

remedy? grow some fcking balls.

oh no, your face itches? a touch of acne bringing you down? I hope your boyfriend can whip you up some comfort food and cuddle with you during a Sex and the City marathon.

[OP]

I hope your boyfriend can whip you up some comfort food and cuddle with you during a Sex and the City marathon.

No, he's outta town. But what are you doin tonight?

[BennyLaRue]

Ive gone like a week without shaving now and my FUCKIN FACE ITCHES! and is breaking out pretty bad too. Google failed me, any remedies for alleviation?

Wash the sand out of your bergima.

[a500lbgorilla]

holding bigred tightly.

[bigspenda73]

I haven't cut my hair since thanksgiving or shaved since new years

[flomo]

the itch will go away

[donkbee]

I haven't cut my hair since thanksgiving or shaved since new years

pics?

[bigspenda73]

wanna see what you can't have?

[donkbee]

i wanna see if you can grow facial hair better than dave!

[wufwugy]

course he can hes a joo

[dthorne04]

i'm sure he can grow better than splotchy, sparse, white trashesque facial hair, if not, suicide immed

[donkbee]

yeah, what am i saying? i bet that if i had a bit more testosterone, i could grow better facial hair than you.

[bigspenda73]

I look like a wooly mammoth

time to shave all this shit

[Galapogos]

I look like a wooly mammoth

time to shave all this shit

Before you shave it you need to make a video of yourself screaming "THIS IS SPENDAAAAAA!!!" And make that your new avatar.

[Lukie]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

[Luco]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

Sow-vin-yon

[BennyLaRue]

So-vee-nyo.

[GatorJH]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sauvignon+pronunciation

[ChrisBCritter]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

pronounced "whine" imo

[kingnat]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

pronounced "whine" imo

We up here in NORTHERN Maine prefer the more sophisticated RED Whine.... stupid southerners... with your soff maine accent.

[wufwugy]

verruckt zombies is fucking sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttt

[Xianti]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

Loo-cock-ee

[BennyLaRue]

Got my green and yellow FTR t-shirt today. If you see me in it, slap a brotha a high-five.

[ChrisBCritter]

how do you pronounce Sauvignon, as in Cabernet Sauvignon?

pronounced "whine" imo

We up here in NORTHERN Maine prefer the more sophisticated RED Whine.... stupid southerners... with your soff maine accent.

LOL, totally missed this! and you even kept the "whine" going too! Nice. FWIW, I enjoy wine, but prefer beer...

[bigspenda73]

beat: I just dmang challenged my play money account on stars from $1k to $75k

[givememyleg]

sorry i was sleeeeeping when you asked for the hu2rollzzzzz!!!

[bode]

spenda plays poker?

[will641]

so when my dog was a pup, i taught him to spin. to do this i normally made him spin before he got his food in the morning. to this day, and he is 9 now, he spins relentlessly until he gets food.

[UG]

so when my dog was a pup, i taught him to spin. to do this i normally made him spin before he got his food in the morning. to this day, and he is 9 now, he spins relentlessly until he gets food.

that is freaking hilarious

[bigspenda73]

spenda plays poker?

more than most think, still, a lot less than I should

come holler at my PLO tables sometime

[BankItDrew]

fuck spenda and his poker

[givememyleg]

i'll play poker with anyone righ tnow

[givememyleg]

cmon srsly let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[dthorne04]

i owned you bish

[UG]

Holy fuck I just did the hardest run in my life. I ran in the Kansas City annual "Brew to Brew" run, where they run from a bar in downtown Kansas City to a bar Lawrence (KU). It's a 45 mile run broken up into 10 legs. It would be easy as anything but it was 38 degrees with a 35mph wind in our faces (constant wind, too, with gusts up to 50mph) as we were running west.

I had a really flat portion for my 4.7, but it was on top of a levee so I felt every bit of that constant 35-50mph wind as there were no trees or anything else to block the wind. I basically feel like I dragged a tire for 4.7 miles, it was that shitty.

Awesome thing is the race ends at a bar. I feel better everywhere because of the beer but my calves are killing me.

[boost]

wait.. so you ran 4.7m or 45m?

[boost]

Brag: I did this



next time Im in san diego Im going to do the big one which actually breaks and you can catch air off of it..

[Lukie]

Boost please be more specific when you say "I did this".

Did you surf or did you do the girl in the picture, who happens to be surfing?

Do I have to teach you everything?

[swiggidy]

Boost please be more specific when you say "I did this".

Did you surf or did you do the girl in the picture, who happens to be surfing?

Do I have to teach you everything?

I heard he got her number but isn't calling her back.

[boost]

I surfed.. There was this skinny (too skinny imo) blonde in my session though who was the only one without a wetsuit on and on the contrary had a string bikini on. She was next to me in line and goes "look at my ass" It was shivering involuntarily, "I cant control it, look."

Of course my ex is chilling there with her friends watching all of this. But I just looked at them and rolled my eyes and they laughed. Then my ex and her friend bought a few rounds of shots which I did inbetween my turns. Pretty ballin imo.

[SaulPaul]

theres a 100% confirmed bot where i play. what should i do about it? i cba writing an articulate 2p2 post. i emailed the company but htey fave me a bs response. he wins at 6pt/100 btw

[Jack Sawyer]

where is this?

[a500lbgorilla]

learn to beat it.

[wufwugy]

imo the sites like the bots since they generate rake/games, and they only care enough to make the other players think they care

but if i couldnt beat a bot (lol yea right) i would out it no doubt

[BennyLaRue]

he wins at 6pt/100 btw

At what level? Doesn't seem very botish if this is small stakes.

[Lukie]

Right, because poker is so incredibly complex that only humans can even begin to understand it's sheer complexity and awesomeness.

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Nobody who has posted in this thread plays better than an extremely well-written bot would. Period.

On a somewhat related note, there are chess programs available for download (e.g. Fritz) that can beat the best players in the world at chess, a game that has been studied IN-DEPTH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. And don't give me that perfect information argument either, it's a load of shit.

[bigred]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...7092sham1.html

[Galapogos]

Right, because poker is so incredibly complex that only humans can even begin to understand it's sheer complexity and awesomeness.

Didn't you see my post in the HSP thread? I am the next Durrrrr. Bring on the bots...

[boost]

Right, because poker is so incredibly complex that only humans can even begin to understand it's sheer complexity and awesomeness.

el

oh

el

Nobody who has posted in this thread plays better than an extremely well-written bot would. Period.

On a somewhat related note, there are chess programs available for download (e.g. Fritz) that can beat the best players in the world at chess, a game that has been studied IN-DEPTH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. And don't give me that perfect information argument either, it's a load of shit.

I dont think anyone believes that it is impossible to create a bot, just a hell of a lot harder than it is to create a chess bot. A poker bot that could pwn the best players would border on true AI.

[wufwugy]

Right, because poker is so incredibly complex that only humans can even begin to understand it's sheer complexity and awesomeness.

el

oh

el

Nobody who has posted in this thread plays better than an extremely well-written bot would. Period.

On a somewhat related note, there are chess programs available for download (e.g. Fritz) that can beat the best players in the world at chess, a game that has been studied IN-DEPTH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. And don't give me that perfect information argument either, it's a load of shit.

I dont think anyone believes that it is impossible to create a bot, just a hell of a lot harder than it is to create a chess bot. A poker bot that could pwn the best players would border on true AI.

yes

a huge reason that the game is not proliferated with bots that can beat the majority of regs at 5/10 and below is imo because its just too much work for those who are strategically good enough to figure out how to operate software, plus the potential problems if discovered.

i know i could create an extremely proficient fullring bot, and if the best of the best got into making bots the games would really really suck, but reality is that that's just not what current bots are, or so it seems

[boost]

I mean, just figuring out how to program it to avoid detection would take quite and effort I would think..

[will641]

seems like a good way to go, although you would be giving up a ton of rb, would be to make a new account every couple weeks or w/e.

[kfaess]

Speaking of hilarious Simpsons moments.

Can anyone make this into an FTR avatar for me?

howd you do that??

[will641]

http://books.google.com/books?id=w9D...iP0P#PPA103,M1

[Lukie]

Right, because poker is so incredibly complex that only humans can even begin to understand it's sheer complexity and awesomeness.

el

oh

el

Nobody who has posted in this thread plays better than an extremely well-written bot would. Period.

On a somewhat related note, there are chess programs available for download (e.g. Fritz) that can beat the best players in the world at chess, a game that has been studied IN-DEPTH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. And don't give me that perfect information argument either, it's a load of shit.

I dont think anyone believes that it is impossible to create a bot, just a hell of a lot harder than it is to create a chess bot. A poker bot that could pwn the best players would border on true AI.

I disagree, especially on the AI comment. Researchers are having a hard time conveying commands to machines that a baby or a pet would be able to understand. Let's not go down the "true AI" route. We're talking about a game (specifically poker, but also applies to chess) that relies heavily on numbers and mechanics, something that computers happen to excel at.

Read: http://www.livescience.com/technolog...re-robots.html

Chess, in it's modern form, has been played for over 500 years. It is the most popular game of its kind in the history of the world. We're going to say that it was in the late 90's that chess computers started becoming better than the best chess players in the world. I'm going to use '97, when Deep Blue defeated Kasparov, 3.5 to 2.5.

Exciting implications:

The best chess players in the world are certainly better at chess than the best poker players in the world are at poker. Give poker 500 years and you'll be where chess is at today (of course it would not take nearly this long in practice, largely owing to the advent of the computer and modern society, but you get my point. I'm also ignoring poker's own history, shoot me).

My guess is that anything more than a passing thought about developing a poker bot never really occurred until online poker. In addition, the understanding of poker has improved immensely since that time.

The game of poker is in its infant stages compared to chess, which for our intents and purposes we can just consider solved. It's close enough. I think this is part of the reason why it appears so easy to create a chess bot relative to a poker bot. Chess has been around and studied for such a long time. You can read all about the history of computer chess if you want, but it paints the same picture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess


Let's start with this. NLHE, there are 1326 card combos we can have. By default, this leaves villain with 1225 card combos that HE can have. After the flop, villain can have 1081 card combos. Let's cross check all of our possible holdings (adjusted for preflop numbers, of course) with all of villain's possible holdings and run the equity calculations for all of them. Boom, done in a fraction of a second. Of course what to do with all of this information is a challenge, but it's something a group of great players and world-level programmers could hammer out given enough time. Google could do it easily. This is already far more powerful than some goofy ass 80th level abstract thinking that you're giving our world-class poker players credit for with your AI comment.

I could delve far deeper into this but I'd rather not. Time, unfortunately, is going to prove me right on this one.

edited to add: It's an irrefutable fact that winning bots have long existed. I'm guessing the person(s) that designed weren't exactly my description of "great players and world-level programmers", or "google"... lol.

[Lukie]

ok so lately i've been talking to one of my ex gf's, and i wake up this morning to a text and voicemail from her. she won a trip to the bahamas, yay!

of course, party pooper that i am, alarm bells are immediately going off in my head. so she tells me she won it at a cavs game from the travel agent. being that she wants me to go with her, we're going to go meet the travel agent on thursday most likely.

what's the catch? (i seriously have no idea, but obviously it's something)