Hello everyone and welcome back to the question of the week (hopefully nobody's getting sick and tired of that).

So in our last blog for this year, I wanted to discuss a tabletop gaming project that I've been working on.

I was thinking about this idea for a tabletop rpg where instead of rolling dice, players have their own deck of playing cards, with the cards having different effects based off of the characters class, subclass, etc...

Now I wanted to ask a couple things.

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For my last full day in Las Vegas, I sat down for a single playing session... that lasted nearly eleven hours. I played in the $375 deepstack at the new Aria casino resort about a mile south of Harrah's. How did I do? Here's the tournament board when I went out:

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Finally got my vacation and I'm spending a week-plus in Las Pegasus Vegas starting two days ago. How is it? Hot and dry. Temperatures forecast to be 110F later this week, but they keep the giant poker rooms at the Rio conference center they use for the WSOP (World Series of Poker) so cool I had to buy a sweatshirt. How am I doing? Played three daily tournaments and hit the money (barely) the first time, just missed it the second, and did very badly on the third thanks to one stupid

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I noticed a story (it sucks, so I won't link it) with "casino" in the title has a metric crap ton of spammer gambling website comments.

Casino gambling craps poker blackjack roulette online gaming sports book bookie

How many spam bots can I get banned?

I have no New Years plans, besides the usual watching the ball drop and getting piss drunk, so I'm gonna say normal operations are resuming. However, Poker Night will have to be put on hold for the moment. I lost the notebook I use to keep track of how the game goes, so until I find it I can't do anything with this except flesh out what I'm tentatively calling Daytime Events, which is basically the after-effects of each Night.

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It has been a while since I wrote one of these. I had been planning to put this out before Christmas, but I ended up procrastinating too much on it, and didn’t get the last two stories reviewed until last night, when I was, ironically, procrastinating on doing something else.

Clearly, the real secret to productivity is to make it so that you loop your procrastination around to the point where you are always getting stuff done.

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Here's another scene that I have in mind for the sequel of A Sweetie Dreamland and that I hope to place somewhere. The idea was just so surealist that I just had to do it. Enjoy!

"You mean that YOU actually almost managed to conquer your whole universe?" asked Wolf. "By the way, I fold."

"Yes. Twice." Bowser eyed him. "Why are you so surprised?"

"Because you act like an idiot most of the times," laughed Hades.

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