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Reasonable response, I find playing the positions far more unpleasant after ...Nf5, but if you like those positions go for them! h4 is indeed a problem against lots of openings with ...Ng6. There are lots of positions where SF prefers a move, and it's right, with absolute best play. But the problems created by a different move are much easier for humans to solve. Your statistical data point is a strong case against this being true here, but I still kind of think it's happening here. A statistical point in favor of ...Ng6 is it being the choice of all top players here aside Fedoseev. If ...Nf5 looks pleasant or better to you, than that's completely fair, you're certainly not wrong.

Awesome to hear from you! Anti-hand rather than a hand intended to function on its own definitely makes sense in the scenario. Would be fun if we could ever figure out some of the past hands (I assume this is in the era of purely FF8 cards? Hard for me to keep track)

​@@jakeraskerinoIf Ace can remember his hand, and the rules, I could probably recreate the hand haha. Yes, it was only FF8 cards.

That's awesome, so glad to hear from people! Would love to see anything if you have it or hear any stories you have to tell! Tried my best to capture as much of the era as I could.

Oh yeah I keep forgetting I need to get used to base camera hotkeys, good call!

To answer questions in reverse order: I have no idea how to adjust volume because I am incompetent at this. Turdz indeed has a terrible name, no one's happy about it. TTAC is the triple triad championship, niche game, difficult to google.

Will do.

Ah thanks! Gonna try and develop this as a series where I attempt to figure out how to be better at this!

I have tried a 3-1-1 bio tank timing and a 3 base marine medivac build order, but not a 2-1-1. Would this be similar to the stuff suggested by terrancraft? If you're getting both stim/CS are you going tech labs at both rax or going one after another at one of them? I'm bad at harass stuff, gotta work on that.

I may do a video on these but: with Zerg I've been working on a quick roach maxout as a similar kind of training: 13 overlord 16 hatch 18 pool 17 gas is kind of specific but the basic idea is get 3 bases (and 3 queens for injects! maybe an extra to spread creep), saturate at least 4 gas (needed to pay for roaches), get spawning pool + roach warren and start pumping out roaches. Optimally you can max around 7:30 but any time before 10:00 is pretty good! Ideally you can also get an evo chamber and attack+1 for the roaches there. If you wanted to play this ranked then a good followup would be research Lair at the main base, drop a hydra den and support the roaches with hydralisks (to be able to hit air). Eventually I plan to work on some more focused builds but I think this is good practice. With Protoss I have almost no experience but my understanding is a decent straight forward way to play is stalker/colossi. Goal is something like 2 bases, 2 early gas and 2 early gates (then around 40-50 supply get 2 more gates and 2 more gas), a cybernetics core so the gates can make stalkers, a robotics facility and robotics bay to unlock colossi and then colossi production. Eventually get a third as colossus production starts. I can't find any maxout drills comparable to marines for terran or roaches for zerg but maybe a stalker version is plausible. Sorry if these are bad descriptions, I'm no expert here!

It's called Triple Triad and we play it at ttadvance.net, and it can also be played in the video game final fantasy 8.

Thanks for the comments! I may do someday. Probably not soon though, I teach chess and it's hard to have the energy to record chess videos as well.

Very confusing! Yeah, it's not at all obvious that each rule is an additional method of capture rather than a replacement of how to capture. And rule based captures set off comboing which overpowering doesn't, all unclear!

Yeah that's fair, they're definitely an interesting gameplay class but obviously this playthrough can't really explore that (and it'd be more fun to have access to the class earlier).

He wrecked me with style!

Oh man, what a delightful comment to read! The jump from wanting to capture to wanting to secure is a huge level up that feels so rewarding. Sounds like you've got a really good handle on valuing securing and maintaining future strength rather than looking to use powerful cards immediately. It's a wonderfully deep game! I have a few playlists that try to build up from the basics (Triple Triad Academy, Triple Triad Intermediate Academy, Triple Triad Advanced Academy) that might be in the direction you're looking for? They're not super rigorous, but I hope you find them interesting! It's the closest I've come to progress in that direction. Also I'm always somewhat hesitate to recommend it because almost everyone there has been playing competitively for 10-20 years, but ttadvance.ca lets you play against the best players in the world, though sadly not near as active as it used to be. The discord is friendly and welcoming. I've built a series of open playing bots that sometimes run there that I think offer a good leveling up curve, named after card club from ff8.

Yeah, it's a really fun game to explore for yourself, that's a good approach! The story is very interesting to experience as well in a way I didn't really present here.

You singlehandedly made Golagros a legend (because uh, golagros himself certainly didn't do it). I miss your hand.

Ah, I had no idea, clearly! Tifa's too strong for poor Jenova. FF7 has such weird stuff going in random gameplay ways, it's so peculiar.

I feel like people like to call superbosses easy and you're like how did you beat it and they go oh I had 6 kotr's linked with a bazillion other things, so easy. And... yeah? As a kid I concluded aire tam storm was unbeatable and gave up.

I won't even fight CARRY ARMOR Even at LV 60 WITH 9999 HP 999 MP UNLESS you use Knights of the round on IT so I stilled used it HP absorb and Mime it SOLO until Emerald dies from it. On the PS4 remaster even with INFINITE HP for that cheat used I still won't fight Carry armor at lv 60 with 9999 HP 9999 HP 999 MP unless you KoTR it. I never really mastered KoTR even once even with Cloud having a 3x AP rate weapon SOLOING Emerald/Ruby weapon both with KoTR set to it you still won't have it mastered once KoTR kills both of them on disc 2 with it.

Oof, that's a rough situation to be in, however it came about.

Still good guesses! I forgot about this fight too.

it's an unending plague

It's fun to have the game time for you how long it takes to kill things. Any bets on the first enemy/boss to survive the full 60 seconds?

@@jakeraskerino Probably Proud Clod? 60,000 health is a lot, and I think it had pretty high defense, too. If not it, then likely Hojo, since he has 3 forms, which will likely eat up a lot of time.

@@ThyPiggyman Excellent guesses!

..have to add the fact how Cid is being used by Shinra, his certain goodness of heart and loyalty taken advantage of, how it turns to abusive levels, with the Highwind, Space program (empty dressed up promises, promises by Palmer and all related to that), then the Tiny bronco, it is just assumed by the big corp that exploitation to whatever degree is ok, his devotion to a dream and amazing career and loyalty too getting flushed, reason being business as usual, whatever the head of the corp deems that the focus should be, and then there are all the added things that Shinra represents in our world too. Barret really strongly mixed in that in his own ways. But yeah, that "exploited loyalty/devotion/goodness of heart really hits hard more than maybe ever about Cid, somewhat quite personally too. This really got me thinking now, ha!

Yeah, I think I probably didn't cover enough how what's cool is going to vary person to person (as well as what's cool for you changing over time). I think the single type of that's deep character that most consistently appeals to me is a person trying to do better; who has done wrong, and is deeply imperfect now, but is trying to be better than they were. Cloud's not the archetype of that mold, but certainly fits it. I do quite like Cid, I'll end up being pretty positive about him later in the playthrough, though more because he amuses me than because I find him cool? Dragoons always have seemed cool for me though, I was super into Kain during ff4 who in retrospect is... really boring? But cool! Barret's great.

Oof, I hadn't even heard of Ever Crisis. I think, for me, I'd have trouble with parts they do well especially if they followed parts they didn't do well? I'm going to make a weird analogy that I possibly already made in the video, I don't remember, but hopefully I didn't: There's a calvin and hobbes short story fanfiction thing that I sometimes see posted on my social media in which calvin has grown up, is married to susie, and is giving hobbes to his child. I hate it so much; calvin giving away hobbes is the kind of bittersweet growing up thing that someone would imagine but to me completely shits on everything in calvin and hobbes, there's a reason watterson never had calvin grow up, and calvin never would give up hobbes, and I think any person that imagines he would, that chooses to create a world where he would, is someone I abhor and wish terrible curses upon. There's other reasons I hate it, the sins are not singular, but that's a good emblematic example. I love C&H and it makes me genuinely angry. At the same time, because I love C&H when this stupid story reaches for emotion I can't help but feel emotion about these characters and this stupid story doesn't deserve it. So not only is it shitting on something I care about, but I am not not able to restrain myself from caring, and that's just completely unacceptable. I worry ff7 remake will be exactly this combo for me; trashing things I care about, and then just compelling enough to make me angry at myself for still caring. I have trouble getting to the point of being happy that for you and others there are moments it does well that feel wonderful to see, but I am happy for you there.

I am glad you saw this, team B is big leader in the voting, go dancing knight go!

God I hate this game! Tactics has its moments, and the storytelling is great. But this Goddamn game hits you like a Truck if you Don’t have the Right Skills and aren’t Leveled up before specific Battles and Missions! Being that Said Battles and Missions Soft Lock the Hell Outta your Progress! And Good God do I hate this F*cking game! But Yeah, you really have to have a great pre-Established plan before going through this game. And it’s great to see your Spreadsheet and hear your planning. Cause it’s very interesting, same idea also applies for FFT Psp version. But yeah, FFT really put me off of Strategy Tactical Rpg games due to how frustrating they can be if you don’t have a solid idea of what your dipping your toes in.

@@danielramsey6141 Legit! I love FFT but I do hear what you're saying; the difficulty spikes and requirement that you figure out poorly explained (if at all) systems and menus are a poor combination, not even considering that you can lock yourself into fights with no way to go level. And it sucks that put you off strategy rpgs in general! I think it does a really good job of in fact letting you succeed with a variety of tools, but... they're so hidden by the horrible menu experience of it that's only going to matter once you've already spent a lot of time with it. For me that makes it end up being a really deep srpg experience.

Counter attack IS fun! And it's neat that it can be combined with cover to get more counters.

And the fact that you can stack counter attacks with multiple counter attack materias (up to 8 times ! ), don't actually remember even hearing about it too well, though likely have.. But am going to do it at least to some degree in my next playthrough, where I put certain restrictions to what I can utilize, such as not doing chocobo breeding which makes some really op materias unusable, not using enemy skill materia and not using lvl4 limit breaks. Psyched about my plans building around that and on those restrictions.. been a while since I completed FF7. But yes, super awesome counter attacking build for a character around that in the plans.. takes kind of a lot of grinding but don't mind, at least yet.

@@user-mi2mq6gh4z Weirdly this playthrough does some of that sort of by accident; no chocobo breeding, no level 4 limits. Definitely do use enemy skill though. I think thoughtful restrictions are good; forces us away from crutches. Also I completely forgot you could stack counter attacks! I remember buying a turbo firing controller and putting a rubber band over circle and down, finding a part of the world map where holding down would run back and forth along an edge and leaving it over knight to beat enemies and grind materia level.

Gameplaywise the episode coming out in 5 days (part 36) is my favorite and I hope inspiring to lots of people in their next playthroughs.

@@jakeraskerino Will definitely be getting to it, am still roughly aiming to go through in order though

First instinct without calculating: in these setups (which I call a J cause it vaguely looks J shaped) we usually don't want to play combos in 4 because if they can take in 1 when 1 and 4 are the only cards that are hard to interact with, and our opponent has locked in both! On the other hand they can't take 7 and we can lock in 2 next turn so let's take a deeper look: We play 6847 in 4 going up 6-4, I agree they need to reply 9484 in 1 making it 5-5. We now go in 3 locking in 2 and going up 6-4. They lead to the same result but I'd lean towards 8448 in 3 here just so the opponents 3453 doesn't have something to do; it could take Ifrit. After 8448 in 3 they can play 8528 in 6 double capturing and making it 6-4 them. After that we can safely single capture for a tie but can't win. So I think this leads to a tie but it's a good idea. Most ideas lead to ties with perfect play, and it's our job to find the moves that apply the most pressure. ...and it's clearly better than what I did! After my awful move in 9 a bit later if they'd played 8528 in 8 I'd have lost! Silly me.

Amazing! Thank you so much@@jakeraskerino this is so in depth. I think I saw formation tutorials coming up in the future, they look really useful! I had another question, how do you compute possible pluses and sames so quickly? I've been pausing the videos at each game/challenge to try it for myself and when I resume it you have the answer in like nanoseconds lol, that's seriously impressive. Is there any deliberate practice that can improve this? Thanks again for putting out these videos, they're so helpful for me as someone fascinated by the game. Needs way more views!

@@Snowcloak_ Thank you so much! Really nice to hear this is useful. It's a wonderful game. Thinking in terms of gaps helps me, I see a 7 and 5 I know those are 2 apart so I look for things 2 apart in my hand. But mostly it's experience? I've played thousands of games on ttadvance.net and honed the skill, I don't think there's a shortcut? Pausing the video and figuring it out is very good practice, it will speed up as time goes on! ttadvance is where the highest level triple triad is being played and I love it but it can be hard to recommend because virtually all the players left have been playing for 15+ years and it can be incredibly challenging to get into. It is a good and welcoming community though, with a discord.

I haven't read any Heidegger since a college class on nihilism and I uh, don't remember his portion, so can't contribute here.

Also glad you're making your way through the playthrough!

The connection of Heidegger can be seen to revolve around a threat of technology, how overly utilized and valued technology can warp our view of truth/reality and kind of disconnect it from "pure perceiving" of certain truths and sensations or from more harmonious connection with our environment, as everything is turned into resources to be counted and utilized and that takes the main stage of our evaluation, maybe reducing humans themselves as mere resources in a number of ways, something to that idea. He was also kind of overly nostalgic or into some older technology from what I have understood, which also can be seen as connecting to world of FF7 if we compare it to at least some parts of our modern technology. But enough of that rabbit hole ! ^^`

I've almost released up to the point of the playthrough when my tifa build can be unveiled! I wish there was a little bit more customization possible, not quite enough different ways to go, especially early, but it's a very good system. Maybe my favorite out of battle ff combat system? Will have to ponder that.

It's such a good storytelling device; a way to give somewhat false histories that don't rely on amnesia but instead tells us both the character's history AND things about the character in the way they justify/deceive/tell themselves things.