u/Tetsuo_Gaiden

It's the big blind spot for me in this series. I finished all the mainlines except 4. I got it way back in 2005ish and bounced off it hard and I didn't even get very far.

Since then, I've got a lot stronger tolerance for.. questionable choices, jank, and general "mid" from JRPGs especially if I fully know what I'm getting into and go in anyway. I've gotten through Suikoden 3's very flawed designs, twice, and I've come to love it.

Anything I should know going in (non spoiler)? I already know about the slow ship travel and 4 member party. Is the random encounter rate egregious?

I'm hoping it has enough of the Suikoden charm and has at least a decent story.

I've seen this movie maybe about 5 years ago. I apologize in advance for not remembering many details but I'll try..

The movies main character is a younger guy who has to hide and survive from a gang of criminals. I think the criminals needed the land. I could be wrong there.

It takes place in a very rural Midwest area. A lot of open space. Possibly oil fields but I could be wrong there too. I believe mc witnesses the criminals executing someone he knows. He was hiding in a barn I think.

There's possibly a chase scene with him on a dirt bike. Or he just rides a dirt bike from place to place. I think he works in a general store or small mechanic shop or a bar. The people are killed there too.. I'm hazy on all that..

I don't think there was any big name actors but the acting was good and believable.

I might have seen this on Netflix.

I wish I could remember more details, that's why it's difficult to Google this to begin with..

It had been a minute since I been to this casino near me, recently I discovered they added Jackpot numbers to their video roulette. I'll explain further..

After bets are placed and the dealer spins the ball, Jackpots of either 50x, 100x, 175x and 250x are placed on between 2 and 5 random numbers including 0 and 00. The bet has to be placed on the exact number to get the jackpot.

I didn't do any math on this but I figured if I covered the board in $1 chips as much as I could while mitigating loss, eventually I'd hit some Jackpots. I saw in the recent history that Jackpots did come up.

To start since the payout for one number is 30 to 1.. which I noticed.. it was 30 not 35 for some reason, so I began putting $1 on 30 numbers. That's 30 out of 38 where if I didn't hit a jackpot but one of my numbers did hit I wouldn't lose money. Then I thought, if I'm willing to lose 1 or 2 dollars a spin, I can cover more odds so I did 5 spins each of 31/38 and 32/38.

In about 20 minutes time, I hit a 175x and a 100x jackpot and two times my numbers missed and took a loss. I didn't count the spins but dealer didn't work like a clock.

I didn't play that long as I was with my gf and she wanted to do other stuff. I want to go back with a more tempered strategy and more time.

What do y'all think? Are the stats in my favor? Any strategies come to mind? Anything I'm missing? Is it too risky to try with higher values? Would you recommend I don't do it at all?

----Update after interacting with commenters----

I was totally expecting people to advise against gambling, that's a given, I tell people that myself. I didn't think there'd be such an aversion to simply discussing statistics about this game on "askStatistics". A lot of comments were removed for some reason. Seems like the sentimentality is don't ask, don't think, don't do it.

I'm no genius and this isn't a brag but every single time but once I've gone to play roulette, I've come home with money. Hundreds. I understand the game inside and out and I've developed and tested several betting strategies. The jackpot thing was new to me and threw me for a loop and I laid out a loose strat rather quickly that paid off.

Now are any of my methods full proof? No. Do I think i have an infinite money glitch? No. Am I still scared by the risks. Yes. Should I not bother because "the house always wins". Hell no. If you think you'll never win as the underdog, you're just not thinking creatively enough.

Again to never gamble is totally valid, the risk is on me myself and I.

It had been a minute since I been to this casino near me, recently I discovered they added Jackpot numbers to their video roulette. I'll explain further..

After bets are placed and the dealer spins the ball, Jackpots of either 50x, 100x, 175x and 250x are placed on between 2 and 5 random numbers including 0 and 00. The bet has to be placed on the exact number to get the jackpot.

I didn't do any math on this but I figured if I covered the board in $1 chips as much as I could while mitigating loss, eventually I'd hit some Jackpots. I saw in the recent history that Jackpots did come up.

To start since the payout for one number is 30 to 1.. which I noticed.. it was 30 not 35 for some reason, so I began putting $1 on 30 numbers. That's 30 out of 38 where if I didn't hit a jackpot but one of my numbers did hit I wouldn't lose money. Then I thought, if I'm willing to lose 1 or 2 dollars a spin, I can cover more odds so I did 5 spins each of 31/38 and 32/38.

In about 20 to 30 minutes time, I hit a 175x and a 100x jackpot and two times my numbers missed and took a loss. I didn't count the spins but dealer didn't work like a clock.

I didn't play that long as I was with my gf and she wanted to do other stuff. I want to go back with a more tempered strategy and more time.

What do y'all think? Any strategies come to mind? Anything I'm missing? Is it too risky to try with higher values? Would you recommend I don't do it at all?

I'm generally positive with games in this genre because I love it. I often find it hard to answer questions like "what's the worst jrpg?" "What game did you turn off an hour in?". I pretty much always know what I'm getting into and pick games I know I will like, which is a majority of the genre. I may form some criticisms and dislike a few aspects but again, generally positive even on mid games.

I'm in a lot of different communities and I find a lot of people, not majority, but a good amount let a few things they dislike get in the way of experiencing a lot of games. They come in with preconceived notions, pre-disappointment, skepticism, and sometimes to my brain, have baffling reasons why they "hate" a game. Example: Gamer can't stand FE Engage because when you leave a map prep screen and come back the game didn't place hold the units.

Sometimes it's baffling why they even bothered. IE: Persona 5 is trash because the characters have to go to school everyday. Did you read anything about the game?

I love RPGs but FF 7 remake total garbage. Oh, weird I enjoyed it, why is it garbage? It just is.

I know it sounds like I'm straw manning some hypothetical ragebait but I've literally had these convos.. weirdly a lot.

Then there's game announcements where there's always some part of the community or comments that are instantly negative. Got this with Persona recently. Somehow the series is cooked? Atlus kills it with every new game, sets new sales records, and continually builds upon every new thing they do, but okay.

I know something of how difficult and time consuming it is to make a game and I can't fathom what it takes to make a game as big as a Persona or a FF and it's so easy to dismiss that.

I know a majority of us aren't buying into all that negativity. You can dislike a game of course, I would prefer some critical thought be put into it. Sometimes I feel like a golden retriever being happy to get to play so many fantastic RPGs out there.

To wrap up my thoughts I'll say.. I know this pattern of thought is not indicative of just this community, it's something that permeates across the internet. A vocal minority sounding like the majority where it doesn't help the fact that rage and complaining and doom thought is contagious within human psychology. Let's always do our best to encourage critical thinking.