So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me - Thanks Mom!)

This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a lot like craps but with 3 dice) I had either a run of very good luck or i found something…

Update: Looks like it was blind luck after all - though it seems like I’m hitting triples of various types a lot more often than the less than 3% indicated by strict probability. Though that may just be a local variation in probability for that night, who knows.

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It was an effort. First I had to get everything hooked up properly and set the proper settings per input channel (some are in game mode most times, though Beautiful Katamari looks best in the TV’s super-saturated, super-postprocessed Vivid setting, and it’s not so time-sensitive/reaction sensitive to really sweat the little delay in display).

During this time, the TV and its associated stand was about 3 feet closer to us than it would finally be. That was way too close. As misia said, it felt like we both had to lean waaay back in the sofa to not feel like we’d fall into the screen.

Now that most of the cabling is settled (for now, until my cable management crap arrives, anyway, and I am still in want of a basket to bolt on the back of my rolling stand and put the big-ass transformers of the XBox 360 and the Wii in), so the TV is rolled back to its regular position, 2-3 feet closer to the wall opposite the couch. It’s much more tolerable that way.

For the first 3 or 4 days, though, the HDTV felt wrong somehow. I guess I was just too used to the old TV and the space it took up. The new TV is much bigger, much wider and has a much more grandiose presence (partly, I suspect, because of the cost associated in my psychology).

But I’m getting used to it, as is misia, I think. We’ll see how it goes in the long run.

It looks huge. It is huge. It is gigantic for our living room.

I am engaged in advanced cable management tactics just so I can push the damned thing back another 2 feet.

But lest I sound like I am complaining, I’m not. It is in fact just right, only it’s just friggin’ huge.

The newly arrived Hannukah XBox 360? Beautiful. HDMI cables? Even the cheap ones are freakin’ expensive.

Just so those of you who might care know, I couldn’t recover my account info for my existing XBox Live account (Gamertag: Aciel), so I created a new one and will cancel the old.

My new Gamertag is: Tsao Mao

Yesterday evening was a great deal of fun.

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