21forme said:
Where I said In the book, Katarina suggests... ignoring the splits and doubles I meant splits and soft hands, not splits and doubles. My mistake. I apologize.
While it may not look good to misquote a book, it also doesn't look good to publish a book full of errors (some of which I pointed out on Don's site.) Although it's hard to discern someone's "tone of voice" in a written post, I believe I detect some petulance in your reply, which really is unnecessary.
Does this include trying to hit into a 6-7-8?
BTW, would you care to comment on how many copies have been sold so far? Thanks for your book and thanks for being available for questions and corrections as we go through the learning process.
I've sold 81 copies since Feb 12. If I had to live on my book earnings, I'd be way below the povery line. A 14 yo Burger King employee earns more than I do from my book. And I went to college for ten years, and was the second-top math student at one of the top universities in Australia. So I get to earn less than a retard, and get to contribute for free to sites where my book is called "full of errors" and I am called petulant. I really must be a complete idiot.
It is a book that is little more than the output of a computer program that I wrote myself. Microsoft Word has been out for 15 years, and it still has bugs.
Get used to it. There is no such a thing as a bug-free computer program.
Also, all technical books have an errata sheet. And besides, none of the errors have any practical significance in terms of costing the player money.
I could have written a book with no data from simulations, like most gaming writers, and then I wouldn't have had any errors. I don't know what you want - qualitative and error-free, or results from a computer program, which will always have bugs. If Norm, or any other sim writer put their sim results in a book, the same thing would happen.
It's all brand-new material that hasn't been done before.
So, it isn't possible for me to release the results of simulations in book form without there being some errors from bugs, but it IS reasonable to expect you to read a section of a book twice before quoting it on a forum, so that you get it right.
I also don't think that it's very kind to misquote me, then exaggerate my book's error content, and then to call me petulant because I am human, and as a result, don't like it when people are unfair to me.
If you think I'm thick-skinned and pathetic, you try being pregnant, and in and out of hospital, which is where I'm at right now.
I wish I had never written the book, and instead, kept it all to myself, so I could keep playing with impunity for the rest of my life at 90% pen and zero heat, and saved myself 3 years of hard work and criticism. I could have had any job I wanted when I finished college, but instead, I wrote a book that I make no money from.
If 10 people have bought the book on this site because of my contributions, I couldn't even live for a day off that money.
