Hein's Thoughts

    So I just reread "Why you should write” by Preetam Nath. https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/why-you-should-write He uses this essay to encourage everybody to write.  He seems to think that any kind of habitual creative activity is good for you.  My own belief is that people have a historic ability to share their thoughts with the future of humanity and that everyone’s perspective is useful, thus, we believe that it is a good idea to write.  Habitual daily writing is good for historical records, sharing your unique perspective, and it makes writing itself much easier.  Writing is a very useful tool for businesses and journalling is both know to be good for your mental health and it documents your thoughts so that you can search through them later.  

    So, I have played about 300 hours of Slay the Spire since I got it on July 26.  It’s a turn-based deck building game.  Many of these deck building games have interesting mathematics, so I have been devoting a fair amount of time to analyzing the game and writing about the game.    The most interesting theorem about the game is  D = h (( d - c b + w)/a + b/alpha) where D is the total damage that you take, h is the total amount of damage that you give to the enemy, d is the average attack per turn from the enemy, c is the average number of cards you play per turn, b is the average block per blocking card played, w is the average amount of waisted block per turn, and alpha is the average attack for the attack cards you played.      The nice thing about the formula is that h, d, c, b, and alpha are often precisely known or easy to calculate.  Also, a large portion of the reasonable strategies have w=0.  If you know h,d,c,b, and...