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just get one of these problem solved they'll play for you.

SSP said:

I like Allison Fisher's aiming method, she says she really doesn't have one, she just always tries to hit the back of the object ball, I assume she means if you aimed your cue at the back of the object ball straight into the pocket, that's exactly what I do as well, the trick is to make sure the proper part of the cue ball hits that target, that depends on the angle the cue ball will make contact with that point, as the angle increases in the shot the further from center is where point of contact is, so you don't have to think about 1/4 or 1/2 ball hit, there is really only a tiny target for you to pocket the ball dead center if your stroke is straight, my instructor pointed out to me that pool is the only sport in the world where you have to make 2 reasonably perfect balls go in a straight line

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FYI, that’s called “contact point” aiming - learned by practicing. With fractional aiming you learn the fractional CB/OB overlaps that come closest to hitting the chosen contact point, so the needed estimate/adjustment is smaller.

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masato yoshioka is a strange one to have unseeded.. world 10b semifinalist some years ago. wreaking havoc on the loser's side of course

Cardguys3 said:

I have a lot of programming/electrical engineering/technical and pool experience and want to give back to the community. If time or money were no option, but human resources were restricted to just one human, what could be crafted to improve the billiard community. Ideas I have heard so far, and in no particular order:

1) A wearable (clip on) timer that conveys time violations. - Accelerometer/BLE/microphone.
2) A free/freemium unified platform (website/app) for tournament management. -Self mobile check-in & reporting; state of the art.
3) A device to determine who wins the lag. -laser proximity non-doppler.
4) Facial recognition & game recognition for automated player scoring - Compareface et. al.
5) Improved Ranking & Handicapping system - Avoid known micro cavitation & include transparent metrics.
6) Augmented reality aiming glasses. -- Might be a bit too complicated for 1 man.
7) Balls with sensors (training) devices. -3 axis Accelerometer/BLE/Resin

What else? I'll pick my favorite one, make it and report back. I like 1 and 2 a lot. 3 is too easy.

Would any of these not succeed, if not why - adoption, pragmaticism, implementation, something else? Nothing is too complicated.

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Well, first of all a huge thanks for this generous offer! Don't mind the elderly here that fear anything new and apparantly forgot basic politeness. The only thing I give them is recently there has been an instance where a new person promised a lot, but ended up ghosting once the reality of the challenges sunk in.

Usually I am very inspired and come up with all kinds of ideas. But honestly, I can't think of any thing.

Well maybe one thing. My schtick is that I am a bit of a game designer (amateur) and I am convinced that the big5 (8ball, 9ball, 10ball, straight pool and 1p) are great games, but they all lack *something*. In my post history there's a post about the search for the perfect game, a game that has it all, but is really hard to design - obviously.

Your question however is not about game design, but about mechinal engeneering. Well, one avenue in the search for the ultimate new poolgame is attributes on the pool table that modify the table. Like gates that could be passed or little "rail" islands. Altogether this is nothing concrete, just an idea that floated my mind.

For Elimin-8-ball it would be great if the pockets that are eliminated would automatically close.

All these are endavours that I honestly would not ask anyone to put a lot of time and energy into.

The digiball fills a void that we kind of knew would be a "very nice to have" and it's turning out fine. There's a company building topdown projectors that create (probably gimmicky) minigames for the party crowd. Imo with talented game designers they could make briljant games, but they probably aim for candycrush-pool games, if you get me.

So, a very long post to say: I don't know. But again, it's a genereus offer a d I hope someone has a really good idea.

Jerry R said:

I've been working for a global company for a while now and I've found most of the world has gotten so used to English speakers (especially Americans) butchering pronunciations, that they know it's pretty pointless to make corrections.

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i would bet that butchering pronunciations is done equally much in all monolingual countries.. but i agree that it's pointless to correct. pool is a global game and english is its language.

personally i think pool has enriched my language and general knowledge. i played in a mostly migrant pool room for some year and learned to swear in serbian / bosnian but also some stuff from watching pool. danny d (r.i.p.) was great with the trivia stuff