I sell BTC to a few folk who play SDICE and I play it occasionally myself. Today they have been saying that each bet doesn't get a response until it has been confirmed, regardless of bet size. Is something up over there?
The balance between LTC and BTC mining will shift with the introduction of ASICs but I do not think that it will all of a sudden become profitable to mine litecoin when your GPU become worthless for BTC...
That doesn't mean I don't have a few thousand litecoin around for fun.