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I’ll come out and be a little honest here. When I started writing for Osamu’s blag I wanted to do something special, to make a difference. There is virtually zero English material on the internet, which is surprising in itself, especially as people are extolling their helpful communities
Mahjong News
European mahjong associations cancel cooperation with MahjongTime [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/reports/436-mjtproblems.html] From MahjongNews, the world’s #1 source of any news whatsoever that turns up when you google ‘mahjong’ [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/trivia/427-tcm.html]. Seriously guys, there’
rants
If you are part of a mahjong-playing community, as opposed to grinding on 0000 in a vacuum all day, only pausing between matches to take a swig of your bottled green tea, I’m sure by now you’ll have played in several tournaments. Well, I’m fairly certain of
rants
When playing non-tile-related games it’s polite or even just normal for a guy to say ‘gg’ after the end of a game. Good game. Perhaps it was a long drawn-out struggle, a close match going down to the wire, or perhaps the newcomer was totally outclassed and outmatched. Either
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Just a basic hand chart. Seriously. There is nothing else to see. Actually it’s rather misleading calling mahjong yaku ‘hands’, since most of them are just certain restrictions or conditions checked for in your complete hand. The only time entire complete hands have to be assembled tile for tile
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Apparently according to Osamu he’s been getting quite a few hits from people using terms like “plus minus zero”, so I am making a short post on this. If you are interested in emulating Saki’s feat of breaking even at the end of a match on tenhou, here
Delving into the vile abyss that is the internet, one of our intrepid explorers found this arcane document. She handed it over to me and promptly expired. I thought it appropriate to show the world a glimpse of what lurks beneath. Her sacrifice will not be in vain.
tenhou
Last week along with osamu’s post I decided to start playing 3p with my 4p account on 0000, aiming to reach 1800+ Some of the highlights of yesterday’s session – I played late into the morning, resulting in at least one messed-up game that I will talk about later.
I want to talk about Saki. Let’s talk about Saki for a moment. Any self-respecting mahjong-playing weeaboo knows Saki. It’s about a moe mahjong schoolgirl who always plays to get a break-even score. This is because when she was young, she used to play mahjong a lot with