FurthestChunk: i got that jong in me
Manae: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Is This Your Card? (Join Wheeler and his ever expanding list of card based games, now in digital AND physical flavours! Game: Mahjong Soul) at Tue 01:00 PM PDT (0s from now).
Manae:
TXC2:
Manae 
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: CONTACT
IanAllenBird: o/
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4 raiders from ExachixKitsune have joined!
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TXC2: LoadingReadyRun song's just in the rotation
IbunWest:
ContingentCat: !venga
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Thadrin46: OOOOOH WE'RE GOING TO IBIZA
LoadingReadyRun: First time I've caught a song w/ vocals during the intro
poipal: ššš
Gekyouryuu: hello, chat. :3 if anyone here is on the LRR discord, you can peak into the Riichi Mahjong thread of the Tabletop channel and see how earlier today I made poor decisions that somehow lucked into me ending a game with 13 Orphans
TXC2: !discord
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TXC2: hello Gekyouryuu congrats
poipal: @Gekyouryuu Dang congrats
TXC2: here we GO!
IbunWest:
Gekyouryuu:
never listen to the haters, chat. ALWAYS force 13 Orphans. 
(for legal reasons, this is a joke. I didn't even go in trying to force it)
Thadrin46: Mr Wheeler. I have played an unreasonable amount of Mah Jong soul the last week or so. I blame you for this. It's horribly addictive.
TheAinMAP: Hello.
TXC2: Hello Wheeler
Shragon: hello wheeler!
TXC2: good old Ben Responder
JKBalch: Looking good today
WorkOnHold: havenāt caught up with LRR streams lately, though is this your card was on Sundays?
Gekyouryuu: still in Adept after 2 1/2 years, and WotC seems to have lost my Hatsune Miku deck in chicago two weeks ago, but otherwise doing just fine. :3
TXC2: WorkOnHold no, it's on Tuesdays now
TXC2: !patreon
Thadrin46: Thank you for being here. It's great to have you here.
TXC2: !store
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ExachixKitsune: I briefly hit Expert 1 for a while but then lost some games and I'm back on Adept 3; hard work
IbunWest: I know all about mah jong. thatās the game where you match tiles rivht
CastleOtranto subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 157 months!
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TXC2: "choice"
Gekyouryuu: @ExachixKitsune closest I've ever gotten was ONE point away from reaching Expert, and then lost all the way back to Adept 1
OharaRenji:
Pharmacistjudge: she is tastefully dressed though
TXC2:
I still keep thinking her keys are a cigar 
aug_med: she mah on my jong till i soul
poipal: Riichi mahjong specifically, other variants are banned here /j
ContingentCat:
I didn't know you could play mahjong with a shirt on
Thadrin46: I currently have hedgehog woman. I have yet to work out how to find something less gooner.
Sibwow subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 78 months, currently on a 62 month streak!
Sibwow: fun mahjong anecdote: the first time I heard of mahjong it was from my grandma who has a very very thick Boston accent and I thought she was saying Mar jong
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JKBalch: The 2am streams were wild.
cinkabear: mahjong is a good game, is it fun? uhhhh...
shushu2539: we'll be picking matching pairs of tiles from a pyramid of tiles?
poipal: @Thadrin46 Sell gifts you get for stardust or whatever it's called, trade stardust in the shop for summon tickets, use summon tickets and inevitably get more gifts (and maybe eventually a character)
SohNata: Sign me up for a double Ponperroni Pizza
Gekyouryuu: to quote a popular meme: "Mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit."
pawssumplace: Mahjong is easy. Mahjong is very very hard.
poipal: People keep telling me riichi mahjong is like gin rummy so now I need to learn gin rummy too
Pharmacistjudge: are we entering a simple meta?
pawssumplace: Both of these are true.
TheOneInquisitor: It's Ben Wheeler at Papa Jong's Pizza again
BITs19_: I was just about to type "Isn't Mahjong a bit like Rummy with the draw and discard turn cycle?"
Thadrin46: If you know rummy you know the basics of rummy, but there are a lot of dufferences.
TXC2: !plan
LRRbot: Translator's note: Keikaku means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Thadrin46: Basics of mah jong i mean.
Boopity:
@TXC2 Huh, I don't think I've ever seen that command before 
Gekyouryuu: my favorite fun fact about that Death Note meme: it was parodying more blatant instances of subs doing that kind of thing, but most people think it was genuine
npicca: āIām in furitenā: I messed up
Boopity: Ten furries? Seems excessive
andrew_coluzzi: you can never have too many
IbunWest: you never want to go furry 10
Sibwow: if someone mentioned kan theyāre getting banned fo labmansplaining
TXC2: also isn't "keikaku" more like "God's plan" or something?
poipal:
@Gekyouryuu Never mind the constant [A/N: Osuwari means sit!] in certain fanfics 
QuixoticScrivener: @IbunWest gotta crank those furries to 11
Thadrin46: I keep landing in furitan because i accidentally chi'd with a 9.
ContingentCat: @IbunWest not without protection at least
Boopity: @Gekyouryuu This implies there are _several_ fun facts you know pertaining to the Death Note meme
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poipal: @Sibwow So you're saying they kan't?
pawssumplace: Good job?
ContingentCat: an important feature of course
TXC2: what an Age we live in
TXC2: * """""live"""""" in
andrew_coluzzi: Iāve been trying to learn by playing mahjong soul and it is very fun despite not knowing fully what Iām doing, now I can maybe know what Iām doing!
Thadrin46: I need to get that badger
poipal: Are you going to explain how points are calculated, because I still don't have a handle on that after years of playing
Boopity: What an age to be present at
TXC2: Boopity yeap, that'll do
Gekyouryuu: out of curiosity, Wheeler, do you have a favorite of the characters you can play as (whether you have them or not) or do you just play who you have based on mood?
elgenericosfavoriteorphan: @poipal the metaphysics of (Mahjong) morals
ContingentCat: I've wanted to learn mahjong but I'm terrible remembering vocabulary with just x=y hopefully seeing it will help it stick
poipal: @andrew_coluzzi There's a subthread in the LRR disco where you could ask other players for tips or matches too
poipal: @elgenericosfavoriteorphan Schrodinger's han?
andrew_coluzzi: @poipal good to know!!
pawssumplace: Oh huh! I think I've secretly been playing mah jong in Palia.
Thadrin46: That's a thing to remember: on installation, enable numbers in the graphics settings.
TomatoKigu: The hardest part of Mahjong is learning when to quit.
TXC2: the pinwheels
SnackPak_: that bird rules
pawssumplace: They've replaced three tiles with food stuff and made it soup themed
JKBalch: Red dragon looks the coolest
pawssumplace: these tiles*
dolphgrim: I can't believe that today could be the day I finally learn this game. š„¹
poipal: Remember: ABD - Always Be Discarding Dragons
Sibwow: melds I think is a word people use?
Boopity: @poipal Kiryu in shambles
Shragon: @poipal ABCD? - Always Be Chunkin' Dragons?
TXC2: MATHS!
Shragon: chuckin'*
TXC2: turns out a lot games are built around similar concepts
KeytarCat: It's a hand-building game, like Gin or Rummy or or or or
Gekyouryuu: I've been using the alternate tile skin where the green dragon is blue and the green bamboo tiles are blue seashells for so long that seeing green tiles feels weird now.
Thadrin46: In real life you draw from a wall of tiles.
IbunWest: how does wheeler draw so well
dolphgrim: That cool bird is so cool.
Boopity:
@Gekyouryuu Well that doesn't sound confusing at all 
TXC2: "What's your Yaku?!"
Boopity:
Aren't yakus a Gundam thing?
Gekyouryuu: yaku = win condition, and some have more specific rules
cherryblossomchef: 8 ball, corner pocket
Rumelis: in my mind it's a "set" that you construct out of one or more pieces of your hand
NorthstarTex: No final flash mention?
TXC2:
Yaku is your Kimarite
npicca: as soon as I see a mahjong hand, I hear Angel saying āwhatās your yakuā in my head
Sibwow: yaku is the guy who invented white people right
Gekyouryuu: Tanya O'yaku
pawssumplace: Hey, you pick your battles with sugar
TXC2: remember kids: Soy has LESS Estrogen then dairy milk
pawssumplace: And neither of them matter because that's not how estrogen works
Gekyouryuu: "why do you think you're bad at mahjong?" "it's embarrassing to admit, but building "all simples" is too complicated for me."
TXC2: pawssumplace oh indeed
pawssumplace: Broccoli also has more estrogen than soy
ExachixKitsune: !keikaku
Tar_Veldig: Oh so like Uno
BeefcakeEmperor: this tenpai was stated in CFYOW
KeytarCat: "If you don't want me to win, you better win RIGHT NOW"
ExachixKitsune: @pawssumplace *begins smashing broccoli in my mouth like it's going out of fashion*
Gekyouryuu: Jumanji
Tar_Veldig: Yahtzee
omdorastrix: Snap!
aug_med: NO RON NO!
Pharmacistjudge: Gin
Kezzig_: Yahtzee
BITs19_: yahtzee?
Thadrin46: Yahtzee
cherryblossomchef: downbeat
pawssumplace: Haha, careful to increase your broccoli intake gradually
shushu2539: Bingo!
Boopity: Ho Chi Minh City!
TXC2: Really?
IanAllenBird: lmao
Boopity:
SnackPak_:
bingo
BITs19_: oh we all missed that one
firebird31: Why are we yelling at Ron?
aug_med: +2
Grancheater: bingron
Gekyouryuu: to quote a popular meme: "Mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit."
Rumelis: constructing BINGO in bingo is worth 1 yaku, it's true
e_bloc: why don't we build the whole mahjong out of the ron button
Boopity: @firebird31 He's actually into it
SolarBrisngr: Mah Jong, not like other games, except bingo
SolarBrisngr: Mah jong is bingo
firebird31: @Boopity oh ok as long as he's comfortable
Kezzig_: Highly recommend Dice Throne - its like yahtzee but with a fantasy class/character system to make it more interesting
Grancheater: We can use computers to do maths
Gekyouryuu: anyone who knows how to calculate Fu is a wizard and to be feared
Pharmacistjudge: we are learning to eat right now, let's talk about calorie counting later
avjamethyst: aw
e_bloc: if you only have one han, you score han solo
aug_med: han=rizz
Boopity: Really? Wheeler draws the line at nyaa?
IbunWest: nyaa
idontgetmyrealname:
red_shoes_jeff: Nyaa.
e_bloc: should you always go for 13 orphans
SaoirseStuff: yes
The_Lesser_Gatsby: When do we get to use one of those really cool automated tables?
Gekyouryuu: go for it
Boopity:
e_bloc: are you going to play a black lotus
Kezzig_: its a 29 in cribbage
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Shragon: got it, always force 13 orphans
poipal: @The_Lesser_Gatsby Clack clack clack
goateedave86: I've never hit 13 orphans Ben Wheeler 2026
firebird31: Always go for the orphans
Shragon: that happened to me too! so infuriating
Gekyouryuu: 1 han + ron > yakuman ready
e_bloc: wheeler has never hit 13 orphans
poipal: "I've never hit thirteen orphans" clip that
Grancheater: "close to 13 orphans" is also sometimes called "nothing"
Gekyouryuu: no, please, throw me
Gekyouryuu: I've earned it by being silly
Boopity:
@Grancheater
poipal: That said I've *lost* to thirteen orphans
Pharmacistjudge: is it the royal flush mahjong?
npicca: 13 orphans is assembling exodia the forbidden one
aug_med: +2
TXC2: Pharmacistjudge pretty much
goateedave86: Desert Bus for Han?
e_bloc: I think I lost to 13 orphans once in yakuza
Anubis169: urge to quote lines... rising...
The_Lesser_Gatsby: So is 1 Han a Han Solo?
TXC2: !findquote orphan
LRRbot: Quote #9026: "Isn't it Obama that gets 13 orphans?" āWheeler [2024-06-16]
Thadrin46: 13 orphans is 13 tiles with no immediate neighbour?
Gekyouryuu: oh, it's worse than that, Wheeler: I didn't even HAVE a good hand for 13 orphans, I had SIX and oopsed my way into 13
Boopity:
TXC2: aim for not last
poipal: And then one dealer nickles and dimes six 2000 point wins in a row and the game takes forever
Gekyouryuu: @Thadrin46 13 Orphans is, specifically, one copy of each 1, each 9, each wind, and each dragon (13 unique tiles) and a copy of any one of those 13.
cha0shazard: My streamer is mahjongposting on a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon
cha0shazard: Life is good
poipal: @TXC2 I will openly admit that I'm terrible at folding
e_bloc: like poker
Boopity: Game of skill
Gekyouryuu: @poipal same
goateedave86: Just don't get Ron'ed
Thadrin46: @Gekyouryuu Thanks
poipal:
Yeah majsoul even gives you a stat web that will dunk on your tactics
e_bloc: are there any tools you can use that quantify your strategy similar to VP$IP in poker
TXC2: poipal very often it's like ripping off a band-aid
Rumelis: my favorite strategy, "oh I'm cooked uuuuh make sure I don't give them Ron"
e_bloc: voulentary put money in pot
Boopity: #influencer
Gekyouryuu: one of my biggest issues is that I'll often try to just discard safely to not lose, and I'm either bad at identifying what's a dangerous tile OR my opponents are playing like lunatics and in tenpai waiting for EXACTLY ONE TILE in the MIDDLE of their sequence that I have the final copy of.
TXC2: filled your ring eh?
kijata: for further reading there is riichi book 1 that goes into somewhat depth regarding further strategy
cha0shazard: Oh HELL yeah brother
e_bloc: and Wheeler hasn't forced anyone's phone to call 911 yet
e_bloc: my deepest condolences
lightfut: Did I hear you registering some QP over there?
Slacker619: but do you know why children choose the taste of captain cruch cinamon toast?
poipal: @Rumelis The worst is when you're one tile away from tenpai (or even riichi) and trying not to give them ron
Gekyouryuu: @Slacker619 because you're a silly rabbit?
dolphgrim: If Angel were here, she would probably say something in her Animatrix voice. š
Slacker619: š°
poipal: All the corners of the wind?
Gekyouryuu: LOVE when your seat wind is ALSO the prevailing wind
Boopity:
I always have seat wind
poipal: @Gekyouryuu Dealer's double baybeeee
poipal: Even more fun when they're also dora
Boopity: @Gekyouryuu Wait, does that mean it counts for both?
TXC2: "it's about the points (cones)"
Gekyouryuu: @Boopity yes
poipal: @Boopity Yep
Boopity: Oh neat
TheLadyMakai: ah, ok
e_bloc: triplets are much more common than orphans
Slacker619: can you pon a pon?
Gekyouryuu: Pon-ing newbs
Tommadness: Poning some noobs
Gekyouryuu: @Tommadness eyyyyy!
e_bloc: pon opens your hand though right, so that's not always good
Rumelis: Correct, some yaku require that you never open the hand by taking tiles from other players
poipal: Come Mr DJ, song pon de tile play
poipal: @e_bloc Yeah it can make some yaku invalid and drop the value of others by a han or so
Boopity:
e_bloc: @poipal thanks, I have a very rudimental knowledge of mahjong, I generally just play very casually in yakuza games
Oscelot: Heya Wheeler, chat o/
Boopity:
@e_bloc Most mahjong-literate Yakuza player
Boopity: Hello @Oscelot !
TXC2: hello Oscelot welcome
Oscelot: ty ^^
poipal: @e_bloc Learning all the yaku and their values is the trickiest part imo, I have crib notes I made based on Majsoul's in-game yaku list (which is very handy)
meestacalf: I learned how to play Mah-jongg, american style while visiting my folks. This version is so much better, itās not a headache to get mahjong
e_bloc: @poipal thank you! I need to look into that
e_bloc: ngl I didn't realize chi was only from your left
Oscelot: @poipal I found a list on reddit after angel suggested looking for one there
Slacker619: so, pon= anywhere for triplet. Chii = left to for a sequance
poipal: @meestacalf Is American style based on the Hong Kong version?
Oscelot: I trimmed a bunch of crap off the end
poipal: @Slacker619 And if you're playing 3 player instead of 4 player, there's no chii allowed at all (because sometimes you don't have someone to your left)
Oscelot: Mmmm delicious hot drink
poipal:
@Oscelot Ooh handy
Oscelot: @poipal Yee, think that's the one Angel was directing people at
poipal: Oh I see it's just the basic yaku
Oscelot: Hey chat, do you happen to know of any lists for like, differences between hong kong and doman mahjong?
poipal:
All Greens and flush are easy to *remember*, just harder to get
couchboyj: He's a man on the Ron
Oscelot: @couchboyj eyyyy
Invitare: What's sequined?
FadedOasis: @Invitare Seat Wind
The_Lesser_Gatsby: Question, why was the 1 a win there?
poipal: @couchboyj Well the riichi landed with a mighty crash
GedankenPalast_:
The_Lesser_Gatsby: Got it. It just showed it weird at the end
BeefcakeEmperor: was there a reason why two of the 6s were placed face down?
Sunrise_Laro: to signal the concealed Kan
FadedOasis: @BeefcakeEmperor To show that they were closed, that Wheeler got all 4 tiles without calling them from other players
poipal: You can pin from a closed kan, right? To give someone a chance when all of a tile are being taken out of the game?
goateedave86: Can you Ron to Kan?
e_bloc: if anything shouldn't we sing 'the one' by elton john
poipal: *Pon
goateedave86: Pon*
KeytarCat: ah, elton pon
shushu2539: and if click it you get a sha256 hash, even more strange
Boopity: Say the Lennon joke again!
SaoirseStuff: the Arnold Schwarzenegger japanese mahjong advert is just *chefkiss*
poipal: I gotta get these tile backs, they're so fancy
Oscelot: Ohhhh
Oscelot: So it's like the gold cards in balatro
TXC2: goateedave86 pretty sure you can't turn a triple into a quad after you played the triple.
Pseudonymn: get your hands off my mans
goateedave86: @TXC2 thank you
Oscelot: Jolene, jolene, jolene joleeeene... I beg of you to please not take my mon...
poipal: Are dora point additives, or multipliers?
avjamethyst: @TXC2 you can if you draw the fourth but not if someone else discards it
Oscelot: oh hey Angel o/
TXC2: avjamethyst oh interesting
e_bloc:
Angel
Oscelot: *snerk*
Oscelot: I love that description, Wheeler
Oscelot: why is the Korean flag at the bottom? XD
avjamethyst: @Oscelot not sure that's the specific one but it works
poipal: @Oscelot That's the riichi stick, you place it down to show you've declared it
Oscelot: Ahhh
Oscelot: @avjamethyst ty!
Gekyouryuu: @Oscelot ...korean?
poipal: @Oscelot In majsoul you can get fancy ones like dango sticks or gold bars
TXC2: also not the Flag of either side of Korea
Oscelot: @Gekyouryuu ...right. I just woke up lol. Japanese
Boopity:
"The riichi stick" definitely does not sound real
Pseudonymn: heart of the tiles, yugi
Pharmacistjudge: so, it's calling uno?
e_bloc: like being on a draw in poker
Oscelot: I love my cat but she woke me up all night. Including once just to get me to come pick her up and bring her to the bed which she can definitely just... get on to herself.
Boopity: @Oscelot I relate to this level of neediness
Oscelot: @Boopity lol
The_Lesser_Gatsby: So its a good thing to get a Riichi Round.
Boopity: Oh, so Mahjong is like an idle game
Oscelot: Ah so it's like being in Check
poipal: This is why it's better to try to build sequences that are missing a tile on either side (67) rather than in the middle (68) because you have more win conditions
e_bloc: we get to F6
Pseudonymn: so can you still pon after richiing?
poipal: @The_Lesser_Gatsby Well, once you declare riichi you're locked in and can't change your hand at all, so it can be easier to deal into someone else
Oscelot: Yeah that's so confusing just adding that on
FadedOasis: Luckiest tutorial ever.
Gekyouryuu: @Pseudonymn no, but you can kan but only if you have a triplet and draw the 4th time
Kentosaurus: Tutorial be like: Not so fast, Christina Riichi
Boopity: Twitch, please, I do not care about the drops
Gekyouryuu: tile*
TXC2: I wonder how close the Kanji of Ippatsu is to Ippon
Oscelot: Ippatsu seems like a very... extra rule. Like you could easily discard that rule and not feel like I was missing out
vibratingsheep: "one shot" instead of "one thing"
poipal: How does 4 han equal 7900 and not 4000
Oscelot: How does 4 han translate to 7900?
Oscelot: lol
Oscelot: same braincell @poipal
TXC2: vibratingsheep neat, thank you
Oscelot: apologies if this has already been explained
zazamost: JONG TIME
Oscelot: LOL
Boopity:
help
Pharmacistjudge: I am hoping someone else can count calories
TXC2: Scoring is a whole nother stream
Oscelot: That's fair
FadedOasis: Mahjong scoring is the post complicated thing ever. Everyone I know looks at a chart.
SnackPak_: kekaku means plan
e_bloc: the points don't matter
The_Lesser_Gatsby: Scores are a 200 level class
Oscelot: @FadedOasis oh boy
poipal:
Later later is fine, I've lost some games in silver by a few hundred points and it drives me nuts
Boopity:
@FadedOasis A game where counting the score is harder than the main game sure is a bold concept
Oscelot: it can FU off XD
poipal: iirc the person directly across from you loses more points than the others on a tsumo
Boopity:
Rude
Oscelot: @poipal wild
SaoirseStuff: super roughly each han doubles up to 4ish, then increases by x1.5 ish.... if I remember
zazamost: It's a tough life as dealer
Oscelot: @SaoirseStuff AH. Math. Fuck that then
poipal: Not that you can usually do anything about that other than try to win before the person across from you gets a tsumo
Oscelot: rofl XD
Boopity: Oh god, of course it's non-linear
FadedOasis: Damn coulda had a mangan.
OharaRenji:
Could've won harder, though... 
poipal: @SaoirseStuff I keep feeling like dora does score multiplication somehow
devqn413: dang he's got his shirt on this time
zazamost: Big chillin, bing chilling
Boopity:
Oscelot: *snerk* that's cute
e_bloc: don't mug yourself
zazamost: do you trust the catgirl god
zazamost:
ichihime is so good at jong 
poipal: As someone who compulsively plays in the 3 player rooms, seeing a flush of man is like a jump scare
FadedOasis: We're one away, definitely in a great position! No way our discards could possibly screw us over!
Oscelot: @FadedOasis 30 seconds later...
drrek0: So, you playing Mahjong during the sub-a-thon got me to try it, and now I have put 40 hours into Mahjong in the last week. I blame you.
Oscelot: @drrek0 rofl XD
poipal: @drrek0 Welcome to the fold
SnackPak_: lol
TXC2: your hobitku
e_bloc: in the hobbit holes looking for 13 orphans to hit
zazamost: exceeding the bare standards and just gobbling hans
Oscelot: Okay, sadly I have to head out. We're due for a whole week of rain and I have wood outside I gotta process and get into the garage to start drying beforehand. I'll be sure to catch the vod though.
Oscelot:
Thanks for this Wheeler, you're a great teacher 
Boopity: Take care @Oscelot !
Oscelot: You too @Boopity o/
e_bloc: how did we get here
zazamost:
Hey, she's a good player 
poipal: @Oscelot See ya!
Boopity:
Leave her alone, she's just a catgirl
Mr_Horrible: well, she's a cat
FadedOasis: 1-man was the first discard, yeah
red_shoes_jeff: How did this happen Dinesh
Oscelot: @Mr_Horrible excuse
Oscelot: XD *runs off cackling*
Mr_Horrible: even worse
npicca: I once found myself in a furiten 13 orphans š¢ I didnāt believe in it hard enough
zazamost: Her favorite hand iirc is tanyao
Mr_Horrible: cats are irresponsible, gods even more so
Slacker619: Furry Tent?
Boopity: A god?? WIth hubris???
SaoirseStuff: the god of pon pon ponponpon pno
couchboyj: So she's a cat that is even less capable of admitting to mistakes than a regular cat, got it
TXC2: so long Oscelot stay safe
zazamost: nyaa
vibratingsheep: Temporary furiten is "I could win but I want to win off of THAT person instead"
FadedOasis: Just draw it!
Dog_of_Myth: Heart of the tiles
Kentosaurus: have you tried top decking better
Boopity: Heart of the cards!
SnackPak_:
DrChillbrain: "good job" what did we do
zazamost: Catgirl god luck
npicca: we are in furiten because we discarded the 1, but we are also waiting on the 4 or the 7, could we have Ronād those?
Boopity: If you draw bad, that's just a skill issue
Gekyouryuu: I've gone into riichi furiten a bunch by not paying attention when i hit the riichi button
avjamethyst: temp furiten is when someone else discarded a tile that you needed rather than you discarded it yourself
avjamethyst: it only lasts one round
couchboyj: I think this cat god might be tile weaving.
BITs19_: so, wait, if you're in Furiten, you cannot have yaku?
Gekyouryuu: @npicca no, any furiten locks you out of calling a win
vibratingsheep: you can have yaku and be in furiten at the same time
DragonMZ: uh oh spaghettio
goombalax: my grandfather's pile has no bad tiles!
zazamost: Most importantly unscathed
Manitu_25: what does tenpai mean again?
Sorator13: well, that is what it said it was
FadedOasis: @Manitu_25 one tile away from winning
Sorator13: @Manitu_25 One away from winning
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Manitu_25: right, thx
goombalax: b
FadedOasis: D. Joker
Mystaira:
I thought the objective was to have fun. 
e_bloc: sure as shit not c
NotCainNorAbel: beeeee?
zazamost: Is ichihime a mahjong noob
Kentosaurus: A
SnackPak_: a
Pseudonymn: a
BITs19_: b
Mystaira: A
phipau13: a
shushu2539: A
WiJohn: A right?
Seidenschnabel2k: always 3s
Haroldholmes25: a
TXC2: vote now on your phones
Slacker619: A
couchboyj: A
Sorator13: A
Manitu_25: A?
BITs19_: no, c
devqn413: a.
red_shoes_jeff: A
BITs19_: no, a
ContingentCat: A
e_bloc: a is the only one that actually makes sense
e_bloc: b does stone cold nothing
avjamethyst: yes
zazamost: 5 block theory is so smart
RealGamerCow: Except when there's 7 pair
Seidenschnabel2k: always 3s
e_bloc: B ez
ContingentCat: B
WiJohn: B
RealGamerCow: I still call the blocks "melds" because I'm rummy brained
red_shoes_jeff: B
BITs19_: b
SnackPak_: b
Dog_of_Myth: b
goombalax: b
Manitu_25: B
Slacker619: b
Pseudonymn: š
±ļø
phipau13: b
Sorator13: B, but it took me a minute
e_bloc: I think I'm a noob but I might be a noob first class
devqn413: does this company make an anime girl game for Go?
FadedOasis: Ralph Nader
Mystaira: My phone? But I'm on my computer!
ContingentCat:
Boopity:
@Mystaira You're not allowed to vote then
Seidenschnabel2k: how much han?
Mystaira: @Boopity Well darn! Guess I can just be lazy then.
TXC2: would a 2 of sou also work?
vibratingsheep: We need a 1S so we can call Kan and then dramatically draw the 2S and feel like we're gods at the game
Sorator13: yeah, at first I was looking for 2 of sou
Sorator13: that's the most obvious option, but it's *not* the only option!
dolphgrim: What dat bamboo bird doin'?
Lobster667: o/
ContingentCat: \o/
zazamost: Yay
goombalax:
Lobster667:
Are we teaching ourselves mahjong? 
Dog_of_Myth:
red_shoes_jeff:
GedankenPalast_:
Boopity: I'm more of a mahjong newborn, really
Mystaira: What amounts to a closed gay?
zazamost:
phipau13:
paronomasiac042: that tile doesn't match anything else!
RealGamerCow: I *cannot* remember han values
Gekyouryuu: @Mystaira someone who's had their heart broken and isn't ready to try again yet
TXC2: right chat I'm off
Lobster667: Iipeikou being 1han is nuts yeah
Seidenschnabel2k: ssk its 2 han closed
Boopity: Have a good night @TXC2 !
Sorator13: @TXC2 have a good one!
TXC2: Goodnight everybody, and thanks for streaming Wheeler
Mystaira: @Gekyouryuu Oh nuu
phipau13: A
SnackPak_: a as a guess
red_shoes_jeff: A
Boopity:
Pffft
avjamethyst: closed pure straight is 2, open is 1
devqn413: C
e_bloc: the moon sage?
Sorator13: A
zazamost: Good ol simples, nothing beats simples
e_bloc: I forgot what tanyao is
BITs19_: a
e_bloc: A
Manitu_25: A?
ContingentCat: A
red_shoes_jeff: I guess it's A!
npicca: ādo you discard the non-simple, the simple or the simple to get into all-simples?ā
BITs19_: a
Boopity:
I feel like the questions got far more obvious as we went on
Sorator13: boooooooo /j
Lobster667:
Riichi City's instructions *are* better, but... well, Riichi City 
Boopity: LLMs made me start calling game AI's CPU
WiJohn: Cancel this man! /affectionate
Seidenschnabel2k: True
Sorator13: Yep!
Kentosaurus: yes, it's quiet
Mr_Horrible: a bit, I think?
FadedOasis: Very quiet, but it's there
npicca: nope? at least not the menu music
npicca: maybe Iām just deaf
Mr_Horrible: playing a new game so I can't really tell what's my music and your music
Juliamon: I personally can't hear the music but I was hearing the voice lines so I know it should be there
CalicoCed: I uh. I can't hear it over my baseline accumula town loop
Pseudonymn: @Boopity for something like a boardgame, they often literally are "ai", like ml-assisted mcts approaches
CalicoCed: Which is at (checks notes) 6% volume
CalicoCed: THis music is a lot louder than the game is
CalicoCed: Also, not 6% but 1%, just enough to keep the speakers engaged and not make audio events cut in and out
Juliamon: ah, I was about to ask
Juliamon: I tend to put a livestream on if I'm going to leave the room for a few minutes just to keep my laptop from going to sleep
Juliamon: so I get the idea
KeytarCat: Sometimes my bgm makes cooler beats than either itself or stream audio and I get sad that the song I was listening to doesn't actually exist
Shragon: majhong wheeler!
Mr_Horrible:
I wish America could still eat blueberry... 
Lobster667: Lower limit I think
Boopity:
@KeytarCat Oh dear lord I thought I was the only one that did this
FadedOasis: Han Limit is minimum han to win
LordSaphni: do you ever play with Local Yaku rules?
zazamost: GO FOR IT
Boopity: DO IT
IanAllenBird: lmao
Juliamon: you know you gotta
JKBalch: 8 of 14?
SnackPak_: risk it for the biscut
npicca: oh my god
npicca: you have to
Mr_Horrible: Fagin be like:
Shragon: DO IT
TomatoKigu: Do it do it do it
AllTheWeasels: what a great first hand for education
Sibwow: gotta
drrek0: Being a new Mahjong player and having never scored orphans it always calls to me
JKBalch: Collect the Orphans, become Batman
Sorator13:
SnackPak_: lol
Sorator13: do it do it do itr
Shragon: lol
FadedOasis:
New players: Ignore everything that's happening. 
Mystaira: DOO EET
Sorator13: yeah, newbies look away
Sorator13: this is actually a bad example
Sorator13: this is fine
zazamost: We having a sensible chuckle
vibratingsheep: You can salvage a chanta
Shragon: understood, force orphans!
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Kentosaurus: Question that may have been covered already: Does the order of your hand tiles matter? Can you change it?
vibratingsheep: @Kentosaurus the game has an autosort function
IanAllenBird: rip
vibratingsheep: you can turn off autosort
drrek0: How many would you need to start with before its actually right to go orphans?
devqn413: calling it AI is deceptive. it's bots or cpu
Kentosaurus: @vibratingsheep thank you
Sorator13: @Kentosaurus It doesn't really matter, no. The game sorts in order of 1-9 of each suit, then winds, then dragons, which is generally helpful for parsing sets.
Kentosaurus: @Sorator13 thanks
KeytarCat: One of these characters is 15, one is 20 (looks 15), one is a divine incarnation (also 15)
WiJohn: Don't do what danny danger does
Sorator13: @Sorator13 I assume that this is the standard for mahjong but I don't actually know
SnackPak_: woooow
wyndhunter: Howdy chat, what are we working on in richii mahjong today?
IanAllenBird: lmao
Sorator13: @wyndhunter we are learning to play!
vibratingsheep: it gets more and more dangerous to keep that red dragon as time goes on
Sorator13: Does it become more dangerous over time for honor tiles moreso than number tiles? Why?
Lobster667: I like 1sou here
vibratingsheep: it's because over time, players get closer and closer to finishing their hands
vibratingsheep: and the dragons, if that's what finishes their hand, is worth more points
Sorator13: ah, that second bit is what I was missing, thanks
BITs19_: apologies, I stepped away. why is the 5 Man shiny?
Lobster667: @Sorator13 they are hard to use (no sequences) but worth a lot, since a triplet of them is yakuhai, so if there are none of them in the discard, someone is probably waiting for their third.
Sorator13: @BITs19_ It's a red 5, so it's worth more
vibratingsheep: in the Riichi rule set, three of the 5 tiles are red, which just makes them worth an extra han
BITs19_: @Sorator13 because of the dora? or just because?
BITs19_: ooooohhh
Seidenschnabel2k: aka
Sorator13: just because! It's like a permanent dora.
Lobster667: I like getting rid of 9man
Sorator13: whereas the 6 pin is only shiny for this hand as a normal/temporary dora
Lobster667: is 3pin too greedy here?
Sorator13:
@Lobster667 retroactively, yes!
Lobster667: @Sorator13 thoughtseize bug so powerful me just saying it.
Sorator13:
Pseudonymn: Two: "It's like eight!"
vibratingsheep: the "C" button turns off sabotage
vibratingsheep: which can be handy
Sorator13: Chi'ing that 5 sou wouldn't be *bad*, though, it just doesn't particularly help you
Lobster667:
Tempting but no I think
shushu2539: pressing the colorful buttons is tempting
SarkhanGluedBackTogether: you can't tell chat not to click a button. That's like expecting us to not be distracted by jingling keys
WiJohn: Ron if you want to
Lobster667: and take a stick from the other kid to boot
jabisbad: orphans again lets go
npicca: mahjong soul actively makes players worse by making the pon/chi button colorful and the skip button gray
shushu2539: discarding late is scary because of being Ronned?
Sorator13: @shushu2539 in particular, discarding dangerous tiles (that haven't been discarded before or that you think someone else wants), and especially dangerous tiles that are themselves part of a yaku (dragons & prevailing winds), yes
vibratingsheep: it's 2han and it is completely unreadable
vibratingsheep: so it's better against human opponents
vibratingsheep: If you want to die, you can discard that white dragon and fafo
RealGamerCow: Richie = Uno
RealGamerCow: Damn autocorrect
vibratingsheep: You can also see if the straight forms in p
Kitanin:
It's MJS, even if you do get a Thirteen Orphans wait, it won't pay off... 
Sorator13: the 3 was safer because some 1s had previously been disccarded?
Sorator13: (of pin, last turn)
Lobster667: I like our current wait
Chenderle:
ooh, I'm trying to learn this game right now
poipal:
Suddenly: Furiten
red_shoes_jeff: Believe, Wheeler... BELIEVE!
Jesper_aka_Mordachai: Oooh! Nice!
Seidenschnabel2k: there was no 9m left
Seidenschnabel2k: the bot just turbo trolled
Jesper_aka_Mordachai: Against AI isn't much fun though
vibratingsheep: we call that "bullying people out of the hand"
Seidenschnabel2k: wait on 3s always wait 3s
Jesper_aka_Mordachai: The magical San-Sou
Lobster667: Church of 3sou
FadedOasis:
Nobody's discarded any Man, so they're all probably on full flush
Jesper_aka_Mordachai: Keeping 3M would have been better due to you having a pon in 4m though
poipal: I mean it *does* prevent you getting ronned on, at least
Sorator13: well, you weren't the dealer, so it advanced the game; not a complete waste
Sorator13: 1han hands when you're the dealer are the true waste
vibratingsheep: that's called kidnapping
FadedOasis: 1-han hand to keep being in East seat is sometimes worth it, if you can't make something better.
vibratingsheep: and they're worth 1.5x anyway
Sorator13: Right, but for everyone else, it's a minimal change in score and you didn't advance the game
FadedOasis: In order to win, everyone else must lose.
Lobster667: You get to keep dealing, which is nice
Seidenschnabel2k: nobody wins at mahjong
DrChillbrain: Benjamin Dealer
Gekyouryuu:
not true. if it were zero sum, i wouldn't lose with a score on the negatives as i often do.
Sorator13:
Creature_Comforts: Yooo furiten
Creature_Comforts: I love mahjong
Sorator13: yeah, there we go, that's the waste
goombalax:
Sorator13: 1han, not dealer so it progresses the game, and they weren't winning or even second so they didn't *want* to advance the game like that
kayamek: We are all masters now
Pseudonymn: can you repeat the part where you said all the things about the stuff?
devqn413: i understand mahjong less than when i started watching
Lobster667: especially in all last
vibratingsheep: I watched this stream and now I'm in Master rank. Coincidence?
charcharmunr: I feel like I know how to play Mahjong and yet I don't know how to win Mahjong.
Sorator13: @charcharmunr this is normal
BITs19_: so, the dora tiles. Are those four face-down tiles ever revealed over the course of a match? Are those tiles changed each hand?
charcharmunr: @BITs19_ That's, uh... Riichi-related, I think?
vibratingsheep: @BITs19_ they are only turned over if someone calls Kan, 4 of a kind
Sorator13: There is a way they get revealed, but I forget how?
RealGamerCow: Are all 3 of your chi from West?
Sorator13: They do change each hand
vibratingsheep: Chii can only come from the player on your left
avjamethyst: @BITs19_ every time someone calls a kan (4 of a kind) they draw their extra tile from there and another dora indicator is revealed
charcharmunr: Every so often you just have it.
Sorator13: and then the ura-dora you see there, for each dora (currently 2-man), at the end of the hand the tile *under* that is revealed and is also worth bonus points. but it's pretty unpredictable so that's just a lucky bonus most of the time.
Gekyouryuu: welp. a storm is messing with my phone's connection, and I'm about to watch Coyote vs Acme anyway, so I'll catch y'all in the vod, chat
Sorator13: @Gekyouryuu have fun!
RealGamerCow: 3 is bait?
vibratingsheep: One away
charcharmunr: Or that could happen.
Sorator13: oooof
RealGamerCow: Half flush on that was wild
Lobster667: guest711 running the show
RealGamerCow: Uhhh, Id like to report guest711 for smurfing
vibratingsheep: that east dora becomes radioactive very fast
Sorator13: question: under the dead wall, what are those something x0 and something x2 indicators?
vibratingsheep: @Sorator13 the x2 means that this person has repeated as dealer twice
npicca: whatās your second yaku?
Sorator13: ah
vibratingsheep: there is a very small bonus to the pot that goes up per repeat
vibratingsheep: so you'll see an extra 600 points being taken
vibratingsheep: because of the repeat
charcharmunr: Something is better than nothing?
Lobster667: @Sorator13 dealer gets 300 extra for each win in a row.
RealGamerCow: Gets 711 out of the dealer
DMGlol:
after watching wheeler play this on stream, I think I can finally understand that scene from crazy rich asians 
BITs19_: does the dealer not move if they win the hand?
Sorator13: @BITs19_ correct, dealer win is worth more and they get to be dealer again
vibratingsheep: the thing from Crazy Rich Asians that matters to that scene and not to Wheeler is that if you have a winning hand in MJ, you can just... sit there and not call it
charcharmunr: Mixed triple sequence is the same sequence across three suits, right?
RealGamerCow: How
vibratingsheep: which is what she does in Crazy Rich Asians
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vibratingsheep: she had the winning hand and yielded it to Michelle Yeoh just like she could have stolen her son but didn't
Sorator13: D:
RetroVirus047: @charcharmunr Right, 1-2-3 (or 4-5-6, etc) in all 3 suits.
Creature_Comforts:
That chi actually saved you from ippatsu
Creature_Comforts:
charcharmunr: @RetroVirus047 Yeah, I know... Broadly how to 'play' mahjong I just don't remember all the various winning things. I know Riichi, all pons, all simples, etc, but the more niche ones I don't know all too well.
RetroVirus047: Noooo, hold that dora!
Lobster667: Playing for second is fine here, I like it.
charcharmunr: Could be a simples hand?
Sorator13: yeah, this looks like simples
RetroVirus047: I'm an aggro player so I'm going to try to greed it. But an early scary discard (sakigiri) can be safe as well
Sorator13:
charcharmunr: You always get the honors when you're trying for simples. It's just how it goes.
Sorator13: so there, East called Kan and revealed another dora
RetroVirus047: East 2 in second is a fine place to be here when someone is winning by 20k. This is a good position to fold out and maintain position
charcharmunr: I forget, half flush is "all non-honors are one suit", right? And full flush is the entire hand is one?
Sorator13: Half flush is all one suit + honors; full flush is all one suit no honors
charcharmunr: @Sorator13 Right. So many hands to have to remember.
Creature_Comforts:
It's not too late for seven pairs
RetroVirus047: The tip I got for half flush (honitsu) is add the # of tiles to # of honors, and if you're 10+, aim for that yaku
Awaiko: Good morning chat, I hope you're all well.
SnackPak_: woof
Juliamon: the mahjong gods know
Shragon: every time.
RealGamerCow: I force flush and half flush too much
Juliamon: they always know
SkipIives: never fails
charcharmunr: "Did you mean: Draw a 1?"
Sorator13: @charcharmunr that one's easy for me to remember. Full flush is all one suit. Half flush is none of a *different* suit - all one suit plus some other stuff that isn't another suit.
charcharmunr: Simples ain't so simple...
Sorator13: guest711 continuing to bully the player across from us
Sorator13: I feel like I want a lot more time to consider each turn, but that's not practical when playing with other humans, which you need to do to learn. Sigh.
SkipIives: 7 outs is nice
Sorator13: rip
letsbelgo: faced
vibratingsheep: It's important to recognize when you're an NPC
Sibwow: I got the ānever coming in fourthā surgery damb
Lobster667:
throwing away two akadora to chase orphans would be a choice for sure
red_shoes_jeff: If you get 4th, someone comes round with a bat and kicks your door in.
KeytarCat: @Sibwow I just take the "never coming" pills
vibratingsheep: When do we teach the children about the hand you win by only discarding
charcharmunr: And Dora means The Explorer.
Sibwow: getting a riichi-round is this anything
Sorator13: @Sibwow pff
Mr_Horrible: pretty sure "Akadora" is something I depopulate in order to make a hat in Monster Hunter
RealGamerCow: riichi music slaps
Sorator13: the gods have determined that you were not winning that hand, lol
RealGamerCow:
half flush? 
definenull:
More 'jonging? 
RealGamerCow: The ops are throwing away a lot of what you're looking for
RealGamerCow: generally speaking
RealGamerCow: South is heavy into pins
Sorator13: you don't get points for a pair of dragons, right? It's just trips?
Mr_Horrible: bro sound like Weevil Underwood
SnackPak_: much better
firebird31: It's just that easy
definenull: Well done
ShaneLeeAtk: Tristan??
Manitu_25: when is it a half flush?
SarkhanGluedBackTogether:
your name is Wheeler Moto?
red_shoes_jeff: Brooklyn Rage, BROOKLYN RAGE!!!
Creature_Comforts: @Manitu_25 When you have only one suit and also honor tiles in your hand
Mr_Horrible: "Now Yugi, this is called a Ritual Summon, and it-" "Maximillian NO"
Sorator13: @Manitu_25 A full flush is "all one suit". A half flush is "all one suit + non-suits" aka honor tiles.
KeytarCat: YGO, but every card gets you hard: Shadowverse?
Mr_Horrible: you need to witness a great becoming?
Sorator13: so our yaku is either red dragons or riichi, right?
gualdhar: so who's winning?
dolphgrim: @gualdhar Wheeler
Sorator13: so our yaku is now red dragons
charcharmunr: @gualdhar Currently we are.
charcharmunr: Surely.
seebowcbo: yo wheeler, whenās the One Piece Mahjong tourney?
Kadenus: they literally just discarded the 9s what the heck
dolphgrim: @seebowcbo Is that like boxing chess for perverts?
Sorator13:
Anubis169: Weeeeelcome back
charcharmunr: Really just went and said "nah, move on".
SnackPak_:
RealGamerCow: "Can you teach me mahhhhhhjong" to the tune of can you take me higher
Mr_Horrible: for the longest time I had no idea they were Christian Rock, I just knew them as "the music from the Titan A.E. trailer"
KeytarCat: "To a place where I Riichi~"
Dog_of_Myth:
SnackPak_: art
SkipIives: would the other 5 have made any difference?
Sorator13: it's interesting that it shows "ura dora 0 han"
GedankenPalast_:
SnackPak_: huge!
poipal: Karaoke match when
Sorator13: ohh, because you only show the ura dora if you win with riichi, I didn't realize that. okay.
SnackPak_: someone set up the kickstarter
wyndhunter: Imahjong still rips
Lobster667: @Sorator13 yeah ura are just for riichi hands
vibratingsheep: it's a three-sided wait setup
afterlanterns: can always pivot to creed
charcharmunr: @Sorator13 Yeah it's not really a thing you can plan for, it's just sometimes you get extra bonuses for riichi.
Seidenschnabel2k: it was
Lobster667:
OK I gotta eep it's 1am over here, thanks for the mahjong stream
xantos69: Are you winning son?
Sorator13: @xantos69 yes!
Kadenus: in japanese it's ryanmen or two sided i guess
Lobster667: acceptance, I think?
Lobster667: open-ended is ryanmen
Kitanin:
"There are five tiles I need in the dead wall"... 
vibratingsheep: ryanmen just means "two-sided"
vibratingsheep: I don't actually know how to say "there are 5 live tiles"
drrek0: I'm a Mahjong autistic too, but I'm new too it so I don't know that terminology
Kadenus: the actual number of tiles left? i don't know if there's a specific terminology for it
RealGamerCow: I forget what pinfu is
charcharmunr: I'll be honest I still don't know what the fu means.
Kitanin: @RealGamerCow Four chow and a valueless pair, closed.
drrek0: @charcharmunr Having looked it up, whoever came up with the system of Fu is psychotic
poipal: Pinfu is the pity yaku
Lobster667: You would say your wait is for "2 kinds, 5 tiles (total)" I think.
Sorator13: @drrek0 yes
Kitanin: Oh, yeah, and a double-sided wait.
Seidenschnabel2k: you can have guest wind as pair
Kadenus: you can only have honor tiles if it's guest winds
tehfewl: final destination, fox only
Lobster667: There is no better shorthand I think.
Kadenus: only as a pair too i suppose
charcharmunr: Fu sounds like it was made up over a thousand years to justify people getting more points than they reasonably should.
Kadenus: i prefer the term "mahjong degenerate"
KeytarCat: I've been parsing that as "weight", is it actually "wait"? Like, you're waiting on tiles to come up?
Sorator13: yeah, it's "wait"
poipal: I got into it from a friend who streams Majsoul
charcharmunr: I've been getting into mahjong through a minigame in an old browser game, personally.
Lobster667: I am only a couple of months into my mahjong nerd journey. I got into it from watching someone stream it.
drrek0: I got into it from you. And it seems to activate my autism
poipal:
And then I had to explain it to another friend who plays in FF14
Lobster667: I have not played Yakuza
npicca: pinfu is āall bad tilesā, so the useless winds are allowed
poipal: Or 13, I keep forgetting
Sorator13: I also got into it from y'all. Though I haven't actually /played/ much.
vibratingsheep: I learned mahjong out of spite
Chenderle: I've been seeing discords starting up mahjong groups
vibratingsheep: after a bunch of my friends picked up the game during covid
Kadenus: i even joined an in-person club near me it's great in person
em_nid: It was the Akagi anime for me
TomatoKigu: I got into mahjong from watching too much hong kong action movies growing up; but I learned how to actually play via mahjong soul.
afterlanterns: im trying to learn, now, through osmosis. does not seem possible
Lobster667: I watched Kate's tournament and got interested, but I am also a recovering MTG tryhard so
Sorator13: @poipal 14 is the MMO. 13 is the "hey we made three games that make no sense unless you also read some books and also we made fem!cloud".
poipal: @Sorator13 Okay then it's 14
Manitu_25: I imagine this one person being like: "yeah my cousin was in the yakuza and he taught me" lol
KeytarCat:
@afterlanterns trust me, it is 
kayamek: track 2 Hey pon sister
Sorator13: @afterlanterns It absolutely is, though you may want to go back and watch from the start of this stream.
afterlanterns: ah! well that is encouraging
charcharmunr: @afterlanterns As long as you get the very basic concept of "you need to have a hand that's 4 sets of 3 and a pair and some special winning thing (with many exceptions obviously)" I think you can generally at least 'get' mahjong.
Sorator13: Yep, that's the important foundation, the rest is just building on it
FlameFighterSRG: Never actually played, but was interested in the game itself after watching that Saki anime in the Late 2000s
Jundinator: Whats CHI?
charcharmunr: @Jundinator Taking a discarded tile to complete a sequence.
Sorator13: Chii is when you take a tile the person on your left discarded to complete a sequence
Sorator13: (Chii is just on your left, correct?)
charcharmunr: @FlameFighterSRG So the browser game I played mahjong in has a lot of anime parody stuff, and the mahjong stuff specifically has a lot of Saki parodies going for it. It's silly.
Lobster667: Pon, ron and kan is everyone, chii is just player behind you.
definenull: Retire champion
Kadenus: last place get's a hit squad sent to their house in the middle of the night
poipal: Is it because you got third or because you dropped below 35000?
DragonMZ: great stream
npicca: are you planning on doing more mahjong is this you card?
poipal: Thanks a ton for the stream!
Sorator13: reminder that Wheeler & Angel did a whole Mahjong stream series that you can find on the LRR youtubes, as well as the occasional one-off streams since then
Chenderle: a bit more
Manitu_25: thx for teaching
TheFickleCat: I missed the explanation, please can you restart from very the beginning?
SkipIives: I enjoy it, but my wife and kids play American mahjong and itās a pain to keep both I. your head.
Awaiko: I enjoyed the unhinged mahjong with angel and wheeler during the sub-a-thon. still have no idea how to play the game
Sorator13: There's a thread in #tabletop in the LRRcord, yep!
idontgetmyrealname: i'm definitely gonna check it out, this stream kinda cut into the intimidation factor of it for me
SkipIives: itās a blast
Brozard: Does she have the Persona 4 protag's jacket?
Sorator13: oh god
SnackPak_:
ContingentCat: Gasp!
xantos69:
50 Bits?
goombalax: the muffin is still on vacation after working so hard
IanAllenBird: o7
Chenderle: thanks for the stream
GedankenPalast_:
Awaiko: thanks for the stream!
ContingentCat: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Let's Nope (Ben and Adam play horror games until they find the key that will bring them true happiness. Game: Loan Shark) at Tue 05:00 PM PDT (57m from now).
definenull:
FPNY41: just got in, what did I miss?
SnackPak_: *holds up a lighter*
BusTed:
definenull:
Chenderle:
ContingentCat:
Thanks Wheeler 
Kentosaurus: glad I got to hear that
Lysander_salamander: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Let's Nope (Ben and Adam play horror games until they find the key that will bring them true happiness. Game: Loan Shark) at Tue 05:00 PM PDT (40m from now).
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