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YEAH
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This picture goes so hard I'm pretty sure I saw someone use it to cleave a diamond in half
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4. Their goals are an authoritarian uniparty system, free from the constraints of the rule of law.
5. This is their Reichstag fire.
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Either that or I get cockblocked when I'm six pairs deep into a Seven Pairs hand
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Mood
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Thirteen Orphans is especially hard because you can't claim any discards for it. Normally you'd be able to claim the tiles other players are discarding to complete your own sets, but because Thirteen Orphans doesn't use sets, the entire hand has to be self-drawn
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At 11 or 12 han, you get sanbaiman (triple mangan). Lastly, at 13 or more han, you get yakuman (quadruple mangan). While it is possible to get a yakuman by just stacking simpler yaku together, they don't stack with actual yakuman. Other yakuman, however, can stack with each other.
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However, there exist several levels of soft-capping on the score, known as "mangan." At 5 han, your score is set to the first mangan softcap of 2000, regardless of how many fu you had. At 6 or 7 han, you get haneman (mangan and a half). At 8, 9 or 10 han, you get baiman (double mangan).
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Normally in riichi mahjong, the scoring is exponential, starting from a base "fu" value that comes from certain parts of your hand's composition, and is then doubled for each "han" you achieve from all the yaku that your hand qualifies for (if it's more than one yaku, they all stack).
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It's worth it, though, because Thirteen Orphans is one of the highest scoring yaku (hand conditions) in the entire game, known as a "yakuman". These yaku are so rare and so powerful that just one of them on its own sets your score for the round straight to the highest cap.
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It's weird because most riichi sets use a shade of green that barely registers as green at all. The yaku mostly comes from Chinese variants that use a brighter shade of green
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I think my favorite is the Ryuuiisou (All Green) yaku, exactly what it sounds like. It sounds easy at first until you realize that that restricts you to only 24 possible tiles out of the entire deck: the 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 of Bamboo and the Green Dragon, and four copies of each.
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The hand itself consists of one copy of the 1 and 9 of all three numbered suits, plus one of each of the four winds, one of each of the three dragons, and lastly, a second copy of any of these tiles.
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So in Mahjong, your goal is usually to form a 14-tile hand consisting of four sets of three tiles, plus a pair. However, there exists a special hand called "Thirteen Orphans" that breaks this rule.
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Ideas should always be judged by their outcomes. But not just the outcomes they're *intended* to have. The outcomes they make on the way there.
This is the "why" of "ends don't justify the means."
So yes, you're indoctrinating people.
But of you won't, the death cult will, and that ends ONE way.
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Make sure stupid ideas are seen as stupid ideas, but not just THAT they're stupid, teach WHY they're stupid, and HOW they invariably fuck society over in the long run. While also teaching how and why to fight back against those ideas, and the tactics of people who've fallen for them.
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The fact of the matter is that stopping this authoritarian bullshit will always require tactics that feel a little authoritarian in kind.
Sure, it doesn't require ideological extermination, THAT part isn't symmetrical, but it DOES sometimes require brute military force and controlling education.
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If I could ask any nation interested in disrupting this shitshow, occupy El Salvador on grounds of UN charter agreement violation.
Something about "letting your country be used as a gulag" doesn't sound very "promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms"
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The fact of the matter is, the morally devoid law enforcement of each city has enough munitions to exterminate - not deter, EXTERMINATE - that city's dissenting population.
So the ONLY way any kind of revolt could even START is if SEVERAL cities dissenters cooperate to occupy just ONE.
They can't.
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America's greatest defense against revolt is how fucking impossible it is to get anywhere in this shithole.
No trains, extremely limited and VERY nosy airlines, highways that require a vehicle not everyone has and can't handle the traffic, etc.
This is why people make jokes about the EU helping.
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Do you know why america *actually* doesn't have passenger rail?
It's to prevent the dispersed masses from aggregating faster than they can be dealt with.
If the 200 million or more who wanted to do something could all get to a place where they could at once, this wouldn't still be a problem.
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Pony already does that though, doesn't it?
My thought:
Melffy Piggy that lets you banish a Melffy card from the deck, OR add a banished Melffy card to your hand
The idea being that it's a piggy bank
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THEY ARE