the indomitable human spirit* *unwillingness/inability to learn how to play mahjong no matter how many hours i put into yakuza - ThreadSky

spacetwinks.bsky.social • 11 days ago

the indomitable human spirit*

*unwillingness/inability to learn how to play mahjong no matter how many hours i put into yakuza

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smallfunny.bsky.social•11 days ago

it'll happen to you.

mandchoue1984.bsky.social•11 days ago

OMFG. I’ve played MJ since I was a kid with my grandmother and mom. They keep changing the rules. And they use speed as intimidation.

sethhyneswriter.bsky.social•10 days ago

Similarly, Fallout: New Vegas is my favourite game but I have no idea how to play Caravan and don’t intend to learn.

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

My basic problem with card games in video games is that I am SPECTACULARLY BAD at learning online like that. I need a set of physical material items to hold and practice with before I'm willing to try a real game, and to ask one million questions of the rulebook or teacher. I do not like pressure.

sethhyneswriter.bsky.social•10 days ago

That makes sense. :)
How do you feel about visible cards or dice-rolls in video games, such as in Tharsis, Citizen Sleeper and Baldur’s Gate 3?
I really don’t like it, as to me it harms the immersion by drawing too much attention to the artifice.

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

I am okay with it in those specific games because it is part of the fiction. These games are specifically about tabletop gaming.

sethhyneswriter.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don’t think it is.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is, of course, based on DnD tabletop gaming, but the dice don’t literally exist within the game’s world, so to show them exposes the fakeness.

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

But you are PLAYING the game.

madeyewolf.bsky.social•11 days ago

mahjong is the kinda cursed thing that takes a mangaka 20 years to finish drawing one arc about one game

siems.bsky.social•11 days ago

Me when I have to shoot my favorite game dev because they attached an achievement to playing mahjong:

lionroo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Its fun. Was at my university’s club, just tonight. Beginners’ tables with teachers! (I was teaching)

venomous.bsky.social•11 days ago

same, also shogi

duncecapdolphin.bsky.social•11 days ago

Me with shogi and mahjong. Sorry everybody, I don't like chess much either if that helps

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

I surprised everyone as a young autistic hyper-intellectual child by absolutely loathing chess and refusing to play it no matter what boring-ass situation I was trapped in. Rather watch paint dry.

stochasticooze.bsky.social•11 days ago

I can't even get a handle on shogi, and that's mostly just chess

fluffqueen.bsky.social•11 days ago

literally played every single yakuza game and spin off minus kenzan and still do not have the slightest clue about mahjong

miketoole.com•11 days ago

After several yakuza games and watching all the AKAGI anime, i still can’t follow it lol

spixiedust5.bsky.social•10 days ago

FUCK Mahjong 🙏🙏🙏

carmelcarmelcarmel.bsky.social•11 days ago

Mahjong rules there's nothing else that gets me angrier

itsfeztho.bsky.social•10 days ago

Koi koi appreciation in the replies 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

milimonster.bsky.social•10 days ago

All of my yakuza hours were spent playing Majong :(

ced1.bsky.social•11 days ago

So glad I’m not the only one

themosscreature.bsky.social•11 days ago

I thought I knew how mahjong was played, I was entirely wrong. I only know the dumbed down matching game.

kelvinbelmont.bsky.social•10 days ago

I still think the funniest part of mahjong is in Judgment where you're required to play it to progress the story but you're also immediately given a substory where the reward was like a one time use instant I win tile to use in mahjong.

melon.zone•11 days ago

mahjong rips but you'll never make me learn shogi

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

All chess variants are bad and should be left to the dorks. Not taking questions. Real nerds play anything else, chess is for fascists.

buckrawheat.bsky.social•11 days ago

I refuse to learn it because one day my mom will want to play mahjong with me and I do not want to explain to this old Chinese lady I know how to play mahjong but only the Japanese version.

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

You could just lie and say you learned some of the rules in a game without specifying you were a traitor (this last bit is only said with so much /S because I've got Chinese-American friends with parents)

buckrawheat.bsky.social•11 days ago

I fucking love koi koi though

deaconbluesclues.bsky.social•11 days ago

The chinese version is like. The Japanese version but easier. Well the fuzhou version at least

moah3.bsky.social•11 days ago

I often start up Yakuza games solely to play mahjong

jackshawhan.bsky.social•10 days ago

Funny thing is that years ago when I played Kiwami, I actually started grasping it, then I finished and never played again, so I forgot it all.

At least after I was done I was assaulted by the love of my life again

augustusthe4th.bsky.social•11 days ago

This but also when they ask you if you want to learn to play Go.

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

Go is like chess in the fourth dimension. I love the premise and I am terrible at spatial relations, which is wild considering how good I am at recognising patterns

augustusthe4th.bsky.social•10 days ago

Honestly, I tried it, got confused, lost, then never wanted to play again. 😆 Isn't the manual like 20 pages long in Yakuza as well?

hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't know!

cityratthompson.bsky.social•11 days ago

No matter how many hours I sit there and watch Akagi I'll never understand Mahjong it doesn't matter how simply it's explained 😭

nerdfactotum.bsky.social•11 days ago

1000% this. Even as they are describing it the entire thing is inscrutable.

Doesn’t matter I still love it.

cityratthompson.bsky.social•11 days ago

Nah fr it's pretty entertaining either way.

tucker2025.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one

puregirlblue.bsky.social•11 days ago

I use an app to cheat at Shogi. Finally got the hang of koi koi. Still avoid the mahjong parlor like the plague.

brainwascht.bsky.social•11 days ago

The neighbors in In The Mood For Love made it look very fun

jesscookie.bsky.social•11 days ago

imo clubhouse games has the best most thorough handhold-y beginner tutorial for riichi mahjong, no one actually plays it on there tho lmao

jesscookie.bsky.social•11 days ago

the basics are surprisingly not that hard to learn, memorizing the hands and actually playing good is the hard part 🥲

skatewitch.bsky.social•11 days ago

shoestringva.bsky.social•10 days ago

Same

sleepysharky.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh no I feel this in my bones

dcharlie.bsky.social•11 days ago

Mahjong Fight club bruteforced me into learning how to play on PSP...

It's definitely the way to do it (via a lot of enforced gaming)

spacetwinks.bsky.social•11 days ago

koi koi rips though and i definitely do not get unhealthy levels of mad when my opponent gets the moon card instead of me

hellsbellsami.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's not Yakuza until you unlock koi koi

goddessofcringe.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's confusing! I don't get it! I tried, but like, you really gotta commit some time to it or watch some outside video tutorials or something, because it would not 'click' with me.

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