fakelife.bsky.social
Riichi mahjong fanatic. I play games and sometimes stream them. (Mahjong Soul, Geoguessr, competitive Monster Rancher, and other random stuff) I like bonsai trees, ttrpgs, and whisky.
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Is that because you're not supportive of solitaire? That's what the Nintendo website said.
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I heard that S2 does not support Klondike Solitaire on the original Switch. Can you verify if this is true?
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Easier to call your 'allies' and constituents "undignified" than the fascists breaking everything, eh? You can always some other country to retire to when everything goes to hell anyway.
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Sure is easier to fight your constituents from behind a keyboard than to fight against the fascists on the floor, eh?
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I used to play a lot of A:N back in the day, it's a really fun, well-thought out concept that played really well (aside from a few dumb power outliers.) I'm glad to see it's still running in some form.
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I've had a slightly torn sheet of L5R cards I've been thinking about framing for a while. They make cool decorative pieces.
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Sounds like fun, sad I missed it.
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You are making me wish I had a local friend group I could screw around playing Commander with.
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A lot of commentators are way too eager to show off how much they know, or how much they think they know.... Especially when they're commenting on a game of imperfect information when they get to cheat and look at everyone's hands.
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Actually, the more I think about it, I think if I'm talking about the dance, I pronounce it like 'lemonade', and if I'm talking about the place, I pronounce it with the short 'o' sound at the end like in the word 'nod'.
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I don't know the last time I said the word out loud, but I think I pronounce it like it rhymes with lemonade.
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You can actually watch for tedashi versus tsumogiri on both of the clients without the color highlighting, but it can be hard to pay attention to until taking care of your own hand is subconscious.
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Tedashi/Tsukogiri and discard reading can give a little bit of good knowledge immediately, but it also gets really complex really fast.... There's stuff there that's a lot of effort and only works against really good players who always play logically and consistently.
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It has some really nice quality of life features! But yeah, somehow it's even hornier than MJS.
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Yeah...
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I was going to make a Tenhou account one of these days. It's where Earth trains its strongest fighters.
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I swear I used to have a Savannah, but I could easily be misremembering, or it could be in some weird box hidden somewhere else. I have stuff for a lot of old, dead card games in the basement.
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Biggest money hits were probably Serra's Sanctum, some weird old urza block foils and the old Jon Finkel WC Tinker Deck. Lots of old power uncommons like Lotus Petal and Demonic Consultation, some weird old playsets I collected like revised Wrath of God... Good memories, but not a ton of value
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I went looking through my old collection for a 'cheap to a good home' Savannah and found a lot of weird things, but no Savannah.
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Yeah, usually if you have a wait on at least three kinds of tiles (and a bunch of them aren't gone already) then furiten is fine.
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There's no really good way for the model to explain its training, and as far as I know, nobody has tried to put something on top of the AI to 'explain' it. I don't think these kinds of neutral networks are very helpful for learning a game of incomplete information like mahjong.
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That was the weekly public game at the local card shop when i was a kid. 10 players show up, some made a 1st level character that day, some are at 3rd, that one guy made it to 8th level, and you want to run a game that's interesting enough to get them all to come back again next week. Good luck!
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If it's a neural network similar to Mortal (and it probably is), it's most likely a huge network of nodes tuned by lots of self-play, not based on human concepts of strategy.
If that's the case, these AIs don't tend to be great for game review; they can't explain 'why', they just know numbers.
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We use the bond outfit and don't talk about the others.
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Oh, there's obviously nothing you could ever do to prevent that in a reasonable way, it's just really bad luck. But it is funny.
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Also, don't underestimate the possibility that you're having a bit of bad luck and things will even out later.
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Efficiency is hard, but there's a lot of good resources out there. The efficiency calculator is a good way to practice pure efficiency, and there's a few good resources here and there for learning more about good shapes. euophrys.itch.io/mahjong-effi...
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RB1 alone is honestly good enough for now. It's very information dense and misses a little nuance, but it's more than good enough to start with. I'm also working on a presentation for a learning session now on defense which will probably also be good.
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Probably not much farther. You can always run into the wall with a slightly positive win rate and make slow progress, but it's about time to learn to defend. I can help if you're looking for teaching materials.