I’m wearing one of two bad dresses today. Someone in the dining hall came up to me and complimented it
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I can’t reveal too much but this author isn’t an unreliable author, it’s a MALICIOUS author, malicious to the characters in the story and to the reader itself
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I’m on book four btw if anyone is like actually curious to see what I mean by malicious author if they ever actually read it
“I feel a wave of embarrassment go through me” - the author is using the protagonist thoughts as a way to spite the reader as the reader is also feeling embarrassed at not predicting this
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It’s like a mafia game where a lot of the twists come from the fact that you know sometnint is wrong, the logic doesn’t add up, you can figure it out, but the author is rapidly ramping up the difficulty of the obviousness of it to taunt you
isn’t that just botc
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I said it before but this story has no plot armor besides for the main character, that is the only one safe from anything, maybe I’m wrong about this in a later book, but the author is a master at making you think about what is going to happen because they intentionally make it so logic doesn’t act up which obviously leads you to try to think, and it’s a game now, you have to predict what is going to happen and the author is leaving wrong guns to mess with you now so the real guns are even more brutal
Is bypassing the monetising structure of a business via a prohibited hack not ethically reprehensible? I am not a fan of Mahjong Soul’s business scheme, nor its aesthetics, nor its having replaced, in the popular, collective mind the stance of a game–which although drenched in a gambling culture, had a noble core–with the antics of quasi-pedo media culture. However, if you like it, then you should accept the social contract implicit in that scheme, which is “we will give you the shiny object (the game) for free, but you will become addicted to its ploys.” You want the shiny object, so comply with the contract.
Just saying… I am sure the ban of 3rd party clients, mods and hacks has to do, not only with the morals of cheating other players, but with the attempts to freely get things that you are supposed to pay for. Ergo, stealing. Mind you, I really don’t care for the company, and yet, I can simultaneously respect their market participation, because if I condone stealing from them, who is going to defend me when someone steals from me?
I should say it bothers me that the discussion here is about getting caught, and not the ethics of the behavior.
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“Unfortunate” doesn’t begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don’t see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not.
I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won’t get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I’ll suffer through a few more games for them.
One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
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All the heads would be conspiring and convincing the protagonist that whoever said this is the scum of the earth and must die
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what getting flinched by waterfall does to a mf
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Ethics without context is no good. Out of context, all stealing is unethical. But it’s also unethical to monetize sexualizing little girls and to tempt people’s gambling impulse with gachapon games.
So you are telling me that you won’t contribute money to it out of moral righteousness, but immerse yourself in its pedophiliac baits, as long as you don’t have to pay for it. Which is tantamount to saying that the game is, morally speaking, bad enough to justify your theft, but not enough to deter your enjoyment of it. Right?
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I’m ranting about the book. Maybe I like it because I didn’t expect anything, I came with the excpetation tbat it would be garbage tbag I would read and be somewhat happy with since it has magic and nobility and I love that in a story. However, it seems like the author is not using this just to fill cliches and write a generic light novel but as an actual challenge. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but in the words of the protagonist, “there’s no way all of this is coincidental, right?”
I insist in asking where the tenet of justifying your wrongdoing because it is perpetrated on someone who is also doing wrong became sanctified. It is not ethical to steal. Period. Your crime only compounds the unethical behavior of your victim (regardless of their immoral behavior). It doesn’t exempt you.
I guess what I really like about this compared to the o the other novels is the author has done too many coincidental things that I didn’t expect and twists that I feel like the books are more of a logical puzzle for the reader
the guy brought a jirachi btw. and was complaining about how often he got flinched
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Mahjong Soul software is rigged.
Learned Riichi six weeks ago. Joined MJS and Tenhou. MJS is rigged. Not doubt in my mind. I can almost see the software moving winning tiles to help paying players.
MJS is not a Riichi site. It’s a soft-porn anime site for lonely geeky teens who want to mix their fantasies of sexy submissive underage girls with their semi strong abilities with numbers. But anyone who is really sharp and not self delusional, figures this out about the site soon enough.
Three han or more triggers the rigging. Not always of course but enough to tip the odds over the long run. I started to even play against the software, and it helps. Rigged coding is worse on Silver tables than Gold.
Makes sense cuz they don’t make money on the Riichi, just by having teens pay for their avatars and adornments.
No profit margin in letting an old fart like myself beat up teens in Asia (or lonely guys in the US). hehehe
Love all the haters to to this post. Do I have evidence. Prove me wrong. But, the profit making business model is to rig the game towards paying members. That’s my evidence. But of course the Chinese Regulatory Authorities won’t permit unfair practices LOL LOL LOL.
The haters are also so defensive. So you like playing with a stacked deck? Do you also like Jim Crow laws?
And what exactly did you pay for??? I really like the arm in long black glove.
Are any of you doubters free members who are Masters level? I was on two accounts.
If you paid money to play on a rigged system, then keep on deluding yourself on how good you are.
So my partner is a Weeb and therefore recently told me of the existence of multiplayer (raichu) mahjong. I’d only played standard single-player mahjong on Windows before and had never even know it was possible to play with more than one person.
I have been playing quite a bit in the past couple days and managed to get to an Adept rank on Mahjong Soul after forty games there. So here are my feelings on the multiplayer game as a beginner.
Advantages: It’s quite intense, and quick. Gets the adrenaline going in a way that standard mahjong just doesn’t, as you don’t have all the time in the world if opponents are waiting! Feels a bit like gambling in your reliance on random tiles.
There is still some interesting strategy in trying to predict the most likely tiles to turn up and what your opponent/s will be wanting.
Every game always has a bit of a different feel to it, whereas standard mahjong pretty much just feels like the same game every time. Multiplayer is definitely less boring.
Disadvantages: The role of luck. There is certainly some skill involved but compared to many multiplayer strategy games, luck seems to play a large factor. And even compared to standard mahjong, there is much less you can predict and much more luck. I’m sure it averages out in the long run, but on the level of individual games it can feel a bit pointless especially if you have a string of bad luck.
The geographically inaccurate board! When I tried playing with a physical set I automatically rotated the table which the mahjong set was on, to ensure that south (me) was actually facing south so I could remember who was what. Similarly to what I would do if playing Bridge. Unfortunately it emerged that Mahjong uses the wrong compass directions, so despite me facing South, East was facing West and West facing East. Even in online games this still always fries my brain. Likewise with play going anticlockwise rather than the usual clockwise. It is disorienting and entirely pointless– I suppose it would be possible to fix both at once by flipping the whole screen though.
Neutral: Far increased complexity, with many more winning options than the simple pairs in standard mahjong. This keeps the game interesting and entertaining for longer, but on the other hand all of the yakues have a lot of arbitrariness to how they seem to have been decided. It’s an awful lot of essentially random rules compared to most games.
The new/Japanese terminology– the website I played on did not translate everything to English so some of the technical terms like the ponia and cheenia (stealing opponents’ cards) were just things I had to learn. Not too hard but probably could have been translated easily enough.
So in conclusion. Mixed feelings on the game but the speed and intenseness of it is entertaining enough I’ll probably keep playing! ^
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The joke of this one isn’t as apparent if you don’t know mahjong.
The calls are “pon” and “chii”. The default Mahjong Soul character is a catgirl who says “nya” after every call.
where are you finding these