• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Chess may be “intellectual” and mahjong may be “luck based trash only fit for smoke filled backrooms frequented by yakuza” but I’ve never seen a rinshan kaihou 12000 point tsumo in chess

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Chess just lacks the drama and excitement of mahjong.

      Managing to fork a queen and a king is nothing to the feeling of breaking a massive hand in tempai because you just picked up a white dragon and sense that it’s cursed, only to see the guy next to you deal into a dealer baiman with that same tile on the very next discard.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        my first yakuman ever (it was a suu an kou, and it was in real life) I had to leave the room for about 20 minutes. I don’t smoke but I was offered a cigarette and nearly took it. High point of my life honestly.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

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