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Everything posted by Saru Kada
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all red involves the one, five, seven, nine-sticks, as well as chun. lots of local variations include honiiten which would be all green but chun instead of hatsu, and of course different ones including red tiles (some rules use more than three red 5s) red 5 isn't an "international" rule, the european mahjong association made it up for their tournaments. personally I think it's stupid, there's no need to overbloat the game with silly ways to gain extra points - like if we added too many local rule hands. dora is fine as is, ura dora and kans keep things interesting. once you add stuff like red 5s, people are only going to end up going for cheaper hands - for example, if you happen to start a hand with a red 5 or two and say a chuuchan dora, all you're going to do is build a tanyao hand. bam, there you go, instant mangan. I think it cheapens the game as a whole by discouraging the rarer hands, which is why I'm personally against it. I mean, imagine if we stuck to the true orthodox rules and played without open tanyaos? things would definitely be a lot more interesting. at any rate, if everyone else wants to use them, it's not really my place to say no, but we don't have any red 5 tiles anyway. also fuck 200 lbs, $1,300 + shipping? I don't know where you've been looking, but versatile machinery in the US has several lines of automatic tables starting at $850, through $1,500. richmond also actually just has stores that stock them, on bridgeport, I just have no desire to get one right now.
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no, we don't play with red tiles, so none of that silly red five bonus tile shit or all red hands or whatnot lol @ mahjong sets. why the hell is that key set $400? that's ridiculous. I could buy every single key work ever made for less than that. and I think we have a fine enough time playing regular mahjong, gabe, though getting a washizu mahjong set has been brought up before. the tiles we have now are a bit light but they work perfect, I don't see why you need to keep egging me on to upgrade, pete. getting an automatic table would make a lot more sense than some fancier tiles, space issues notwithstanding.
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yes, no space for dogs, and I like cats a lot more than dogs anyway (I must be the only one here) I've wanted a cat for years now actually, it's not just a spur-of-the-moment thing. I always thought my apartment would be too constricting for a pet but I learned today that it's apparently not a big issue for cats. I'm not partial to any of the furniture in my place and apparently scratching posts solve many of the problems related to things getting destroyed, though I'd definitely have to clean up and throw a bunch of shit out/move it into storage. I read up on declawing and it's apparently not a cool thing to do to your cat. I'd have someone come by to check up on the cat if I leave town, yeah. But apparently timed dispensers and such aren't a big deal for cats because unlike dogs they're quite good with controlling themselves, so I can just leave dry food out. And worse comes to worst the best solution is apparently to leave the cat with a vet or with someone specialised to watch cats for owners. I'm considering adopting an adult cat so house training/etc is a non-issue, it would also already be spayed/neutered and have all its shots. My primary concern I think is with the constant stream of people I have and the various loud noises (gears, mahjong, piano, etc). Some cats deal better with that than others. Gotta take it all into account.