Week 2 - Awakening

I was on vacation from work this week, so I had a lot of free time. I ended up watching a lot of Mahjong videos on YouTube.

Among those, I watched several videos from the guy who played with Northernlion, yu_song. After having watched ないおトン so much, going to watching a middling player was quite interesting. The difference in play was immediately obvious. And as my goal is above yu_song's level, knowing where those differences lie is valuable. Watching critically with the mentality of, "I must surpass this person."

Analysis - Taatsu Otoshi

While reading zeRo's book, I came across a chapter talking about taatsu otoshi (when people drop a two tile shape from their hand) and how it indicates the speed of their hand.

Week 1 - From the Ashes

Hello hello. Long time no see.

In the time I've been gone, I've done a few things. I've learned Japanese, to a comfortable level at least. I've published a bunch of yuri stories on Wattpad. I've made an extensive guide for Uma Musume, which had a resurgence recently thanks to the global release. I got a pet snake, and geckos. I played a whole lot of Raid: Shadow Legends, unironically. The recent guaranteed summon event gave me the last unit I needed for Mikage, pretty stoked about that.

Anyway, I've been getting back into Mahjong recently. Why, you might ask? Because I saw Northernlion play it, and he was so bad at it that it made me want to get good again out of spite. This happens a lot, where I see him play a game and then have to buy it to play it properly.

Analysis - Karagiri

 Do you like pointless data? Great! Let's look at karagiri rates in Houou games!

Analysis - Average Starting Shanten

On Amae Koromo, the stats aggregator for Mahjong Soul, it lists the average starting shanten in Jade room as being around 3.482. People thought this sounded low, so let's see the averages in Houou.

Training Tool - Naga Replay Review

The developers of Naga have released a paid service where you can have Naga review your games. Let's go over it!

Analysis - Factors for Dama

In this analysis, we'll look at several aspects of the game and see how they affect whether a player chooses to riichi or dama a tenpai hand.