Riley!
@amy @pataphysicker funny french move is absolutely forced
@paulsrockinmastodon @amy it isn't actually forced on lichess but it might as well be when I'm playing because i always take it for the meme
@pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon @amy JADE: gog this is like how paul henderson's former roommate marcy nabors used to always go for 13 orphans in mahjong
@pleonasticTautology @pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon Redrawing for nine terminals is for cowards, I understand
@pleonasticTautology @pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon I trained for this. I prepared. I did homework for this post
@pleonasticTautology @pataphysicker @paulsrockinmastodon (By which I mean: Holly posted this and said "i have it on good authority that this is a funny meme" and it was explained to her)
@amy @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon @junebug hey junebug i don't play mahjong can you explain this to me?
@pataphysicker @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon @junebug Mahjong is a game about making sets. If you draw your tiles at the start and you have nine tiles that aren't even part of a pair (nine "terminals") you can abort the round and everyone draws again
But. If you manage to get thirteen tiles that aren't even part of a pair, that's "thirteen orphans" and it's worth a lot of points, even though it's the opposite of what you're usually doing. So you can choose not to "end by nine terminals" to try to get thirteen orphans
@pataphysicker @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon @junebug She's the one who told me :)
@amy @pataphysicker @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon yah! It should be noted that in mahjong you can make straights (1-2-3, 5-6-7, etc) or three of a kind, and 13 orphans thus requires you to get all 13 of the hardest to work with tiles: a 1 and 9 of every suit (called terminals) and a single tile from each of the special Honors category, which are just extra tiles. Like if u shuffled 4 jokers into a poker deck, and you couldn't make them into a straight but u could get 3 of a kind
@junebug @amy @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon i understand the joke now it's very funny :)
@pataphysicker @amy @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon I appreciate this joke because it's true. If you choose to re-deal because you got a bad hand like that you're a fucking COWARD. Go for thirteen orphans you bitch
@pataphysicker @amy @pleonasticTautology @paulsrockinmastodon yeah i already did it once but i'll do it again hang on