I’ve been 100%ing Yakuza 0 and this is what everything feels like

started playing mahjong

when you win a round in mahjong by stealing another player’s tile kiryu makes this face and it’s the scariest expression i have ever seen him make in any game ever

Mahjong is my passion.

Not to brag, but I learned how to play a card game called Koi Koi from Yukaza Like a Dragon, and now I'm so good at it that sometimes I even win at the Beginner difficulty level.

Seriously, I'm having so much fun matching these pretty cards that all progress in the main game has halted for like two days now.

I'm still pretty sure that it's impossible to actually learn Shogi or Mahjong though.

ok i need to talk about this somewherel. in infinite wealth you can finally play mahjong with your homies. as someone who actually enjoys playing mahjong because im not shackled to the outrageous demands of completion, i really like this particular addition. so i take the taxi to kamurocho and scoot over to good ol' lullaby mahjong. i sit down at the table with seonhee, saeko, and zhao. i just got zhao for the party at this time so i wanted to up my bond with him. and hey, zhao's pretty cool, right? even made a cameo in LJ that's just how cool he is

so it's all going ok. first 2 rounds are just draws and i get both tenpai point bonuses. then this ASSHOLE zhao just starts WINNING. FOUR games in a row and he WON WITH RON EVERY SINGLE TIME.

GUESS WHO HE WAS STEALING FROM.

ME.

AND ALMOST EVERY TIME THAT HE DID SO, I WAS IN RIICHI SO I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE WAS SAFE. THEY ALL SAT AROUND THE STARTING POINTS WITH MORE OR LESS FROM THE TIES. AND THEN YOU JUST HAVE ZHAO HOARDING COPIOUS AMOUNTS POINTS, WHILE KIRYU AND I PLUNGE INTO DEBT.

look at this RAT BASTARD. actually DESPICABLE. i had him warm the bench after that. i will never forgive him for this embarrassment

Yakuza 0, but everyone is doing copious amounts of pot

I have GOT to learn how to play mahjong

Eddie’s been trying to help by attacking the other players’ tiles but he keeps blocking my own hand 😭

Simple 2000 Series Stream Pt.4 (D3 Publisher - PS2 - 2000s)

0:00 Pre-Stream Jams (Love Upper!) 7:00 Street Golfer 1:11:55 Love Smash! 1:43:55 Snowboard Racer 2 2:21:55 Come on Baby! 3:37:55 Yakuza Fury 3:56:30 Metropolismania 2 4:26:50 Love Mahjong! 4:41:20 Love Mahjong! 2 5:07:55 Taxi Rider 5:27:45 The Maid Clothes & Machine Gun 6:05:20 Love Songs 6:27:30 Runabout 3: Neo Age 6:35:20 The Fire's Fighting Banchou 6:49:10 The Men's Machine Gun Base 7:19:20 Intermission 7:30:00 The Japan Special Forces ~Violent Crime Archipelago 7:41:45 Steel Dragon Evolution 8:14:20 The Meoka Pichi Trap Book ~Oharu-Chan GOGOGO! 8:31:40 Let's Go By Train! 3 9:16:15 The Let's Talk to Aliens! What is Uchu-jin?~ 9:50:50 Monster Attack / Earth Defense Force 10:20:35 Demolition Girl / The Daibijin

look this is *exactly* what i was looking for in trying to learn mahjong, i hope this helps someone else. mahjong doesn't seems that complicated — though i'm still very bad! — but my god you have to know what the possible winning hands are, and so many of the tutorials don't bother to include that crucial information, bafflingly.

this is a fucking status symbol. I deserve more respect than the US marines for achieving this

DATENSHI[打天使]

I've started collecting screenshots of my high-point mahjong wins. Sure they're just gained by playing against NPCs, but by golly, they're my tiles and I collected them myself!

Each Yakuza game is at least a year long commitment I s2g.

if we're mutuals you can request special services from me, such as 6am riichi mahjong learning discord sessions