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#mahjong

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FibroJedi

NJ and wifey are going away visiting friends in a couple of days, so tonight we had a game of #Mahjong. To any #FFXIV people, no it wasn't according to Doman rules.

Just the "simplified so westerners can play something like it" rules :blobcatwink:

Now I have an enormous amount of dishes to wash, before I can get meds in me and try to calm my mind and body down.

Mah Jong tiles at the end of a round. There were only three of us playing so the walls form a triangle rather than a square.
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gondolyr

I created a new post on my website to give some background/history into how Jikaze 🀄 came to be and what my goals with it are. I left out some historical details (like renaming the project from LibreRiichi to Jikaze) because I didn't feel like they were important enough to mention.

I hope to keep monthly updates about what's been going on in Jikaze.

amenoasa.org/jikaze/this-month

amenoasa.orgThis Month in Jikaze (2025-02) | Ame no Asa
#riichi#mahjong#FreeSoftware
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JoeJoeTom (aka Eerie Tom)

Finally, my #introduction. Moved to #Portland in 2020. Have dabbled in various creative endeavors but mostly focusing on producing #music these days (nearly done mixing an album I recorded in #Japan in late 2013). I also write blogs and short stories and make the occasional video. 日本語が少しできます。Married to a wonderful fella. I also enjoy #hiking, #cannabis, early-to-mid 20th century #art, #mahjong, #futurism, oh, just lots of eclectic things. He/They. Traveling to #Europe in spring 2025.

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jabster28

seems my #introduction didn't migrate so here we are.
hello. i used to be on fosstodon at @jabster28@fosstodon.org, but running my own seemed fun so now i'm on my own #sharkey instance at mace.lol

i'm currently in university for a computer science degree (no i won't be homeless.). i do a lot of #programming and like to mess around with general #devops stuff (containerisation and networking mostly) in my free time, a lot of my mini projects revolve around automating this or that and making it work with everything else i have in my own ecosystem.
i #selfhost a lot of services for ephemeral file sharing and password management etc.
my main languages are #javascript / #typescript and #rust but i've been wanting to learn some #cpp or c# recently (i don't always want a program that's 1000% correct, cargo.)
(also css is genuinely an a tier language. insanely fit for purpose.)
i do some #networking and find it pretty fun mostly

i play a lot of #splatoon in my free time. i'm also fond of #mahjong, #minesweeper, and #tetris (modern tetris (usually techmino), not the official app) to sink my time into if i'm on my phone or something.

some more stuff i'm into that's probably more fringe:

#wikipedia editing is pretty fun, though it's rare that i'll get a chance to correct/add to an article that i know about and can source. doing coi requests is cool, though, you see some really interesting people

i'd love to be able to do #cooking faster but i feel that's only possible with enough time or money to cook when you don't need to (i have neither)

#libraries are really cool and i'd love to go to more of them and document them. working at one seems fun also

slightly related but i wouldn't mind getting better at #photography at some point (maybe make a pixelfed account?)

my only major political stance on here would probably be that #privacy is a fundamental human right, and a lot of things online right now don't let you control that as well as you should

i guess that leads into me liking #monero, there's not many other ways you can transfer wealth to someone without anyone else snooping. no, b*tcoin doesn't count, it's simply not fit for purpose.

that also goes into #cryptography i suppose. the mathematics inside things like ecdh is pretty beautiful. one of the reasons i'm going to university is to eventually be able to fully understand elliptic curves and a lot of the cryptography we use nowadays.

that's it, thanks for coming to my ted talk. make sure to smash that like button, subscribe, and hit the red bell to get notifications when i upload. also be sure to donate to my patreon and ko-fi, link's in the description. you can also buy the product from this video's spons-

okay i'm done

you should do a random act of kindness today. maybe tomorrow. or not, i'm not your mom.

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James Patten

A wonderful night with a house full of friends and loved ones. First a triple hot pot (mille-feuille pork and cabbage, plus a half/half of spicy and non-spicy dipping) which everyone devoured, and then a full two winds of Mahjong.

The perfect way to pass a cold and rainy night.

A photo of a game of Mahjong in progress. You see many tiles on an ornate playmat and wooden tile holders. The author appears to be one tile from victory)
#food#hotpot#boardgames
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High Mome Djecibel Aester

@sapphicselene I think you're right about the demographics. American Mahjong is as old as any other style of Mahjong and its history in the U.S. predates internet and social media. But old people are on Facebook so it's no surprise that's what you find there. Annelise Heinz's "Mahjong and the making of American Culture" is a great read.

I suppose that the popularization of #Riichi #Mahjong happening in North America is connected to modern anime internet culture.

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SapphicSelene :priconne_uzuki:

Perhaps this is because of the nature of the social medias I am comparing with, but I've found an interesting difference in internet mahjong communities I'm part of.

On Reddit, Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky, the default version of Mahjong I encounter is Riichi, and it is mostly people my age give or take a decade.

On Facebook (don't @ me it's the only place for local Gunpla stuff and semi-local mahjong) however, the default seems to be American/Jewish, and most of the people there are retired old ladies.
#riichimahjong #Mahjong

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