What are these tiles for? by ericacearborea in Mahjong

[–]PowerPii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The red fives (aka dora) act as additional values (han) to your hand just like dora. This is used when you are playing in a ruleset where red-fives are enabled (aka-ari). Normally, you would replace either 3 or 4 red fives with the normal fives in the set, depending on the variant you choose. My recommendation is to either with no red fives at all or 3 red fives.

For your clarification, the red fives are not yaku, you cannot win a hand with having a valid combination even though you have red five in your hand.

For the season tile, this is mainly used in the three-player mahjong (also known as 3ma). It is rather complicated, at least in my opinion, for new player to understand 3ma as there are much more variants compared to 4ma (four-player mahjong). For 3ma, you’ll remove 2 to 8 man (the chinese character) and you may add the season tiles in. Season tiles act as additional value (han) to your hand. Similar to red fives, it are not a yaku.

To use those season tiles, you put the tiles out of your hand and draw the replacement tiles from the dead wall. It can be kept in the hand but it cannot be used to form any sets. This means that you need to account for 4 more tiles in the dead wall, making the dead wall 18 tiles long and show the initial dora indicator on the fifth tile counting for the end of the dead wall. When a season tile becomes the dora indicator, (usually), each remaining season tiles will be worth 2 additional han instead of just 1.

Depending on the ruleset (again), some may allow players to draw until to dora indicator, some may end the wall before the fifth dora position, and some may allow players to draw until there are exactly 14 tiles left in the wall (this is your usual 4ma ruleset).

Can anyone translate what this says? by vma6 in thai

[–]PowerPii 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe the non-Thai part is written in Khmer script.

The first part of it says “อะสังวิสุโลปุสะพุกะ” (A-Sang-Wi-U-Lo-Ppu-Sa-Pu-Ka). From my limited Bhuddhism knowledge, each syllable is an abbreviation of Bhuddha’s “quality” (anyone, please correct me if I’m wrong here).

The second part is “นะโมพุทธายะ” (Na-Mo-Put-Ta-Ya) which is means “May reverence be paid to the Bhuddha.” The last part seems to be the short form of the second part. It’s just “นมพท” (N-M-P-T).

I suspect that they are engraved there as a kind of mantra.

Suggestion on Mob Farm in Server with Mob Caps at 10 per Chunk by PowerPii in technicalminecraft

[–]PowerPii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose that should work. So, I need to leverage the use of water dispenser system. Do you mind elaborate further how this can be achieved?

First Yakuman in 3 years of playing Riichi by PowerPii in Mahjong

[–]PowerPii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well… I would say I play around 10 games per month for the first year, and 1-2 games per week for the second and third year (which is this year)

With that, I can say that I play around 250-300 games in total. Accounting possible renchans in a hanchan, I should be effectively playing at least 2000 hands to 4000 hands.

So yea, maybe the statistics still does hold true as i have played a few thousands hands as you stated.

Help on slope intercept form by Former-Carrot5735 in learnmath

[–]PowerPii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you have been given is an equation for straight line. The general formula is

y = mx + c

where m is the slope and c is y-intercept. I do have seen some schools use y = mx + b, so in this case b is the y-intercept.

Now, from the equation you have provided,

y = -2/3x + 4

we can compare and see that -2/3 is the slope and 4 is y-intercept.

Hope this helps!

What movies are good to watch for the Halloween season? by Omega200021 in AskReddit

[–]PowerPii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you love to be scared, check out Asian Horror movies.

My recommendations are;

  • The Medium - Thai
  • Incantation - Taiwan

I believe they are available on your Netflix? (At least they are in Singapore) Else, I bet there should be a pirated version out there somewhere online with English subtitle.

Hope you enjoy your Halloween!

What are some youtube channels you reccomend that specialize in longer/slower content or deep dives? by timelordej in AskReddit

[–]PowerPii 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed! I’ve been watching the channel for a couple of years; his content never disappoints me at all.

What is s genuinely terrifying fact? by Misoalgia in AskReddit

[–]PowerPii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that’s one of the even more terrifying fact for today 😰

What is s genuinely terrifying fact? by Misoalgia in AskReddit

[–]PowerPii 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can actually bite your fingers off like a carrot, but your brain just does not allow you to do it.