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Translations of tweets from @fuwacina. For an archive of other Vocaloid-related Twitters I no longer keep up with, go here.
The thought that I have the right to make a pro composer work for me endlessly for free is cheering me up.
[Screenshot of phone message: "To those who want to express themselves with music: Why not commission a pro at arranging/composition/mixing?"] Ooh, good point.
It's 222 Day, so here's a skillfully-hunted Narga. [Screenshot of 2:22 time]
While I stated that "today, I am indeed a genius," I have a correction: I meant to say "I remain a genius today." We apologize for the error.
Just putting together the framework for the ultimate song gets me excited. Today, I am indeed a genius.
I went looking up if there was a way to hide Twitter Spaces since it seemed likely I'd tap it by mistake, and I found an extreme article that was like "You can hide it by blocking the Spaces container!!!!" and cried.
When I see someone I like adored by a bunch of other poeple, I nod to myself like "Right, right? My eyes weren't mistaken..."
I used the pink girl.
I wanna play that N64 game Snowboard Kids again, so I'm awaiting it on Virtual Console.
I finally tried [Slay the] Spire which I bought and then neglected for 50 billion years, and all these forceful sound effets really add to the energy.
By eating meat and gaining energy, I composed a whole chorus...
My desire to try more games runs up against wanting to practice Monster Hunter more to get better.
Thinking about myself rationally, and how while going to the hospital 3 times a week to treat various diseases, I cook for myself every day and make music and also stream and can speedrun Emergency No-Heroics Apex Zinogre in 3:28, I'm such a remarkable person... Maybe after I'm dead they'll put me in textbooks...
When I tried playing Monster Hunter while exhausted, I was worse than I've ever been in the past 2000 years, so I thought to myself that I had to eat something delicious.
I've been kind of exhausted since yesterday, so I'm allowing myself to eat a feast.
Maybe the fact it's not an answer to anything is part of it being artist-like. (??)
I believe answering the question "Are your lyrics more often based in imagination or real experiences?" with "Imaginary worlds are created by and expanded by real experiences" is the ultimate cool and artist-like response, but it doesn't answer anything.
Makes me want to make the kind of song with a #9 in the melody.
I'm a simple otaku, so just hearing a #9 in the melody makes me cry.
Good day, everyone. I can hunt buffed Apex Zinogre in 3 and a half minutes. I'm waiting for work.
I made it my header since I was happy about it, but I look like kind of a scary person now...
["OSTER project & Tesroset @fuwacina
Music-making person. aiko, Momoka Ariyasu, Underbar, Aoi Yuki, MILLION THE@TER, BEMANI, etc. Fanbox: osterproject.fanbox.cc YouTube: youtube.com/c/OSTERproject47 Vtuber Tags: #TesrosetTransmission #TesrosetArt"]
[Posts results for Mahjong Handle, Wordle, and Wordle 2] I've finished my tasks for when the date changes...
It's been like 800 hours since I started playing this game, but today I learned for the first time you can configure it so pressing the L target camera button twice won't make the camera face ahead of your hunter... An overwhelming ignoramus...!!
I had a ton of times where I was on PB pace but panicked at the end, so I'm glad I didn't give up... :crying: I can sleep soundly tonight...
Fiiiiiiiiiinally got under 4 minutes!!!!!, I thought, but 3:28, what the heck... I was in such a rush to show my time I kept messing up...
I'm almost there... :sniffle: [Screenshot of 4:10 on Apex Zingore]
king gnu's not unix
I understand mahjong even more completely.
["Penchan machi" = waiting (machi) for Pen(guin)-chan
"Ittsuu" = (read as a shortened form of "ippou tsukou," one-way traffic)
"Ryanmen machi" = waiting (machi) for ramen
"Mangan" = manganese battery
"Kuisagari" = harrassing (alternate reading)
"Haneman" = winged (hane) money (or maybe "man" for "10,000" yen)
"Yakuhai" = drug (yaku) high
"Menzen" = in front of masks (literal reading)
"Sanankou" = three (san) anglerfish (ankou)]
I can establish relations with others who play by trying to master it on their own, so whatever!!!!
I totally feel a desire to hang out with more people using the medium of games, so when I realize my nature is ultimately suited for games I can try to master on my own, it makes me sad, lol
I know there's the perspective "Can't you enjoy it even if you aren't good?", but for me, getting better is fun.
I wanna start new games, but I'm slow on the uptake, so it takes me a super long time, it's terrible.
From tomorrow forth, I'll call myself a Vtuber Vocaloid producer with a 2-minute time on Apex Zinogre.
From here I think it'll come down to how precisely and quickly I can hit the weakpoint while taking no damage, so I'm afraid.
I'm glad to have achieved a goal, but I'm so unable to accept that last part... Could have saved 10 seconds...
Can't help but feel growth from getting my first 2:XX on an Apex monster.
I'm so weak to pressure LOL
Waaaaaugh I got a 2:XX for the first tiiiiime I can't believe the choke at the eeeeend you fooooool!!!!!
I'm a troublesome human who's bad at talking but likes to talk. (self-introduction)
I was sweating at how bad I was doing trying to give explanations as I hunted.
Everyone buy Monster Hunter. (advertisement)
Thanks for the stream! I was cheered to receive so many Marshmallows and congratulations!! The chaos stream of composition and chatting and Monster Hunter was fun.
Wait just a little mocha.
All out of sorts from my stream software settings changing for some reason.
Tesroset tonight!
:clock: Tonight at 9:00:
Doing a thank-you chat for 50,000 channel followers. :party popper:
Accepting Marshmallows to read :chun:ring the stream! #TesrosetTransmission
[Celebration] 50,000 Channel Followers Thank-You Chat [Musical Vtuber Tesro & Roset]
Is Sekiro a game where you hunt monsters?
When you get free time to play together with someone, and they ask "What's this time for?", I like the ones who'll accept the answer "Does this time have to be for anything???"
I was like "I'm doing a 50,000 followers stream today, but what if I drop below 50,000 during the stream...", but it's gone up, so I think it'll be okay. This is not me faking it.
Ace Attorney is a game where you do iai slashes on monsters standing in the witness stand, so it's effectively Monster Hunter.
There's also Polly. [Retweets her old "don't forget DL-6" tweet with a parrot Cohoot named Polly]
Ace Attorney is Monster Hunter theory.
Creators are weak creatures who have no monetary value if there aren't people who like the things they make, so we all help each other live. Thank you.
In the past few days, I've witnessed lots of covers with amazing respect for the original songs, strengthening the feeling of needing to live... Let's live...
I reached 50,000 YouTube followers, so I'm allowed to eat cutlet curry tomorrow. Hooray!
I keep making more and more this month.
Song's done.
There's designated English words for drinking lots of something, especially alcoholic drinks? Wild...
I am actually making music, so be at ease.
Though I also aspire to good players' gameplay and work to get at least a little closer to it.
In games, if you look upward, you'll see no end of skilled people, so you should only compare with your past self...
There's a question on the size of celestial bodies on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader... Let me answer...
[Retweeting article about "Don't get on the chart" tweet] Netlab's made an article.
Tomorrow, I'll do a stream celebrating 50,000 followers! :raised hands:
I'm accepting Marshmallows to read during the stream! Please feel free to submit. :folded hands:
[Screenshot of 50,003 YouTube followers] Waaah, I just missed it... :crying laughing: Thanks to all 50,000!!!!!
In that case, I'll sing it myself, dammit!
I get it if a creator says they don't want covers, but unrelated people saying they don't want covers? You can think what you like, but who gave you the right to insist that? In fact, everybody keep on singing my songs and uploading it... I'll do anything...
I'm happy if everyone's having fun singing together...
I'm sure no one remembers anymore, but when I made Alice in Musicland, there was a faction of sorts who were like "it's a Vocaloid musical, so humans shouldn't sing it," and I was depressed thinking "I made it with the concept of everyone enjoying music together, why do people have to be selfish?", but time has passed and now I get to see such a fun Alice as
[Links Akirose's birthday concert "Wonder Shower Musical!!!!"] This is Alice in Musicland now...
You only live once
↑Anybody verified this??
Majora's coming?!?!?! [to the N64 lineup on Switch] I actually haven't played it...
They're my precious time attack videos, so I pick my own songs as the BGM!!!!!
Rewatching my time attack videos, it's embarrassing to see super sloppy movement, but it's the result of my hard work, so oh well, I'll get better.
[Retweets Vtuber Akirose talking about singing OSTER songs for her birthday concert] Truly, having my songs chosen to be sung in an important concert makes me really happy, so I'm happy... (because I'm happy)
I thought Kiyo-san's Ace Attorney playthrough would end today, but it didn't... This case is long...
Rise from the Ashes is a godly case.
Aim to get agony that's yours alone!
Soon I'll start to think of experiencing an agony like no one's ever experienced, dripping with originality, as a fantastic opportunity. (masochist)
If you throw it out, it's garbage - if you use it, it's a resource. Experiences are the same.
But it's true that one of the really great things about art is how it can turn painful experiences into something positive in a very understandable way, so I hope they do their best.
Despite responding to "I can't bring myself to give up on the person I've always had a crush on - what would you do, Tesroset?" with the psychopathic "make it into a song, I guess," a few days later that viewer of mine sent me a message saying "I took that opportunity to take up composition!", and I love that viewer from the bottom of my heart.
I really like advice streams because you can learn a lot about the values of the person giving advice and how they interact with others...
I was also sad to cover this up when making it, so I'm super glad to have it being shown.
RT @minomichiru The feeling of wanting people to see a background I worked hard on but mostly got covered up.
It's 9 PM... Let's listen to a Claire-san stream and cut up some monsters... :hearts:
Okay, but the accuracy to the original video is amazing, LOL
W h a t
[KAITO] Alcohol Song [Cover]
I'm pretty sure I've become able to beat most monsters faster than my songs...
RT @sasamiku_39 Laughing for real at Miss Oster project beating Magnamalo faster than Love Ward.
The world's most fun game: Mahjong when you're winning
The world's most terrible game: Mahjong when you're not winning
Thanks for telling me, everyone. What the heck am I.
RT @Lila_llop A superbly-dressed hunter who make lots of godly songs.
RT @fill07110407 The world's first person to give Yobikomi-kun an idol debut.
RT @GameCGyasan A super-famous Vocaloid producer slash pro hunter with a tendency to go viral for things separate from her main occupation.
Rajang's Theme Song (Miracle Paint)
RT @suitikworks Creator of Rajang's theme song.
RT @waaaaa223 A wonderful person who makes super stylish music, yet is so familiar you hardly get that impression at all!
RT @920_73k Person who does composition and hunting.
RT @SLANG55 Drunkard lady who makes sexy songs.
RT @sasamiku_39 Person who defeats Rajang before Miracle Paint can finish.
RT @ZISYOUEKAKI The strongest at Monster Hunter who can even compose.
RT @azk_3223 A pro gamer with composition as a hobby.
#FollowersIntroduceMeWithOverwhelmingHalfHeartedness
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Just OSTER project Things:
Resides in Kamrua Village
How do creator-gamers make time to make music...
I don't want to see any more painful news, so just air nothing but stuff like "breaking news, outbreak of pants-wetting, the fifth in 2 hours."
From now on, if I'm asked what my representative work is, do I have to say "Don't get on the chart"...?
There was this tag like "tweet an obscure game, if it gets likes you lose," but AeroGauge is seriously unknown, right???? Even I didn't know about it back then.
I'm grateful to be pretty busy with creating things lately, but I want to be more active with streaming too...
I've had this craving to play AeroGauge since yesterday, so I want it to come to Virtual Console. (it definitely won't)
Gotta do a 50,000 follower thank-you stream...
[Screenshot of 49,920 YouTube followers] I'm actually almost at 50,000.
[Linking a Japanese wiki page about the game] These needlessly detailed machines and background on the drivers must have been out of awareness of F-Zero, I'm sure...
There's this N64 game called AeroGauge with 100 times the speed of F-Zero.
Just thought of the phrase "Piano x Forte x Valstrax."
The other one I want to run might be Apex Zinogre... I have no confidence I can do a clean run of Valstrax.
People who say "you have no right" should give the Constitution of Japan a read.
I don't get anything about Twitter...
RT @diesee_mozuku I love OSTER-san's stuff like Superbly-Dressed Lady, and her "hunted before a song finishes" series, yet "Don't get on the chart" is what spreads furthest...?
Dear Twitter-kun,
I'd accept a verified checkmark as a celebration of 100,000 likes. Thanks in advance.
All 100,000 of you! Buy my CDs!
[Screenshot of "Don't get on the chart" likes] I've become a woman with 100,000 likes... Hey now...
YouTube-kun, can't you say something like "It takes a lot of courage to attempt new things, so it's wonderful that you've taken that step! Keep up that fantastic work to earn a new demographic of viewers!"? Maybe I should stand in for YouTube-kun from now on?
[YouTube screenshot: "You don't have many channel viewers who access YouTube during these hours, so you're not getting views right now."]
I don't need your consolation, YouTube-kun.
Treatment hurts so much... Depressed over having to endure this.
I should've dressed like more of a thickly-layered diva Miku-san for Miracle Paint Rajang too.
Psychopath nurse saying "You might die, you know?" while cutting up Magnamalo.
I've always liked time and score attack in games, but this might be my first time training at the same game for nearly a year... I want to get better.
RT @tarotaro0_game It's emotional seeing so much improvement in the six-ish months since the first Tarotaro Cup that it's beyond comparison...
Magnamalo, who I ran in the first game speedrun event of my life... The me who was screaming "I don't wanna die" is no more!
Please, look at how I've grown... :folded hands:
[New Video]
OSTER project Who Can Beat Magnamalo Faster Than Love Ward
Clad in Hellfire Longsword in 2'51" No Damage
I had her switch out the shopping bag for a Tigrex longsword and do a run. Thanks in advance. #TesrosetTransmission
I completely didn't realize, but watching back this video, it was damageless.
Laughing at this hellish thumbnail I've made.
What is this??????????
So it's just obvious that your biggest fan is you... I've got front-row seats to listen to my own songs.
The fact that the one you can sympathize with most is you.
OSTER project teaches you what's important... Thank you, OSTER project...
I'll give you some medicine. [Links Azure Blue]
Somebody's gotta fix this bug where people around me are doing things I can't do, and surely I'm doing things they can't do too, but I can't help thinking of myself as a useless dunce.
Don't you think so, whenever you're like "I'm surrounded by amazing people"? What's with that... I'm great too, aren't I...?
Often on the other side of thinking "I've got wonderful friends" is me despising my own patheticness.
Wanna go on a trip just visiting eateries in towns with harbors.
This is a person on Choushi. [Pun on "choushi ni noru na," (don't get ahead of yoruself), similar to "zu ni noru na"]
By the way, Superbly-Dressed Lady regrettably placed 11th in last year's like ranking...
It's about time for Superbly-Dressed Lady Round 3, but in this season, I've got to wear something.
RT @Hamu_Gt I liked OSTER's Superbly-Dressed Lady quite a bit, but compared to her other viral tweets, maybe it's stiff competition...
Notifications... Don't die...
When I go to take care of my cat, I have a high likelihood of saying "Kitty!", but imagining a creature coming to take came of me and saying "Humie!" is really scary.
On a "you laugh you lose" show or something, there was a segment of asking people on the street "show us your viral posts," but if they came up to me now, would I show them this...?
Looking forward to this year's Viral Tweet Awards too...
Even if you dated Iori, I feel like you could never be his number one because his Buddies would absolutely be more important, so the only want to date him is to become a Buddy.
Hoping for fanservice to Fugen the Elder fangirls too. (?)
[Retweets an official Master Utsushi Valentine's illustration] Official Rise account never forgets to give fanservice to Utsushi fangirls...
They made a game about Reimu and Marisa, those characters that teach you random trivia!!!!! (????)
Why's this ["Don't get on the chart"] have over 10,000 likes?
Rise players: "What's an area transition?"
Old Monster Hunter time attackers used Barrel Bombs for area transitions, y'know.
Does my next video have to be an introduction to the history of the Jiijan [jean jacket]?
I upload videos of Mahjong and Rajang. Thanks in advance.
What kind of channel is this that the most recent videos are an explanation of the rules of mahjong and a Monster Hunter time attack with self-made BGM?
[Retweeting "Don't get on the chart"] Is it true you went viral again?
Tragic news: If you take an afternoon nap, it becomes night.
#YoukaiMonsterHunterWoman
What are English vocabulary tests good for, you ask? For solving Wordles, obviously.
A grade-schooler using the phrase "zu ni noru" is awfully cocky.
I learned the phrase "zu ni noru" in grade school from Star Fox 64.
[Screenshot of Google Translate translating "zu ni noru na yo," basically "don't get too cocky," as "Don't get on the chart"] I at least know that's completely wrong.
Humans are like that - no matter how friendly you get with someone, there's always a side of them you'll never know. Just like Magnamalo.
When I think too much about stuff, I get pessimistic and cry, so let's think of some funny crude jokes...
Society: "There ain't no seat for you."
As it is, I already wasn't in circumstances where I could regularly meet people, but ever since corona my seclusion has gotten way worse and I'm losing my sense of having a place in society, so I have to make my own efforts to get involved with people or else.
I wanted to give out and receive chocolates, but this month I've only met with clerks at the supermarket and doctors at the hospital......
happy valentine :hearts: :chocolate bar:
Today was a day of being deeply disappointed in myself, so I want to recover some stuff tomorrow.
A lot of the time I don't know any words and end up making shots in the dark, but it's interesting how that can actually get you there.
[Tweets results for both Wordle 2 and Wordle] I feel like the five-letter Wordle has more difficult words...
Life's painful, so I guess I'll play Monster Hunter...
It's painful not knowin' where to aspire to...
In games with lots of luck elements, I dunno how to control my mental state when I'm getting loss after loss... I'd honestly feel more at peace having my lack of effort thrust in my face so I can try to put in that effort.
Song's done... I'm genius... Am I a genius at making music or what????
[Retweeting the "rinshan = rinse shampoo" tweet] LOL at my dumbass jokes starting to reach actual mahjong pros.
Looking at it calmly, this is a no-good line of thinking, so let's get more stupid.
That fact that I have to give lots of time and money not toward making something positive, but in an effort to bring something negative back to zero, suddenly feels incredibly hollow...
If there's people with a perspective such that they can earnestly call life a fun thing, that's really important, so I want to value it.
About 80% of my bodily feelings are pain, huh... Though maybe it just feels that way 'cause no matter how many fun things there are, one big suffering can blot them out.
Can I just soak it in beer or somethin'??
Today I was told my butt was frightfully stiff. I want to soften my butt.
Even if it's pessimistic, that kind of letting loose might be a positive thing.
You never know what'll happen to people when, so do what you wanna while you can.
I'm such a dummy, I've forgotten I was going for tanyao and called for 1/9 tiles making me unable to call agari 50,000 times.
What innocent times those were when you counted things like how many times you'd been confessed to. I've recently given up on counting my number of chronic illnesses. :smiling face:
Hospital visit again today.
All your support goes toward unblessed me's the world over. Thank you for everything you do.
When I start a game, I always take it incredibly seriously, so it's not easy for me to add to the number of games I play. If I started Apex or something, I think I'd die.
It's scary how I make the best progress by sleeping for a bit around 10 PM then working overnight.
Did my best today.
People grow stronger when they have something to protect. I'm sure bras are the same.
Bra Day? Amazing how bras are a thing that exist solely to protect boobs.
No cheese when you want to eat cheese (proverb)
All told, Wordle's pretty fun, so I find myself playing it every day.
This hunter's great at making music.
I understand mahjong completely.
["Rinshan" = rinse shampoo
"Kuitan" = eating (kui) beef tongue (tan)
"Namba" = Namba (tourist location in Osaka)
"Toimen" = toy men
"Honroutou" = twice-cooked pork (hoikourou)
"Otakaze" = otaku
"Houjuu" = fire gun (literal reading)
"Junchan" = Jun-chan (reading as a lady's name)
"Kanchan" = Kan-chan (reading as a kid's name)
"Dora" = gong (literal reading)"]
I learned just now that there's a system called dabuton.
"I'll take that tile" system = fuuro (claim and expose)
Situation of having not taken that tile = menzen (concealed hand)
In making my mahjong explanation, I omitted all terminology that wouldn't be an impediment not to know while playing... though I mean, mahjong's almost all special terminology, so if I tried to express everything accurately there'd be too many terms to memorize and beginners definitely wouldn't understand.
I'm a genius, so I'm making a song.
With talking or commentating, too, if you feel embarrassed, it ends up half-baked which only adds to the embarrassment, so you should just let loose.
I super think the biggest foundation for singing well is singing without getting embarrassed.
This person's songs are so hard to sing.
Did some singing practice. #TesrosetTransmission
Aren't I good for sequencing my own BGM for my explanation video?
[Retweeting mahjong video] I want people who gave up because of complicated rules and too much unique terminology to see this...
You might not believe it, huh?
A Monster Hunter speedrunner who started as Vocaloid producer
Maybe I'll make a song like that to try and get sponsors...
From now on, I'll say "pride, power" whenever I look in the mirror...
Reality isn't such that people would simply praise the efforts of people they dislike that much, but it's relieving to at least see such a world in fiction...
I only just saw Cool Runnings, but it made me cry a bunch, it's a masterpiece.
They say "let's meet again in 4 years," but your country wasn't there 4 years later... :crying:
Cool Runnings is such a good movie.
Pride... Power... :crying:
Anybody watching Cool Runnings? Guess not...
Pride! Power!!
You can't laugh at somebody's dreams.
I like this movie already.
It's Cool Runnings time!!!!
Me: "Can I break this up?"
Friend: "That's a seat wind, so you might not wanna break it up."
Me: "What's that?"
Friend: "You've got a wind, right?"
Me: "What's a wind..."
I've had experiences like this, so I want mahjong explained to me this casually.
Isn't it amazing to be able to learn the rules to mahjong in the time it takes to listen to Alice in Musicland?
I made a video so even people who've never played mahjong can understand the rules in 10 minutes. #Mahjong #TesrosetTransmission
[For Ultra-Beginners] Universe's Easiest-To-Understand Mahjong Rule Explanation
Hello, welcome. This is an attempt to explain mahjong in a way even people who know absolutely nothing about it can understand. Let's take a look.
First of all, mahjong uses mahjong tiles. These mahjong tiles are like the cards in a card game. Also, there are four players. These players start the game having 13 tiles each.
Next, a player takes a tile from the "Tiles Free For The Taking Corner," and after thoroughly considering the ones they have on hand, discards one tile into the "Unwanted Tile Discard Corner" where everyone can see it.
Play continues in a counter-clockwise direction, with players continuously changing out their tiles, and the first person to create a neat arrangement of tiles wins.
As I said, mahjong tiles are like cards. And there are tiles that, like cards, have a suit akin to hearts or spades and a number, but there are also tiles that aren't like that with characters written on them.
Regarding the ones that have card-like suits, there are three suits in mahjong. They're called manzu, pinzu, and sozu, but whether you remember the names or not, you're fine if you can just recognize the suits. Each of these numbered suits goes from 1 to 9, and there are four copies of each tile.
Mahjong is a game about combining these guys skillfully to make kinda nice-looking patterns, and whoever is able to make those combinations in the form "three, three, three, three, two" basically wins. These combinations of three tiles are called "mentsu." And the combination of two tiles is called a "jantou."
A mentsu can be formed either with a "run," like 1-2-3 or 5-6-7 in the same suit, or with "three of a kind" like 4-4-4 or 6-6-6 in the same suit. On the other hand, jantou can only be formed with "two of a kind," like 8-8 or 7-7; "runs" like 1-2 or 5-6 won't work.
For example, say we have a hand like this. (Manzu 1-2-3, manzu 3-4-5, pinzu 1-1-1, sozu 7-8-9, chun-chun) From left to right, it makes a run, a run, three of a kind, a run, and two of a kind. If you make something that looks like this, that's agari (victory). Thus, the objective is for players to aim for this formation as they repeatedly take and discard tiles.
With that in mind, suppose that the moment you discard an unwanted tile where everyone can see, one of the other players says this. "Ahh, if I had that tile you just discarded, I could make a mentsu. I'll take that tile." What does that mean? Basically, there's a system where if a player could use a tile someone discards to create a mentsu with their tiles, they can declare "I'll take that tile."
The "I'll take that tile" system has two versions: either "I'll take that tile to make a three-of-a-kind mentsu," or "I'll take that tile to make a run mentsu." Declaring "I'll take that tile to make a three-of-a-kind mentsu" is called "pong." Furthermore, declaring "I'll take that tile to make a run mentsu" is called "chi."
Statistically, it's harder to make three-of-a-kind than it is to make a run, so while pong allows you to take a tile from anyone, chi only lets you take from the person to your left. Regardless, these moves that let you take tiles from others to create mentsu are quite powerful, so there are penalties of sorts for using them.
One of them is that you must reveal to everyone "this is the mentsu I completed by taking this tile!" Doing this gives the other players hints about what sorts of tiles you have; also, even if you look at your tiles and decide you want to change your mentsu combinations, you can no longer mess with or take tiles from revealed combinations.
Now, let's get back to the conditions for agari. At the start, I said that whoever assembles four mentsu and one jantou first wins, but there's actually another condition. I can already hear the people saying "you should've said that to start with!", but what you absolutely need to achieve agari are yaku.
"Yaku" refers to assembling tiles in a specific combination, much like a flush or a straight in poker. There are a variety of yaku in mahjong, and if you don't create at least one such yaku, then even if you assemble the formation for agari, you cannot call agari. (Yaku-less)
The most major and unique of these yaku is riichi. The yaku "riichi" is actually not related to combinations such as "everything in the same suit" at all, so it's a rather special case. The requirement for riichi is to never once use the "I'll take that tile" system, and arrive at a state of "I'm one tile from achieving agari" on your own power. This act of declaring to everyone "I'm one tile away from agari" is the "riichi" yaku.
If you aren't taking tiles from others, just drawing and discarding tiles all on your own, it takes considerable luck to create four mentsu and one jantou, so riichi is a sort of "achievement award" yaku. ("Good effort") In other words, the moment you use the "I'll take that tile" system even once, you forever lose access to the riichi yaku. ("See ya") So if you casually say "I'll take that tile" without considering how to create any other yaku, this can result in a tragedy where even though you completed the agari form, you can't win because you have no yaku.
There are also a few other yaku besides riichi that become impossible to achieve if you use the "I'll take that tile" system. This is why it's recommended that beginners try to avoid using the "I'll take that tile" system.
So far, we've focused entirely on the tiles with numbers, but let's introduce the tiles with characters too. First of all, there's the tiles with "north," "south," "east," and "west" on them (北南東西, in blue), then one that's kinda just all white (haku), one that says "hatsu" (發, in green), and one that says "chun" (中, in red) - for a total of seven.
The tiles with characters, unlike the tiles with numbers, have no concept of "runs," so you can only create a mentsu by assembling three of a kind. There only exist four copies of each character tile as well, making assembling three of a kind very difficult. Thus, when it comes to haku/hatsu/chun, simply having three of a kind grants you a yaku called "yakuhai," satisfying the conditions for agari. You're even allowed to use the "I'll take that tile" system to assemble them, so it's a convenient yaku.
Regarding the north/south/east/west tiles, their value changes depending on the time and place. Tiles that either match the direction written on your side of the table, or the direction given by the thing that says "east is favored" or whatever [here displayed in the center of the table], are treated as a yaku if you assemble three of them.
So then, whether by taking tiles from others or slowly assembling things on your own, suppose you get to the point of "I'm one tile away from agari." In this position, if you find that "If I took that tile you just discarded, I'd have agari! Gimme!", there's a system that lets you shout "ron!" to take that tile and achieve agari. When someone says "ron!" to achieve agari, the person who had "ron!" said to them must give points to the winner.
Suddenly, we've introduced the concept of points. The way it works is that each player starts with some points, and the first person to reach agari takes points from the other players. There are numerous matches like this, and when it's all over, the person with the most points is the overall winner.
Thus, all players must be fearful whenever they discard a tile, asking themselves who is one tile away from agari, and which tiles might lead someone to shout "ron!" - a rather stressful mindset. Even so, there are conditions for this ron agari as well: you are forbidden from taking a tile for ron that you have discarded earlier in the game.
When you discard tiles, you put them in the "Unwanted Tile Discard Corner," but each player has their own separate discard corner. This means that when someone's giving off an aura of being near agari, as long as you're discarding a tile that player has discarded before, there's no worry of them shouting "ron!" and taking it.
In this way, the player best able to observe other people's expressions and forestall them to achieve agari first wins - such is the dark game known as mahjong.
Also, the information you can gleam from the "Unwanted Tile Discard Corners" is rather important. For instance, suppose there's a tile you're after, one that would be helpful if it showed up. However, there are only four of each tile, so between the "Unwanted Tile Discard Corners" and the tiles revealed as part of the "I'll take that tile" system, once all four of the tile you want show up, you've lost any chance of coming upon that tile yourself. At that point, you must give up on the tile you wanted and change course to create different combinations, so it's quite despair-inducing if this occurs late in the game.
By the way, in card games like poker, numbers have a "strength" (i.e. a 3 is weaker than a King) resulting in things like the same hand being stronger if it uses larger numbers, but no such concept exists in mahjong's case. (1 and 9: equal) That said, there are things that are statistically easier or harder to assemble. What do I mean by that? For instance, consider what mentsu can be made using the number 5. The runs 3-4-5, 4-5-6, 5-6-7, and the three-of-a-kind 5-5-5. So you can consider it as being usable for four possible combinations.
However, if you consider the number 2, you only have 1-2-3, 2-3-4, or 2-2-2 - three possibilities. In the case of 1, there's 1-2-3 or 1-1-1 - only two. In other words, in mahjong, numbers are statistically harder to make mentsu with the closer they are to the edges (1, 2, 8, 9), while the numbers in the middle, 3 to 7, offer more opportunities. There are even yaku that, taking this statistical difference into account, involve mentsu containing 1 or 9, so deciding what yaku to pursue based on the tiles you're dealt at the start is part of the fun.
Also, deciding how to go about combining the tiles you have to make mentsu is actually rather difficult as well. For instance, say you have the tiles 6-6-6-7-8-9 in the same suit. In this case, you could make the two mentsu 6-6-6 and 7-8-9, or you could be daring and discard the 9 to go with 6-6 and 6-7-8, a jantou and a mentsu. How you should combine the tiles you draw to get closer to agari, and to increase your odds of victory - having the ability to ad-lib and flexibly rethink your combinations is rather crucial.
So, that was a simple explanation of mahjong's rules. But there are also numerous other in-depth rules like "dora," tiles that give bonus points if you get agari with them, and "kong," which you can declare by collecting four of the same tile. So please look them up if you're interested.
This ends my explanation of mahjong for people who know absolutely nothing about it. Well then, goodbye.
The video is done, so I'm uploading it.
[Tweets Wordle 2 (the 6-letter variation) results] Played Wordle for the first time, and it turns out it's a vowel-narrowing-down game.
I thought it might be good to buy Mario Kart, but what're you thinking, adding more games to play?
Kirby's release date is so soon, I'm feeling the pressure.
I want them to add 48 remastered monsters from past games to Monster Hunter Rise.
Nintendo: "Remastered tracks from past games are coming to Mario Kart 8!"
Me: "Ooh, maybe about 10?"
Nintendo: "A total of 48!!"
Me: "??????????????"
I feel so sorry for yesterday's me excitedly setting her alarm for before 8 AM.
Sunbreak is trending, so should I go watch the archive before I get spoiled on new info...?? Or is it because there was no new Sunbreak info...?? :smiling face:???? :thinking face:???
Did anybody make the mistake of thinking the Nintendo Direct started at 8????????? [at 8 AM - it was 7 AM Japan time]
The laggier the monster is on Switch, the more I fall in love with the enjoyable smoothness of the PC version...
[Continuing from "making Vocaloid for 15 years"] Even though I'm still only 18...
I put my life into my fixation on piano backing.
Sounds like an interlude, don't it?
This here's the backing for the verse. #Dominowns
Amazin' to keep making Vocaloid music for 15 years.
If you tell me Miracle Paint was from 15 years ago, I'm like, oh yeah, that's about right, but if you tell me Whale Rider was 5 years ago, that one really gets me...
I set the karaokes uploaded to NicoNicommons to be usable anywhere on the internet! Go and upload yer covers to YouTube too! :microphone:
The main cause of the high barrier to entry is all the special terminology... And it's rough how you need to learn how to read the tiles to know what anyone's talking about...
Mahjong had such a high barrier to entry until I learned it, so I want my casual explanation to be useful...
Shuntsu who? I don't know her.
I'm making a video explaining mahjong rules using hardly any mahjong terminology.
["Run / Run / Three of a kind / Run / Three of a kind
If you make something that looks like this, that's agari."]
Going from the PC version back to Switch, on top of the framerate, the lag is so rough.
If you ruin your body once, it'll follow you for life... Don't end up like me...
I'm good at spontaneous effort, but bad at long-term effort, so something like a disease that makes me have to re-examine my daily lifestyle is really painful...
tong poo :red dragon tile: #Dominowns
Considering there might be Sunbreak news, I've gotta watch the Nintendo Direct live, huh, oh nooo (delighted)
I wanna play OoT, it's been so long...
You can kinda generally say this about any game or form of play, but it's something you do for the value it has for you.
Being able to hunt Valstrax in 3 minutes may not mean anything to most people, but it has meaning to me.
I, too, want to be good not just at Monster Hunter, but at composing.
Uno-san's super strong at Smash, yet great at skating too, it's amazing.
I've never gotten the All Green yaku, but I like the concept, so I want to aim for it someday.
I have been taught, like it or not.
Yet another new work...
["Don't forget to pay taxes within 2 days!
Hello, are you well?
It's not pleasant to start a conversation with a bad topic, but it can't be helped.
A few months ago, I obtained the access rights to the device you use to read the internet.
Ever since, I have followed all your internet activity.
While collecting your information, I have been taught, like it or not, that you are a big fan of websites dealing in adult content.
You seem to like visiting porno sites, comforting yourself while looking at obscene videos."]
Truly, if I gain any more chronic diseases, I can't live... It's starting to feel like Diablos invading while I'm fighting Narga and Tigrex in the arena.
In my thirties, praying at a shrine solely for good health.
I thought of myself as a department store of disease, but it turns out I was a general trading company.
Beer is without sin. It's always humans who sin.
[Makes a post on Fanbox titled "[Diary] About a Bad Time I Had" with the photo of the Jozen Mizuno Gotoshi as a thumbnail]
On my way to becoming a woman who's experienced all the world's suffering.
The only cure for the loss of having finished up to Ace Attorney 3 is other people's first playthroughs of Ace Attorney...
Water made with rice sure is delicious...
I was dejected from losing so much at mahjong, but drinking delicious sake makes it all stop mattering, and in fact even if I get my butt kicked at mahjong I'm drinking delicious sake, so it's basically like I win?????
Spirytus is probably Alatreon or Fatalis.
Why say it in Monster Hunter terms?
My favorite sake might be around 10%~20% alcohol content, or in Monster Hunter terms, around the same rank as Narga or Zinogre...
I'd drifted away from Japanese sake for a long while, but it's really made a comeback for me these past few years.
The doctor told me I should drink as much water as I can, so I bought water.
["Jozen Mizuno Gotoshi" ends with the kanji for "water."]
Including yer weak side's real humanlike, ain't it?
I'll show you the real me, so take a look and start likin' it.
I laugh my butt off when these say things that are extremely the opposite of me, like "kind and gentle and able to give careful consideration," or "you don't want to be disliked by the people you like, so you act how they want."
Doesn't want to show weakness (broadcasting my weakness to the whole world)
[Quiz result] Your animal is "monkey with ambition"! #AnimalDivination
- Dislikes stuffiness
- A very hard worker
- Doesn't want to show weakness
Monkey With Ambition (Rajang)
I thought I'd make an explainer video for mahjong beginners, but based on the size of the script it looks like it's going to be more than 10 minutes.
Whenever you're thinking "no one understands me," recall that you also don't understand anyone.
When asked what monsters I liked in Monster Hunter, I replied "I like this monster because it's fun reacting like this to this motion they do," and they were like "I meant their designs and stuff..."
...and I realized that I had become a "monster" unable to achieve understanding with others.
Is everybody playing Monster Hunter? No?
I see...
No dice on tailsmans today either.
At first I thought I could never reach the point of doing elder dragons in 5 minutes, but I'm glad I kept going.
I like games, and I like being able to feel my growth the more I play...
Reached a stopping point on composition for now, so I'll do a bit of talisman hunting...
How do you make lyrics?
Today's one of those days where I just can't find the tension as much as I keep arranging...
Valstrax's music is among my favorites in Monster Hunter.
Valstrax. #MonsterHunterRise #Dominowns
Mahjong's rules are so complex I can't remember them all, and the explanations of yaku are so full of special terminology I don't get them at all, so I'm like, wasn't it super hard for everyone to learn this stuff?
Trying to do mahjong and Monster Hunter and work and cooking and treatments and the room and Y-shirts and I and the cursed princess and Guri and Gura and a bell and a bird and me all at once, there could never be enough time. [Referencing song "The Room, the Y-Shirts, and I," the Japanese subtitle of Dragon Quest VIII, a children's book series, and poem "A Bell, A Bird, and Me."]
Yakuman feels like Teostra's Supernova or Magnamalo's Hellfire Divebomb, in that you normally defeat them before you see the move, so you need to win swiftly before you get hit with a yakuman.
Yakuman is such a powerful move.
[Retweets the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage English Twitter about Rainbow Stories being added] Wow English Muzukashi [difficult]
If I erase my memory, do I have to confront Jean Armstrong again...?
The loss from having finished Ace Attorney 3 is intense, so I wanna erase my memory and play it again...
Mr. Trite...
:coffee cup: #AceAttorney #Dominowns
Medical expenses are harsh... Thanks, insurance...
No stamina to make music...
People who say "there's something wrong with their personality" have something wrong with their personality. (recursive)
Even if your eyes were 10,000 volts, if my heart is 0 amperes, nothing will come of it.