uhhh my 8p acceptance? I know its somewhat superfluous but ok…
I guess I can technically use 1p for 13p. but 2z is my safe tile
terminal < value honor
I guess 1s is better but I didn’t wanna cut anymore pinzu to kamicha
ok i dont need more ryanmens
true 9p is useless i can still draw 3m on 2m
i feel like i could still push but i have two genbutsu to burn still
haven’t really felt like playing too much right now but let’s clear our mind and stay on track
Hi what’s been going on in my life?
ESPN was in town for the Super Bowl… now I can say I was on TV!
Ate at Fikscue Craft BBQ on February 7th. It’s primarily a BBQ joint but they also have some fusion Asian cuisine with it. It’s good! I don’t think it quite punches with true Texas BBQ ™ but it’s still nice to have something good locally without having to fly all the way out there.
I put stickers from my Japan trip on my laptop! Some room for more if I get other nice stickers next time. I do have more I could use but for now this is what we are rolling with.
New figgie came in – I wish I could lay her down on her back in front of my computer but her right leg kind of gets in the way… Maybe I can figure something out later with it.
Red Bull Showrun took place in San Francisco yesterday and I got to see Yuki Tsunoda! I started watching F1 midway through the 2021 season (The 2021 rainout for the Belgian Grand Prix was the first race I watched, actually) so I picked Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda as my drivers to follow.
Technically it’s not the “current” F-1 car (it’s the 2011 RB7) but getting to hear an “F-1” car in real life was really cool! Unfortunately the engine in the car caught on fire towards the end lol but it will be nice to see if Yuki can return to F-1 later! Maybe I’ll watch again in the future but the F-1 seasons since 2021 have not been as compelling.
Stopped by the local Kinokuniya to see what JLPT N2 books to get… they want $25 each (translator’s note: $25 is 3,875￥) for these doohickeys! Luckily I am a seasoned Japanese item buyer…
Yeahhhhhhhh ok that’s more like it.
I got a RÅSKOG / NORRÅVA cart from Ikea to help consolidate some things. I used to have my meds and supplements and protein at the front of my room… so keeping everything in one place will hopefully make it easier to wake up and get all my ‘dailies’ done here. Also going to try to commit to taking 4 scoops of protein per day. I had an old bag from 2023 that expired and might have been giving me the runs… so I don’t think I should punish myself by forcing myself to finish the old stuff, even if it might be fine.
self review
So it’s been about 3 weeks since I started… It’s not looking too good… At the very least… I can say that I’m actually following up on poor performance instead of giving up like every time in my life before…
I can say I was derailed from being sick and also from dealing with my parents being a pain in the ass this last week… but that’s not a good excuse in the long run. So what has worked and what hasn’t and what changes can we make to help?
Lifting needs to be done first thing in the day – If I don’t wake up early and knock it out ASAP I’m gonna keep finding excuses to not do it. This also means I need to sleep early to wake up early enough to do it not and have to get on work to put out fires. Which also means I need to be diligent and ahead of my work to be able to log off early peacefully (at this time, I am not lol). Which also means I need to quit goofing off and using my phone and finding ways to not be bored instead of working. Which I do because I’m trying to escape from working. Which I goof off because… I don’t wanna work. What a terrible cycle! So really the main answer is… I gotta sit down and do my damn work so everything else can come into play.
Here’s a sample schedule I whipped up, keeping sleep schedule consistent and allowing for time in the morning to exercise and time at night to clean up, get ready for bed, and jerk off. I think it’s probably too ambitious but we can adjust once tax time is over. My main failure point is goofing off from 20:30-23:30 on my phone not actually doing anything, forcing me to wake up late the next day. Quit it!
And a workout plan that I’ve been putting off. Instead of wondering what my starting weights ‘should be’ and wondering if it’s too light, I’m just picking something light and we’ll start from here. This schedule works by adding +5 lbs to upper body lifts every month and +10 lbs to lower body lifts every month. Which means if I commit to this and did the lifts every time, at the end of the year, my press would be 145×5 (yeah right), bench press 165×5 (probably too low, but whatever), squat 225×5 (respectable), deadlift 235 (a little slightly low, but whatever). But I think that’s a way better place than if I don’t actually measure it, so let’s just take that and have a solid foundation to increase weights, instead of quitting and thinking about what ifs. Maybe you knock off -15/-30 lbs for each and even then it’s not bad. But we can always improve later. The key is to actually improve over time, no matter how small.
Since this schedule is lifting 4 times a week, the other 3 days shouldn’t necessarily be entirely off days. Maybe just 20-30 min of playing around with the reverse hyperextension machine I bought or some supplemental stuff like core work or light conditioning should be fine (in addition to the walking being done). That way I still have to answer “yes’ to did I exercise (and changing the daily criteria from “did you lift” to “did you exercise” to account for this).
Mahjong and IIDX… I kinda don’t wanna say it but… let’s get the exercise and work stuff in order first. Unironically I should try to make this my ‘goof off’ activity but looking at shit on the internet and pissing hours away doing nothing has way less ‘friction’ to do. lol
Well ok that’s it let’s stay on task…!
This weeks dakimakura theme is Illyasviel von einzbern!
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i dont want junchan nomi for 2000… do i? i dont like it
i gave up on junchan with the 7m pickup for the ankou. 12p block is coming out anyway but since we dont need it anymore at all we can do inside first
m-muh once cut honors….
both are crap but pei is marginally safer. but naga has the risk of pei being higher than hatsu. lol i guess 2shanten chiitoi nomi isnt worth it
btfo
true but thanks ヒバカリ
i dont *mind* 2900 here but i guess we have potential for riichi dora and…. something else? 4m pickup?
not sure why i passed this tbh hehe
oops 2s is genbutsu. *rips apart hand*
i’m not folding this. but maybe i should be able to? 4th place avoidance bros…
*tanyao brains himself*
aiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
lookin good mate
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i know its 1m or 1p but i picked 1p because its less likely to have the pair because it’s once cut… if i inverse it then 1p is safer to discard later?
i guess i dont REALLY need the 5m. i thought about dropping 8m to remove furiten on 9m but i fixated on sanshoku. but if im fixated on it then i should drop the 5m!
uhhhhhh tanyao bros?
damaturds won… i guess we could have gone for a 3 tile wait instead of a 2 tile wait. but ‘muh suji trap’
i’m not attacking anyway…? i’m gonna pass on this one
i don’t want sakigiri 9s here? really? the reasoning being i can still get… ittsu 456m if i draw 9s? fascinating
this is too aggressive for me lol
efficiency error!
lol
bro i wanna RIICHI for 77 not settle for 58 ok fine that is better ;_;
keiten fishing. plus i got dora 2. so why not? i got 5m67p to fall back on, so just need 1 additional safe tile vs toimen riichi to fold. famous last words cause he’d tsumo haneman cause of my shift and end in 1st lol
i guess 2 ryanmens (4578m) is better than trying to fix the 445m block (4457m)
better ending tenpai wait i guess
HON ITSU
but i fold here lol
yeah i like the chase here i’m not backing down my 7700 dama hand might as well give it a chance for haneman
true
see you next time
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*goes back 1 shanten again*
I thought about this after I tossed 3p… what if I draw 4s? *sad furiten noises* I guess you could say the same if I draw 2p…
argument for 9s is that I have 4 9s to pass vs 2 1ps to pass if the first one passes. I assessed all of my tiles as dogshit unsafe against this riichi (as evaluated by the blue lines) but I probably should give this up as all I have is riichi dora 2shanten anyway.
I thought about this one for a few seconds… I *do* want the 4m for dora acceptance… but not at the cost of breaking up the already existing blocks.
fucking shit man. Interesting that ヒバカリ would hold the 3m here. For chiitoi?
I wanna fold lol i ain’t pushing against toimen anymore. I guess 1p will be safe later anyway and nan is technically more dangerous as live honor (though valueless for everyone else)
I missed 1m genbutsu… I think 9s suji would have been better too.
2p has 3 3ps out… but my 3 9s also has 3 8s out…. hmm…… how do we arrive at 4p over 2p though? I guess you wouldn’t cut 6p out of 566p on turn 1, would you? then that would make your 25p urasuji more dangerous.
I didn’t wanna tan yao brain and cut the 13m block so fast… maybe i should accept being a tan yao brain monkey…
I think normal me would try to dama here for 39/80 but riichi tsumo takame also can give me haneman… I do like the difference in riichi judgment for カガシ here
23345p+7p let’s me accept 6p. I think I overfixated on drawing the pair though and with only 1 7p remaining I went with the decision to cut that instead. OK
nice sashikomi bro
I didn’t like this call that much. I’d cut 2s for… a wide 1shanten?
I GUESS SO……..3678m46s are best
shoulda pushed the 8m instead of going back 1shanten cause there’s already 3 7ms out. fight bro why you runnin
good job you didn’t get 4th!!!
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yeah i should be afraid of chanta plus i already chucked all the 5s
>.2% agari chance ok you got me. plus its dealer
8p better for chiitoitsu?
hatsu better for chiitoitsu
i disconnected here ):
wa-pow
ok I guess i dont really need more pairs here i can always break a pei if i draw 9s or something, so let’s keep xia as genbutsu for later
i’m not keeping 3s if i draw it so lets hold on to genbutsus!
bro my sakigiri? i guess i can upgrade with 7p…
i wanna dama takame the 6s for 11400………. i guess 5800 isnt bad either
i’m taking not 4th good day sir
admittedly tilted by disconnect. on 東１-２本場 if i had the 3s in hand i would have ronned on kamicha’s 4m instead of dealing 7p dora into toimen for oyamangan. |:
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hmm stop going back 1shanten to improve your final waits maybe? kill 6p acceptance for trying to make a new ryanmen on manzu side
i wanted to suji 7m instead of doing 8p again to try to dodge both riichis… i guess the singular 9m cut is less sus than the 99p cut
chin itsu bros…
suji 7m or suji 3p? I guess if you take into consideration that there are 3 6ms and 3 8ms out suji 68m is less likely than a 24p shape waiting on 3p. ok
muh ryuu ii sou bro
i didn’t wanna tanyao brain myself by keeping the 668s block and relying on the 34s block instead but ok
tanyao brain… won…
I guess I shouldn’t be pushing this. I just got out of 4th so I shouldn’t be so eager to dive right back in, especially since we’re only 1shanten (:
what a joke
ok in my mind i *need* points here so i’m kinda throwing a hail mary on this. 4s is safer in terms of it being nakasuji but my idea was well maybe one of the other two people can throw the 4s!
coulda tossed the 4s if i didn’t riichi (:
absolutely clapped how do you deal in 5 times in a hanchan you actually have to be doing it intentionally lmao
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i don’t get iipeikou anymore so i guess so…
i don’t really wanna end on 57m but i suppose i can upgrade 4m8m and keep 0m acceptance
once cut value honor > terminal
with 2 3m out i suppose 89m is better with 4 7m still alive
in my mind there’s no way i can get 9p anymore cause 2 9p are already cut. so let’s take the iipeikou point upgrade :^)
I was thinking of chiitoi… but I’d end up breaking chiitoi later anyway and renchan isn’t necessarily a bad thing here
I skipped hatsu already |:
yeah i went back 1shanten cutting 1p… what am i doing lol
for some reason i didn’t think 1m was safe and 5m chii was the discard. not paying attention?
what if its CHIN ITSU bro my hand is shit anyway. but it was actually tan yao
if im scared of chin itsu i guess it makes sense to not cut his wind lol
hon itsu chii toi is mangan… chun honitsu is 5200… I guess??
nope i want suuankou tenpai if i can grab it. sorry naga
thats an EARLY 5P but it might have saved me later hehe tfw tanyao brain
tanyao brain bros… ahhhhhhhhh
i know i have to push the 3s here because if he tsumo’s im equally dead but unfortunately i deal in to mangan hehe i dama in case i can draw 6p somehow
yeah cutting 7s here hurts me so bad when i draw 6s later. but couldn’t I just have drawn the 4p or 6p instead???
aiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
muh ITSU potential ok yeah i needed points you got me
nice yakitori bro
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i don’t really want hon itsu that badly bro. should i?
yes 2m is for pushing but it’s not without risk… I wanted to full fold here cause I need to get to 9p to push and that is not a good tile
I think we can still use 7s draw here… tanyao brain says 9m but i wanted to be ‘efficient’
I did 9s two turns later but yeah it’s pretty superfluous here
I think 6s makes me more furiten if i draw another 6s. 5s/7s are good upgrades over only 3m being ryanmen for 2m.
damaturds? I do think it’s low risk but if someone dealt 4p i would be so sad. also its funny i pushed riichi dora 4 lol
I’m cool with 5800 here we have 3200 in the pot and direct hit on toimen locks 2nd.
hooray remember kids safety first be healthy and dont get sick
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>breaks his 1shanten chitoi for 2shanten toitoi
but my toi toi will be worth 5200… vs riichi chiitoi 3200… it’s 50/50 so its ok
muh dora acceptance (4p)
mmmmmmm tanyao brain. let’s check efficiency
tanyao bros…
idk i was cool with 2000 out of this hand but maybe if i didnt cut 4z I’m locking myself into riichi
I would cut the 7m later… do I lose out on aceptance by that much here?
yes i do lose acceptance ok
i’m not tossing yakuhai dora into 4th’s two open call hon itsu bro wtf
tfw no balls
8m is safer to hold later cause i have no balls
yeah i really fucked this one up I was like how do I keep sanshoku like this??? the answer is I can’t!
ok the argument for this is ‘what if you draw 2m dora?’ but my view is sakigiri it cause that’s wishful thinking. but i could also tanki it if i draw 58p… i dunno feels like high risk high reward when I don’t want to be high risk
I guess I should have leaned harder to hon itsu off the bat
going for hon itsu / toi toi from this far is actually unhinged lol
I think if this was tenhou I wouldn’t make this pon… but I was like I’m pretty sure someone will test the 1m suji to fight here. this is definitely playing to the competition
idk fuck it what am i drawing to fix my dora tanki? I’m still 20,300 away from toimen so I’m still safe for direct mangan so I don’t wanna drop any dora
get well soon being sick sucks!
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true your dora acceptance bro?
I just wanted tenpai ok? help minimize the bleeding from oyakaburi baiman ):
I guess i could reason middle souzu are safe vs 0s riichi cut but i was just like bruh im folding; my hand is not coming alive with having to pass either 5m or 5p to that
this might actually be less efficient lets see
yeah i lose 4s acceptance ok you got me
very interesting. but i dont wanna cut 0m dora! it deals in here but the way we can reason this being safe is either as (1) 2m suji since kamicha/toimen both have 7m cut or (2) 36m hasn’t been cut ONCE this round. maybe option (2) has more water here.
I was hesitating on 7m for some reason… like what if kamicha was honitsu manzu? Doesn’t explain the 2 8ms coming out so early i guess.
i think this is actually more efficient?
funny how 4p isnt on here but in my mind i was like there’s no way i get 5p here so i chucked 4p back. it’s technically 1shanten…. but i dont like it… so i chose 2 shanten and fucked myself
heartbrake
lol lmao
my mind is i can’t riichi so my best possible hand is pinfu junchan sanshoku 123. so that’s why I did what I did. it’s not the most efficient but I can’t fuck around with cheap hands.
sorry dude im on a mission
chii 3p feels so bad man but it has to be done
pushing 2s is 100% the choice here. the question is, dama or riichi? our only useful upgrade is 7s, of which there’s only two left — both 3p and 5p put us in furiten, so the obvious answer is palm slam riichi!
get fucked idiot
see you on the next episode of jade room specials