Re: how did you learn about mahjong?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:53 pm
Oh, that's an uncommon story!
A friend of mine used to do parody-Let's Plays of Windows games. The tile matching mahjong was the most popular and he got gifted a lot of those type of mahjong-games on steam and Let's Played them as well. In the description of one of his videos, he put this link. We watched it together and made fun of it, but somehow we also got interested. So the two of us did some research (because it looked so stupid it might be fun), found it was called Saki and accidently watched four episodes of Achiga-hen before we realised it was the second season. So we watched the original Saki together without understanding ANYTHING AT ALL ("This riichi is something dangerous, isn't it?" - "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure ron is something bad. Still no idea about those points though."). My friend dropped out after the first season, but I continued with Achiga-hen. And Zenkoku-hen. And Akagi. And this is how it all began.
A friend of mine used to do parody-Let's Plays of Windows games. The tile matching mahjong was the most popular and he got gifted a lot of those type of mahjong-games on steam and Let's Played them as well. In the description of one of his videos, he put this link. We watched it together and made fun of it, but somehow we also got interested. So the two of us did some research (because it looked so stupid it might be fun), found it was called Saki and accidently watched four episodes of Achiga-hen before we realised it was the second season. So we watched the original Saki together without understanding ANYTHING AT ALL ("This riichi is something dangerous, isn't it?" - "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure ron is something bad. Still no idea about those points though."). My friend dropped out after the first season, but I continued with Achiga-hen. And Zenkoku-hen. And Akagi. And this is how it all began.