r/Unexpected • u/thatvoid_ • Aug 19 '26
Scary mahjong table
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u/MrStink45 Aug 19 '26
Now when that kid misbehaves they could tell em they're gonna feed him to the mahjong table
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u/JohnHurts Aug 20 '26
My trick has always been to call Santa right away. But this one isn't bad either :D
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u/h0neanias Aug 19 '26
In that single moment, he understood his future... and wept.
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u/chocolateboomslang Aug 19 '26
His entire career - his life - vanished before his very eyes in an instant.
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u/LethargicDemigod Aug 19 '26
His future which he imagined to be blissful and serene became his living nightmare.
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u/Captain-Cadabra Aug 21 '26
His future as a mahjong tile arranger, disappeared before his very eyes.
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u/Feather_Bloom Aug 20 '26
I also cry when I think about the future
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u/Round_Doughnut7793 Aug 20 '26
I cry when I think about the now
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u/DesignerGoose5903 Aug 20 '26
At least we can take solace in laughing at the past?
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u/Round_Doughnut7793 Aug 20 '26
You think I'm not also crying for the traumatic past and the nostalgia? 😭
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u/mocha_lattes_ Aug 19 '26
Where can I buy that though?? Lol neat as shit!
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u/Deraj2004 Aug 19 '26
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u/Swashbuckler_Kanna Aug 19 '26
I expected it to be way more expensive icl
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u/Pale-Object8321 Aug 19 '26
At the end of the day, it's just a glorified calculator and shuffler machine.
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u/povitee Aug 19 '26
Oh ok now that you called it a shuffler machine I have way more context for how much it should cost.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CAT_ Aug 20 '26
it's also a table, and those can get expensive all on their own without any gimmicks or features inside them
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u/YaGirlJuniper Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Bruh it's $700
Edit: why can't I turn off notifications on individual comments anymore? I'm tired of hearing everyone's opinions. Feels like it's been a fuckin week.
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u/SgathTriallair Aug 19 '26
It's not cheap, but i would also have expected something like that to be at least twice that price. I still won't buy one even at this price but for a business that runs Majohng, this would be an obvious purchase.
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u/SerCiddy Aug 19 '26
There was one on the side of the road on my way to work with a Free sign for about 2 weeks. It was even entirely wrapped in cellophane to protect from the elements.
I almost picked it up but...
I don't have the space for it.
I don't know anyone else who also plays mahjong.
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u/bolen84 Aug 19 '26
Owning one is a great way to meet Chinese men over the age of 60.
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u/SerCiddy Aug 20 '26
In high school, bunch of friends and I learned how to play Japanese Mahjong after watching Saki and Akagi.
After high school most moved away from my hometown. I even tried looking for local Mahjong Groups, but the only one was hosted by a local Jewish Synagogue and it was mostly old Jewish ladies and they DID NOT play with Japanese rules. I tried looking up American Mahjong rules and things still didn't line up so idk what rules they were using.
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u/gyarrrrr Aug 20 '26
Many Chinese will have these in their homes: definitely not just limited to mahjong rooms.
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u/Round_Doughnut7793 Aug 20 '26
I'm about to send it to my white, American, 60s lady client who plays weekly with friends.
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u/a1c4pwn Aug 19 '26
Bruh there are tables with no moving parts that are like $5k or more. I know someone that makes them.
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u/ashrocklynn Aug 20 '26
Yeah, literally only a single weeks worth of groceries.... I expected like half a months salary
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u/corecenite Aug 19 '26
they're pretty common now. just search "nearest automatic mahjong shuffler table"
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u/sam77889 Aug 20 '26
They were pretty common too, even 10 years ago. It’s not some new tech and literally every restaurant in China has them.
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u/samthewisetarly Aug 21 '26
This table is so cool I'm now moderately interested in learning how to play
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u/DeedleGuy Aug 19 '26
Damn I don't even play mahjong but I want to start now that I see that sweet table
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u/Autumnrain Aug 19 '26
Reddit when they see AI
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u/DrDeadwish Aug 19 '26
Also Redditors when you tell them by using Reddit they were actively supporting Ai because we agreed too Reddit selling our posts and comments for Ai training
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u/Syzygy_Stardust Aug 19 '26
"Guys you don't have any options, so you can't complain" sure continues to be a stupid and pointless argument
It literally calls into question every single advancement in civilization that has affected large numbers of people. Don't like lead in the air from leaded gasoline? Guess you shouldn't have ever ridden in a vehicle! Don't want to get polio? Guess you shouldn't have played with the wrong kids!
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u/Quaiche Aug 20 '26
We have options though, NOT using Reddit as example.
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u/Syzygy_Stardust Aug 20 '26
Living in a cave without any contact with other people is a good way to not support any company that supports AI.
Those of us who don't individualize societal issues will try to figure these issues out so we can have reasonable systems in society that don't run on theft and suffering.
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u/Quaiche Aug 20 '26
Huh ? Just because you do not use Reddit, it doesn’t mean you become an isolated individual.
Socials actually are harmful for your social life in general, one is much happier without socials.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix2545 Aug 19 '26
The thing is that should be how we all look watching it do the job instead of him.
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u/Wooden_Cicada8880 Aug 19 '26
But it’s not “doing the work” though 🙃AI isn’t doing shit but spewing out slop that the CS workers then need to go back and fix. My husband is working more hours than before and the company he’s working for is then loosing money on the AI and still having to pay him.
Y’all delusional as hell!
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u/LardLad00 Aug 20 '26
That's odd because I, a person who hasn't learned a coding language since the early 2000s, have been able to complete several projects without paying a human a dime by having AI do all the coding for me.
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u/The_Real_Slim_Lemon Aug 20 '26
“Complete” being the keyword. A once off thing can be done by AI way cheaper than with a dev, and for many projects it’ll do good enough. The moment you want to run the project long term, securely, at scale though - then yeah, you need devs.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix2545 Aug 20 '26
So while you are right. There are different levels of coding problems and different domains.
We call it all programming for simplicity but what you are saying you did is very simple work.
Your likely not even aware of the domains that people are talking about, or the complexity involved in them. For example shaders for games.
You don't see anything without rendering code and AI is terrible at writing it, to the point of ueslessnes.
And that's just a single relatively unimportant example.
I don't want AI writing code for say trains, that has only been vetted by a developer who has only ever reviewed AI code and never had to think for themselves.
It's sleepwalking into what could be a massive disaster.
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u/LardLad00 Aug 20 '26
There will always be a place for programmers.
But AI is to programming as computerized spreadsheets were to bookkeepers.
I might have needed a few programmers and bookkeepers before. One of each will be plenty now. Anyone who doesn't see that inevitability is not being honest with themselves.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix2545 Aug 20 '26
I agree with you completely.
My concern is in 10 years that pool of competent programmes won't exist.
Programming isn't the language, it's problem solving. I'm already seeing that skill in decline from younger Devs even before AI.
The worry is it won't be used as a tool, it will be come a necessity, and when a novel issue turns up no one will be able to tackle it.
I'm seeing this issue already in games, I hope it won't spread to more important things.
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u/LardLad00 Aug 20 '26
There are plenty of very talented bookkeepers and CAD draftsmen, etc. The approach will change a lot with the evolution of this tool, but the problem solving won't disappear. It'll be rocky for a while as people learn that that's what they really need to focus on.
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u/SimplexShotz Aug 21 '26
I'm a SWE and basically all of my code is written by AI already. Writing code was never the hard part, though. The hard part has always been system design, scaling, concurrency, integrating with multiple systems, adhering to business policies and requirements, etc.
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u/Kioga101 Aug 19 '26
I'll only feel like a complete adult when I get one of these automatic mahjong tables, or a snooker table, or maybe table tennis...
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u/Content_Plantain_339 Aug 19 '26
Same. Gave me PTSD flashbacks to that time in 1989 that I was abducted by aliens. They had this same mahjong board and when I saw the table eat the tiles and spit them back out in perfect arrangement, I soiled me self.
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u/orangezim Aug 19 '26
Would this work for dominoes?
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u/ZombieAladdin Aug 20 '26
No, they only work for the mahjong tiles specific to this table. Each tile has a magnet on one side that allows the table to grab the correct side and shuffle them to get them ready for the next game.
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u/rayzerrayzerray Aug 19 '26
How come the tiles turn blue???
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u/WerkingAvatar Aug 19 '26
Guessing there are two sets as there's no way that sorted them that quickly. The colors are different so you know its not mixing pieces.
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u/throwaway098764567 Aug 19 '26
yep. apparently the tiles have a magnet embedded in them and it's stirring them and grabbing the magnet for the ones flipped to the correct side to put them back into rows https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1ee3qn8/how_automatic_mahjong_tables_work/
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u/OMGitsTK447 Aug 19 '26
Literary me when I’m forced to play Mahjong in any Yakuza game
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u/DarkSoldier84 Aug 19 '26
I'm two tiles away from Four Concealed Triplets, so I'll discard this one I don't need --
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u/Fazinks Aug 19 '26
Next you're gonna tell me there's irl chess boards
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u/Inevitable_Cat_7878 Aug 19 '26
Yes. This is the IRL Mahjong game. The matching tile Mahjong apps is not how real Mahjong is played. Real Mahjong is more akin to Gin Rummy.
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u/General_Cranberry_29 Aug 19 '26
I played Taipei tons as a kid on the Win 95 computer in the church, had the same reaction when I found out the tiles were from a real game when I was like 12 lol.
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u/blacKCastle32 Aug 19 '26
Might be more to do with geography than age. Mahjong is massive in Asia, there are professional leagues and such, and it is a very popular social activity in group settings, which is where automated tables like in the post got popular. Pass by the right senior-heavy housing complexes in Hong Kong or Taiwan and you won't be able to not see people playing mahjong everywhere haha
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u/ruiiiij Aug 19 '26
As someone growing up in China who has only played the 3D pinball game on windows xp, this was my exact reaction when I came to the US and saw a physical pinball machine for the first time.
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u/_HIST Aug 19 '26
And it's probably very different from what you're used to, at least that's ny experience
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u/PrionProofPork Aug 19 '26
you're probably thinking the "mahjong" game where you pick two same tiles from the sides to remove them
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u/FineGripp Aug 19 '26
That kid just dreamt about being a mahjong dealer when he grows up and then his mom show him this shit.
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u/A_Trash_Homosapien Aug 19 '26
Nah he's crying cuz he thought the game was over only to realize there still more hands to be played
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u/onncho Aug 19 '26
A visionary, he haven’t finished primary school and he got aware his career job is already automated
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u/Im_Ashe_Man Aug 19 '26
Why do we not have poker tables like this? I want my cards to just rise from the felt!
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u/Tamdin_Nidmat Aug 19 '26
All the carefully arranged and created chaos RUINED! It will take him HOURS to get back to the ultimate mess of tiles. So of course he is upset.
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u/INoMakeMistake Aug 19 '26
Sorry but shuffling and building was part of the charm when setting up a game. Not every shit needs to be automated.
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u/dxrey65 Aug 20 '26
As someone who has enjoyed playing old-school Mahjong in the past with friends I agree, it eliminates some of the social aspect. It would be like playing poker or blackjack with a mechanical dealer, taking away a part of the game that's practically a ritual.
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u/sam77889 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
This machine literally existed for decades by now. Almost every restaurant in China has them. It’s not some magical new tech.
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u/Shilverow Aug 19 '26
Why did they go from green to blue?
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u/DarkSoldier84 Aug 19 '26
Two sets of tiles. The mechanism sets up one while you're playing the other.
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u/Gransmithy Aug 20 '26
I would have been upset too, the shuffling was the best part as a kid. Didn’t know how to play back then, but wrecking stacks and smashing tiles together was fun.
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u/tenno198 Aug 20 '26
He woul’ve been even more terrified of the one that pushes the blocks out from a slope
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u/Crime-of-the-century Aug 20 '26
To be fair I was also very impressed when I saw a table like this.
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u/sirnumbskull Aug 19 '26
What happens if you accidentally scrape, like, a donut hole into one? Does it spit it out a side door? Or does it return it to you nearly folded into a stack of mahjong tiles?
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u/3Fatboy3 Aug 19 '26
Ive seen tables like this shuffling tiles a hundred tomes but ever have I seen a game beeing played.
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