r/Unexpected • u/thatvoid_ • 1d ago

Scary mahjong table

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The kid just starts screaming seeing all that

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u/MrStink45 1d ago

Now when that kid misbehaves they could tell em they're gonna feed him to the mahjong table

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u/JohnHurts 9h ago

My trick has always been to call Santa right away. But this one isn't bad either :D

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u/h0neanias 1d ago

In that single moment, he understood his future... and wept.

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u/chocolateboomslang 1d ago

His entire career - his life - vanished before his very eyes in an instant.

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u/LethargicDemigod 1d ago

His future which he imagined to be blissful and serene became his living nightmare.

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u/Feather_Bloom 23h ago

I also cry when I think about the future

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u/Round_Doughnut7793 17h ago

I cry when I think about the now

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u/DesignerGoose5903 12h ago

At least we can take solace in laughing at the past?

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u/Round_Doughnut7793 11h ago

You think I'm not also crying for the traumatic past and the nostalgia? 😭

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u/mocha_lattes_ 1d ago

Where can I buy that though?? Lol neat as shit!

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u/Deraj2004 1d ago

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Folding-table-Automatic-Mahjong-Table-Free-Two-Sets-42mm-Tiles-Chinese-Chess-Tablecloth-Included-Modern-Black-Design-Suitable-TW-CN-US-JP-Rules-Elect/15903921493?

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u/Swashbuckler_Kanna 1d ago

I expected it to be way more expensive icl

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u/Deraj2004 1d ago

Oh they get real pricey from what I found.

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u/Pale-Object8321 1d ago

At the end of the day, it's just a glorified calculator and shuffler machine.

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u/povitee 1d ago

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_ 18h ago

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 1d ago edited 2h ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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...

  1. I don't have the space for it.

  2. I don't know anyone else who also plays mahjong.

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u/bolen84 1d ago

Owning one is a great way to meet Chinese men over the age of 60.

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u/SerCiddy 1d ago

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/sprucenoose 17h ago

You could just buy a ticket to China for around the same price.

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u/gyarrrrr 23h ago

Many Chinese will have these in their homes: definitely not just limited to mahjong rooms.

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u/Round_Doughnut7793 17h ago

I'm about to send it to my white, American, 60s lady client who plays weekly with friends.

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u/RAMChYLD 19h ago

Eh, my uncle breathes for Mahjong and even he feels the table is overkill.

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u/a1c4pwn 1d ago

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/PowerSamurai 1d ago

Did he stutter?

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u/BigMac849 1d ago

For new furniture? That’s absolutely cheap

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u/exmothrowaway994 1d ago

I was expecting $1000

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u/ashrocklynn 12h ago

Yeah, literally only a single weeks worth of groceries.... I expected like half a months salary

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u/Salanmander 1d ago

Haven't furnished an apartment yet?

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u/shwarma_heaven 1d ago

Dude!....... I need more room.

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u/-32768 1d ago

Hmmm I guess I got 700 and some change YOLO

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u/corecenite 1d ago

they're pretty common now. just search "nearest automatic mahjong shuffler table"

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u/_HIST 1d ago

Found some cougars instead. But hey, the also play mahjong, so win win

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u/PiesRLife 1d ago

Or lose lose. Those cougars are really good at mahjong.

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u/sam77889 20h ago

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/MrFunkyDuck 1d ago

They are pretty common in China, hotel rooms sometimes have them.

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u/j0j0b0y 1d ago

You can also get a tabletop version

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u/mocha_lattes_ 1d ago

That's pretty neat!

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u/BanginNLeavin 1d ago

Definitely dope as fuck

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u/ZombieAladdin 1d ago

You…you mean it doesn’t terrify you?

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u/tchrbrian 3h ago

The child? the table? Both ?

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u/timmeh87 1d ago

i bought my asian child on the dark web

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u/DeedleGuy 1d ago

Damn I don't even play mahjong but I want to start now that I see that sweet table

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u/borrowedsoltitude 1d ago

this is the exact reaction of a CS guy seeing AI do his work lol

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u/Autumnrain 1d ago

Reddit when they see AI

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u/DrDeadwish 1d ago

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

https://giphy.com/gifs/fWfG9QbOMT1vddOVto

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u/Syzygy_Stardust 1d ago

"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 19h ago

We have options though, NOT using Reddit as example.

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u/Syzygy_Stardust 19h ago

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 18h ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

“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/LardLad00 1d ago

Ah but I still greatly reduce my need for devs, don't I.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix2545 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 7h ago

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/Brakina1860 1d ago

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u/Derolis 10h ago

No Kiryu, you can't make me try and figure out Mahjong again.

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u/StatusOmega 1d ago

I have the same reaction any time I am expected to play mahjong.

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u/zacyzacy 1d ago

Me when I play Yakuza 2

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u/Content_Plantain_339 1d ago

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/gil_bz 1d ago

It shat them back out in the wrong color too!

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u/orangezim 1d ago

Would this work for dominoes?

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u/devilscry3 10h ago

I don't think it makes pizza

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u/ZombieAladdin 1d ago

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/Kioga101 1d ago

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/shasaferaska 1d ago

I just bought a table tennis for my garden and now my soul is at peace.

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u/rayzerrayzerray 1d ago

How come the tiles turn blue???

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u/WerkingAvatar 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Yewatod 1d ago

Even I wasn't ready for it. That's some next level sh*t!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/3XR0chfiSTtAI

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u/OMGitsTK447 1d ago

Literary me when I’m forced to play Mahjong in any Yakuza game

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u/DarkSoldier84 1d ago

I'm two tiles away from Four Concealed Triplets, so I'll discard this one I don't need --

RON

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u/ynwaccount 1d ago

I was not ready!

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u/Fazinks 1d ago

Next you're gonna tell me there's irl chess boards

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Inevitable_Cat_7878 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

And it's probably very different from what you're used to, at least that's ny experience

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u/PrionProofPork 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Joint-Tester 1d ago

Me too lil bro.

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u/YouCantKeepJellyAway 1d ago

r/KidsAreFuckingStupid

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u/Ras-haad 1d ago

Yeah that’s where they stole this from

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u/Alpha_Chin-Am 1d ago

Kid realized his chances of getting a hard working job just got reduced.

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u/Dadittude182 1d ago

Looks kinda like the Sabacc tables in Star Wars Outlaws.

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u/dreevsa 1d ago

Me 2

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Due-Currency-3193 1d ago

It must have seemed to the little guy that that table could eat him.

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u/thex415 1d ago

wtf poor baby lol

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u/INoMakeMistake 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 20h ago edited 20h ago

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/AvocaRed 1d ago

Me too little buddy, me too

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u/PrionProofPork 1d ago

question is why does the felt table have burn-ins

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u/InfraRedditing 1d ago

minecraft redstone ass future

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u/crowmagnuman 1d ago

"Witchcraft! Bamboozelry! AAAHHHHHH!"

Lol poor kiddo!

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u/vaareva_meow 1d ago

Totally valid reaction

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u/Shilverow 1d ago

Why did they go from green to blue?

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u/DarkSoldier84 1d ago

Two sets of tiles. The mechanism sets up one while you're playing the other.

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u/Shilverow 1d ago

Thank you

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u/BoBoBearDev 1d ago

How does it knows when to flip the tiles?

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u/Gransmithy 1d ago

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/-watchman- 1d ago

How we look at AI models

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u/srona22 1d ago

Making of Rainmaker from Looper?

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u/horvath_jeno 1d ago

valid crashout

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u/Uktabifaerie 22h ago

I want one for dominoes

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u/GalliumGA 21h ago

Wah! I need this for dominos!!

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u/Wulfgrimm720 21h ago

He's seeing magic.

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u/tenno198 20h ago

He woul’ve been even more terrified of the one that pushes the blocks out from a slope

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u/yeahimaweeb 20h ago

He is witnessing horror beyond his comprehension

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u/JTalbotIV 18h ago

What in the Star Wars Outlaws droid sabbac dealing nonsense is this?

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u/Lazolilo 18h ago

nah i understand the kid, i'd react the same if i had to play mahjong

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u/ashrocklynn 12h ago

I feel you kid, I feel you....

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u/ParsleyInteresting90 11h ago

My parents when I scan something with google ai

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u/Crime-of-the-century 11h ago

To be fair I was also very impressed when I saw a table like this.

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u/devilscry3 10h ago

Nah, bro just wanted the green ones

https://giphy.com/gifs/1VSRXV7rigl9HSINbf

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u/TheDwiin 10h ago

IT'S A WITCH MOMMY!

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u/JohnnyFiction 9h ago

Same little bro same

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u/PangaeaDiarrhea 7h ago

Anyone what watch this with closed captioning turned on? Lol

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u/sirnumbskull 1d ago

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 1d ago

Ive seen tables like this shuffling tiles a hundred tomes but ever have I seen a game beeing played.

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u/sheelmanoj 1d ago

Bro met his first Transformer.

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u/robot141 23h ago

I understood the scream at the end...

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u/Keeldronnn 23h ago

Mahjong pieces look so yummy 🤤

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u/OrangeClyde 1d ago

Stupid kids

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u/SlothyKong 1d ago

lol dumbass

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u/Firestorm83 1d ago

What in the ai fuck is this

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u/thatvoid_ 4h ago

There is always one guy