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Akagi Ep 1 for people who can't be bothered to read the rule book

The reason I keep hearing for why Akagi is less good than Kaiji is no one outside a very specific subset of weirdos actually knows how this game works. The psychological thriller breaks down if you can’t make sense of the pay structure.

Ok we're 4 minutes into the episode and Nangou is pretty far in the hole. I think he’s down to 24k points in his little drawer. For the sake of brevity, point sticks = poker chips. The round is South 4, 8th turn. We’re about half way through this hand. It is the last hand before we turn chips back into cash.

Nangou's hand is: 235p123m99s 123sRRR

Nangou is going to discard the <span style="color: #4169E1">5p</span>. He could win on either <span style="color: #4169E1">1p</span> or <span style="color: #4169E1">4p</span>, with <span style="color: #4169E1">1p</span> being ideal.

His hand is currently worth 2 guaranteed points. If he wins on <span style="color: #4169E1">4p</span>, this is all he gets. <ul><li>Dragon triplet <span style="color: #DC143C">RRR</span> - 1 point</li> <li>Dora (<span style="color: #228B23">3s</span>) - 1 point each</li></ul> If he wins on the <span style="color: #4169E1">1p</span> he can gain <ul><li>Tricolor matching sequences - 2 points</li> <li>Mixed all terminals + honors - 3 points</li></ul> for a total of <b>7</b> points, with a payout of <b>12k chips</b>.

HOWEVER the yakuza across the table has already called “uno” (<i>riichi</i>), and he's previously discarded <span style="color: #4169E1">2p</span>, which means the safest option for Nangou's wallet is to fold, and discard <span style="color: #4169E1">2p</span>, as it is guaranteed to not deal into that guy’s hand.

MEANWHILE the guy to Nangou's right was waiting on the <span style="color: #4169E1">2p</span> or a <span style="color: #228B23">G</span>reen dragon, so folding would have totally screwed Nangou over. Guy on the right is going for:

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stupid idea for a MDZS fanmade visual novel:

you play as jin zixuan. after a long series of various events and misunderstandings, you come to understand that your acquaintance jiang yanli, who you once wrote off as average, is in fact a perfect soul who you desperately want to marry. the only problem now is that she 1. is still convinced that you hate her, 2. probably hates your loser ass too, and 3. is surrounded by men and women who are far more qualified to date her than you are. #1 and #2 can hopefully be resolved eventually with enough time, effort, and apologies.....but #3 seems to render that impossible, since if you're not careful any one of these "more qualified" bachelor/ettes might snap her up first!!!!!

you immediately identifies wei wuxian as your biggest threat, because from your (jin zixuan's) pov, wei wuxian is jiang yanli's male childhood friend who she super dotes on. after seeing how close they are, you are initially almost ready to give up - except then you find out that lan wangji is gay and in love with wei wuxian, and thus realize that you can eliminate wei wuxian as a threat if wangxian get together.

you then realize that this also applies to everyone else you see as a romantic threat. so, because you are a problem solver, you come up with a solution: before any of jiang yanli's friends can make a move on her, you will find a way to pair them all off with each other. that way, they will all be too busy dating each other and your path to yanli's heart will be (relatively) clear.

so instead of being a dating sim, the objective of the visual novel is to help all the various side couples involving yanli's friends get together, so none of them can threaten xuanli.