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  • I’m a huge fan of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s work.

    Akagi is the best series that I can’t actually recommend, because if you don’t know anything about Mahjong it will be completely incomprehensible. Or if you do know anything about Mahjong, you’ve already read it and didn’t need me to recommend it to you. Akagi is peak, but only for a very specific niche audience.

    Kaiji is the one I can recommend. Kaiji gets conned by shady loan sharks and forced to gamble his way out of crippling debt, playing all kinds of bizarre games with high stakes. It’s the same style of intense psychological warfare, but, like, accessible to the average reader.

    He’s written a lot of other great stuff, and most of it is more Mahjong, but those are the big two from him.




  • No, I can’t say I’ve regularly seen that as a problem, at least not any moreso than other online spaces.

    Communication is a two-way street. If one person fails to understand what you’re trying to say, that may be their fault. But if nobody seems to understand what you’re trying to say, if this is happening to you regularly enough that you have to ask this kind of question, maybe you’re not being clear enough.

    As others have pointed out, text cannot carry tone, facial expressions, or other nuances that can picked up on with in-person conversations. When communicating through text, it’s important to keep that in mind and work within the limitations of text in order to be clear. Communicating effectively is a skill that takes effort to improve at.

    Full disclosure that I do not know you and I don’t want to accuse you of anything, but this sounds like the kind of question that has a story behind it. If you do feel like this is a frequent problem for you, I think you should try to look inward.



  • No one here is sending those PMs. This community was created in response to the spambots that have been going around, trying to investigate where this spam is coming from.

    Problem is, it’s suspected that the Nicole in the photos isn’t the spammer, and the spammer may even be trying to stir up a mob to dox and harass whoever the real Nicole is. So people are concerned that this community may be putting that person at risk.


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    We have a lot of problems to solve but AI is part of the solution, except that it’s being done wrong. And expensively.

    There’s also a conversation to be had about which jobs shouldn’t be automated, either because current technology isn’t suitable, or because it might never be suitable. And I’d say that pretty much everything that we are calling ‘AI’ right now falls under that - I’ll say that robots are part of the solution, but I don’t think ‘AI’ is.