[Japanese > English] The post-game analysis of my Shogi app; what do these numbered words/terms mean?

[Japanese > English] The post-game analysis of my Shogi app; what do these numbered words/terms mean?

Thank you very much!

(Shogi is a game similar to Chess, which was invented in Japan some centuries ago)

u/PowerTulip — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/shogi

Survey: Please name me your favorite time controls

I've come to realize that barely anyone likes 'sudden death' games, without byyomi or Fischer time, giving every game a definitive time limit of how long it can last. But these are my favorite ones, I especially like 5+0! Even a 10-minutes-game feels too dragged out for me. Lol, I guess I have a short attention span.

But the purpose of this survey is to learn how marginal my own personal opinion actually is. I wanna see, what kind of games other players prefer and if there is a tendency for one certain type of time settings. So please share in this thread which kind of open games in any Internet lobby attract you the most! Arrigato! :)

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 4 days ago
▲ 51 r/shogi

First physical Shogi-ban of my life!!! Plastic, magnetic pieces, foldable, ~$30 on Amazon

The chances of ever really playing with someone are slim to none, though, not where I live. So in the meantime I have it lying on the table in my living room and whenever I enter it I make a move and reverse the board. Aah well, but even by itself it looks like an obscure piece of art, and maybe it can serve as a conversation starter in the future. Anyways, it was inevitable that one day I just had to buy one.

u/PowerTulip — 5 days ago

Der Prozess

Die Menge brüllt, der Schall füllt alles

hier steht enthüllt, Zentrum des Falles

vor einem Richter und seinem Chor

vor einem Henker, der einst Treue schwor

Blutig und so voller Narben, gewiss kein Held

den man ertragen, darum schnell ein Urteil fällt

'Schuldiger! Verräter!', erfüllt den Raum

und alle auf den Henker schauen

leicht gelangweilt seine Klinge

zum nächsten Mal sie lasse schwingen

Ein leichter Ruck, das Leben schwindet

der Chor erwacht, vor Freude windend

schreiend, so dass niemand hört

dass in der Ecke jemand stört

Ein Kind, das weint, ja, warum, was hat er?

Sie töteten seinen Vater.

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 6 days ago

Pornos mit echten Menschen ekeln mich an

Ich weiss, dass ich damit sehr in der Minderheit liege, aber seit ungefähr 2 Jahren wichse ich nur noch auf KI-Porno. Ha ha, wow, das liest sich auf dem Bildschirm eigentlich noch erbärmlicher, als ich es mir vorstellte! 😂 (Ich: M37/single/super zufrieden damit, möchte hier bloss meine Gedanken loswerden)

Und mein Gott, bin ich dankbar, dass es sowas gibt, denn schon seit den 2010ern konnte ich mir echte keine Pornos mit realen Schauspielern mehr geben. Muss wohl ein persönliches, psychologisches "Problem" sein. Ich ekelte mich vor MICH SELBST, weil ich beim Selbstbefriedigen ja quasi gezwungen war, echte Frauen in meinem Kopf zu bloßen Sexobjekten zu degradieren. Das fühlt sich irgendwie scheiße an, und es erregt mich einfach nicht mehr. Ich schaue sogar bewusst weg, seitdem mir dies alles so klar geworden ist. Und wieso, WIESO??, wird generell immer so viel Fokus auf den männlichen Darsteller gelegt? Ich musste dann immer wieder pausieren, Schwanz aus der Hand nehmen und zu einer anderen Szene skippen. Es gibt unendlich viele Clips im Internet, aber nur eine Handvoll, die mir im Gedächtnis geblieben sind (und inzwischen auch schon längst wieder gelöscht sind), waren es wert auch angeguckt zu werden. Pronos frustrieren mich oft: So viele kleine Fehler in der Produktion ruinieren das grösste Potential (und Potential = geile Weiber in diesem Kontext. Geile Ischen, die mir als Endverbraucher hier vorgeführt werden. Und seht ihr: Ich bin schon wieder gezwungen, reale Menschen, Männer als auch Frauen, in meinem Geist herabzustumpfen)

So, jetzt wird KI ja grundsätzlich verteufelt. Aaaber: Für mich armen Wichser bietet sie eine wahre, sogar moralisch vertretbare Alternative zu RL-Pornographie, und es muss Millionen anderer Männer geben, die damit ihr Leben verschönen. Ich, also in meiner Perspektive, sehe darin echt nichts Schlimmes, aber ich bin neugierig, was andere darüber denken.

(achso, man wird hier gezwungen, einen Flair für seinen Thread auszusuchen. Hmm, denke mal Sucht passt hier am besten, weil man es mit allem auch übertreiben kann. Hätte aber am liebsten gar kein Flair gesetzt.)

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 7 days ago
▲ 5 r/shogi

So how is Kiou doing? Is it great or a let-down? I don't speak Japanese, so I feel the site is still off-limits to me ...

I'm also interested in how fast you can get a game there, and the overall strength distribution of the playerbase there. But if it also has optional AI assistance like Shogi Wars does, that'd be a dealbreaker for me. :/

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 8 days ago

The machine will wake up yet again in another two hours

My current desktop wallpaper. A friend of mine shot the photo, but he doesn't want it to be revealed where he lives.

u/PowerTulip — 12 days ago

In der fernen Zukunft werden Menschen auf fremden Planeten Pizza essen und der Imbiss wird 'Bella Italia' oder so ähnlich heißen. Und niemand wird wirklich verstehen warum. Aber es war halt schon immer so.

Folgender Gedanke ist mir durch den Kopf gegangen als ich vor einiger Zeit merkte, dass die Musik des deutschen Mainstream-Radios nahezu identisch mit der ist, die ich schon als Kind kannte. Wirklich kaum Abwechslung, mit den 'besten Hits der 80er, 90er und heute'. Sprichwörtlich der selbe Spruch, und ich lebe in einer völlig anderen Ecke in Deutschland seit damals. Wäre es nicht also logisch anzunehmen, dass wir diese stereotypen Namen für Restaurants, mag es nun 'La Napoli' or 'Beijing Temple' sein, die scheinbar immer wieder und auf der ganzen Welt verwendet werden, auch irgendwann auf andere Welten transportieren werden?

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 16 days ago
▲ 0 r/shogi

My rant on Byoyomi

Games with byoyomi feel too dragged out and lack the ever-increasing pressure of the clock. I honestly feel that an important element of the game is missing when a game can theoretically go on forever, that element being the need for being prudent with your time management and being forced to make moves relatively quickly. When I start a game I want to be in the clear beforehand when I can expect it to end. I'm a busy man, my time is valuable.

How frustrating can it be when you dominate your opponent throughout the entire middlegame, you grind his clock down, but thanks to the byoyomi they somehow manage to keep on surviving by the thinnest of threads. Both of you know that it's technically a decided game, but you still have to tediously wiggle your way towards a checkmate and one unlucky mistake from your side still has the potential to swing the whole game around to your disfavor. One single mistake or oversight can cost you a game which should've gracefully ended 20 moves ago. Byoyomi punishes fast play, and it tends to spoil the kifu of games which could have been considered 'beautiful' otherwise, if there had been a clearly defined time limit established.

In my narrow worldview (yes, I fully realize I'm in the minority camp here), Byoyomi is a detriment to Shogi, and I avoid playing with it whenever possible. That's the reason why I only on Shogi Quest: The only offered games there are without it, and I love that fact.

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 30 days ago

Vermutlich die letzte je publizierte Ausgabe von 'Front und Heimat' (Titelblatt)

u/PowerTulip — 1 month ago
▲ 13 r/shogi

A former Chess player (me) wants to know: What's your opinion on Chess? Does it hold a candle to Shogi? Or is it even superior? Pls answer!

I abruptly stopped playing Chess three years ago when I learned about Shogi. It was like flicking a light switch in my brain: Within a few days I was totally immersed in this game and until today I never looked back at these many past years of mine when I was obsessed with Chess instead.

Today, for the first time since forever, I checked back at r/chess and holy s***, was Chess always this boring and depressing? The checkered boards are awful to look at when checking out any given position (no, I'm not exaggerating) and the Chessmen look cheesy compared to the elegant kanji (though I must admit, with real-life equipment Chess comes off better).

Optics aside, my opinion on the game itself has stayed the same for all these years: The board is too small, the power balance between the different pieces is off, there are way, waayyy too many draws at the professional level, pieces don't recycle but IF they did it would destroy the game (imo) because each piece hits like a small nuke compared to their much more restricted Shogi counterparts. To make a long story short: I'm not a big fan of Chess. I call it 'Wannabe Shogi' in my mind, lol. I'm fully aware that if I were to post this exact same text on the Chess subreddit my days on this site would be numbered 😄 But I'm very interested in hearing out your opinions on this subject, so please post away.

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 1 month ago
▲ 9 r/shogi

Shogi Quest received a very nice update!

It used to be the stepchild of the Online Shogi world, but now it truly is on par with the paid version of Shogi Wars. Hey, and it even has the nice feature of prohibiting the practice of cheating-for-money, ain't that just great? (jk 😄)

The new update gives you the option to switch to the so-called Effect Board, which brings dozens of animations, sound effects and visual cues to the table, and even the BGM changes according to the game situation. But the most important change (imo) is that for the first time ever the board and the pieces themselves finally look SHARP! The reason I always prefered Lishogi was the general feel of cheapness and lacklusterness when playing a game on SQ. I don't want to give a detailed explanation of why and how it limped behind in the visual department, but to make a long story short, it simply looked like crap, especially on a bigger monitor. Thank goodness those days are behind us and what used to be its weakness is now SQ's strongest selling point. I feel like today (or a few days ago, when the update actually launched) all of us Shogi players advanced a bit forward, even if you don't play there. It's a pretty cinematic experience, but for free, so try it out if you've got the time.

reddit.com
u/PowerTulip — 1 month ago