AMAB is Assigned Male at Birth meaning typically born with genitalia interpreted as a penis but is sometimes due to parents/doctor choosing if the baby’s genitalia is not a penis or vagina.

Likewise, AFAB is Assigned Female at Birth meaning typically born with genitalia interpreted as a vagina but is sometimes due to parents/doctor choosing if the baby’s genigalia is not a penis or vagina.

You seem like a good and reasonable person, and I’m glad you’re aware of your feelings and not reacting super negatively towards the existence of trans people over them. I’d recommend thinking through this a bit more sometime.

Sure, most people are only into men or women, but most people don’t start off getting to know someone before sex is on the table with a “by the way, what genitals do you have?” That feels reductive and is a major red flag to most trans people. It’s similar to how chasers who pursue trans women with a penis as a fetish. We’re so much more than our genitals.

In case you ever end up in sex talks with someone who either at that moment comes out as trans or mentions what genitals they have, handle that conversation delicately. Many of us and don’t want the genitals we have but surgery is too expensive, but we also don’t want to have sex with someone agonizing over our genitals or don’t want that part interacted with at all if we do. This is also why many trans people date within the trans community to alleviate these kinds of issues.

Lucky for you, some trans people who are AMAB get surgery to change that penis into a vagina or something else. There are also plenty of gender fluid or nonbinary trans people who are AFAB and don’t have or want a penis.

However, maybe get to know someone first and decide if you are attracted to them as a person before reducing them to their genitals. There are a lot of ways to have sex with trans people, and if you’re into them, they’re into you and they happen to have a penis, I’m sure you two can figure something out.

“Too blessed to be depressed” - they’re a Christian fundamentalist who is depressed but trying to convince themselves otherwise. You should run.

And Battle Royale totally ripped off Hunger Games

I recently saw an ad for another installment in the awful franchise that is The Santa Clause.

I’m amazed people still watch Tim Allen let alone that many sequels into a well overdone concept.

I want them all to be Cardassian’s instead. Playing 5d chess and employing all sorts of phsycological warfare till most of them think they’ve always been vulcans and have a family back home waiting on them.

Congrats! Now time to aim for Expert ;)

Haha, thanks for the compliment! I’m slowly headed up to master. I’m close to expert 3. I just keep getting my rank knocked down right before I cross the threshold. I’m learning more every day though, and hopefully I’ll make it up there!

After thinking through it a little more, my guess for being against calling is that it does push the hand to end faster. So if everyone is wanting to try build more satisfying hands but that one person keeps calling and forcing 2-4k hands, it can get annoying. I’ve had games like that where I also want to kill that one person XD.

I’m only level 2 Expert in Maj Soul, so take this however you wish, it’s just my thoughts on the play.

Sanshoku is a bit of a long shot because you’re waiting on the 3 of bamboo and 2 of wheels. You’d need to get pretty lucky for both single tile waits. Especially the 3 since your opponents will naturally be less likely to play it.

Depending on what’s been discarded so far, you may have tipped your hand to everyone else where they’d be less likely to discard those tiles. You’ll definitely tip you hand if you chi a 2 of wheels.

That said, it isn’t a bad play depending on how early in the hand it is, who dealer is, what the score is, and if you’re trying to bluff another hand like chinitsu to try to make someone else rush a Tanyao or some other low scoring hand. This is only East 2, so I’d be more likely to play that closer to the middle of the hand when I’m trying to cobble something together if the draws haven’t worked out for a better hand.

I have no idea what the Showa period comment is about. Maybe there was a different mahjong meta at the time.