The Science of Storytelling

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someguy3@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Jenga, when the sales fell.

merari42@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Twister his arms wide open

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Daddy, awakened.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I doubt this data is actually available, right?

Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Oh crap. You are right. Now I feel angry if this is fake data.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I also STRONGLY doubt over 200.000 Jenga sets are sold yearly in the US.

HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

There's over 100m households so that's only like 1 per 500 per year

Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I could see 200,000 tbh. They're popular in craft breweries.

watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y

Lol. That’s so specific, but yeah they are.

m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Jenga Jerry is an outlier, and should not be counted.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2y (11 replies)

I'm tired, so I hope that's why I don't get it.

Anyone willing to explain this one? I'm pretty sure I'll face palm myself, but it just isn't clicking on my own lol

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 60 pts · 2y (10 replies)
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 2y

If you could have heard the slap to my face, you would have thought a tower fell

degen@midwest.social · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

But Taboo was taboo

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 2y
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Ok, what is Jenga?

Edit: answered

norimee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If the tower falls you loose.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Does that mean in a Jenga sense the war on terror was instantly won after the towers had been fallen?

Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

A game where a tower of rectangular blocks are stacked, and players take turns trying to remove one block at a time without toppling the tower.

wedeworps@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ok, what is a block?

Edit: answered

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Ah, thanks! Hmm, how did we call that in swiss, 20 years back?

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein

waitmarks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

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hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

...𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens, and I wonder 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮

somethingp@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (2 replies)

9/11 was the 9/11 of the Jenga business

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

9/11 was the 9/11 of 9/11s

somethingp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

It was a poor reference to a quote from the TV show Community. The half Palestinian character Abed says that his father's falafel restaurant had been struggling for a while because "9/11 was pretty much the 9/11 of the falafel business"

CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I still haven’t been able to play Plague Inc after COVID.

lengau@midwest.social · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I always remember the old web game. It was a bitch to get to Madagascar. Inspired the meme:

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ooooo that’s VINTAGE

DogWater@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Got a nice taste to it

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

Love it.

norimee@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Now I wonder how this graph would look like for Stephen Kings "The Stand" during the pandemic.

Did people want to read a book about a flu-like pandemic wiping out humanity or rather not?

m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 2y (3 replies)

It seems like people did. 'The Plague' and Contagion did very well.

WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The game “Plague Inc” spiked in popularity, so the devs rushed out a game about saving humanity instead of destroying it lol

qaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Didn't that mode already exist in the game?

Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

"They're just like us."

m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 2y

They tried to move the stock with a two for one deal, but somehow it only made things worse!