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The Science of Storytelling (preview.redd.it)
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jenga, when the sales fell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Twister, his arms wide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Twister his arms wide open

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Daddy, awakened.

[–] brbposting 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I doubt this data is actually available, right?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] southsamurai 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Jenga was taboo after 9/11. Sociology!

[–] southsamurai 30 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But Taboo was taboo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Deep memory unlocked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, what is Jenga?

Edit: answered

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the tower falls you loose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, what is a block?

Edit: answered

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A long rectangular boi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

▇▅▆▇▆▅▅█

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

...𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 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 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ooooo that’s VINTAGE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got a nice taste to it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Love it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] WolfLink 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Didn't that mode already exist in the game?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

"They're just like us."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wait where's Saddam