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The Science of Storytelling (preview.redd.it)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Jenga was taboo after 9/11. Sociology!

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

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

[–] degen@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But Taboo was taboo

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Deep memory unlocked.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, what is Jenga?

Edit: answered

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the tower falls you loose.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

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 points 10 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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, what is a block?

Edit: answered

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

A long rectangular boi

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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