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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Jenga, when the sales fell.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Twister, his arms wide.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Daddy, awakened.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt this data is actually available, right?

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] 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)
[–] 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?

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

▇▅▆▇▆▅▅█

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮

[–] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago
[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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"

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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?

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Didn't that mode already exist in the game?

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

"They're just like us."

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

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