Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 2mo ago

The Science of Storytelling

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Jenga, when the sales fell.
- Twister his arms wide open
  
  Daddy, awakened.
I doubt this data is actually available, right?
- Oh crap. You are right. Now I feel angry if this is fake data.
  
  I also STRONGLY doubt over 200.000 Jenga sets are sold yearly in the US.
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
- Jenga was taboo after 9/11. Sociology!
  
  If you could have heard the slap to my face, you would have thought a tower fell
  
  But Taboo was taboo
  
  Ok, what is Jenga?
  
  Edit: answered
I'm sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein
- ▇▅▆▇▆▅▅█
- ...𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 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 𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮
I still haven’t been able to play Plague Inc after COVID.
- Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.
  
  I always remember the old web game. It was a bitch to get to Madagascar. Inspired the meme:
9/11 was the 9/11 of the Jenga business
- 9/11 was the 9/11 of 9/11s
  
  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"
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?
- It seems like people did. 'The Plague' and Contagion did very well.
  
  The game “Plague Inc” spiked in popularity, so the devs rushed out a game about saving humanity instead of destroying it lol
  
  "They're just like us."
They tried to move the stock with a two for one deal, but somehow it only made things worse!

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