Rule 101: If it exists, there is a game of it. This fascinates me - not the subject of the article itself, I gave up on it pretty quickly, it has little intere

Rule 101: If it exists, there is a game of it. This fascinates me - not the subject of the article itself, I gave up on it pretty quickly, it has little interest for me - but the meta-subject, that people will make games out of almost everything. And it's more than the gaming aspect that fascinates me, it's the community or sociology aspect: These games drive the evolution of communities, societies, events, etc., all for things that a) I didn't know about, b) never would have guessed at, c) find intriguing but not compelling, and d) am completely unlikely to ever participate in. Think geocaching. But then, I've long been fascinated by the existence of the myriad societies and paths and doors closed to me (I can never be Pope, President of the US, e.g.; I can also never be a mother, but that restriction was imposed by biological accident, not by human politics and organization, and so is in a different class).