WobbuPalooza

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by WobbuPalooza 9mo ago
There's a pretty great article here in English, full of details about this collection of over 30k amateur photographs: Catherine E. Clark, "'C’était Paris en 1970': Amateur Photography, Urbanism and Photographic History&
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by WobbuPalooza 2y ago
Delighted to see this here. As the editor mentions, there was also a separate effort to collect opinions from American authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Pearl Buck, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway,
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by WobbuPalooza 2y ago
Great seeing this here. Some related articles I can suggest include ... * Matthew Wynn Sivils, "What America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation": https://theconversation.com&#x2
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by WobbuPalooza 3y ago
I've enjoyed using Neocities for obscure amateur hobby content, translating 16th-19th C. parlor games that involve creating stories or doing a little light roleplaying: https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org/ One quirk tha
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by WobbuPalooza 3y ago
Monopoly is a good example given in the article but also such a recent one that it may leave a misleading impression. The Tibetan game above is 13th C. The Chinese and Japanese games are roughly 17th C. Maybe it's worth adding they des
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by WobbuPalooza 3y ago
Board games with a moral/didactic dimension have a very long history that might be of interest here, e.g. -- Mark Tatz and Jody Kent (1978), _Rebirth: The Tibetan Game of Liberation_: https://www.himalayanart.org/search
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by WobbuPalooza 3y ago
I was delighted to see this--thanks for posting it. Games like this (and Semantle, etc.) have a surprisingly long history. The TikTok #gotitchallenge [0] shows one way to play in person, also demonstrated by the vlogbrothers [1]. But there
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by WobbuPalooza 3y ago
In 1987, Alcida Ramos--an anthropologist who had worked with the Yanomami--published a terrific article going over what she recognized about them in other texts, including Chagnon's, but more importantly pointing out the degree to whic
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by WobbuPalooza 4y ago
A fun thing about Twenty Questions is how old it is. Here it is in French in 1788, as "The Twelve Questions" but still beginning with the question animal, vegetable, or mineral: https://www.google.com/books/ed
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by WobbuPalooza 4y ago
Hm, the link into page 52 of the book seems to have been cut off--it's here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Home_Book_of_Pleasu... A version from 1842 lacking "Fizz" is available here: ht
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A text with a version of Fizz Buzz over 150 years old (1867)(books.google.com)
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