Re: Quit Shopping For Fun

On 2024-05-19, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

More generally, "What's happenin'?" fail to
provoke a couple of dozen sentences of reflective text, let alone a
long reflection/discursion on a topic.
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And it can't be blamed on the younger generation with a generational
slant or karoshi careers so busy that there's no time for reflection.
All my correspondents are near or past retirement age.

Thanks for your long and thoughtful reply.

I have noticed changes in local social conventions.  When i was a
kid, it was okay to drop in unannounced and knock on the door or ring
the doorbell.  If the person was busy, they would either say so, or not
answer.  Now it is considered rude to show up unannounced without
texting ahead of time.

I used to do postal correspondence, almost entirely with people who
were older than me.  I no longer do any.

I am not really into journalling, but i do other kinds of writing,
and i have dabbled in tabletop role-playing games, mainly using
video conferencing software and online mapping software.  It's a
creative, literate world-building exercise.

<https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamecategory/1120/print-and-play>

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One of those sites that is all js, devoid of text.  But here's a
contribution that may or may not be listed there: Spinglasses: The game
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    https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1839

I noticed the same thing about boardgamegeek.com.

I took a peek at the Spinglas PDF and it looks cool, thanks! For
some reason it brings to mind a completely different type of game,
Set, which was inspired by genetics rather than physics.

Here's The Glass Plate Game.  It was inspired by Herman Hesse's
book The Glass Bead Game.  I had the good fortune to play GPG at
Oregon State University with Dunbar Aitkins and several students.

"The object of playing the game is to spark creative and interesting
conversation between the players. Nobody wins."

https://glassplategame.com/