This post inspired our recent marathon viewing of the second season of The Big Bang Theory (RPSLS is older than that. Apparently the game pre-dates the CBS sitcom by nearly a decade.)
Friday, January 21, 2011
An Old Game (but new to TSG)
This post inspired our recent marathon viewing of the second season of The Big Bang Theory (RPSLS is older than that. Apparently the game pre-dates the CBS sitcom by nearly a decade.)
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Ugh. Seems like gilding the lily. There is something wonderfully elegant about rock-paper-scissors. Adding lizards and a humanoid offers not only warrantless complexity, it even stretches the relationships to absurdity. Paper will, indeed, cover a rock, and the latter can certainly crush the scissors. But a humanoid vaporizing a rock? To the extent the humanoid could accomplish this, then much the same fate could be dealt out to the remaining players as well.
This game is new to me, too, and thankfully so.
To be sure, RPSLS is a unnecessary update to the original. The inherent added complexity doesn't add anything--other than possible geek cred points. Actually that isn't quite true...TSG tried to engage some cow-orker geeks in a round RPSLS and our efforts were met with complete indifference.
Yes, sometimes the old(er)ways are the best. And while we're on the subject, get off my damn lawn!
You're a humanoid . . . vaporize the lawn stomper!
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