• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    5 hours ago

    ContraPoints has a great Tangent video about Gamergate (I think you have to be a Patreon subscriber to get access to it, but it’s seriously like $2 or something).

  • Benjaben@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    10 hours ago

    All I’m getting from this is that something called “tenya” (?) is probably really fun. And now I’m annoyed I’ve never gotten to play!

    E: oh maybe just “tens”. Screw it, whatever it is, deal me in lol

      • Benjaben@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        9 hours ago

        I’m assuming a dice game based around the number 10 most likely lol, but it is possible (and fun to imagine) that maybe rampant tennis enthusiasm needed to be quelled :) Weirder things have happened. Like a town dancing themselves to death.

  • Jayjader@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    edit-2
    13 hours ago

    “dise-player, carder”
    Ah, so this is probably some law trying to curb gambling-
    “tenys player” wait, what? Were people betting on tennis matches back in the day or something?

      • umbraroze@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        2 hours ago

        But it would have been great for a Shakespearian minor joke character bit.

        GUARD: “See, milord, how in this year’s almanack the booba hath been veil’d, compared to last year’s edition.”

        KING: “Greatly?”

        GUARD: “Yes, greatly indeed! Two inches of cloth more!”

        KING: “Thou art a nutter and I ought to throw thee in the madhouse.”

        GUARD: “But you wouldn’t dare, sire? Tales of your treachery and oppression already circle widely.”

        KING: “Thou shouldst consider thee lucky that we have to get the Hell onward with our plot.”

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      10 hours ago

      “Too”? It was ONLY because of gambling. To this day, the gambling industry cringetastically calls itself the “gaming industry”