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dadsite boy (alex@dads.cool)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 10:41:16 JST dadsite boy

best wikipedia list ever? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play
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  List of games that Buddha would not play
  
  The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'. This list dates from the 6th or 5th century BC and is the earliest known list of games.There is some debate about the translation of some of the games mentioned, and the list given here is based on the translation by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Brahmajāla Sutta and is in the same order given in the original. The list is duplicated in a number of other early Buddhist texts, including the Vinaya Pitaka. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is thought to refer to ashtapada and dasapada respectively, but later Sinhala commentaries refer to these boards also being used with games involving dice. The same games played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess...
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 10:41:37 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @alex many games I play have tiny bows or imaginary chess boards
  
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  dadsite boy (alex@dads.cool)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 10:41:49 JST dadsite boy
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  Spammy phone game ad for THE 5TH GAME BUDDHA WOULD HATE TO SEE YOU PLAYING
  
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  tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 11:34:20 JST tech? no! man, see...
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  @alex INSUFFERABLE GAMER GUY: well actually no I don't think the gamecube counts as retro; a 64-bit system can hardly be--
  SIDDHARTA GAUTAMA: listen you little punk
  
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