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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 13:32:52 JST Matthew Skala

The list of 17 games that the Buddha would not play. 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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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:49:51 JST lainy
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  > Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required—elephants, horses, etc..
  
  i can confidently say i never plaid this game and will never play it
  
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  御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:49:52 JST 御園はくい
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  @mattskala no wonder there was a bounty on buddha's head
  
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  oshy (oshy@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:53:28 JST oshy
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  @lain @mattskala @hakui I love the idea of having a public list of games you WON"T play.
  We should replace our steam profiles with this shit
  
  Games OceanMew Will NOT play:
  
  1. Madden Football
  2. various simulator type games
  3. map type games
  4. 2D fighting games and their ilk
  
  etc etc etc
  
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  kakafarm (kakafarm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 14:56:57 JST kakafarm
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  @lain @mattskala @hakui Maybe the game was in trying to slap the print that most looks like a certain animal?
  
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  Paradox (paradox@raru.re)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 15:01:44 JST Paradox
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  It sounds like drawing shit with watery dough. Kinda like drawing on the driveway with chalk.
  
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  Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 21:13:05 JST Matthew Skala
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  @oshy @lain @hakui Also important that some of them should be very general categories ("3. PS/2 games") and others should be extremely specific ("4. Dating simulators set at Fukuoka Shiritsu Sumiyoshi Junior High School").
  
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