What 'Network Games' Could Have Looked Like

An anonymous reader writes "A game for children modified for geeks: The austrian art (or something like that) group monochrom has made the worlds probably first massive multiplayer thumbwrestling performance in the viennese Museumsquartier. They've got some photos and explanation of several network structures (even includes a Death Star Reactor - i wonder how many things like that could be done - new kind of simple origami?). A network game in the 50s? Beware: requires real social interaction!"

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[Anonymous Coward]

This is really the most worthless thing Ive ever seen.

Re:viruses galore

[Kamerynn]

This happened in Europe. They know they won't get the plague by touching the skin of another, seemingly healthy, human being(even if that same human being has picked his nose earlier, or worse, touched a door handle!). Massive hygiene hysteria in the US makes many people believe the contrary. Gosh I guess some of them even ATE without washing their hands after this!! I wonder of many of them are still alive... While I was an exchange student in the US (coming from Belgium) I was staying with a wonderful american family in Colorado and have kept strong contacts with them ever since. Before departing, I decided to prepare them meat balls with a home recipe. Once we sat at the table, nobody would eat, and I was wondering how they could not like it without tasting it. So I asked them and they were embarassed because they did not dare to eat because I had prepared the meat balls WITH MY BARE HANDS after washing them. The housewife usually put plastic gloves when manipulating food... So I had to convince them that my hands were disease free and that I had washed them thoroughly and that the meatballs had cooked for 40 minutes in the oven, which would kill anything left. They finally tried the meal (half cold, but we put it in the microwave-- what a sacrilege!) and founjd it fabulous (in earnest, because they asked me to do it once again before leaving)

Re:dexterity required

[archivis]

I was struggling in kindergarten to cut paper, with the scissors in my right hand. The teacher came by, looked at me for a bit, and said "You're left handed!"

She took the scissors, gave me a left-handed pair, and off I went like a shot. I swapped hands for everything in class - writting, cutting, etc. All those manual dexterity tasks became much easier.

I don't remember anyone before this saying anything about my handedness - definately no abuse or restrictions on left-hand use.

So, I'm left-handed. Only thing I do right-handed is mouse, and that's because I didn't run into a left-handed mouse to use until something like 5 years after using right-handed mice and by then it was generally too late to change. If I ever find a decent left-handed trackball the mirror image of my Logitech one, I might take a crack at switching though.