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572 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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TZubiri ◴[17 Oct 24 00:21 UTC] No.41865229[source]▶
We had books, but then we thought, what about screens. Then we had screens but we thought, what if screens were more like books. Then we had book screens and we thought, what if the screens we made to look like books were more like screens.
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jacurtis ◴[17 Oct 24 00:57 UTC] No.41865411[source]▶
Similarly, I saw someome on social media yesterday post about buying "Monopoly Go" boardgame at the store. The box says "Based on the popular mobile game".

The joke was the same, we had a board game, then we made a mobile video game based on the board game, now they are selling a board game based on the video game that was based on the board game.

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samplatt ◴[17 Oct 24 02:14 UTC] No.41865804[source]▶
In this case there's the extra meta joke with Monopoly originally being created to show how capitalism is bad.
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1. zahma ◴[18 Oct 24 20:59 UTC] No.41883440[source]▶
More so when you realize that capitalism drove everyone’s attention capacity into the ground, so activities like a full-fledged board game or reading a book are things of the past.