RPS has recently revived itself at my high school. Kids are using it as a 'Bubblegum' type game, playing it out between groups as large as 7 people, or more, to see who has to pay for dinner, go ask for a girls number, etc. I don't know if we could handle 15 though... posted by daviss at 2:11 PM on September 26, 2005
All this violation of the transitivity of "beats" bothers me a lot. posted by sonofsamiam at 2:27 PM on September 26, 2005
Someone has too much hands on their time. posted by soyjoy at 2:34 PM on September 26, 2005
"Kids are using it as a 'Bubblegum' type game, playing it out between groups as large as 7 people, or more, to see who has to pay for dinner, go ask for a girls number, etc."
"You ask for her number."
"No, you ask!"
I fear for the future of the human race if this is the behavior now going on at our high schools. posted by Plutor at 3:06 PM on September 26, 2005
How the heck does cockroach beat wolf? posted by oddman at 3:42 PM on September 26, 2005
How the heck does cockroach beat wolf?
Sleeps in fur of wolf.
I'm just repeating here. posted by linux at 3:55 PM on September 26, 2005
From the spoken outcomes image, cockroach sleeps in fur of wolf. No, I don't know how that beats him either.
Gah.. on preview, is there anything linux can't do? posted by sysinfo at 4:10 PM on September 26, 2005
O,k that's just ridiculous. As someone who regularly plays rock-paper-scissors (my friends and I are very non-commital about decisions), I can say that some of those hand motions would never be thrown - they're too hard to form quickly (Dragon? Monkey? Wolf?) and they're not sufficiently distinguishable (my friend regularly tries the "paper-thrown-sideways-could-be-scissors" trick). posted by muddgirl at 4:13 PM on September 26, 2005
I can't make the fire motion with out using my other hand to hold my pinky in place. posted by MetalDog at 4:40 PM on September 26, 2005
What kind of whackass hippy hand jive crap is this? RPS-15? RPS-25?
He makes pretty diagrams though. How'd you come across this one, Robot Johnny? Its cool in its own obsessive way. posted by fenriq at 5:23 PM on September 26, 2005
soyjoy, lol, great comment! You win. :) posted by Malor at 5:39 PM on September 26, 2005
I can say that some of those hand motions would never be thrown - they're too hard to form quickly
I disagree. With a little practice it's easy to quickly form elaborate hand gestures (the Blood sign is a good example). posted by eddydamascene at 5:55 PM on September 26, 2005
fenriq: The ubiquitous waxy linked it the other day (the 24th). Not to say that's where Robot Johnny saw it, but the former is the seed of many a web meme. posted by Plutor at 6:39 PM on September 26, 2005
anybody else notice that the dragon looks sorta like the "somebody get this freakin' duck offa me!" atari adventure dragon? posted by lord_wolf at 8:32 PM on September 26, 2005
That's it-- Rock-Paper-Scissors has finally jumped the shark. posted by Ironwolf at 10:13 PM on September 26, 2005
I prefer Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sucker Punch to the Throat.
Sucker Punch to the Throat always wins. posted by Acetylene at 10:31 PM on September 26, 2005
Sub-orbital meteor! (from Pete & Pete)
I disagree with the logic on a lot of these. I've seen many trees' roots crack rocks open. posted by Eideteker at 11:02 PM on September 26, 2005
I've been looking for websites that cover 划拳 Hua2quan2, the myriad types of Chinese "guessing-fingers" games. I only remember Xishuashua to any level of competence, but there must be a couple hundred more.
Anyone know of any websites that cover these things? posted by jiawen at 6:46 AM on September 27, 2005
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