All Fun and Games

Nice weekly free thread discussing the games we play! Don't miss Wobbuffet's commentary about the history of parlor games from antiquity to the present, and how old games reveal themselves in modern equivalents.

https://www.metafilter.com/202244/The-games-MeFites-play-its-your-weekly-free-thread#8510448

#games #gaming #BoardGames #ParlorGames #RPGs #VideoGames #history #Mefites #FreeThread

11th Century Boy

gingerbeer points out Richard Thompson's "1000 Years of Popular Music" in this week's free thread.

ca 2000, "Playboy asked a select group of musicians to choose their ten favorite songs of the past millennium. Richard Thompson, believing what Playboy REALLY wanted were only songs from the last 20 years, took them literally. He gave Playboy EXACTLY what they asked for. He chose the best songs of the last 1000 years. Thompson never heard from them again."

https://www.metafilter.com/198177/Free-Time#8358601

https://www.metafilter.com/198177/Free-Time

#music #PopularMusic #MusicHistory #history #RichardThompson #performance #1000Years #ThousandYears #video #album #Millennium #FreeThread