The other day we were playing charades
Aug. 25th, 2016 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyJenn's turn, and she was doing Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She's been watching the whole series over the past year or so, so as soon as we got through "TV show" "four words" I had the answer. (Plus, I can't really think of any other four word title TV show.)
Which caused her to accuse me of spending my whole life doing nothing but consuming media. This seems incredibly unfair. She has been watching BtVS, so that's proof that I watch a lot of TV? No. I read a lot of news, but I don't watch all that much TV.
Then my mother had one, three words from a book, first word was her pretending to use a rotary telephone. Given that she's spent the past few weeks accosting each of us and explaining cultural osmosis using the line "call me Ishmael" and how we all know that Moby Dick is about a whale without ever having read Moby Dick, that wasn't hard to guess either.
Apparently I'm the only person in the world who metagames Charades, though...?
She's been watching the whole series over the past year or so, so as soon as we got through "TV show" "four words" I had the answer. (Plus, I can't really think of any other four word title TV show.)
Which caused her to accuse me of spending my whole life doing nothing but consuming media. This seems incredibly unfair. She has been watching BtVS, so that's proof that I watch a lot of TV? No. I read a lot of news, but I don't watch all that much TV.
Then my mother had one, three words from a book, first word was her pretending to use a rotary telephone. Given that she's spent the past few weeks accosting each of us and explaining cultural osmosis using the line "call me Ishmael" and how we all know that Moby Dick is about a whale without ever having read Moby Dick, that wasn't hard to guess either.
Apparently I'm the only person in the world who metagames Charades, though...?
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Date: 2016-08-27 06:18 am (UTC)No, you aren't. It's the only way I have any chance whatsoever, as many gestures make no sense to me.
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Date: 2016-08-28 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-28 05:38 pm (UTC)Different people have different strategies, and people probably subconsciously expect either *their* favorite strategy or the one they have seen played often.
I personally am very low-skilled at reading any sort of body language - it goes down to the motion-tracking and face-recognition levels - and the more abstract and stylized a motion is, the better I do, but they have to hold it an extra-long time for me to really *see* it as anything except a mental blur. So my strategy is to abstract whatever move they are making into a verbal description and then mentally comparison-search for related concepts. Anyone with good intuition on kinesics and kinesthetics probably won't do that, though they might end up meta-gaming for other reasons.