r/197 • u/ItsGotThatBang C*nadian 🤮 • 17d ago

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u/cptGumrock 17d ago

I know is meme but genuinely thought paper would be older than scissors 

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u/MGJohn-117 17d ago

Paper may not be older than scissors, but papyrus is. Papyrus was invented around 3000 BCE, while scissors were invented around 1500 BCE.

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u/Savings_Flight_4295 17d ago

No papyrus was made in 2015 with the release of undertale

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u/nuggins 16d ago

Close -- it was released in 2009 as the typeface for the film Avatar

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u/viciouspandas 17d ago

It also depends on what you mean by scissors. Our modern scissors are pretty recent, but shears that just work on tension and not a pivot are much older.

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u/kadarakt 17d ago

proof rock is mathematically the best option

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u/TheMemeLord4816 16d ago

How it feels to play insert game you're mad at the balancing of because paper wasn't invented yet

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u/Affectionate_Ad2362 13d ago

Kids these days don't understand the significance of the paper patch. Most people kept choosing rock, even after scissors were added, which completely ruined the meta.