"Traditional games" in the sense of this board doesn't exactly refer to games which have a long history (such as football and derived sports) so much as it is a catch-all term for:
Tabletop roleplaying games
Board games
Wargames/other miniatures games
Card games
LARPs
And lore/world building discussion for any and all of the above.
With that in mind, you're conflating "traditional games" with sports, which isn't a grouping anyone really makes, so your question is kind of nonsensical.
I wasn't trying to suggest that football is a traditional game in our sense.
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Umm...
We are kinda -in- 4-dimensional space.
>4D Space
Nope (almost) 3D space and 1D time combined to (almost) 4D space-time
How are both of those 'almost'?
I can sadly not find the article, but I remember that it basically said that our space is not 3 but 3 ± 10^-16 dimensional, which means that for everyday purposes it behaves like 3D but not at extremes
here is a similar article (though not the same topic)
phys.org
This. Ex:imagine spacetime as simply time and space seperately. We treat everyday as space and its 3 dimensional movement. Forward back, left right, up down(XYZ). Now think of how we experience time: forward. We technically only experience it as a .5 dimension addition to everyday life. this means our daily life is 3.5 dimensions and not 3. However beyond the 3 there are several other dimensions(between 7-16 more) we experience as much as .1-9 at extremes such as lightspeed movement or blackhole event horizons.
Mind you this is an extremely bastardized version but it helps you frame it in your mind.
If you had to think about it. The earth is a 2 dimensional manifold in 3dimensional space due to the fact we can only move in a 2dimensional manner on its surface. Technically it makes it non-euclidean elliptical geometry.
Ex:you start at the equator and make a 90 degree left turn towards the nothpole, you reach the northpole and make another 90 degree left turn, you're back at the equator and make another 90 degree left turn and you're back where you started. You just made a 3 sides square 90 degree corners and all. Technically you reduced the average 10x10' square into a 7.5x7.5' square per 10sq foot sharing the same space. Arguably you could keep doing this procedure and on paper reduce that whole 1/8th of the planets surface by 1/4th every time into oblivion.