Daniel Lepage on 3 Aug 2003 23:07:35 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Speaking of mayhem...



On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 12:47  AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

-Yes, but if we used a plural pronoun, or if the Baron used the third
person, then people would think we were slightly cracked, and BvS
doesn't think that's a good idea. So I'll just keep sticking to
standard English.

Besides, I only performed an action 49 times. Are you going to say
that it was illegal, for example, to buy two Gnomes in a row because
you were using the same "I" every time? I was adding the attribute "is
a player" each time, just as that would add the attribute "has a
Gnome." We don't see the problem. (Maybe we should speak in the royal
"we." There are 50 of us, after all.)-

No no, the 'I' is not the important part, I'm just using it to prove my point. The point is that you're still you, regardless of how many times
you've tried to become a player; you're already a player, so turning
into one doesn't change anything about you. It's just like how if a
Toad becomes a Toad, it's still a Toad, not two Toads.

-We don't see the problem. The Rules say that players can (indeed, are the only people eligible to) join this game as players. They never say what happens after that. So, by our interpretation, we are now many. E unum pluribus, or something like that. We never took Latin.-

The rules say that "Any entity otherwise qualified as a player may become one by..." There are two important parts in just that opening bit of the sentence:

First, it says an entity *otherwise qualified* as a player may become a player in the specified manner. 'Otherwise qualified' in this case means, "fits all the qualifications for being a player, except that it has never become a player in a manner prescribed by the rules." This means that A) nonplayers may join, and B) players can't.

Secondly, it says an *entity* may join. If you intend to join, you must do it as a given entity; that entity becomes a player. You are a single entity, which is already a player; you are not two entities, so you must join as your single entity; but it is already a player, so becoming a player doesn't change anything.

This does, however, give me an idea...

--
Wonko

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