Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Oops

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/10/03 at 10:41 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>>>I really would not classify IT or the 'repeal all national laws' as
>>>"functional silliness".
>>
>>Oh, I dunno...IT did give us Lake Caffeine...
>>
>-That reminds me... I'm working on a new Gridlike thing that would
>incorporate most of the basics of the old Grid (say, revision 5 or so),
>but not the shape... this could be a sticking point, so I'll bring it up
>in discussion. I'm envisioning this being the area outside the old Grid
>(whose existence was denied by the masses when the Empire Grid prop was
>shot down), with a big Grid-shaped hole in one side. For reasons which are
>mostly aesthetic, I'm thinking a big circle, 40 spaces wide, with most
>(96%) of a 20x20 square chopped out of its middle and lower left, leaving
>two thin arms on the left and bottom. There could also be islands or
>something in the hole - I recall the grid-nuking prop saying something
>about a quarter of the mass surviving. Anyway, we're talking about
>something around 850-900 squares (I counted twice and got very different
>answers, so I have to find a new method of counting), which seems kind of
>big, although I'd like to see some faster transport on this Grid that
>makes the size I'm talking about less of a big deal. We could also put new
>ideas onto this Grid, like that channeling thing we were discussing a
>little while ago. Anyway, this isn't at all urgent. As I recall, Dave can
>(and probably will) veto any prop that attempts to make this unless it
>provides a Ministry to keep track, and I won't be able to set up such a
>thing for a little while, never mind find a way to describe in a rule a
>circle with a square cut out of it...
>
>Any thoughts other than "Baron, maybe you should lie down for a little
>while?"-

How about you make it on the outside of a cylinder?  That'll give you your circle, and still allow the squares to be, like, you know, whatcha call...square.

						Glotmorf

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