Re: [spoon-discuss] Is this the board?

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>> <snip>
>>>>> I haven't played on this board yet. Is this the right board?
>>>>>
>>>>> This would be one thing it would be tremendously useful to have the
>>>>> Wiki
>>>>> for.
>>>>>
>>>> -Some of you will see what I'm about to say as irresponsible, but I
>>>> honestly don't care. Why don't we just ignore that little detail,
>>>> since it seriously screws up the game, and say that the board is as
>>>> the most recent placement puts it, the alliance doesn't exist, and
>>>> anyone who insists on holding us all to this rule is game for a
>>>> massive smack-down? I'm all for the rules, but there comes a point
>>>> when it's better to ignore them conveniently.-
>>>
>>> Why play Nomic if we plan on ignoring the rules? The breaking of the
>>> game is what makes it fun.
>>>
>> -I don't want to ignore the rules, I just think that there's no point 
>> to holding this game back about six days while we figure out what went 
>> wrong and spend a couple of checkpoints retaking moves that might have 
>> failed. It gains us nothing and is intensely stupid at the same time. 
>> I'm suggesting we collectively overlook this until it's not an issue 
>> any more.-
>
>That seems like a bad precedent to set. If people are forced to learn 
>the rules well now, then there won't be problems with them later.
>
-I understand that, but this is harmless. Besides, doing this would require everyone ignoring the problem. That's unanimity. We /never/ get that. I think this would establish the precedent that sometimes it's just not worth it, but only if everyone thinks so - a harmless assertion if I ever heard one. And what this incident teaches me is to make rules that aren't very anal about what's legal and what isn't when it doesn't matter.-

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