| Craig on 5 Dec 2003 03:00:13 -0000 |
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| RE: [spoon-discuss] Yoink! |
>> I protopropose this card body: "When you play this card, choose a card >> that >> has been played in the last nday. That card's effect is nullified and >> the >> card placed in your hand." >I smell a paradox: >I play the card RandomExample, which causes you to lose 700 points and >draw two cards. You retaliate by playing TheUnnamedNullCard, nullifying >my RandomExample. However, you only have TheUnnamedNullCard because you >drew it after my RandomExample. Good catch. Maybe it has to have been legal for you to play TUNC before the other card was played? >It's a lot like when you go back in time and accidentally stop your >parents from meeting. Don't you hate it when that happens? You could create two timestreams - one in which it happens, one where it doesn't. I've heard it said that FTL can cause these paradoxes also, but I don't see how. -- Teucer "books tend not to produce water when squeezed, you see" -rlpowell ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx teucer@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss