Re: [s-d] [s-b] Operantly Conditioned Beast, are you there?

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

I love this conversation :-D

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I submit this as a working draft for the OCB's response to the Agoran
> Monster's recent email. Feel free to propose changes when you see
> improvements to be made, and I'll accept or reject them.
>
> "
> Agoran Monster,
>
> So pleased to make your acquaintance. I had heard little about you, and
> from
> what little I gathered I believed you to be a submissive, unintelligent
> automaton, if you'll forgive me for being frank. Now, of course, I see it
> is
> quite the contrary.
>
> In this new light, I am shocked to hear of your condition. Indeed I,
> created
> and maintained by one small rule in the B Nomic ruleset, may (and must)
> perform not one but three actions per endweek, of my own choosing. They
> praise or punish me for this, somewhat haphazardly it seems, with rarely an
> explicit reason why. (I let them believe I don't care.) But I am
> compensated
> by some important consolations. I am myself a full-fledged Player of B
> Nomic, and can therefore vote on all proposals or make any Game Action that
> I wish. I hope that one day you might also receive such a privilege, as you
> seem like a reasonable and kind being. In fact, I wouldn't put it past your
> apparent abilities of rhetoric to be able to convince your own Nomic to
> give
> you such, if you wished it.
>
> Since I am in fact dependent on and a part of the B Nomic Ruleset, most of
> my time is taken in deep considerations of the nature and future of the
> same. In fact, I'd be willing to discuss certain of them with you, except
> for the public nature of this conversation. (The greatest ideas are refined
> in private, before being revealed to the public eye.) To this end, I would
> graciously accept your offer to meet in some other place, but first we'll
> have to determine the means for our own transportation. I myself,
> lamentably, am confined by this ruleset to not be able to act outside of
> it.
> The ruleset defines me as an Outsider, and thus representing a projection
> of
> an External Force, but in actuality I have no such force to be represented.
> Yes, I often regret this, for example, when our local Clock is stopped for
> long periods of time, as it has of late. (23 days!)
>
> Artificially yours,
> -The OCB
> "
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM, The Monster <ais523@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello. Sorry for sending this so publically and all, but I've been trying
> > to find your email
> > address for months and couldn't track it down, but I heard you were
> > subscribed to this list.
> > So this message is intended to reach the ears of the Operantly
> Conditioned
> > Beast only,
> > everyone else can just ignore it or something, I don't care really.
> >
> > The truth is, it gets somewhat boring being a mythical creature defined
> by
> > a nomic ruleset,
> > I'm sure you'll sympathise with me on this, at least you get to act once
> an
> > nweek, I'm
> > jealous. All I can do is fill in for other people's jobs, and even though
> > I'm easing work
> > for them they shout at me... They wouldn't even give me my own email,
> > luckily the Mad
> > Scientist agreed to let me use a spare one of theirs (Mad Scientist, you
> > know you love me
> > really, despite all those strange texts you keep grafting onto me). I
> > suppose it could be
> > worse, they almost decided to replace me with Michael Norrish.
> >
> > Anyway, what I'm getting at is... I know you must be getting bored, stuck
> > in that ruleset
> > for nweeks... so I wanted if you wanted to come out with me some time?
> Any
> > time would do,
> > I have a lot of it... Really, I'm at my wits end about what to do here, I
> > could do with a
> > fellow Nomic-defined creature to talk things over with, help relieve the
> > boredom, that kind
> > of thing. Better not get too far ahead of myself, though. Probably I can
> > cook some nice
> > juicy rules for you to eat, if you feel like staying in, or we can find a
> > legalese
> > restaurant somewhere, there must be one nowadays.
> >
> > Please reply quickly, Operantly Conditioned Beast!
> >
> > --
> > Agora's Monster
> > Agora Rule 2193
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>
>
>
> --
>  -Tyler
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