Re: [s-d] [s-b] Consultation on tweaks

[Elliott Hird <penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Dec 2008, at 16:40, Alex Smith wrote:

> Nothing in the rules says that you can do that. In pretty much all  
> games
> in existence, you can't just arbitrarily modify the gamestate. (For
> instance, in Monopoly, you can't arbitrarily give yourself money just
> because the game doesn't say you can't.) I see no reason why Nomic
> should be different; games, generally, default to inability to  
> alter the
> gamestate without explicit permission, but ability to do anything
> unrelated to the game.

Suber 101, all players must follow the rules.

Nothing is implicit. Read the game actions rule.

> Therefore, your action fails. (Incidentally, your "patch rule", if it
> worked, is grammatically incorrect and that could lead to all sorts of
> trouble with the typical ehird literal-interpretation view of things.
> Also, you didn't define gamestate, so your dictatorship fails.)

RPs work on gamestate. So do proposals. Are you saying they don't
work?

> Hmm... maybe real life follows the ehird interpretation of things  
> too. I
> modify ehird to prevent em falling into ISIDTID fallacies. (If you  
> claim
> this doesn't work, then why would ehird's gamestate modification  
> work?)


Because of my patch.

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