Re: [Spoon-business] Uh... Crap...

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 01:36  AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> Didn't we just decide that the gamestate cannot be affected by things 
> which whose existences aren't provided for in the rules, like charters 
> and whatnot?  Thanks to Mr. in a Spacesuit's most recent society 
> screw, while a society can manipulate some object called a charter, it 
> doesn't say that such an object as a charter actually exists.  
> Therefore, you can't create a society that includes a charter, since 
> the initual state of such an object isn't defined.

No method is prescribed for giving Charters to Societies, nor even is 
any method defined for determining what a Charter is. Therefore, it 
being unregulated, it is perfectly legal for me to decide what a 
charter is. I decide that it's me.

> Rule 18 doesn't apply in this case, because r578 says charters can be 
> manipulated; that means charters are regulated.  There's just no 
> provision for their creation.

Nothing even defines them. They're not in any way, shape, or form 
regulated.

> M-Tek, fortunately, doesn't have that problem...

Game precedent, if nothing else, tells us that when a type of object 
ceases to be defined as a Game object, all instances of that object are 
automatically destroyed.

M-Tek has no Charter.



But thanks for mentioning the Entropy thing... I dictate that "A New 
Exploitation!" modifies its charter by setting its charter's entropy to 
zero.

*Now* I win.

--
Wonko

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