[spoon-discuss] Orc's Replies 8/9/02

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yet again, I'm putting my replies toghether:
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BvS: I touch the pole of Gravity, and your shoes turn into ducks.

Orc: I have no idea what Calvinball is, but it already sounds fun.  Count me 
in!

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Orc from before:
> * The revision of a lot of rules, ususally either a wording change
> ("Change
> all instances of the word Entity in Rule XXX/X to Player", or some such
> thing), to make it conform to the new rules; or the removal of something
> redundant, such as a lot of rules with (near) identical definitions of
> throwing something

Glotmorf: Be careful with that, son.  Sometimes the word "entity" as opposed 
to "player"
is intentional, especially if someone anticipates something other than a 
player
being able to perform a particular action.

Les'n yer jest bein' difficult...

Orc:  Actually, I have been going through and trying to determine what the 
author intended, and how the game is played now.  Before, entities weren't 
really defined well.  Also, I am looking at some minor changes that do 
change what a rule does, but really expands it.  For example, the Jedi 
Gremlin "Yoda" would be pretty limited without the Force powers and stuff, 
but can't currently have them.  I either make the apparent intent of the 
author clearer, or make adjustments that I believe will make the Game better 
for everyone.  And about being difficult, I don't plan on that until later 
:).

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Wonko: What exactly do you object to about the game's inner workings?

Orc: It's current Statuses of "Sometimes Confusing", "Often Ambiguous",  and 
"Has more bugs than Orc's faceplate".

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Wonko: I'm already almost done with it, but it relies on Alignments, which I 
haven't proposed yet either, and don't intend to until I get back from camp 
and can start using the Force Ministry program I've been writing (by hand, 
due to lack of computer access for most of each day) that will keep track of 
these things for me.

Orc: Cool.  I have a few ideas for the Force, but don't plan screwing with 
it for a while.  It would be nice to see what you've got so far, or what you 
get once it's more presentable.

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Naath: who would be *very* gratefull for a summary of the
past month or sos play 'cos I'm *Very* lost.

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Like duct tape the force is, a light side and a dark side it has, holds the
universe together it does, hmm.

Orc: I'm guessing you had some hand in the Force.  Well, I'll provide a bit 
of a summary of what I've been up to:

Well, I stumbled across Nomic about a week ago, and after 2 days settled on 
B Nomic as my first real game.  I read the ruleset in one night (80 
something pages according to Dave), and discovered once I got done and 
familiar, and looked into the forum archives, that the Admin was on a Road 
Trip.  Since then, I announced my Intent (not Desire) to join the Game in 
the near future, with the full name "Orc In A Spacesuit", or Orc for short.  
I have several ideas for rules to make the game more interesting, but as of 
yet has no dastardly evil plans.  I also started an Uber Proposal, a group 
of rule additions, modifications, and deletions, which should make the rules 
simpler, cleaner, clearer, smoother, and shorter, and have less ambiguities 
and bugs.  I made the mistake of presenting an early rought draft to the 
discuss forum, and the lack of cohesion scared some people (as did its 
length of 9 pages).  I have since added to it and made it a lot better, but 
it is still not complete.

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Wonko: I'm bored. I'll give BNS150 to anyone who can tell me a good, funny 
joke that I haven't heard before.

Orc:
A man was praying one day, and he carried on the following conversation:
Man: God, what is a million years to you?
God: Just a second, my son.
Man: God, what is a million dollars to you?
God: Just a penny.
Man: God, can I have a penny?
God: Sure, just a second!

I know that one isn't that great, but is one I heard recently and popped in 
my head.

Wonko: P.S. What percussion instrument starts and ends with the same letter? 
First to answer gets 100 BNS! (Plurals don't count. It's not 'steel drums'.)

Orc: There is an instrument that is made of two objects.  These two objects 
together are one instrument.  Those objects are two spoons, and the name of 
the one instrument is Spoons.

There is also the Gong.

There is also the "Thunder Sheet", a big sheet of metal that is shook to 
make a thundering sound.

I don't think that Snares counts as a single instrument, but I'll include it 
here for completeness.

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Orc In A Spacesuit
Current Status: Not yet in the game, and wondering what Calvinball is.


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