Re: [spoon-discuss] Random stuff

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/11/02 at 5:58 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

>Well, I have a few more random things to say:

You mean like, "Eep splurgle ironing board"?

>Machines - Status: mostly ready, waiting for uber
>A simple yet expandable way for the 'companies' to keep doing what they're
>doing now, but balance it out some and let others get a chance

Companies aren't doing anything now.  Except for vSOI, and that could probably be done through Technologies.

>Library, part 1 - Status: ANomic eulogy, BNomic week 1 done.
>Recording the important events, the well-written details, and the
>memorable
>quotes of the history of BNomic.

You mean like, "I win"?

>Library, part 2 - Status: Waiting on game to stabilize

How does a game that's played by changing its own rules "stabilize"?

>Music - Status: core out, but on back burner
>Creating instruments imbued with powers that, when played in _meaningful_
>ways, have effects on the world.  When in the hands of a doofus, they
>cause
>nothing but pain (mostly from the rocks the crowd throws).

Are those Big Rocks, or are you inventing Small Rocks?

>General enhancements - Status: various
>Pretty much a grab bag of ideas, mostly waiting on the uber.  Includes
>such
>things as NomiQuake that Dave's been pining after, tweaks that I think
>should be done but are out of the scope of the uberprop, making the grid
>really 3D (I still only count it as 2D now), giving people different Races
>and stuff like Strength, and more.

Hey, I dug a hole!  What more do you want?

>Unnamed project - Status: Idea in mind, some notes written down
>A totally new, major element in the game that should REQUIRE ALMOST
>NOTHING
>FROM DAVE.  It's optional for everyone, and should be quite fun.  This is
>on
>a very large scale, I daresay almost as large as the entirety of The Grid.
>
>How will Dave be exempt from dealing with it?  I got it all figured out.
>If
>you want details, either wait until some other projects are done, or
>heckle
>me a lot.

Um.  There's an inherent conflict between "element in the game" and "REQUIRE ALMOST NOTHING FROM DAVE."  Cuz, you see, if something goes wrong, he has to deal with it...or at least the resulting CFIs.

>Oh, and where does the word Chutzpah come from, out of curiosity?  And to
>whoever responds to this now-very-large email: please cut out parts you
>are
>not responding to.  *cough*Glotmorf*cough*

Kindly don't cough in my direction.  I do too cut pieces out when I respond.  I just respond big.

As for Chutzpah, I've heard it variously defined as guts, nerves, balls, and, from the old RPG Paranoia: "That quality demonstrated when a man kills both his parents, then applies for benefits as an orphan."  I believe it's Yiddish.

>As I refine the uberprop (I apoligize to everyone sick of hearing about
>it),
>I keep finding ways to improve it.  Anyway, I am combining everything like
>"Icky, Cursed, Dead, Hungover of the Ages,
>Dizzy, Buttplated, Inebriated, In Hiding, etc." into one list for each
>physical object.  Do you all think I should call the list your Status or
>your Attributes?  In role-playing game, such things are usually called
>Statuses, while things like strength and dexterity are usually called
>Attributes.  But Attributes is what's used in the current rules.
>What do you guys want?  Speak now or forever hold your peace.

Ever program in Smalltalk?  How about (now you can cough while I blow the dust off this one) Model 204?  Objects in these languages/systems have attributes when they are given attributes.  Formal record structures are relatively unknown.  "Status" implies mutual exclusivity.  "Property" gets into OOP, perhaps more than it should.  Perhaps you should think in terms of MUSH coding, where objects have flags and attributes.

>Ok, what else...
>Oh yeah, I need a better word than catastrophe.  It's too long and sounds
>overdramatic.  Fatal Error is out, just cause this is a anti-code nomic.
>Collision doesn't quite apply either, and Problem is too generic, as is
>Mistake.  Airspeeders Crash, and that's more computer terminology.  Any
>suggestions?

Contingency?

						Glotmorf


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