[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] I'm Baaack

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's good to be back... *glances around*... what have you done to this 
> place?

Well, the prominent issue of late has been the 'overlord' thing, which 
happened as follows:
1) Orc changed the society rule, incorporating what might have been 
interpreted as a loophole
2) Glotmorf exploited the loophole
3) Glotmorf bribed bd to judge that the loophole was legal; whether it 
actually was is debatable, as the two unbribed judges disagreed
4) Lots of people started yelling and screaming. This was rather 
unfortunate; we could have been arguing about something interesting, 
like whether an interpretation established by a judgment was valid if 
the judge openly admitted that e didn't agree... or whether the 
judgment was, in fact, legal... but we did not. We yelled and screamed 
at each other for a while, and in the end, the issue faded away without 
ever actually being resolved. However, whether or not it was legal at 
the time, it's fallen into the Statute now.

Anyhoo, the mess left Glotmorf with the power to enact any change to 
the gamestate e wished, so e set up the office of the Overlord, a 
player able to perform any gamestate change which another player 
petitioned em to perform.

This struck many people as being no better than the original rule 
giving em power, and so it was subsequently modified by the Baron, one 
of Glotmorf's Underlords (who could do what Morf could, but only with 
Morf's permission).

Thus we have the gamestate as it is now:
Absolute power resides in the Coucil of Elders, a dysfunctional group 
of misfits who never agree on anything - one is opposed to ever using 
power, one isn't actually playing anymore, and the other three are 
never all present at once.

The Overlord issue is no longer being debated, but, as you can see from 
recent discuss threads, the scars have not faded. Everyone is too 
stubborn to put the issue behind them; not enough people support any 
given point of view to get a repair proposal through in any direction.

Meanwhile, the Grid now sports armies owned by every player... or at 
least, it could. Like most spiffy Grid concepts, nobody's done anything 
with it lately.

BTW, you're now the only player who's ever been capable of holding eir 
own hand... if you can get Orc to give it up. It's a nice little voter 
for the weather rule, if I remember correctly; but I don't think 
anyone's done anything with the weather since you left.

Other things may have happened, but I'm not sure what you already 
know... When exactly did you leave, and how much attention have you 
paid the game, if any, in the interim?

--
Wonko

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