Re: [spoon-discuss] Declaration of Peace

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 09:42  AM, SkArcher wrote:

> > > On a side note, a cow seems appropriate for their sacred animal... 
> > > it's
> > > big, unwieldy, and doesn't turn well...-
> >
> > Plus it farts constantly. Makes repetitive noises. Moves in a herd. 
> > Has the
> > brains of a, well, cow. More than an icon, it's more like a mother 
> > figure.
> >
> > And a big HELLO to all the Nomicron players who read this list!
>
> It seems to me that on the scale of Nomics, Nomicron is a considered, 
> reasoned
> and deliberate game and B Nomic is more like the equivalent of 
> throwing Logic
> Grenades.

By the standards of most Nomics, we are an impetuous, irresponsible, 
sloppy bunch of slackers with no understanding of causality who would 
rather sit around pretending to blow things up than engage in real 
thought; we propose at random and vote at random, and break the game 
regularly; where other Nomics establish disaster-prevention systems, we 
focus on disaster recovery systems.

Nomicron seems to be much more typical for a substantive Nomic (I don't 
presume to know anything about the procedurals) - it proceeds 
cautiously and never passes anything unless it's sure that the game 
won't be hurt by it. I'll bet Nomicron has never needed a SOE rule, nor 
has it ever suffered from admin burnout; our track record is much worse.

> I know which one I find more fun *grins*

I wholeheartedly agree. I'll take sorry over safe any day.

But that doesn't mean, Baron, that those who disagree aren't entitled 
to their own fun, even if we don't find it as exciting. Perhaps their 
ruleset is very slow by our standards; but I don't see why that means 
we can't have peaceful interactions with them.

> Give me high explosives or give me death... no, wait, that doesn't 
> quite
> work...

I could throw the Baron at you; e's not really a high explosive, but 
maybe I could Mix em with a Bomb gnome or something... :)

--
Wonko
Schizophrenia beats being alone.

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