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Re: [spoon-discuss] Ow.


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On Friday 25 July 2003 08:22 pm, Glotmorf wrote:
> On 7/25/03 at 8:02 PM bd wrote:
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> >Seems to me like the game exploded again. That said, could someone
> >summarize
> >what, if anything, we know happened over the past nweek or so? Reading the
> >spoon-business messages [[ in the wrong order, accidentally ]] made my
> >head
> >hurt...
>
> Well, first of all, Wonko decided the rules said e could be a dimship and
> tried to move in the direction of Charm for a win.  E eventually conceded
> to my argument that there's a rule that says how someone could move in the
> direction of Charm, and how e did it wasn't the way, and therefore e didn't
> win.  So no win for Wonko.  There was a CFI on it, and I ruled against the
> win.
>
> Secondly, someone (McGee or SkArcher, I don't remember which) tried putting
> a clause in a proposal that said, "If this proposal fails, take this
> action," which kicked off a big argument about whether you could have "if
> this fails" clauses in proposals.  This led to a flurry of proposals
> (including mine :P) that essentially said, "I win.  If this proposal fails,
> I still win."  Common feeling (not to mention common sense) is that failure
> clauses don't work, but no one wants to be left out if someone's handing
> out wins, so a couple of us jumped on the Baron's bandwagon for eir prop
> rewrite.  I believe there's a CFI on it.  Rob summed it all up rather
> nicely, I thought, when e said, "You're all fucking nuts."
>
> Then there was talk of Rob's subgame and the Baron's desire to implement
> World of Time magick...but you said the past week, right?

Just about (more like 12 days, but..) I'll probably catch the discussion once 
the smoke clears, and 'normal' gameplay resumes.
- -- 
bd
..you could spend *all day* customizing the title bar.  Believe me.  I
speak from experience."
(By Matt Welsh)
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