Re: [s-d] [s-b] Game Action: Dictatorship of the Proletariat or quick fix to the Emergency.

[Kerim Aydin <kerim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, 0x44 wrote:
> Many people play Monopoly with a pot of currency in the center of the
> board given to the player who lands on the Free Parking space. That is
> specifically prohibited in the rules, but is considered valid gamestate
> for those players.

House rules are fine, and part of a pre-game meta-agreement.  For example,
in nomic, deciding on a mailing list before the rules declare it.  If you
play face-to-face Suberian nomic, you have to start with a meta-agreement
on how to vote, and that has a huge impact on the game.  

An argument about meta-rules midway through the game, even in RL, can be 
resolved by metagame consensus (e.g. an agreement from both camps to
"collapse the quanta" into a single state), luck within the game (quanta
converge through in-game actions in both states) or (as what happened a 
lot when I was 9 years old) a meta-agreement for the owner of the game 
to take it and go home.   

Calvinball anyone?   

-Goethe


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