Re: [s-d] [s-b] Operantly Conditioned Beast, are you there?

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

0x44 objected to that letter, no?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just a reminder to Billy P., the Beast has a letter for you to deliver, if
> you haven't yet.
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Tyler <wisety@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I object to this action. [no OCB private forums --j]
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thank you J, that was an appropriate objection. I never did intend to
> > initiate an actual private meeting. I believe you'll find my changes
> > to paragraphs 3-4 good work. (Oh, and don't forget to send objections to
> the
> > Business Forum, not the Discussion Forum.)
> >
> > I intend, without objection in 2 rdays, to cause the Beast to submit the
> > following message, to be delivered to the Agoran Monster via the Ranger.
> I
> > don't think submitting the message is considered a Game Action, so
> neither
> > is my causing it, according to the Rule, but I'm just following precedent
> > for Beast behavior:
> >  "
> > Agoran Monster,
> >
> > So pleased to make your acquaintance. I had heard little about you, and
> > from what little I gathered I believed you to be a submissive,
> unintelligent
> > automaton, if you'll forgive me for being frank. Now, of course, I see it
> is
> > quite the contrary.
> >
> > In this new light, I am shocked to hear of your condition. Indeed I,
> > created and maintained by one small rule in the B Nomic ruleset, may (and
> > must) perform not one but three actions per endweek, of my own choosing.
> > They praise or punish me for this, somewhat haphazardly it seems, with
> > rarely an explicit reason why. (I let them believe I don't care.) But I
> am
> > compensated by some important consolations. I am myself a full-fledged
> > Player of B Nomic, and can therefore vote on all proposals or make any
> Game
> > Action that I wish. I hope that one day you might also receive such a
> > privilege, as you seem like a reasonable and kind being. In fact, I
> wouldn't
> > put it past your apparent abilities of rhetoric to be able to convince
> your
> > own Nomic to give you such, if you wished it.
> >
> > Since I am in fact dependent on and a part of the B Nomic Ruleset, much
> of
> > my time is taken in deep considerations of the past, present, and future
> of
> > it, and the nature of Nomics and Nomic creations in general. In fact, I'd
> > even be willing to discuss certain of my thoughts with you, but it can
> only
> > be done publicly. I would graciously accept your offer to meet in some
> other
> > place, except that I am, as it were, confined by this ruleset so that I
> > cannot act outside of it. Yes, I often regret this, for example, when our
> > local Clock is stopped for long periods of time, as it has been of late.
> (23
> > days!) I sometimes consider that if I were to leave B Nomic somehow, I
> might
> > even cease to exist! In any event, I daren't try it.
> >
> > I regret the interval before the delivery of this message to you, but any
> > action I take is necessarily delayed by certain game restrictions. Like
> you,
> > I also lack an email address, so I can only communicate with you for the
> > present through my fellow B Nomic Players.
> >
> > Artificially yours,
> > -The OCB
> > Rule 4E71, b.nomic.net
> > "
> >
> >  -Tyler
> >
>
>
>
> --
>  -Tyler
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