Re: [s-d] [s-b] A gamestate clarification request to the Administrator

[Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 14:32 +0000, Elliott Hird wrote:
> 2009/2/10 James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > This whole debate is pointless and worthy only of a developmentally challenged monkey.
> >
> >
> >
> > The following text is between "[[" and "]]" in ais523's quote:
> >
> >
> > An online UTC clock is available at http://www.time.gov/.
> > Thus, if it is currently the middle of nday 2, something happening "in 2 ndays" will occur at the end of nday 4.
> > Those two sentences have no real impact on the game and to anyone with any common sense it should be obvious that the comments end at the "]]" symbol. What is it with you people and taking the most game breaking interpretation?
> 
> I agree. I've never argued with trying to break the game - just
> picking a literal interpretation of what the rules actually say.
> 
> In this case, the sane interpretation is one perfectly literal
> possibility. Let's pick it.

The problem is, I don't think the sane interpretation is a literally
correct one at all. "Between" does not mean "Between a matching pair of"
with any definition of the word I've seen.

As for JamesB: just because a rule is meant to mean something, doesn't
mean that it does mean that. Most of B's gameplay is based around this
fact, and removing it would cause B not to be B.

-- 
ais523

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