Re: [s-d] [s-b] declaration

[Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:08 -0500, Craig Daniel wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Cassie Bayer <kisse.bnomic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How pedantic should we expect this game to be run?  Say, on a scale of 1 to
> > 10, where 1 would be "quite lenient" to 10 "excruciatingly pedantic so much
> > so that we need justify the existence of the game existentially"?
> 
> If you're anywhere below about an eight or nine, the game doesn't
> meaningfully exist because there's another B Nomic out there that's
> working just fine, thank you.
> 
> B's sweet spot has historically been around eight or so; if you're
> looking for less pedantry you should check out Agora, which lives in
> the neighborhood of three.

Hmm... Agora's fine for pedants too, it just has rules that non-pedants
can justify non-pedantic play to pedants under. (Rules 754 and 217 are
two of the most important in that respect.) So the gameplay is a lot
less pedantic, even if the rules themselves are.

-- 
ais523

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