Gabriel Vistica on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:52:38 -0700 (MST) |
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] This game is boring, let's have an Emergency. |
Okay, I'm getting REALLY confused here. Can somebody give a simple version of what the game state currently is? Also, I'm going to let the various reports sit for a few days so the Clock will stay off and we (I) can concentrate on this. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> > To: spoon-business <spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thu, December 23, 2010 1:36:55 PM > Subject: Re: [s-b] [s-d] This game is boring, let's have an Emergency. > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Elliott Hird > <penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 23 December 2010 20:54, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One, pragmatism. > > > > THIS IS B. > > > > EVERYTHING MUST BE TAKEN EXTREMELY LITERALLY AND PLATONICALLY. > > > > IF WHAT YOU'RE REASONING BREAKS THE GAME, YOU'RE DOING IT CORRECTLY, > > KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. > > Oddly, B was founded as a very pragmatic game. In fact, I'd say under > game custom as it was at the end of era one, era two works just fine. > But in case we want to replatonize ourselves into that (and frankly I > *like* platonic play): > > I offer an alliance to Wooble. Then I recognize an emergency. > > http://web.archive.org/web/20041205140215/www.bnomic.org/static/rules.html > is the most recent ruleset I can find, and I believe the absence of > *all of the ministers* is an emergency; under these rules, "I > recognize an emergency" is the preferred way of doing this. > > Things to know about these rules: > > 1. There is a card game. It involves the following cards: > http://web.archive.org/web/20041205131207/www.bnomic.org/display_all_cards.psp > > 2. There is a subgame called Political Go, or PGo for short. I > remember playing this one; it's good times. > > 3. There's also a board, and stuff happens on it in accordance with > the Book of Piece. I can't find a copy of that, so we'll have to write > a new one. > > 4. Game custom is that multiple comments within a rule don't trigger > the dreaded comment bug. (The relevant text: "Excepting any text in > this Rule prior to and including this sentence, any text appearing > within doubled square brackets ("[[" and "]]") shall be considered > "comment" text. Comment text shall not have the force of Rule; its > purpose is solely elucidative or demonstrative.") This is important, > since every single rule ends with a comment. > > 5. All Societies have been destroyed for lack of members. > > In case of other ways things could conceivably be: > > I begin recognizing a state of emergency. I push my panic button. He > is pushing his panic button. I become Paranoid. I intend to initiate > an emergency. > _______________________________________________ > spoon-business mailing list > spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-business > _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss