http://blognomic.com/ Nomic played on a Weblog en spambait3@yahoo.com Copyright 2010 2010-09-02T17:53:59+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/blognomic_drinking_game/ http://blognomic.com/archive/blognomic_drinking_game/#When:17:53:59Z Add a new subrule to the rule “Drunkenness”.  Call it “Drinking game” and give it the following text: For the purpose of this rule, “Chug” means “have one’s AC increased by 1 if it is less than 5”. Whenever a proposal by an Earthling is failed without being self-killed or vetoed, its author Chugs. Proposal 2010-09-02T17:53:59+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/unidling31/ http://blognomic.com/archive/unidling31/#When:17:48:48Z The dynasty seems to have some actual meat to it now.  I’m unidling myself at my own request. Quorum is 8. 2010-09-02T17:48:48+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/not_made_of_moneytronium/ http://blognomic.com/archive/not_made_of_moneytronium/#When:15:42:55Z In Rule 2.4.4, replace “As a business action, a Production Corporation may produce one unit of Product, prefixed by any one-word adjective, unless that Corporation already owns a unit of Product prefixed by a different one-word adjective.” with:- As a business action, a Production Corporation may produce one unit of Product, prefixed by any one-word adjective (other than “Cash”), unless that Corporation already owns a unit of Product prefixed by a different one-word adjective (excluding Cash Product). Also add:- As a business action, any Corporation may replace any item of Stock in their Stock with a unit of Cash Product. Proposal 2010-09-02T15:42:55+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/good_news_everyone1/ http://blognomic.com/archive/good_news_everyone1/#When:05:58:24Z I’m giving everyone a free Vote Credit. For any proposal, anyone can PM me and say that they are spending a Vote Credit on that proposal. I will vote however they want on that proposal. Only the first one per proposal counts. 2010-09-02T05:58:24+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/yet_another_unidling_post/ http://blognomic.com/archive/yet_another_unidling_post/#When:03:54:16Z I unidle mysteriously, despite having never seen the show this dynasty is themed after. Quorum remains 7. 2010-09-02T03:54:16+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/burning_off_alcohol/ http://blognomic.com/archive/burning_off_alcohol/#When:22:27:32Z Add the following paragraph to the end of rule 2.2 “Drunkenness”: As a weekly action, an Earthling can reduce their AC by 2, as long as their AC is 2 or more. Proposal 2010-09-01T22:27:32+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/planet_excess/ http://blognomic.com/archive/planet_excess/#When:16:41:06Z Making a post of this so that Glopso is aware that I’ve reverted the second action, but as I see it, Planet Express’s action of “switch to research, make learning materials, switch to exploration, make study pass, switch back to delivery” in the wiki history was illegal, since the ruleset at the time said “As a weekly action, any Earthling may take a Business Action on behalf of a Corporation that they are a member of, if no member of that Corporation has taken a Business Action for that Corporation earlier in the current week.” - both of these actions were Business Actions, so the second one couldn’t have been taken legally. Have I missed something? 2010-09-01T16:41:06+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/only_one_pair_of_manipulator_appendages/ http://blognomic.com/archive/only_one_pair_of_manipulator_appendages/#When:09:08:51Z In Rule 2.4.2, replace “and one member” with “and one other member”, throughout. Proposal 2010-09-01T09:08:51+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/brief_downtime_tonight/ http://blognomic.com/archive/brief_downtime_tonight/#When:02:10:21Z Update: Everything seems to have gone swimmingly. You may now resume your regular gamely activities. Hey, all. Hope everything’s going well. For a very long time Dreamhost has been encouraging its users to migrate all their databases onto one physical server. I’ve always postponed moving BlogNomic’s stuff so as not to cause downtime. But this “encouragement” has progressed to the point where it’s somewhat difficult for me to create databases for other sites now. So at midnight Pacific Daylight Time (that’s 7:00 am UTC), Dreamhost is going to go ahead and perform the migration. There will probably be some brief downtime while it takes place. My understanding is that the old DB will be disabled before it’s copied to the new server, so there shouldn’t be any rollback of submitted content. But just to be sure, if you post anything tonight after reading this message, do check in the morning to be sure your content is still here. The whole thing should be completed with no further intervention from me. If anything funny happens, e-mail me and I’ll fix it as soon as possible. I will of course be making a complete backup of the database before the migration begins. TL; DR: Brief downtime around 07:00 UTC. Database will be backed up. In case of emergency, call the police. 2010-08-30T02:10:21+00:00 http://blognomic.com/archive/getting_quiet_enough_to_rejoin/ http://blognomic.com/archive/getting_quiet_enough_to_rejoin/#When:06:31:01Z Could someone unidle me, please? 2010-08-29T06:31:01+00:00