BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

per my vote on Quas Vulgus Elegerit. i won’t be upset if this passes but i had hoped brendan’s fortress would prove a little harder to disassemble :u

Again, though: it’s totally clear that you could just modify a Perdurable Rule with a normal quorum on this proposal, right? The prohibition on how they can be modified doesn’t kick in until this dynasty ends, at which point the next emperor could quickly wipe this rule!

brendan can also still veto can opener proposals :u

That’s why https://blognomic.com/archive/slightly_different_idea disallows vetoes for this and the other idea. (Also, by the time this rule is relevant, it might not be Brendan with veto power.)

It’s a bit route one, and not very Team Darkness.

What does “route one” mean?

Huh, I just knew it as meaning “a bit obvious and inelegant”, but it’s actually a better metaphor than I realised: in football it’s “the long kick upfield followed by a goalmouth scramble [...] a commonly used but widely derided footballing tactic. It is often perceived to be employed by teams that are heavy on physicality but light on skill.” Although I’m sure you have a goalmouth plan.

Hahaha that is a savage review of my approach to the game, Kevan 😂

“Heavy on physicality but light on skill,” oh my goodness

I guess it depends on what you think the objective of this dynasty is. Is it to treat Brendan’s ruleset takeover as a fun puzzle, to be resisted and unpicked? Or is it to treat Brendan’s ruleset takeover as a fun constraint, to craft a ‘conventional’ victory within? If the former then eschewing a tool because it’s ‘too obvious’ seems contrary - and for the record, Kevan, I think this approach might only have been ‘obvious’ to you and me; Brendan missed it and no-one raised it in the discord while discussing this issue…

I’m seeing it as a puzzle that once it’s been fully unpicked will create a power vacuum, and one where Team Mortal will have a “defeating the Dark One” narrative on their side, so I’m not in that much of a rush to cut the knot.

Ah; I’m not really experiencing it as a narrative arc, which may explain the difference in approach.

I just view the goal right now as “abolish the remnants of the dictatorship”. (If it was something more benign, like a “Brendan was here” note, then I’d be all for keeping it, though.)