Saturday, April 19, 2008

Proposal: Hope is the worst of [Evil]s, for it prolongs the torment of man

timed out, final vote 5-6—Yoda
Soyweiser gets 1 GL, since it was not sharked.

Adminned at 21 Apr 2008 10:40:08 UTC

The proposal “Victory is even sweeter when you can actually achieve victory” succeeded, but failed to execute properly because the rule it applied to didn’t exist. So this is a recreation of that proposal, with an additional target to work to.

Create a rule titled “Domination” with the text

A Henchman may not achieve victory while their GL is 0.

If a ’’’Henchmans’’’ GL exceeds the ’’’Overlords’’’ GL, and the ’’’Henchmans’’’ INT exceeds the ’’’Overlords’’’ INT, and the ’’’Henchmans’’’ MS exceeds the ’’’overlords’’’ MS, that ’’’Henchman’’’ may achieve victory.

If the ‘Proposal: Pirahna Tank’ failed, add the following text to rule “Domination” .

If a ‘’’Henchman’’’ creates a DoV post that fails, that henchmans GL will be reduced to 0.

If the majority of valid for votes include the text “You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?”, create the following Enemy Group.

Name: Ghastly Clean Aboriginal Cannibals
Leader: Sterwi Dasyatidae
App. Number of Members: 212
Weapons: Smelly Soap, Poisoned Spears, Metal boomerangs, A cooking pot so large it could cook us all.
HQ Location: Oceania

posted by Soyweiser at 19 Apr 2008 14:10:00 UTC Comments (15)

Comments

Soyweiser:

19-04-2008 15:09:09 UTC

for “You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?”

To pass the condition I set for the third part of the proposition.

jay:

19-04-2008 16:45:34 UTC

for You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?

Ornithopter:

19-04-2008 16:54:40 UTC

You don’t have to put triple single quotes around “overlord” and “henchmen”. They’re bold in the core rules, but not the dynastic rules, and no, I don’t have any idea why. Your doing it doesn’t hurt anything, though.

against Since “may achieve victory” just means that it is possible for them to win, as opposed to “may declare victory”, which is what I think you meant.

Soyweiser:

19-04-2008 17:04:18 UTC

Previous proposals also used the line achieve victory, so I just copied it from that. I thought that may achieving victory allowed you to ‘get’ victory using a DoV.

Ornithopter:

19-04-2008 17:50:04 UTC

If you achieve victory, you win.
If you may achieve victory, you are allowed to win.
If you may declare victory, you can (legitimately) claim that you’ve won.

If people think I’m wrong about this, I’ll change my vote, but I’m pretty sure about this interpretation.

jay:

19-04-2008 17:54:52 UTC

It’s [Evil] so needs a sharkfin more than a downvote.

Ornithopter:

19-04-2008 18:33:56 UTC

Frankly, I don’t understand the Overlord’s criteria for what gets sharked and what doesn’t in the slightest.

Uh, but that’s surely because I am such a lowly worm before him! Please don’t smite me, Overlord.

aaronwinborn:

19-04-2008 22:31:21 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

19-04-2008 23:45:54 UTC

imperial

Yoda:

19-04-2008 23:50:07 UTC

against I think we should go more on the side of who is the most evil (highest GL) once we achieve world domination.

I like the idea for the enemy group though.

arthexis: he/him

20-04-2008 00:50:40 UTC

for
I agree with the flying 0/2 artifact creature’s interpretation.

You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?

Purplebeard:

20-04-2008 19:56:49 UTC

against

dogfish:

20-04-2008 21:14:32 UTC

for

dogfish:

20-04-2008 21:15:09 UTC

for ack. You do smell nice, but why are you looking at me like that? And could you please stop nibbling my leg?

Beane:

20-04-2008 23:27:50 UTC

against For the second paragraph…for legitimate uses of DoVs that may be voted down on a difference of interpretation.  I think retroactive rather than proactive proposals should do fine.  The rest I was okay with.