Monday, January 27, 2025

Proposal: Reading Rainbow

Reached quorum, 5-0 with 1 DEF and both Masterminds voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 27 Jan 2025 20:48:16 UTC

Add a subrule to the rule Definitions {I}, called On Parsing Nonsense {I}:

Throughout the dynastic ruleset, nonsense words (i.e. unbroken strings of characters, without spaces, that have no definition in the English language and which are not attestable as names) are referred to as Gibberish. When reading a rule, Gibberish words may be treated as having no value, in the sense that they neither add nor remove meaning to the sentence they are in, and the meaning of the sentence should be interpreted as if they are not there.

Change the text of the rule Tools of the Trade {M} to read as follows:

As a Heist Action, a Participant may add, remove, or change one character of a Mutable rule into a single other character, where a character is defined as one of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, its 10 numerals, commas, spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, dollar signs, and full stops, provided that after the change no new Gibberish words have been created $$.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

27-01-2025 08:44:40 UTC

You’re defining gibberish words, but then going on to refer to gibberish rules which are undefined. Is that last sentence meant to say “no new Gibberish words have been created”?

Josh: he/they

27-01-2025 09:16:25 UTC

Yes, thank you

ais523: Custodian

27-01-2025 10:09:13 UTC

This deletes the entire dynastic ruleset – you want “that both have no definition in the English language and are not attestable as names”. Names generally have no definition, and regular words generally aren’t attestable as names.

ais523: Custodian

27-01-2025 10:26:29 UTC

OK, this looks good now – I’ll be planning to vote for it once it’s out of edit window.

SingularByte: he/him

27-01-2025 14:14:24 UTC

for

ais523: Custodian

27-01-2025 14:24:50 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

27-01-2025 14:53:51 UTC

for

Habanero:

27-01-2025 16:31:00 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

27-01-2025 17:12:39 UTC

imperial I am deeply unwilling to go back through hundreds of comments to figure out what happened this weekend, but sure.

Josh: he/they

27-01-2025 20:02:47 UTC

I turned out to be right about everything