Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Proposal: Smuggler’s Tricks

Reached quorum, 4-0. Josh

Adminned at 16 Jun 2023 08:13:53 UTC

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Reality Enforcers”:

It is an agenda item to increase another Mindjacker’s Suspicion from 9 or less to 10 or more.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Tier 3: Psychic Dreamscape”. Call it “Guilt Implantation” and give it the following text:

As a Forkable weekly action called Blameshifting, a Mindjacker may transfer one of their Suspicion to another Mindjacker of a level between 3 and their own, inclusive.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Tier 5: Hypersquid Sonic Waveform Ocean” as a new paragraph:

It is an Ascension Criterion for Tier 5 that if one has any Matterium, one’s Suspicion plus one’s Matterium does not exceed twice one’s Level. This Ascension Criterion is known as the Smuggler’s Criterion.

If the rule “Tier 4: Protoplasmic Quantum Soup” contains the phrase “a quality of Matterium”, change it to “a quantity of Matterium”.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

14-06-2023 23:05:00 UTC

You spelled “Matterium” as “Materium” with one “t” the first time. It can probably be chalked up to a spelling mistake, but if you have time to edit, might as well fix it.

lemon: she/her

15-06-2023 03:49:18 UTC

Bucky, did you see & understand the trigger that i set?

Bucky:

15-06-2023 04:00:28 UTC

See? Yes. Understand? Maybe, but it looks illegal.

lemon: she/her

15-06-2023 04:03:45 UTC

check again; i’m trying to communicate something to you.

lemon: she/her

15-06-2023 06:18:02 UTC

anyway, i’m not sure about this. a weekly isn’t too egregious, but honestly i think that there shouldn’t exist any tools to reduce suspicion except for descending and ascending once again. suspicion-reducing actions become a grind, and increase the grindiness of all of the actions (such as mindjacking) which suspicion is supposed to reduce the grindiness of. budgeting yr suspicion should have to be carefully thought out!

on the other hand, “the Smuggler’s Criterion” is just great. so i’m conflicted!!

Josh: he/they

15-06-2023 07:53:15 UTC

for but I do want to know what happens to that Tier 5 Criterion if a Mindjacker *doesn’t* have any Matterium; is it considered met or unmeetable?

Bucky:

15-06-2023 14:05:10 UTC

It should be considered met.

JonathanDark: he/him

15-06-2023 16:39:52 UTC

for Transferring 1 Suspicion as a Weekly Action doesn’t seem too broken to me.

Josh: he/they

15-06-2023 17:04:32 UTC

@Bucky Fine, but it doesn’t say that - or at least that isn’t clear in the text - so this probably needs a tweak to the wording.

Bucky:

15-06-2023 17:12:38 UTC

It’s a clear logical if-then. It’s satisfied whenever the “if” clause is false or the “then” clause is true.

Josh: he/they

15-06-2023 20:00:29 UTC

That is computer programmer logic! You may wish to review how if-then clauses work in actual language, which is extremely varied https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences/

A clear phrasing would be to simply remove ‘if one has any Matterium’, which is entirely the source of the ambiguity, as well as being extraneous.

lemon: she/her

15-06-2023 23:30:54 UTC

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