BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Presumably, since the Earth’s axis is now East-West, the earth is rotating around that axis.

Hmm.  Presumably…

Or else Antarctica moved.

the suspense is killing me, but only to the extent allowed by the rules.

Are the magnetic poles finally swapping? Or did someone wish that it was 2012? Or both?

Does anyone else think it’s weird that this post is at the “top” of the blog, when “newer” posts are lower down?

It’s stickied.

Maybe someone wished for Pangaea.

Sounds right, AL. I’m guessing those who bought yachts aren’t too pleased. Good luck calculating distances. ;)

DING! Nice call AL.

This is gonna be a nightmare… it still doesn’t make it easy to move out of the South Pole, and it’ll be pretty hard to calculate distances between the new “adjacent” continents.

Anyone willing to wish for the supercontinent to be broken back into its component pieces? I’d do it, but I only have 1 wish left.

Hehe I have a wish that will make it even better…

KILL AL!

Considering it is granted, it should almost entirely change the game.

Darth, it wasn’t lizard who wished it. And ya have to find my lamp to start wishing again

@Darknight: I know, but AL says he “has a wish that will make it even better”.

Sorry, folks.  I was just dying to see what would happen.  Didn’t mean to over-complicate anything ;)

You know what this universe needs? A black hole. Yep that would do it.

Hehehe… uh oh.

The runner-up idea to Pangaea involved the disappearance of all oceanic water.  I was trying to think of something that would (hopefully) free the residents of the South Pole gulag and mix things up just a bit ;)

Proposal to calculate distances: Take the normal distance between the two points, then substract the distance of the segment of the line that forms at the points where the line crosses the ocean border.

It’s not exact but it would be an ok compromise.

My thoughts as well art

Hmm…. I wonder if the Caspian Sea still exists.

On a completely unrelated though highly amusing note, I just encountered the name “Jeff Sheets” on the Inform 7 website. (For newer players: In the Fifth Metadynasty, we had a rule allowing us to steal rules from other nomics. One of them said that “The speaker for the first game shall be JeffSheets”; Josh tried to pull a scam by changing his name to JeffSheets and using some references to the Round One ruleset, claiming it made him win. Kevan trumped it by noting that you could only win in Round One if you were a player.)

That sounds fun : )
Interesting, I used to play around with Inform 7…
I also have a déjà vu about that name, but that doesn’t count as I practically have déjà vu’s of pretty much everything these days…

Just don’t include major oceans when calculating distance. Is it fair to say all the continents have not changed shape, and therefore are the same for distance purposes?

I think that’s a fair assumption.  Does this mean that Hawaii and other islands formed by volcanic upheaval will no longer exist?

I suppose we should wait for an actual wording of exactly what happened, on the Universe page. If it’s actually Pangaea, we’ll need a good map of it if we’re calculating accurate distances.

Poor old Jeff. Although I’ve been thinking for a while that Inform 7 would make a great structure for a Nomic.

Yeah, it probably would, if we could make a rule-changing system for it.