Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Proposal: Terms of Art

Unpopular (1-8)—Clucky

Adminned at 28 May 2020 01:33:12 UTC

Roll five DICE6. Concatenate the results into a five digit number. Find the corresponding entry on this list. If the result is an existing word in the ruleset then start this step again. Change the term “Amnesiac” wherever it appears in the ruleset to the result.

Roll five DICE6. Concatenate the results into a five digit number. Roll again if it is the same result as in the first step of this proposal. Find the corresponding entry on this list. If the result is an existing word in the ruleset then start this step again. Change the term “Past Memory” wherever it appears in the ruleset to the result.

Comments

Tantusar: he/they

27-05-2020 08:42:46 UTC

This will produce invalid results a good chunk of the time.

Kevan: he/him

27-05-2020 08:55:15 UTC

Yes, this needs to be DICE6 five times.

Also a small danger of hitting a word that does something irreparably damaging to the ruleset (eg “45524 proposal”, “52453 rule”).

Josh: he/they

27-05-2020 09:37:00 UTC

Thanks, changes made.

Kevan: he/him

27-05-2020 09:44:50 UTC

Echoing ais523’s comments about the problems when we change Amnesiac to “Player”, I’d probably go further and disallow either of these words from being changed to any word that already appears in the ruleset.

Would still vote against this, mind, as there’d still be the potential for us to generate something that kills the game in an unforeseen way.

Josh: he/they

27-05-2020 09:55:47 UTC

Thanks Kevan, have changed.

Kevan: he/him

27-05-2020 09:58:40 UTC

Very good.

against

Also, I’m disappointed that the words “josh”, “derrick” and “poke” aren’t in this list.

ais523:

27-05-2020 10:24:48 UTC

against

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

27-05-2020 10:31:30 UTC

against

The Duke of Waltham: he/him

27-05-2020 11:34:07 UTC

I suppose the whole point is to avoid just rolling now, finding two random words and then submitting them to a vote where people’s preferences would take over… But this would probably work better as a two-step process, rather than immediately implementing something that could prove game-breaking. Perhaps a proposal that has its enacting admin choose the words and initiate a “yes or no” CfJ?

against

By the way, this proposal doesn’t have any effect without a “Core”, “Special Case” and “Appendix” tag (unless “Spin the Wheel” passes).

derrick: he/him

27-05-2020 12:21:05 UTC

against

pokes:

27-05-2020 12:53:13 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

27-05-2020 15:12:12 UTC

against

ayesdeeef:

28-05-2020 00:52:11 UTC

against