BlogNomic: The final frontier

Monday, December 28, 2009

Proposal: The final frontier

Fails 1-13.—alethiophile

Adminned at 29 Dec 2009 14:12:13 UTC

In rule 2.6 Universe, in the following sentence

Each Adventurer has a â€œLocationâ€ , which is tracked in the GNDT. Locations are limited to real-life (i.e., not fictional or mythical), existent (as of the Reference Time) locations on Earth that have their own article in the Reference Source, and have a size or area, as specified in the Reference Source, of no more than one thousand square miles.

after ‘locations on Earth’ add

or any other place deemed habitable without any special equipment by the reference source or the Djinn (even as part of a wish)

so that the resulting sentence reads

Each Adventurer has a â€œLocationâ€ , which is tracked in the GNDT. Locations are limited to real-life (i.e., not fictional or mythical), existent (as of the Reference Time) locations on Earth or any other place deemed habitable without any special equipment by the reference source or the Djinn (even as part of a wish) that have their own article in the Reference Source, and have a size or area, as specified in the Reference Source, of no more than one thousand square miles.

If more than half of the FOR votes for this proposal contain the phrase ‘connection by all means’, add the following to the block of ‘wishes that will not be granted’ in rule 2.2 Wish Fulfillment:

Wishes that would make an inhabitable place not in connection with another already existing inhabitable place.

Wouldn’t it be fun to wish for a copy of Earth next to ours with location names slightly changed, like by adding an apostrophe at the end? ...or an infinite number of copies of Earth…

Comments

redtara: they/them

28-12-2009 15:48:09 UTC

Kevan: he/him

28-12-2009 16:25:51 UTC

Wouldn’t a copy of Earth count as “fictional”? I can’t see that this proposal actually adds anything other than that (we can’t have any non-fictional off-world locations because they’d all require “special equipment” to survive there).

Ornithopter:

28-12-2009 17:33:19 UTC

I read your addition to Rule 2.2 six or seven times trying to figure out why we shouldn’t be able to wish an existing habitable place (distinct from location) not connected (connected?) to all other existing habitable places before I realized you meant new habitable places had to be connected to existing ones.

I think a second Earth’d only be arguably fictional. If someone wishes for Wonderland to be real, the Universe page would then state that it was, and for that to have any meaning locations have to be required to be real in the gamestate universe rather than the actual one. (Of course, I doubt anything in Wonderland has a “size or area, as specified in the Reference Source” so there would be other problems with that, but Second Earth would presumably have the same sizes or areas.)

spikebrennan:

28-12-2009 18:08:03 UTC

Waters down the ability of Wishes to meaningfully alter the Universe. If someone wishes for Britain to sink into the sea, this is a less significant event if Britain is still available on Earth-prime, or Earth-prime-prime, etc.