Friday, August 01, 2025

Proposal: The Lamb is Kosher

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 02 Aug 2025 16:46:39 UTC

Create a new rule “Cleavers”“

The verb to cleave means: to remove all square brackets and all text between them.
The verb to uncleave means: to remove all square brackets but not any text between them.

For example: “This is [not] good” becomes “This is good” when cleaved.

The above rule retroactively applies to the admin resolving this proposal.

In step “They eat their meal” of action “Sale” in rule “The Night”, replace this cleaved text with its uncleaved version:

contains the Ingredient “Oyster” [or “Lamb”], then the Yard

Add the following condition at the end of the same list:

If the Non-Oyster Dishes contained Lamb, the customer becomes a Regular and is not removed from the list of customers in the next step.

 

 

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

01-08-2025 20:25:20 UTC

I don’t quite understand why we need “cleaved” and “uncleaved”.

arthexis: he/him

01-08-2025 20:38:49 UTC

I enjoy being succinct.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

01-08-2025 21:46:46 UTC

against I’ve no issue with cleaved/uncleaved (and recognize the terminology from MTG), but don’t personally care for the proposal itself

eternalservererror:

01-08-2025 22:54:42 UTC

against As far as I can tell, the Customer becoming a Regular doesn’t change anything besides making it so that the Yard doesn’t have to replenish the list later. But the intent seems to be poison the well and reward those who don’t decide to drink from it. Oysters is already a pretty big risk. Especially if you’ve seen my Happy Hour post for this round.

JonathanDark: he/him

01-08-2025 23:14:40 UTC

Agreed, I want to see the Oyster mechanism play out in at least one or two rounds before altering it any further.

against

Chiiika: she/her

02-08-2025 02:54:43 UTC

against

Kevan: Yard he/him

02-08-2025 07:05:13 UTC

imperial

DoomedIdeas: he/him

02-08-2025 07:11:39 UTC

against

Vovix: he/him

02-08-2025 08:31:12 UTC

Could you explain the intended effect of this proposal? As far as I can tell, it’s defining a convoluted term just to add two words to a rule to… make one specific non-Oyster ingredient trigger the Oyster bonus/penalty without counting itself? And then making a Customer who ate Oyster not leave if there exists a Lamb dish (except that effectively does nothing because all customers are identical at the moment)? Confusing flavor aside, I’m not sure what this is supposed to add to the mechanic, and the weird text manipulation setup makes me think this is meant to smuggle in a scam of some kind.

arthexis: he/him

02-08-2025 13:09:35 UTC

I see the intended use of Oysters doesn’t jive with what I am going for here so I will withdraw against