Thursday, July 24, 2025

Proposal: Trucks in the Night

Reached quorum 9 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 25 Jul 2025 15:54:59 UTC

Add a new rule, “Food Trucks”:-

Each Truck has a Name (a flavour text string) and number of Dollars, defaulting to $100; both of these are publicly tracked. A Truck may change their own Name at any time.

Add a new rule, “The Night”:-

If every Truck has a non-empty Menu, then the Yard may perform the following atomic action, known as a Night:-

* Queue up: For each Truck (in a random order) perform one Sale
* Tally up: Post a blog entry listing all Menus and the outcomes of the Sale actions
* Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus

A Sale is an atomic action performed for a specific Truck, with the following ordered steps:-

* A customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the customer’s Choice
* They look around: If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes at random and this becomes the customer’s Choice instead
* They buy their meal: The Truck whose Menu has the customer’s Choice gains the Price of that Choice

(All random selections made by the Yard may be performed in a secretly random manner.)

A basic starting game loop for how menu items generate profits.

Comments

DoomedIdeas: he/him

24-07-2025 15:27:27 UTC

for “pokes’ rice and beans”

Josh: he/they

24-07-2025 15:27:49 UTC

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Kevan: Yard he/him

24-07-2025 15:32:51 UTC

Sorry, we’re all out of rice and of beans right now.

DoomedIdeas: he/him

24-07-2025 15:36:51 UTC

I’ll find a way!

JonathanDark: he/him

24-07-2025 15:58:31 UTC

I like that we’re being Americentric with $ instead of ₤ or €

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Kevan: Yard he/him

24-07-2025 16:06:33 UTC

It’s a broiling dynasty, so maybe it has to be. (I deliberately picked “broiling” to make it sound like the Backronym might have been written by an American. I’m still not really sure what broiling actually is.)

DoomedIdeas: he/him

24-07-2025 16:14:44 UTC

It’s basically upside-down grilling, with the heat source coming from above instead of below. Good for thinner cuts, since the rack will still heat up and therefore get at least a light sear on the bottom of the meat as well.

eternalservererror:

24-07-2025 16:21:39 UTC

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aria: she/they

24-07-2025 16:36:20 UTC

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Chiiika: she/her

24-07-2025 16:43:34 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

24-07-2025 20:02:29 UTC

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Vovix: he/him

24-07-2025 22:23:44 UTC

“The Truck whose Menu has the customer’s Choice gains the Price of that Choice” doesn’t actually specify Dollars, does it? And Price is defined as an abstract integer.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

25-07-2025 02:30:55 UTC

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Josh: he/they

25-07-2025 06:55:01 UTC

@Kevan It’s what we would call grilling; what Americans call grilling we would call barbecuing

DoomedIdeas: he/him

25-07-2025 15:43:34 UTC

@Josh Are you saying that in England, all grilling is done with the heat source coming from above instead of below?