Thursday, August 03, 2006

Proposal: We’ve got company!

Timed out (3-3)
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 05 Aug 2006 12:22:54 UTC

Add a new subrule entitled “The Knights of Uncertainty” to the Rule “Time Companies”.  Give it the following text:

Knights of Uncertainty
Leader: (Whatsisname) No current leader.
Rules: The Goal of the Knights is to put all other Travellers into Heisenberg Loops.  If they acheive their goal, then Whatsisname acheives victory and will probably reward the other Knights somehow next dynasty.  Whatsisname is chosen by consensus among the Knights, but if there doesn’t seem to be a consensus the Arbiter can choose someone.
Description: We stand for Freedom, Justice from… no, no; Justice and Freedom from…  wait, isn’t Ignorance supposed to be in there somewhere?  Hey Bob, how does our motto go again?

If there’s no such thing as a Heisenberg Loop, put the sentence beginning “The Goal of the Knights” and the one after it in italics.

posted by Bucky at 03 Aug 2006 17:09:01 UTC Comments (6)

Comments

Hix:

03-08-2006 19:06:34 UTC

against

Rodney:

03-08-2006 20:03:36 UTC

for

TAE:

03-08-2006 20:07:37 UTC

against
Given that we can’t agree on a definition of a Heisenberg loop, nevertheless a consequence of one, this seems weird.

Kevan: he/him

04-08-2006 04:51:19 UTC

against
Insta-victory if “Once more through the Loop” fails.

Thelonious:

04-08-2006 08:07:31 UTC

for

Kevan, if “Once more through the Loop” fails then there’s no definition of a Heisenberg Loop so the first two sentences go it italics.

Under rule 3.1, that means those sentences don’t form part of the ruleset.

Note that there’s nothing saying italicised proposal text doesn’t count towards the proposal, in case that’s what you were thinking.  Indeed, those proposals that need it, explicitly state “Ignore italicized text in this proposal” at the start of the proposal.  (You may recall that in the dying moments of the last dynasty, Bucky tried a scam proposal with such wording to cover up the fact that a rule number and italicised name didn’t match up.)

Kevan: he/him

04-08-2006 08:25:43 UTC

Ah, I just filtered the italics out when I was reading it again before voting, as italics is generally used to mean non-rule text, everywhere.