Given my imminent return, if it is possible to do so, I flip my master switch to myself. On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 19:29 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just saw this thread and wanted to mention that as the summer rolls > around, I may return. > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 19:08 Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO >> >> though I think the software we're using was actually a MUD: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD >> >> On Sat, 26 May 2018, Cuddle Beam wrote: >> >> > What's MOO? >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:45 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > It wouldn't work over email, but this conversation also had me >> wondering >> > > whether the MOO and its final state lived on a disk anywhere! >> > > >> > > The rules and the MOO structure (rooms and programming) were very >> > > intertwined, >> > > e.g. the rules assume a MOO-programmed-solution for voting and all >> other >> > > interactions. IMO it wouldn't be worth the effort even as a gimmick >> UNLESS >> > > the MOO was actually brought online. It wouldn't be worth the effort >> > > of porting to a mailing list because that's already been done - and >> that's >> > > Agora. In a way, moving to the mailing list freed Agorans from their >> > > "physical restrictions" and allowed them to be platonic idealists they >> > > wanted to be, so Agora is more an evolution of that spirit and the MOO >> > > would be an archaic step backward (though as you say it would be fun >> to >> > > revisit as a novelty). >> > > >> > > We had a brief fling with a new MOO circa 2004-2005, and it was >> abandoned >> > > fairly quickly probably in part because it was restrictive like that. >> > > >> > > On Fri, 25 May 2018, Cuddle Beam wrote: >> > > > It would definitely strip it of a lot of its former "spirit" >> although >> > > isn't >> > > > nomic about change in the first place? >> > > > >> > > > But yeah, it more about the formal gimmick. Not "reviving" the >> spirit of >> > > > Nomic World itself. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Alex Smith < >> ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> >> > > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 18:07 +0200, Cuddle Beam wrote: >> > > > > > OH MAN. >> > > > > > >> > > > > > What if we managed to "hack" the defunct NW via FRC, to then >> pull it >> > > > > into a >> > > > > > better place (like a mailing list or Discord server) so that it >> can >> > > be >> > > > > > played again? >> > > > > > >> > > > > > Does anyone have FRC's old rules? How difficult could it be? >> > > > > >> > > > > Nomic World on a mailing list would defeat the entire point of it >> being >> > > > > Nomic World. (You'd also quickly discover that most of the rules >> > > > > wouldn't work in that context.) >> > > > > >> > > > > There's a reason that Agora started as its own nomic. >> > > > > >> > > > > -- >> > > > > ais523 >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> >>
