DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: While scamming, my interpretation was something along the lines of: an entity pertains to the Province of Agora if the Rules directly, statically associate the two, or if some *inherent* Rules-defined property of the entity makes

DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: I dislike this always taking effect terminology. I'd word it as rules are capable of having ongoing effects. Taking effect sounds like they're actively doing something at every moment. It's from Rule 2141: A rule is a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 20:02 -0400, omd wrote: It's from Rule 2141: A rule is a type of instrument with the capacity to govern the game generally, and is always taking effect. Oh right. I remember disliking that wording even when it was added, but I got outvoted. Just out of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread Sean Hunt
On Oct 22, 2014 8:09 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 20:02 -0400, omd wrote: It's from Rule 2141: A rule is a type of instrument with the capacity to govern the game generally, and is always taking effect. Oh right. I remember disliking that

DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread Nich Del Evans
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Eritivus eriti...@gmail.com wrote: I claim that, assuming the reader knows that pertaining to can mean belonging to, the text is quite clear. Pertaining to is obviously used as a synonym for contained in, inside and belonging to, and as the effect of add to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread Eritivus
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 01:27 +, Nich Del Evans wrote: 1) No one mentioned that interpretation until you did, so this leads me to believe that interpretation is not the most natural one, and makes me think most people weren't aware of it (I certainly wasn't). I argued in the Brief that,

DIS: Re: BUS: and Now For Something Completely The Same

2014-10-22 Thread omd
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Well, Dungeon Master rules are definitely broken and don't see a proposed fix out there. I had this idea below combining the RPG idea, some FRC spirit thrown in, and perhaps a dose of ais523's old great Puzzle game. By

DIS: Re: BUS: Intent to Deputise for Promotor

2014-10-22 Thread Eritivus
I had been planning to send a similar message. Happy to give the office a shot if neither you nor aranea want it.

DIS: Re: BUS: Brief for Moot on CFJ 3429

2014-10-22 Thread Eritivus
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 21:59 +, Alex Smith wrote: This is something of a problem. If the rule had used a word with a meaning in English, and another meaning in a language that most players didn't know, then it'd probably be the English meaning that took precedence. In this case, we have a