Re: DIS: Ugh!

2010-09-11 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 16:09 -0400, comex wrote: An instrument is any entity that is generally capable of communicating, at every point in time, a (usually empty) ordered list of changes it intends to apply to the gamestate. Power is an instrument switch whose values

Re: DIS: Ugh!

2010-09-11 Thread omd
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:18 AM, ais523 callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: If we continue wording proposals like we normally do, each of them will take effect continuously. Oops, I had text to address there but must have accidentally removed it.

DIS: Ugh!

2010-09-10 Thread comex
Proto: [I think all this ambiguity about how proposals take effect is caused by a cosmology of instruments that has evolved from simple to complex without ditching some assumptions that now unnecessarily increase the complexity. Take this paragraph from Rule 106: Preventing a proposal