DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2021-06-04 Thread Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion
Happy belated birthday! Please give me 2 boatloads of Coins. On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 5:25 PM Falsifian via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 11:51:37AM -0400, Jason Cobb via agora-business > wrote: > > It appears to be my Agoran Birthday once again.

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2021-06-02 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 6/2/21 10:55 PM, N. S. via agora-business wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:36 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> On 6/2/2021 11:05 AM, Trigon via agora-business wrote: >>> On 6/2/21 3:51 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: It appears to

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2021-02-18 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 2/12/2021 10:32 PM, Falsifian via agora-business wrote: > I became a player on February 13, 2019. Happy birthday to me! > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-February/04.html > Happy belated birthday, Falsifian! (just barely in the formal

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2021-02-13 Thread Falsifian via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:11:15PM -0500, ATMunn via agora-business wrote: > On 2/13/2021 1:32 AM, Falsifian via agora-business wrote: > > I became a player on February 13, 2019. Happy birthday to me! > > > >

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2021-02-13 Thread Falsifian via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 10:20:45AM -0500, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: > On 2/13/21 4:01 AM, Gaelan Steele via agora-business wrote: > > > >> On Feb 12, 2021, at 10:32 PM, Falsifian via agora-business > >> wrote: > >> > >> I became a player on February 13, 2019. Happy birthday to me! >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2020-08-22 Thread Falsifian via agora-discussion
If you meant to copy your own message to a public forum, it's traditional to say TTttPF (this time to the public forum, I guess). nttpf (not to the pf) is for telling others. On 2020-08-20 04:00, shelvacu via agora-business wrote: > nttpf > > On 8/19/20 8:57 PM, shelvacu via agora-discussion

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2020-08-20 Thread Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion
om nom ty om nom On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:20 PM Nathan S via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Hello! > I would like to announce my 0th Agoran Birthday! Included below is a > slice of ASCII cake for you to enjoy! > > > ( > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2020-08-19 Thread N. S. via agora-discussion
i take it back not a transfer On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 2:02 PM N. S. wrote: > Well it works anyway because anyone can transfer coins to anyone else > already > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 2:01 PM shelvacu via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> nttpf >> >> On 8/19/20 8:57

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2020-08-19 Thread N. S. via agora-discussion
Well it works anyway because anyone can transfer coins to anyone else already On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 2:01 PM shelvacu via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > nttpf > > On 8/19/20 8:57 PM, shelvacu via agora-discussion wrote: > > Happy birthday! I grant you 3 coins > > > >

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2020-08-19 Thread shelvacu via agora-discussion
Happy birthday! I grant you 3 coins Disclaimer: I'm not 100% sure this works, the agoran day may have already passed. On 8/19/20 1:20 PM, Nathan S via agora-business wrote: > Hello! > I would like to announce my 0th Agoran Birthday! Included below is a > slice of ASCII cake for you to enjoy! > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:46 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > >> > >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: > >>> Unless > >>>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 7/4/20 5:45 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >>> >>> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: Unless explicitly permitted

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 7/4/2020 2:09 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >> >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >>> Unless >>> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >>> SHALL NOT

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >> Unless >> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in the underlying game of >> Diplomacy

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 7/4/2020 1:00 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >>> Unless >>> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >>> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: > > Unless > > explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants > > SHALL NOT make use of

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Fix

2020-07-04 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: > Unless > explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants > SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in the underlying game of > Diplomacy in order to gain a competitive advantage. I'm a little

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations v1.1

2020-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 6/29/20 9:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > > On 6/29/2020 10:22 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> I intend, Without 3 Objections, to enact the following — modified from >> previous Birthday regulations and a variety of rulesets for Diplomacy, >> primarily those of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 6/28/20 9:43 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > Sorry, I didn't get around to reading these until now. Thanks for > going to the effort to write these! Comments inline. > >> 4. The judge is the final arbitor on matters of this tournament, and eir >> decisions can overturned if and

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-28 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
Sorry, I didn't get around to reading these until now. Thanks for going to the effort to write these! Comments inline. > 4. The judge is the final arbitor on matters of this tournament, and eir > decisions can overturned if and only if a CFJ finds eir decisions were "can overturned" > 8. At any

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On 6/28/20 8:31 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > >> The Gamemaster CAN, by announcement, amend >> the gamestate by substituting one Contestant into all instances of >> another Contestant. > > Extra space, and it’s pretty unclear what this means. It's intended to allow me to replace a

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament Regulations

2020-06-28 Thread omd via agora-discussion
> The Gamemaster CAN, by announcement, amend > the gamestate by substituting one Contestant into all instances of > another Contestant. Extra space, and it’s pretty unclear what this means. > the victor is (1) the last contestant remaining. Extra space, and what’s the (1) doing there? >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-07-01 Thread Edward Murphy
twg wrote: C C D C F E C C D C G F C C c A F E E D B♭ B♭ A F E F CoE: We repealed those rules like years ago. Happy birthday, Agora! I'd award myself a Magenta ribbon, but (a) I'm late as usual and (b) I've already got one.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-06-30 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Aww. *blows party popper mournfully* -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, June 30, 2019 7:49 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On 6/30/2019 7:52 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > > I intend, with 10 Agoran Consent, to banish Rule 2596. > > I object.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday activities...

2019-06-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
I missed that one - I'll have a look! My idea was to use last year's "Fantasy Rules Committee" competition but with a different theme (mainly because we've debugged those regs so it's easy to get going):

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday activities...

2019-06-30 Thread James Cook
I'm interested. Another possibility if Rance doesn't come back with an updated plan is the "Arcadia tournament" Trigon proposed on May 18 02:25 UTC) On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 at 12:42, Rebecca wrote: > > This has to get done man > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:41 PM Rebecca wrote: > > > Very

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday activities...

2019-06-30 Thread Rebecca
This has to get done man On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:41 PM Rebecca wrote: > Very interested > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 2:50 AM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > Do we have a quorum of folks interested in a birthday tournament over the > > next couple weeks? > > > > If so, Rance your tournament

DIS: Re: BUS: birthday activities...

2019-06-30 Thread Rebecca
Very interested On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 2:50 AM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Do we have a quorum of folks interested in a birthday tournament over the > next couple weeks? > > If so, Rance your tournament rules were quite good I thought, minus a > couple > scoring tweaks - still interested in doing

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-06-29 Thread Bernie Brackett
ah, I'll do that then. On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:28 PM James Cook wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 19:27, James Cook wrote: > > > > On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 19:24, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 12:19 -0700, Bernie Brackett wrote: > > > > Happy Birthday Agora!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-06-29 Thread James Cook
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 19:24, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 12:19 -0700, Bernie Brackett wrote: > > Happy Birthday Agora! It's Agora's birthday, so I get a Magenta > > ribbon. > > I'm not convinced that statement's clear enough to be an action-by- > announcement. You

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-06-29 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 12:19 -0700, Bernie Brackett wrote: > Happy Birthday Agora! It's Agora's birthday, so I get a Magenta > ribbon. I'm not convinced that statement's clear enough to be an action-by- announcement. You might want to rephrase it to be safe. -- ais523

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Ribbon

2019-06-29 Thread D. Margaux
Happy birthday Agora. I award myself a magenta ribbon > On Jun 29, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Happy Birthday, Agora!! > > >> On 6/29/2019 9:32 AM, James Cook wrote: >> It's Agora's birthday. Happy Birthday, Agora! >> I award myself a Magenta ribbon.

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday celebration thread

2017-06-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > Greetings, > Ørjan, who was strongly considering using some other language before seeing > G.'s message. Oh dear, Apologies Ørjan, I wasn't trying to rid us of free expression in multiple languages, that would not be good at all. I mainly want to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday celebration thread

2017-06-30 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:16 +1200, V.J Rada wrote: > I wish Agora a happy birthday. > I award myself a magenta ribbon. > > too late? It was in time. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday celebration thread

2017-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
NttPF Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 29, 2017, at 11:51 AM, V.J Rada wrote: > > I wish Agora a happy birthday. > I award myself a magenta ribbon. > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday celebration thread

2017-06-29 Thread V.J Rada
I wish Agora a happy birthday. I award myself a magenta ribbon. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I wish Agora a happy birthday. > I award myself a magenta ribbon. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
As Herald, I would be happy to run an additional Blitz Nomic game separate from this. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Haven't interacted with Agora for a while, but I remembered Agora's birthday > was coming up > and wanted to see what was going on with that. Maybe I've just been out of > the loop for too > long, but this birthday tournament spawned out of a very

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I was not aware that was the intent of this rules, so this is what I came up with. I used this because we were discussing the idea and I thought this would be a good dry run. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 28, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Aaron Goldfein

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-28 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Monday, June 26, 2017, CuddleBeam > wrote: > >No, it only allows me to limit eir game actions because it only allows > > internal actions, if you look at the rules. > > > ...I don't see that. Maybe I'm

Re: Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
>No, it only allows me to limit eir game actions because it only allows internal actions, if you look at the rules. ...I don't see that. Maybe I'm missing something though - in which case, please point out what I'm missing. What I'm finding is: "However, the Herald may remove participants or

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
No, it only allows me to limit eir game actions because it only allows internal actions, if you look at the rules. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: > "limit eir actions" > > While I endorse that PSS can do well

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
"limit eir actions" While I endorse that PSS can do well as a sole Judge for the Tourney, t-that provision is way too much power for a mere mortal imo. Limiting the ability to propose! To comment! To vote! To register! To *do* *anything*. Too much! But the rest looks solid and better,

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
Imo the metagame of how I think the tournament is supposed to work will be something like this: You give 3 daily Karma and gain 3 daily Karma due to symmetric trades ("Aiyo I give u a Karma for a Karma" "ok sounds cool, ty") and end up with a huge tie with everyone else who has done the same

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > The winner of this tournament shall be the person who is able to gain > the most karma, described below, over the course of the 4 week game. What if there's a tie? If you want ties to have multiple winners, typical is to use

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-26 Thread CuddleBeam
For 10 shinies (or a similar favor) I'm up for being someone's meatpuppet for purposes of winning the tournament (You can't publicly post about your actions, but I could publicly post them for you, for example, as well as feed you Karma). Please contact me privately to cuddleb...@gmail.com if

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > What other name might be good? Kudos or Karma are a couple options.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-23 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
What other name might be good? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 23, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Quazie wrote: > > Different name please - will be easy to confuse with trust tokens > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 08:46 Publius Scribonius

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Tournament

2017-06-23 Thread Quazie
Different name please - will be easy to confuse with trust tokens On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 08:46 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I think this is an interesting idea, but I would love to hear what other’s > have to say. > > Draft regulation: > >

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Blitz Nomic

2014-05-05 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 5 May 2014 10:05, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote One of the most fun times I've had playing Agora was the blitz nomic we played during Agora's Vigintennial last year, Agora XX. Most people, I think, seemed to enjoy the game and agreed we should do something similar annually.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Blitz Nomic

2014-05-05 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 5 May 2014 10:14, Jonatan Kilhamn jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2014 10:05, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote One of the most fun times I've had playing Agora was the blitz nomic we played during Agora's Vigintennial last year, Agora XX. Most people, I think, seemed

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday Blitz Nomic

2014-05-05 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Aaron Goldfein wrote: Amend the text in Rule 1769 (Holidays) reading:       The week that contains the beginning of Agora's Birthday,       together with the following week, are a Holiday. to read:       The week that contains the beginning of Agora's Birthday,      

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com To: agora-business agora-busin...@agoranomic.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:13 PM Subject: BUS: Birthday Happy Birthday Agora! -- Charles Walker - Original Message ends - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *Blows

DIS: Re: BUS: Birthday

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
- Original Message - From: Eric Stucky turiski.no...@gmail.com To: Business agora-busin...@agoranomic.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:24 PM Subject: BUS: Birthday Happy Birthday! (and hurray to me for being oblivious to timezones! Woot!) I Dance a Powerful Dance. Happy

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Norrish
Ed Murphy wrote: c-walker wrote: I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! Agora's birthday goes by GMT +1200 because First Speaker Michael's initiation message was sent at 00:04:30 GMT +1200 (Rule 1727). New Zealand time! Michael.

DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:42 +0100, C-walker wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! We do for almost everything, the Birthday's an exception. Also, putting game actions in your sig? -- ais523

DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/6/29 C-walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! rock in stormy seas Agora lives on, sane bring on next summer -- C-walker who creates a Magenta ribbon in eir

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:42 +0100, C-walker wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, Wooble wrote: Happy Birthday, Agora! I thought we went by UTC time? Anyway, Happy Birthday, Agora! We do for almost everything, the Birthday's an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:08 +0100, C-walker wrote: Thanks for explaining that (to everyone that did). And are game action in your sig considered bad form? Sorry if they are, that was a one off. It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not necessarily bad form, but it'll make people suspicious. and/or make the recordkeepor miss your action, causing em to violate the rules

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: birthday

2009-06-29 Thread C-walker
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Geoffrey Speargeoffsp...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: It's the sort of sneaky action that makes it look like you're trying to hide something; not necessarily bad form, but it'll make people suspicious.