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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2008-01-01 12:01 am
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Open Thread #1

Want to invite me to something, ask me a question, go completely off topic? Here's the place!

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] mathiastck.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Discordian universalism might be a term I creeated or just something I'm google hacking. It probably is whatever you may guess it is. If so what would you guess¿

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
*checks Wikipedia*

The precepts of Discordianism apply and simultaneously fail to apply to everyone equally?

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is, but I don't know ... I don't really find it interesting. I like the old proverb, "All things are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense", but the Rule of Five and all that? Kinda dull.

Oh, hey, did you ever see Thou Shalt Always Kill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4)? It might perk your fancy, you being Discordian.

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] mathiastck.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah, I think my wife had "Though Shalt Kill" set to autoplay on her myspace.

(For undisclosed reasons I'm more of a MySpace person these days then an LJ person).

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] mathiastck.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
This PC is dying, been debuggign for hours now, I can't get the taskbar to return. Also the sound doesn't work.

I think I'm going to buy the cheapest new tower I can find, pop this hard drive into that too, back everythign up, then format this drive.

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably a good call – computer failure don't mess around. Come back and let me know if you want to ask about Nomic any more!

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] mathiastck.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a pretty mobile guy, half of my responses to this thread have been from a cell phone.

How does one begin a game of nomic?

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I can't speak for other people, but the process was pretty simple for [livejournal.com profile] active_apathy and myself:
  • find interested people (http://active-apathy.livejournal.com/108264.html) (this is usually the stickler),
  • make up an initial ruleset (http://packbat.livejournal.com/90951.html) based on Peter Suber's original Initial Set (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm#initial%20set),
  • revise your initial ruleset until everyone's happy (http://active-apathy.livejournal.com/111312.html),
  • hammer out who exactly is playing (http://community.livejournal.com/nomicide/492.html), and
  • start the game! (http://community.livejournal.com/nomicide/1107.html)

But to answer the other sense of your question: well, that's kinda hard to say, given that Nomic is all about changing the rules. I could point you at other descriptions of the game (http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/GameOfNomic), but they usually end up being kinda similarly handwavy.

...darn, now I'm writing yet another guide to the game of Nomic. Curse you, inspiration!

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] mathiastck.livejournal.com 2007-07-08 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If you start a game on a web forum somewhere, let me know :)

Re: Hi!

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2007-07-09 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if LJ counts, [livejournal.com profile] nomicide is your game – else I'd say you should check the list (http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/NomicDatabase). There's quite a few games in town, so to speak, and I'm sure you can find a forum one. ^_^