Oh man there's always nothing better than waking up to 20 new messages and a Cuddlebeam scam.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Josh T wrote: > > That seems pretty open and shut then. Appending an adjective is a > mention of that > > property which is no substitute of actually having that property. (i.e. > calling a > > car which isn't red a "red car" doesn't magically change its colour) > > [consider this a gratuitous argument if it does go to a CFJ] > > 天火狐 > > Heh. This comment made me remember that I tried nearly the exact same > scam in 2001: > https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1299 > > I was pretty obnoxious back then. > > > [tl;dr the rules said that when the Rules grant a player "the New Player > Award", e > is instead granted a "the New Player Award for each currency." There > were 4 > currencies, so I argued that it meant "awarded the new player award => for > each > currency award the new player award (4 new player awards) => for each of > these, > for each currency award the new player award (16 new player awards)..." > > In reality, of course, the "new player award for a currency" was a defined > number > that didn't propagate or anything...] > > >
