On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:31 PM Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/19 1:23 AM, James Cook wrote: > > Whenever a player has not done so in the past 4 days, e CAN > > Commune with the Wheel by announcement, specifying Rock, Paper or > > Scissors. A player CAN Reach into the Past by announcement at any > > time. If a player Communes the Wheel at a time T, and does not > > Reach into the Past in the four days following T, then at time T > > the value of the Roshambo Wheel is changed to the value e > > specified. > > > I've been grappling with this for a while now, and I'm not sure that > this works. (Read: very, very unsure. It took me a while to decide to > even send this message, and I've started writing and then discarded > something like it several times.) > > Rule 2141 reads, in part: > > > A rule is a type of instrument with the capacity to govern the > > game generally, and is always taking effect. A rule's content > > takes the form of a text, and is unlimited in scope. > > This is the only place that states that the Rules actually take effect, > and when they do so. Given the specification "at time T", I don't think > that a Rule can point to an arbitrary time and say "disregard what time > it is now, I'm taking effect _then_". Even if this doesn’t actually work, we could probably understand it as establishing a legal fiction for the purposes of that rule. Of course, legal fictions can say whatever they want, so that wouldn’t be a problem. Convincing another rule of higher power to accept the legal fiction is a different matter, and why I don’t think this would work in general without a high powered enabling rule. In this specific case, that isn’t a problem because everything is self contained and no other rule needs to take notice of the legal fiction. -Aris > > >
