i hate “but i don’t want to wear a mask because it makes people stare at me or make fun of me or harass me or talk to me and i have social anxiety” because it’s so fucking privileged
you can just take it off and it stops
for a lot of people that’s their daily life forever, not just because of disability even. mask or no mask
when you wear a mask you’re in the freak show with me for a little bit. stay and look around and see what you learn and let it make you fucking angry, not discouraged and compliant. use it to fight for and protect and love others. let it just strengthen your compassion. please
and WHEN is somebody going to make the 7 hour long video essay on agora nomic, i ask you????
nomic is a game where the rules can be modified in game by voting. Agora Nomic is an instance of nomic that’s been played continuously for nearly 30 years. the current ruleset is 60 pages long, there’s email archives going back 30 years of every time somebody exploited those rules to break/win the game.
it’s a bunch of people trying to do arbitrary code execution with contract law. it’s like game 27 in 17776 where they flipped a switch and broke the game of football, in real life. it’s diplomacy it’s betrayal. its tabletop RPG safety mechanisms. it’s beautiful and all-consuming and i worry about even posting about it too much because it’s a thing that would get destroyed if it ever got a youtube video made about it that got 1M views
there’s weird philosophy going on with ratification (short version: players typically treat the game as though there’s a platonic “correct” gamestate arrived at through the application of impartial rules automatically (if a thing says ‘x happens’ then the invisible machine of Agora causes that to happen, instantly.) BUT one of the rules that governs that impartial and automatica gamestate is Ratification, where if somebody makes an error in tracking the state of the imagined platonic gamestate machine, and nobody catches it, then after a certain amount of time the platonic gamestate fixes itself to be the state that the fallible humans have decided it to be. which is important because it means that if you discover a mistake made 10 years ago, it doesn’t break the imaginary gamestate machine causing cascading failures up to now.\
Rule 2640/3 (Power=2) Stones A stone is a unique indestructable liquid asset defined by the rules. To define a stone, the definition must include: (i) A name unique among stones; (ii) The smoothness of the stone, which is a non-negative integer; (iii) A description of the stone’s properties (iv) Optionally, a frequency, which must be one of daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
Ownership of stones is entirely restricted to Agora and active players. If a stone is owned by the Lost and Found Department or in abeyance, it is immediately transferred to Agora.
The Stonemason is an office, and the recordkeepor of stones.
Mossiness is a Stone switch with values of non-negative integers and a default of 0 tracked by the Stonemason. When a stone is transferred from Agora to a player or from a player to Agora, its Mossiness is set to 0.
The mossiest stone(s) in a set of stone is (are) the stone(s) with the highest Mossiness value. The Slipperiness of a stone is that stone’s smoothness plus its mossiness.
<3 <3 <3
(what does it even mean for a stone to be owned by the lost and found department, when a stone’s ownership is restricted to agora and active players. that feels like it shouldn’t be allowed. an action that transfers a stone to a non-player non-Agora entity should fail. which usually mean a power 3 rule is overriding this power 2 rule. which requires reading MORE rules.. you see why i think this is a beautiful subculture right)
π΅For once defy convention And hold onto me, Hold onto me, Hold onto me, Hold on.π΅
They had a fling in the past, before Billie went butch, and now things are ~messy~ Billie works as part of a house decorating company, passing as a boy. (hence the turpentine)
βTwo butches could be friends, but never lovers.β (Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold- the History of a Lesbian Community) (sorry, I feel like I need to explain all the damn context each time)
parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day