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HAIL ERIS! -><- KALLISTI -><-  ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!

IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS.
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ALL FANATICS MUST DIE.
- 7 (11.7%)
Five tons of flax.
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Fnord.
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Pentabarf.
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The words of the Foolish and those of the Wise Are not far apart in Discordian Eyes.
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King Kong Died For Your Sins
- 9 (15%)
Ewige Blumenkraft
- 3 (5%)

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Author Topic: You And Insane Troll Logic: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum  (Read 2439 times)

Ross Vernal

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You Exist. Or, alternately, You Are.

It sure is <emotion> to Be, isn't it? And when it comes down to it, you know very little. What you do know is the following five things:

  • You probably exist.
  • Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter.
  • All statements 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.
  • Aside from knowing you may or may not exist depending on your frame of reference, that things relate to 5 if you look at them hard enough and squint, and that truth is relative to the beholder, you (probably) know nothing.
  • You may or may not have unspecified or specified opinions on your potential existence and/or ignorance.

So, now what?

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« Last Edit: July 04, 2013, 01:52:59 pm by Ross Vernal »
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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2013, 02:19:03 pm »

Look around.
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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2013, 02:24:14 pm »

Create concept of player input.

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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2013, 02:26:55 pm »

You invent the concept of player input, and take input from beings who may or may not exist behind a fifth wall, assuming the concept of walls exist and that there are five of them around you. Somewhere.

You look around.

You see at least five things of an unspecified nature that may or may not give you unspecified opinions, like "Wow, that thing over there is the most generic object I've ever seen!"; "I'VE SEEN SOME THINGS, (WO)MAN. THINGS AND STUFF." and/or "Is that what they call art these days? My child of an unspecified gender who may or may not exist could potentially create art that is equal to or greater than this example of possibly-modern art!"

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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2013, 02:28:11 pm »

Require all commands to be a multiple of five words long. It only makes sense.

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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2013, 02:30:54 pm »

You decide to only consider commands that are issued in a multiple of five words long. You review the command you were just given, and accept it as valid because it is fifteen words long.

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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2013, 02:35:43 pm »

Invalidate previous command to look around on the basis that it doesn't comply with the newest rule, erasing previous observations.

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Re: You Are: A Game Running on Nonsensoleum
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2013, 02:45:51 pm »

You decide that since the previous command to look around consisted of two words, which is not a multiple of five, it retroactively did not happen.

The things no longer exist. As in, they actually no longer exist, not may or may not exist like you do or don't.

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Re: You Probably Are: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2013, 02:49:55 pm »

Look around you in a neccesarily metaphysical and mysterious manner.

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Re: You Probably Are: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2013, 02:53:36 pm »

Look into yourself in such a manner that your inner side reveals itself in a way both glorious and terrible.
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Re: You Probably Are: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2013, 03:01:26 pm »

You decide to perceive things in a metaphysically mysterious manner, albeit in a muddled metaphor of vision.

There are now at least ten things that may or may not exist, relative to your possible existence in a spatial sense. This is <descriptor>, since the last time you didn't perceive things, there were or were not five things that definitely don't exist now.... you think.

You perceive yourself and determine that:

a) you exist
b) You are omniscient except for the things you don't know
c) You may or may not be enlightened and/or insane.

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Re: You Definitely Are: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2013, 03:04:17 pm »

Create concept of nonexistence. Refrain from creating concept of existence.

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Re: You Probably Are: An Erisan Game Running on Discordian Nonsensoleum
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2013, 03:15:13 pm »

You create nonexistence and delete existence.

The TARADOX that does not and double does not exist intensifies and does not intensify, since non-existence has to exist to not exist. You do not exist.

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Do not perceive the nature of the nonexistent objects nearby.

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Hastily refuse to not exist.
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