One-upmanship! Now with 20% more gay!
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:47 pm
Woo hooo hoooooo! So I have a game to propose! It's a bit fun too. I've had many good laughs with people over this as we've tested our imaginations.
As the title suggests, the members attempt to do better than the others! How exactly do we do that? Well, there will be a scenario that we have started, one that is to be determined. What happens is that the next person needs to think of something that is better! These rules are very vague, with a few guidelines meant only to form an actual game and prevent people from ruining it.
Now, I know what you're thinking. What do you mean better? Frankly, there are so many problems with that. There are things that are merely matters of opinion, for one, such as brand choice or popular opinion. Some things are favorable in certain aspects and lacking in others. Well, I am perfectly aware of that! The point of the game is to find a hole in you opponent's tactics.
For example, let's start with a simple concept. Fire. I have fire. I want to keep this fire. You can simply throw water on my fire, and you have successfully thwarted my attempts to keep the fire. Or have you? The fun part of this game is how quickly the focus can shift. I can either attempt to prevent you from putting out my fire, or get revenge for your water throwing. I can grab a piece of firewood from the bonfire I built and flee with it, preventing you from completely drowning out my fire. I can kick up the mud and ashes into your face, something I would not have been able to do if you had not been a jerk and put out my fire. I could even do something fantastical or overly exxaggerated, like zap the water with a freeze-ray, or summoning a wall of sponges to defend my fire. Any of those choices would effectively cancelout YOUR want, which was satisfaction in putting out my fire. It becomes a game of revenge, defense, honor. ONE-UPMANSHIP!
There are rules to this game. I shall list them, explain a bit about them, and hope for some response. We can put a few more in for clarity and fairness, but the first four are basically set in stone, unless something really ruins it for you guys or something needs clarification or retouching or some other unexpected bull I didn't think you could pull.
1. You MUST reply to the MOST RECENT PROPER RESPONSE.- On an active forum game or discussion, we can get carried away and perhaps branch off. Perhaps you have an idea that is AWESOME, and you don't think anyone could think of a way around it. However, if it doesn't fit the sit(uation), then you must quit it. If I've said something, then LordRetard says something, you must respond to LR's post, not mine. Even if your suggestion might have been funnier or generally more intelligent, you cannot break the chain.
2. You CANNOT REPEAT a response EXACTLY.- For the example scenario, if you throw a bucket of water at my fire, and I grab a flaming branch and run, you cannot throw more buckets of water at me. If you're dumping water from a bucket, dumping it from a water bottle, from the inside of a super-soaker, or an aquarium would be the same. However, throwing an aquarium literally allowing the glass to shatter and the fish to die would be different, as would attempting to put it out with a super soaker. You can shoot someone with a gun and then a machine gun and then a bazooka and then the A bomb if you want. You cannot drop the A bomb then the H bomb, however. I know scientifically they're drastically different, but shut up.
3. Your suggestion must according to ANY OPINION be able to beat an aspect of the WANT.- In the example, my want was to keep the fire going. Your WANT was to put out my fire. You cannot make a fire to make me jealous, because I can simply ignore you, or not be jealous. However, I do not neccessarily need to approve of the WANT you disprove of. If I attempt to put your fire out with water, you can choose which WANT you want, to get revenge or preserve the fire longer. We can spend 100 posts simply attempting to protect the fire as if it was the key to keeping ourselves alive, then suddenly let the fire go out to get back at the person at a second's notice. The interesting part is when the scenario becomes extremely complicated, and there are many wants active. We can follow one path, then someone can ingeniously refer to a previous want to keep going. You don't need to agree with it, if it argueably works out. Check example below. Emphasis on the aspect part as well. Completely canceling out a want can get difficult depending on the situation, and there will always be some sort of aspect left to continue the one-upmanship.
4. No GOD-MODDING. PERIOD.- It won't work. Seriously. I honestly have had god thrown in a game we've played. It was jesus-god is better than jesus-atheism-going to hell for eternity-reincarnation-etc. If you can't god-mod with god, I don't know what you can god-mod with. I personally don't believe in reincarnation, but I can't object to it.
And there we go! First of all, I'd like to know who's interested. Second of all, I'd like to hear how you'd like to play. Do we do it turn based, or free for all? If it is turn based, then we could get points by successfully preventing the next person from being able to one-up you. If it is free for all, you would get points for integrity, originality, and hilarity or cleverness.
1. Odd numbered posts get this blue tint.
2. Even numbers get this red tint.
People will make suggestions in the purple color if it is not a response.
((I SHALL UTILIZE BOLDNESS AND CAPS LOCKS TO EXERT MY FINAL SAY ON RULES.))
As the title suggests, the members attempt to do better than the others! How exactly do we do that? Well, there will be a scenario that we have started, one that is to be determined. What happens is that the next person needs to think of something that is better! These rules are very vague, with a few guidelines meant only to form an actual game and prevent people from ruining it.
Now, I know what you're thinking. What do you mean better? Frankly, there are so many problems with that. There are things that are merely matters of opinion, for one, such as brand choice or popular opinion. Some things are favorable in certain aspects and lacking in others. Well, I am perfectly aware of that! The point of the game is to find a hole in you opponent's tactics.
For example, let's start with a simple concept. Fire. I have fire. I want to keep this fire. You can simply throw water on my fire, and you have successfully thwarted my attempts to keep the fire. Or have you? The fun part of this game is how quickly the focus can shift. I can either attempt to prevent you from putting out my fire, or get revenge for your water throwing. I can grab a piece of firewood from the bonfire I built and flee with it, preventing you from completely drowning out my fire. I can kick up the mud and ashes into your face, something I would not have been able to do if you had not been a jerk and put out my fire. I could even do something fantastical or overly exxaggerated, like zap the water with a freeze-ray, or summoning a wall of sponges to defend my fire. Any of those choices would effectively cancelout YOUR want, which was satisfaction in putting out my fire. It becomes a game of revenge, defense, honor. ONE-UPMANSHIP!
There are rules to this game. I shall list them, explain a bit about them, and hope for some response. We can put a few more in for clarity and fairness, but the first four are basically set in stone, unless something really ruins it for you guys or something needs clarification or retouching or some other unexpected bull I didn't think you could pull.
1. You MUST reply to the MOST RECENT PROPER RESPONSE.- On an active forum game or discussion, we can get carried away and perhaps branch off. Perhaps you have an idea that is AWESOME, and you don't think anyone could think of a way around it. However, if it doesn't fit the sit(uation), then you must quit it. If I've said something, then LordRetard says something, you must respond to LR's post, not mine. Even if your suggestion might have been funnier or generally more intelligent, you cannot break the chain.
2. You CANNOT REPEAT a response EXACTLY.- For the example scenario, if you throw a bucket of water at my fire, and I grab a flaming branch and run, you cannot throw more buckets of water at me. If you're dumping water from a bucket, dumping it from a water bottle, from the inside of a super-soaker, or an aquarium would be the same. However, throwing an aquarium literally allowing the glass to shatter and the fish to die would be different, as would attempting to put it out with a super soaker. You can shoot someone with a gun and then a machine gun and then a bazooka and then the A bomb if you want. You cannot drop the A bomb then the H bomb, however. I know scientifically they're drastically different, but shut up.
3. Your suggestion must according to ANY OPINION be able to beat an aspect of the WANT.- In the example, my want was to keep the fire going. Your WANT was to put out my fire. You cannot make a fire to make me jealous, because I can simply ignore you, or not be jealous. However, I do not neccessarily need to approve of the WANT you disprove of. If I attempt to put your fire out with water, you can choose which WANT you want, to get revenge or preserve the fire longer. We can spend 100 posts simply attempting to protect the fire as if it was the key to keeping ourselves alive, then suddenly let the fire go out to get back at the person at a second's notice. The interesting part is when the scenario becomes extremely complicated, and there are many wants active. We can follow one path, then someone can ingeniously refer to a previous want to keep going. You don't need to agree with it, if it argueably works out. Check example below. Emphasis on the aspect part as well. Completely canceling out a want can get difficult depending on the situation, and there will always be some sort of aspect left to continue the one-upmanship.
4. No GOD-MODDING. PERIOD.- It won't work. Seriously. I honestly have had god thrown in a game we've played. It was jesus-god is better than jesus-atheism-going to hell for eternity-reincarnation-etc. If you can't god-mod with god, I don't know what you can god-mod with. I personally don't believe in reincarnation, but I can't object to it.
And there we go! First of all, I'd like to know who's interested. Second of all, I'd like to hear how you'd like to play. Do we do it turn based, or free for all? If it is turn based, then we could get points by successfully preventing the next person from being able to one-up you. If it is free for all, you would get points for integrity, originality, and hilarity or cleverness.
1. Odd numbered posts get this blue tint.
2. Even numbers get this red tint.
People will make suggestions in the purple color if it is not a response.
((I SHALL UTILIZE BOLDNESS AND CAPS LOCKS TO EXERT MY FINAL SAY ON RULES.))