On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Elliott Hird <penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 4 August 2013 09:43, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> I'm not going to tell you that you *can't* have the fun of reconstructing >> your own personal "platonic" state (to each eir own), but if it bogs us >> down and distracts us from actually playing based on our own current >> (non-platonic) consensus of the gamestate, then I'll go recruit some >> Postmodern Literary Critics to play. Just watch me. :P. > > The intention was for it to be done off the main lists, and of course > consensus judgements will be involved at some point -- but I think > foresight of major incidents and a likely increase degree of > carefulness compared to the early days of the game will make the state > somewhat more accurate than what we believe. And it's mostly to pacify > my true B player nature; of course it doesn't actually matter.
The funny thing about your "true B player nature" is that I'm fairly sure B is Platonically stuck in an era when it isn't actually very Platonic at all. It certainly didn't used to be.
