Re: **SPAM?** Re: Animists and common magic

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_...>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:10:51 +0000


On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:35:45PM -0000, flynnkd2 wrote:
> With the 'attacker vs defender' idea you have to let go of the idea
> that a set of linear actions are occuring, in a linear time frame.

Surely an EC is _explicitly_ linear? One thing happens, then another, etc. The situation you narrated as the result of one action is the "input" to the next, etc.

> An earlier post pointed out to me that time was flexible in an
> action, and if you think about the system time is actually
> redundant... a contest has a goal, when the goal is attained it is
> over.

That's certainly true (but is a very different proposition from the first).

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