An update on the Worst Roleplaying Game Ever.

[xiphias]

There's this . . . thing. This guy keeps posting to the gaming groups explaining why his RPG system is the Best. . . it's called HYBRID, and I'm not even going to try to explain it, because it can't be done. It's impossible to mock or parody, because no parody can be as extreme as it is. The best description of it was from undauntra, who called it a "masturbatory game of Nomic."

Anyway, he's just added a new rule to the website. The box just before the Preface.

I'll just retype it. . .

As a side note, only use (1/8) bar of butter for a or any cake recipe for each box of cake flower.

Here's a link to the site. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Comments

[kiya]

Your link's wacky. . .

[kiya]

I'm going to have to aim oneironaut at this when gtst gets back online. I don't think I can read it alone without terminal loss of SAN.

You know what it reminds me of, though? It looks like the gaming equivalent of the sort of theory of the universe that attracts Kibologists. . . .

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Quotation marks come in pairs. Quotation marks come in pairs. Quotation marks come in pairs.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Or, "It's like Doctor Bronner's, but without the soap!"

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

My brain hurts.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've discovered that rye whiskey really helps with that. Enough of it, and the hurting from reading HYBRID stops. I mean, shortly after one passes out, that is.

Wacky HYBRID Math:

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

GIVENS (all from the HYBRID web page):

A. By RULE # 0.5 : Version # = [ ((year AD – 2000)^(1/2)) / 10]. So, for year 2002, this rpg is @ Version V 0.14. (editor's note: to two significant figures)

B. By RULE # 0 : The rules grow @ a rate of 1 rule per month.

C. This version is Version 0,3, and has 147 rules.

Given A, B, and C:

Q1: What year was this version published?
Q2: When was this version started (assuming that, at the beginning of the writing of it, there were no rules yet.)

For Q3 and Q4, ssume that the first "release" version of the game will be Version 1.0.

Q3: What year will that one be released?
Q4: How many rules will it have?

BONUS QUESTION: Will it make any sense in the least?

Re:

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

I really wish I understood that stuff so I could mock it properly.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It's not hard to understand. Rye whiskey is distilled from a mash which must be at least 51% rye (the grain). It tends to be sweeter than corn whiskeys, and. . .

Oh, did you mean the purported "game"? As it can't be understood, it can't be mocked. It is its own parody. It is to be marveled at. Stand and ph3ar the 377+3 baddness which is HYBRID. The best you can hope to do is note that, besides being quite literally the product of a deranged mind, it is also sexist and racist.

Re: Wacky HYBRID Math:

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Version 0.3 is published in 2009. Wow. Time travel. Nifty.

147 rules is 147 months is 12 years, 3 months. So he started writing it in Sept, 1996.

Version 1.0 will be published in 2100.

It will contain 1239 rules.

And, the answer to your final question is: NO.

Re: Wacky HYBRID Math:

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It will contain 1239 rules.

That is a perfectly reasonable answer: it assumes that the rules that were written from now until the version that's currently up is written in 2009 are already accounted for.

However, you could also assume that an additional 84 rules (plus or minus one or two, depending on when in the month the rules show up) will appear before 2009 rolls around for us. . .

But I feel a great deal of confidence in agreeing with you on the bonus question.

Re:

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know all about rye whiskey.

As for the game... My brain still hurts. Yeah, I had the deranged part figure out.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

He lost me somewhere after the relative ages of great white sharks, or maybe it was the bit about affordable women. And I never did figure out why beauty in males varies with density, or whatever it was. Still, I think my favorite bit is right up front:

It will remain FREE as long as its incomplete

Yep. I believe it, buckaroo. Live Free or D, huh?

(I was gonna write "Live Free or Di," but after "cake flower" it didn't even look like a plausible incompleteness.)

[brooksmoses]

Possibly. Although "the brane[sic] is a cube" can at least be explained in fewer words.

It ... reading it does not create loss of SAN for me, but attempting to understand it might. I will go back to this article I'm reading from the SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, thank you very much; it's simpler. And, when they use C0 (which they do), they bother to explain what they're using it for, first.

I note, also, that wanadoo.fr (where this is hosted) is considered the French equivalent of AOL....

- Brooks, noting for context that SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journal articles tend to be full of deeply hairy mathematics; this one (23 pages long) will probably take me a couple of solid days to parse through.

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

cake flower?
that boy would not pass Patrick's upcoming "Flour Purity Test" :)

LOL

[roosterbear.livejournal.com]

My brain hurts.

Ditto. And I only scrolled down a couple of times.

My brain would probably be leaking out my ears if i tried to read the whole thing.