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Old 12-07-2015, 01:17 PM   #71229
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Hey eschwartz, while you are busy inventing a win, can you possibly make one that does the dishes?
The golden rule in wizardry and unix is "Do one thing and do it well".

Wouldn't a dishwashing spell be far more suitable?

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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
Well, I might offer you a win or two for a beer replicator.

Replicating wins isn't the same though. It's like giving an Olympic gold medal to everybody who has ever worn a pair of sneakers. We've actually fooled around a bit with sharing the win in this thread (I didn't think there was anything that hadn't been tried here, which is why I found your wizard threat so refreshing), but the shtick got old pretty quickly. So now it's a free for all again and you lose.
Then it is a good thing I have several reasons to want to do this.

Breeding wins is a methodology -- the results can then be used for many things.
(But it makes me wonder, if anyone has tried that in particular. Oh well, no great loss.)

I can use them as decoys. I can share them. I can flood the market until they truly do become devalued -- and only someone with the ability to rapidly breed new wins will be able to hold cumulative worth. I can keep all the new wins for myself as a reward for my skills in biothaumaturgy.

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But I think I will stick with my original goal, which is to democratize them and utilize them as a source of cheap luck, rather than letting the (1) win languish as some odd fetish in a virtual trophy cabinet.

My plan wins forever. Beat that.
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