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ErikH2000
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I just came up with a silly little game. Here are the rules:

In this game, you and the other players are a bunch of shallow people that like to impress each other by gaining a pet animal and showing it off. You don't care at all about the pet. You just want your peers to see you with it. To gain more prestige, you frequently get rid of one pet and take on a new one. After all, if your friends have already seen the tarantula you had last month, they'll be bored with it on their next visit.

The pets begin in an "unclaimed" state. Any unclaimed pet can be made yours by simply posting a reply to this topic, like "I take the tarantula". The pet is then considered "claimed". You would be awarded one rank point for the successful acquisition.

If you already own a pet, claiming a new pet means you automatically abandon the old pet. This sets it back to an "unclaimed" state and available for others to claim. A little sad, perhaps, but you'll get over it eventually.

You can explicitly unclaim a pet that you have claimed by saying something along those lines, i.e. "I abandon my tarantula" "I release my tarantula into the wild."

Whatever your phrasing for claiming or unclaiming, be unambiguous about it. You should not create confusion about the status of a pet.

If you ever claim a pet which is already claimed by somebody else, even by accident, you are out of the game. Forever. (We might start a new game later that you can join.) It is quite possible to post at the same time as somebody else, with both of you attempting to claim a single pet. In this case, the pet is given to whichever reply post shows up earliest in the topic. The second or later claims are not honored, and as mentioned before, force the unsuccessful attempting players to permanently leave the game.

If you ever make a reply post that immediately follows another post you made, you will be modded down three points. For simplicity's sake, it doesn't matter what the post is about or how it came to be posted. If you post two or more replies in a row, the second and subsequent replies will each lose you three rank points.

Don't delete or edit posts. It might get you forced out of the game or modded down, depending on the situation.

The game doesn't have a definite ending point yet. We'll leave it open-ended for now. Note that adjustments to the rules may be made as we play. In these cases, I'll update the top topic and summarize the update in a new reply.

Below is a list of pets which are immediately available to be claimed. This list will not be updated to reflect current status. You have to read through replies and track that yourself.

tarantula
iguana
tiger
welsh corgi
flamingo
dolphin
hairless cat
python
mole rat
pony

People who aren't paying attention, please remember not to make two or more replies after each other. Even if you don't understand the rules, you'll get modded down.

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02-08-2008 at 11:29 PM
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Then I'll take the pony.

Look at my pony!

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tarantula! Check it out!
02-08-2008 at 11:47 PM
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I'll take the pink flamingo. Doesn't it look awesome?
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I'm claiming that Welsh Corgi. I want it! Don't I look awesome with it?

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The tiger is mine, and anyone who thinks otherwise can answer to it.
02-09-2008 at 12:08 AM
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I can get free transportation through any body of water with my dolphin!

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I take mudkip.

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Pythons are cool.

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02-09-2008 at 12:21 AM
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golfrman wrote:
I take mudkip.
Mudkip?

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02-09-2008 at 12:23 AM
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I grab the hairless cat, and stroke it like a supervillain.

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02-09-2008 at 12:52 AM
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Isn't my new mole rat the weirdest thing you've ever seen?
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I'm bored already, and that iguana is less likely to make my friends throw up when they visit.
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I hate ponies now. Go away, pony.

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I'd like to change the rules by adding a VISIT A MEMBER action.

I'll define "visiting a member" as posting something to the effect of "I am visiting X" where X is a participant's name. One would receive a mod-down if the post would occur after one of that person's posts or one of X's posts.

This action would have no effect whatsoever beyond the post and recognition of a visit - you guys can add rules about pet statuses and such.

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I'll take back that pony, please.

Who's a pretty pony?

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I'll take that mole rat Tuttle left, and suggest a new rule:
If no pets are available to be claimed, you may suggest a new pet. Such a pet cannot be your own invention. If the pet is approved by the same process rules are, you are retroactively considered to claim it.

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After serving its duty of removing portions from unwanted guests, I release the tarantula back into the wild.
02-09-2008 at 01:39 AM
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Ooh, a tarantula! *claims*

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Alright, I'm adding a rule that explicitly allows unclaiming a pet, and retroactively apply it so that the recent unclaiming requests people made work. After all, if you couldn't unclaim a pet without claiming a new pet, the game would end when all pets were claimed.

I'm also going to rely a little on other players to point out when someone has made a bad claim or double-posted. If you see this happen, please post to point it out!

I also request that people be less ambiguous in their claims. Somebody said "mudkip" and there might be some way that it relates to one of the pets, but if other people don't know what you are thinking then it can be unclear which pets belong to who. And don't just say "tiger". Say "I take the tiger," "I claim the tiger," "The tiger is now mine". Something unambiguous like that. I would insist on a single phrasing, but that beats the style out of the game.

Regarding the contest rule ideas: interesting, but I'll stick with the current set fairly conservatively for a while to see how it plays.

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I am cryogenically frozen, but my cat escapes my possession in the process. Stupid cat. I'll find a better pet when I get out.

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I claim the hairless cat and start painting strange patterns on it using mustard.
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Yes! An iguana! *claims*

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By the way, Erik, "mudkip" is a response to a certain thread that got deleted a while ago. You can see the complete text here.

And I claim the mole rat. I bet I'm making everyone envious just by having it.
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Sillyman has claimed two animals since, thus unclaiming his mole rat.

Personally, I'm in love with my tiger. I call her Malle. (pronounced "Mall")
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I claim tarantula.

Oww, you bit me!

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coppro wrote:
Sillyman has claimed two animals since, thus unclaiming his mole rat.

Personally, I'm in love with my tiger. I call her Malle. (pronounced "Mall")

Exactly, coppro. I currently am in posession of an iguana, not a mole rat or a tarantula. Auto-unclaiming, remember?

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I don't like the mole rat anymore. He almost got me into trouble. Therefore, I get rid of him.
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No problem. I'll take the mole rat and deal with whatever trouble it tries to get me into.

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