Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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Mad_Jack
Legend
I got disqualified one year at the Derby because someone complained about my car having a "floating" ballast weight (it was on a lubricated front-back rod with springs attached to the weight on both ends) that slid forward when the nose of the car was pointed downward on the ramp then went back to the middle when it hit the flat part.... I'd designed it myself. The complaint was lodged by somebody's aerospace-engineering-management father who'd had their team build the kid's car...
I got disqualified one year at the Derby because someone complained about my car having a "floating" ballast weight (it was on a lubricated front-back rod with springs attached to the weight on both ends) that slid forward when the nose of the car was pointed downward on the ramp then went back to the middle when it hit the flat part.... I'd designed it myself. The complaint was lodged by somebody's aerospace-engineering-management father who'd had their team build the kid's car...
It sounds like the dad was right, though? Kinda sounds like it was against the rules. I admire the fact that you did it yourself. But imagine how much worse you could have lost if the engineer dad was allowed to do that.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I like to think of them as "guidelines" or "hopes and dreams" rather than "rules"!It sounds like the dad was right, though? Kinda sounds like it was against the rules. I admire the fact that you did it yourself. But imagine how much worse you could have lost if the engineer dad was allowed to do that.
Mad_Jack
Legend
It sounds like the dad was right, though? Kinda sounds like it was against the rules. I admire the fact that you did it yourself. But imagine how much worse you could have lost if the engineer dad was allowed to do that.
Nope, I'd made a point to follow all the design, materials and weight rules to the letter - and nothing in the rules stipulated any specifications about what could be used for ballast weight and how they needed to be attached to the car... My car was weighed, inspected and approved by the race officials, and nobody said anything until I had the gall to beat out the one car's time - despite the fact that neither of us came in first anyway.
It was all about the kid whining to his dad and the dad whining to the judges who happened to be his friends.
trappedslider
Legend
Ryujin
Legend
To me, that sort of thing is right up there with parents taking their kid's school charity chocolates in to work, to sell, then the 'kid' winning a prize for sales. Back in public school I think that I was the only kid who sold his own school Christmas cards. I didn't even come in last.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
If the rules were clearly written, read in good faith, then applied with logic and neutrality there’d be no problems.
But, I guess I should thank you for continually providing examples why so many people utterly hate referee fiat.
If the rules mean whatever you want them to, whenever you want them to, the idea of rules completely loses all meaning.
But, as always, no one can stop you. If only your players would stop putting up with your capriciousness and walk.
But, I guess I should thank you for continually providing examples why so many people utterly hate referee fiat.
If the rules mean whatever you want them to, whenever you want them to, the idea of rules completely loses all meaning.
But, as always, no one can stop you. If only your players would stop putting up with your capriciousness and walk.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
You don't need to cite your almost certainly imaginary players. Just post your opinions.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
How dare you.
My players aren't imaginary, they're hypothetical.
I'm trying to sound smart over here.
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