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The XKCD comic about "How Standards Proliferate." First panel is just the text: "Situation: There are 14 competing standards." Second panel is two stick figures, one of which has hair that's in a ponytail. The first stick figure says, "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases." The ponytailed stick figure responds, "Yeah!" Third panel is just the text "Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards."

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The XKCD comic about "How Standards Proliferate." First panel is just the text: "Situation: There are 14 competing standards." Second panel is two stick figures, one of which has hair that's in a ponytail. The first stick figure says, "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases." The ponytailed stick figure responds, "Yeah!" Third panel is just the text "Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards."
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:00:27 JST Epidiah

I know I'm inviting folks to explain this comic to me, but I'd like to respectfully request a moratorium on posting this every time you see someone critique an existing standard.
That's not what this comic is about.
Here's some context: Nothing this comic is referring to is older than D&D. So pretend its about #ttrpgs.
Is it saying we can't improve on the games that exist?
Or is it saying attempts to replace them all with a perfect game is doomed to merely increase the population by one?

In conversation about 9 months ago from dice.camp permalink