ManvilleFog
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10 years ago James Ernest (Summer 1999) From beatpeopleup: "The Button is potentially the most powerful Button Man inexistence, although it's debatable whether it could ever make a starting roll. Richard Garfield, PHD and creator of the Magic: the Gathering card game, has argued that it is impossible to randomly generate a number between one and infinity in a linear distribution, and that this is the essential flaw in the famous 'two envelopes' paradox. Combine this with the impossibility of even describing 'i' in real terms, and the pi-sided die seem like a walk in the park."
Since it's mathematically impossible to play this button, the potential implementation is in creating die types for infinity, pi, and imaginary(2).
The Buzzing Weasel: (A one-of-a-kind button) F R P G S
From beatpeopleup: The Buzzing Weasel is one of those infamous Button Men created on a whim and available to a select few. A game industry internet club created a limited number of Buzzing Weasels and distributed these buttons to its membership in the summer of 1999. The five letter symbols have no meaning outside the context of this button (many of them are now defined as Swing Dice), but they are defined on the Buzzing Weasel as:
F: "Fudge" die. Rolls -1, 0, and 1 in a linear distribution. Is worth either 0, 1, or 3 points depending on who you talk to. Zero, because that's twice its average roll; One, because that's its highest value; Three because it can vary between 3 different values. It's a fruitless debate, really.
R: "Regular" die. Equivalent to an "X" Swing Die.
P: "Prestige" die. A variable die which can be any size between 30 and 100 sides, the Prestige Die cannot make any Attacks and is not worth any points.
G: "Gamer" die. A variable die which can be any size between 3 and 21, except for the common die sizes of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20.
S: "Screw" or "Suck" die. A 7-sided die. If the S die makes an attack and rolls odd, its owner gets another turn. If it rolls even, its owner loses.
Despite its multivariability, the Buzzing Weasel is probably the least effective Button Man ever devised. Its weakness stems from a conspiracy of the Fudge, Prestige, and Screw dice: The last thing a player with the Weasel wants to do is make attacks, specifically with the Screw Die. Unfortunately, the Fudge nearly guarantees that he will go first, the Prestige die is powerless to attack, and the other two normal dice are soon captured or locked out. The result is that the Buzzing Weasel is almost always forced to make multiple attacks with its Screw Die, and nearly always loses the game by killing itself.
NOTE: Rather than make separate skills for each of the dice on this button, my thoughts are this button should be treated as a whole and that none of its unique skills should be applied elsewhere, ever!
Killer Christmas Tree has no special rules, but introduces (and is perhaps the only button using) Sleep Dice. I think I might have decided to leave this commented till an issue was posted for the implementation of Sleep Dice. whatevs - I'll add this to the button table without further discussion - it will act just like any other button currently lacking implemented die types.
ShadowShade had tried playing Dead Guy, but it didn't work. It doesn't show up as being unplayable because it doesn't have unimplemented die types. The problem is that when the site tries to roll a die it choose a random positive whole number between 1 and the number of sides. It gave the same error given when trying to play Wildcard - another button with a special die size not yet implemented.
Bayani's first die is a Fudge Die (explained above). It's second die is a Sustained Fire Die. It rolls 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 in linear distribution. If a zero is rolled, the only attack Bayani can make afterwards is a skill attack. Alternatively, he can just reroll it without making an attack. It's worth 3 points.
My guesses with Bob are that the dice with + are either Triplet (rather than Twin) dice or Plasma Dice. I was going to guess that the ! was their way of noting prime swing dice, but then realized there isn't an A swing. oops. I can't even begin to guess what t0] is suppose to do!
blackshadowshade
AdmiralJota
Hurtay
There are buttons that are currently commented out in the sql script that makes the button tables, and I'd like to remove those comments. There are a few in my list of buttons to add that pose problems similar to those that are currently commented. I'd like to remove those comments. Even if the buttons are never implemented to be playable, I'd like them to be available to whatever other resources the site has to provide info about these buttons.
Heres a list:
'Buzzing Weasel','F R P G S' 'James Ernest','(pi) (inf) (sqrt(-2)) (X)' 'Killer Christmas Tree', '(6) Z(6) (10) Z(12) (X)' (I'm not sure why this is still commented out) 'Dead Guy', '(0) (0) (0) (0) (0)'
'Bob', '(pX+Y+Z) (t0]) (sA!) (zA!) (cA!) (X+Y+Z)'
'Bayani', '(F) (SFD) (16) (16) (12/20)'
These last two are from buttons not yet added to the database. I have no idea WTF Bob's recipe is meant to be, but that's how it appears on the button. It's a rare Yoyodyne button. Bayani's recipe uses F (I have to look that up again) from Buzzing Weasel's recipe.