From 2c0cbbf0f03bf5c716b73eff947db7e8f5218ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alnik Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:23:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'nim/contents.md' --- nim/contents.md | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/nim/contents.md b/nim/contents.md index 235f87f..b211c84 100644 --- a/nim/contents.md +++ b/nim/contents.md @@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ title: Nim Fanfic credits: Gersande contents: - July 2056, the Nim population has hit a point of stagnation. - - My name is 1, I am a proud, yet worn out, nimizen of what is known as the Nimation for now more than five centuries. - - Since our formation in Europe in 1532 our population has not decreased nor increased. + - My name is 1, I am a proud, yet worn out. Nimizen has been known as the Nimation for now more than five centuries. + - Since our formation in Europe in 1532 our population has remained stable. - "We remain a steady and horrifyingly tiresome sixteen individuals, stuck in what is now a seriously embarrassing hierarchical structure: the pyramid." - - "Our society used to be organised in the following structure:" - |- @@ -15,78 +14,78 @@ contents: 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 - - We respond to a very simple set of rules + - "We respond to a very simple set of rules:" - - (i) Only one couple is allowed at the time in Nimation - - (ii) Nimizens are only able to communicate with their immediate neighbour, i.e 1 and 7 can never be in touch - - (iii) Only Nim’s of an identical position within our pyramid structure can navigate outside of the pyramid together at once + - (i) Only one couple is allowed at the time in Nimation. + - (ii) Nimizens are only able to communicate with their immediate neighbour, i.e 1 and 7 can never be in touch. + - "(iii) Only Nim’s of an identical position within our pyramid structure can navigate outside of the pyramid together at once." - - As you may imagine, the referral to multiple 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s was quite unsettling, raised jealousies and could get outsiders confused. - - The Nim Revolution, 1904, marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen + - As you may imagine, the referral to multiple 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s was quite unsettling, arousing jealousies that could confuse outsiders. + - The Nim Revolution of 1904 marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen: - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. - img: img_nim_3_small.png - alt: "" + alt: "the new names after the Nim Revolution" - Embracing each nimizen as individuals, through distinct names and physical features became the norm. - Our diversity had finally become the trope for a fair representation of the self within a co-dependent society. - The following year, 1905 the L-group composed of 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16 and myself wanted to go even further and re-considered our architectural ideologies. - img: img_nim_2_small.png - alt: "" + alt: "shape nims" - "We wanted to implement a new set of rules:" - - (i) Nimation is opened to groups as much as individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience. - - (ii) A nimizen should be able to engage with any other nimizens and not only their immediate neighbour - - (iii) Identity and social stature is not limited to one’s position in the pyramid - - (iv) Nimizens should be able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only the ones of similar structural stature - - (v) The traditional pyramid structure has to become a structure amongst others, not the default structure - - (vi) One’s fate shouldn’t be set in stone, one should have agency as to the path one chooses - - (vii) Nimation should be open to the growth of its nimizens as well as its annihilation, retirement of its nimizens or replacement of its nimizens + - (i) Nimation is opened to groups and individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience. + - (ii) Nimizens are able to engage with any other nimizens, not just their immediate neighbour. + - "(iii) Identity and social stature are no longer limited to one's position in the pyramid." + - (iv) Nimizens are able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only with those of similar structural stature. + - (v) The traditional pyramid structure becomes a structure amongst others, not the default structure. + - "(vi) One's fate shouldn't be set in stone, one should have agency as to the path one chooses." + - (vii) Nimation should be open to the growth of its nimizens as well as its annihilation, retirement of its nimizens or replacement of its nimizens. - Unable to convince the others of the necessity of the institution’s rewriting our structure remained the same. - img: img_nim_small.png - alt: "" + alt: "human nims" - "1: Psst." - "Silence." - "1: Pssst!" - "2: What?!" - - "1: I’m not talking to you." + - "1: I'm not talking to you." - "2: 3." - "3: Hm?" - "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you." - "3: What is it?" - - "1: I’m lonely." + - "1: I'm lonely." - "3: We already talked about this." - - "1: Well it still hasn’t been solved." + - "1: Well it still hasn't been solved." - "3: I’m sorry there is nothing I can do about it at the moment, you could..." - - "1: People assume because I’m at the top of the pyramid, everything is great for me!" + - "1: People assume because I'm at the top of the pyramid, everything is great for me!" - "1: Ha, sure is a great bore. Five centuries of solitude, an omnipotent perspective that has no witness." - "1: No one to share my point of view with." - - "1: To get any mundane experience across I need a waterfall of information" - - "1: to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand." + - "1: To get any mundane experience across I need a waterfall of information, to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand." - "3: I understand you! Or at least try too." - - "2: Quiet you two I’m practising." + - "2: Quiet you two, I'm practising." - "1: And when I go, I go alone." - - "3: Well at least you don’t have to suffer the unreasonable ones of this row." + - "3: Well at least you don't have to suffer the unreasonable ones of this row." - "1: And when I fear, I fear alone." - "3: You talk to me, sometimes." - - "7: Is one having a moment again?" - - "3: Yes, yes, we’re trying to figure it out." + - "7: Is 1 having a moment again?" + - "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out." - "2: Sssh." - "6: This again?" - "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again." - - "6: Let them be, they will be picked at soon enough again." + - "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again." - "2: Hmm." - "1: And when I dream, I dream alone." - "7: They got everyone up again." - - "3: Everyone’s up now." + - "3: Everyone's up now." - "1: Well not enough." - - "3: Let’s keep it quiet for now." + - "3: Let's keep it quiet for now." - "1: You know?" - "3: Tell me." - "1: In dreams... I walk with you." - "3: Roy?" + ---