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  2. House rule - Wikipedia

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    House rules date back to the earliest days of role-playing: the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons suggested that players should have a copy of the Chainmail historical wargame for measurement and combat rules and, even more confusingly, it presumed ownership of the Avalon Hill game Outdoor Survival (at the time, Avalon Hill was a ...

  3. House (game) - Wikipedia

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    House, also referred to as "playing house" or "play grown up", is a traditional children's game. It is a form of make-believe where players take on the roles of a nuclear family . Common roles include parents, children, a newborn, and pets.

  4. Volunteer's dilemma - Wikipedia

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    Because the volunteer receives no benefit, there is a greater incentive for freeriding than to sacrifice oneself for the group. If no one volunteers, everyone loses. The social phenomena of the bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility heavily relate to the volunteer's dilemma.

  5. No Pass No Play - Wikipedia

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    No Pass No Play is a Texas public education policy that came about as a result of the passage of House Bill 72 by the Texas Legislature in 1984, and became effective in 1985. [1] Under No Pass No Play, students must pass all their school courses to be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities such as athletics or fine arts (choir ...

  6. Catch-22 (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Catch-22s often result from rules, regulations, or procedures that an individual is subject to, but has no control over, because to fight the rule is to accept it. Another example is a situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it (e.g. the only way to qualify for a loan is to prove to the ...

  7. List of grandfather clauses - Wikipedia

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    For example, a grandfathered power plant might be exempt from new, more restrictive pollution laws, but the exception may be revoked and the new rules would apply if the plant were expanded. Often, such a provision is used as a compromise or out of practicality, to allow new rules to be enacted without upsetting a well-established logistical or ...

  8. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

  9. Social interaction and first-person shooters - Wikipedia

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    Just like in real life, online communication is a mix between verbal and non-verbal communication which have their own syntax and accepted meaning in the gaming community. " Teabagging " is a well known and popular non-verbal action commonly found in the Halo ( Halo 2 and so on) series.