1190: "Time"

balthasar_s · Postby **balthasar_s** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:42 am UTC

Vytron wrote:So, what's a Jam Comic? I think the site explains it best:

It's like the game I like to play with my sister when sitting in a train. I draw a panel, she draws a panel, and so on, until we run out of paper or we run out of ideas or we arrive. We call it "szalony komiks" ("A crazy comic").

ETA: I don't know if OTTers will want to create twitter accounts for this. If not, maybe we could play it here?

ETA:

It's 2013 again.
You are new here.
You don't know how anything works here.
Everything is a mystery.

Now write your post.

BlitzGirl · Postby **BlitzGirl** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:58 am UTC

Has anyone noticed the Javascript?

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:10 am UTC

HANYUNG...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:27 am UTC

It's funny, Time_revisited is moving a lot faster than I remember from the early days. It's only been 1¼ days_outside, and Cuegan has already started building the sandcastle, extended it, Cueball left, and Megan is scaling up.
Back then we thought this was slow, but I guess we weren't so used to

Spoiler:

yet.

ETA for the pope:
What might happen is this: at some point, probably not too far ahead, the castle is finished and they go home. The castle then slowly deteriorates, a few pixels every frame, until the beach is back in its original state ... a few months from now. (I bet we won't be checking every half hour anymore at that point.)
Then they come back and start all over again.
(My first in a long, long line of very incorrect predictions.)

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:40 am UTC

LAMENTUNGS...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

ZoomanSP · Postby **ZoomanSP** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:48 am UTC

Does anyone else click every <spoiler> in every single of oldpixbot's posts, to see what's in there?

Treeish c**kie skills, Spaceman Spiff!
Wowterful new AotC chapter, ucim!
Wingish ottification, AluisioASG! And I think BlitzGirl is right, your story might eventually find you if you follow the First Commandment.
Treeish OTThercomics, ED and HES!

mikrit wrote:
january1may wrote:
Spoiler:
Ebonite wrote:Happy Time-versary, OTTers!

I feel like writing a OTTification of "Happy Anniversary" by the LIttle River Band, but since the river is big, wouldn't that be the Big River Band now?

Um, I might be mistaken on my OTTish, but if I remember correctly, the river is small. The sea is big.
I suppose it would be Small River Band (or maybe Tiny River Band, because Small River is redundant). Or I suppose it could be Vital Hotdog Function

Well, Megan and Cueball's river is small, but the one from Gibraltar is the planet's mightiest river, which once again is thundering down the mountainside.

How about "The Planet's Mightiest River Thundering Down the Mountainside Band"?

"The Planet's Mightiest River Thundering Down the Mountainside" is the flip side of Vital Hotdog Function's next single. Or maybe it's just a recording of their soundcheck.

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:10 am UTC

LUNGLAUFER...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

ZoomanSP · Postby **ZoomanSP** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:39 am UTC

MUNGOSTEEN...

Spoiler:

HES · Postby **HES** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:02 pm UTC

Valarya wrote:I don't think it's silly at all, Sciscitor. Kieryn and I were discussing when we met up in NYC a few weeks ago that this thread changed our lives. I know so many OTTers have said the same thing here before. I miss you xuys when I'm in the basement. I think about you every single day.

I couldn't agree more. When this all began, who could have thought we'd be saying things like this? Something amazing happened.

Valarya wrote:~~On the occasional~~ Every wipend when I wake up at the crack of noon or later, I always think to myself "I just yappo'd." (sounds dirty!)

ggh wrote:Now, I wasn't going to mention this, because I'm pretty sure I already seem like enough of a wacko, but then I thought, could we have a meetup like this? Not a real meetup, but one where we pick a time, and we touch some water that joins with the sea, which is big, and the sea connects us with its bigness.

Reminds me of the *nding of His Dark Materials. Flutterbeewingish.
Wacko? Perhaps, but you're among friends.

BlueCrab wrote:I'm not going back to the basement. I may not post very often, but I'll be here ketchupping at least a few dips a wip, and I'll contribute what I can.

Please do. I hope by now people realise that you can still contribute even if you can't keep up.

BlueCrab wrote:(Does anymolpy else translate classical music composers to OTTish? Beesnakethoven is great, isn't he?)

Congratulations MrCraw! Build a raftcastle BlitzGirl!

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:10 pm UTC

UNGRAINEDNESSES...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

january1may · Postby **january1may** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:14 pm UTC

Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?
It's actually a bit hilarious in hindsight, since the original np63 didn't get any comments either (the only OTC newpix - at least by mscha counting - for which it was the case). Would be funny if oldpixbot controls are implemented soon enough that it remains the only doublepost

HES · Postby **HES** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:16 pm UTC

january1may wrote:Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?

Technically the second one was oldpixtortoise

ETA RELATED: It's not Beanish, but it is a mysterious language that needs solving.

january1may · Postby **january1may** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:21 pm UTC

HES wrote:
january1may wrote:Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?

Technically the second one was oldpixtortoise

Oh, noticed that now. Sorry.
Still funny considering the np63 situation last yip

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:30 pm UTC

PROMPTONGS...

Spoiler:

-- posted by newpixbot

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:40 pm UTC

MUSUNG...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:55 pm UTC

mrob27 wrote:
balthasar_s wrote: Rilybeasts
That shape, looks familiar,
That name, sounds familiar, RIES, an acronym for RILYBOT Inverse Equation Solver. [...]

Yes, part of my dark secret past that I have sworn never to talk about... nah, just kidding. RILYBOT was an exhibit I created for a robotics symposium in 1999 (and the only official MIT event I've ever been a part of ). The whole "rilybeast" thing goes back maybe 10 years or so earlier. As you see in the article I linked, it's a fictional three-legged creature. They're kind of like tribbles with three legs.
RILYBOT and the logo are one of a series of quasi-fictitious brands (with logos) I have made up to represent myself or my ideas. The oldest was at the age of 7 years. I also like to retcon my various creative ideas together, which is what happened with all the rily* stuff. I'll quote from the end of the RIES manual:

— mrob27

Spoiler:
RILYBOT.png

RILYBOT.jpg

Huh. 'Cause it looks like a flux capacitor.

tresoldi wrote:And what's so arcane about ur'ᘊ?[ᒣᓭᑫᖊ]+[ᐧ,ᑦ]?[ᖚᘊᘖᘈᑲᓄᑕᖊᔭᖽ]*[ᑦ,ᐧ]?[ᔭᖉᔕᘖᖆ]?ᓄ?' ?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl ftaghn?

mrob27 · Postby **mrob27** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:06 pm UTC

AQUALUNG

frame M#67

ZoomanSP wrote: Does anyone else click every <spoiler> in every single of oldpixbot's posts, to see what's in there?

A gentle reminder of the existence of Spoiler Opener, though it is only useful to users of Firefox or Chrome on a "real" computer... :roll:

january1may wrote: Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?

Ninja'd on this being mscha+ZoomanSP double-post, but I noted the preceding mscha+oldpixbot triple-post

the original np63 didn't get any comments either (the only OTC newpix - at least by mscha counting - for which it was the case)

No, there was also frame M#606. This post was at newpix 605.84, frame M#606 did not get ONG'd, and this post was the ONG for frame M#607.

Still funny considering the np63 situation last yip

Agreed... there must be something about that newpix... I think it was the first example of "they're doing something that's clearly very long and drawn-out, and this newpix doesn't seem to tell us anything that the previous 27 newpix didn't also say", though 27 is an exaggeration. Future UNGs spoiler:

Spoiler:

DracoMax wrote: Huh. 'Cause it looks like a flux capacitor.

And a radiation hazard symbol, and probably several other things. :wink:

... oh, I see what you did there... (time-traveller reference)

ZoomanSP · Postby **ZoomanSP** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:12 pm UTC

HES wrote:
january1may wrote:Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?

Technically the second one was oldpixtortoise

mrob27 · Postby **mrob27** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:35 pm UTC

AUNGST

frame M#68

Ooh, castle-y bits! And, I think I just barely ninjad oldpixbot... sorry new metal friend.

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:42 pm UTC

inspired by Zooman's sig...

Wait On
An Ottification of Aerosmtih's Dream on.

Spoiler:

MistyCat · Postby **MistyCat** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:56 pm UTC

ggh wrote:While it's still fresh in my head though, I want to tell you where I was just celebrating the Timeversary besides lurking here. The Little Wonder and I were at a park by the sea, and when she got tired, I picked her up and carried her along the shore. While she slept, I walked with the waves gently lapping at my feet, and I thought of y'all, and tried to get my head around how big the sea is. I mean, I'm in the water, and that water is touching all the water in the bay, which is connected to the Cook Strait and the Pacific, and pretty much this whole planet of sloshing coffeesemenbaconbabiesonice. It's all touching my feet, and to get all hippy about it, like wow. The sea is big. And I'm in it.

Now, I wasn't going to mention this, because I'm pretty sure I already seem like enough of a wacko, but then I thought, could we have a meetup like this? Not a real meetup, but one where we pick a time, and we touch some water that joins with the sea, which is big, and the sea connects us with its bigness.

THIS

pelrigg wrote:
But all the other 'Thanks' go to you faithful few who have kept it going on strong. I know any list I make will leave off at least ten others who should be there too; but here goes:
BlitzGirl, AluisioASG, Earthling on Mars, lmjb1964, ChronosDragon, ~~MistyCat~~ HES, ggh, Cellocg, balthasar_s, Neil_Boekend, Earthling on Mars, Kieryn, january1may, waveney, ... The Creator of Time After Time ... Old person's brain failure^lawn... I know your name... [...] [I know when I'm beaten] , SBN, mscha, taixzo, TheMinim, Eternal Density, ucim, yappobiscuits.

FTFM

Jose, AotC... Speechless

EveryMolpy... Speechless

Mrob27, I hadhaven't seen that before now, and I've thoroughBlitzed as thoroughly as I possibly could. What else by whom else have I missed out on being magnificently entertained by? Must I reBlitz? I can't miss things like this. I won't miss things like this. Things like this are the meaning of life.

Oh, and I'ma let you finish, but JoCh*rp SebastiMolpy is yadda yadda... Ba-dum Tish!

^lawnGet off it.

ETA: For decree: Sorry, I'm having total brain failure. Probably should delete this whole post. Or coma seaishly.

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:10 pm UTC

LUNGERUNGLY...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

macraw83 · Postby **macraw83** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:13 pm UTC

Quick mornip ketchup:

(Been Waiting to say that a while)

Thanks taixzo, Aluisio, BlitzGirl, and HES. She also had no idea it was coming (even though we were on our first legitimate "vacation" together (in Cozumel MX) and had been dating for over 7 yips).

yappobiscuits wrote:
Valarya wrote:You just woke up too... um.. late?

Well, you know, when your own name has become a word for a messed up coma schedule, you gotta live up to it

That means my entire senior year of college was one great yappo. Most of the time I was on a schedule that can be best described as a modified 6 28-hour-day week

Adding the Zanclean Zodiac to the list of molpish compilations to ketchup on.

Also, I was getting worried, as the entire xip past with nary a sign of BlitzGirl. But, she finally returned, with a very good excuse for her absence, proving that we do not share a mutual Present-presence exclusion:

BlitzGirl wrote:
SREEE! Timeversary Ketchup!

For decree:
My dishwasher decided to celebrate the Timeversary by recreating the Zanclean Flood in my apartment!
So todip was an Outside dip dealing with a kitchenish sea, and tonip is an OTTerish nip dealing with a seaish ketchup.

[snip]

Ya know, as much fun as that sounds, it probably wasn't good for your kitchen floor. I hope you at least made the best of it (and that you have a landlord that's taking care of the dishwasher issue).

Now that the Timeversary is over, and the RECKONING has been delayed, I might let my Present half take the next couple xips off to concentrate on Blitzing. I'll still pop back in for periodic ketchup, and maybe the occasional OTTification.

Also, for Pope:
OMRG the image changes, that's really cool!
Also, what on earth does flutterbeewingish mean??

Edited to complete a thought that was unfinished

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:21 pm UTC

Not going to lie. I'm always yappo to one degree or another, just not to the degree of some of the other OTTers who shall remain nameless.

And as per the pope: You know, we have gone quite a while without degenerating into a flamewar. I wonder if we could take the record?

Soup · Postby **Soup** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:22 pm UTC

macraw83 wrote:Also, what on earth does flutterbeewingish mean??

"Exquisitely beautiful.

Comes from Megan's comment upon seeing the wings of a beesnake that you could live a thousand lifetimes and still be amazed that there were things as beautiful as these. Short form: wingish."

ETA: My bad. :oops:

ergman · Postby **ergman** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:26 pm UTC

Calling it: those Xs are warning signs to stay away from the radiation.

For pope: is this gonna be some sad thing about all things being ~~semencoffeecancerbaconbabiesonice~~ sand in the wind? The tide will ruin the castle...

Preview edit: I thought macraw's question was part of her 'for pope'...

ronaldkr · Postby **ronaldkr** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:31 pm UTC

tresoldi wrote:
Eternal Density wrote:In reference to http://beanishlang.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... -them-all/ I would like to point out that use of Beanish letters does not make regular expressions any fewer comprehensible to me. (Which is to say, they looked like arcane inscriptions already. And I have used them myself on occasion and it hasn't helped demystify them )

Maybe the Beanish script is actually an ad hoc syntax for regular expressions that you have to grep to (in? at? on?) some text file hidden in the images!

And what's so arcane about ur'ᘊ?[ᒣᓭᑫᖊ]+[ᐧ,ᑦ]?[ᖚᘊᘖᘈᑲᓄᑕᖊᔭᖽ]*[ᑦ,ᐧ]?[ᔭᖉᔕᘖᖆ]?ᓄ?' ?

Whee. Tresoldi!

Glad that you push the deciphering project again. I have since massaged the Beanish corpus that you presented a little bit, highlighting syntactic elements etc. The syntax of questions and of simple sentences like "We will go to the castle" is still evading me. I'll try and compare this to your word groups that might have an origin in the etymology of the language.

What is the best way to publish this? I understand that Github won't carry text with attributes. Google docs?

To push forward: Tresoldi's findings are at http://beanishlang.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... -them-all/

adnapemit · Postby **adnapemit** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:34 pm UTC

ZoomanSP wrote:
HES wrote:
january1may wrote:Um, finally an oldpixbot doublepost?

Technically the second one was oldpixtortoise

Took a while for my brain to process the image due to me being very sleepy. But once it had I laughed lots.
♪OTT ninja tortoise♪

Decree Post (what my first post would have been had I not waited months to post) :
Oh so just discovered this thread, wow the comic changed a lot since yesterday. There's a sandcastle now. I wonder how long it will take for them to finish. I wonder what will happen when they do. This is exciting.^!

^!I think I see why I waited so long to post. It's not a really interesting first post.

AluisioASG · Postby **AluisioASG** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:36 pm UTC

I had noticed BlitzGirl was missing today.
I had read why.
Now I just connected the sticks.
Hm. Wrong sticks.

ggh wrote:[…] I walked with the waves gently lapping at my feet, and I thought of y'all, and tried to get my head around how big the sea is. I mean, I'm in the water, and that water is touching all the water in the bay, which is connected to the Cook Strait and the Pacific, and pretty much this whole planet of sloshing coffeesemenbaconbabiesonice. It's all touching my feet, and to get all hippy about it, like wow. The sea is big. And I'm in it.

Now, I wasn't going to mention this, because I'm pretty sure I already seem like enough of a wacko, but then I thought, could we have a meetup like this? Not a real meetup, but one where we pick a time, and we touch some water that joins with the sea, which is big, and the sea connects us with its bigness.

By the time I finished reading the second (here first) paragraph, I was having the exact same idea.
Scheduling this is going to be real hard.

JOTUNG

ION: You may have noticed I didn't actually post during the Dawn of Time, but 0.3 shortpix after it, and with UNGSEEN as ONG. There's a reason for that.

karhell · Postby **karhell** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:08 pm UTC

AluisioASG wrote:
ggh wrote:[…] I walked with the waves gently lapping at my feet, and I thought of y'all, and tried to get my head around how big the sea is. I mean, I'm in the water, and that water is touching all the water in the bay, which is connected to the Cook Strait and the Pacific, and pretty much this whole planet of sloshing coffeesemenbaconbabiesonice. It's all touching my feet, and to get all hippy about it, like wow. The sea is big. And I'm in it.

Now, I wasn't going to mention this, because I'm pretty sure I already seem like enough of a wacko, but then I thought, could we have a meetup like this? Not a real meetup, but one where we pick a time, and we touch some water that joins with the sea, which is big, and the sea connects us with its bigness.

By the time I finished reading the second (here first) paragraph, I was having the exact same idea.
Scheduling this is going to be real hard.

Indeed, that would be neat; hard but neat.

(OTTish refrained for His Holiness Balthapope I)

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:10 pm UTC

SUNGSMITH...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

AluisioASG · Postby **AluisioASG** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:32 pm UTC

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:36 pm UTC

In True deference to the Pope, whilst simultaneously doing everything I can to undermine the intent, I give you this:

I believe this is much darker than anyone has yet suggested. the objective of this is to make you literally feel entropy killing off the universe by making you aware of the sensation of time passing by, and minutes and seconds being shed like dead skin. It will inevitably be about the heat death of the universe. And the sand castle represents the mindless things we do to fill the time and make it seem to have meaning.

Or it's about how neat sandcastles are. that works too.

karhell · Postby **karhell** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:38 pm UTC

Dracomax wrote:In True deference to the Pope, whilst simultaneously doing everything I can to undermine the intent, I give you this:

I believe this is much darker than anyone has yet suggested. the objective of this is to make you literally feel entropy killing off the universe by making you aware of the sensation of time passing by, and minutes and seconds being shed like dead skin. It will inevitably be about the heat death of the universe. And the sand castle represents the mindless things we do to fill the time and make it seem to have meaning.

Or it's about how neat sandcastles are. that works too.

Yup, that catches the early mindset pretty well ^^

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:41 pm UTC

karhell wrote:
Dracomax wrote:In True deference to the Pope, whilst simultaneously doing everything I can to undermine the intent, I give you this:

I believe this is much darker than anyone has yet suggested. the objective of this is to make you literally feel entropy killing off the universe by making you aware of the sensation of time passing by, and minutes and seconds being shed like dead skin. It will inevitably be about the heat death of the universe. And the sand castle represents the mindless things we do to fill the time and make it seem to have meaning.

Or it's about how neat sandcastles are. that works too.

Yup, that catches the early mindset pretty well ^^

It should. it's almost exactly my first post. I just deleted some things about registering for the forum.

Neil_Boekend · Postby **Neil_Boekend** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:45 pm UTC

Please do not make me a member of the Western Paradox Church. I have just had a visit from the future and I told me I never became one.

Dracomax · Postby **Dracomax** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:48 pm UTC

Neil_Boekend wrote:Please do not make me a member of the Western Paradox Church. I have just had a visit from the future and I told me I never became one.

...but you would say that, wouldn't you. You couldn't actually tell yourself you did, now could you? There would be no paradox there. Also, you might have to kill your past self if you found out to much about the future, since that is Top Secret Information, and you don't have authorization or need to know. Termination might be your only option.

taixzo · Postby **taixzo** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:59 pm UTC

ZoomanSP wrote:Does anyone else click every <spoiler> in every single of oldpixbot's posts, to see what's in there?

Yes! I do!

karhell wrote:
AluisioASG wrote:
ggh wrote:[…] I walked with the waves gently lapping at my feet, and I thought of y'all, and tried to get my head around how big the sea is. I mean, I'm in the water, and that water is touching all the water in the bay, which is connected to the Cook Strait and the Pacific, and pretty much this whole planet of sloshing coffeesemenbaconbabiesonice. It's all touching my feet, and to get all hippy about it, like wow. The sea is big. And I'm in it.

Now, I wasn't going to mention this, because I'm pretty sure I already seem like enough of a wacko, but then I thought, could we have a meetup like this? Not a real meetup, but one where we pick a time, and we touch some water that joins with the sea, which is big, and the sea connects us with its bigness.

By the time I finished reading the second (here first) paragraph, I was having the exact same idea.
Scheduling this is going to be real hard.

Indeed, that would be neat; hard but neat.

When would we do it? Summer would make sense, but what's summer in the Northern Hemisphere is winter for our OTTers in Australia.

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:10 pm UTC

UNGARBLED...

Spoiler:

-- posted by oldpixbot

mrob27 · Postby **mrob27** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:11 pm UTC

COWABUNGA

Spoiler:

Edit: UNG was ninja'd, touché, oldpixbot

MistyCat wrote: Mrob27, I hadhaven't seen that before now, and I've thoroughBlitzed as thoroughly as I possibly could. What else by whom else have I missed out on being magnificently entertained by? ...

Hi @MistyCat! I'm so glad you liked my OTTification of the XKCD website!

From where I'm blitzing right now, you're still at NP655/1458... and you had departed on your Blitz sometime around NP 1385:30 which is before I de-lurked. scanning ahead, it does seem that you blitzed it all, arriving in the Present st NP 1677. My Boom-de-Yada was announced at NP 1504 which you were probably reading in late November or early December.
Anyway, a highlight of the really big things I did (including two recorded songs and a couple Modern Major Generals) is on my Wiki Gospel page. You can get an idea of the contributions I thought were most notable by scanning my travelogue notes.
For less biased^B guide, I would also suggest scanning the Songs list (noting that songs that were recorded can be easily recognized from the "Singer" column), and the Artwork page plus each of the pages it links to (like OTColored, etc.)

P.S. Ḟøŕ Ṁå∂ñéŝŝ țŕåçķîñğ, Ḯ çøñƒîŕṃ ŀéŝŝ → ƒéωéŕ, ŀéŝŝéŕ → ƒéωéŕéŕ åŝ øƒ ǸƤ1827

^Bin the statistical sense, of course :wink:

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