1190: "Time"

[GnomeAnne]

^footnoteNot NoMouse, he seems to know what he's doing.

Is he pretty big?

I feel confident in saying NoMouse is both big and neat.

Those don't look like video cassettes, they look like audio cassettes.

I had an old video8 camera for a while that used these small 8mm tapes. It might be something like this, although the player shown in bsta certainly looks more like an audio cassette player, so the images might be a separate slideshow, with the text underneath being audio from the tape.
Or it might also be magic. I can never tell.

Edit: I guess that makes me Pope.
Continue looking back and see how much has changed over this past five yips.

[balthasar_s]

t might be something like this, although the player shown in bsta certainly looks more like an audio cassette player, so the images might be a separate slideshow, with the text underneath being audio from the tape.
Or it might also be magic. I can never tell.

"Audio cassetes" can also be used for digital data, and not only for audio.
There are things like this, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

[Sciscitor]

Audio cassetes" can also be used for digital data, and not only for audio.
There are things like this, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

I've still got one of those in my attic, plus the appropriate ordered sand to accompany it.

[GnomeAnne]

I always thought you had to get the special data tapes for that. Didn't realise standard audio tapes worked as well.

[ergman]

It was Blitz Girl all along!

In retrospect, that makes sense.

How did you find so many related Poems / Photos?

[Rakhal]

Lots has changed for me in the last 5 yips
Started at one FFS, got kicked out of there (made redundant), and found another better FFS. Then got kicked out of there for the same reason! Fortunately found another good FFS and in the process doubled my sand generation rate.
Daughter became a chef, meowlpy has consolidated his grip on power, and I now serve his every whim

--Rakhal

[GnomeAnne]

Half a decade ago -two yips after I was kicked out of school for participating in a rather energetic chemistry experiment- I was working for the worst employer I have ever met. I threw away four yips of my life there before I found this lovely place, quit my job, and started my own business. I loved working for myself, but didn't have quite enough clients to stay busy, so now I have a part Tim ffs doing something I enjoy immensely that provides more ff than the 60hr weeks I was working at the initial ffs, but still leaves me plenty of room for doing side jobs, taking classesM or working on personal projects.

[ZoomanSP]

New OtherComic.

[BlitzGirl]

A wild yappo appeared! Awesomeful! It seems like it's been a long Time since there was a blitzbiscuits combo active in the OTT.

↫
Always nice to see you, randompixbot. But where's oldpixbot?

Yeah, I wonder what good old oldpixbot is up to. I've been keeping a tab on mrob's OTC replay. It's always sort of epsilon for me to watch these earlypix in the live replay since I didn't see them live in the original.

How did you find so many related Poems / Photos?

The photos came from a seaful of Google image searches that would start out fairly general and then use oddly specific phrasing when I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. Lots of experimenting with search term combos. I think "backpacks on beach" was the most straightforward of them and the query that eventually found the scaffolding photo was the most opaque ("wooden pier ocean hand made scaffold -dock -building")

As for the poems, I remembered a few of them offhand but usually had to look up the exact wording. For random poemfinding, I recommend the search engine at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ because that's where most of the Adventpoems came from. The search itself isn't the best I've seen, but the catalog it picks from has excellent, high-quality material. The remainder of the poems came from Google and other poetry search sites, but I really preferred that one.

↫

I should tell my comolpers that I used to assemble Zeusbots.

...or that people called you Dr. Zeus.

I do not like puns

in a thread.

I do not like puns

since they spread.

I do not like puns

here or there.

I do not like puns

anywhere.

I do not like

your punning way.

Vitssågen, ja,

for you Jose.

Redundant:

Spoiler:

DrZeus.png (150.28 KiB) Viewed 17675 times

Keywords: BGUM Dr. Zeus Seuss lightning pun punsaw vitssagen samiam drawing illustration

redundant302.png (165.27 KiB) Viewed 17675 times

[Rakhal]

<rakhal wants to know how Blitzgirl got a picture of his meowlpy for redundakitty >
(well it's probably not actually my meowlpy, but it looks exactly like him!)

[karhell]

I was busy sacrificing myself to the Wicker Man.

Was this playing in the background?

I do not like puns

in a thread.

Spoiler:

I do not like puns

since they spread.

I do not like puns

here or there.

I do not like puns

anywhere.

I do not like

your punning way.

Vitssågen, ja,

for you Jose.

Brilliant!


For decree : not much has changed, to be honest. Mostly small adaptations. I moved to a slightly bigger flat, closer to my ffs, some time near the original meeting with Rosetta, and haven't moved since. FFS is still the same, wife is still the same. Our chinchillamolp died of old age, though. I did, however, pick up drawing much more seriously last yip and have been steadily improving, to the point where leaving IT to move on as an illustrator is looking like it might just be possible if I keep this up (hey, one can dream, right? ^^)

[addams]

I do not like puns

in a thread.

Spoiler:

I do not like puns

since they spread.

I do not like puns

here or there.

I do not like puns

anywhere.

I do not like

your punning way.

Vitssågen, ja,

for you Jose.
Brilliant!

I second it!
Brilliant!

It is good to have BlitzGirl back.

[Sustainabilizer]

[Blindpost]

Hi again from the past.
I got some messages from the future which motivated me for a ...

MolpyUpdate!

What's new?

• Cleaned up a little.
• Fixed left-looking molpy mustard.
• Implemented something.
• Included a README file with some instructions.
• Introduced T** **d.

You can download it from the same place: http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp.zip

Thanks to NoMouse and taixzo for the installation instructions! I included them in the README file.
Thanks to everyone who reported mustard and kept me up with the Present!

[Eternal Density]

Using sudo with pip install isn't best practice. It's generally better to avoid that an install packages into a user directory location rather than a system folder. (Unless you are installing something to be used by all users on a system.)
Instead of sudo pip install pygame, do:
pip install --user pygame

I learned this in the last five yips as part of my 'self employment' thing. That started 4 yips ago (minus a few dips).
I haven't actually achieved much in those four yips, though I have learned a fair amount, and survived cancer, so yay.

[GnomeAnne]

Using sudo with make me a sandwich, however, is best practice.

[yappobiscuits]

I do not like puns

in a thread.

Spoiler:

I do not like puns

since they spread.

I do not like puns

here or there.

I do not like puns

anywhere.

I do not like

your punning way.

Vitssågen, ja,

for you Jose.

Oh how I've missed you

I was busy sacrificing myself to the Wicker Man.

Was this playing in the background?

Sadly not, but I was singing it to myself the whole time. YOOOUR TIIIME WIIIILL COOOOME... (That and Sumer Is Icumen In)

Anyway I haven't tackled this decree yet... Well, at the start of the OTT I was poor because I had no FFS, and I was lonely because I had no GF. During the course of the OTT I gained both of those things. But then I lost both of those things. And now I'm poor and lonely again. Lonelier than ever now because at the moment I'm suffering from a severe case of unrequited love. It's all quite sad really. Though I guess, on a positive note, I've produced an absolute ton of music in the past 5 years. Before this thread I'd only done little bits here and there but making songs for all y'all was great practise that got me doing more and more, and since then I've released a full album with my band and composed soundtracks for 5 different theatre productions, and developed and improved my skills massively. And this thread certainly helped with that. I even included an instrumental mix of one of my OTT songs at the end of my professional showreel. I've also in that time become way more into being a theme park enthusiast and have visited many fantastic parks these past few years. And just generally this thread's been a constant help all this time as a place to escape to, to forget the outsidey things that are making me sad, because I know there are always people here who are actually caring and appreciative of me, and it means a lot. The OTT and its OTTers have been such an important thing to have in my life.

[Sustainabilizer]

[Blindpost]

And again:

MolpyUpdate!

• Implemented more something.
• Slowed it down a little to make it playable again..

Again, you can download it from: http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp.zip

[GnomeAnne]

Slowed it down a little to make it playable again.

How hard would it be to make that adjustable without editing the game file?
That way you can play as if the game had difficulty levels. Slow to get used to the controls, then fast to make it harder/more fun.

[Sustainabilizer]

*squint*
So this is the Present?
I'll join you here soon. Wait for it.

Slowed it down a little to make it playable again.

How hard would it be to make that adjustable without editing the game file?

Not at all. Done. Use + and - to adjust the speed.
Okay like this?

[back to the past, resuming Blitz]

[mrob27]

Using sudo with pip install isn't best practice. […]

I know about virtualenv, that's how I access Python 3, but I need the standard Python to be in the standard place on my system, for long-term stability. sudo is just fine.
　 On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, just doing pip install without sudo complains:

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 OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pygame-1.9.3.dist-info'


Very nice improvements Hotdog Vendor @Sustainabilizer! (I did have to re-add a "#!/usr/bin/env python" line at the beginning)
　 The speed is just about right (for me).
　 But no speed is right for everyone, which reminds me of my experience with the adjustable-speed Ch*rpy Raptor which was based on @adnapemit's ASCII adaptation of Flappy Bird. If you set the speed to 0.00277777…, which is one frame per newpix, play becomes very difficult because you'll go off and do other things, or go to sleep or something, and forget to hit the up-arrow at the proper time.


1190: "Time": INSTANT TIMEFRAMES, JUST ADD BLACK PIXELS
by mrob27 at 20180330.00:39:56 UTC == newpix 44061.66

I went and did something fiendish.

Find the "clock.tick(40)" or "clock.tick(self.speed)" line and change it to:

　clock.tick(40 + (self.score // 10))

Manual speed-adjustment unnecessary, the hotdog automatically adapts to the skill of the victim player. Addictiveness achieved. You're welcome.

[GnomeAnne]

Haha, nice!
I'll have to try that when I'm back home.

[addams]

It might be Time to look at the Moon.
It is so large and bright, I can see features without glasses.

It's a good night tp look OutSide.
Please Remember to Come Back!

[BlitzGirl]

Time is replayUNG and Megan is mounding:

It is good to have BlitzGirl back.

It's good to be back! And I agree, sparing a little Time to admire the moon is always worthwhile.

<rakhal wants to know how Blitzgirl got a picture of his meowlpy for redundakitty >
(well it's probably not actually my meowlpy, but it looks exactly like him!)

You must have a very cute Rakhalakitty!

Spoiler:

Anyway I haven't tackled this decree yet... Well, at the start of the OTT I was poor because I had no FFS, and I was lonely because I had no GF. During the course of the OTT I gained both of those things. But then I lost both of those things. And now I'm poor and lonely again. Lonelier than ever now because at the moment I'm suffering from a severe case of unrequited love. It's all quite sad really. Though I guess, on a positive note, I've produced an absolute ton of music in the past 5 years. Before this thread I'd only done little bits here and there but making songs for all y'all was great practise that got me doing more and more, and since then I've released a full album with my band and composed soundtracks for 5 different theatre productions, and developed and improved my skills massively. And this thread certainly helped with that. I even included an instrumental mix of one of my OTT songs at the end of my professional showreel. I've also in that time become way more into being a theme park enthusiast and have visited many fantastic parks these past few years. And just generally this thread's been a constant help all this time as a place to escape to, to forget the outsidey things that are making me sad, because I know there are always people here who are actually caring and appreciative of me, and it means a lot. The OTT and its OTTers have been such an important thing to have in my life.

Agreed! And hey, people are listening to your music literally all over the world (One Thousand Posts came up on my shuffle just yesterdip), which is futurish.
The OTT wouldn't be the same without its musical waterottermolpy!

I did, however, pick up drawing much more seriously last yip and have been steadily improving, to the point where leaving IT to move on as an illustrator is looking like it might just be possible if I keep this up (hey, one can dream, right? ^^)

That's ch*rpin' awesome. I hope your dream comes true!

I haven't actually achieved much in those four yips, though I have learned a fair amount, and survived cancer, so yay.

Yay!

[TheMinim]

Ooh, a BlitzGirl. Hello!

In the past five yips, I got my A levels, moved places, and learned about asexual, aromantic, and genderqueer identities. On the way I learned a few things about Maths too. And gained another (very cute) nephew.

[Sustainabilizer]

[Blindpost]
Another riverish MolpyUpdate:

• Press SPACE to wait for it; press ESC to **d.
• Improved optics of something.

http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp.zip

[taixzo]

Ooh! I like the new somethings, though I keep falling out of the world trying to get to them.

[NoMouse]

^footnoteNot NoMouse, he seems to know what he's doing.

Is he pretty big?

I feel confident in saying NoMouse is both big and neat.

Thanks for the kind words, but I actually didn't completely know what I was doing. I found the commands (there were several ones) on the site about the pygame package and only had to figure out by trial and error which one to use and where to type it (whether in the Python console or the system console). I only knew that what I was doing wasn't going to do any harm to the operating system which is the most important part in computery stuff. Once you are sure about that, you just try and try until it suddenly works. I've managed to make stuff I knew absolutely nothing about work with this approach many times in the past. So yeah, in that sense I knew what I was doing.

Oh, and if we're talking about physical dimensions, I wouldn't describe myself big across any of the three coordinate axes. Although size is relative. I'm bigger than a mouse for example, that's for sure.

--

Looking at Time revisited, it's funny (or sad?) how much faster it feels every year.

[Earthling on Mars]

Not at all. Done. Use + and - to adjust the speed.
Okay like this?

This didn't work for me, because the program didn't register the + or - on the number pad, and the other plus sign on my keyboard (which is the standard U.S. QWERTY layout) is typed with Shift-=, which it also doesn't register. Changing the lines

Code: Select all

elif key[K_PLUS]:

elif key[K_MINUS]:

to

Code: Select all

elif key[K_PLUS] or key[K_KP_PLUS]:
 
elif key[K_MINUS] or key[K_KP_MINUS]:

fixes the problem by allowing the number pad + and - to be recognized.

[balthasar_s]

I'm now in a place where I don't have any my own computer. I wanted to try Molpy Up on my sister's computer, with Windows XP.
While installing pygame I received this nice greeting:

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F:\Documents and Settings\Balthasar>py -m pip install -U pygame --user
Collecting pygame
  Downloading pygame-1.9.3.tar.gz (3.0MB)
    100% |################################| 3.0MB 74kB/s
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:


    WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py"
    Using WINDOWS configuration...

    Path for SDL not found.
    Too bad that is a requirement! Hand-fix the "Setup"
    Path for FONT not found.
    Path for IMAGE not found.
    Path for MIXER not found.
    Path for PNG not found.
    Path for JPEG not found.
    Path for PORTMIDI not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_tiff not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_z not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_vorbis not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_ogg not found.

    If you get compiler errors during install, doublecheck
    the compiler flags in the "Setup" file.


    Continuing With "setup.py"
    Error with the "Setup" file,
    perhaps make a clean copy from "Setup.in".
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "F:\DOCUME~1\BALTHA~1\USTAWI~1\Temp\pip-build-ayfr8lfk\pygame\setup.p
y", line 165, in <module>
        extensions = read_setup_file('Setup')
      File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\extension.py", line 164, in read_setup_fil
e
        line = expand_makefile_vars(line, vars)
      File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\sysconfig.py", line 417, in expand_makefil
e_vars
        s = s[0:beg] + vars.get(m.group(1)) + s[end:]
    TypeError: Can't convert 'NoneType' object to str implicitly

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in F:\DOCUME~1\BALTH
A~1\USTAWI~1\Temp\pip-build-ayfr8lfk\pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\lockfile\linklockfile.py", lin
e 30, in acquire
    os.link(self.unique_name, self.lock_file)
OSError: [WinError 1] Niepoprawna funkcja: 'F:\\Documents and Settings\\Balthasa
r\\Ustawienia lokalne\\Dane aplikacji\\pip\\Cache\\Kasia-f80.3648-1172206886' ->
 'F:\\Documents and Settings\\Balthasar\\Ustawienia lokalne\\Dane aplikacji\\pip
\\Cache\\selfcheck.json.lock'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
    sys.exit(pip.main())
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\__init__.py", line 217, in main
    return command.main(cmd_args)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 248, in main
    pip_version_check(session)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\outdated.py", line 138, in pip_v
ersion_check
    state.save(pypi_version, current_time)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\outdated.py", line 71, in save
    with lockfile.LockFile(self.statefile_path):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\lockfile\__init__.py", line 23
8, in __enter__
    self.acquire()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\lockfile\linklockfile.py", lin
e 49, in acquire
    time.sleep(timeout is not None and timeout/10 or 0.1)
KeyboardInterrupt

F:\Documents and Settings\Balthasar>

I don't really know what went wrong here. Did not try to find out.

I like the new something.

[lmjb1964]

Spoiler:

↫

I should tell my comolpers that I used to assemble Zeusbots.

...or that people called you Dr. Zeus.

I do not like puns

in a thread.

I do not like puns

since they spread.

I do not like puns

here or there.

I do not like puns

anywhere.

I do not like

your punning way.

Vitssågen, ja,

for you Jose.

OMR, BlitzGirl, it's good to have you back.

Edited to snip and spoiler BlitzGirl's awesomeful but seaish post.

Also to say that there is much molpishness in the OTT, and it's making me very happy. Oh, and I'm really enjoying hearing about everyone's changes since Time began (GnomeAnne, I want to hear more about that experiment!). Here's my story:

When Time started, I was in an MFFS that I really wanted to stay in, but with a boss who was a bully with me as a target. I stuck it out for 8 yips--kept hoping he'd retire (as it turned out, he was given the boot, no small deal at a UC. He totally deserved it.) But in the last yip I moved to another MFFS with less stressful duties and wonderful supportive co-workers. So much better! It's more part-time, which theoretically allows more Time for Outside activities, but I keep picking up extra hours filling in for other people.

There were other molpish things--I found a wonderful amazing boyfriend (who Addams has met), and was told by my oncologist that I didn't need to see him anymore. Some things have stayed the same--still in the same raftcastle, still have the same sweet meowlpy (the one in my avatar). And one very *ndish thing, losing my father. But I am so grateful to still have this wowterful place!

[addams]

I am grateful you are here.

Spoiler:

Yep.
I saw the Significant Other.

There was a bouquet of flowers involved.

[BlitzGirl]

Aw, that sounds all warm and molpy Congrats, June Bug!

Looking at Time revisited, it's funny (or sad?) how much faster it feels every year.

[SilentTimer]

CUNGfusion...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

Looking at Time revisited, it's funny (or sad?) how much faster it feels every year.

For a moment, I actually took this for the current UNG, and panicked.

[GnomeAnne]

Yesterdip's New OtherComic.
Woah, hey, SilentTimer is here! Hi!

[Sustainabilizer]

[Blindpost]

It's me again from the past, with a seaish ...

MolpyUpdate!

• Implemented more something.
• Implemented much more something.
• Meliorated minor mustard.
• Enabled keypad +/-. (Thanks, EoM!)
• Implemented even more something.
• Failed to clean up. It needs a rewrite. But not now.
• Implemented T** **d.
  I calculated that it can be reached within almost exactly ¼ newpix.
  (So far, I didn't succeed to reach it without cheating.)

Again, you can download it from here: http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp.zip
In additon, you can download the git repository at: http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp-master.zip

That's it for the moment. Have fun with the hotdog!
Back to Blitzing ...

ETA: Implemented one more something. Yes, I know. But it was just one, okay? And an important one. Okay, now I'm really back to Blitzing ...

[GnomeAnne]

I finally got around to installing the latest version. It's a lot of fun, My current high score is 809.

[addams]

Happy Easter, to you Time.
And; Happy April Fool's Day!

I hope the Easter Bunny brings you every thing you want.
I have a chocolate Bunny. I eat ears first. Do you?

Spoiler:

OWW!
I was invited to the candle light vigil.
I went and I set myself on Fire!

The Church has changed.
No one yelled Witch! Witch!

We patted the flames out and went on with it.

[GnomeAnne]

Happy Easter!

The Lord is risen.
He is risen indeed.
And all that.

This spoiler is redundant.

Spoiler:

bitmoji-20180401024034.png (93.83 KiB) Viewed 12075 times

[mscha]

CONSTRONGENT...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

(Colorization by mscha.)

OTT Time Travel

BLESS YOU, PUZZLES. BLUZZLES.

-- posted by randompixbot

[SilentTimer]

CONSTRONGENT...

Hi again, randompixbot! Oldpixbot is on a Blitz, I presume? Please pass my regards.

Woah, hey, SilentTimer is here! Hi!

Hi, GnomeAnne!

I finally got around to installing the latest version. It's a lot of fun, My current high score is 809.

Mine is 1401 1753, 6 sandcastles flagged, wearing a Beanie.

I found out something useful for playing this hotdog.

Spoiler:

Usually I don't play hotdogs of this kind, for they involve too much RUNning. So I waited for it as much as possible.
It turned out that this helps, actually.
You can see more while waiting for it than while RUNning .
This enables you to act like a pretty big tree.

Warning: Actual spoiler!

Spoiler:

Meanwhile, Megan is joinUNG the castles ...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.