cellocgw wrote:Edit: do I get anything special for grabbing not only the first but also the second post on a NewPage?
Yes. Frowned upon for double posting.

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cellocgw wrote:Edit: do I get anything special for grabbing not only the first but also the second post on a NewPage?
edfel wrote:I like this areaOnly 1k np or so before they reach a proper forest
dreiarmumig wrote:My prediction: It's a red herring and will be gone in the next frame.
PhoenixRising wrote:
@AluisioASG, ggh, ucim, BlitzGirl: re: the best way to play ketchup.
@BlitzGirl: re: My Side of the Mountain
@ggh: re: staying relevant while playing ketchup
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mscha wrote:cellocgw wrote:Edit: do I get anything special for grabbing not only the first but also the second post on a NewPage?
Yes. Frowned upon for double posting.
ucim wrote:Chapter 3The first cleric wiped the bird's enlightenment off of his face...<snip>
Ebonite wrote:Moria?! Wow, that takes me back. I played all of those rogue-like games: rogue, nethack, larn, and yes, moria.
I think I still have a version of nethack installed on this laptop.
Febrion wrote:2. For anyone nostalgic about rogue-likes (I wore out my share of keyboards playing nethack) you should check out Desktop Dungeons - its totally different, but not. Its great for people who no longer have the time for a deep crawl...
Exodies wrote:(Inspired by StratPlayer's sig) OTCAT
ucim wrote:@StratPlayer - Truly awesome pogeeketry!
BlitzGirl wrote:StratPlayer, That was totally poetry! Time-tacular poetry!
cellocgw wrote:mscha wrote:cellocgw wrote:Edit: do I get anything special for grabbing not only the first but also the second post on a NewPage?
Yes. Frowned upon for double posting.
Oh. Well, at least now I know what "double-posting" is![]()
All I can offer in defense is that I posted two unrelated items from two separate pages of artificially-enhanced-speed-reading (not to be confused with Blitz*-ing).
dreiarmumig wrote:Also, PhoenixRising, I love your way of posting ketchup posts
dreiarmumig wrote:Edit: Oh, and I have a question. How can you guys tell when exactly a post was made? I've seen people writing that a certain post was at so-and-so many seconds past newpix many times and have asked myself that for quite a while now. I'm a bit afraid of the answer because I might just be blind and it's really obvious.
Illud expecto, ergo sum.Magdiragdag wrote:I wait for it, therefore I am.
mscha wrote:dreiarmumig wrote:Also, PhoenixRising, I love your way of posting ketchup posts
Well, I don't; particularly the huge spoilers. These tailor to the ‘skippers’, and it punishes the ‘readers’. (Gotta scroll way up to close the spoiler, or else lose track when you refresh.)
KarMann wrote:dreiarmumig wrote:Edit: Oh, and I have a question. How can you guys tell when exactly a post was made? I've seen people writing that a certain post was at so-and-so many seconds past newpix many times and have asked myself that for quite a while now. I'm a bit afraid of the answer because I might just be blind and it's really obvious.
Yep, everything old is new again.
Latent22 wrote:fhorn wrote:higgs-boson wrote:No. The common male whininess tends to converge to zero if no female sympathy/consolidation donator is in line of sight.
Consolation, mebbe? I'm trying to figure out the action of a "consolidation" donator........
Consolidation donator is someone giving away a steam locomotive with a two-wheeled front truck, eight driving wheels, and no rear truck.
Clearly what he is saying is guys don't whine if you offer them a free steam locomotive.
Edit: Note that the rule is that if someone uses a word and your not sure what they mean by it you must always choose the least likely option.
partingLance wrote:mispleds.
buffygirl wrote:A SURPRISE for k.bookbinder, as suggested by Kieryn long ago on page 567.
Ebonite wrote:StratPlayer wrote:Oh, and old computers again: OK, legit answer -- I didn't get first real computer until the mid 1980's. Before that I just hung out on the school's mainframe (Moria on the VAX, anyone?) But the first one I bought myself was one of the original Macs, upgraded to 512k, then later upgraded to the double-sided floppy drive, and then later I added an external GIGANTIC 10 Meg hard drive. The original Macs just had the floppy. Why would you EVER need more storage than can fit on a floppy disk???
Moria?! Wow, that takes me back. I played all of those rogue-like games: rogue, nethack, larn, and yes, moria.
I think I still have a version of nethack installed on this laptop.
Latent22 wrote:Measured the normal length of her arm and that is something extra she is holdingSpoiler:
Exodies wrote:It's a good job there are no official rules of English. Half the Internet would disappear.
k.bookbinder wrote:Maybe she is holding a GPS unit and they are on a journey to complete a very long, complicated multi-cache?
pelrigg wrote:palindrome triskaidekaphobiOngSpoiler:
[aka: frame 1331]
slinches wrote:If they're still in the sonoran desert, it's likely a creosote bush. I'd rather not be around any of those when they're burning.
Although from the silhouette, it could be a jumping cholla or small Joshua tree as well.
dreiarmumig wrote:Haha, good one. Also just made me wonder whether people with triskaidekaphobia are also afraid of ROT13. Fbeel, crbcyr jvgu gevfxnvqrxncubovn.
pelrigg wrote:dreiarmumig wrote:Haha, good one. Also just made me wonder whether people with triskaidekaphobia are also afraid of ROT13. Fbeel, crbcyr jvgu gevfxnvqrxncubovn.
And maybe that's why Frame 1313 [heretic]yesterday[/heretic] went unremarked. Especially since it was on [heretic] day of the month: 13 -- abbreviated year: 13[/heretic]
ergman wrote:I think I've edited more than I've posted, and read my own posts more than anyone else...
buffygirl wrote:lgw wrote:PhoenixRising wrote: [stuff - with a new hat!]
Yours is the one hatted Avatar I didn't quite figure out - all of BuffyGirl's creations are so awesome, but this one went over my head. An .. egg?
He's a Phoenix, which is a bird, and birds come from eggs, and the Phoenix is about to burst out of it! See?
Montov wrote:If it is a vulture, they are close to death.
... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Dracomax wrote:ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Except they aren't born from eggs. they are born from themselves. and technically, I think there is only supposed to be one of them. (edit) it dies and is reborn. it's a symbol of renewal, and is linked to the cycle of the seasons as well /pedant
StratPlayer wrote:Dracomax wrote:ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Except they aren't born from eggs. they are born from themselves. and technically, I think there is only supposed to be one of them. (edit) it dies and is reborn. it's a symbol of renewal, and is linked to the cycle of the seasons as well /pedant
Yes, but I would assume that there are stages in the rebirth process. The fire from the initial phoenix turns it into ash, but then those ashes might have to re-assemble together in a form of ash aggregation. This would naturally occur and would create an egg-shaped form, I would think. Then once this egg-mass of ash becomes large enough, it begins to heat and glow, and as ashes from the old-phoenix continue to absorb into it, it reaches a critical mass and bursts into flames again, erupting and "hatching" the new phoenix.
I think buffygirl just happened to capture the image just as this re-aggregated-previous-bird-mass is about to erupt, birthing the new phoenix.
Makes perfect sense to me, and so you're both right.
XonqNopp wrote:ANYBODYSINGASONG!Spoiler:
Dracomax wrote:StratPlayer wrote:Dracomax wrote:ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Except they aren't born from eggs. they are born from themselves. and technically, I think there is only supposed to be one of them. (edit) it dies and is reborn. it's a symbol of renewal, and is linked to the cycle of the seasons as well /pedant
Yes, but I would assume that there are stages in the rebirth process. The fire from the initial phoenix turns it into ash, but then those ashes might have to re-assemble together in a form of ash aggregation. This would naturally occur and would create an egg-shaped form, I would think. Then once this egg-mass of ash becomes large enough, it begins to heat and glow, and as ashes from the old-phoenix continue to absorb into it, it reaches a critical mass and bursts into flames again, erupting and "hatching" the new phoenix.
I think buffygirl just happened to capture the image just as this re-aggregated-previous-bird-mass is about to erupt, birthing the new phoenix.
Makes perfect sense to me, and so you're both right.
As I said in absurdly long Ketchup post, as long as Phoenixrising likes it, I'm only arguing out of pedantic obstinence. I think it falls under rule of cool. but in no piece of lore I've ever read does it mention an egg. Is it possible that a mid stage egg occurs so fast nobody ever saw it before Buffygirl's flash CG-ography? Sure. it just seems like an extra step that may or may not be unnecessary.
Dracomax wrote:StratPlayer wrote:Dracomax wrote:ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Except they aren't born from eggs. they are born from themselves. and technically, I think there is only supposed to be one of them. (edit) it dies and is reborn. it's a symbol of renewal, and is linked to the cycle of the seasons as well /pedant
Yes, but I would assume that there are stages in the rebirth process. The fire from the initial phoenix turns it into ash, but then those ashes might have to re-assemble together in a form of ash aggregation. This would naturally occur and would create an egg-shaped form, I would think. Then once this egg-mass of ash becomes large enough, it begins to heat and glow, and as ashes from the old-phoenix continue to absorb into it, it reaches a critical mass and bursts into flames again, erupting and "hatching" the new phoenix.
I think buffygirl just happened to capture the image just as this re-aggregated-previous-bird-mass is about to erupt, birthing the new phoenix.
Makes perfect sense to me, and so you're both right.
As I said in absurdly long Ketchup post, as long as Phoenixrising likes it, I'm only arguing out of pedantic obstinence. I think it falls under rule of cool. but in no piece of lore I've ever read does it mention an egg. Is it possible that a mid stage egg occurs so fast nobody ever saw it before Buffygirl's flash CG-ography? Sure. it just seems like an extra step that may or may not be unnecessary.
StratPlayer wrote:Dracomax wrote:StratPlayer wrote:Dracomax wrote:ucim wrote:... which, I presume, is why the egg is glowing like a charcoal - it is becoming ash, so that it can properly release its phoenix.Valarya wrote:I couldn't help myself any longer, BuffyGirl: While most birds do come from eggs, the Phoenix rises (instead of bursts) from ashes (not eggs).
Jose
Except they aren't born from eggs. they are born from themselves. and technically, I think there is only supposed to be one of them. (edit) it dies and is reborn. it's a symbol of renewal, and is linked to the cycle of the seasons as well /pedant
Yes, but I would assume that there are stages in the rebirth process. The fire from the initial phoenix turns it into ash, but then those ashes might have to re-assemble together in a form of ash aggregation. This would naturally occur and would create an egg-shaped form, I would think. Then once this egg-mass of ash becomes large enough, it begins to heat and glow, and as ashes from the old-phoenix continue to absorb into it, it reaches a critical mass and bursts into flames again, erupting and "hatching" the new phoenix.
I think buffygirl just happened to capture the image just as this re-aggregated-previous-bird-mass is about to erupt, birthing the new phoenix.
Makes perfect sense to me, and so you're both right.
As I said in absurdly long Ketchup post, as long as Phoenixrising likes it, I'm only arguing out of pedantic obstinence. I think it falls under rule of cool. but in no piece of lore I've ever read does it mention an egg. Is it possible that a mid stage egg occurs so fast nobody ever saw it before Buffygirl's flash CG-ography? Sure. it just seems like an extra step that may or may not be unnecessary.
Agreed -- the most important things are that Phoenixrising likes it, and that it was generously offered by buffygirl and makes a fine avatar.
But I think that proto-egg-forming step might be necessary. Or does the previous ash just suddenly re-assemble into a fully-formed new phoenix? Or -- even more unlikely, I would think -- does the old ash not even get used? If not, then the phoenix is forming out of nothing, and that's not possible. We've got to think this out scientifically here. This phoenix rebirth isn't some pseudo-science magical mysticism, after all...
Also --this is NOT a double post! It's a serial post, to commemorate the serial nature of the OTC, and as such, is a holy offering...
hwhitney wrote:In looking over the Wikia of Time I came across the history of Buffygirl and hats. I'm now surprised that I did not draw her ire and wrath when I delurked with my avatar, unaware - as only a part-Time lurker - of it's potential significance. I do apologize for inadvertently stepping on your toes, Buffygirl.
StratPlayer wrote:Also --this is NOT a double post! It's a serial post, to commemorate the serial nature of the OTC, and as such, is a holy offering...
pelrigg wrote:(The OTT's first flamewar over the life cycle of a phoenix?)
Dracomax wrote:We sent a man to the moon with less computing power than I have in my phone. That's amazing. I like to think about it any time I doubt human ingenuity, or that we are living in the future. I'm still waiting for flying cars though.
Dracomax wrote:hwhitney wrote:In looking over the Wikia of Time I came across the history of Buffygirl and hats. I'm now surprised that I did not draw her ire and wrath when I delurked with my avatar, unaware - as only a part-Time lurker - of it's potential significance. I do apologize for inadvertently stepping on your toes, Buffygirl.
There is some precedent, and buffygirl is capable of hatting a hat.
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