1190: "Time"

[Link]

Spoiler:

A newpix! A new newpix! Is the story ContinuONG?
I see Beanette, Amtoo, Brokenbean, Ms. Frizzle, Cuegan, Rosetta, LaPetite, and Beanbeard.

Squeeee! The title text is still "T** **d", though. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't continue; one can always hope. Wait for it!

ETA: pope'd.

Decree: speculate about Time 2.

[ergman]

Do you think Time 2, were it ever to happen, would start in the original comic, or as a new othercomic?

and would there be a new thread, or would we stay here?

regardless of whether time 2 will ever happen, I'm excited to see if mysteryONGS 2 is occurring.

[macraw83]

Or click on the icon just below the title and copy that address.

Interesting, I didn't realize that was a link, much less a different one than the title. Which is a bit odd, since it seems that it is intended to serve the same exact purpose, only more reliably.

ETA: Time 2 will be released as a new OtherComic, and will feature the Beanies rebuilding civilization to the point where it's feasible to re-dam Gibraltar. Thus loops Time.

[BlitzGirl]

you

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions.

Oh no, the speech is Looping!

For decree: If there were to be a Time 2, I'm fairly certain it would be released as a new Othercomic just to get more eyeballs on it (the people who only visit the most recent page of xkcd). Ew, eyeballs everywhere.

[ucim]

Do you think Time 2, were it ever to happen, would start in the original comic, or as a new othercomic?

Yes, I do.

I think there won't be a Time 2. The Great Lord Randall has created the universe, and molpishness grows from its fertile crescent. The Big Thing that he did was create this new art form - kind of like making the first movie ever. Were he to do another one, I think he would tell another story in it.

But why? We had the LuckyONGs, the Waveny Ongs, the SilentOngs, the BalthONGs, the EDONGs, and now the SpeechONGs, the KierynONGS (which while not technically ONGs, certainly counts as another treeish way to Wait For It).

His Work here is done. It is now up to us, his Apostles, to spread the Word. Slowly, and gently though, for we cannot rush Waiting For It.

and would there be a new thread, or would we stay here?

There would be a new thread if it were a new comic. If 1190 showed new newpix, then there would not be; this thread would be where we Waited For It.

Jose

[Sciscitor]

A newpix! A new newpix! Is the story ContinuONG?
I see Beanette, Amtoo, Brokenbean, Ms. Frizzle, Cuegan, Rosetta, LaPetite, and Beanbeard.

I do not think so.. it is still "The **d".
It spooked me enough to check http://xkcd.com/1190 regardless.

[macraw83]

I do not think so.. it is still "The **d".
It spooked me enough to check http://xkcd.com/1190 regardless.

Well, to be fair, it's a new SilentONG, so by that definition it might be a continuation. Though we won't know for sure for a little while longer.

[BlitzGirl]

Wait for it.

Redundant:

Spoiler:

[HES]

It's pretty dark in here. My head hurts. What's that light in the distance? Shapes are difficult. Is it letters? There are two of them. The first one is straight, like cueball. ¦? [? |? t? Yes, t. The other... it is round. Like floating head cueball. 0? Q? O? t ... o.

to

[ergman]

The first one is straight, like cueball.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Heaviness breathiness
Cueball and Megan did
Incomprehensibly
Wander in bliss

Both are presumably
Heterosexual
Don't you think we'd see more
"Action" than this?

[BlitzGirl]

I've never noticed before how much the word to looks like a decapitated Cueball who has also lost a leg.

[HES]

I'm not sure what Megan is spelling here.

[mikrit]

Yay! Hugo!

Hilarious speech predictions, everymolpy. Especially by ggh.

[macraw83]

I'm not sure what Megan is spelling here.

Awesomeful! (And added to wiki)

ETA:

everyone

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who made the awesomeful manips, the molpy songs, and all the treeish tools for following the comic.

[Tatiana]

The next time I get to be pagepope
I wanna become a JohnCagepope
My decree
(I see
No reason anymore for delaying it):
Please everyone who has nothing to say, keep on saying it.

[SBN]

who

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who is lurking on the OTT, but please reveal yourselves and join the fun.

[Eternal Density]

It's pretty dark in here. My head hurts. What's that light in the distance? Shapes are difficult. Is it letters? There are two of them. The first one is straight, like cueball. ¦? [? |? t? Yes, t. The other... it is round. Like floating head cueball. 0? Q? O? t ... o.

to

Alternate reading:
Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means HES COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who filled in for HES by putting Cory in the comfy chair and pelting him with S&Ms for his heresy.

[balthasar_s]

For some reason bothasar_p can't ONG anymore. The forum is giving an "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again." error. I didn't change anything in the code.
ETA: And can't post from the mirror either.
ETA2: I think I know what happened: seeing his own code in the topic review confuses the bot. I'll fix it tomorrow.
ETA3: fixed

[HES]

Alternate reading: ... HES

Balthaword's post earlier was a bit of an ear-pricking moment.

[macraw83]

came

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who came to hear my words, especially if you're Waiting For It between each word as I intended.

If anyone tried to connect to my Terraria server but failed over the past 5 xips, it should be back up now. Let me know if you encounter any mustard on the way.

[Link]

Do you think Time 2, were it ever to happen, would start in the original comic, or as a new othercomic?

Yes, I do.

I think there won't be a Time 2. The Great Lord Randall has created the universe, and molpishness grows from its fertile crescent. The Big Thing that he did was create this new art form - kind of like making the first movie ever. Were he to do another one, I think he would tell another story in it.

But why? We had the LuckyONGs, the Waveny Ongs, the SilentOngs, the BalthONGs, the EDONGs, and now the SpeechONGs, the KierynONGS (which while not technically ONGs, certainly counts as another treeish way to Wait For It).

His Work here is done. It is now up to us, his Apostles, to spread the Word. Slowly, and gently though, for we cannot rush Waiting For It.

and would there be a new thread, or would we stay here?

There would be a new thread if it were a new comic. If 1190 showed new newpix, then there would not be; this thread would be where we Waited For It.

Jose

I definitely agree that it's unlikely there will be a Time 2 following the same story, and -- warning: heresy ahead -- I'm not even sure I'd want there to be one. Considering how wowterful the OTTerONGs have been, I'd hate to see the Great Lord Randall definitively smite them down as non-canon. The alternative way to continue the story would be for the GLR to accept the OTTerONGs (especially t1i) as canon, but that would be m*stardily confusing to Outsiders.

Basically, I see two possible ways to avoid this conundrum:

• Time 2 will be an entirely new comic, unrelated to Time apart from the Waiting for it.
• Time 2 will be related to Time, but will avoid interfering with the fanon entirely.

In the latter case, a prequel seems like the most likely option. We never did learn how the previous societ(y|ies) **ded, after all. Alternatively, it could show events from a different perspective (e.g. the Beanies or the Hill People), but that seems pretty unlikely. All in all, I think it's much more likely Time 2 will be unrelated to Time, though.

In the case a new, unrelated comic gets made, the big question is whether that comic's thread will become as seaish and molpish as the OTT. Also, if the T2 thread spawns its own religions, will we be able to get along with them?

And yes, we must continue to spread the Word, and also the Molpishness, and also we must continue to Wait for it!

[yappobiscuits]

I think it might be treeish if there were future othercomics set in the Time universe, but not necessarily in the same format as the OTC.

[mscha]

The missing ONG:
TakONG a loook


The current ONG:
WalkONG somewhere

[HES]

I think it might be treeish if there were future othercomics set in the Time universe, but not necessarily in the same format as the OTC.

Ditto future othercomics in the same format as the OTC, but not necessarily set in the Time universe.

[ergman]

I think it might be treeish if there were future othercomics set in the Time universe, but not necessarily in the same format as the OTC.

Ditto future othercomics in the same format as the OTC, but not necessarily set in the Time universe.

both would be muyo molpish. mostly I just want more clues on beanish, and more brilliant things from GLR, regardless of what that entails.
I remember when I first found xkcd, I thought, "this guy should write a book!"
he did better.

And as far as the canonicalocity of the TaTs, I personally am totally fine with multiple cannons, as one can then defend ones castle much more effeciently.

[ZoomanSP]

And as far as the canonicalocity of the TaTs, I personally am totally fine with multiple cannons, as one can then defend ones castle much more effeciently.

Alternatively, in case Time 2 would contradict TaT, we could still consider TaT to be trebuchet.

[SBN]

along

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who came along with Cuegan on such a treeish and seaish journey.

[AluisioASG]

via my signature. Sorry, man, I'm no good with announcements.

[ggh]

via my signature. Sorry, man, I'm no good with announcements.

Whoa! That's really awesomeful, Aluisio!

on

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who came along on a cow. That really took some extra effort.

[AluisioASG]

I did not use a plural first-person pronoun in the front page lightly.

[ggh]

You and GLR?

Here's a C for your calendar.


the

Spoiler:

Thank you so much. This is truly an honor. I'm sorry I can't be there in person, but Cory has been kind enough to accept on my behalf. Since "Time" was an animation which was published online at one frame per hour, I've asked Cory to read these remarks at one word per hour. If it's still Sunday when you're hearing this, it means he's COMPLETELY ignored my instructions. Thank you to everyone who came along on the Concord. Oh, wait....

[macraw83]

via my signature. Sorry, man, I'm no good with announcements.

Haha, no worries. I was a little busy after leaving the office today.

A little background: some of you might remember a particular "preview" in my post from back in the afore-when when I finally arrived in the Present:

Spoiler:

Sometime during my Blitz, I realized that there was no "home page" for chirpingmustard.com, which I thought was a shame, so I asked Aluisio if he'd appreciate some sort of a welcome page. Yeah, yeah, I know, another RELATED site that has a repository of useful links, even though this one has little use besides, but I figured that at least this way we'd have an easy way to access most of the very-RELATED things other OTTers have put together, and at a URL that should be pretty easy to remember. So, I threw something together, and we've spent the last couple wips making small improvements here and there, and making sure that it was functional on all of the major desktop browsers.

Well, it's finally done, and Lu pushed it live earlier toxip, so feel free to check it out. We don't really know what content (if anything) to put on the front page, so feel free to send suggestions to either of us. If you have other RELATED things you think should be added to the menu, it would be molpish to know so we can add them. And, I suppose most importantly, if you encounter any bugs definitely let us know so we can fix them.

Oh, and one last thing: you'll notice that M0001 is used as an image next to each of the links on the desktop site. I initially intended that to be a placeholder, and make images for each of the links, but I haven't had a chance to do so. If the owners of the targets of those links would like to make an image of the same size, we'd be more than happy to add it to the site.

[Eternal Density]

via my signature. Sorry, man, I'm no good with announcements.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boababs!
Seaish, thanks,
ED

[ucim]

@Aluisio, chronosdragon, and macraw83: Awesomeful! Ch*rpin' awesomful!

It is said there will be content on this page. We do not know when, though.

Uhhh... what are we supposed to do?

Jose

[mscha]

WRONGLE...

Spoiler:

RUN.

OTT Time Travel

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW MOLPY OVERLORDS

-- posted by randompixbot

[macraw83]

@Aluisio, chronosdragon, and macraw83: Awesomeful! Ch*rpin' awesomful!

It is said there will be content on this page. We do not know when, though.

Uhhh... what are we supposed to do?

Jose

If you have ideas, click on "User List" and send me and/or Lu an email

(alternatively, PMs work just as well)

ETA: Oh, yeah, I totally missed it the first time around. I think you might find your answer here:

Spoiler:

[ucim]

If you have ideas, click on "User List" and send me and/or Lu an email

You mean... I can't annoy TheMinim?

Jose

[macraw83]

You mean... I can't annoy TheMinim?

Jose

See my edit that went through just after you posted

[ChronosDragon]

@Aluisio, chronosdragon, and macraw83: Awesomeful! Ch*rpin' awesomful!

Glad to see someone's paying attention. There are lot of temporal distortion factors at work keeping that site lined up with this reality.

Spoiler:

I didn't actually contribute to this project, oddly enough. I might rectify that soon, but until then it's all Lu and macraw83. Many thanks to them.

[AluisioASG]

New whatdiff. Check out the first title text.