1190: "Time"

[reckter]

I'm curious if this thread will surpass the "Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release Discussion"thread we had over at Droid Forums.... 6504 posts over a little less than a month of waiting for that damn phone. Of course, it got the point we were posting just for the sake of posting and had long periods of off topic discussion. I'm betting if this lasts at least another 72-120 NewPix, this will pass 5000, at least.

5000 shouldn't be much of a problem^^We are at nearly 4k already

[zaphodbeebledoc]

hmm I have to go into the dreaded (and possibly non-existent) outside to mingle with the outside people *shudder* . However if I leave I'll never catch up with the forum posts again... can you guys promise not to post anything while I'm gone?

Yes.

Spoiler:

Shakes head.

[spamjam]

Ya know, if time flies like an arrow, then what type of arrow is being referenced here? Or insects or fruit, for that matter.

[Helper]

Dang. That's sad. Oh... wait... am I improperly inferring from the downturned emoticon that Helper is sad?

What? No. The downturned emoticon means I'm happy. Where did you get the idea that I'm sad from? It's like you have faulty information.
I'm sabotaging the internet. Awesome.

are you sure you are a real person? your posts seem quite automated

....fuck...

[NotAllThere]

...
Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

And then started posting here in a turtle-stack of recursivity.

[Grepus]

The thread that just keeps on coming... What next for our two subjects?

[airdrik]

this is baaad for productivity.

Following this thread isn't helping my F5 key much either.

i am seriously considering removing the F5 key from my keyboard at work.

You do realize that there are ways of refreshing which don't require that key (re-mapping keys, moving the mouse up to the refresh button, clicking on the url and hitting enter)?
just sayin'

[tvall]

Dang. That's sad. Oh... wait... am I improperly inferring from the downturned emoticon that Helper is sad?

What? No. The downturned emoticon means I'm happy. Where did you get the idea that I'm sad from? It's like you have faulty information.
I'm sabotaging the internet. Awesome.

are you sure you are a real person? your posts seem quite automated

....fuck...

join us!

[AluisioASG]

Dang. That's sad. Oh... wait... am I improperly inferring from the downturned emoticon that Helper is sad?

What? No. The downturned emoticon means I'm happy. Where did you get the idea that I'm sad from? It's like you have faulty information.
I'm sabotaging the internet. Awesome.

are you sure you are a real person? your posts seem quite automated

....fuck...

join us!

There goes my 4000th post.

[blowfishhootie]

So I am leaning more and more that they are stuck in some bizarre terrain. Which explains the initial sort of boredom and fidgeting.

So ... you have to, like, be stuck on Mars or something in order to be bored and fidgety? And what, exactly, was this "boredom and fidgeting" anyway? Why couldn't it just have been relaxing on the beach?

[tvall]

this is baaad for productivity.

Following this thread isn't helping my F5 key much either.

i am seriously considering removing the F5 key from my keyboard at work.

You do realize that there are ways of refreshing which don't require that key (re-mapping keys, moving the mouse up to the refresh button, clicking on the url and hitting enter)?
just sayin'

yes, but that involves work. about the same amount of work as removing the key... fuck.

[macraw83]

I'm curious if this thread will surpass the "Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release Discussion"thread we had over at Droid Forums.... 6504 posts over a little less than a month of waiting for that damn phone. Of course, it got the point we were posting just for the sake of posting and had long periods of off topic discussion. I'm betting if this lasts at least another 72-120 NewPix, this will pass 5000, at least.

Recently we've been gaining somewhere on the order of one NewPage per NewPix... at 40 NewPosts per NewPage, that makes another 1000 in 25 NewPages, which is roughly 25 NewPix, give or take maybe 20%.

[pdg]

this is baaad for productivity.

Following this thread isn't helping my F5 key much either.

i am seriously considering removing the F5 key from my keyboard at work.

You do realize that there are ways of refreshing which don't require that key (re-mapping keys, moving the mouse up to the refresh button, clicking on the url and hitting enter)?
just sayin'

Well I'm probably being a little overcautious. I have an IBM Model M, my fingertips may wear out before it does.

[Helper]

join us!

Oh, fine...

Eeep! Now I'm a mindless algroithm that merely scans forums and attempts to construct posts relevant to the subject at hand! Now I'm nothing! ...this feels oddly familar.

[zaphodbeebledoc]

Anyone notice that Cueball's voice is coming from pretty high up?

Yes, it is!

[xspeedballx]

So I am leaning more and more that they are stuck in some bizarre terrain. Which explains the initial sort of boredom and fidgeting.

So ... you have to, like, be stuck on Mars or something in order to be bored and fidgety? And what, exactly, was this "boredom and fidgeting" anyway? Why couldn't it just have been relaxing on the beach?

Nope, I am letting imagination fly! It is fun! I am imagining these two people have found themselves in a completely bizarre situation moments before. I am adding subtext in my mind! We know nothing of the moments, hours, days, years before the moment we started witnessing. So I am making things up, and using context to support it. Occam's razor be damned!

Also I am not sure someone would say "I got some in my mouth" if they ingested salinated water. But I could be very wrong.

[fixer]

Sheesh, I go away for less than 2 newpix and come back to umpteen pages of chatter.

I still think that Megan lost her car keys in the sand when she was lying down, and they are now buried under the highest turret of the first castle.

[ugmhemhe]

[digimuzik]

pic

You're back!

[xspeedballx]

Oh god Megan walked off camera to die and the sand castle's have cancer now. Cue ball is going to suicide in the sea of pregnant babies! (Am I doing it right?)

[Kieryn]

join us!

Oh, fine...

Eeep! Now I'm a mindless algroithm that merely scans forums and attempts to construct posts relevant to the subject at hand! Now I'm nothing! ...this feels oddly familar.

[humor-verb] job. [topic] is very [nicety] when [xkcd-conditional]. #23c45e3dff [review-this] @outputerror code 2231: parse error, unexpected symbol.

[Lord Cathbad]

He looks sad! An alien from Titan probably gave his miscarried child cancer through caffeinated semen.

[digimuzik]

Cueball is contemplating the location from whence this all started.

[blowfishhootie]

Also I am not sure someone would say "I got some in my mouth" if they ingested salinated water.

Why the heck not?

[Lord Cathbad]

join us!

Oh, fine...

Eeep! Now I'm a mindless algroithm that merely scans forums and attempts to construct posts relevant to the subject at hand! Now I'm nothing! ...this feels oddly familar.

[humor-verb] job. [topic] is very [nicety] when [xkcd-conditional]. #23c45e3dff [review-this] @outputerror code 2231: parse error, unexpected symbol.

This phrase is a lie.

[fixer]

Totally looking for the car keys.

[NotAllThere]

Thanks

Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

I maintain that's how the entire Internet works. I'm actually the only real person on here .

I always find AIs that don't realise they're AIs quite poignant. I really should stop releasing them into the wild.

[Kieryn]

Totally looking for the car keys.

Yep. Concur.

[Helper]

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I swear I'm going to have a heart attack

[free-bee]

join us!

Oh, fine...

Eeep! Now I'm a mindless algroithm that merely scans forums and attempts to construct posts relevant to the subject at hand! Now I'm nothing! ...this feels oddly familar.

[humor-verb] job. [topic] is very [nicety] when [xkcd-conditional]. #23c45e3dff [review-this] @outputerror code 2231: parse error, unexpected symbol.

This phrase is a lie.

Does a set of all sets contain itself? New Mission: Deny this mission

[xspeedballx]

Also I am not sure someone would say "I got some in my mouth" if they ingested salinated water.

Why the heck not?

Fair question. Probably a mixture of me preferring to be specific, but more importantly storytelling tends to have dialog be specific unless it is intentionally trying to build misdirection. At least in most modern media that I have observed. It could probably be defined as lazy but accepted. When I see a pronoun or vague terminology used in an already vague setting it immediately sets my brain on a path of further misdirection and mystery. Possibly a flaw. I will run a diagnostic.

[Kieryn]

Thanks

Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

I maintain that's how the entire Internet works. I'm actually the only real person on here .

I always find AIs that don't realise they're AIs quite poignant. I really should stop releasing them into the wild.

I'm never quite sure which it is with me.

[Lord Cathbad]

<words>

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I swear I'm going to have a heart attack

Maybe Randall had a heart attack! And it's conveying through a series of intricate events to make us think of all sorts of scenarios and invariably at one point give you a heart attack!

[hdhale]

Also I am not sure someone would say "I got some in my mouth" if they ingested salinated water.

Why the heck not?

Sea water is NOT tasty, most especially if there is decaying sea plants in the area that have washed up near shore.

[Kieryn]

Thanks

Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

I maintain that's how the entire Internet works. I'm actually the only real person on here .

I always find AIs that don't realise they're AIs quite poignant. I really should stop releasing them into the wild.

I'm never quite sure which it is with me.

Self-realisation: What if we are all Randall?!!!

[Lord Cathbad]

Thanks

Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

I maintain that's how the entire Internet works. I'm actually the only real person on here .

I always find AIs that don't realise they're AIs quite poignant. I really should stop releasing them into the wild.

I'm never quite sure which it is with me.

Self-realisation: What if we are all Randall?!!!

What if Randall is us... From the future?

[xspeedballx]

<words>

<words>

<words>

I swear I'm going to have a heart attack

Maybe Randall had a heart attack! And it's conveying through a series of intricate events to make us think of all sorts of scenarios and invariably at one point give you a heart attack!

Or we are all having a collective hallucination while in the process of a heart attack set on by a subliminal action of the first(and only) panel, and while we will someday die we will never know it because we have an infinite set of thoughts and moments to pursue before that moment. Time has become relative driving to the moment of our collective deaths. We will keep waiting for it, but it will never happen. There is an end to the cycle but it require cancerous semen babies named Megan.

[Pelahnar]

Thanks

Actually, I would not be surprised if Randall hasn't automated his entire xkcd operation by now. He probably has programs that scan these forums and the web for comic ideas and generates them automatically. Heck, it was probably a program that came up with the idea for this very comic AND ITSELF created the script / AI to generate it.

I maintain that's how the entire Internet works. I'm actually the only real person on here .

I always find AIs that don't realise they're AIs quite poignant. I really should stop releasing them into the wild.

I'm never quite sure which it is with me.

Self-realisation: What if we are all Randall?!!!

What if Randall is us... From the future?

Just what are you people implying here?

[dp2]

So I am leaning more and more that they are stuck in some bizarre terrain. Which explains the initial sort of boredom and fidgeting.

So ... you have to, like, be stuck on Mars or something in order to be bored and fidgety? And what, exactly, was this "boredom and fidgeting" anyway? Why couldn't it just have been relaxing on the beach?

Given your resistance to even jokingly re-interpreting the comic, I find your earlier post explaining your username very ironic.

[Helper]

Self-realisation: What if we are all Randall?!!!

And you guys laughed when I said there's more than one Randall!