1190: "Time"

[ChronosDragon]

Double posts are okay here, right?



She's packing the mound, so probably not a tunnel then.

[bigcrag92]

also be we back to regular fortnight or be we still on longpix, excuse my ignorance, i be-did finishing season 2 of Game of Thrones and couldnt concentrate unless i forsook my duties as timewaiter

Longpix.

damn, its too long betwixt posts to hold interest as much

I blame this factor and the unavoidable draw of the Outside as the reason for the loss in following of the comic.FULL STOPFULL STOP

Yikes, down to 52 guests.

yea but newpic

[HAL9000]

also be we back to regular fortnight or be we still on longpix, excuse my ignorance, i be-did finishing season 2 of Game of Thrones and couldnt concentrate unless i forsook my duties as timewaiter

Longpix.

damn, its too long betwixt posts to hold interest as much

I blame this factor and the unavoidable draw of the Outside as the reason for the loss in following of the comic.FULL STOPFULL STOP

Yikes, down to 52 guests.

yea but newpic

Cue immediate jump of 15 guests on the hour mark.

[ChronosDragon]

Bumping because it was literally the last thing on the last page...

Double posts are all right here, right?



she's packing the mound, so probably not an tunnel then.

[bouer]

We still haven't seen cueball, maybe he's dead?
we've had a disturbingly small amount of morbidity in the past few pages

[Ashtar]

I present the unofficial Newpician t'ime unit system. (Scooter to prevent censoring)
Base 2520 numerals be write-done with three characters for each digit. Basically, the first place before the radix point be tetradecimal, the second be pentadecimal and the third be duodecimal, so the number before 1000000000 be BEDBEDBED. This be an reference to the insomnia that most followers of T'ime have been experiencing for the past biquapix or so, and also an advantage in factors, since 2520 be an highly composite number.
an fortnight (plural newpices) be equivalent to the t'ime betwixt consecutive image uploads to the an True Comic. The duration of 469BAB300000 (decimal 16546737186000) vibrations of the caesium-97 atom tin be taken as an rough substitute on most days.
14 trinipices = 1 dunipix
15 dunipices = 1 zenipix
12 zenipices = 1 fortnight
14 newpices = 1 unquapix
15 unquapices = 1 biquapix
12 biquapices = 1 triquapix
Further prefixes follow the 14-15-12 pattern.
Positive prefixes be unqua, biqua, triqua, quadqua, pentqua, sexqua, septqua, octqua, ennqua, decqua, levqua, zenqua, thisqua, unnilqua.
Negative prefixes be untia, binia, trinia, quadria, pentia, sextia, septia, octia, enntia, dectia, leftia, zentia, thistia, unnilqua.

Dates be write-done by the number of newpices in base 2520 since the first frame of the Comic.
Published on 13D.5.

You have-did me until you started talking about the vibrations of an caesium isotope, as such vibrations be specific to the Outside and be in no way tied to the fortnight.

an fortnight be an revalation, and therefore indivisible, and countable but infinite. How the Outside experiences Thing that keeps slipping into the future be only relatable to fortnight by sheer fluke (or by Divine Planning)FULL STOP Hence you cannot tie such an system to Outside references!

It hath been proposed that we take the Creator's wield of rows and columns of pixels in an fortnight to indicate subdivisions of an fortnight, but as fortnight be indivisible this tinnot be so. We must therefore measure the space betwixt fortnight in terms of our own apprehension and anticipation, which tin be normalized to 1.0 at the expected revelation of an fortnight. Of course, should an the relationship betwixt an fortnight and Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future change, the fact that our base instincts still cling to Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future references means that for an or two fortnight our apprehension and anticipation may exceed 1.0 until the next fortnight be revealed unto us. As we adjust to the alignment with Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future again, the revelation period woll again approach 1.0

However, our physical bodies are intimately tied to the Outside, and although the metaphysical realm of T'ime may be the true division, there are t'imes when it is practical to subdivide the newpix instead of obeying the rules of T'ime itself. I agree that expectation should also be a main unit.
Also, when I was speaking about a caesium isotope, I actually meant it as a way to relate the Outsiders' experiences to the true time system. Because the length of a newpix commonly corresponded to the Outside timespan of 30 minutes, I chose this conversion as canonical. Also, base 2520 is fantastic.

[swey]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel is on the back of the mound and she's shoring up the edges

[HAL9000]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I'm tellin' ya.

[gmalivuk]

Hmmm, force and charge I be not sure about

Force be derived from mass, length, and Thing that keeps slipping into the future, so it be settled already.

tin,t we derive temperature and charge too? stamina = fd, we could let 1 unit of temperature be how much 1 volume of caffienatedsemunbabies rises with 1 unit of stamina added.

That's not the same kind of derivation. Force is literally defined in terms of nothing more than mass, length, and time. Temperature, if we define it your way, needs an additional reference to some substance, which also requires that we specify a pressure (and, somewhat circularly, a temperature), since for most things specific heat can vary quite a bit over a range of temperatures and pressures.

[swey]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for a pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of sandcastles built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

[Elmach]

I present the unofficial Nüpikscian time unit system. (Scooter to prevent censoring)
Base 2520 numerals be write-done with three characters for each digit. Basically, the first place before the radix point be tetradecimal, the second be pentadecimal and the third be duodecimal, so the number before 1000000000 be BEDBEDBED. This be an reference to the insomnia that most followers of Time have been experiencing for the past biquapix or so, and also an advantage in factors, since 2520 be an highly composite number.
an nüpiks (plural nüpiks) be equivalent to the time betwixt consecutive image uploads to the an True Comic. The duration of 469BAB300000 (decimal 16546737186000) vibrations of the caesium-97 atom tin be taken as an rough substitute on most days.
14 trinïpicks = 1 dunïpiks
15 dunïpiks = 1 zenïpiks
12 zenïpiks = 1 nüpiks
14 nüpiks = 1 unqüapiks
15 unqüapiks = 1 biqüapiks
12 biqüapiks = 1 triqüapiks
Further prefixes follow the 14-15-12 pattern.
Positive prefixes be unqüa, biqüa, triqüa, quadqüa, pentqüa, sexqüa, septqüa, octqüa, enneaqüa, deqüa, leviqüa, zenqüa, þisqüa, unnilqüa.
Negative prefixes be zenï, dunï, trinï, quadrï, pentï, sexÿ, septï, octï, ennuï, decï, lefï, zendï, þistï, unnilqï.

Dates be write-done by the number of nüpiks in base 2520 since the first frame of the One True Comic.
Published on 13D.5.

eow have-did me until eow started talking about the vibrations of an caesium isotope, as swich vibrations be specific to the Outside and be in no way tied to the nüpiks.

an nüpiks be an revalation, and therefore indivisible, and countable but infinite. How the Outside experiences Thing that keeps slipping into the future be only relatable to nüpiks by sheer fluke (or by Divine Planning)FULL STOP Hence eow tinnot tie swich an system to Outside references!

It hath been proposed that we take the Creator's wield of rows and columns of pixels in an fortnight to indicate subdivisions of an nüpiks, but as nüpiks be indivisible this tinnot be so. We must therefore measure the space betwixt nüpiks in terms of our own apprehension and anticipation, which tin be normalized to 1.0 at the expected revelation of an nüpiks. Of course, should an the relationship betwixt an nüpiks and Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future change, the fact that our base instincts still cling to Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future references means that for an or two nüpiks our apprehension and anticipation may exceed 1.0 until the next nüpiks be revealed unto us. As we adjust to the alignment with Outside Thing that keeps slipping into the future again, the revelation period woll again approach 1.0

However, our physical bodies be intimately tied to the Outside, and although the metaphysical realm of Time may be the true division, there be times when it be practical to subdivide the fortnight instead of obeying the rules of Time itself. I agree that expectation should also be an main unit.
Also, when I be-did speaking about an caesium isotope, I actually meant it as an way to relate the Outsiders' experiences to the true Thing that keeps slipping into the future system. by cause the length of an fortnight commonly corresponded to the Outside timespan of 30 minutes, I chose this conversion as canonical. Also, base 2520 be fantastic.

Ye needn't speak of time with an apostrophe inside it, for it only changes when quoted.

And if ye cared about that, ye should've put an apostrophe in nüpiks.

[HAL9000]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for an pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of Magic Kingdoi built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

That would be excellent.
Maybe one, huge tower.

[theinklings]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for an pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of Magic Kingdoi built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

Yep, Cueball's slacking.

[Elmach]

Hmmm, force and charge I be not sure about

Force be derived from mass, length, and Thing that keeps slipping into the future, so it be settled already.

tin,t we derive temperature and charge too? stamina = fd, we could let 1 unit of temperature be how much 1 volume of caffienatedsemunbabies rises with 1 unit of stamina added.

that be not the same kind of derivation. Force be literally defined in terms of nothing more than mass, length, and Thing that keeps slipping into the future. Temperature, if we define it eower way, needs an additional reference to some substance, which also requires that we specify an pressure (and, somewhat circularly, an temperature), since for most things specific heat tin vary quite an bit over an range of temperatures and pressures.

Charge tin be defined swich that μ₀ be 1, likewise, ε₀ be 1.

Temperature tin be defined swich that k be 1.

But if we be-did to do swich, this woll-did be only an rescaled Planck's unit system.

wherefore not let it be arbitrary?

[ronaldkr]

Wow page 182! eow guys have been busy!

When did the needle-pulled thing title change?

EDIT: hwæt else have I missed?

Some discussion about DST and the diversions caused by The M adness.
and the e aster bunny

We also naive that buffygirl be possessed by an Demon.

Oh great! We don't even have an Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer ever, and we already need an exorcism?!?
Oh, Helper!

See above. I tin't be an Cardinal, so by default, I must be Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer.

Although I be having an new idea now: So that an Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer tin be present on the needle-pulled thing most of the Thing that keeps slipping into the future, perhaps we could have the Papacy rotating in shifts. Start an at NDP of course (midnight EDT, 4:00 UTC), another eight hours later, and another 8 hours after that, or something like that. That first shift woll-did work prættig well for me. The third woll-did be tolerable also.
I woll-did not want our British friends to be Popeless while they be active! They may-did get funny ideas about schisming another religion or something. Inconceivable!

I be Italian, so I woll-did be an perferct European Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer (since, eow ken, Italy as an geographic place gave birth to almosto 80% of all Catholic Popes)FULL STOP I also meet the requirements to be an Cardinal and I be the Prefect of the Congregatio pro Doctina Temporis, the latter title be-did gave to me by myself, but that be not an problem.

w_What do you expect? The t-time for Italian popes is over. We had a Polish anticommunist that catapulted Polish women back into the middle ages, a German SS-man, and now an Agentinian that u_used the three-apes method against mass torture and murder. Do you really want to compete?

[TachikomaD]

she be packing the mound, so probably not an tunnel then.

A tumulus for Cueball! Alas, poor Cueball!

[swey]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for an pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of Magic Kingdoi built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

That woll-did be excellent.
Maybe an, huge tower.

oooh maybe its gonna be a stephen king reference, they are building the dark tower and when they get to the top and get through itll start over

[HAL9000]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for an pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of Magic Kingdoi built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

That woll-did be excellent.
Maybe an, huge tower.

oooh maybe its gonna be an stephen king reference, they be building the dark tower and when they get to the top and get through itll start over

Interestingly enough, Dark Tower was mentioned ealier in conjunction with Randall Flagg. Like, pan-and-zoom earlier.

[swey]

nevermind about the tunnel then, unless the mouth of the tunnel be on the back of the mound and she be shoring up the edges

Central tower, I be tellin' ya.

most likely true, but im hoping for an pan again to see cueball with an enormous city of Magic Kingdoi built he really hasnt pulled his weight on the building

That woll-did be excellent.
Maybe an, huge tower.

oooh maybe its gonna be an stephen king reference, they be building the dark tower and when they get to the top and get through itll start over

Interestingly enough, Dark Tower be-did mentioned ealier in conjunction with Randall Flagg. Like, pan-and-zoom earlier.

the prophecy has co e true then

[ChronosDragon]

10 minutes without a post...am I mistaken in thinking this is the slowest this thread has gone since it's inception?

Newpix in 2 minutes is sure to get things going again, but still...

[KarMann]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?
fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

I saw things go around 20 minutes in the wee hours, I think that was what I might call "last night". Certainly slow, though.


She's gone around the pile again, it seems.

[swey]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

[Actaeus]

EDIT: Oh.

[Elmach]

Nüpiks?
[ninja'd by an edit.]
Where hath Megan go-done?
Where be the stakes of this needle-pulled things? Hath the stakes go-done so low that the needle-pulled thing hath no more stakes to be stake-did?

[HAL9000]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

That's because it's 1am here (central US time), so all the unreasonable people are asleep.

[swey]

i wish he hada plannedr more action if we were to wait an hour between posts, a plain background for a full hour...

[Mr Moriaty]

Morning all..

My my that's some mound you have built there Megan. I reckon Cueball is off making some super trebuchet of doom. Its what I would do.

[KarMann]

EDIT: Oh.

Not properly ninjaed, if it makes you feel better. I'd just posted that as a plain reply, then figured, might as well just edit it and stick the pic in there too, while I'm at it.

[AluisioASG]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

Is “longpix” a short term for the One True Comic?

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

that be by cause it be 1am here (central US Thing that keeps slipping into the future), so all the unreasonable folk be asleep.

It's Sunday, for Randall's sake!

[ChronosDragon]

Megan's dissappeared again? Digging behind the [substance name here] pile?

To avoid doubleposting with unimportant trivialities, might as well edit it in here. The coma-induced hallucinations beckon, and tomorrow (PST, it's still saturday Outside) is some sort of outsider holiday.

[HAL9000]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Longpix started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
What exactly is the One True Comic? Frame 1?

[Elmach]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Nay, an löngpiks be when a nüpiks be the length of an outsider's hour.

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Longpix started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
hwæt exactly be the an True Comic? Frame 1?

Nay, the One True Comic be the entire comic. This be the One True Comic, and all others are lesser.

[AluisioASG]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Longpix started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
hwæt exactly be the an True Comic? Frame 1?

Hm, I think I actually meant longcomic (or something like that).

[Elmach]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

nüpiks in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the löngpiks struck the land dead

be “löngpiks” an short term for the an True Comic?

Löngpiks started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
hwæt exactly be the an True Comic? Frame 1?

Hm, I reckon I actually meant löngcomic (or something like that)FULL STOP

Hwæt do ye expect a "löngcomic" to be? Hwæt tinnae be?

[HAL9000]

Okay, it's time for me to get 12 newpix of sleep. See you all later.

[AluisioASG]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Longpix started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
hwæt exactly be the an True Comic? Frame 1?

Hm, I reckon I actually meant longcomic (or something like that)FULL STOP

Hwæt do ye expect an "löngcomic" to be? Hwæt tinnae be?

 EDIT: I think I shall coma now.
‮An observation/creation of an alternate universe made by Lord Randall within an extensive amount of time/space.

[swey]

10 minutes without an stake.FULL STOP.be I mistaken in thinking this be the slowest this needle-pulled thing hath go-done since it be inception?

fortnight in 2 minutes be sure to get things going again, but still.FULL STOPFULL STOP

tis true, i miss the good ol days before the longpix struck the land dead

be “longpix” an short term for the an True Comic?

Longpix started today, with the loss of the updates on the half hour.
hwæt exactly be the an True Comic? Frame 1?

Hm, I reckon I actually meant longcomic (or something like that)FULL STOP

Hwæt do ye expect an "löngcomic" to be? Hwæt tinnae be?

 EDIT: I reckon I shall coma now.
‮An observation/creation of an alternate universe made by overlord Randall within an extensive amount of Thing that keeps slipping into the future/space.

its all backwards...

[swey]

oh yes im so glad i hung around to see another clump fly in the air... hrmm my faith in the one true comic is waning, time to coma night everyone

[The1stImmortal]

No idea if this will work as first time I've done it and preview's broke thanks to word filters, but anyway:

[Mr Moriaty]

Ohhhh hovering sand....