1190: "Time"

[HAL9000]

Wow. ic have been away for something like 100 fortnight, and there be 80 new pages to this needle-pulled thing. ic woll never be able to read it all.FULL STOPFULL STOP tin someone enlighten me on the current topics of discussion?

Helper be Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer of the Thing that keeps slipping into the futurewatchersWaiters.
Buffygirl (an cardinal) may-did be possessed, or may-did just be hat/voting-crazed.

FTFY, heretic.

Sorry, I just consider myself an Initiate of Time.

[Wraithlord]

Wow. ic have been away for something like 100 fortnight, and there be 80 new pages to this needle-pulled thing. ic woll never be able to read it all.FULL STOPFULL STOP tin someone enlighten me on the current topics of discussion?

Helper be Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer of the Thing that keeps slippin' (slippin', slippin') into the futurewatchersWaiters.
Buffygirl (an cardinal) may-did be possessed, or may-did just be hat/voting-crazed.

FTFY, heretic.

Sorry, ic just consider myself an Initiate of Thing that keeps slipping into the future.

Initiates of Time are fine, and the TimeWaiters are fine, but the TimeWatchers are nothing more than small-minded heretics. Do not forget the distinction.

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

[azule]

be it just me or doth it look like she’s… “presenting?”

A Perverted Mind would agree.

Presenting herself whilst on a big boob/ass.

[ChronosDragon]

Frames in which the tide rises at least an pixel:
190, 232, 247, 277, 300

That's a range of 15-42 frames between rises, with an average of 27.5 frames between a change. If Time in the comic is constant, and the tide is rising at a constant rate (e.g. not adjusting for sine curve), the next rise should be somewhere in the range of 325-330.

I established earlier, Cueball is about 75 pixels tall (originally). Unless I'm mistaken, all the tide adjustments (that you mentioned) have happened during or after the pan, so we're working in new-pixels (about 1.86 original pixels). Assuming Cueball is an average US male (around 176 cm or 5' 9" tall), that makes it so an original pixel = 2.35 cm and a new pixel = 4.36 cm. 5 pixels means the tide has risen around 21.8 cm over the course of the comic. Assuming a fairly normal high tide of a meter or so, over a 6 hour period, if I ignore the characteristics of the sine wave again, I can extrapolate that the entire comic has taken about 1.3 hours for Megan and Cueball.

Now once again, this assumes that time in the comic flows at a constant rate between newpix and that it's a linear tidal pattern, which is likely not the case. Still, it provides some kind of metric for how long it's been going on.

Edit: Hold on, crap. I was looking at high tide from the 0 point, not from low tide. Well, if the tide amplitude was 2m, then the entire comic would be closer to 0.654 hours, or 39 minutes, which seems less likely. Maybe I'm making too many assumptions...

[Whizbang]

be it just me or doth it look like she’s… “presenting?”

Sexy androgynous stick figure is sexy.

[Helper]

be it just me or doth it look like she’s… “presenting?”

Sexy androgynous stick figure be sexy.

Come now, who here hasn't had one or two guilty faps to Megan's stickish figure?

[ChronosDragon]

be it just me or doth it look like she’s… “presenting?”

Sexy androgynous stick figure be sexy.

Come now, whose innermost essence here hasn't have-did an or two guilty faps to Megan's stickish figure?

How do you think I've been insemenating my coffee?

[udscbt]

It looks like they're yelling but they're not saying a word
EDIT: oh, I got it. They're simply waving their hands.

[KarMann]

So much for the presenting.

[Smithers]

be it just me or doth it look like she’s… “presenting?”

Sexy androgynous stick figure be sexy.

Come now, whose innermost essence here hasn't have-did an or two guilty faps to Megan's stickish figure?

I haven't.





I didn't feel guilty at all.

[HAL9000]

noooo why are they angry at each other?
Are they angry at each other? Or is it that joking sort of anger?

[ChronosDragon]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

I think it's a gesture outsiders use to greet each other after extended periods of absence.

[Smithers]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

I think they're just trying to be heard over a long distance.

[azule]

It looks like waving. Prediction: This w​ill be followed by non-mound action.

[udscbt]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

I didn't notice it could be that too until you wrote it. It's quite hard to tell what they are doing without faces.

[KarMann]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic reckon they be just trying to be heard over an long distance.

I concur. Looks like just shouting over the distance to me.

Added: Hand-cupped-by-mouth shouting, if that helps get what I mean. I wouldn't expect that to be a raised fist, certainly.

[HAL9000]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic didn't notice it could be that too until eow write-did it. it be quite hard to tell hwæt they be doing without faces.

Indeed. There's two kinds of anger: the legitimately angry kind that results in bruises, and the silly kind that results in pillow fights.

[udscbt]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic reckon they be just trying to be heard over an long distance.

ic concur. Looks like just shouting over the distance to me.

At first I thought about that too, but shouldn't there be text?

[SWuh]

I am pretty much almost positive they are simply waving at each other...

[KarMann]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic didn't notice it could be that too until eow write-did it. it be quite hard to tell hwæt they be doing without faces.

Indeed. there be two kinds of anger: the legitimately angry kind that results in bruises, and the silly kind that results in pillow fights.

Yes, sexy, sexy, Smithe—uh, pillow fights. My apologies to the locals.

[Helper]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic didn't notice it could be that too until eow write-did it. it be quite hard to tell hwæt they be doing without faces.

Indeed. there be two kinds of anger: the legitimately angry kind that results in bruises, and the silly kind that results in pillow fights.

Although sometimes you get confused. And confusion leads to beating a man to death with a pillow. Uh, not that I, you know, have experience or anything...
They never did solve that murder...

[Smithers]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic reckon they be just trying to be heard over an long distance.

ic concur. Looks like just shouting over the distance to me.

At first ic reckon-did about that too, but shouldn't there be text?

Because they are cupping their hands to help the voices carry towards each other, it prevents the sound from travelling perpendicular to the frame, so we can't hear them.

[FayZee]

Megan was building a look-out post.

[udscbt]

noooo wherefore be they angry at each other?
[ic]be[/ic] they angry at each other? Or be it that joking sort of anger?

ic reckon they be just trying to be heard over an long distance.

ic concur. Looks like just shouting over the distance to me.

At first ic reckon-did about that too, but shouldn't there be text?

by cause they be cupping their hands to help the voices carry towards each other, it prevents the sound from travelling perpendicular to the frame, so we tin't hear them.

I always thought that the text didn't show what the comic viewer can hear but what is actually being said (unless Randall decides not to show us those words but only some scribble, e.g. http://xkcd.com/525/), this is why we can "hear" people whispering.

[Smithers]

Unfortunatly, it is now past midnight and I have to be up for work in the morning, which means I must go for a coma.
I shall see you again in about 18 timeframes. Until then, may your sandcastles withstand the trebuchet fire and your seas of coffee be ever semenated.

[SBN]

So my server crashed this morning at 5am due to traffic, it was down until 11.
ic fixed the GIF so the missing frames are in.
relinky:
ic don't ken how to link during madness, so ic'woll just hope eow all ken where output.gif is

Actually, we've been granted some relief from the madness, so you should be able to post it, the madness doesn't actually apply here until quoting.

http://primis.org/time/output.gif

Did you capture frame 190?

[KarMann]

So my server crashed this morning at 5am due to traffic, it was down until 11.
ic fixed the GIF so the missing frames are in.
relinky:
ic don't ken how to link during madness, so ic'woll just hope eow all ken where output.gif is

Actually, we've been granted some relief from the madness, so eow should be able to post it, the madness doth not actually apply here until quoting.

http://primis.org/time/output.gif

Did eow capture frame 190?

Can you put a time to that? I might well have that myself.

[KarMann]

*points up* ^^^
Look at the thread title! At least, as I'm currently seeing it in the HTML head page title element.

Edit: Significant difference between "header" and "head".

[SBN]

So my server crashed this morning at 5am due to traffic, it was down until 11.
ic fixed the GIF so the missing frames are in.
relinky:
ic don't ken how to link during madness, so ic'woll just hope eow all ken where output.gif is

Actually, we've been granted some relief from the madness, so eow should be able to post it, the madness doth not actually apply here until quoting.

http://primis.org/time/output.gif

Did eow capture frame 190?

Can you put a time to that? I might well have that myself.

Correction, it is 290 that is missing from the Book of Aubron. I think it was early this morning.

[KarMann]

So my server crashed this morning at 5am due to traffic, it was down until 11.
ic fixed the GIF so the missing frames are in.
relinky:
ic don't ken how to link during madness, so ic'woll just hope eow all ken where output.gif is

Actually, we've been granted some relief from the madness, so eow should be able to post it, the madness doth not actually apply here until quoting.

http://primis.org/time/output.gif

Did eow capture frame 190?

Can you put a time to that? I might well have that myself.

Correction, it is 290 that is missing from the Book of Aubron. I think it was early this morning.

Looking at the sequence & the timestamps, I think that's actually attributable to human error (h/t HAL9000). I'd guess they were expecting it to resume half-hourly at midnight EDT, so put in a number for a frame at 00:30, but then there wasn't a new one, so the result was what you see. The ones I have for 00:00 & 01:00 EDT correspond to 289 & 291 in the aubronwood sequence, and have different frames before and after.

[Wnderer]

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

[Helper]

logan.jpg

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

[Wraithlord]

logan.jpg

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

Heretic! Lies! Libel! Don't believe this madman,honest semenated coffee drinkers of Time! The Outside wishes to distort your thoughts and assimilate your beliefs. resist!

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

[edo]

logan.jpg

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

STONE THE INFIDEL!!!1!

[Helper]

logan.jpg

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

STONE THE INFIDEL!!!1!

NO! He doesn't deserve our pot! I did burn him, though.

[edo]

logan.jpg

Listen to me!
You don't have to wait for it!
It's a Lie!
It's not One True Comic, it's Multiple Fictional Comics!
I've been outside!
You can go outside!
You can build REAL sand castles!
You can build REAL trebuchets!
You can touch Peter Ustinov, but you don't have to!
You can drink beer! You can sleep late!
You can LIVE!

STONE THE INFIDEL!!!1!

NO! He doesn't deserve our pot! I did burn him, though.

But if he be stoned, then he will come to realize the beautiful nature of Time

[Cadellin]

Hey there. Some people were requesting Time slogan shirts so I made a few, there are links on the wiki page. I cannot post a link on my first message here 'cause spam filter

If they do make any money, I will of course split it with Randall, the Creator of Time.

[(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻]

Man, Those of you wanking to stick figures are definitely over some kind of line. Also, it's funny to me that people have decided to email randall about forum-specific stuff, when he doesn't read the fora. Your semen jokes didn't weird him out at all, i'm sure.

[udscbt]

Meeeeegaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

[fhorn]

oh noes! She fell!!!