LoneMarauder wrote:They're building scaffolding so they can go higher.
Exactly. She took his comment about not being able to build higher as a challenge.
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LoneMarauder wrote:They're building scaffolding so they can go higher.
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
Illud expecto, ergo sum.Magdiragdag wrote:I wait for it, therefore I am.
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mscha wrote:Sea level change since just after the last pan, 210-ish newpix (or 8 Outside days and 4 Outside hours ago).
About 5 pixels gone, 3 to go. So, if it keeps rising at the same speed on average, it should be about 126 newpix (or 5 Outside days and 4 Outside hours) before the sea reaches the base of the castle.
Shepherdess wrote:mscha wrote:Sea level change since just after the last pan, 210-ish newpix (or 8 Outside days and 4 Outside hours ago).
About 5 pixels gone, 3 to go. So, if it keeps rising at the same speed on average, it should be about 126 newpix (or 5 Outside days and 4 Outside hours) before the sea reaches the base of the castle.
Aha! She's building it higher, reinforcing it with rods or planks, and when the tides come in she'll be at the top of her castle, watching the water below like a queen to her subjects.
tman2nd wrote:Shepherdess wrote:mscha wrote:Sea level change since just after the last pan, 210-ish newpix (or 8 Outside days and 4 Outside hours ago).
About 5 pixels gone, 3 to go. So, if it keeps rising at the same speed on average, it should be about 126 newpix (or 5 Outside days and 4 Outside hours) before the sea reaches the base of the castle.
Aha! She's building it higher, reinforcing it with rods or planks, and when the tides come in she'll be at the top of her castle, watching the water below like a queen to her subjects.
Or maybe she's making a raft.
cmyk wrote:How can I be so riveted to the Internet equivalent of watching grass grow?
mscha wrote:We can ignore reality; in fact, we'll have to, since only Randall knows what it is.
htom wrote:Three poles; she's making a tripod.
Roia wrote:Mr Moriaty wrote:"How many people are reading this thread naked?"
Thirteen.
tman2nd wrote:htom wrote:Three poles; she's making a tripod.
We've only seen two so far.
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
ChronosDragon wrote:mittfh wrote:Well I never - I reduce my frequency of visiting "Time" because nothing interesting seems to happen...
...then 403 (mini trebuchet), 408 (sea confusion) and 414 (can't build much taller) come along, now joined by Megan's pole / plank / whatever.
Time's just got interesting again! (Not to mention I've been watching another form of time recently - in the form of Matt Smith and Jenna Louise Coleman...)
RYCBAR123
Someone referenced this a while ago when I mentioned the show and I hadn't seen the (then) latest episode yet...
peewee_RotA wrote:Welcome aboard. May the Timeframes ahead be filled with trebuchets.
Lord Cathbad wrote:Kieryn wrote: Self-realisation: What if we are all Randall?!!
What if Randall is us... From the future?
Mr Moriaty wrote:"If commas were a colour what colour would they be?"
Mr Moriaty wrote:"How to milk a Raptor and can you make cheese?"
Mr Moriaty wrote:"How many people are reading this thread naked?"
mscha wrote:There's something interesting going on with the timestamps within the PNG:Code: Select all
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The timestamps in the filename are UTC, i.e. xkcd_time_20130406_2100.png is the one that just appeared at 21:00 UTC = 23:00 CEST = 5 pm EDT. After that are the “datecreate” and “datemodify” fields within the PNG file (so not the file system timestamps).
Almost all frames since the beginning of Time were “created” on 27 March and “modified” on 25 March (whatever that might mean), but in the past 24 hours, some frames were both “created” and “modified” yesterday. This includes both frames with dialogue, but not the tiny trebuchet scene, plus some apparently random “regular” frames.
Don't know if this means anything, and if so, what.
Illud expecto, ergo sum.Magdiragdag wrote:I wait for it, therefore I am.
Mr Moriaty wrote:"If commas were a colour what colour would they be?"
Mr Moriaty wrote:"How to milk a Raptor and can you make cheese?"
Mr Moriaty wrote:"How many people are reading this thread naked?"
Blitzgirl wrote:suddenly all the following pagepopes become goated from that point onward, mustarding up those who are trying to blitz
tman2nd wrote:htom wrote:Three poles; she's making a tripod.
We've only seen two so far.
cmyk wrote:How can I be so riveted to the Internet equivalent of watching grass grow?
mscha wrote:We can ignore reality; in fact, we'll have to, since only Randall knows what it is.
tman2nd wrote:Smithers wrote:KarMann wrote:You're also all* assuming that this is two-dimensional, so there can be no foreshortening. Which is funny, because I'm the one who suggested that Occam's razor suggested no need for a third spatial dimension. (It doesn't really.)
* or "y'all are also"
Occam's razor works fine for deciding between one theory that assumes X and another that assumes X and Y; one should choose the former. It fails, however, when neither theory assumes a subset of the assumptions of the other. To choose between a theory that assumes A and B and a theory that assumes C and D it is no help at all. Depending on preference, I could claim A and B were seperate assumptions ot that (A and B) is a single assumption. By doing the same for C and D I could claim that Occam's razor demands whichever of the theories I choose, as one assumption is preferable to two.
To return to the matter at hand, we are choosing between "there are more than 2 spatial dimensions" and "physical objects can pass through one another". Occam's razor does not help us to select between the two. We can, in fact, observe the truth of each of these assumptions in the outside; the former is known to be true and the latter false. It then becomes a question of whether we should assume the One True Comic is more or less like the outside in these regards, a matter that I must defer to the Congrigation pro Doctrina Temporis.
We know there are three dimensions because they go behind (or in front of) the sand castles.
KarMann wrote:KuwabatakeSanjuro wrote:KarMann wrote:HAL9000 wrote:And with that, time for me to coma. See you all tomorrow.
You forgot to ask "will I dream?" first, or alternatively, sing Daisy, Daisy for us, of course.
... or dream of electric sheep?
Now that's more like it! That's what I was totally expecting, rather than the VNV Nation thing.
(For the record, I do know VNV Nation somewhat, but not well enough yet that I'm familiar with the lyrics; I mostly just know the fairly distinctive sound, so far. I'm planning on getting to know them better, though.)
buffygirl wrote:buffygirl wrote:PinkShinyRose wrote:udscbt wrote:Spoiler:
Interesting
So, is she stealing the next part from the beavers in the river? Or helping Cueball hauling the loot over?
EDIT:Montov wrote:Megan is gone, so I think this is the end. Bringing in the pole was the punchline. Only an Outsider would not get that hilarious and beautiful ending.
Well, it still says: "Wait for it."
I think the next several TimeFrames will show her going back and forth, gathering more and more poles (or planks or whatever).KarMann wrote:
Another one??
I TOTALLY CALLED IT!
EDITS: spoilered the first image, changed font color.
KarMann wrote:
ChronosDragon wrote:KarMann wrote:
Is nobody else weirded out that Megan's hair is drawn differently this frame? It's solid black, where usually it's got visible strands.
Exodies wrote:buffygirl wrote:buffygirl wrote:PinkShinyRose wrote:udscbt wrote:Spoiler:
Interesting
So, is she stealing the next part from the beavers in the river? Or helping Cueball hauling the loot over?
EDIT:Montov wrote:Megan is gone, so I think this is the end. Bringing in the pole was the punchline. Only an Outsider would not get that hilarious and beautiful ending.
Well, it still says: "Wait for it."
I think the next several TimeFrames will show her going back and forth, gathering more and more poles (or planks or whatever).KarMann wrote:
Another one??
I TOTALLY CALLED IT!
EDITS: spoilered the first image, changed font color.
How can you possibly claim to have called it when you are just guessing? Kudos for calling surely implies the person has expended a certain amount of effort in formulating their prediction. You just pulled these poles out of thin air.
speising wrote:ChronosDragon wrote:KarMann wrote:
Is nobody else weirded out that Megan's hair is drawn differently this frame? It's solid black, where usually it's got visible strands.
who says it's megan? this is clearly a new person!
astrotter wrote:It is not particularly clear to me at this time that we are not overanalyzing this...
NetWeasel wrote:I want to put that in my sig... BUT I CAN'T!!!!
SBN wrote:speising wrote:ChronosDragon wrote:KarMann wrote:
Is nobody else weirded out that Megan's hair is drawn differently this frame? It's solid black, where usually it's got visible strands.
who says it's megan? this is clearly a new person!
I don't know about that, the face is Megan's.
KarMann wrote:(For the record, I do know VNV Nation somewhat, but not well enough yet that I'm familiar with the lyrics; I mostly just know the fairly distinctive sound, so far. I'm planning on getting to know them better, though.)
tman2nd wrote:Exodies wrote:buffygirl wrote:buffygirl wrote:PinkShinyRose wrote:udscbt wrote:Spoiler:
Interesting
So, is she stealing the next part from the beavers in the river? Or helping Cueball hauling the loot over?
EDIT:Montov wrote:Megan is gone, so I think this is the end. Bringing in the pole was the punchline. Only an Outsider would not get that hilarious and beautiful ending.
Well, it still says: "Wait for it."
I think the next several TimeFrames will show her going back and forth, gathering more and more poles (or planks or whatever).KarMann wrote:
Another one??
I TOTALLY CALLED IT!
EDITS: spoilered the first image, changed font color.
How can you possibly claim to have called it when you are just guessing? Kudos for calling surely implies the person has expended a certain amount of effort in formulating their prediction. You just pulled these poles out of thin air.
Why does there have to be effort?
Exodies wrote:tman2nd wrote:Exodies wrote:buffygirl wrote:buffygirl wrote:PinkShinyRose wrote:udscbt wrote:Spoiler:
Interesting
So, is she stealing the next part from the beavers in the river? Or helping Cueball hauling the loot over?
EDIT:Montov wrote:Megan is gone, so I think this is the end. Bringing in the pole was the punchline. Only an Outsider would not get that hilarious and beautiful ending.
Well, it still says: "Wait for it."
I think the next several TimeFrames will show her going back and forth, gathering more and more poles (or planks or whatever).KarMann wrote:
Another one??
I TOTALLY CALLED IT!
EDITS: spoilered the first image, changed font color.
How can you possibly claim to have called it when you are just guessing? Kudos for calling surely implies the person has expended a certain amount of effort in formulating their prediction. You just pulled these poles out of thin air.
Why does there have to be effort?
Are you suggesting we should hand out prizes for nothing, or do you want to know why I don't think that's useful?
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
udscbt wrote:Another one! I actually wrote this before seeing the new Frame.
EDIT: ninja'd
htom wrote:tman2nd wrote:htom wrote:Three poles; she's making a tripod.
We've only seen two so far.
Umm ... yes. So, a sheers. What is she going to be lifting? A sign saying "Wait for it No More!"?
Illud expecto, ergo sum.Magdiragdag wrote:I wait for it, therefore I am.
RobIrr wrote:udscbt wrote:Another one! I actually wrote this before seeing the new Frame.
EDIT: ninja'd
lol. I'd got the [img] tags ready to paste the URL into, but added the comment afterwards.
Anyway, it's nowmidnightvery late outsider time and coma calls. I wonder if she'll have actually built something by the time I get back...
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
partingLance wrote:Long time comic fan(atic) here; never so much as lurked before the Rebuild Period (about Wednesday of last week, in Outsider time).
But not only have I travelled in time from 1964* to register and post, I've travelled from the first post on the thread, which had a mere 161 pages or so when I started.
At the risk of blaspheming**: Holy Sheepshit.
* A theological question I expect I'll have to resolving by poring over the thread and the Wiki, Torah/Talmud style, but: if time began with the One True Comic, how were the previous 1189 revealed to us? And if only the OTC is Truly True, then what of the others?****
** I expect that one or other of the schisms might accept me as a member, but that fact tends to rule out my joining them, I think.***
*** I'd format these footnotes properly, with numbers and all, but I'm posting this from my smartphone, which is already a bloody nuisance.
**** I realize that's two questions.
astrotter wrote:It is not particularly clear to me at this time that we are not overanalyzing this...
NetWeasel wrote:I want to put that in my sig... BUT I CAN'T!!!!
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