Time for another catchup-wall. I'm also updating the quotes page of the wiki again.
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 219 out of 295 pages.
The Architect Age. NP 331.
Another missive from the future! Embedded in a signature this time:
htom wrote:Blitzgirl -- Your communication received with great joy and rejoicing.
As was yours! I look forward to one day meeting those of you fortunate enough to tread this thread in the present Time.
I speak to you now from another dark era, pre-Recursion, where Cueball labors alone on the Sandcastle. The posts chatter endlessly of strange bestiality, involving an uncle named Jack beating off a horse (or somesuch). The Madness has ended, but the madness that pervades this thread persists, as it has for all Time. It is a constant in my travels, and I have come to find it comforting.
As one of those in the thread at the present Time, my past self welcomes you. May the rest of your journey be swift and filled with madness, and may Zeno not catch you.
Dracomax wrote:histrion wrote:Kethryes wrote:I must admit I tried to go on a similar quest as yours but I was weak and gave in to temptation and made Time jumps on several ocasions. Fortunately the Holy Wiki helped me in those dark Times to keep my (in)sanity, and follow what I could not witness by myself.
Perhaps we need something like what they have in Second Life - a virtual Haaj to help the devout prepare for the real thing.
No, only the most powerful among us should be asked to do such a thing. I beleive Blitzgirl to be the last of her kind.
I've heard she is known among some people as the "Incoming Hurricane" and among the elves, she is called "Blitzrandir."
It is said she once wrestled a grue to submission.
Truly, noone should be held to the standard she set. we should try to emulate it, as we should any saint, but I doubt anyone could live up to her feat.
I've still faithfully read every post. Although I can't claim to catch up from 200+ pages back... (100 back was the worst position I've been in) And I also can't claim to have wrestled a grue (the story's true, I heard it from the grue's ex-gf's friend's aunt's cat, via a source of unquestionable honesty. Although I wonder about the drunken translator I found in that back alley who helped with the whole communication...)
Whizbang wrote:I wonder if anyone has trolled BlitzGirl by editing a post AFTER she has already read it.
I think, for the sake of science, that she needs to do a covert re-read sometime in the future.
*thump*
Anyone who has such audacity should be flung into the Outside, as prey for the Hat.
Dracomax wrote:rmsgrey wrote:Kethryes wrote:Whizbang wrote:I wonder if anyone has trolled BlitzGirl by editing a post AFTER she has already read it.
That would be a great Sin that only a heretic could suggest!
Prepare the stake!
Orbital stake drop?
Just drop the whole cow.
edit: on second thought, let's throw them in the comfy chair, and dunk him in chocolate.
then let the semencancerbabies loose.
Or this. Bring out the comfy chair! Stat!
dwilhelmi wrote:Qalyar wrote:dwilhelmi wrote:Ebonite wrote:Any speculation as to why they would build a platform and then just sit there, waiting for the water to rise?
What if the water continually rises and falls, and the platform is simply a place for them to wait for the rising to wipe out their creation so that they can start over? What if this:
Cueball wrote:I don't think we can build it much taller than this
was not a statement of lack of ability, but rather a restriction based off of how high they already know the water will rise? What if they have already built the castle before, and the platform, and the beginning of Time was merely our insertion into their loop of buildcastle-buildplatform-waitforwater-teardownplatform-repeat?
I remain stalwart in my antilooparianism. Although certain aspects of history are cyclical, there is no reason to expect the same is true of Time itself.
Also, more philosophically, for us to assume that Time will eventually repeat itself is to question the One True Command. Let us assume for the moment that Time
is in fact cyclical. There are thus two possibilities for the number of loops. Either there is a single First Loop, followed by a presumably infinite number of repetitions, or else there is no First Loop and Time repeats in both directions without bound. In either case, there is no reason to believe that we are bearing witness to the First Loop; there is no such thing in the latter, and in the former, the mediocrity principle should deter us from believing that we are specially situated to see one specific loop out of an infinite number. Accordingly, Looped Time invalidates the need to "Wait for it." Even if we personally are not aware of the previous iteration of Looped Time, that knowledge would still be available, and the need to truly "Wait for it" would be correspondingly eliminated.
We know, however, that we must "Wait for it." For this to be true, either Time must not be cyclical, or we must be in the staggeringly exception position to be watching the unique first loop out of an infinite number of loops, a situation that Bayesian inference reveals as laughable implausible.
Time is thus a singular thing. We know that, at some point, it began. We know that it continues. Perhaps it will continue without end, and the One True Command merely serves to remind us to take inspiration from each passing newpix. Or perhaps, Time will End, and those of us who have stayed true to the Command will be lifted up to whatever awaits us beyond Time itself. We cannot know these things; we must wait for it. But knowing that there is not likely to be a simple loop, we can take solace that Time is worth the wait.
Unless "Wait for it" is merely what Cueball and Megan are doing, and have been doing, and will continue doing. Building the sandcastle, shooting the trebuchet, building the platform - maybe all of that is really just them Waiting for "it" - the sea.
Notice that when Cueball returns to the scene at 463, and Megan is building the platform, he immediately knows how to help her, with no instructions - almost like he had done it before...
Or Cueball and Megan are just that deep into a relationship that each instinctively knows what the other is thinking and doing.
Publius10 wrote:The fuck is going on in this thread?
I mean, I've been following the comic as avidly as anyone, but man has this gone places.
Time happened. Any other questions?
Dracomax wrote:fhorn wrote:I've lost track of whom to beseech/implore/bribe, but could whomsoever hath the power to deem it so please deem me Knighty Knight?
Then I may coma at will.
Well, I'm not part of the knighthood, nor do I have an official place in the hierarchy of any of the 3 churches, but I am the Grand Lord High Inquisitor, so if that's good enough(and anyone who says it isn't is being introduced to Hotsauce treated chocolate chip cookies) then I'll do it.
By the power taken by me as part of a scheme to take power and issue ridiculous punishments, I pronounce you Sir fhorn, Knighty knight, Defender of the Comaing.
I like your style of punishments, and I don't like any of the religions. Can I join you as Secondary Lord High Inquisitor?
EDIT: 42 posts! WOO!