1190: "Time"

cmyk · Postby **cmyk** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:23 pm UTC

Latent22 wrote:
cmyk wrote:
silent_death wrote:Here's the motion blurred animated gif (frames 0-700)

Strange it stops for me at from 498. May be my firefox limiting it to 500 frames maybe not sure.

Huh, you're right. Must be a photoshop limitation.

Let's try After Effects...

Exodies · Postby **Exodies** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:25 pm UTC

Reality stops at Frame 19. After that we enter Megan's dream. She dreams that she wakes up, shakes sandman dust from her eyes and the nightmare of frantic activity taking place at glacial speed together with absurd conversations which have become our waking lives plays itself out. We can't figure anything out because it's a sleep induced hallucination.

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:30 pm UTC

Jafloi wrote:If you had to pick just one timeframe to symbolise the whole of the One True Comic, witch would it be?

Isn't the whole point of the OTC that there it can't be represented by a single frame?

Flotter · Postby **Flotter** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:05 pm UTC

With the risk of getting ninja'd by the slowness of the forum (again):

StormAngel · Postby **StormAngel** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:39 pm UTC

KarMann wrote:
StormAngel wrote:

Is anybody else finding the fora to be really slow right now?

I, for one, blame Their Holiness, the current Pope For A NewPage. Who is that now, anyway?
. . . oh.

Don't blame me, I was having trouble with the fora at least 3 posts before the Turn of The NewPage.

Anyway, I gotta coma soon. But first, a question:

If the adjective of Pope is Papal, then what does that make the Mome... Mammal?

Angelastic · Postby **Angelastic** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:41 pm UTC

silent_death wrote:
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 305 out of 355 pages.
The Observation/Observed Platform. NP 560.
<snip>
A disturbingly large number of past newpages have had discussions about me, as well:
</snip>

They will only get more - you will see.

Let's continue to increase the frequency of discussions of BlitzGirl, such that when she reaches the present, the discussion will be all Being John Malkovichy/Sustainable. BlitzGirl!

BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl? Blitzgirl, Blitz? Girl.

BlitzGirl BlitzGirl.

BlitzGirl wrote:BlitzGirl BlitzGirl! Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo had had sustainable BlitzGirl Time time!

manvandmaan · Postby **manvandmaan** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:48 pm UTC

Exodies wrote:Anyone know what tomorrows ordinary comic will be about?

Someting geography-related again? We seem to be getting a lot of that lately!

silent_death · Postby **silent_death** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:59 pm UTC

Angelastic wrote:
silent_death wrote:
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 305 out of 355 pages.
The Observation/Observed Platform. NP 560.
<snip>
A disturbingly large number of past newpages have had discussions about me, as well:
</snip>

They will only get more - you will see.
Let's continue to increase the frequency of discussions of BlitzGirl, such that when she reaches the present, the discussion will be all Being John Malkovichy/Sustainable. BlitzGirl! BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl? Blitzgirl, Blitz? Girl. BlitzGirl BlitzGirl.
BlitzGirl wrote:BlitzGirl BlitzGirl! Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo had had sustainable BlitzGirl Time time!

Blitzgirl!!! Blitzgirl Blitzgirl Blitzgirl Blitzgirl...Blitzgirl? Blitzgirl! ...Blitzgirl? Blitzgirl Time! Time time time! Blitzgirl blitzgirl Blitzgirl!!! Time? time! Time! Buffalo buffalo buffalo time time Blitzgirl !

RobIrr · Postby **RobIrr** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:04 pm UTC

More plan(c)ks ?

What would BlitzGirl think?

Flado · Postby **Flado** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:04 pm UTC

Eternal Density wrote:I wasn't expecting the Latin Police.

I am not at liberty to discuss that topic in light of my current situation.

jjjdavidson · Postby **jjjdavidson** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:05 pm UTC

RobIrr wrote:
Spoiler:

More plan(c)ks ?

What would BlitzGirl think?

Yep, getting ready to build the next level of the chessboard.

histrion · Postby **histrion** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:08 pm UTC

Psst! Blitzgirl! Psst!

When you get to Page 358, a lot of it has been "rot13'd." Two easy ways to decrypt rot13 text:
1. Cut-and-paste the text into [url]rot13.com[/url] , or
2. if you're using Google Chrome, install the d3coder extension - then you can just highlight the text you want to decrypt, right-click, and pick d3coder -> rot13 decode from the context menu.

Good luck!

silent_death wrote:
Angelastic wrote:
silent_death wrote:
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 305 out of 355 pages.
The Observation/Observed Platform. NP 560.
<snip>
A disturbingly large number of past newpages have had discussions about me, as well:
</snip>

They will only get more - you will see.
Let's continue to increase the frequency of discussions of BlitzGirl, such that when she reaches the present, the discussion will be all Being John Malkovichy/Sustainable. BlitzGirl! BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl? Blitzgirl, Blitz? Girl. BlitzGirl BlitzGirl.
BlitzGirl wrote:BlitzGirl BlitzGirl! Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo had had sustainable BlitzGirl Time time!

Blitzgirl!!! Blitzgirl Blitzgirl Blitzgirl Blitzgirl...Blitzgirl? Blitzgirl! ...Blitzgirl? Blitzgirl Time! Time time time! Blitzgirl blitzgirl Blitzgirl!!! Time? time! Time! Buffalo buffalo buffalo time time Blitzgirl !

Blitzgirl where the Watch had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on Time.

cmyk · Postby **cmyk** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:14 pm UTC

Okay, animated gif should roll through all 700 frames. And now with more MotionBlur™!

thirds · Postby **thirds** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:20 pm UTC

Sorry to say, if BlitzGirl posts every time she encounters her own signposts, she will never reach the end and her infinite quotes will consume the entire internet and eventually the posting and hosting of such quoting will require more energy than the sun provides to the earth (what-if question?).

Either that or she will reach some forum constraint and her quest will be artificially cut short.

I suggest modifying her runtime code to avoid this potential overflow error. What's the gcc parameter for linking to past libraries?

Asthanius · Postby **Asthanius** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:33 pm UTC

cmyk wrote:Okay, animated gif should roll through all 700 frames. And now with more MotionBlur™!

I move that cmyk be awarded the title of Chronomancer. All in favor?

histrion · Postby **histrion** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:35 pm UTC

Hear, hear!

Someguy945 · Postby **Someguy945** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:39 pm UTC

All hail the Chronomancer

StratPlayer · Postby **StratPlayer** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:40 pm UTC

Asthanius wrote:
cmyk wrote:Okay, animated gif should roll through all 700 frames. And now with more MotionBlur™!

Spoiler:

I move that cmyk be awarded the title of Chronomancer. All in favor?

I eye this and I Aye in reply!

But perhaps the title should be Bluromancer? Oh, what the hell -- have both titles. We're up to our armpits in titles and are giving them away like mad!! It's like we're at Crazy Randall's Title Shoppe impending flood liquidation sale! All titles must go!!! No unreasonable-borderline-psychotic offer refused!!!

rmsgrey · Postby **rmsgrey** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:41 pm UTC

Flotter wrote:Miraculously the 11:00 UTC pic hasn't been posted yet (yes, the time on the forum seems to be one hour off).

I dunno - looks right for UTC to me: BST-1

Summer messes with time offsets

Flado · Postby **Flado** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:41 pm UTC

Exodies wrote:Reality stops at Frame 19. After that we enter Megan's dream. She dreams that she wakes up, shakes sandman dust from her eyes and the nightmare of frantic activity taking place at glacial speed together with absurd conversations which have become our waking lives plays itself out. We can't figure anything out because it's a sleep induced hallucination.

This.
ETA: And +1 cmyk

manvandmaan · Postby **manvandmaan** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:42 pm UTC

To hurry along BlitzGirl, we could ask the mods to start deleting¹ posts. If they start at post #1 and go upwarths, it should create a sort of "caving in" effect behind BlitzGirl (like in the movies!)that should spur her on to go faster!

If it works and also she makes it, her arrival into the present shall be even more epic!

If she doesn't make it, we might have a Gandalfesque² moment where BlitzGirl's last post is: "Wait For It, you fools", after which she disappears into a dark abyss, only to return later on in the Thread, shinier, title-ier and also more powerfull then ever!

Foolproof and also Win/Win.

¹ AFTER making a back-up offcourse!
² A word I thought I'd never be able to use.

StratPlayer · Postby **StratPlayer** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:42 pm UTC

histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

fhorn · Postby **fhorn** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:42 pm UTC

ooh, the MotionBlur^TM is making me a little seasick (semencancercoffeebabbybaconicesick?)......

Asthanius · Postby **Asthanius** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:44 pm UTC

StratPlayer wrote:
histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

Apparently, it's "hear, hear" because it's a shortened version of "hear him, hear him". You're basically telling everybody to shut up and listen to somebody.

silent_death · Postby **silent_death** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:46 pm UTC

All bow before his bluriness - Chronomancer cmyk !!

Eliram · Postby **Eliram** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:47 pm UTC

StratPlayer wrote:
histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

I always imagined it to be "here, here", as in: "Agreement comes from over here". (But English is only a second language to me, so...)

StratPlayer · Postby **StratPlayer** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:51 pm UTC

Asthanius wrote:
StratPlayer wrote:
histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

Apparently, it's "hear, hear" because it's a shortened version of "hear him, hear him". You're basically telling everybody to shut up and listen to somebody.

Ah. Now I see.

So it's basically like someone wants everyone to shut up, so they decide to add their own voice to the cacophony, interjecting and chiming in with something that adds nothing to the discussion. And then they wonder why the hell it's not quiet? Right?

Hmmm... There might be some sort of Time-needle-pulling-thread application here... Let's discuss!

cellocgw · Postby **cellocgw** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:52 pm UTC

Angelastic wrote:
silent_death wrote:
BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 305 out of 355 pages.
The Observation/Observed Platform. NP 560.
<snip>
A disturbingly large number of past newpages have had discussions about me, as well:
</snip>

They will only get more - you will see.
Let's continue to increase the frequency of discussions of BlitzGirl, such that when she reaches the present, the discussion will be all Being John Malkovichy/Sustainable. BlitzGirl! BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl BlitzGirl? Blitzgirl, Blitz? Girl. BlitzGirl BlitzGirl.
BlitzGirl wrote:BlitzGirl BlitzGirl! Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo had had sustainable BlitzGirl Time time!

Yeah, but... the more we post, the less likely BG will ever catch up to the present.

CatHectic · Postby **CatHectic** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:53 pm UTC

On that top level, are they building a mirror image of the center castle?

cmyk · Postby **cmyk** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:54 pm UTC

Sweet, Chronomancer now?!

Do I get a cape? Sounds like I should get a cape.

histrion · Postby **histrion** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:54 pm UTC

Eliram wrote:
StratPlayer wrote:
histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

I always imagined it to be "here, here", as in: "Agreement comes from over here". (But English is only a second language to me, so...)

(American) English is my native tongue and I thought the same thing for a long time.

ETA:

cmyk wrote:Sweet, Chronomancer now?!

Do I get a cape? Sounds like I should get a cape.

Do you remember... Thunderhead? Storm powers? Nice man, good with kids...

cellocgw · Postby **cellocgw** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:54 pm UTC

jjjdavidson wrote:
RobIrr wrote:More plan(c)ks ?

What would BlitzGirl think?

Yep, getting ready to build the next level of the chessboard.

Uhh.. Queen to Queen's Level Three ?

chem1190c · Postby **chem1190c** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:55 pm UTC

Spoiler:

StratPlayer · Postby **StratPlayer** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:57 pm UTC

CatHectic wrote:On that top level, are they building a mirror image of the center castle?

A re-recursion? Let's try and examine to get the fractals straight...

ETA: Ackkhh!!! Pope o' da NewPage!!! ..and chaos shall reign....

ETAx2: And, Pope of the Magnum page!!!! Damn. I'm a da' Pope o' da Pistol!

histrion · Postby **histrion** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:57 pm UTC

chem1190c wrote:
Spoiler:
They've breeched the perimeter!

Good. The perimeter's private parts were getting cold.

manvandmaan · Postby **manvandmaan** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:58 pm UTC

chem1190c wrote: /snip

This!

EDIT: snipped for scrollers sake.

Asthanius · Postby **Asthanius** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:58 pm UTC

Chem, did you just eat M Night Shyamalan and a bunch of fanfiction, then vomit it into the reply box?

histrion · Postby **histrion** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:00 pm UTC

Ugh... I vote against "This!" This thread's hard enough to keep up with without having to click 1800 times just to read one message.

ETA: John Shelby SPONG!

mscha · Postby **mscha** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:00 pm UTC

Edit: cheatninja'd.

Spoiler:

cmyk · Postby **cmyk** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:00 pm UTC

histrion wrote:
Eliram wrote:
StratPlayer wrote:
histrion wrote:Hear, hear!

You know, I always thought of that as "Hear here!" As in, "Ya'll listen to what I'm sayin' right here!"

I always imagined it to be "here, here", as in: "Agreement comes from over here". (But English is only a second language to me, so...)

(American) English is my native tongue and I thought the same thing for a long time.

ETA:

cmyk wrote:Sweet, Chronomancer now?!

Do I get a cape? Sounds like I should get a cape.

Do you remember... Thunderhead? Storm powers? Nice man, good with kids...

But... Dynaguy... ohhh, he had a great look... the cape and the boots!

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