1190: "Time"

[fhorn]

Not gonna lie, these last few pages have really given me the giggles.

[PhoenixRising]

NING NANG NONG!

I have no idea what I just watched. It does, however, appear to conform to the level of sanity and coherence being displayed in this thread, so I like it immensely.

Of course! IT!

IT is the true source of all! But IT is mysterious, and in many ways, ultimately unknowable...

I am?

*mind explodes* Mods, ban this person. Or promote him/her/it to admin. Or do both. At once.

Definitely seeing a middle-eastern influence emerging.

Rampant statistical analysis and secular philosophical exploration. THIS is the clearly the dawn of a new era. We wait for It, though some seem quite content believing It may never come. It is, rather, how we wait for It that matters most. Our entire existence summed up in my opinion.

It seems to me this influence emerged about the same time as speculation Megan was building a mosque/the Taj Mahal. Yet again the conversation is influenced by the comic (as well it should be.)

<snip>

dude/tte, you really need to go back and spoiler this baby. Seriously. Or snip it. Or something!

EDIT: THAT was my 300th post???? Wow, am I lame or what!

No kidding. >< Just found my own post and it took 15s to scroll through it. I cleaned it up a bit but I can't do much more than that, because BBCode won't let me nest spoilers.

[mscha]

TWONG:

[marchlight]

Actually, it's marchlight. Hail RetroPope Marchlight.

Yay! The best part of RetroPope is it's over before you know it's you. Really takes the pressure off. Sorry about any innocent nuts that may have been punched. I'm not sorry, I'm drunk with power

[vvn]

Well the right and left sections have an extra plank on them but that is not reinforcing it is just there to make the platform level. This is because the first middle plank was placed on top of the original left and right planks creating a step up

Spoiler:

You are correct. Missed that. Still makes the platforms look funny.

[Latent22]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

[PhoenixRising]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

Almost looks like a boiler stack, similar to those used on old boats (I think).

[StratPlayer]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

A chimney for the dragon that sleeps in the castle? He snorts fire in his sleep...

[lmjb1964]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

Almost looks like a boiler stack, similar to those used on old boats (I think).

Hm, could be.

C & especially M are spending an awful lot of time on doing what seems to be detail work on that one section. I wonder if at some point we'll zoom in so that we can see what the hell they're making.

[vvn]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

Apparently the anti-flood cantilevering on the rightmost tower was just practice.

[Valarya]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

Apparently the anti-flood cantilevering on the rightmost tower was just practice.

Looks like the degenerating tower to the far right to me!

[StratPlayer]

http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Time_Page_481

You are the newest member of The Order of the Knights Temporal and you have been sent on a quest to find the mythical Sands of Time. You know you will face many horrors on your journey but you have been outfitted with a great sword, a helm (called Matt), a belt, some gantlets and a set of chain mail. The quartermaster was too busy staring at his tablet to tell you what they do but I’m sure you will work it out. You head out on your grand quest. You have been told to head west and to trust Randall to guide your way. The first day of walking is uneventful and nearing sunset you come to a small village. You are in luck because they have a Thyme Waiters restaurant and you have a fine breakfast before retiring for the night. The next 24 days pass in similar fashion as you travel westward until the morning of the 26th day when the weather takes a turn for the worse. And the local meteorological service has predicted many weeks of hard rain. You are faced with a terrible decision.

Do you Carry on though wind and rain as nothing will stop a true Knight

Turn to Page 582

Or delay your quest and wait for it to clear before continuing on

Turn to Page 359

Please note not finished yet

Edit: Crap I'm PFAN! Well by Papal decree I say it is your duty to use PayPal to send me money! If you have no money to send then you penance is to copy quotes into the Book of Time
Edit2: Ok we are doing RetroPopeing now so I'm safe. I'll refund all that PayPal money when I get a chance.

Nice -- a choose your own adventure!

You're putting in a lot of work over there and it's coming along great. Hmmm... Hey, maybe we should set up a forum somewhere to have a place to discuss the Book of Time summary in the Wiki of the Comic which summaries the discussion within this forum where we summarize our thoughts about the comic. Whadd'ya think?

[mscha]

[fatness]

What the hell is that sticking out bendy tower she just finished?

Apparently the anti-flood cantilevering on the rightmost tower was just practice.

Looks like the degenerating tower to the far right to me!

Precisely...she's clearly mastered cantilevered sand construction technology.

[patzer]

http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Time_Page_481

You are the newest member of The Order of the Knights Temporal and you have been sent on a quest to find the mythical Sands of Time. You know you will face many horrors on your journey but you have been outfitted with a great sword, a helm (called Matt), a belt, some gantlets and a set of chain mail. The quartermaster was too busy staring at his tablet to tell you what they do but I’m sure you will work it out. You head out on your grand quest. You have been told to head west and to trust Randall to guide your way. The first day of walking is uneventful and nearing sunset you come to a small village. You are in luck because they have a Thyme Waiters restaurant and you have a fine breakfast before retiring for the night. The next 24 days pass in similar fashion as you travel westward until the morning of the 26th day when the weather takes a turn for the worse. And the local meteorological service has predicted many weeks of hard rain. You are faced with a terrible decision.

Do you Carry on though wind and rain as nothing will stop a true Knight

Turn to Page 582

Or delay your quest and wait for it to clear before continuing on

Turn to Page 359

Please note not finished yet

Edit: Crap I'm PFAN! Well by Papal decree I say it is your duty to use PayPal to send me money! If you have no money to send then you penance is to copy quotes into the Book of Time
Edit2: Ok we are doing RetroPopeing now so I'm safe. I'll refund all that PayPal money when I get a chance.

Nice -- a choose your own adventure!

You're putting in a lot of work over there and it's coming along great. Hmmm... Hey, maybe we should set up a forum somewhere to have a place to discuss the Book of Time summary in the Wiki of the Comic which summaries the discussion within this forum where we summarize our thoughts about the comic. Whadd'ya think?

The wiki has a forum.
(it just appeared automatically when I created the wiki, but we can use it if we want)

[buffygirl]

Two new hats....

A Pointy Hat for mojacardave, our graphmeister.

mojacardave pope hat

popehat-mojacardave-s.jpg (3.66 KiB) Viewed 10290 times

And for AluisioASG, by request.

AluisioASG Hat

AluisioASG-hat.jpg (5.44 KiB) Viewed 10290 times

[fatness]

May be time for early coma...thought that read "pouty hat" on first glance.

[htom]

May be time for early coma...thought that read "pouty hat" on first glance.

So did I !

[HAL9000]

Buffygirl: what does your hat look like? I really can't get a food idea of what it's supposed to be. Do you have it on a separate image?
EDIT: just realized how much the post rate has slowed. Maybe it's because some of the active posters seem to be away, but still. Holy crap.

[patzer]

There was a HUGE error on the explainxkcd and xkcd-time wikis where about 60 files had the wrong name. I am currently correcting that.

[HAL9000]

There was a HUGE error on the explainxkcd and xkcd-time wikis where about 60 files had the wrong name. I am currently correcting that.

Cool, thanks! I should maybe start helping out with the wiki as well.

[macraw83]

Two new hats....

A Pointy Hat for mojacardave, our graphmeister.

popehat-mojacardave-s.jpg

And for AluisioASG, by request.

AluisioASG-hat.jpg

Oh great keeper and maker of the Hats and Arch-Cardinal buffygirl,

I would like a Hatvatar.

Is there a formal request protocol aside from merely asking?

Thank you kindly in advance for your future potential tidings of hatness.

[Latent22]

Nobody Donged! Had to do it at the last minute from me phone! Didn't know my forum password so had to sync my robo form. Then found you cant paste in roboforms browser! So get password go back to normal browser, login get latest hash png and post.

[Latent22]

DONG

[macraw83]

Wow, it got quiet here pretty quick. I guess everyone is either comaing or found interesting Outsider stuff to do on a Friday night to take them away from the One True Thread.

Starting to wonder if they might be onto something...

[vvn]

Starting to wonder if they might be onto something...

Your post could be taken to mean you think there is a world beyond the Universe. I caution you from heresy.

EDIT: TGIF

[macraw83]

Starting to wonder if they might be onto something...

Your post could be taken to mean you think there is a world beyond the Universe. I caution you from heresy.

EDIT: TGIF

You're right. Once you go down that rabbit hole you're never coming back. Assuming that the rabbit hole actually goes somewhere, of course.

[buffygirl]

Spoiler:

Two new hats....

A Pointy Hat for mojacardave, our graphmeister.

popehat-mojacardave-s.jpg

And for AluisioASG, by request.

AluisioASG-hat.jpg

Oh great keeper and maker of the Hats and Arch-Cardinal buffygirl,
I would like a Hatvatar.
Is there a formal request protocol aside from merely asking?
Thank you kindly in advance for your future potential tidings of hatness.

Don't worry, you're already in the queue.

[macraw83]

Spoiler:

Two new hats....

A Pointy Hat for mojacardave, our graphmeister.

popehat-mojacardave-s.jpg

And for AluisioASG, by request.

AluisioASG-hat.jpg

Oh great keeper and maker of the Hats and Arch-Cardinal buffygirl,
I would like a Hatvatar.
Is there a formal request protocol aside from merely asking?
Thank you kindly in advance for your future potential tidings of hatness.

Don't worry, you're already in the queue.

YES!!!

*double fist pump*

Time to coma.

[vvn]

buffygirl posted a minute ago, yet is not listed in the list of users browsing. She must have Logged Out. This implies she HAS A LIFE. Isn't this heresy? Shouldn't we DO SOMETHING?

EDIT: Everyone ignore this please. I'd kinda like a hat, eventually.

[tman2nd]

Starting to wonder if they might be onto something...

Your post could be taken to mean you think there is a world beyond the Universe. I caution you from heresy.

EDIT: TGIF

You're right. Once you go down that rabbit hole you're never coming back. Assuming that the rabbit hole actually goes somewhere, of course.

Remember what happened to Helper!<sup>1

1</sup>Actually we don't know what happened to Helper.

[HAL9000]

buffygirl posted a minute ago, yet is not listed in the list of users browsing. She must have Logged Out. This implies she HAS A LIFE. Isn't this heresy? Shouldn't we DO SOMETHING?

EDIT: Everyone ignore this please. I'd kinda like a hat, eventually.

As of my posting this, there are 27 users online, 19 of whom are guests. That's 8 nonlurkers.
Geez, we've slowed down.

[tman2nd]

[htom]

Coma coma coma chameleon ....

[ggh]

As of my posting this, there are 27 users online, 19 of whom are guests. That's 8 nonlurkers.
Geez, we've slowed down.

And though named, I'm more lurker material than user-ish, so it's even less.

[HAL9000]

As of my posting this, there are 27 users online, 19 of whom are guests. That's 8 nonlurkers.
Geez, we've slowed down.

And though named, I'm more lurker material than user-ish, so it's even less.

Well, at least we have 'Bing [Bot]' to keep us company.

[ggh]

As of my posting this, there are 27 users online, 19 of whom are guests. That's 8 nonlurkers.
Geez, we've slowed down.

And though named, I'm more lurker material than user-ish, so it's even less.

Well, at least we have 'Bing [Bot]' to keep us company.

Gee, looking at the list of online folks, you're the only heavy hitter here Hal.

Edit: and fortunately that was untrue again by the time I hit submit

[vvn]

TGIF, and good coma to everyone.

[HAL9000]

As of my posting this, there are 27 users online, 19 of whom are guests. That's 8 nonlurkers.
Geez, we've slowed down.

And though named, I'm more lurker material than user-ish, so it's even less.

Well, at least we have 'Bing [Bot]' to keep us company.

Gee, looking at the list of online folks, you're the only heavy hitter here Hal.

Well, now that I have control, it's time to start cutting off the life support systems.
EDIT: nah, I'll just coma instead.

[tman2nd]

I'm the retro-PFAN!