That's a mighty narrow sand bridge. Bets on how many TimeFrames it'll last before Cueball breaks it?
My Bet is 10, He drops a bucket of sand that he is passing to Megan and takes out the tiny bridge and the tower. He will then throw the bucket off to the right which will somehow protect the right tower from the rising sea (Which is big) or the River (which is small) and save the precious Right Flag!
Alternatively, the Right Flag could be used to majestically top the new castle. Oh what a NewPix that would be!
Sir Aheem, Defender of the Former Right Flag, Keeper of the Shards of the Shattered Right Tower
patzer wrote:I made a new feature- multiple people on one graph.
When looking at it this way, I can see why some people would think cmyk would be Helper! Suspicious
I agree, Very suspicious. Perhaps cmyk should be advanced as the new Pope Permanent Past Prior Present Punctual for Perpetuity (until Blitzgirl reaches the end/present/future(?) of time of course) and see if he goes MIA as well.
Sir Aheem, Defender of the Former Right Flag, Keeper of the Shards of the Shattered Right Tower
I think my OCD over Time is beginning to give way to my ADD over everything else. I'm struggling to keep waiting for it, but it's becoming increasingly difficult.
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This is my croft. There are many like it. But this one is mine.
I am from the Before Time, in the Long Long Ago
Founder of THIS (The Temporal Hypotheses and Intelligence Society)
(Leaves behind another piece of candy for Blitzgirl.)
patzer wrote:I made a new feature- multiple people on one graph.
Spoiler:
When looking at it this way, I can see why some people would think cmyk would be Helper! Suspicious
Hmmm... I don't know... I don't recall Helper having the image-manipulation talent that cmyk does... Maybe some sort of mystical event occurred that caused Helper to Morph into cmyk?
Former Forever member of the OTT, now moved on to other things sucked back in by the wowterful wonder of the thread...
patzer wrote:I made a new feature- multiple people on one graph.
When looking at it this way, I can see why some people would think cmyk would be Helper! Suspicious
Hmmm... I don't know... I don't recall Helper having the image-manipulation talent that cmyk does... Maybe some sort of mystical event occurred that caused Helper to Morph into cmyk?
tman2nd wrote:Well, according to this graph, cmyk and Helper's posting habits don't line up, so I don't think they're the same.
According to that graph, cmyk never comas. cmyk is the robot that Helper's consciousness was transferred into.
Knight Temporal, and Archdeacon of buttermongery and ham and cheese sandwiches. Nobody sells butter except through me. Smiley by yappobiscuits. Avatar by GLR, buffygirl, BlitzGirl & mscha, with cari.j.elliot's idea. Haiku Detector starts a trend to make way for my robot army.
Just returned from a day @ the Elfia Fantasy Festival! No one cosplayed as Cueball or Megan though, which was weird. It's like nobody knew about Time! 8 Newpages to catch-up to! Let's get to it!
Congratz BlitzGirl BlitzRandir! Godspeed to all the OTT travelers! I am one of you now!
- Former (Never was) Grand Mason of the now abolished SandMasons (which off course never existed) - The Croissant Man (or Period Guy, whatevs)
buffygirl wrote:A Pointy Hat for mojacardave, our graphmeister.
I will wear it with pride!
B-B-But, you're not!
Do you have a larger image of your current hat, buffygirl? I can't tell what it is.
HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.
She designs some very unique... whatever those things are. They're not really all hats, some of them are closer to masks. I'd be a little scared to meet that person.
HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.
I see posts like this and I just want to think of an xkcd-esque My Hobby is: finding significance in the most insignificant of numbers - 466 is 1234 in base 7, woot! (I'd use my current post count, but let's face it: 36 is a pretty cool number!)
Pfffttt... 36 is only a cool number if you're a triophile.* But 5 is such a handier number, so number like 125 are WAYYY cooler.
Just sayin'...
*Fan of the number 3 and its multiplicative factors
ETA: Good thing mscha disbanded the papacy last NewPage. That "Pope-of-the-page" schtick was getting a bit stale anyway. Although I am a a little disappointed no-one ever commented on my Papal Magnum Opus. C'mon, Opus was a very cool character!!! And the "Mental Floss" bit? Classic!
Plus, put it together with the "page 357" (i.e. "Magnum .357") and dish it out as a "Magnum Opus???" Hey, that's choice material right there...
My preferred base is balanced ternary, so, guilty as charged. (I actually came up with it and called it "nullcentric" before Wikipedia taught me that it was "balanced".)
I did admire the Opus pic very much, but I'm rather behind Time at the moment, witness this post of mine 5 NewPages later. Could've used more Bill, too, though.
P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster. Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
She designs some very unique... whatever those things are. They're not really all hats, some of them are closer to masks. I'd be a little scared to meet that person.
I'm with HAL on this ... that's not a hat; I have no idea what it is, but certainly won't keep the rain off, which is, I would have thought, one of the primary attributes required of a hat.
RobIrr, Bishop of the Diocese of Recursive Magic Kingdoi. BlitzGirl the Primordial
Quest progress: 320 out of 372 pages. The Building of the Rooks. NP 597.
I feel I am making progress in my Quest, as I passed two signposts on this leg: here and here. Yet I am still over fifty newpages behind, the lure of the Outside calling me. This is truly a desperate endeavor, my future friends. Current past events include Cueball's Bringing of the Bucket (which he really should have used all along, this being a Sandcastle) and the beginning of Rook Construction. In the thread of Time, there is more speculation by Loopists that the One True Comic will indeed Loop, but diverge from the Original Narrative in some subtle way the second time around. And there has been much hatting by Arch-Cardinal Buffygirl.
An assortment of pastposts:
Spoiler:
Valiant Cookie wrote:I believe I have waited long enough to begin properly Waiting For It. Having formerly declared no allegiance to a proper group of people who wait, I am at a quandary as to what teachings should be followed. Are they NewPix or TimeFrames? or are they both new and old as the Western Paradox people might claim? are the Sandmasons behind everything?
I look to Blitzgirl, First of the True Followers of Time's time, Most True Followerer, and holder of many other fanciful titles, to light my path. Perhaps she will accept the Knight's Temporal. Perhaps she will, in her journey through time, be enlightened to lead a new movement. I will not speculate any further on what kind of state such a adventure through time will leave her in. In any case, I will look to and follow Blitzgirl as my teacher and leader.
I will study Teacher's messages from the past, and wait eagerly for her arrival in the future. For the present, I Wait For It. and Wait for YOU Blitzgirl, travel quickly Teacher, I await your timely arrival.
vvn wrote:I too have these quandaries, and believe that BlitzGirl could be the one true prophet.
I have encountered many foundings of many different religions and organizations on my Quest through Time, and as to whom to follow I can only say this: there are many ways to observe Time, but in the end, we all must Wait for it together. My use of names is interchangeable, and yet I am still understood well enough by you of the future (apparently). The names we use to understand Time are all inferior to a simple newpix, or nüpic, or TimeFrame of the One True Comic.
Exodies wrote:Can you add to the Blitzer's titles "Reader" - I'm partial to stating the obvious and it has a stylish simplicity only to be found in the most expensive boutiques.
It is certainly a true title. I have done much reading lately.
Shepherdess wrote:
StratPlayer wrote:All Hail Sir/Dame* BlitzGirl, First of the Knights Temporal! We, your fellow Knights, salute you, oh Most Regal Reader of Time!!!!
*BlitzGirl's preference titular** statement pending... ** Heh heh... He said "titular"...
All Hail BlitzGirl!
The River is small!
The Sea is big!
Shepherdess wrote:Might I propose that BlitzGirl get her own Wiki page detailing her most noble quest, documenting every milestone and all of the accolades she will have received?
That would be quite useful! Though of course I could not add to it until I have finished my Quest, it being in the Now and myself in the Past (see previous signpost).
tman2nd, Edit on April 18: wrote:Message from the future: Hey Blitzgirl, please join the Temporal Hypotheses and Intelligence Society.
I will note that I have not joined of my own accord any group/sect/religion apart from accepting honorary titles, since I am still quite busy wandering through the Past of the thread of Time. However, should you desire to send me a message from the future bestowing an honorary title from your Society upon me, common courtesy insists that I will not be able to decline it.
On page 317:
Valarya wrote:From page 342... an edit to the past, from my present and your future: Embrace the titles - for they will armour you in your Quest through the madness to come. Madness you, yourself, helped create. Continue to Wait for It and may the titles bestow upon you a sense of comfort in the One True Thread and gratitude to the Followers of all Time for preparing you in what's to come...
Once you sig a screengrab of your titles, breaking it up into two parts so as not to exceed the 100-pixel height limit, there really is no going back.
tastony wrote:Keep going Blitzgirl - you must nearly be home now!!
*sigh*
Valentorg wrote:
partingLance wrote:
Valentorg wrote:After having lurked and watched Time's time from the beginning of Time, and finally became an active participant in Time's time a few pages ago, I propose the founding of a new religion based on a title given to Blitzgirl:
The True Followers of Time's time
I defer leadership of this religion to Blitzgirl if she chooses to lead it. If not, then the religion will require her blessings, naturally.
But rather than envisaging the creation of yet another new religion, I think we should look rather to the hope that Blitzgirl will be able, Redeemer-like, to unite all the squabbling factions under the banner of the One True Comic, such that we cease to dissipate our energies in pointless theological disputes.
Rather a burden, admittedly, to place on the shoulders of one person, however valiant. And reports from Outside suggest that such fond hopes have not been realized there. But so much the worse for the Outside, say I. We live in hope, do we not? What else could be the meaning of "wait for it"?
Even better!
Will Blitzgirl rise to the challenge and bring order to the chaos? Or will she simply carry on, seeking to remain alone in her quest? Only Time will tell...
Theological disputes are quite human, and are likely to continue even after my arrival in the Now. I am not Randall, after all.
Speaking of which:
Spoiler:
Asthanius wrote:
buffygirl wrote:
HAL9000 wrote:
edo wrote:
Randall Who Created All wrote:This special message is to commemmorate the Time (Wait for It.) you have devoted to the One True Comic. You have finally completed enough pages of the Holy Text of Time (Wait for It.) to have achieved the number 317, which is significant to my Creatorship in ways you cannot yet fathom.
Too all the faithful who have kept vigilence during this existence, you are truly blessed.
You never waivered in your belief during The Dark Period, nor exalted yourselves above Cueball and Megan during The Happiness Period. You stayed true to the One True Comic when the appointed moderators tested your faith, until I smote them and restored the words to their proper goodness. Through it all, you Wait.
There are some particular among you who deserve to be recognized for their most devouted devoutness.
Helper the First, Duly Elected Pope of the One True Comic, is formost blessed as was recognized when chosen to be my Vessel. I have kept him in my Presence for a few frames of Time (Wait for It.) to endow him with additional knowledge of my Plan. Though it may take Time (Wait for It.) for him to fully recall my Instructions when I return him to your existential plane.
Arch-Cardinal buffygirl is blessed, and blessed again, for driving out the wicked possession that she faced in service to the One True Comic. She also makes the best Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich I have ever had.
Cardinal bigcrag92 is blessed for keeping all my Machinations moving as I intended, even to travelling to the Outside to spread the word of Time (Wait for It.), and I bless his birthday as the first Holiday of the One True Comic.
Cardinal KarMann has shown the expectional knowledge I endowed unto him, and henceforth is blessed as the Historian of the Comma of the One True Comic.
Cardinals ubscdt and udscbt are, unknown to themselves, the same entity. Their schizophrenic existence is blessed in my Eyes, so don't anyone tell them and spoil it for her.
Smithers was revealed as the first prophet when he "Called it!" about Megan's return with the tiny trebuchet. All must listen to all revelations I bestow through his being, including no nesting of models.
Dracomax has shown himself to be blessed when he revealed sax should never be casual, and only jam people who are known unto you. As Grand Lord High Inquisitor, he has my Full Authority to use the comfy chair as he sees fit.
Kryton, ordained Space-Pope of the Eastern Unorthodox TimeWaiters, I didn't like you much at the beginning of Time (Wait for It.), but you have shown youself to be the true and rightful leader of your people. All functions you perform are judged correct by my Beautician.
HAL9000, Sir Vincent LongDong née StratPlayer, and all of the Knights Temporal, are vested by my Scrutiny as the defenders of the One True Faith, as long as nothing is asked of them.
AionArap, Grand Master Flush of the Sandmasons, always remember you are in my Eternal Sight. Now give you ALL your money for being the blessed subject of my Vigilence.
Finally, all posters of single posts up to now are also to be considered divinely inspired, and my Apostles. But those with two posts are of the damned, and thrice-posters are an abomination upon my Demesne. The fourth post is crucial to repentence, so that sin can be forgiven. The fifth post restores righteousness upon each of my Subjects.
Now you are all commanded to go forth and spread the Truth of the One True Comic. But do not go Outside, it is an evil place. _ _
Randall Who Created All
Wait for it.
What'd y'all think? He hath forsaken the |W>+|E> Paradox Church, which is pleasing in our eyes, but you'd think He'd have some pull with the mods, so his first and only post wouldnkt get buried.
>No mention of Blitzgirl HERESY!
I must agree that the omission of Blitzgirl is, indeed, a sin worthy of severe disciplinary measures. But ... I think he wants to make us even more famous. Thus, loving titles, fame, and general worldly recognition, I must offer my approval.
But is it really a sin? To not include Blitzgirl is to make us all realize how much she has done for us. He cannot give her any greater honor than inscribing her in our thoughts.
StratPlayer wrote:
Latent22 wrote:It is possible that Randall Who Created All couldn't mention Blitzgirl because in the order of time she has not yet reached page 317 ( She is currently located somewhere just after page 254) . After she has passed Page 317 she will have caught up and he can then use a simple edit to go back in time and add her into his original post.
It could be a legitimate revelation from the Lord Randall... Perhaps this was the IT we were instructed to wait for?
And yet... The machinations of Megan and Cueball continue on, unabated, as if unaware of a divine message from the One True Randall. It will take much effort and debate to resolve this...
The Knights Temporal are ready to serve in their fullest capacity of defenders of Time, the One True Comic, and shall give their all* to help resolve this cryptic message!
*Provided we don't have to actually do anything...
This is quite obviously a false Randall. I present to you as evidence this list of spelling errors from his post:
Also to be noted is the use of too when to is required. The One True Randall would never commit seven such errors in just over 600 words. And I would certainly hope that he would mention me, too.
Now that that is cleared up, my Quest continues!
Knight Temporal of the One True Comic BlitzGirl the Pink, Mopey Molpy Mome
Purplepants77 wrote:EDIT: Good thing this whole PFAN was discontinued, I would make an awfully terrible one at this particular moment in Time
Just awoke from coma so catching up... is it weird that I dreamed about the One True Comic, this needle-pulled-thing, and that Pope Helper had returned, and his returning post was first on a page, so making him simultaneously Pope and Pope for a Page ?
Or do you all dream about this?
Umm . . . last night, for the first time. When I un-comaed, there were a few centinewpices when I still thought I was going to have to reply to a couple of posts, and edit & fix a couple of my own, before I realized that those had never actually happened.
Added:
Mycroft_147 wrote:I propose THIS is already happening: A trifurcated approach towards interpreting Time.
1) Analysis of individual newpix as they progress into the macroscopic storyline. B) Analysis of the evolution of this needle-pulled-thing and the society within III) Exploring the possible intention of Lord Randall to have 1 influence B or....perhaps B influenceing 1 (whoah, imagine the implications of THAT!)
Should we include include somewhere a study of the quality, quality, and distribution of hats?
And hey, don't forget about the quality of hats, too.
Maybe a little something about the quantity wouldn't hurt, either.
Also, I'm rather disappointed. I was looking forward to doing SCHLONG, QUONG, and CHONG in particular, and they've all been done already. I has a sad.
P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster. Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
Firstly, I would like to request one of those nifty graphs and if it all possible, perhaps an awesome hat by buffygirl? Croissant-related perhaps? I really like those! Thank you very much in advance!
lmjb1964 wrote:
rcrowell wrote:I must say that I simply cannot believe how attached to Megan and Cueball I've become. In fact, I can't believe how attached to all of YOU, including and especially our dear BlitzGirl, I've become. When I step away from my computer, I wonder what M+C are doing. I'm distracted. I can't sleep. My heart stutters when I get a glimpse of a new dialog bubble. I break out into a cold sweat if a new frame doesn't appear at the right instant. I hang on every word you all say. Your over-analyzations are music to my ears, and I clap my hands and shout for joy when BlitzGirl reaches another milestone. It's getting difficult to hide this obsession from friends, family and colleagues..
This is so true. Forisms (forumisms?) slip into Outside emails, I wonder who's been on the forum since I last checked, or whether anyone has responded to a certain post, I was SO excited when Blitzgirl noticed my sig to her. I can't decide if this is really messed up, or really wonderful.
OK, this is getting really long. Time to end this post and finish catching up!
So true for me too! I'm always worried that Time will end when i'm in Coma or Outside... Since I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic, I'll probably wont see the End in real-time, though I keep my hopes up for a loop... I too always fangirl when BlitzGirl, or anyone else quotes me!
And Latent22 You sir, are rather incredible, with all your awesome work! If only I had more OtherTime to help you more with the book. It's such an awesome idea, but writing well written texts is really rather time consuming and not much time remains after catching up with the NewPages and NewPix and various Outside activities. So I might only be able to help a little, I shall however congratulate and admire you many! Hooray!
Coma time again. Goodcoma everyone!
EDIT: added some highly needed courtesy! :s Can't believe I forgot that in the first place :s My apologies!
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Congratz BlitzGirl BlitzRandir! Godspeed to all the OTT travelers! I am one of you now!
- Former (Never was) Grand Mason of the now abolished SandMasons (which off course never existed) - The Croissant Man (or Period Guy, whatevs)
It appears the Sandmasons have not yet granted a Title to BlitzGirl.
I, manvandemaan, Chief of Grains of The Self-Referring Recursive Chapter, hereby ceremoniously grant the following to BlitzGirl:
The Titles of: Greatest Grain on the Beach of Time, Big KnowItAll and also Princess of Persia1 With these titles, come the following gifts:
- The Mighty Walking Stick of Will Power2 - A Persian Leopard3 - A +2 Croissant of Deliciousness - A Bottle of Godspeed4 - A Self-Referring Ring5 - A 50% Off Coupon for all Breakfast Menu's at our Bakery.
1 Not Iran, but the secret Persia6! 2 Doesn't have any real powers7, It just used to belong to a guy named Will Power. Good walking stick though. 3Housetrained! sort of... 4 We have 4 varieties: Original/Light/With Lemon/Special 5 A ring with the inscription: Self-Referring Ring 6 It's behind that door with the sign: NOT the entrance to Secret Persia 7 It does however have an LED light and Bluetooth for handsfree-walking
Congratz BlitzGirl BlitzRandir! Godspeed to all the OTT travelers! I am one of you now!
- Former (Never was) Grand Mason of the now abolished SandMasons (which off course never existed) - The Croissant Man (or Period Guy, whatevs)
Basically I just re-parsed the entire thread (up to page 370 ish) using an XML parser (this site uses xhtml, so that helps) and also a natural language processing library (OpenNLP). I also excluded any blockquotes from the post content, so it's all just original text, nothing duplicated.
As an example use of the data, I was able to distill the top nouns unique to this thread.
This zip is a single file in JSON format that was serialized using a C# DataContractJsonSerializer -- so sorry if there are crappy characters in there. For anyone that uses C#, then the data should deserialize perfectly into the following classes:
public class ForumData { public List<Post> Posts { get; set; } public List<TaggedToken> TaggedTokens { get; set; } } public class Post { public int PostId { get; set; } public string User { get; set; } public DateTime PostDate { get; set; } public string ContentText { get; set; } }
//Represents individual words public class TaggedToken { public int PostId { get; set; } //Original post public string Token { get; set; } //Word or symbol public string Tag { get; set; } //Part of speech as identified by OpenNLP parsing public string TagDescription { get; set; } }
var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ForumData)); using (var file = File.OpenRead(@"C:\forumData.json")) { var dataContext = ser.ReadObject(file) as ForumData; //do stuff... }
Oh my. I was thinking it looked like one of those little carved-cork decorative Japanese dioramas (I have on on my mantle here)(is there a word for those?), but couldn't quite convince myself at that smaller resolution image. I certainly wasn't expecting it to be from a picture of an actual hat/mask made in that style.
Edit: fix image
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P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster. Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.
Basically I just re-parsed the entire thread (up to page 370 ish) using an XML parser (this site uses xhtml, so that helps) and also a natural language processing library (OpenNLP). I also excluded any blockquotes from the post content, so it's all just original text, nothing duplicated.
As an example use of the data, I was able to distill the top nouns unique to this thread.
This zip is a single file in JSON format that was serialized using a C# DataContractJsonSerializer -- so sorry if there are crappy characters in there. For anyone that uses C#, then the data should deserialize perfectly into the following classes:
public class ForumData { public List<Post> Posts { get; set; } public List<TaggedToken> TaggedTokens { get; set; } } public class Post { public int PostId { get; set; } public string User { get; set; } public DateTime PostDate { get; set; } public string ContentText { get; set; } }
//Represents individual words public class TaggedToken { public int PostId { get; set; } //Original post public string Token { get; set; } //Word or symbol public string Tag { get; set; } //Part of speech as identified by OpenNLP parsing public string TagDescription { get; set; } }
var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ForumData)); using (var file = File.OpenRead(@"C:\forumData.json")) { var dataContext = ser.ReadObject(file) as ForumData; //do stuff... }
I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
EDIT: Blitzgirl has only been mentioned 6 times? That can't be right.
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Sir Tristram, Guardian of the Time Cats, Defender of the One True Comic, Landsknecht von der Zeit.
Basically I just re-parsed the entire thread (up to page 370 ish) using an XML parser (this site uses xhtml, so that helps) and also a natural language processing library (OpenNLP). I also excluded any blockquotes from the post content, so it's all just original text, nothing duplicated.
As an example use of the data, I was able to distill the top nouns unique to this thread.
This zip is a single file in JSON format that was serialized using a C# DataContractJsonSerializer -- so sorry if there are crappy characters in there. For anyone that uses C#, then the data should deserialize perfectly into the following classes:
public class ForumData { public List<Post> Posts { get; set; } public List<TaggedToken> TaggedTokens { get; set; } } public class Post { public int PostId { get; set; } public string User { get; set; } public DateTime PostDate { get; set; } public string ContentText { get; set; } }
//Represents individual words public class TaggedToken { public int PostId { get; set; } //Original post public string Token { get; set; } //Word or symbol public string Tag { get; set; } //Part of speech as identified by OpenNLP parsing public string TagDescription { get; set; } }
var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ForumData)); using (var file = File.OpenRead(@"C:\forumData.json")) { var dataContext = ser.ReadObject(file) as ForumData; //do stuff... }
I'm surprised buffygirl beat Blitzgirl.
Yeah, you are right. Apparently I only got 6 instances where she was tagged as a noun. The NLP must not be that great. I need to recheck this -- thanks for pointing it out. Back later
cmyk is the robot that Helper's consciousness was transferred into.
When I un-comaed, there were a few centinewpices when I still thought I was going to have to reply to a couple of posts, and edit & fix a couple of my own, before I realized that those had never actually happened.
- Kieryn