1190: "Time"

[Jonas79]

Ah, now I see it. Then I think there is at least four flags, also adding a flag to the rightmost tower.

BlitzGirl is online, enduring her quest By the time you get here, I predict the thread of Time has slowed down enough for you to see the end in sight.

[manvandmaan]

more flags, but still no wind...

[Jonas79]

more flags, but still no wind...

That sounds almost poetic...

Edit: Watching BlitzGirl's location update is encouraging. She's moved from page 357 to 359 in less than a Longpix, making excelent progress

Edit2:

--snip--

Graph Time FTW!

Spoiler:

Do your own analysis of when she'll catch up.

And now...
Coma Time!
G'Night all, happy waiting.

Maybe I was wrong before looking at this graph. It looks like the velocity of posting is more or less constant since BlitzGirl started her quest. (Spoiler tagging the large image, which I quoted differently to have it display).

[SWO Crash]

So it's just a flag.

Still, you called it.

[mscha]

BlitzGirl is online, enduring her quest By the time you get here, I predict the thread of Time has slowed down enough for you to see the end in sight.

Unfortunately (for BlitzGirl, that is), I'm pretty sure the OTT has speeded up again in the past few days...

[Jonas79]

BlitzGirl is online, enduring her quest By the time you get here, I predict the thread of Time has slowed down enough for you to see the end in sight.

Unfortunately (for BlitzGirl, that is), I'm pretty sure the OTT has speeded up again in the past few days...

Yes, noted that... Oh well, we'll Wait for it.

[Flotter]

Mahjong:

[XonqNopp]

So... Five flags on the upper deck... Still no wind...

[Jonas79]

Guess I was wrong about the four flags, five it is

[BlitzGirl]

Quest progress: 359 out of 397 pages.
The Next Level. NP 715.

Okay, just had a miserable time on page 358 due to the extensive rot-13 and some things that looked like rot-13 but weren't. Please leave all future rot-13 posts back in the 1980s where they belong. I know I'm somewhat stuck in the past, but I wasn't even born yet during the rot-13 heyday.

Some rot-13 "adventures":

Spoiler:

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

Thank you - I've been doing this ever since I ran across my first rot-13-ness.

<snip>
Vg qbrfa'g rkvfg orpnhfr vg'f gur UD bs gur Grzcbeny Vyyhzvangv, Jrfgrea Qvivfvba.

<ETA For Ease of Blitzgirl: It doesn't exist because it's the HQ of the Temporal Illuminati, Western Division.]>

Now a more sincere THANK YOU!

V uaie earlpgeq raph cuaeaptrr ia ghvs mrsfate ia Eog-13 oae tvmr zoee tuaa ghr crrvvohs cuaeaptrr. I wbnqee uoj yoag ig'yl tnkr fozebnr go cntph oa...

C nbche qy mbiofx uff mqcnwb ni LIN20. Nbun mbiofx guey cn gowb yumcyl ni ziffiq nbcm xcmwommcih

Stuff like THIS is just a pain in the nff.

Some rather more helpful sigcommunication:

Spoiler:

You only have to wear it till newPage 380. Not long to go now. Keep it up!

That seems reasonable. I will hopefully be there soon!

Blitzgirl, you don't need to beware of the tears (rhymes with beers) so much as the tears (rhymes with bears). Just thought I'd clarify that.

I do appreciate the clarification, but that doesn't really make the warning any less cryptic.

And a bunch of pastposts:

Spoiler:

Hey, wait a minute.. Blitzgirl?! How'd you learn to fly the Tardis?

Don't ask me - that must happen to my future self.

More plan(c)ks ?

What would BlitzGirl think?

"More plan(c)ks?"

Oh and, Go BlitzGirl!

Thanks!

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?). <snip>

For the internet's sake, I no longer post every time I cross a signpost.

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.

This would also make my percentage of the thread read suffer miserably. Though I do like the idea of BlitzGirl 2.0.

In a daze post-coma. This is the most activity the fora has had during coma-time for me in hundreds of NPs... I felt like Blitzgirl for a moment, scrolling, reading, scrolling... laughing. Smiling a little. Scrolling. Looking up to notice the newpages were climbing. Starting to panic, reading faster. I don't know how she does it....
<snip>
I have been waiting oh-so-patiently for Blitzgirl to hit the part of the fora where, if she were to CTRL+F her name, there'd be 100 instances on each newpage. The time where everyone talks about Blitzgirl. I see now, it has gotten worse better xD xD xD

There were officially 106 mentions of my name on newpage 356, when sigs and quotes were included. Yikes.

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 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 !

Okay, I was in a half-coma state when I read this, following a bizarre coma-hallucination I had regarding Time. This is not BlitzGirl helping things Buffalo buffalo.

And now to Blitzgirl blitzgirl buffalo Time time! Time-buffalo!

[Wee Red Bird]

I'm predicting the following ending to this cartoon
postimg.org/image/6v3ipxn9x/

Once the foundations erode:
postimg.org/image/d5ppnm9ib/

And ending like this:
postimg.org/image/mqpbtgdut/

With maybe a few bits floating and possibly a large iceberg.

Though the spam filter and my inability to post images has made this simple post quite a difficult one to make.

[mscha]

Indeed, five flags, for those of us¹ who had trouble counting.

time_meganstein_flags.png (5.39 KiB) Viewed 18480 times

She managed to place all of them without doing any damage. Impressive.

¹: yes, including me

[Flotter]

Quest progress: 359 out of 397 pages.
[...]
There were officially 106 mentions of my name on newpage 356, when sigs and quotes were included. Yikes.

[...]

I guess that makes you even more popular than Randall

[Kazza3]

Happened a while ago, but regardless:

Seawall done. What shall we do now?

Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?

[jjjdavidson]

Spoiler:

I'm hoping Megan comes back with LaPetite. They can use her ghost powers to scare the sea into submission.

Also, newcomic's up!

Does that comic have anything to say to this comic?

It's too early in the morning here to try and work out.

I'd say if anything it's confirmation for the loopists - at the end of the comic, it looks just the same as at the beginning and you can't tell which it is.

Except now the theory would be that it will first run backwards to the first frame and forward to the last frame ad infinitum.

Yeah that is a cool idea for looping. Gets to some point and they use 'magic' or build a machine to reverse the rise of the sea. But all it does is make the comic roll out backwards to the first frame and then loop.

I don't think BlitzGirl would like that, because then she has to read this needle-pulling-thingy backwards and forwards for ever!

@BlitzGirl: when you see a time machine, you should destroy it before it is activated! Good Luck!

Or she should use it to go back and destroy it before it's even built!

Then you would encounter the problem with Time Machines

Wait; haven't we been here already?

[Flotter]

Spoiler:

I'm hoping Megan comes back with LaPetite. They can use her ghost powers to scare the sea into submission.

Also, newcomic's up!

Does that comic have anything to say to this comic?

It's too early in the morning here to try and work out.

I'd say if anything it's confirmation for the loopists - at the end of the comic, it looks just the same as at the beginning and you can't tell which it is.

Except now the theory would be that it will first run backwards to the first frame and forward to the last frame ad infinitum.

Yeah that is a cool idea for looping. Gets to some point and they use 'magic' or build a machine to reverse the rise of the sea. But all it does is make the comic roll out backwards to the first frame and then loop.

I don't think BlitzGirl would like that, because then she has to read this needle-pulling-thingy backwards and forwards for ever!

@BlitzGirl: when you see a time machine, you should destroy it before it is activated! Good Luck!

Or she should use it to go back and destroy it before it's even built!

Then you would encounter the problem with Time Machines

Wait; haven't we been here already?

Definite proof that time is cyclical

[Neil_Boekend]

Wait; haven't we been here already?

Yes, but you shouldn't be able to remember it. Did your parents perhaps take a TARDIS for their honeymoon?

[HAL9000]

EDIT: pope? Not again! I was just about to coma!
Of course, this can only be attributable to human error.
EDIT2: the last two pages have me as pope. The two before that are both imjb1964. Perhaps we have reached a period of LongPopes, governing for two Newpages.
EDIT3: forgot about bumping from newbie's posts getting approved. Perhaps imjb wasn't the original Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer for those pages (or at least maybe for only one)

Wasn't the PFAN of the Timewaiters abolished? There's a new church (something like Church of the Newpage) that has a PFAN, but that's decided by the last post.

I still declare myself Vatican Milliner's Perfect Customer when I hit the top of a page. Call me old-fashioned, but I like it.
Fun with -ONG:

Spoiler:

XKCDONG

Surprised that wasn't done earlier.

XKCD THONG

Sounds like yet another thing to add to the shop.

TONGUE

Oh my god these just keep getting better, don't they?

BILLABONG

Yes they do.

[XonqNopp]

Okay, just had a miserable time on page 358 due to the extensive rot-13 and some things that looked like rot-13 but weren't. Please leave all future rot-13 posts back in the 1980s where they belong. I know I'm somewhat stuck in the past, but I wasn't even born yet during the rot-13 heyday.

So you are saying that you prefer us to distract you with modern cryptography in our messages... I shall then help you...

Here is a skein 1024 x 1024 hash:

Code: Select all

5b4da95f5fa08280fc9879df44f418c8
f9f12ba424b7757de02bbdfbae0d4c4f
df9317c80cc5fe04c6429073466cf297
06b8c25999ddd2f6540d4475cc977b87
f4757be023f19b8f4035d7722886b788
69826de916a79cf9c94cc79cd4347d24
b567aa3e2390a573a373a48a5e676640
c79cc70197e1c5e7f902fb53ca1858b6

If you want to know the original string... There is only one person... And I am not sure whether Great Lord Randall knows it... I do not know its content... So maybe it is not distractful, maybe it is not something funny, maybe it is even a totally random string...

[Dracomax]

Anyone encoding their text will henceforth and retroactively be dipped chocolate Syrup, and covered in shredded Licorice. THUS SPEAKS THE INQUISITION.

Oj, yyhnd? I'f xaci ah zsd jxz llc!

I have no idea what you said, so I'm going to assume it's a compliment, and dunk you Chocolate syrup and cover you in chopped licorice.

What, I'm a man of my word.

[Neil_Boekend]

Tb OyvgmTvey Tb

[Dracomax]

*heats up a fresh batch of chocolate syrup...*

[RobIrr]

*heats up a fresh batch of chocolate syrup...*

Before you taint it with the corpses of the unfaithful, please may I have some for my ice cream?

[Valarya]

Haha! Here it is. I haven't been able to contribute to the fancy graphs or hats, so I made this as my present to you all. Hopefully you all enjoy it.
<snip>

Awwww! That was nice!!

That was great! jovialbard, you should sig the link to your song so Blitzgirl can see it in the Past.

[mscha]

Hiya Buffygirl,

I hate to ask, but I also don't want to remain hatless in a sea¹ of hats.
So... could you perhaps be so kind to make a hat for Dogbert?
If it helps, here's a slightly higher resolution version:

dogbert2_96.png (15.69 KiB) Viewed 18358 times

Thanks in advance!

¹: which is big

[Dracomax]

*heats up a fresh batch of chocolate syrup...*

Before you taint it with the corpses of the unfaithful, please may I have some for my ice cream?

Sure. We're¹ not monsters.

¹The inquisition. Technically, Dragons are monsters^2
2Racists put us in the monster manual. They have been noted by the inquisition.

[Jonas79]

QBAT



Edit: Awww... she broke the tower

[mscha]

Oopsie...

She managed to place all of them without doing any damage. Impressive.

Jinxed it.

[XonqNopp]

So guess what we will see in the few coming Newpix...

[iisjreg]

Fun with -ONG:

Spoiler:

XKCDONG

Surprised that wasn't done earlier.

XKCD THONG

Sounds like yet another thing to add to the shop.

TONGUE

Oh my god these just keep getting better, don't they?

BILLABONG

Yes they do.

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

[manvandmaan]

Oopsie...

She managed to place all of them without doing any damage. Impressive.

Jinxed it. :roll:

Since it was Cueball who built that tower, it's not entirely your fault ;)

[Neil_Boekend]

So guess what we will see in the few coming Newpix...

I guess black pixels.

[Drakeesh]

Haha! Here it is. I haven't been able to contribute to the fancy graphs or hats, so I made this as my present to you all. Hopefully you all enjoy it and don't think the song choice is weird/dumb, but it just popped into my head on the way home from work yesterday and I couldn't get it out. I think if I actually knew what I was doing the video would be better and hopefully you find the singing pleasant enough as well. Like I said, I don't exactly have a music studio in my house and I never claimed to be Michael Buble. That should be enough disclaimers and self-deprecation to cover my butt! Enjoy.

That was great, well done! No self-deprecation necessary.

[mscha]

Time for a sea¹² level update.
Change since just after Sea Wall 2.0 was finished, 25 newpix ago:

Time_sea_level_rise_20130424_1300.png (2.14 KiB) Viewed 18287 times

Sea level still rising, slowly...
The sea wall has eroded, a bit on the sea side, but quite a bit more on the land side. Not surprisingly, Megan has been sitting in it.
The ground level behind the wall has risen a tiny subpixel bit. Not sure if that's sand³ or water⁴, though.

¹: which is big⁵.
²: and can do whatever it wants
³: or pixels, toner, whatever.
⁴: or semencancerbabycoffee, whatever.
⁵: but the river is small

[Neil_Boekend]

The end is near! Repent! Repent!
repent to any religion of choice.

[RobIrr]

repent to any religion of choice.

Which one gives the best discount?

[Neil_Boekend]

The Western Paradox church gives a i% discount. Dunno about the others

edit:
Wohoo

ǝdod ɹı

Can I have a nice Pope hat now?

[mscha]

˙˙˙ƃƃƃ⅁NO𐐒

Rebuilding, as expected.
Come on, Cueball, go do something interesting.

[jovialbard]

Haha! Here it is. I haven't been able to contribute to the fancy graphs or hats, so I made this as my present to you all. Hopefully you all enjoy it.
<snip>

Awwww! That was nice!!

That was great! jovialbard, you should sig the link to your song so Blitzgirl can see it in the Past.

Thanks, guys (and to everyone else with the positive feedback). I don't think I'll put it in my sig, but I will note in my sig that a present is waiting for her on page 395.

At risk of being gravely misunderstood, but...
I need some help with my periods!

I've updated them upto now, but I have no more ideas for the current period. for now it seems to be another Cueball Period.
Any ideas for a good name for this period?

The Megan period ended when she woke up and then the collapse and reconstruction started.

BlitzGirl Progress: holding steady. ETA around 471

[SPACKlick]

BlitzGirl Progress: holding steady. ETA around 471

I make a linear average on your numbers meet at C.450 and a x³ progression encounters at C.473.

that said, I think it would be more useful to look at a Blitzpages per hour (averaged to negate comas) vs Newpage per hour as certain errors would cancel and by that I get a prediction closer to 500

(sorry Blitzgirl, Don't be down heartened, please use this skateboard I have lain here for you to ease your journey a little)