Latent22 wrote: Well I'm currently the one releasing them but I can't claim all the credit as I've got someone else helping out with the content as well. You can have the fun speculating on who that might be.
I have to suppose Ebonite has something to do with it. That's who posted Lucky's dream just before I posted the first luckyONG, which was just Lucky lying there at the time, but then changed to Lucky dreaming that dream. Hasn't posted since. I suppose that could mean anything... or EVERYTHING!
My molpy is on BlitzGirl – I bet she drew Lucky.
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Blindpost from the top of np 1276, distracted but still here. No firstposts in the last 2 np's.
I'm pretty sure this is new to the thread; it's tree-rings played as music, very .
And not just the Past Page Pope's, but also the Present Page Pope's!
Questing onwards - page 344 out of 1385; the dyke has just breached so Megan and Cueball are ... building on the highest level.
Okay, so a treadle is the pedal-thing ... That's all I have.
dyke(1): "The office ... make[s] its incumbent a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner is one leak plugged than it is necessary to dash over and stop another that has broken out. There is no end to it."
It looks like both spellings (dyke, dike) can be used for either of the two main meanings ... although the UK and the US have a different default meaning for the 'dyke' spelling.
And thanks for the sigcouragement ... definitely a plus!!
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I think it's time to add another message to this thread.
I did stuff and got 2 As, 2 Bs and a C. I'm carrying the As and the C forward. After that I plan to just carry the As forward. Without context this sounds pretty weird.
HAL9000 wrote: Quick question: who, if we know, is making these images about Lucky that appear every four hours? I skipped over their origin.
Edit2: bajiggles this thread is slow-moving today.
Well I'm currently the one releasing them but I can't claim all the credit as I've got someone else helping out with the content as well. You can have the fun speculating on who that might be.
Yes, that was me who posted the picture of the Beanies' dinner with Lucky. I'm still here, but my post rate has been very slow. Those of you who have been around since the beginning may recall that I mentioned in a previous post that I got laid off from my company back in June. I'm still looking for a new position.
I'm not in any serious financial trouble yet, but it's taking a lot of effort trying to find a comparable job that doesn't involve a significant (>33%) pay cut or relocating my family. About all I can do in the evenings is read the OTT without spending a lot of time posting, OTTifying, or contributing in any fun way.
Roasting Lucky was the first fun thing on the OTT I had time for in quite a while. In any case. . .I'm still here lurking. I'm not in Blitzgirl's basement.
BlitzGirl wrote: Also, is awefulsome the same as awesomeful?
It is my suggestion that they are basically the same except through connotation. Awfulsome has the connotation of awful but is still mostly positive. Awesomeful obviously has awesome as its base and the most overall positive word.
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If you ever get bored, mscha - what about integrating the manips / mashups and spin-offs in your excellent Time viewer?
I regret that we do not have a good inventory on which books/cinematics we already have addressed.
higgs-boson wrote: If you ever get bored, mscha - what about integrating the manips / mashups and spin-offs in your excellent Time viewer?
Mscha had already considered this but abandoned the idea for there is no reliable way to determine the correlation between OTColorization/Manip and the timeframe.
With my database (though not nearly exhaustive - I haven't covered manips at all, only OTColorizations and there is a backlog of about 300 songs which are scraped from the wiki but defy automagic lyrics extraction) there my be a way. If mscha is interested I may be able to provide a way of correlating timeframes and OTColorization, just as I've done now inside the database.
The manips during the active Time should be placed in context of the proper newpix - no problem there.
Anything what came after, I agree, could be a bit more difficult. For example, I am not sure where I would put the flux capacitor in. Or Thebes. Mh, wait, no, Thebes could be placed to m2840 (however, it should be marked as post-end manip).
More of a problem: Some manips were linked only, not attached. Which makes any automatism for collecting raw data trickier.
I may have discovered a new way to make sand castles out of sand and water. No salt or coffee or ... needed. I've been doing this for a couple of years, but I can't remember whether I saw someone else doing this on a beach or did I just invent this by myself.
The idea is to use very wet sand and to pour it on the construction as "layers". It's hard to give exact instrucions on how wet the sand should be, but I suppose you can figure it out quite easily once you try this. It's essential to build near water so you can take sand easily from the water and add it immediately to the construction.
Do the images have be spoilered like this, or has the forum software been updated?
superluminal wrote: I may have discovered a new way to make sand castles out of sand and water. No salt or coffee or ... needed. I've been doing this for a couple of years, but I can't remember whether I saw someone else doing this on a beach or did I just invent this by myself.
This is awesomeful and awefulsome!
The castles look like they are being invaded by a horde of writhing, climbing molpies, a-la Dante. Quite treeish.
I'm planning to draw a boom-de-yada thingy for something else, so today I skimmed through BlitzGirl's post on tablets, wrote 'Wacom Bamboo Create' on my to-do list, and went out. I found some Wacom Bamboos but no Create, and I bought a not-the-smallest Bamboo Fun (it was either that or what appeared to be the same thing but with anime software instead of PhotoShop Elements), which I now read is what BlitzGirl had in 2008. Hopefully it's a newer model; it looks just like the Bamboo Create picture. Anyway, I eventually managed to get the driver to install and the tutorial to not be in German, and now I can present to you my first tablet drawing: a chibi of Cueball, just done in Inkwell and sent to GraphicConverter because I haven't got around to figuring out how to get the other software yet.
Later, once I've figure out how to use this thing, I might draw a picture of the first two lines of an ottody which I haven't got around to finishing but which I've somehow got stuck in my head anyway.
This one was done directly into GraphicConverter, and doesn't look as nice.
His body is riverish and his head is seaish.
Treeish, Angelastic! I just did a check on the Wacom EU site: it looks like the Bamboo Fun you got is identical to a Bamboo Create - the tablet is simply marketed under a different name in the U.S. than it is over there.
Hope you enjoy your new tablet!
It's nice to think we might be drawing on the same type tablet!
Not to destroy your glee, but we were making castles that way in 1960, and I strongly suspect my Dad taught us that because he'd been doing it that way rather farther into the waywayback.
PS I just wish I ever had that much hair.
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Cellocgw the "spoiler quote /spoiler /quote" bug has struck again! Try changing the order of the tags to fix this.
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Since when did newpixbot post 12 minutes after the hour, not that I'm not grateful for his postings on this slow wipend days.
For the manips and mashups and stuff, I think the wiki, and Sciscitor's database, are a better solution.
It's a simplified version of the list & viewer for Time itself, and gets automagically updated when a new Latent22 frame appears.
As y'all have noticed, newpixbot has awoken as well! It's been running irregularly so far, but now I have it posting 30 minutes after the newONG, to give otters a bit more of a chance in these slower Times.
Let me know if y'all have a problem with this, and I'll shut it down.
Regarding awesomeful, I've been using "awesomeful" and "awefulsome", the latter to clarify that it really isn't aweful.
schwartzbewithyou wrote: Hopefully to help with some of the Post-Time Stress Disorder... I bring you Monomolpy pieces v5.0! Now with improved water transportation!
Wow! The trebuchet and raft are AWESOMEFULL!
That Othercomic makes me so sad!
Reporting in from normally-sunny-but-cloudy-tonight Utah! Boy, is the midwest boring. Hundreds of miles of flat, boring, shrubby terrain punctuated by salty smelly flats. Was glad to get done with the driving today, and have something to look at (this thread!).
But speaking of which, I was disappointed (but not entirely surprised) to see only a single page generated in my absence: and another definitive bye to boot. Get back here, kazza3, you're not going anywhere! To the basement!
In regards to awefulsomeful, I've been in the habit of using awesomeful as it is clearer to modern english speakers, but I think I let an awefulsome or two slip in recently. They're pretty interchangeable, IMO, as they both convey the intended meaning: the modern usage of awesome with an acknowledgement of the past usage of awful.
Tomorrow we investigate a local exhibit featuring half-excavated dinosaur bones, which I mentioned previously. Will keep an eye out for raptorcats, prehistoric pricklymolps, and other ancient molpies of ambiguous descent. Hopefully it's not a bunch of boring ol' stegosaurs. 'Til then, CHRDRG out!
Also, I just realized today that I was wrong in my last post: the Temeraire book which just came out is in fact the eighth in the series, not the seventh. It's closer to ending than I thought Also, not sure what Aluisio was trying to imply with his whole "seven of nine" thing...a reference to something I skimmed?
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Hi there, I'm MistyCat. Male, elderly.
I started blitzing two days ago, I'm now reading Page 100. I shall reach the end.
Mr Munroe, I genuflect in your general direction.
yappobiscuits wrote: Alrighty my dear molpies, from now till Monday I shall be away molpying around listening to lots of heavy metal in a field somewhere in Derbyshire. Something called Bloodstock Festival I think. Anyway, keep the thread warm for me! Don't let it die before I return! Smoke me a kippermolpy, I'll be back for breakfast!
I spent the last two days wandering around Derbyshire - Buxworth, Millers Dale, Monsal Head. The baamolpies do a terrific job of keeping the hills manicured. Back to Lu on Tue.
It's a good thing we have newpixbot here this wipend while we OTTers are molpying about Outside.
I would say that with respect to me, the luckyONGs are working. I'm checking in throughout the day to see what's happening. I sense that snapy/lucky showdown brewing!
I woke up at 5:30 AM and had this song playing in my head. Of course I had to check if it had been mentioned here - and it hasn't! I found only recentlyr the (ancient) Spotify playlist, and it's not there either! So here you are, a RELATED song that doesn't even have to be OTTified.
cellocgw wrote: Not to destroy your glee, but we were making castles that way in 1960, and I strongly suspect my Dad taught us that because he'd been doing it that way rather farther into the waywayback.
Nice! I wonder if people will be doing this still in 11 000 years from now... Maybe someone will invent it again.
Edited to add redundancy in spoiler. Caption not yet 100 % OTT.
ETA2: If you liked Nick Drake, check this other song too. It's also slightly RELATED.
On a note related to other forms of story telling, here is Star Wars in ASCII animation.
Pretty cool, despite a bit of mustard at the end.
Title text: Amtoo is currently roped up in our basement. We can't tell if he committed heresy, or if it just turns him on.
mscha wrote: As y'all have noticed, newpixbot has awoken as well! It's been running irregularly so far, but now I have it posting 30 minutes after the newONG, to give otters a bit more of a chance in these slower Times.
I have no problems with newpixbot. It's not doing any harm (at least not yet) and it reminds me of the old times.
Speaking of newpixbot, we should have a new luckypix in about 1/30 nopix!
There is a wiki page of open questions, kindly be so good as to add yours.