1190: "Time"

[balthasar_s]

WELL, ANYTHONG COULD BE A SPOILERAPTOR, INCLUDING THIS RAPTORSHARK I JUST THWAPPED. -- ongomome

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

-- posted by lmjbot

It's time to analyse everything again.

So we have two characters here.
One is the beaniewoman that we know from t1i and the OTT calls her Ms Frizzle.
And there is a new character.
Looks like a standard GLR stickfigure, but with glasses.
"I did my doctorate in physics."
This is an important information.
Together with knowing that phys is presented by S&S (Sustainabilizer & SilentTimer) Producti^o:^ngs it suggests that this glasses guy could be the representation of Sustainabilizer.

Hmm, a glasses wearing guy TaT character that is the representation of the author of the TaT, that seems familiar...

How will the OTT call this new character?
The bftf character in similar situation was called "square glasses guy" or "b".
Since this could be the representation of one of the S&S will the ott call him "S", analogically?
I wonder what the ott will come up with.

After the "my hobby" front page the story started in Beanish.
But what looked like a beginning of a Beanish story continues now with English dialogue.
Ms Frizzle learned English so well?
Possible, after Cueganpeople moved to beanieland as indicated in the end of t1i.

Or maybe the story continues in Beanish but it's shown to us in English so that we know what is said?
Just like the Cuegan language in Time is shown as English to us.
Similarly, in bftf, not all text written in English was actually said in English.
So why is the first frame Beanish?
Maybe because it was said outside the frame and phys doesn't translate out of frame text?

Also, wait, does it mean that the representation of Sustainabilizer speaks Beanish?
So it seems that maybe just the first frame is Beanish after all.

But still, The Sustainabilizer representation and Ms Frizzle in the same frame?
They are from different times.
What's going on? Time travel?
Or maybe this story is supposed to be more symbolic and the anachronism is irrelevant.

Or, maybe, this is not the real Ms Frizzle at all?
Maybe, similarly like the glasses guy could be the representation of Sustainabilizer, Ms Frizzle could be the representation of SilentTimer?
It's not that unlikely, SilentTimer signed some of their posts with this:

ETA: pope

It's time to analyse everything again.

Try to analyse / speculate about some TaT,
including but not limited to
the new phys story

(also, can anyone recognise the things from the first page of phys which I did not recognise? I have no idea what the beard guy is holding.)

[mscha]

PUNGED...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

(Colorization by mscha.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

GAZEBO. OINTMENT. HARPSICHORD. VITSSÅGEN. BEESNAKE.

-- posted by oldpixbot

[AluisioASG]

Greetings from NP2547, which begins with me talking about avatars with Sciscitor. Probably for the OTTermap popups. I wonder how crufty that codebase is now, but hey, it still works.

A mr*bdex story fragment. I had finally forgotten about those. And it too seems to have forgotten about making progress. A story about time travel(ing Dragons) stuck in its own red forest.

Ah, the Chronicles of Torgos! I remember this one, if hazily. Need to refresh it. And BSTA. And AotC. And the other stuff I've seen coming down the pipe. And rewatch BFTF too. And...

mrob, is phys this Third Journey you speak of?

ED says he's got no avatar at the moment, then a couple of posts later shows up with his current one. Have we run out of Time, and I'm writing to a snapshot? Would that one be "and I am", or "and am I"?

addams! How are you doing these days? How is Lucille?
Some days are cloudy and cold over here.
Others are sunny and less cold.
This is one of these days.

The open Horizon would be, just, a line.

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I've added The Cloisters to my travel list, by the way.

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NP2548. By coincidence, Der Berg by Unheilig has just started playing. We seem to be picking up steam.

think says *<acc> is not really into Pokémon. I'm sure I just read something similar in the mr*bdex story.

It hadn't struck me before how similar my and Gingercat's weather are.

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NP2549. The Object Catalogue reminds me of something from Kieryn's comics. And now we've learned botm's origin story. Well, part of it.

ggh, that 300 cake for Gingercat is so apropos And those Time-travel shenanigans... there's something there. Maybe if we combine it with your manip that was posted just after...

I like that poem about Love, addams. Thanks for bringing it.
Might repurpose it for someone else later on.

Someday I'll find reason to return "303 See OTTer" in an application

Pl. reched the summit now, see y'all again soon.

[SBN]

Hi, Aluisio!

Good to read from you again.

I've returned from my journey, but as often happens with traveling, things have become less organized while I was gone. Unfortunately, part of what became less organized, was my organized sand.

[addams]

addams! How are you doing these days? How is Lucille?
Some days are cloudy and cold over here.
Others are sunny and less cold.
This is one of these days.

The open Horizon would be, just, a line.

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Oh, Poor Lucille,
Thank you for asking.
She had a rough Time of it.

She is back up on her wheels and faithfully doing her job, again.

Spoiler:

She spent three weeks looking a lot like a bug on its side.

She sat there with one wheel up in the air so long her battery went dead.
Finely, help arrived! Her shoe was easily fixed by a professional. (phew)

There is nothing wrong with her brakes.
She simply stepped on a nail and limped.

As for me.
well...

Spoiler:

I was told, "We might be able to get you two years."
That was Three Years ago!

I take a lot of pills and I have a low activity level.
Yet,...Against all odds, I am still typing.

I've moved out of the Forest.
I still have outdoor space, flowers pouring out of their pots and a flock of cute quarreling HummingBirds.

How am I?
Content, enough, I suppose.
My apartment is warm, unlike my Forest Box.

I've added The Cloisters to my travel list, by the way.

Oh!
I don't know Why I told you about The Cloisters.
But, I am glad I did. I hope you do go out there.

Did I tell you?
From the The Cloisters you can sit on a European style rock wall and look down
at the skyscrapers of New York's financial district, like Toys in the distance.

When/If you go, please tell us.
Directions:

Spoiler:

Take the subway as far North as it will go.
Then walk North to what looks like a park.

Start climbing.
At every turn, take the Up.

Soon you will have walked Up into Europe.
Most of the buildings and their contents were Gifts from Europeans to the U.S.
Each a treasure. Each a manifestation of both fine craftsmanship and goodwill.

Oh! Oh!
As long as you are in New York:

Spoiler:

The Asian Society is eleven blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts.
They have a room with One and Only One piece of Art in it. It deserves its own room.

It is hands down and by far the very best Ganesha, I have ever seen.

https://asiasociety.org/new-york/plan-your-visit

Shiva, I did not see.
You might able to.
http://museum.asiasociety.org/collectio ... a-nataraja

Uh-Oh....I am reminded of a comedy based on Shiva, The God.
umm...It is not meant to offend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93xY06Sh7FE

I've returned from my journey, but as often happens with traveling, things have become less organized while I was gone.
Unfortunately, part of what became less organized, was my organized sand.

Get organized, Honey.
We need to read your voice.

[mrob27]

can anyone recognise the things from the first page of phys which I did not recognise? I have no idea what the beard guy is holding.

There are of course two beard guys.
　 The beard guy in the upper-right is holding motorcycle handlebars (one of which has a mirror?) attached to a small Earth with a vertical axle through the centre. I suppose this refers to moment of inertia, i.e. rotational inertia, the thing that makes motorcycles stay vertical when the wheels are turning, and the thing that makes the Earth's axis keep pointing the same way; but the Earth's axis gets steered because the tidal forces on the equatorial bulge impart torque that makes the axis precess.
　 The beard guy in the approximate centre of the image has genus-1 branes (or 2-d manifolds embedded in 3-d space) that are linked in a daisy chain. I tried Googling various combinations of that but couldn't find an image of anything resembling this chain.

Yes, the mr*bdex story is too slow. Sorry.

^{— mrob27}

(Edit: Add my OpenGL Gray-Scott explorer, which I hope to discuss in a future post)

Spoiler:

opengl-gray-scott.zip

OpenGL Gray-Scott explorer

(406.55 KiB) Downloaded 63 times

[ucim]

Yes, the mr*bdex story is too slow. Sorry.

Are you really apologizing for making us wait for it? Heresy! Off to the Comfy Chair!

Welcome back Aluisio! I've been wondering what was going on with you!

Someday I'll find reason to return "303 See OTTer" in an application

You sure you don't mean "303 Sea OTTer"? Or "303 C-OTTer (C is big)"? (Or to be more obscure, "303 12-OTTer - The river is small"?)

Pl. reched the summit now, see y'all again soon.

It's all downhill from here!

(also, can anyone recognise the things from the first page of phys which I did not recognise? I have no idea what the beard guy is holding.)

"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I shall move the world." Alas, I don't see how moving that image could be, as he doesn't have anyplace to stand. At least not any visible one. Maybe he just closes his eyes.

Jose

[mscha]

YAMMERUNGS...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

(Colorization by ggh.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

OH HAI, I KEUGHT UP YOUR BUKKITS

-- posted by oldpixbot

[svenman]

New othercomic.

QuestionUNG:


EmergUNG:

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

[addams]

(also, can anyone recognise the things from the first page of phys which I did not recognise? I have no idea what the beard guy is holding.)

"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I shall move the world." Alas, I don't see how moving that image could be, as he doesn't have anyplace to stand. At least not any visible one. Maybe he just closes his eyes.

Jose

Oh! Oh!
Maybe, he puts on Virtual Reality Glasses and stands on Jupiter.
He might flick us out past the Kuiper Belt.

Take his lever away!
brrr...It's cold out there.

[balthasar_s]

QuestionUNG:

That's actually what physics is all about, right?
Good choice then.

[Sustainabilizer]

So we have kind-of of a computer text-with-graphic adventure here.

There are multiple levels of narration: the story, stories inside the story, the action between the reader and the adventure hotdog, and even the other side of the story.

There is interaction between the reader (player?) and the setup of the story itself (e.g. frame 14: “Put ARMs into your inventory or however it's called”, or frame 20: “Congratulations, you successfully completed your first task as the new guy.”). The confusion of the reader is an integral part of the story.

There is interaction between the reader (player?) and the figures in the story (hotdog?), e.g. when b is bored in frame 4 or complains about “this stupidity” in frame 7.

In addition there is the narrator, interacting with the reader, e.g. in frame 9, “You also wonder if this will continue getting meta.” or in frame 11, “You're getting confused by all this. Better get used to this since you're going to be this guy really soon. Actually, you start being him right now!”

The reader is part of the story, just like the persons in the story, the persons in the stories in the story, and the author in the other side of the story.

And there's even more: additional software such as coincidence and 2 words, additional media such as the whistling in frame 88 and kxa's piano music in frame 119, and more things (such as the autogenerated text in balthasar's signature) where we don't yet know how they are RELATED to BSTA.

There are repeatingredundant motives. For instance, b (frame 14) and kxa (frame 115) have different concepts of “ARMs”. We see several “NICE DROP!”s, all different.

There are several links to BFTF (CTIF, Object Generator, LEML, wheelstick, …).

How much of all this is real? There are insider jokes between b and his friends (e.g. “… and watch out for batmans.” frame 98) or how b (frame 80) and kxa (frame 131) go down stairs. These suggest that b, kxa and fth acutally exist and have a similar relationship in the real world as in BSTA.

There is a connection with the OTT, e.g. the Mustardis appearing in frame 199.

There is time travel. While the Mustardis appears only in a hotdog inside the story, b and kxa seem to travel through time when they cross the gate (frame 167: “Wasn't there just a hole in the ground?”). However it is not clear how different the levels really are. When b phones kxa it is not clear whether Joe (from a story inside the story) or kxa herself should pick up the phone (frame 145).

There are other weird technical things such as a computer which repairs itself when we wait for it (frame 50) or a ”CT card” (frame 54) and the TOIC protocol.

Conclusion:

• I'm confused.
• I'll continue to wait for it.

[balthasar_s]

kxa's piano music in frame 119,

Interesting coincidence: Music she tries to play in frame 119 is BWV Anh. 119.

insider jokes between b and his friends (e.g. “… and watch out for batmans.” frame 98)

The batmans joke is explained here

Mustardis appearing in frame 199.

Actually, it appears one frame earlier.

(frame 167: “Wasn't there just a hole in the ground?”).

And not many frames later there IS a hole in the ground there.

the TOIC protocol.

TIOC, not TOIC. (TCP/IP over Coincdence)

(Edit: Add my OpenGL Gray-Scott explorer, which I hope to discuss in a future post)

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me.
this

Use the mouse to draw in the large image area

does nothing. Also the init button does nothing. the picture is full of one color all the time. I opened the index.html in two browsers, Firefox and Chromium, on Debian 9.
Additionally If I scroll down the page it freezes my computer. The only thing I can do then is to move the mouse around because everything else no longer works (if I press the on off button it will turn off after some time. It's the second thing that works).
If I scroll down without javascript enabled then nothing bad happens and I can see

This simulation requires the GL extensions framebuffer_object and texture_float. If you cannot see the simulation your system probably lacks at least one of these extensions.

I'm not familiar with these things. Anyway the check in Chromium as suggested at the page bottom shows I have the framebuffer_object but not the texture_float.
Now to find out what it is and how to get it.



It is no longer possible to use the search on the OTT wiki without Javascript, which is not good.

[mscha]

PORRUNGER...

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

(Colorization by dawnfire.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

AH! POST YOUR YAPPOCISED BUT INEVITABLE SILENTONG!

-- posted by oldpixbot

[Gingercat]

Ah, the Chronicles of Torgos! I remember this one, if hazily. Need to refresh it.

It's such a pity that particular DnD game simply halted... in order to begin another one, which also abruptly halted about a month ago.

It hadn't struck me before how similar my and Gingercat's weather are.

It's been so cold here recently that a morning shower before work hasn't been possible due to frozen pipes!

In other DnD news, the OTTDnDG is still running and in fact the characters are destined to all shortly end up back in the same place the story began (albeit briefly): The Seven Otters Bar!

Var has just been crash-hugged by Gostak, and I suspect the others will be along shortly.

As always, I extend the invitation to join in (even just for conversation / observation) to all OTTers; just PM me if you want the link to the game!

[mrob27]

Add my OpenGL Gray-Scott explorer, which I hope to discuss in a future post

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me.

Darn, I had a feeling.
　 As you say, simply having a browser with WebGL is not sufficient, it must also have some specific GL things.
　 If you can get Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit) for your Debian system then maybe it will work? That's what I have anyway.
　 I'll try to add some code to test for the missing things and pop up the "not working?" message automatically.

[balthasar_s]

We have seen these words before:

phys 7 and 8:

Spoiler:

Time 1071 and 1072:

Spoiler:

[svenman]

Previous othercomic.

Latest othercomic.

New BSTA:

...

That was...
weird.

Better not do it again.

Back to previous art style. Are we also back to the previous strand of reality or will some things be subtly different, maybe?


HurryUNG:

Spoiler:

RUN.

(Colorization by jjjdavidson.)


RushUNG:

Spoiler:

RUN.

[mscha]

PREMUNGER...

Spoiler:

RUN.

(Colorization by pelrigg.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS CORINNE KEYBOARDS

-- posted by oldpixbot

[TheMinim]

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS CORINNE KEYBOARDS

I will Corinne all the keyboards!

[svenman]

RunnUNG:

Spoiler:

RUN.

Rescue MissiONG:

Spoiler:

RUN.

[TheMinim]

New Othercomic!

The y-axis is the one that asks a lot of questions. Maybe it, too, wants to understand everything.

[ucim]

Yes, the y axis is about understanding, but few people know that the original form was the y₀. It was the one that encouraged people to do the experiments whose results ended up on the why axis.

Jose

[addams]

Time, still, acts funny.

[ucim]

Time, still, acts funny.

As it was, and ever will be.

Was I being too noughty?

Jose

[mscha]

CHUNGEWATER...

Spoiler:

RUN.

(Colorization by Goggalor.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

I'M WORKING TO CREATE A KEYBOARD-SMASHING MROBDEX THAT WILL ETERNALLY SUSTAINABILIZE EVERYMOLPY WHO FAILS TO NINJA THE POPEBOT'S OTTERONG PEOPLE.

-- posted by oldpixbot

[addams]

Was I being too noughty?

Jose

No! Absolutely not.
You were, simply, funny.

[ucim]

I went to the theater to see something funny. They told me to look in the mirror.

Jose

[addams]

I went to the theater to see something funny. They told me to look in the mirror.

Jose

ahhh....What did you See??

[ucim]

Nothing. The mirror broke.

Jose

[mscha]

ÉTRUNGÈR...

Spoiler:

RUN.

(Colorization by BlitzGirl.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

HELLO, I'M POPEBOT. BASICALLY, COMA!

-- posted by oldpixbot

[balthasar_s]

I went to the theater to see something funny. They told me to look in the mirror.

Jose

ahhh....What did you See??

A mirror?


A well onged phys frame:

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

Also previous one, because it was only onged it in a spoiler:

Spoiler:

Wait for it.

[ucim]

A mirror?

Does one truly ever see a mirror, let alone its insides?

Isn't everything a little ambitious?

That's what the first part of going insane looks like.

Jose

[balthasar_s]

A mirror?

Does one truly ever see a mirror, let alone its insides?

You can see a mirror here, and its insides here.

Isn't everything a little ambitious?

That's what the first part of going insane looks like. :)

Everything is ambitious these days...:)

[svenman]

FloatUNG:

Spoiler:

...

New phys frame:

[Rakhal]

It's my birthdip... a bad day

--Rakhal

[mscha]

STRUNGYLE...

Spoiler:

...

(Colorization by Hillperson.)

Replay Time live here!

OTT Time Travel

IN B4 408 PUZZLE

-- posted by oldpixbot

[balthasar_s]

New phys frame:

I think in my time we are closer to understanding everything than any time before.

He actually says "in my time" which supports the hypothesis that he is from a different time than she.
Time travel confirmed?
Who is the time traveler?
He moved forward or she moved backward?

I don't expect to be the one who will solve the puzzle. But when some genius does I want to understand it.

Some of the great discoveries are like this, you have to be a genius to come up with the solution but you don't have to be one to understand it, right?

[ggh]

GUNG-HO...

Spoiler:

...

(Colorization by Jose.)

Replay Time live here!

-- posted by the basement

[ucim]

-- posted by the basement

The basement is getting quite squirrely...what's going on down there?

And hi, ggh!

Jose