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See the posts with the yellow and black chequered patterns? Two of them mark the edges of a portal to the past (or future) like that in the Takie Czasy . You go through the portal to a time when the buildings had not yet been built. There is another portal "inside" the building so you can...

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the Two Words game Recently, I played a two words game while going by car with my family. We not only made the words match the first letters but we also made them rhyme. Instead of a silly story - a silly poem. All right, so, BSTA fans, we have a bit of a puzzle maybe. Or maybe not. I'll give you s...

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the mr*bdex story cONGtinues. where the phenomenon was generated." "Riiiight." Mrorl paused, holding his chin. "So, back to the original question. How does this help us?" lifting his Molpénet, in which a small and rather contented orange-brown scaly creature was curled up, s...

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BSTA : Wow, that suddenly got a lot more meta. Perhaps Hofstadter will know. Will know what? I added an extra rule that you "win" if your two words make it a complete story. Then you can say "K*niec!" to declare yourself the winner. It's K*niec, not Koniec, because that word mea...

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taixzo wrote:Ah, now I see the "person sitting at laptop". I was trying to orient it the wrong way in my mind.

Like "laptop sitting at person"?

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New Othercomic. Marginally Related for having Megan, Cueball and a tree (which may or may not know what it's doing). Neat. Squirpy alert! http://fora.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=56661 For better molpy-hunting, I removed the dialogue, and reframed the last panel. There's still some minor earth...

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lmjb1964 wrote:Now where did taixzo put those Mac instructions?

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043&p=4331564#p4331564

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Molpy Up date: http://www.peter.gerwinski.de/ott/MolpyUp-screenshot-tiny.png I made a small change in the game. When playing Molpy Up, if I jump into the trebuchet it will lounch my molpy high into the sky and it will be outside the game window. If this happens then I don't see the molpy's horizont...

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For some unknown reason, on my machine it thinks the "CTRL" key is always being pressed, regardless of reality. I also noticed this but only when I had num lock turned on. The reason is not unknown any more. The problem is here: pygame.key.get_mods() and KMOD_CTRL "and" is a log...

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What's a little **dish about this is that the artwork is not under a Free license (GLR released it under a non-commercial license, which is a different thing), so I won't be able to use this hotdog in my FFS smartphone project. This made me think again: Things drawn by me here like ...

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I'm now in a place where I don't have any my own computer. I wanted to try Molpy Up on my sister's computer, with Windows XP. While installing pygame I received this nice greeting: [...] I don't really know what went wrong here. Did not try to find out. I like the new something . On the same comput...

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I'm now in a place where I don't have any my own computer. I wanted to try Molpy Up on my sister's computer, with Windows XP. While installing pygame I received this nice greeting: F:\Documents and Settings\Balthasar>py -m pip install -U pygame --user Collecting pygame Downloading pygame-1.9.3.tar.g...

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t might be something like this, although the player shown in bsta certainly looks more like an audio cassette player, so the images might be a separate slideshow, with the text underneath being audio from the tape. Or it might also be magic. I can never tell. "Audio cassetes" can also be ...

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⋅ What am I supposed to be doing? Just bash randomly on keys hoping something changes? This is the best method of finding out what to do with a game, as recommended by bsta 193 :) ⋅ The molpy randomly faces left and/or right at quasi-random times. Is that a clue for something? T...

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[I thought it would be fun to play with the tape machine, like the other people were able to do (perhaps?) but it's not that important, so don't worry about it. There is a possibility, actually. I have a redundant copy of bsta o[...] Me, me, I want to play with the tape recorder too! Actually, I ha...

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In the beginning of 2013 I made a video with the title "Co to będzie, co to będzie? 2013". "Co to będzie?" means something like "what will be?" "what is going to happen?" "what will the future bring?". I had no idea that 2013 would bring us Time and ...

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In celebration of this, I blitz-wrote a riverish Hotdog: ! Sustainabilizer made a game! Just like that. Apparently, you can just write 168 lines to achieve a simple but playable game. Interesting coincidence. This week I was thinking about trying to start finding out what I need for making a game. ...

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[I thought it would be fun to play with the tape machine, like the other people were able to do (perhaps?) but it's not that important, so don't worry about it. There is a possibility, actually. I have a redundant copy of bsta on which I'm testing changes so I don't break the actual thing. I made i...

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Is there any way to see that tape player thing again? (I mean, not just the image you just showed us! I mean, the actual web page, that has buttons that get clicked, or whatever it was they were doing.) This is not easy to organise. Behind the tape interface is a state machine. This is not the stat...

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Oh, and the cassette doesn't have a window through which the spools of tape can be seen. There are cassettes like that, of course. In this case, it prevents us from knowing how far through BSTA we've "played". Or maybe the level of detail in this frame is too low to see through transparen...

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The bsta server is down again. ⋅ It stopped behaving correctly because it ran out of diskspace. ⋅ Actually sd card space. disk was ok. ⋅ It filled everything with log files. ⋅ The log files full of complaints that there are incorrect files of some at jobs, gr...

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every number is an interesting number Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox Is this photograph something that existed already, or do we now have proof (well, strong evidence at least. It could have been made in Photoshop rather than being a photograph of a real thing) ...

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lmjb1964 wrote:Wait, who's Chester? I thought I knew, but then I realized it was an OtherOtherComic that I was blitzing.

See here: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043&p=4231774#p4231774

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fibonacci wrote:It was all fun and games until the aerial banner SQL injections began.

Forget about dropping tables.
Now you can drop planes from the sky!

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tHE bicyclesonthemoon.info server is running again.
Somehow it got disconnected from power.
It happened on Friday when i was in FFS already.
I couldn't fix it now because I spent the weekend not here.

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Good to see Sustainabilizer here again.

Even if it's not easy reading text separated by bricks...

Redundant

Spoiler:

Sustainabilizer wrote:I'll tell you in a few seconds … Wait for it …

Few seconds in our or your time?

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mrob27 wrote:Enough of this computering.

Time to get up and start performing actions!

GnomeAnne wrote:interesting capitalisation there.

We have already seen the the.

mrob27 wrote:KONIEC? T** **D?!?

Isnt't this the expected behavior of a game when you end it?

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So the dialogue colors in bsta are an indication of point of view, basically. Very clever! And not only bsta itself is doing this. On the 2 words game the words's colors are alternating. But in such a way that if the last 2 words were written by you then you'll see them as blue. On the Coincidence ...

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mrob27 wrote:I haven't worked out a good way to add an unnecessary ogonek to a randomly chosen letter in the final word

but why?

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They are 553×395 pixels, the Time-honoured size of a newpix . I did some things related to video signals so naturally I would divida images into rows and rows into pixels. So when I followed the link to see: Simple: 1 TimeFrame = 395 TimeLines and 1 TimeLine = 553 TimePoints. I think you misunderst...

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Yes, this is what I saw in the morning.
Good to know that this was not just a dream.

Ths size of the picture was different, I think.
timeframe size?

Thank you.

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Today early morning
I saw a new post here

With a colourless picture of a beach
and some words in a spoiler.

Now
It's gone
why?

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ĘRROR ęrror :shock: ! I guess our internet must have rotated MusTARDISed away. internet, really? the address of the server in this game was 192.168.80.236 which means it was on a local network, and not on the internet. bad news. The laptop on which I'm preparing BSTA doesn't want to cooperate any m...

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Doesn't 4+5=9? it is. :oops: Is this using octadecimal because of the 8bit colour depth? octadecimal would be base 18. he showed us #2, #5, #7 in OTT:2053:24 this is a better post to link to: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?p=3752564#p3752564 MINY I just got mrobsniped into re-reading the PMs ...

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I did a little more work on my GIF file palette decoder. so the palettes seen so far are: 4: 000000 AAAAAA BB6622 FFFFFF 5: 000000 0057AF BB6622 FFFFFF 10: 000000 08B000 AA22BB FFFFFF 11: 000000 bb6622 AAAAAA 0057AF FFFFFF Interesting coincidence that I just noticed: Palette 11 was created by combi...

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ucim wrote:(Wait a minute... is it really "waiting for it" if xe's doing something else while waiting?

if doing something else and waiting then yes, if doing something else and not waiting then no.

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Perhaps slightly more surprising, the FFFFFF is repeated 4 more times (for a total of 8 possible pixel values). So the white pixels in the GIFs might "hide" something :twisted: I'll try to explain this. A GIF can have 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 colours. So why 8 and not 4? The gif b...

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(I do not know how to get palettes from the GIFs) and found four: I use libdevil Also here is the GIF format specification if you want to do it by yourself: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt 000000 aaaaaa bb6622 ffffff (first seen in bsta-000001.png) what about bsta-000000.png? The int...

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None of those are easy to answer. I thought the second one is. And you answered it: The colours [...] seem to be there to disambiguate one speaker, narrator, and/or voice from another. And that's all. Or almost all: The colours seem to be chosen arbitrarily Actually, no. The blue: 12: B the guy and...

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I want to read through balthapuzzler's clues about colors and see what he's getting at But this is not supposed to be a puzzle. I just used color to make the change more clear. Look at this part, when the text changed, especially at the black words. Also look at any frame with dialogue (they also h...

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