Famous Quotes

[qqd]

I would have preferred the left one, but the parity god hates me lately:

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x = 253, y = 132, rule = LifeHistory
12$197.2A$198.A$198.A.AB$199.2AB$201.6B14.2B$201.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B$
200.3B3C23B.6B.2B$197.AB.4BC31B3D$196.A.A39BD$197.A2B.35B3DB$198.B.
39B$199.38B$198.33B.4B$197.21B3.5B.2B3.4B$196.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B$195.4B
3.15B3.5B$194.4B2.9B.3B7.2A$193.4B3.10B11.A$192.4B3.10B9.3A$191.4B4.
9B10.A$190.4B5.10B$51.2A136.4B6.9B$52.A135.4B6.11B$52.A.AB131.4B8.10B
$53.2AB131.3B9.9B$55.6B14.2B110.3B10.8B.2B$55.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B100.
3B10.10B2A$54.3B3C23B.6B.2B104.B2.10B2A$51.AB.4BC31B3D103.2AB.8B.2B$
50.A.A39BD103.2A11B$51.A2B.35B3DB103.B.10B$52.B.39B108.3B.4B$53.38B
108.4B3D5B$52.33B.4B109.2C2.B.4B2C$51.21B3.5B.2B3.4B110.C2.B3D2BC.C$
50.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B108.3C3.2BDB4.C$49.4B3.15B3.5B118.C4.3B3D3.2C$48.4B
2.9B.3B7.2A126.7B$47.4B3.10B11.A126.9B$46.4B3.10B9.3A128.9B$45.4B4.9B
10.A130.5B$44.4B5.10B139.B6.2B$43.4B6.9B140.B5.2B2C$42.4B6.11B139.B5.
2B2C$41.4B8.10B139.B7.2B$41.3B9.9B140.6B$41.3B10.8B.2B137.7B.B$41.3B
10.10B2A135.11B$51.B2.10B2A136.8B.2B$50.2AB.8B.2B136.9B$50.2A11B122.
2A14.9B$51.B.10B123.A14.10B$55.3B.4B123.A.AB.3B7.5B2A3B$53.4B3D5B122.
2AB.5B5.5B2A4B$53.2C2.B.4B2C124.7B5.11B$54.C2.B3D2BC.C123.8B4.4BD7BA.
2A$51.3C3.2BDB4.C88.3B31.10B5.B3D4B2.2A.A$51.C4.3B3D3.2C72.A13.4B29.
11B4.2BD2B2D2B$56.7B76.3A10.4B30.13B2.8B$56.9B77.A8.4B30.16B2.6B.BA$
25.3B29.9B75.2A7.4B30.18B.7BA.A$10.A13.4B29.5B79.5B3.4B30.27B.2A$10.
3A10.4B29.B6.2B78.3B2.4B30.27B$13.A8.4B30.B5.2B2C67.2A7.9B30.28B$12.
2A7.4B31.B5.2B2C67.A8.8B32.28B$12.5B3.4B32.B7.2B64.2A.A.B3.10B33.27B
2.BA$14.3B2.4B33.6B68.A2.3AB.2B2A2BD4B32.30BA.A$4.2A7.9B34.7B.B66.2A
2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B32.31BA$4.A8.8B34.11B67.4A7B2D3B32.29B.B$.2A.A.B3.10B
36.8B.2B66.A.2B3.7B.B2A31.26B$.A2.3AB.2B2A2BD4B35.9B70.3AB2.7B.BA.A
30.25B$2.2A2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B35.9B73.A4.4B5.A30.22B$4.4A7B2D3B35.10B67.
5A5.4B5.2A29.12B.4B$4.A.2B3.7B.B2A33.5B2A3B67.A10.4B35.10B5.B$5.3AB2.
7B.BA.A26.A5.5B2A4B68.A9.4B34.10B4.3B$8.A4.4B5.A26.3A3.11B67.2A10.4B
32.10B5.B2AB$3.5A5.4B5.2A16.A11.A2.4BD7BA.2A75.4B31.10B6.2A$3.A10.4B
22.3A8.2A4.B3D4B2.2A.A102.2A6.10B$5.A9.4B24.A7.6BD2B2D2B110.A7.9B$4.
2A10.4B10.A11.2A3.B5.10B111.A.AB4.9B.2B$17.4B7.3A11.8B2.11B101.A10.2A
B.14B2A$18.4B5.A16.19B88.4B7.3A11.17B2A$12.2A5.4B4.2A15.20B2A86.4B5.A
15.14B.2B$12.A7.9B14.21B2A80.2A5.4B4.2A15.13B$13.3A5.6B14.25B80.A7.9B
14.14B.2B$16.A5.6B3.B2.2B3.25B83.3A5.6B14.18B2A$13.2AB.A4.16B.2BD14B
4.4B86.A5.6B3.B2.2B3.18B.B2A$12.A2.2AB3.16B.3BDBD4B.6B6.B.B2A.A79.2AB
.A4.16B.2BD15B2.B$12.2A2.14B2A6B.2B3D4B2.B.5B6.B2AB3A76.A2.2AB3.16B.
3BDBD4B.8B$17.13B2A5B.5BD4B7.2A8.B4.A75.2A2.14B2A6B.2B3D4B2.7B$18.29B
8.A8.2A.3A81.13B2A5B.5BD4B2.7B$18.17B.4B16.3A4.A2.2A84.29B3.7B$19.15B
24.A4.2A87.17B.4B11.7B$19.15B5.A3.2A108.15B.4B12.7B$20.13B5.A.A3.A
108.19B.A3.2A6.6B$22.13B2.A.A3.A110.17B.A.A3.A7.5B$21.8B4.2A.A.A3.A
113.14B.A.A3.A7.5B$21.6B6.2ABA2.4A.A110.8B4.2A.A.A3.A8.5B$21.5B8.B2.A
.A3.A.A109.6B6.2ABA2.4A.A8.B.B$21.B.B9.2A.2A2.A2.A.A109.5B8.B2.A.A3.A
.A6.3B$22.3B9.A.A2.2A3.A110.B.B9.2A.2A2.A2.A.A6.B2AB$21.B2AB9.A.A119.
3B9.A.A2.2A3.A8.2A$22.2A11.A119.B2AB9.A.A$156.2A11.A!

Note that this spark only works adding a block to that specific b-to-h, I would have preferred a spark from a g-to-X or glider activated factory, but was not so lucky as far as I can tell. But it works at least.

addendum: parity god wrath strikes again...

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x = 96, y = 109, rule = LifeHistory
12$40.2A$41.A$41.A.AB$42.2AB$44.6B14.2B$44.4BC2B2.6B4.4B.2B5.B$43.3B
3C23B.6B.2B$40.AB.4BC31B3D$39.A.A39BD$40.A2B.35B3DB$41.B.39B$42.38B$
41.33B.4B$40.21B3.5B.2B3.4B$39.4B2.16B4.4B7.2B$38.4B3.15B3.5B$37.4B2.
9B.3B7.2A$36.4B3.10B11.A$35.4B3.10B9.3A$20.A13.4B4.9B10.A$20.3A10.4B
5.10B$23.A8.4B6.9B$22.2A7.4B6.11B$22.5B3.4B8.10B$24.3B2.4B9.9B$14.2A
7.10B10.8B.2B$14.A8.10B10.10B2A$11.2A.A.B3.10B10.B2.10B2A$11.A2.3AB.
2B2A2BD4B9.2AB.8B.2B$12.2A2.BA3B2A2BDBD2B9.2A11B$14.4A7B2D3B10.B.10B$
14.A.2B3.7B.B2A12.3B.4B$15.3AB2.7B.BA.A9.4B3D5B$18.A4.4B5.A9.2C2.B.4B
2C$13.5A5.4B5.2A9.C2.B3D2BC.C$13.A10.4B12.3C3.2BDB4.C$15.A9.4B11.C4.
3B3D3.2C$14.2A10.4B15.7B$27.4B14.9B$28.4B14.9B$29.4B13.5B$30.4B11.B6.
2B$31.4B10.B5.2B2C$32.4B9.B5.2B2C$33.4B8.B7.2B$34.4B7.6B$45.7B.B$38.
2B4.11B$37.4B4.8B.2B$38.4B2.9B$39.4B.9B$40.14B$41.8B2A3B$38.B3.7B2A4B
$38.B4.12B$38.2B4.4BD7BA.2A$38.3B4.2B3D4B2.2A.A$38.2B4.2BD2B2D2B$38.
4B2.8B10.A$38.6B2.6B8.3A$38.7B.7B6.A$37.2A15B5.2A$38.A6.16B$38.A.AB2.
17B$29.2A.A6.2AB.19B$29.A.2A8.22B$41.22B$30.5A6.18BD3B$25.2A2.A4.A6.
16BDBD2B2A$25.A2.A.BAB9.16B2D2B2A$26.A.A.2AB9.23B$25.2A.A.4BA7.23B$
28.A3.BABA.2B4.22B$28.2A2.A2BA29B$33.2A30B$34.34B.B$33.34B.B2A$33.36B
2A$34.33B.2B$34.33B$30.2A3.31B$30.A2.B.6B.15B3.4B$31.3A6B5.8B2A2B4.3B
$33.AB.3B6.4B2.2B2AB3.7B$31.2A3.2B13.5B3.2A.B.2A$31.A3.B2AB14.2B5.A3.
A$29.A.A4.2A19.3A5.3A$29.2A26.A9.A!

(Should have waited 3 years to get Snark64)

[b-engine]

HEY GUYS
FOR A PRANK, DISCOVER A GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERY IN CONWAYS GAME OF LIFE AND NAME IT "SIX-SEVEN"

Before someone could possibly do that, the 6-7 trend would had been gone by that time.
Another 67 would be the Category:Oscillators with period 67.

[hotcrystal0]

This gem is from the Discord.

Cursed pattern names: anything containing an emoji, the RTL character, a control character, or invalid UTF-8; "pattern", anyone's username, the empty string, anything containing "drop table", 0P[whatever], anything that violates rule 2, an existing pattern name but with a substituted Greek or Cyrillic letter, "ban me", valid JavaScript, something over 2000 characters, "something", "unknown", "unnamed", "autostart"

[b-engine]

Another actual famous quote that will gain more than fifty likes:

(12,4)c/62 spaceship based on a very interesting crawler I found yesterday. I've made essentially no attempts at minimizing this and have been far from exhaustive in my searching for components so it's certainly reducible.

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EDIT: it did. 53 likes as of December 14th of 2025.

[b-engine]

We have two major discoveries that will win the POTY this year.

So finally 2/133076755768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here:
range of y coordinates is about +/-5537521000, maximal x coordinate during the first cycle is about ... 11075626500

Maybe they'll confirm that there are around 50 active users here.

[hth3]

I'm leaving LifeWiki! Meet me in my paradise.

make sure ENEERG EVAD (backwards) doesn't know this

[tommyaweosme]

I'm leaving LifeWiki! Meet me in my paradise.

make sure ENEERG EVAD (backwards) doesn't know this

i can leave here any time i want and no one would notice a thing.

[hth3]

Mod edit: No posts that could possibly be viewed as negative. No making fun of other users. No quoting users with account ages less than 6 months.

[tommyaweosme]

Ohio
Have a good day!

BokaBB

vro predicted the meme...

[qqd]

2016 needs to be the year we discover this [unidimensional spaceship]....

9 years later:

So finally 2/1330767555768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here...

That was a quite far off prediction.

[b-engine]

Even a partial gets 10 (as of post time) likes:

A working, if very large, tail end for the (15,11)c/107 crawler:

[qqd]

Apologies for serial posting, but this knocked my socks off:

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x = 36, y = 38, rule = LifeHistory
25.3D$24.D2BD$24.3BDB$23.D3BDB$24.3BD2B$23.BDBD2B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$
23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$23.6B$24.6B$16.B6.6B$15.3B6.6B$
13.6B4.7B$7.4B2.7B3.8B$7.25B$4.4BD24B$2A2.4BDBD20BD2B$.2A2.3B3DB2A16B
DBD2B$2A2.6BDB2A16BDBD2B$A3.3B2.22BD4B$9.26B$11.B2.20B$14.19B$14.17B$
14.18B$15.5B.11B$15.4B2.12B$22.4B.2BA3B$27.BABA2B$28.2A2B$30.B!

...

(Picturing an MWSS colliding with socks)

[b-engine]

This third new spaceship speed jumpscare will certainly receive 50 likes before 2026:

Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

[qqd]

This third new spaceship speed jumpscare will certainly receive 50 likes before 2026:

Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

First it was camels, now giraffes are invading life. What is the underlying reaction(s) behind this giraffeship? By the looks of it, it seems to be an adjustable type rather than a crawler-based spaceship.

EDIT: Quadratic replicator jumpscare:

Hello and welcome to the Worthy Pattern Interview. What's your name?

DOGun SaGaQR.

Excuse me?

Doh-gun Say-gah-q-r.

Oh... I'll try to remember. Tell us about yourself. What kind of a pattern are you?

Well, I can be an ancestor of 6 children, all with different abilities.

Whoa, that sounds nice! And what do you have to do to produce a different child?

Just advance my last glider [select and Ctrl+Space in Golly] one tick at a time, to get six different results.

Sounds simple enough! Would you mind introducing your children to us?

Sure. The zeroth one (i.e., if you don't adjust the glider) is a diehard.

Wait, really? That's quite disappointing. We have a ton of those already. What is next?

Advance by one tick and you get a 4-barreled glider gun.

Are you kidding me? The last time that would have been interesting would have been, I don't know, the early 1990s!

Okay, okay, advance by 2 ticks and you get an orthogonal c/24 [simplified] spaceship.

Well... That's not that bad. But not all that awesome either -- there are scripts to build things like that. If you don't have something more interesting to show us, please stop wasting our time.

Advance by 3 ticks and you get a p100663296 oscillator.

An oscillator. Are you serious? We could get that period with just a glider gun and a bunch of semi-Snarks! Duh. ... Next?

Advance by 4 ticks and here comes... a glider!

A glider? A GLIDER? Hm, at first you seemed serious, but now you're obviously just trolling us. Get out of here!

Wait, wait, you haven't heard about my last child yet! Give me one more chance, please!

... Fine. Go on.

Advance by 5 ticks and you get a quadratic replicator.
DOGun_SaGaQR_gen_1_000_341_504.png

[b-engine]

Nico is going to farm 51 likes again.

Ship completed! Minimum population is 1190163:
(15,11)c107 Ship.mc
The last component required were the southwards LWSS and glider pair rakes. Final assembly was done using a combination of these scripts (with lots of tweaking to get all the spacings right) and manual copy-pasting:

I'm going to clone him so we'll soon have 5000 new spaceship speeds

EDIT: Damn, my prediction gone wrong, it's only 37 likes:

This third new spaceship speed jumpscare will certainly receive 50 likes before 2026:

Engineered (28,7)c/448 ((4,1)c/64) spaceship:
28,7c448.mc

[qqd]

...
Stop clearing everything off your posts again.
You can simply leave them here and no one among 56 people would track you.

Not sure what that is supposed to imply...
56/(8.3 x 10^9) = 6.74 x 10^-9 chance that picking a random person from anywhere in the world is an active user of the conwaylife.com forums.
Generation Alpha better not misuse this probability estimate

[Citation needed]

How could Relics have time to make something like Polynomix?

[b-engine]

We have ALL CAPS STILL LIFE and ALL CAPS OSCILLATOR, too!

AN ALL-CAPS SPACESHIP (sorry about the pun) in a related rule (40c/324o):

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x = 6, y = 28, rule = B3/S2-i34q|B1e/S02-i34q5-aj
3b2o$3bobo$3bobo$3b2o2$b2o$obo$obo$b2o4$b2o$obo$obo$b2o2$3b2o$3bobo$3b
obo$3b2o5$4o$o2bo$b2o!

[Neocaridina]

It is an user sandbox.

Edit:

It was intended to be an user sandbox, but tommyaweosme posted, making it a "Not Random Posts" thread.

Got some trolling here!

[d binedrkfdrtgy]

It is an user sandbox.

Edit:

It was intended to be an user sandbox, but tommyaweosme posted, making it a "Not Random Posts" thread.

Got some trolling here!

...

[hotcrystal0]

Quoting myself in Anivec’s Discord server:

in a sense, finding your identity is a lot like watching a search program try to complete a partial
you try to work with a frontend and then you try to expand it
when an expansion fails you try expanding it in a different way
and when no different way completes the partial you create a new frontend and see if that will work

[qqd]

Can't imagine how I managed to overlook the tub Herschel eater twice in a row(with ElijahKen correcting me both times):

Unfortunately, the 'eonified' Fx119 inserter only has 16hd of clearance, compared to the regular version with 27hd of clearance:

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x = 23, y = 23, rule = B3/S23
o$obo$3o$2bo10$2b3o15b3o$3b3o13b3o$9b2o$9b2o2$3b3o13b3o$2b3o15b3o2$9b
2o$9b2o!

Here is a version replacing the rightmost killer toads with a tub, with 6hd more clearance (22 total, I think):

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x = 26, y = 24, rule = B3/S23
o$obo$3o$2bo10$2b3o$3b3o$9b2o$9b2o2$3b3o$2b3o2$9b2o13bo$9b2o12bobo$24b
o!

(... Other issues prevent other Herschel eaters from being used):

A single tub works:

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x = 56, y = 61, rule = LifeHistory
8.2A$8.2A6.2A$16.A$14.A.A$14.2A2$11.2A$10.A2.A$2.2A7.2A$.A.A$.A$2A5$5.
C$5.C.C$5.3C$7.C2$39.2A$39.2A5$44.A$43.A.A4.A$44.A4.A.A$50.A2$23.2A11.
3D3.3D$22.A.A10.D3.D.D3.D8.2A$22.A12.D3.D.D3.D4.2A2.2A$21.2A12.D3.D.D
3.D4.2A$36.3D3.3D2$36.3D3.3D$35.D3.D.D3.D$35.D3.D.D3.D$35.D3.D.D3.D$27.
2A7.3D3.3D2.2A$26.A.A18.A.A$26.A22.A$25.2A22.2A8$46.D$47.D$37.3D5.3D$
37.D$36.3D$43.A$42.A.A$43.A!

[breaker's glider gun]

This is from something I'm reading, and it may be amusing to some when taken out of context:
"When we replace MLP computation with transcoders, it is not guaranteed that they learn a causally faithful model of the original MLP"
context:

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.                                                                                                                          https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html#limitations-methods

I may have heard this quote from dronebetter (a user on the CLL discord) and remembered it when I was reading the paper.

[NNlk05]

If you expand to four states (California, Idaho, Iowa, and Nebraska (no, no, not THOSE states! (How about Maine, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia? (No, no, not those TYPE of states! (Okay, okay, sheesh! (Okay, this big parenthetical allusion is getting off topic, but I digress.))))))

[qqd]

Life Worker Withdrawal Syndrome can be powerful:

...
if you're into CA, you WILL come back to conwaylife.com eventually, whether you want to or not. i came back around a year after i had an "argument" because i found real life so boring without any fake Life to play.