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Disgraceful necroposting!

God! Why did they have to put that part of the script in? If they didn't we could have solved problems like that one a long time ago!

(There actually is a script that winds patterns back by 1 generation but it would probably just give you useless rectangular blobs of dust most of the time)

Also, if you look at some of the older links in the thread, you can find out saka's real name. Spooooooky!
EDIT: The blog no longer exists. Some things were never meant to be found out.

I know! Try pasting in Sir Robin at gen. 9 and then trying to backtrack by 9 gens!

They should totally hack some sort of JLS/WLS thing into that python script.
(Also, if that post was in 2025, that would be the most glorious necropost to grace this forums in a long time.)
Imagine when there are so many smaller knightships and somebody asks what's notable about sir robin.

xyzdr wrote:what's notable about Sir Robin again?

etc wrote:it was the first elementary knightship

Mooseey wrote:I know! Try pasting in Sir Robin at gen. 9 and then trying to backtrack by 9 gens!

They should totally hack some sort of JLS/WLS thing into that python script.
(Also, if that post was in 2025, that would be the most glorious necropost to grace this forums in a long time.)
Imagine when there are so many smaller knight's hips and somebody asks what's notable about sir robin.

xyzdr wrote:what's notable about Sir Robin again?

etc wrote:it was the first elementary knight's hip

Nobody will remember sirrobin, as we dont remember the snail, 25p3h1v0.1, 13ec, 119p4h1v0.

The thing you said about elementary knightships is like "in future we will have flying cars"
"in future we will have smaller knightships"

Gustone wrote: Nobody will remember sirrobin, as we dont remember the snail, 25p3h1v0.1, 13ec, 119p4h1v0.

I doubt that, sir robin is taking CGoL into a whole new direction.
Also, pretty much everyone knows 25P3H1V0.1. The others, I can say that indeed, they haven't been very useful.

But this is all off topic...

Gustone wrote: Nobody will remember sirrobin, as we dont remember the snail

The thing you said about elementary knightships is like "in future we will have flying cars"
"in future we will have smaller knightships"

1. Of course we don't remember the snail... but sir robin is the FIRST ELEMENTARY OBLIQUE SHIP.
2. I don't agree. Moore's law and stuff like that actually means that "in the future we will have smaller (by mcps) knightships" is a fairly reasonable statement.

Moosey wrote:sir robin is the FIRST ELEMENTARY OBLIQUE SHIP

119p4h1v0 is the FIRST ELEMENTARY C/4O SHIP

*elementary c/4

incompetence

testitemqlstudop wrote:*elementary c/4

incompetence

I wrote "c/4o" in caps

OMG LOOK I FOUND A C/1O SPACESHIP

....

Gustone wrote:

Moosey wrote:sir robin is the FIRST ELEMENTARY OBLIQUE SHIP

119p4h1v0 is the FIRST ELEMENTARY C/4O SHIP

I don't think that is a fair comparison. Slope matters a lot more than speed typically-- everyone remembers the G and the XWSSes, the first elementary diagonal and orthogonal ships--sir robin is the first elementary oblique ship. What about the first c/6o ship? For awhile I forgot that that orthogonal speed even existed!

EDIT: On the jokes thread there's this argument (by which I mean point, or perhaps both interpretations together) too:

GUYTU6J wrote:(Context from Game Of Life Comics thread:)
[Bet you know what this is.]
Wadufi: Is being the first a vital thing?
Fjord: Yes, it is.
Wadufi: Why?
Fjord: For instance, what's the first switch-engine based puffer arising from b3s23/C1 soups that is neither BLSE nor GPSE?
Wadufi: Pony express, of course.
Fjord: And the second?
Wadufi: ...
Fjord: The third? Fourth?
Wadufi: ... Well.

Moosey wrote:

Gustone wrote:

Moosey wrote:sir robin is the FIRST ELEMENTARY OBLIQUE SHIP

119p4h1v0 is the FIRST ELEMENTARY C/4O SHIP

I don't think that is a fair comparison. Slope matters a lot more than speed typically-- everyone remembers the G and the XWSSes, the first elementary diagonal and orthogonal ships--sir robin is the first elementary oblique ship. What about the first c/6o ship? For awhile I forgot that that orthogonal speed even existed!

EDIT: On the jokes thread there's this argument (by which I mean point, or perhaps both interpretations together) too:

GUYTU6J wrote:(Context from Game Of Life Comics thread:)
[Bet you know what this is.]
Wadufi: Is being the first a vital thing?
Fjord: Yes, it is.
Wadufi: Why?
Fjord: For instance, what's the first switch-engine based puffer arising from b3s23/C1 soups that is neither BLSE nor GPSE?
Wadufi: Pony express, of course.
Fjord: And the second?
Wadufi: ...
Fjord: The third? Fourth?
Wadufi: ... Well.

Why Fjord and Wadufi?
Are they future me.and mooseey?

Just hypothetical people I guess

Gustone wrote: Why Fjord and Wadufi?
Are they future me.and mooseey?

Young people don't know any old jokes

testitemqlstudop wrote:Young people don't know any old jokes

Wadufi comes from https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xs_33/b3s29wadufi, but what about fjord?

btw I should point out that I know what wadufi is-- I just never mentioned it because I had no reason to (ever). I was looking over the forums for awhile before I joined--I remember when EV posted M4. So I've seen quite a few things that were not posted in the time I was a user.

GUYTU6J wrote:

testitemqlstudop wrote:Young people don't know any old jokes

Wadufi comes from https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xs_33/b3s29wadufi, but what about fjord?

You made the joke up--perhaps you can explain it. I bet it's in reference to the minced oath gustone uses a lot (analogous to "crumbs" for me) and not the type of landmass or whatever.

I remember that some people have said "oh fjord" before Gustone. Somewhere it is.

testitemqlstudop wrote:I remember that some people have said "oh fjord" before Gustone. Somewhere it is.

It isn't this, is it?
That appears to be the first occurrence of "fjord" but it's hard to tell since the search results of fjord is messed up due to Aidan mode.

Moosey wrote:I bet it's in reference to the minced oath gustone used to use a lot (analogous to "crumbs" for me) and not the type of landmass or whatever.

it is stupid
so there are just five instances of "fjord" by me

Can we please get on topic?

Saka wrote:Can we please get on topic?

No

Saka wrote:Can we please get on topic?

The best way to get back to your topic on comics is to draw another comic yourself.
Anyway,

GUYTU6J wrote: Anyway,

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Where did you get that from? I can't find it anywhere on the wiki.

Ian07 wrote:

GUYTU6J wrote: Anyway,

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Where did you get that from? I can't find it anywhere on the wiki.

Relax. Nothing has done to lifewiki online. Similar with the hypothetical "Re: synthesizing the elementary knightship" reply in the previous comic, that's done locally and temporarily with "Review elements" - a simple browser function that allows such modification.

Moosey wrote: (Also, if that post was in 2025, that would be the most glorious necropost to grace this forums in a long time.)

Also, I wonder if "isobrin" is an actual user on this forum.