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TheWayOfTheCon wrote: August 7th, 2026, 11:18 am

x = 6, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
3b3o$bob3o$obobo$o2bo$b2o! 

unname4798 wrote: August 7th, 2026, 2:45 pm Found a P4:

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x = 6, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
3b3o$bob3o$obobo$o2bo$b2o! 

x = 6, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
o$b2o$2o3$4b2o$3bobo$4bo!

x = 9, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
bo$2bo$3o3$5b2o$5bobo$7bo$7b2o!

andrewthelifer wrote: two types of Lifenthusiasts:
-- luna1000, a transfem who lurks on Tumblr and debates whether men actually exist
-- James Scott, a grizzled 60 year old programmer who hung out with Conway in the 90s and mostly cares to do Life stuff

TheWayOfTheCon wrote: August 7th, 2026, 11:18 am Has anyone investigated this OT rule? It seems really promising.

I think we should investigate this rule more.

x = 9, y = 10, rule = B38/S23
2bo$2bo$bo$b2o$o2bo$o5b2o$o3b4o$o4b2obo$o2bo2b3o$3o4bo!

x = 9, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
2bo$2bo$bo$b2o$o2bo$o5b2o$o3b4o$o4b2obo$o2bo2b3o$3o4bo!

hotcrystal0 wrote: August 30th, 2026, 7:52 pm

andrewthelifer wrote: two types of Lifenthusiasts:
-- luna1000, a transfem who lurks on Tumblr and debates whether men actually exist
-- James Scott, a grizzled 60 year old programmer who hung out with Conway in the 90s and mostly cares to do Life stuff

LuveelVoom wrote: September 8th, 2026, 1:27 pm
But I'm neither of these, same for many other lifenthusiasts, so I think you need a third category for people who just f**k around in INT

PK22 wrote: 2126: Someone uses LLLLLLSSSSSSSSS to find a (704, 509)c/2752 spaceship and posts it as a "galbellawise c/2752gb" ship. Someone else points out that the suffix "gb" is already used for displacement (137,42) gamebirdwise ships.

LuveelVoom wrote: September 8th, 2026, 1:27 pm

hotcrystal0 wrote: August 30th, 2026, 7:52 pm

andrewthelifer wrote: two types of Lifenthusiasts:
-- luna1000, a transfem who lurks on Tumblr and debates whether men actually exist
-- James Scott, a grizzled 60 year old programmer who hung out with Conway in the 90s and mostly cares to do Life stuff

But I'm neither of these, same for many other lifenthusiasts, so I think you need a third category for people who just f**k around in INT

LuveelVoom wrote: 5 types of lifenthusiasts:

(greek god/celestial object)(number), transfem, debates whether men actually exist, found a reaction used in 50% of conduits

(first letter of first name)(last name), grizzled 40-60 year old programmer, wrote a program everyone uses, either contributed nothing to other fields of math or a shit ton of stuff

(minecraft username), 14-24 years old, only explores int rules, sandbox thread where they throw random discoveries, 16 core computer but doesn’t realize you can multithread apgsearch

(random string of 3-6 characters), nobody knows anything about them, 50-100 forum posts and no discord account, every post is an extremely elaborate and complex construction at least 2 months ahead of the rest of the thread’s tech in a random rule and it’s their only post in that rule’s thread

(word vaguely resembling name), probably 80 years old, speaks weirdly, never posts any normal constructions, only posts elaborate life art but outputs it at an absurd pace for how complex it is

LuveelVoom wrote: September 10th, 2026, 2:01 pm (minecraft username), 14-24 years old, only explores int rules, sandbox thread where they throw random discoveries, 16 core computer but doesn’t realize you can multithread apgsearch

TheWayOfTheCon wrote: September 21st, 2026, 3:09 pm Traveling t:

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x = 3, y = 2, rule = B3/S23-a5
3o$bo!

Traveling T:

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x = 11, y = 8, rule = B3/S23-a5
b4ob4o$2obo3bob2o$2o7b2o$2b3ob3o2$3b5o$5bo$5bo!

x = 3, y = 4, rule = B3aiy5i/S1e2e3i4i
bo$3o$bo$bo!

x = 3, y = 4, rule = B3aei5eiy/S02a3e4i5ey
3o$bo$bo$bo!

hotcrystal0 wrote: August 30th, 2026, 7:52 pm

andrewthelifer wrote: types of Lifenthusiasts:
-- luna1000, a transfem who lurks on Tumblr and debates whether men actually exist

apg wrote: June 13th, 2009, 4:07 pm

On Feb. 23, 2008, Dave Greene wrote:
Every sufficiently large and ancient B3/S23 universe observed so far
turns out to be full of this weird agar, which expands in all
directions through random ash at c/137. IceNine seems to absorb
blocks and blinkers particularly well, due to a complicated froth of
sparks at its front lines -- not generated by glider collisions, but
by a lucky accident of the agar's internal structure.

When the expanding front touches an active pattern that it can't
immediately annihilate, the pattern "dies back" a short distance at
near lightspeed, leaving behind a protective scattering of blocks;
behind the blocks the front stabilizes and starts expanding again.
Converging IceNine fronts usually cause small diebacks that stabilize
as small defects in an apparent quasicrystalline structure.

And before you all ask, my alternate-universe oscilloscope was
repossessed by the Outsiders the other day, so unfortunately I can't
lend it out. But there didn't seem to be anything but IceNine out
there anyway --

rabbit wrote: October 2nd, 2026, 5:33 pm Per your own discovery by searching D4_+1, the 3c/14 is infinitely extensible:

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x = 48, y = 27, rule = B3/S23-q4i
3o17b3o17b3o$obo17bobo17bobo$3o17b3o17b3o3$6b2o18b2o18b2o$3o3b2o12b3o
3b2o12b3o3b2o$obo17bobo17bobo$3o3b2o12b3o3b2o12b3o3b2o$6b2o18b2o18b2o
2$26b2o18b2o$3o17b3o3b2o12b3o3b2o$obo17bobo17bobo$3o17b3o3b2o12b3o3b2o
$26b2o18b2o2$46b2o$20b3o17b3o3b2o$20bobo17bobo$20b3o17b3o3b2o$46b2o3$
40b3o$40bobo$40b3o!

LuveelVoom wrote: "where is the hole?" is the question every (rule)golfer aspires to be the one to answer. Many have searched for the hole, and many have thought they have found the hole, but nobody really believes these are the hole and not just a deep dip on the course. Some people have tried to knock the ball out of the field, hoping to find a hole there, but have not been successful. Some have drilled their own holes, which is impressive given how dense the substrate of the course is, and some have claimed to have found the hole and ignore those who shout. Others try to scan the field with radars, or eliminate whole areas of the field, but someone will always come up with a divot in the field (unless, of course, it’s that one corner). Some suggest looking in easier courses, but we all agree that the hole there has been found. And yet, we still look for the hole.

hotcrystal0 wrote: October 4th, 2026, 7:47 pm LuveelVoom wrote this one a while back on Discord, but it was never crossposted.

LuveelVoom wrote: "where is the hole?" is the question every (rule)golfer aspires to be the one to answer...