Describe life, with life terminology... but from OCA

[WhiteHawk]

New game.

Take a pattern from OCA that does anything (SL, dying pattern, oscillator, glider synth/destruction), and using life terminology, describe how it acts as if Life (B3/S23) were a new CA.

For example, I could say

"Unlike normal conditions with B8, the synthesis of the Century in B3/S23 costs an extra glider"

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x = 58, y = 23, rule = Rainbow1TFL
3$50.A.A$51.2A$51.A2$49.A$50.A$48.3A5$10.qE36.A$8.qE.qE36.2A$9.2qE35.
A.A$17.3qE$17.qE$18.qE!

Or, for something funnier

"Darn, the cross from b2-an3i8/s1c2ek3i4ante5eaijrc678 is not even stable here, let alone indestructible like I hoped"

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x=0,y=0,rule=B3/S23
.o.$
ooo$
.o.$

[pifricted]

I take honeybomb from B2i3/S23 here.

And it become...

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x = 11, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
4b3o$3bo3bo2$bo7bo$o9bo$o9bo$o9bo$bo7bo2$3bo3bo$4b3o!

4 blinkers?

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x = 4, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
3o$o2bo$b2o!

This become 4 beehive?

[WhiteHawk]

I take honeybomb from B2i3/S23 here.

And it become...

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x = 11, y = 11, rule = B3/S23
4b3o$3bo3bo2$bo7bo$o9bo$o9bo$o9bo$bo7bo2$3bo3bo$4b3o!

4 blinkers?

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x = 4, y = 3, rule = B2i3/S23
3o$o2bo$b2o!

This become 4 beehive?

(Correct)

Um, where did the rest of the ship go?

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x = 40, y = 28, rule = B3/S23
2o$2o2$8b2o$7bo2bo$5b2ob2o$5b2ob2o$7bo5$18b3o$18bobo$18b3o7$24b2o$23b
3o$23bo2bo$24b2o$37b2o$37bobo$38bo!

[Citation needed]

Queen bee spaceship doesn't move steadily, but instead moves back and forth, leaving litter. Then it crashed into its own litter and made six blocks and two unknown oscillators.

[WhiteHawk]

(Reviving this thread)

Darn, Snake Dance skips a phase when B8 is removed.

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x = 9, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
3b2obo$3bob2o$2obo$bo2bob3o$o2bobo2bo$3obo2bo$5bob2o$2b2obo$2bob2o!

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x = 9, y = 9, rule = B38/S23
3b2obo$3bob2o$2obo$bo2bob3o$o2bobo2bo$3obo2bo$5bob2o$2b2obo$2bob2o!

[b-engine]

The T from B3ai/S1e2i3i isn't even a spaceship here. I have to add a domino to push it.

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x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
3bo$o2bo$2o$o!