So, four twos, one three, two fives, one seven, , 97, 103, 271, 319, 419, 733, 773, 797.
Four twos is eight. Two Fives is twenty five. Eight twenty-fives is 200. Three sevens are 21. Two hundred twenty ones are 4200.
The rest, by the big digit calculator, multiplies to 163,427,352,714,673,863,233. Using decimals (163427352.714673863233*42) we get 686394881401.6302255786. Testing it, doing (163427352.714673863232*42) we get 686394881401.6302255744, so good, we have all the digits. Now, to move the decimal back to where it belongs.
6,863,948,814,016,302,255,786 * 100 equals 686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600 as the least common multiple of the durations.
1655.70158029439662318050 comics for Goblins. 36452.23302200890615451400 comics for Homestuck. 4380.09427393807824145360 comics for Dinosaur. 2584.51551523669771159200 comics for Girl Genius 1696.26321265920113217700 comics for OOTS 2981.33352432855560463150 comics for XKCD 6863.94881401630225578600 comics for Shlock Mercenary 328.48897895649446509833 comics for Lackadaisy. 4711.00404425912703792735 comics for Questionable Content.
to Homestuck's 5.2014563106796116504854368932038834951456 pages a day.
Note how Homestuck's update-day speed is more than one hundred times that of Lackadaisy.
And the frequencies of Goblins and OOTS differ by only six strips in a thousand days; but note how much worse the update schedule of Goblins feels, and not the fan responses to the update speed for Goblins and OOTS.
Webcomics (days since comic started divided by number of comics posted): 5.20145631, Homestuck 0.24712643, Order of the stick 0.43434670, XKCD 1.00000000, Shlock Mercenary 0.24121706, Goblins 0.04785714, Lackadaisy Cats 0.68634020, Questionable Content 0.63813038, Dinosaur Comics 0.37653478 Girl Genius
The average is 0.98589 pages a day, with a standard deviation of 1.60614.
But, clearly, Homestuck is an outlier. Without Homestuck, the average falls to 0.45894. with a standard deviation of 0.3036
The red sea is a young ocean. The African rift valley could turn into a sea like the red sea, and then into an ocean. The Aden rift has made an ocean. these three rifts are at 120 degree angles to one another. This ternary perfection is common in geology. Sometimes, only two of the three make oceans. I hope all three make oceans.
the Atlantic ocean started out like the rift valley.
It appears that large amounts of Germanium and Silicon have been smuggled into Rozburg by smugglers.
Evidently, someone is trying to make use of electricity!
Electricity is illegal in Rozburg.
Magic is not done in Rozburg. Essentially, magic can work like an aquifer. Underground rivers = let lines. The grand aquifer of magic is being tapped by Centralia and other nations. Given the unsustainable use of magic, certain nations agreed to go magic-free or dam certain ley lines so as to get lots of power. These dams cut off the flow to certain areas, and flood certain areas with magic. Rozburg is magically flooded, using magic would be like setting a match in a lake of oil. To prevent too much buildup and breakage, there are drainage channels.
Electricity weakens the thing that can, essentially, be called magic friction. With electricity, it is much easier to get a sequence to start. For example, it is easier to unintentionally start a transformation when around electricity (it still takes magic energy and power) and turn a rocking horse into a real horse.
This is why electricity is illegal in Rozburg, to prevent a cataclysmic event.
Instead of watching KLK, I decided to watch Gravity Falls. I like the first two episodes, though, really, Dipper, that "buy cameras in bulk" idea is very good. But there's no way that'll work in episode two. You're the base state now, you see. Maybe in a few seasons you'll be able to not lose cameras and have lots of cameras and be awesome, but nobody starts out as an Alakazam.
Also, Mabel, your whole "adorable and crazy" thing is not annoying, but it could get that way. You were competent with a leaf blower in episode one; keep showing that there's more to your character than being a punchline. This archetype is a very easy one to flanderize.
Great-Uncle Stan, as much as I got absolutely nothing of your character from the first two episodes, I like how you're letting Dipper and Mabel and the wierdness take the stage. Keep providing the safe place that most child fantasy needs (child fantasy has two words: the normal, safe, mundane, stable, carefree, comforting one; and the exciting, terrifying, amazing, horrible, glorious, fantasy world. Refuge from one is found in the other. But, in the end, Madeline always ends up safe in the arms of Miss Clavel; and in Narnia and Castle in the Attic, the kids are able to return home.). Thank you for providing your half of the child fantasy setting.
Dipper's Hat is going to show up in a later episode, isn't it. I'm calling it now.
Also, seriously, why is there this guy who sounds like Patrick Starr and looks like Patrick Starr? And this girl who hardly shows up? I'm not sure if I want these two to be more fleshed out, or if I'm glad that the focus is actually on Dipper and Mabel's adventures.
Also, Yay, book with the number three on it. I like threes.
I think I'm going to really like episode three. Ducktective.
<blockquote rel="Yarrun XIX">They do a good job with Mabel.<div><br></div><div>Guy who resembles Patrick is comic relief, for the most part. Reliably funny.</div><div><br></div><div>Girl who hardly shows up is the Romantic Interest. Not bad, as far as that goes, but she's usually reduced to MacGuffin material. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how to describe Grunkle Stan to you</div></blockquote>
<br/> Yeah, he's funny, but I was worried he'd end up with some depth and drama, and sorry, some characters are best off being one-note. I mean, there's not really all that much to Sam the Eagle except that he's amazingly patriotic and he hates everything. Dick Dastardly shouldn't become some tortured soul or deeply fleshed-out character, that's not the point of him.
I'm just excited for a show that seems to actually keep the focus on two kids exploring the supernatural and running around a small town. In almost every Disney movie, the sidekicks and helpers steal the spotlight. Everybody remembers the dwarfs more than Snow White. I like it when a show can actually focus on its real leads.
THE BOOK, THE, THE, BOOK BOOK, BOOK THE THE THE THE BOOK THE BOOK THE!
HE STOLE THE BOOK THAT DIPPER IS WRITING. THE NUMBER TWO ONE.
Dude, access to journal. All the cool stuff Dipper figured out and wrote down.
At least Dipper has the one with the number three on it; but, daaaaang, back to square one for our heroes.
Shouldn't this be, like, some sort of season finale twist, that the bad guys have stolen the knowledge that the good guys have collected, and the good guys have to start from where they were at the beginning. Not like, an episode four twist.
Craaaaaaaaaaaaaap, all the secret passageways that Dipper would know, all the quick escape routes in case you're chased by a zombie that he'd have written down.
At least the good guys have the old unfinished book (which was missing stuff like the weakness of gnomes).
Let's hope Dipper's memory is good.
At least the good guys have that green amulet of mind-powers and junk. That should be useful; and will come in handy later. Not sure if it's really a good trade; knowledge vs power.
I am the only one who likes copyright laws. All rights reserved is a sacred phrase, meaining all rights reserved.
When a book says you cannot reproduce, copy, or show any part of it without written consent of the publisher, it goshadarn means it.
I hate the public domain. When I'm an author, I'm gonna work for Philomel and never let my works get into the greedy hands of the public domain. I want Philomel to keep the rights forever.
Also, authors deserve no more than ten-per cent of the money a book makes. Publishers and editors are angels who deserve most of the money. Same way that records labels deserve the vast majority of the money from music, not the original artists.
I hate digital piracy and free information. I hate happiness. I hate nice things.
I hate that I am watching Gravity Falls for free on a website. Stupid scumbag me.
Yeah, gonna either stop; or pay some money for it.
I wasn't being serious, Tachyon. I thought I'd made that clear with "I hate happiness. I hate nice things".
Next time, I'll make sure to include a disclaimer.
I'm really sorry that I hurt your feelings, I didn't intend to; I was just intending to be unbelievable and over-the-top for humor (like saying, "I AM SO MANLY I EAT SEVERAL BARGES FULL OF RAW EGGS EVERY DAY AND MY BEARD GROWS A BEARD WHILE I RIDE MY MOTORCYCLE DOWN AN OFFROAD PATH MADE OF CACTI AND I PUNCH GRIZZLY BEARS WITH MY RIGHT HAND WHILE HOLDING A MONSTER TRUCK FULL OF BACON IN MY LEFT HAND").
My philosophy on humor is that it's not only the teaser/joker who gets to decide if it's all in good fun; but also the teased/audience, who decides that. But it's a two-way thing. In the end, we should try not to offend, and try not to be offended. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and have goodwill towards people. Have a thick skin, and try not to needle people who have thin skins
In the end, just have fun.
But yeah, that little whatever-it-was is over; and I will, in fact, be buying or renting Gravity Falls because I like the show.
Okay, having found a dvd of season one, SIX STRANGE TALES, at the library.
ON TO EPISODE FIVE!
Six Strange Tales also contains... JOURNAL WITH A THREE ON IT!
Okay, it's a tiny booklet in a pretty easy cryptogram text (with three empty pages at the back so you can write your own in it, but it's cool. I wish I could buy a GF hat and look like this kid:
Having Watched Episode five on the television with the dvd player, either wow, the art got a lot better and the animation got amazing, or I have a sucky screen and slight (yeah, slight) lag on the computer.
Each episode seems to be better than the next, and gets me more hyped.
Wow, GIrl WHo Hardly Appears, thanks for not humiliating Dipper by revealing the Lammy Lammy dance thing to your friends. I was completely sure it'd end with him humiliated and the status quo kept.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Dinosaur: 4065 (3*5*271)
797 * 3 * 271 = 647,695
In 647,691 days, Dinosaur Comics should update 413483.6 times.
Goblins should update 156299.25 times in that time.
In 474955413 days,
Girl Genius should update 178,837,236 times
Goblins should update 114,567,350.25
Dinosaur should update 303,083,478.8 times.
Because, obviously, webcomics maintain the same average speed for over a million years.
4065 (3 * 5 * 271)
4398 (2 * 3 * 733)
1648 (2*2*2*2 * 103)
3828 (2*2*3* 319)
3092 (2*2* 773)
5028 (2*2*3* 419)
2800 (2*2*2*2*5*5*7)
3880 (2*2*2*5*97)
So, four twos, one three, two fives, one seven, , 97, 103, 271, 319, 419, 733, 773, 797.
Four twos is eight. Two Fives is twenty five. Eight twenty-fives is 200. Three sevens are 21.
Two hundred twenty ones are 4200.
The rest, by the big digit calculator, multiplies to 163,427,352,714,673,863,233. Using decimals (163427352.714673863233*42) we get 686394881401.6302255786. Testing it, doing (163427352.714673863232*42) we get 686394881401.6302255744, so good, we have all the digits. Now, to move the decimal back to where it belongs.
6,863,948,814,016,302,255,786 * 100 equals 686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600 as the least common multiple of the durations.
1648 (2*2*2*2 * 103) 8752
3188 (2 * 2 * 797) 769
4065 (3 * 5 * 271) 2594
4398 (2 * 3 * 733) 1656
3828 (2*2*3* 319) 946
3092 (2*2* 773) 1343
5028 (2*2*3* 419) 5028
2800 (2*2*2*2*5*5*7) 134
3880 (2*2*2*5*97) 2663
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/3188)*769
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/1648) * 8752
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/4065)*2594
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/4398)*1656
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/3828)*946
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/3092)*1343
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/5028)*5028
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/2800)*134
(686,394,881,401,630,225,578,600/3880)*2663
in 6863.94881401630225578600 days...
1655.70158029439662318050 comics for Goblins.
36452.23302200890615451400 comics for Homestuck.
4380.09427393807824145360 comics for Dinosaur.
2584.51551523669771159200 comics for Girl Genius
1696.26321265920113217700 comics for OOTS
2981.33352432855560463150 comics for XKCD
6863.94881401630225578600 comics for Shlock Mercenary
328.48897895649446509833 comics for Lackadaisy.
4711.00404425912703792735 comics for Questionable Content.
to Homestuck's 5.2014563106796116504854368932038834951456 pages a day.
Note how Homestuck's update-day speed is more than one hundred times that of Lackadaisy.
And the frequencies of Goblins and OOTS differ by only six strips in a thousand days; but note how much worse the update schedule of Goblins feels, and not the fan responses to the update speed for Goblins and OOTS.
5.20145631, Homestuck
0.24712643, Order of the stick
0.43434670, XKCD
1.00000000, Shlock Mercenary
0.24121706, Goblins
0.04785714, Lackadaisy Cats
0.68634020, Questionable Content
0.63813038, Dinosaur Comics
0.37653478 Girl Genius
The average is 0.98589 pages a day, with a standard deviation of 1.60614.
But, clearly, Homestuck is an outlier. Without Homestuck, the average falls to 0.45894. with a standard deviation of 0.3036
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
0.43434670, XKCD
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
the Atlantic ocean started out like the rift valley.
Evidently, someone is trying to make use of electricity!
Electricity is illegal in Rozburg.
Magic is not done in Rozburg. Essentially, magic can work like an aquifer. Underground rivers = let lines. The grand aquifer of magic is being tapped by Centralia and other nations. Given the unsustainable use of magic, certain nations agreed to go magic-free or dam certain ley lines so as to get lots of power. These dams cut off the flow to certain areas, and flood certain areas with magic. Rozburg is magically flooded, using magic would be like setting a match in a lake of oil. To prevent too much buildup and breakage, there are drainage channels.
Electricity weakens the thing that can, essentially, be called magic friction. With electricity, it is much easier to get a sequence to start. For example, it is easier to unintentionally start a transformation when around electricity (it still takes magic energy and power) and turn a rocking horse into a real horse.
This is why electricity is illegal in Rozburg, to prevent a cataclysmic event.
CAN'T DISAGREE WITH ME NOW, CAN YA, PANGUR VASHTAR AND ANONYMOUS AVENUE? ALSO CALICA!
BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH I AM THE BEST HEAPER!
Also, Mabel, your whole "adorable and crazy" thing is not annoying, but it could get that way. You were competent with a leaf blower in episode one; keep showing that there's more to your character than being a punchline. This archetype is a very easy one to flanderize.
Great-Uncle Stan, as much as I got absolutely nothing of your character from the first two episodes, I like how you're letting Dipper and Mabel and the wierdness take the stage. Keep providing the safe place that most child fantasy needs (child fantasy has two words: the normal, safe, mundane, stable, carefree, comforting one; and the exciting, terrifying, amazing, horrible, glorious, fantasy world. Refuge from one is found in the other. But, in the end, Madeline always ends up safe in the arms of Miss Clavel; and in Narnia and Castle in the Attic, the kids are able to return home.). Thank you for providing your half of the child fantasy setting.
Dipper's Hat is going to show up in a later episode, isn't it. I'm calling it now.
Also, seriously, why is there this guy who sounds like Patrick Starr and looks like Patrick Starr? And this girl who hardly shows up? I'm not sure if I want these two to be more fleshed out, or if I'm glad that the focus is actually on Dipper and Mabel's adventures.
Also, Yay, book with the number three on it. I like threes.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
<blockquote rel="Yarrun XIX">They do a good job with Mabel.<div><br></div><div>Guy who resembles Patrick is comic relief, for the most part. Reliably funny.</div><div><br></div><div>Girl who hardly shows up is the Romantic Interest. Not bad, as far as that goes, but she's usually reduced to MacGuffin material. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how to describe Grunkle Stan to you</div></blockquote>
<br/> Yeah, he's funny, but I was worried he'd end up with some depth and drama, and sorry, some characters are best off being one-note. I mean, there's not really all that much to Sam the Eagle except that he's amazingly patriotic and he hates everything. Dick Dastardly shouldn't become some tortured soul or deeply fleshed-out character, that's not the point of him.
I'm just excited for a show that seems to actually keep the focus on two kids exploring the supernatural and running around a small town. In almost every Disney movie, the sidekicks and helpers steal the spotlight. Everybody remembers the dwarfs more than Snow White. I like it when a show can actually focus on its real leads.
Not Wax Stan!
I loved Wax Stan!
Wait a minute, at 6:18 (dailymotion watching), the number on Dipper's book is 2 instead of 3.
Did Dipper make his own book in addition to the one he got in the beginning?
And then, at the end of the series, some kid will find old Dipper's book, and write a book with the number 1 on it.
Addams family reference!
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
THE BOOK, THE, THE, BOOK BOOK, BOOK THE THE THE THE BOOK THE BOOK THE!
HE STOLE THE BOOK THAT DIPPER IS WRITING. THE NUMBER TWO ONE.
Dude, access to journal. All the cool stuff Dipper figured out and wrote down.
At least Dipper has the one with the number three on it; but, daaaaang, back to square one for our heroes.
Shouldn't this be, like, some sort of season finale twist, that the bad guys have stolen the knowledge that the good guys have collected, and the good guys have to start from where they were at the beginning. Not like, an episode four twist.
Craaaaaaaaaaaaaap, all the secret passageways that Dipper would know, all the quick escape routes in case you're chased by a zombie that he'd have written down.
At least the good guys have the old unfinished book (which was missing stuff like the weakness of gnomes).
Let's hope Dipper's memory is good.
At least the good guys have that green amulet of mind-powers and junk. That should be useful; and will come in handy later. Not sure if it's really a good trade; knowledge vs power.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And I'm not opening spoilers.
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If I do give a clue, I risk somebody figuring it out.
But if I don't give a clue, than everyone's just like "whatever, Ali. You can say nonsense all you want".
And I will be creeped out by kids named William, Andrew, Ronald, Leopold or Leo, Francisco, Hernan.
And, obligatory, Thomas.
Also Isaac. Newton, you scumbag.
You didn't (there is no season 2 as yet).
Yarrun's spoiler isn't really a spoiler for any episode you haven't seen yet. Dipper still has his book with the 3 on it, as before.
When a book says you cannot reproduce, copy, or show any part of it without written consent of the publisher, it goshadarn means it.
I hate the public domain. When I'm an author, I'm gonna work for Philomel and never let my works get into the greedy hands of the public domain. I want Philomel to keep the rights forever.
Also, authors deserve no more than ten-per cent of the money a book makes. Publishers and editors are angels who deserve most of the money. Same way that records labels deserve the vast majority of the money from music, not the original artists.
I hate digital piracy and free information. I hate happiness. I hate nice things.
I hate that I am watching Gravity Falls for free on a website. Stupid scumbag me.
Yeah, gonna either stop; or pay some money for it.
the sheer audacity of accusing the public domain itself of being greedy while supporting perpetual copyright makes my head hurt
Next time, I'll make sure to include a disclaimer.
I'm really sorry that I hurt your feelings, I didn't intend to; I was just intending to be unbelievable and over-the-top for humor (like saying, "I AM SO MANLY I EAT SEVERAL BARGES FULL OF RAW EGGS EVERY DAY AND MY BEARD GROWS A BEARD WHILE I RIDE MY MOTORCYCLE DOWN AN OFFROAD PATH MADE OF CACTI AND I PUNCH GRIZZLY BEARS WITH MY RIGHT HAND WHILE HOLDING A MONSTER TRUCK FULL OF BACON IN MY LEFT HAND").
Sorry about that.
Let's just chalk it up to a misunderstanding of tone and level of seriousness, okay?
Apologies accepted on both parts, and no hard feelings?
My philosophy on humor is that it's not only the teaser/joker who gets to decide if it's all in good fun; but also the teased/audience, who decides that. But it's a two-way thing. In the end, we should try not to offend, and try not to be offended. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and have goodwill towards people. Have a thick skin, and try not to needle people who have thin skins
In the end, just have fun.
But yeah, that little whatever-it-was is over; and I will, in fact, be buying or renting Gravity Falls because I like the show.
ON TO EPISODE FIVE!
Six Strange Tales also contains... JOURNAL WITH A THREE ON IT!
Okay, it's a tiny booklet in a pretty easy cryptogram text (with three empty pages at the back so you can write your own in it, but it's cool. I wish I could buy a GF hat and look like this kid:
Each episode seems to be better than the next, and gets me more hyped.
Wow, GIrl WHo Hardly Appears, thanks for not humiliating Dipper by revealing the Lammy Lammy dance thing to your friends. I was completely sure it'd end with him humiliated and the status quo kept.
Well played, show.