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Re: Jokes

Post by xanman12321 » October 21st, 2018, 11:33 am

what do you call a sick light-weight spaceship?

an ill-wss.
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Re: Jokes

Post by Redstoneboi » October 22nd, 2018, 11:34 am

What unit cell goes on a camping trip?
The OTCAMP.
ba dum psst

cricket noises

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This is 「Fluffy」
「Fluffy」is my sutando.
「Fluffy」has the ability to engineer r e p l i c a t o r s.
「Fluffy」likes to watch spaceship guns in Golly.
「Fluffy」knows Natsuki best girl.

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Re: Jokes

Post by Hdjensofjfnen » January 22nd, 2019, 5:27 pm

We're running out of material.
The only known reflectors that could extract a signal from that glider, given the available space, are very expensive staged recovery devices using a bait object...
A hand is any object used as a slow salvo target by a construction arm.
It is possible to construct larger emulators, but they require stabilizing objects to suppress their non-sparks and so are of little use (except for the overweight T-nose.
Hit the nearer, southwest, duplicated elbow block with a stream of 17 gliders to produce a Snark-destroying return glider directly in the channel.
The term may also be used to describe the rate of increase in the number of subpatterns present in a pattern, such as when describing a replicator's rate of reproduction.
These are used because the difficulty of finding previously unknown objects, especially in Life, now commonly exceeds the patience, speed, and accuracy of humans.
EDIT:
A pufferfish spaceship is, generally, any spaceship constructed using pufferfish.

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x = 5, y = 9, rule = B3-jqr/S01c2-in3
3bo$4bo$o2bo$2o2$2o$o2bo$4bo$3bo!

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S2-i3-y4i
4b3o$6bo$o3b3o$2o$bo!

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Re: Jokes

Post by Gamedziner » January 22nd, 2019, 6:00 pm

Bugs is Larger than Life.

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58.2A$58.2A3$59.2A17.2A$59.2A17.2A3$79.2A$79.2A2$57.A$56.A$56.3A4$27.
A$27.A.A$27.2A21$3.2A$3.2A2.2A$7.2A18$7.2A$7.2A2.2A$11.2A11$2A$2A2.2A
$4.2A18$4.2A$4.2A2.2A$8.2A!

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Re: Jokes

Post by testitemqlstudop » January 23rd, 2019, 7:53 pm

The previous name for "Aries betwixt two blocks" on catagolue

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Re: Jokes

Post by dani » January 23rd, 2019, 11:02 pm

testitemqlstudop wrote:The previous name for "Aries betwixt two blocks" on catagolue
I'm scared.

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Re: Jokes

Post by testitemqlstudop » January 26th, 2019, 9:48 pm

I actually did quite a lot of digging in the original apgsearch thread.

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Re: Jokes

Post by Moosey » January 29th, 2019, 3:54 pm

Can AbhpzTa lend me their do cool things button?
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Re: Jokes

Post by Hdjensofjfnen » February 14th, 2019, 8:46 pm

Moosey wrote:Can AbhpzTa lend me their do cool things button?
:lol:

Q: How many gliders does it take to destroy a 0E0P metacell?
A: Zero -- it self-destructs in 2^36 generations.

EDIT: Corrected # of generations
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3bo$4bo$o2bo$2o2$2o$o2bo$4bo$3bo!

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S2-i3-y4i
4b3o$6bo$o3b3o$2o$bo!

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Re: Jokes

Post by dani » February 14th, 2019, 9:21 pm

Buy my new book, Creating World Peace in 35 Gliders.

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Post by Moosey » February 14th, 2019, 9:29 pm

danny wrote:Buy my new book, Creating World Peace in 35 Gliders.
We should also be able to destroy anything (and not just glider constructible things) in 35 gliders via RCT as well.
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Post by Hdjensofjfnen » February 15th, 2019, 12:07 am

danny wrote:Buy my new book, Creating World Peace in 35 Gliders.
Although your avatar on the flyleaf might deter some young readers. Why does she look like she's just been stabbed?

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x = 5, y = 9, rule = B3-jqr/S01c2-in3
3bo$4bo$o2bo$2o2$2o$o2bo$4bo$3bo!

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x = 7, y = 5, rule = B3/S2-i3-y4i
4b3o$6bo$o3b3o$2o$bo!

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Re: Jokes

Post by 77topaz » February 15th, 2019, 5:30 am

Hdjensofjfnen wrote:Although your avatar on the flyleaf might deter some young readers. Why does she look like she's just been stabbed?
Foreshadowing, I suppose.

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Re: Jokes

Post by GUYTU6J » July 31st, 2019, 12:57 pm

Bump
dani wrote:Buy my new book, Creating World Peace in 35 Gliders.
In four:

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86bxx$65bo19bxbbx$66boo16bxbbx$65boo17b3x$$67bo16b3x$60b3o4boo15bxbbx$
62bo3bobo16bxbbx$61bo9b3o12bxx$71bo$72bo20$86bxx$13bo41bo29bxbbx$11bob
o19bxx21bo16boo9bxbbx$12boo19bxx19b3o16boo9b3x$50b3o$12boo19bxx17bo20b
oo9b3x$11bobo19bxx16bo21boo9bxbbx$13bo71bxbbx$86bxx22$bobo$bboo$bbo3$
6bobo49bo$7boo50bo$7bo49b3o$41byy18boo$40bybby16bobbo$41byy3bxx13boo3b
oo18bxx$16b3o26bxbbx16bobbo16bxbbx$16bo27bxbbx16bobbo16bxbbx$17bo26b3x
17b3o17b3x$$44b3x17b3o17b3x$44bxbbx16bobbo16bxbbx$10bo34bxbbx16bobbo
16bxbbx$11boo28byy3bxx13boo3boo18bxx$10boo28bybby16bobbo$41byy18boo$9b
o47b3o$8boo49bo$8bobo47bo4$oo$boo$o!
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Post by testitemqlstudop » July 31st, 2019, 9:06 pm

(I hope all of you know the quote "give me a lever and fulcrum and I will move the earth" - at least that's what I learned in science class)

Give me a NAND gate and a memory cell and I will recreate (insert name of famous computer program)

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Re: Jokes

Post by GUYTU6J » August 1st, 2019, 2:14 am

Q) How can a still life be moving?
A1) Use a glider:

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A2) Appreciate it with emotion, e.g. enjoy your natural 57-bitter that has just appeared in a B3S23/C1 soup.
A3) After that, name it "moving".

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Re: Jokes

Post by Moosey » August 1st, 2019, 8:07 am

A googologist has some plants. They have TREE(3) of them.
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Re: Jokes

Post by toroidalet » August 2nd, 2019, 7:11 pm

If it's heaven, then why the '''''hell''''' are people there being chained to ugly people for all eternity? Makes you wonder if the Devil really is down there*.
Why, if God were alive today**, He'd be an atheist.

*Of course, the Devil isn't real. Just like Santa Claus, he's really your parents.

**From Kurt Vonnegut's unfinished novel of the same name, posted posthumously in We are what we pretend to be. I highly recommend it for high-school-age-plus-people-
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Post by Moosey » August 2nd, 2019, 7:48 pm

toroidalet wrote:If it's heaven, then why the '''''hell''''' are people there being chained to ugly people for all eternity?
Because the user's signature is a spam link.
It's EXTREMELY WELL HIDDEN spam-- to paraphrase dani:
Spambots are getting smarter every day

@tim96532 I sincerely apologize for suspecting that you are a spambot if you are not; the "source:" thing made the signature look odd.
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Post by toroidalet » August 2nd, 2019, 10:15 pm

Moosey wrote:Because the user's signature is a spam link.
I'm not entirely sure what "mangazuki" translates to (due to homophones and such), but the website appears to be a service in which one can read Japanese comic books (manga), which might not necessarily be a spambot-y thing to do.
(American translation: a streaming service, but for Japanese comic books instead of movies/TV shows.)

Speaking of streaming services, what do they have in common with nuclear weapons?

We don't want them proliferating!
(Also, the US has recently moved toward spreading of them.)
It almost makes you want them all to merge into one mega-corporation where you only have to pay one subscription.
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Re: Jokes

Post by testitemqlstudop » August 2nd, 2019, 11:45 pm

[quote]Speaking of streaming services, what do they have in common with nuclear weapons?[/code]

Streaming services allow you to watch north korea launch icbms live

EDIT: Why tf did i use code instead of quote

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Post by Moosey » August 3rd, 2019, 7:34 am

:oops: I think there has been enough spambots on this website to make me a little hostile to everything that seems so much as a tad out of place.
The main reason I felt it was odd was that their signature read "source: mangazuki.com" which seems to suggest that they are attributing everything they will post to there-- comics, regardless of where they come from, seem like an awfully insufficient source when it comes to an obscure mathematical subject. You'd think they'd add that link to the post, but it may be just because they don't know about the edit button.
I remember reading a thread where something like this has happened before.
@tim96532: there's a button saying "EDIT"; if you use it it lets you edit your post.
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Re: Jokes

Post by GUYTU6J » August 5th, 2019, 2:13 am

R goes into a haunted place

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4bo10bo$9bobo9b2o5b2o10bo21bo$10bo16b2o11b2o18b3o$39bo3bo16bo$39bo4bo
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20bo$9b3o19bo$11bo5$2bo$3bo20bo$3o20bo$o23b3o$26bo!

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Re: Jokes

Post by GUYTU6J » August 13th, 2019, 6:13 am

(Context from Game Of Life Comics thread:
Gustone wrote:
Mooseey wrote: 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.
and etc)
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.

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Re: Jokes

Post by testitemqlstudop » August 13th, 2019, 6:51 am

But I DO remember the birthday puffer for being found on calcyman's birthday

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