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172.68.205.93: Undo revision 360905 by 172.71.214.53 (talk) Useless edit, and seems to be the start of several edits made by a similar-range IP, generally indicating someone being less than helpful

2025-01-03T01:10:42Z

Undo revision 360905 by 172.71.214.53 (talk) Useless edit, and seems to be the start of several edits made by a similar-range IP, generally indicating someone being less than helpful

172.71.214.53 at 23:55, 2 January 2025

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172.70.85.81: /* Frame by frame breakdown */ Started to make a few changes, in this conversationally-slanted addition, sometimes pandering to the tone it was written with. I think it needs a proper patient rewrite, though.

2023-12-18T16:39:31Z

‎Frame by frame breakdown: Started to make a few changes, in this conversationally-slanted addition, sometimes pandering to the tone it was written with. I think it needs a proper patient rewrite, though.

Maplestrip: /* Frame by frame breakdown */ Fixing typo.

2023-12-18T14:32:28Z

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Maplestrip: /* Frame by frame breakdown */ My favorite storyarc to write was light 4.

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‎Frame by frame breakdown: My favorite storyarc to write was light 4.

172.70.90.93 at 11:32, 15 December 2023

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 | image     = traffic_lights.gif
 | titletext = There's an intersection I drive through sometimes that has a forward green arrow, a red light, and a 'no turns' sign all on one pole. I honestly have no idea what it's telling me to do.
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 ==Explanation==
 This comic is an {{w|animated gif}} which features an array of {{w|traffic light}}s which are lighted signals posted at intersections to control vehicular traffic. The standard North American traffic light has three solid lights: red, yellow and green (meaning, in simplistic terms, "stop", "stop if you can, otherwise exit the intersection" and "go if it is safe" respectively). More complicated lights sometimes have additional signals such as arrows indicating go or stop for a specific direction such as left or right turns.

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 The title text mentions a straightforward intersection that allows going forward but not turning. Even though Randall is confused, in some places, a red light and a forward green arrow permits going forward but disallows turns.
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 [[File:traffic lights list.png]]

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 The title text mentions a straightforward intersection that allows going forward but not turning. Even though Randall is confused, in some places, a red light and a forward green arrow permits going forward but disallows turns.
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 [[File:traffic lights list.png]]

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 * 22. No change at all.
 * 23. The bottom bulb of light 2 turned red. This light should be green. In the sense that it should be anything at this point.
-* 24. Pole is briefly off again. Light 2 reversed itself: green is on at the top now. Light 4 suddenly switched to red, now warning whatsoever!
+* 24. Pole is briefly off again. Light 2 reversed itself: green is on at the top now. Light 4 suddenly switched to red, no warning whatsoever!
 * 25. The pole now has an "up" arrow instead of side arrows. These indicate that you can (only) go straight ahead. The center light is still <s>green</s> blue, so I suppose this is true. However, the top bulb of the pole is red too, so it's a bit of mixed messaging. Lane 2 turned off its center yellow bulb. Light 5 is back to showing amber.
 * 26. Light 2 and 4 turned off completely, which is unhelpful.

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 [[File:traffic lights list.png]]
-* 1. All traffic lights are on red, likely because the perpendicular road crossing our road has most of its lights on green. At a traffic light-managed junction, cars typically cannot cross or merge into roads that are in use from a different direction.
+* 1. All traffic lights are on red, likely because the perpendicular road crossing our road has some of its lights on green. At a traffic light-managed junction, cars typically cannot cross or merge into roads that are in use from a different direction.
-* 2. The traffic light of undefined purpose (pole light) switches from red to yellow. This is highly unusual, as yellow is typically used as an intermediary phase when going from green to red. Yellow is usually a warning light to inform drivers that the light will switch to red soon.
+* 2. The traffic light of undefined purpose (pole light) switches from red to yellow. This is highly unusual, as yellow is typically used as an intermediary phase when going from green to red (<!-- presumably? -->in the US, it may be {{w|Traffic light#Meanings of signals|usual/expected}} elsewhere, in various contexts). Yellow is usually a warning light to inform drivers that the light will switch to red soon.
-* 3. In switching to green, the pole light surprisingly reveals itself to point to the left. Typically, all three lights in a stack have the same symbol on them, so drivers cannot be surprised by their purpose suddenly switching. This light now informs drivers they may turn left, but there is no lane that would allow them to do so. The left-most light also turned green, but it is flanked by a sign informing drivers that they may only turn to the right from here. This is a particularly inefficient setup, as drivers on this lane must cross all other lanes in order to turn right.
+* 3. In switching to green, the pole light surprisingly reveals itself to point to the left. Some conventions require that all three lights in a stack have the same symbol on them, so drivers cannot be surprised by their purpose suddenly switching. This light now informs drivers they may turn left, but there is no lane that would allow them to do so. The left-most light also turned green, but it is flanked by a sign informing drivers that they may only turn to the right from here. This is a particularly contentious setup, as drivers on this lane must cross all other lanes in order to turn right.
-* 4. The pole light is giving mixed messages. Maybe the red light is only relevant for cars crossing straight through? It is impossible to be sure. The fourth light also turned green, allowing people to drive straight through. The pole light and fifth light may contradict eachother directly. Cars from the first lane and fifth lane would be likely to crash, unless a tunnel or bridge system is in place in the middle of this intersection.
+* 4. The pole light is giving mixed messages. Maybe the red light is only relevant for cars crossing straight through? It is impossible to be sure. The fourth light also turned green, allowing people to drive straight through. The pole light and fifth light may contradict each other directly. Cars from the first lane and fifth lane would be likely to crash, unless a tunnel or bridge system is in place in the middle of this intersection.
-* 5. Lane 3 and 4 are not synced. Why are they not synced. They both go straight ahead. Right?
+* 5. Lane 3 and 4 are not synced. Why are they not synced? They both go straight ahead, yes?
-* 6. Why did the first lane light turn off for free seconds, to then turn on again? This is not enough time for a crossing road to clear out. The fifth lane switched to amber, which is a synonym for "yellow" in the context of traffic lights. People can never agree whether it's yellow or amber, so Randall helpfully differentiated the two colors. See frame 2 why it is odd for the light to switch from red to amber. Like lane 1, lane 5 would presumably cross all the other lanes, resulting in accidents.
+* 6. Why did the first lane light turn off for three seconds, to then turn on again? This is not enough time for a crossing road to clear out. The fifth lane switched to amber, a distinct color in this system, although often a synonym for "yellow" (not red or green) in the context of traffic lights. People can never agree whether it's yellow or amber, so Randall helpfully differentiated the two colors. See frame 2 why it may be odd for the light to switch from red to amber. Like lane 1, lane 5 would presumably cross all the other lanes, resulting in accidents.
 * 7. Oh no the first lane light is blinking between red and green. This is terrifying. The fifth lane just hangs on amber, which is probably a fair use of a warning light. The pole light is doing its own thing, better not to worry about it.
 * 8. Pole light has begun blinking, light 1 continues to blink, 3 and 4 stay green, 5 continues to warn.
-* 9. Light 2 joins by turning on its yellow light. This is a common setup in Britain, to have red and yellow on simultaneously before switching to green. This allows drivers to get ready to start driving sooner.
+* 9. Light 2 joins in by turning on its yellow light. This is a common setup in Britain, to have red and yellow on simultaneously before switching to green. This allows drivers to be prepared to start driving, without yet being allowed to do so.
 * 10. The pole added yellow again. Ignore it. Light 1 continues to blink. Light 2 is stuck on red-and-yellow, constantly teasing the lane 2 drivers who expect it may switch to green any moment now. Probably for the best that it won't.
 * 11. Lights 3 and 4 are behaving normally, getting ready to go back to red by switching to yellow. Light 5 finally switched to the bottom light, but it's red instead of green. This is confusing.
-* 12. Argh. 3 continued on to red as it should, but 3 changed its mind and switched back to green! Oh, and the pole turned off completely, which is unusual too.
+* 12. Argh! 3 continued on to red as it should, but 3 changed its mind and switched back to green! Oh, and the pole turned off completely, which is unusual too.
-* 13. The pole activates again. It should've stayed off. The arrow magically turned around, which is not possible for this type of light.
+* 13. The pole activates again. It should have stayed off. The arrow magically turned around, which is not possible for this type of light.
 * 14. The pole continues to mess around.
 * 15. The pole continues to mess around. Light 1 is still blinking, 2 is still edging, 3 still red, 4 still green, and 5 still red.

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	[[File:traffic lights list.png]]		[[File:traffic lights list.png]]
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		+	* 1. All traffic lights are on red, likely because the perpendicular road crossing our road has most of its lights on green. At a traffic light-managed junction, cars typically cannot cross or merge into roads that are in use from a different direction.
		+	* 2. The traffic light of undefined purpose (pole light) switches from red to yellow. This is highly unusual, as yellow is typically used as an intermediary phase when going from green to red. Yellow is usually a warning light to inform drivers that the light will switch to red soon.
		+	* 3. In switching to green, the pole light surprisingly reveals itself to point to the left. Typically, all three lights in a stack have the same symbol on them, so drivers cannot be surprised by their purpose suddenly switching. This light now informs drivers they may turn left, but there is no lane that would allow them to do so. The left-most light also turned green, but it is flanked by a sign informing drivers that they may only turn to the right from here. This is a particularly inefficient setup, as drivers on this lane must cross all other lanes in order to turn right.
		+	* 4. The pole light is giving mixed messages. Maybe the red light is only relevant for cars crossing straight through? It is impossible to be sure. The fourth light also turned green, allowing people to drive straight through. The pole light and fifth light may contradict eachother directly. Cars from the first lane and fifth lane would be likely to crash, unless a tunnel or bridge system is in place in the middle of this intersection.
		+	* 5. Lane 3 and 4 are not synced. Why are they not synced. They both go straight ahead. Right?
		+	* 6. Why did the first lane light turn off for free seconds, to then turn on again? This is not enough time for a crossing road to clear out. The fifth lane switched to amber, which is a synonym for "yellow" in the context of traffic lights. People can never agree whether it's yellow or amber, so Randall helpfully differentiated the two colors. See frame 2 why it is odd for the light to switch from red to amber. Like lane 1, lane 5 would presumably cross all the other lanes, resulting in accidents.
		+	* 7. Oh no the first lane light is blinking between red and green. This is terrifying. The fifth lane just hangs on amber, which is probably a fair use of a warning light. The pole light is doing its own thing, better not to worry about it.
		+	* 8. Pole light has begun blinking, light 1 continues to blink, 3 and 4 stay green, 5 continues to warn.
		+	* 9. Light 2 joins by turning on its yellow light. This is a common setup in Britain, to have red and yellow on simultaneously before switching to green. This allows drivers to get ready to start driving sooner.
		+	* 10. The pole added yellow again. Ignore it. Light 1 continues to blink. Light 2 is stuck on red-and-yellow, constantly teasing the lane 2 drivers who expect it may switch to green any moment now. Probably for the best that it won't.
		+	* 11. Lights 3 and 4 are behaving normally, getting ready to go back to red by switching to yellow. Light 5 finally switched to the bottom light, but it's red instead of green. This is confusing.
		+	* 12. Argh. 3 continued on to red as it should, but 3 changed its mind and switched back to green! Oh, and the pole turned off completely, which is unusual too.
		+	* 13. The pole activates again. It should've stayed off. The arrow magically turned around, which is not possible for this type of light.
		+	* 14. The pole continues to mess around.
		+	* 15. The pole continues to mess around. Light 1 is still blinking, 2 is still edging, 3 still red, 4 still green, and 5 still red.
		+	* 16. One of the arrows on the pole magically turned from green to red. A bulb near the bottom of a stack should not be red. Lane 4 switched to yellow again, maybe it will finally turn red?
		+	* 17. Light 4 betrayed us again and switched back to green. Lane 2 now turned on its green light too, which has no meaning but it's very colorful.
		+	* 18. Light 3 decided to join light 4 again, but now it is blue instead of green. This color is used in Japan instead of green. Light 1 stopped blinking and is now red.
		+	* 19. Pole is still doing whatever it wants, briefly turning off its arrows.
		+	* 20. All three bulbs of light 2 turn yellow, which I guess is a warning to us all. Light 4 teases us once again by briefly switching to yellow.
		+	* 21. The pole is still messing around, Light 1 is still red, light 2 is completely yellow, light 3 is still blue, light 4 is back to green, and light 5 is still red.
		+	* 22. No change at all.
		+	* 23. The bottom bulb of light 2 turned red. This light should be green. In the sense that it should be anything at this point.
		+	* 24. Pole is briefly off again. Light 2 reversed itself: green is on at the top now. Light 4 suddenly switched to red, now warning whatsoever!
		+	* 25. The pole now has an "up" arrow instead of side arrows. These indicate that you can (only) go straight ahead. The center light is still <s>green<s> blue, so I suppose this is true. However, the top bulb of the pole is red too, so it's a bit of mixed messaging. Lane 2 turned off its center yellow bulb. Light 5 is back to showing amber.
		+	* 26. Light 2 and 4 turned off completely, which is unhelpful.
		+	* 27. The pole added an arrow "down", which is not used for traffic lights and has no defined meaning. Honestly it looks like it's outright telling the drivers to crash into eachother at this point. Light 2 is magically pointing to the right now, which I suppose is allowed because it is one of the directions that the sign flanking it allows for. Light 3 switched back to red. Light 4 is pointing left, which would probably result in crashes but is technically fine. Light 5 switched back to red. The bird, up until this point very still, moved a little bit.
		+	* 28. Small change on the pole. 1 is red, 2 is green-right, 3 is red, 4 is green-left, and 5 is red.
		+	* 29. Light 1, 2, and 4 are all on red. Light 3 turned itself off suddenly. Light 5 turns all three of its lights on: red, amber, and red.
		+	* 30. The pole finally switches off for this loop. Possibly, cross-traffic can go again, with most lines either red or off. Lamp 5 is back to amber, however, which looks a bit like red.
		+	* 31. No change from last frame.
		+	* 32. Light 4 turns itself off too, and light 5 returns to red.
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		+	After phase 32, all lights turn back on to their top-red position. All these phases then repeat.

	==Closeups on the Lights==		==Closeups on the Lights==

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	[[File:traffic lights list.png]]		[[File:traffic lights list.png]]