Talk:2916: Machine - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: I'm going to assume you didn't want that message showing up that much?

2025-12-05T20:29:23Z

I'm going to assume you didn't want that message showing up that much?

75.98.193.82: heuza

2025-12-05T20:26:38Z

heuza

FaviFake at 22:56, 11 May 2025

2025-05-11T22:56:39Z

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141.101.98.245: I'm guessing unsigned-adder lives in UTC+8 and used their local time, not server-time, of the edit. Doesn't mean much, but confused me!

2025-02-26T10:44:42Z

I'm guessing unsigned-adder lives in UTC+8 and used their local time, not server-time, of the edit. Doesn't mean much, but confused me!

Firestar233: please sign your comments with ~~~~

2025-02-26T03:58:11Z

please sign your comments with ~~~~

172.71.146.79: /* Bugs and Exploits */

2025-02-25T23:01:23Z

‎Bugs and Exploits

172.71.146.79 at 18:51, 22 February 2025

2025-02-22T18:51:27Z

172.71.166.26: darn

2025-01-12T20:47:59Z

darn

172.71.166.26: reply

2025-01-12T20:47:00Z

Nino: Ok

2024-12-30T02:39:55Z

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	:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,		:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,

−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
−	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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	:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,		:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,

		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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 :: It survives the reset, because the balls falling on the lever push it down to the sword and it gets stuck there every time. But you need to place the sword just right to make the gravity bug happen. And even then it depends on the number of balls in some ways. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.243.27|172.68.243.27]] 14:46, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 ::: I've replicated the "tip of sword grabs the 'hinge'" thing, which is very interesting, but not the anti-gravity effect. The movement still seems ''to me'' more like a fan's 'area of effect' thing, than a wonky sense of gravity, the way that the balls are rolling/resisting/interacting with each other. No, I can't see where you've 'hidden' the fan (and I'm sure that fans can't act across submission-grid-boundaries, which was my next guess), so it's a bit of a funny thing that you've got there. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.49|172.70.163.49]] 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
-:::: I did it!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/1qzg5BW {{unsigned ip|172.71.146.79|15:01, 25 February 2025}}
+:::: I did it!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/1qzg5BW {{unsigned ip|172.71.146.79|23:01, 25 February 2025}}
 On occasion, two balls will fall from the containers as a pair, as if glued together. When this happens, they float down as if under much lower gravity, and then suddenly explode violently away from each other.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.182|172.69.43.182]] 10:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 :What contaniners?? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.252|172.70.110.252]] 14:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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 :: It survives the reset, because the balls falling on the lever push it down to the sword and it gets stuck there every time. But you need to place the sword just right to make the gravity bug happen. And even then it depends on the number of balls in some ways. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.243.27|172.68.243.27]] 14:46, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 ::: I've replicated the "tip of sword grabs the 'hinge'" thing, which is very interesting, but not the anti-gravity effect. The movement still seems ''to me'' more like a fan's 'area of effect' thing, than a wonky sense of gravity, the way that the balls are rolling/resisting/interacting with each other. No, I can't see where you've 'hidden' the fan (and I'm sure that fans can't act across submission-grid-boundaries, which was my next guess), so it's a bit of a funny thing that you've got there. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.49|172.70.163.49]] 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
-:::: I did it!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/1qzg5BW
+:::: I did it!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/1qzg5BW {{unsigned ip|172.71.146.79|15:01, 25 February 2025}}
 On occasion, two balls will fall from the containers as a pair, as if glued together. When this happens, they float down as if under much lower gravity, and then suddenly explode violently away from each other.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.182|172.69.43.182]] 10:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 :What contaniners?? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.252|172.70.110.252]] 14:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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 :: It survives the reset, because the balls falling on the lever push it down to the sword and it gets stuck there every time. But you need to place the sword just right to make the gravity bug happen. And even then it depends on the number of balls in some ways. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.243.27|172.68.243.27]] 14:46, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 ::: I've replicated the "tip of sword grabs the 'hinge'" thing, which is very interesting, but not the anti-gravity effect. The movement still seems ''to me'' more like a fan's 'area of effect' thing, than a wonky sense of gravity, the way that the balls are rolling/resisting/interacting with each other. No, I can't see where you've 'hidden' the fan (and I'm sure that fans can't act across submission-grid-boundaries, which was my next guess), so it's a bit of a funny thing that you've got there. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.49|172.70.163.49]] 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
+:::: I did it!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/1qzg5BW
 On occasion, two balls will fall from the containers as a pair, as if glued together. When this happens, they float down as if under much lower gravity, and then suddenly explode violently away from each other.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.182|172.69.43.182]] 10:56, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 :What contaniners?? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.252|172.70.110.252]] 14:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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 if you put two b0nks on the front side and the back side of the hinge you basically get a catapult[[User:Ninojin|Ninojin]] ([[User talk:Ninojin|talk]]) 09:40, 28 December 2024 (UTC)ninojin
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	:Is there any actual reason you need him to be? You can always contact him in various other established ways, from email to formerly-Twitter. Why should he become further distracted by our particular brand of muddling-through to his thrice-weekly output, rather than just do what he does to entertain us on such a tight schedule? I've said before, and will doubtless say again, that Randall might or might not read this site (though, for various reasons, I'm not convinced he does) but would probably be wise to not ''visibly'' do so. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.109\|172.70.90.109]] 23:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)		:Is there any actual reason you need him to be? You can always contact him in various other established ways, from email to formerly-Twitter. Why should he become further distracted by our particular brand of muddling-through to his thrice-weekly output, rather than just do what he does to entertain us on such a tight schedule? I've said before, and will doubtless say again, that Randall might or might not read this site (though, for various reasons, I'm not convinced he does) but would probably be wise to not ''visibly'' do so. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.109\|172.70.90.109]] 23:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
	:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,		:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight\|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,
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		+	sometimes 2 balls get glitched while falling into the pit and stay together and falls slowly. collision unglitches the balls - [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.79\|172.71.146.79]] 18:51, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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 Just popped over using Chrome on Android and all I see is four "missing picture" logos spinning around, plus another down the bottom right... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.68.193|141.101.68.193]] 18:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 :Okay, followup: it behaves quite differently on the non mobile site. You get two entry points with red balls and yellow balls and you need to place the various gizmos to direct the balls to the correct exit point. Once enough have correctly passed to turn the red X into a green tick, you have the option to submit. If you do, once you have named your design it will be added to the grid with other submissions all of which exist to push red and yellow balls around. (if you come across "Memories of Ragnarok", that's mine)
 Mine are "Balancing Act" and "100% Success Rate" [[Special:Contributions/172.71.146.14|172.71.146.14]] 21:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 [[Special:Contributions/172.71.134.207|172.71.134.207]] 18:27, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 ::The number of inputs appears to vary between 1 and 4, each of a different color, with one color-coded output for each. [[User:Claire Kholin|Claire Kholin]] ([[User talk:Claire Kholin|talk]]) 18:49, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 On the "machine" section, you see lots of "under construction cells".  Perhaps this will develop as more are submitted.  I notice the "under construction tape" has "DJIA" and "31415",  perhaps a reference to "dow jones industrial average" and the first five digits of pi.  [[User:Zeimusu|Zeimusu]] ([[User talk:Zeimusu|talk]]) 18:37, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

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 :He has even less vested interest in this entirely 'fan-created' site. The most involvement might be from the willingness to allow/actively overlook copyight issues that would have liberties taken, but it's already basically all already CreativeCommons or similar (of the things uploaded here, there necessarily being "links only" out to some newspaper-affiliated stuff, etc) so already something he can blithely ignore (as he would the "I hate xkcd" anti-fan sites).
 :Is there any actual reason you need him to be? You can always contact him in various other established ways, from email to formerly-Twitter. Why should he become further distracted by our particular brand of muddling-through to his thrice-weekly output, rather than just do what he does to entertain us on such a tight schedule? I've said before, and will doubtless say again, that Randall might or might not read this site (though, for various reasons, I'm not convinced he does) but would probably be wise to not ''visibly'' do so. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.109|172.70.90.109]] 23:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
-:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
+:when xkcd still did official transcripts, sometimes the transcript writer would give up and link to our transcript. [[user talk:lettherebedarklight|youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk]] 12:46,