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Thread: xkcd Garden
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mousethief
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How does YOUR garden grow? Randall Munroe has given us yet another weird one.
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Eutychus
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I have a boy, girl, turtle, a few tufts of grass and something waving gently in the breeze. I see others have produced a lot more.
But then I've never had green fingers, and indeed am wondering if it's dry enough outside to embark on cutting my foot-high lawn, which has grown virtually all winter on account of it being so mild.
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Sipech
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I don't get it. I can position up to three lamps, change the angle and colour, but then what? Is something supposed to grow? How do you instigate it?
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mousethief
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I have a cactus under the pink light, some trees (including a huge dead pole) under the yellow light, and two octopi (someone described them as Elder Gods) and a human form (presumably male by the lack of long hair, which is how Munroe generally distinguishes females) under the lavender light. No turtles yet.
I had the lights separated. Now I am experimenting on a bare spot with mixing the pink and yellow. I've had the tab open for about 3 hours.
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mousethief
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Oooo! You can weed the garden. Click on one of the growing things and the delete "X" turns red, and you can delete it. I'm getting rid of the elder gods to see what happens. Especially before one of them eats that human.
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jedijudy
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I have a pink and blue light and made a purple section. Maybe they'll like it?
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mousethief
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I've now got a deer-like animal, as well as a cat, a turtle, and the human.
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jedijudy
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Oooh! A kitty and a bird and a park bench! There's a snag, and I think it needs an eagle.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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I have a snake. Yes, there is a serpent in my garden. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Sipech:
I don't get it. I can position up to three lamps, change the angle and colour, but then what? Is something supposed to grow? How do you instigate it?
Yep. Bit dull. Not sure how you change the colour.
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mousethief
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The purple light seems to create animals exclusively.
I haven't gotten any furniture yet although my son has gotten a birdbath. No snake for me either.
To change the color you click on the light then turn the little dot that appears at the top of the circle.
It's not something to sit and watch. Turn it on and then go do something else for an hour.
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Ariel
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Thanks for the tip, MT. 2.5 trees so far.
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Sipech
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I did leave it and had a cat sat on top of a desk, but then it just reset itself to a single yellow light.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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I think the octopi may be in honour of Ringo's garden on the Beatles' Abbey Road album.
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Lyda*Rose
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I'm on an extremely slow, old pc at the church office so it won't load. I can't wait to get home and try it out. This sounds like an activity about my speed.
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LeRoc
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mousethief: It's not something to sit and watch. Turn it on and then go do something else for an hour.
Wow yes, it really takes long.
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Ariel
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6.5 trees, 2 sprigs of grass and a bench. Will I get a partridge in a pear tree?
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LeRoc
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Are any of you seeing the wind?
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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No wind - that sounds interesting!
A deer has just appeared in front of two cacti. It looks like a camel with three spiky humps.
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Garasu
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Does it not work with IE? Or is it just really crap?
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Ariel
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You have to wait quite some time. Then things spontaneously appear. Then the program resets itself, clears the screen and starts over again. It is very slow moving though so don't expect anything to happen for at least a quarter of an hour.
I found it quite difficult to see any colours from the lights on Firefox - they're very pale pastels.
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Sioni Sais
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Geological time perhaps?
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Confirmed: the lavender light only grows animals including people.
Now working with just yellow, and I've gotten some shrubbery, a snag, and a birdbath.
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
Are any of you seeing the wind?
Yes. Blowing the big tree about 1/3 of the way in from the left of the screen, I assume you mean?
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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mousethief: Blowing the big tree about 1/3 of the way in from the left of the screen, I assume you mean?
For a time, all of the trees big and small were swaying to and fro with the wind, while all the rest (animals, bird baths) stayed still.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Here is my final report on the light.
Pink: Cacti and turtles
Lavender: All other animals including people
Yellow: Birdbaths and all other plants
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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mousethief: Here is my final report on the light.
Are you still safe in there? Give us a sign when we need to pull you out.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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I take it back. I am now experimenting with light that is halfway to the right. I have two tentacles growing out of the ground that I hadn't seen with the "pure" light colors.
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Paul.
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I've got a spinning tree over the word "Loading..."
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Ariel
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It reset mine back to the original single light. For some reason it keeps doing that, after only a few seconds I come back to find it's reset again.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Let's see here...so far, with three lights (with varying angles, colors, crossings, and foci), I've got some balloons on strings swaying in the wind, a kitten, a dude in a beret coming out of the ground, what looks like a sprout, the Washington Monument, and a desk and chair with two deer on it.
Strange.
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Hedgehog
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Hmph. I am about 20 minutes in with no sign of anything. To be fair, I went with narrow beams of light (one of each color) with no intersecting, so that may delay things.
I see that it claims:
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You can copy the URL to share your garden. From other browsers, it will be view-only.
Has anybody tried that?
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Gracious rebel
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Does nobody else have rabbits? I have 5.
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Gracious rebel
Rainbow warrior
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
I see that it claims:
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You can copy the URL to share your garden. From other browsers, it will be view-only.
Has anybody tried that?
Well lets try it.
Here are my rabbits etc
ETA well that doesn't seem to work, clicking the link gives me just the blank the starting garden. Or do others see my rabbits?
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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No, empty garden with just the one light.
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Hedgehog
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Odd. Now the link shows a single light ... with grass.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Rabbits? You have rabbits? I have what appear to be budding lampposts. At first they looked like five foot tall hookahs but then one sprouted an arm.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Currently I have rabbits and what look like canoodling deer (and it didn't crash overnight when I shut the computer down, but kept playing)
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Sipech
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I can't get anything to appear under a red light. Only yellows and blues do anything.
I have an obelisk at the moment.
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LeRoc
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Sipech: I have an obelisk at the moment.
That's OK, it can happen to all of us.
(Sorry, some of these I simply can't let pass ![[Smile]](smile.gif) )
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Sipech
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Sipech: I have an obelisk at the moment.
That's OK, it can happen to all of us.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) That nearly wasted nearly half a cup of coffee that did!
Do you have recommendations for what to do with the nobbly bits that are growing out of its side?
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LeRoc
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Sipech: Do you have recommendations for what to do with the nobbly bits that are growing out of its side?
I'm sorry; I'm not allowed to give medical advice on the Ship
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Gwai:
Gracious Rebel: I see grass and a tree, so I think it works.
Gracious Rebel's link has been slowly growing over time. It started as the blank original, then it grew grass, and now has a tree.
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Here's mine: http://xkcd.com/1663/#6e17299a-fb38-11e5-8001-42010a8e000c
Your link does work, in all its glory. I love the turtles perched on the cacti. It reminds me of the line about an elected official being like a turtle on a post: you know he didn't get there by his own merits and you wonder what sort of fool put him there, but you are sure he has no idea what to do now that he is there!
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