Being the martyr that I am, I opted to stay faithfully at my PC instead of going out and boozing it up for St. Patrick's Day. And what do I have to show for it?
Only this.

I also learned that the forum can't deal with comics over 9999.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Don't worry; I'm sure you'll come up with something more amusing for #100,000

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Some guy you don't know

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"Old" is the old new.

The bug has been fixed. It'll break again at 100,000, but so will our database server probably.

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Numbers just aren't funny. by DexX 3-18-01

We have now passed the five-digit mark - comic strip number ten thousand has been made! Wow... Gabe must be very pleased with himself, making the 10,000th strip. What's the next big number everyone will want? I don't know... eleven thousand, maybe? Nah, that's too predictable... 10101? 12345? The mathematical people will want 14916. On the oppostie end of the spectrum will be those who will hold out for 90210... Look on the bright side - if someone really is that much of a loser, we won't hear anything from the for about 80,000 strips...

Numerical real estate...

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I decided that Scyess is right and I can't afford to let the 100K mile marker pass me by. So I've purchased enough Jolt and beef jerky to last me about eight years and had a toilet installed next to my PC, so there's no way it'll slip by me.

So now I've got nothing to do but sit back and wait for my moment of triumph.

G

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Not quite. I've compiled a short list:

Sign divorce papers.
File for unemployment.
Drain gas out of tank and put car on blocks.
Obtain a live-in gastrointestinologist. (Beef jerky is rude.)
Install a fuck off huge security system to thwart creditors, process servers, and the legions of other Lowpass artists who will be trying to kill you after you run out of ideas with about 90,000 strips to go to hit 100,000.

Hope this helps you on your way,

bunner :- )

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Well, it's taken over a year to get thus far, so we can expect at least 10 years of consistent posting, which is sociologically improbable, as people will most likely eventually grow tired of th comic strip creator.
You'll be waiting a loooong time Gabe.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Not hardly. The first strip was posted on January 6th of this year, which means it's taken us roughly 10 weeks to get to number 10,000. Assuming that we continue at a constant rate of 1,000 strips per week, we should hit strip number 100,000 around early December of 2002. However, usage patterns from the past ten weeks suggest that for every old user who gets tired of posting, two new users will arrive to take his/her place. Surely this will plateau at some point, but assuming no disk crashes or prolonged suspension of service for any reason, I'd estimate that we'll hit strip 100,000 sometime in the second quarter of 2002.

Of course, I don't like to think about what sort of strips Gabe will be posting after subsisting for a year on naught but beef jerky and Jolt.

The 100k Project: October 9th, 2001 by evil_d 3-19-01

Right now I'm at the tail end of a 72-hour strip-posting marathon. A few more like this and I can reach for the elusive #100,000 by the end of the month! Thank god for Jolt. Bongo: I tell joke. Why chicken cross road? Jesus: For gay sex? Bongo: No, for great justice! Jesus: Ha ha that are funny. Bongo: All your base are belong to me. All this typing makes my fingers numb. But no problem -- I just warm them on the trash-barrel fire I keep lit to roast my beef jerky on. Then it's straight back to making funny! Sweet merciful crap! I tried to type on the fire! Oh, how it burns!! Aieee!

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

Could the subject of this thread be any more true? Intrigued by the idea of a statistical analysis of Lowpass Comic creation, I spent the last fifteen minutes gathering some data.

Right off the bat I realized that all my time spent huddled over my PC like some sort of PC-huddling fool was spent in vain. If you look at the comic list pages, you'll note they're displayed in sets of 100 (oddly enough my screen resolution and browser set up fits _exactly_ 25 listings from the top of the browser to the bottom, so it's easy to count).

Anyhoo, on the first page alone I noticed numbers 3-6 and 45 are missing for some odd reason. Thus are others smattered here and there. So my comic, though #10000, is actually the 9981st comic. The real 10,000th comic is this...

My friends criticize me... by fugobo 3-18-01

Now that we're at a strip club, we can forget all our problems getting women and just pay for a night of fun! YEAH! You said it. She wants me! An end to my problems finding women! You have big lips. Want a dollar dance? Wow a girl who understands me! Now I can get to know her and forget about ever finding a women who won't take her clothes off for money! I recognize the band on your hat. Want a dollar dance?

And for either futher geekishness, the aforementioned stats:

Data range: 01/06/2001 - 03/18/2001
Daily comic totals-
Mean: 140.9
Median: 90
Mode: 74
High: 622 (02/27/2001)
Low: 46 (01/21/2001) *not counting the 3 of the first day

At the current daily average, we should reach #100K in 636 days, or mid-December of 2002.

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The only reason having the ten thousandth comic would be cool is because the number ten thousand has all those zeroes when you express it in decimal notation. And since you, Gabe, have the comic which is indexed with all those zeroes, I think you can go ahead and claim whatever bragging rights that entitles you to. Anyway, I think that the missing comics you alluded to were, in fact, created, but were later deleted by Johnny for one reason or another. I've seen messages on here in which artists have requested that he delete certain strips, and I'm pretty sure he deleted that strip by "lowpassnumberone" or whatever the guy's name was who made an account just to brag that he knew how to cheat the voting system. So comic #10,000 is the ten thousandth comic after all -- we just can't still see every one of the first 9,999.

That's an interesting spike on February 27th. Anyone have any idea how it happened? Did anyone find this site around that time? I searched AltaVista for pages that link to the Strip Creator, but all I found were a bunch of weblogs. Maybe one of them was really popular.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

I think Gabe had a quadruple espresso that day...

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Dude? Dude? Gabe?

Step - away - from - the - calculator!
Go OUTSIDE! See that thing with the brown pointy sticks? That's a tree. Touch it. It wont bite. That feeling in your chest that sort of tingles? That's OXYGEN!

Work with me, man!

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Thank you, Mister Billings. I thought I had no life, but your amazing bout of anally retentive perfectionism and misguided data entry has proven to me that, compared to some people's, my life is fascinating!

(Urm, I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course...)

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Don't listen to these ingrates, Gabe. I thought it was a very nice bar graph. The web needs more people like you.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

I'm an engineer. We'd rather look at bar graphs than porn. Thanks Gabe. BTW, do you have any, umm, black on white bar graphs. Ahem. Just curious.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

You guys really need to go outside more. If I wasn't in this basement reviving an old p100 and swapping my AWE16 out for an AWE64 Gold and rebuilding this old Tascam 24/2 console and trying to find a way to construct a mold slurry to manufacture the fiberglas horn lenses on this old Community Sound RS series cab, I'd... I'd....

Is it still winter out?

*sigh*

bunner

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I can't remember what went on then. The referral logs for the comic strip creator are a mess and I don't like them. I seem to recall there being a huge burst of traffic thanks to everyone on an Action Quake 2 message board making comics for a couple of days.

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too. I'm sure a little script could do the job just as well, but where's the love in that? This will only take a few months to slap together, as long as I stop sleeping.

Those bar graphs are SO pretty.

Gabe

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Gabe said...

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too.

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too. I'm sure a little script could do the job just as well, but where's the love in that? This will only take a few months to slap together, as long as I stop sleeping.

Those bar graphs are SO pretty.

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*snip*

Dexx
you forgot the whole "all your base" and subsequent Zero Wing mentions ;)

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

Your friend sounds neat.

Gabe

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Just out of curiosity, I have a question to pose. I'm pretty sure that 800x600 is the most widely used monitor resolution. I assume it due to a mix of people having crappy vision, poor monitors and not knowing how to change it.

My own is set to 1152x864, and I can't stand anything bigger. It hurts my head. If I had a better monitor I'd probably crank it up even more.

So what does everyone here use? And any particular reason as to your choice?

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1024 x 768

Bad eyesight won't let me go any larger, and any smaller and I feel like I'm working on an old mac. Association is a bitch.

Also, 1024 and 768 are both divisible by 3. Like the trinity. The voices told me that was an imperative.

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