@Henders eww! Let's bring a Cat to catch those! 🐁

But what do we use to catch the cats?

catch the Cats?! aww, why?

btw, that's a mouse ^^^

Never figured the difference between rat and mouse... ;)

@Henders Dogs, of course! 🐕

Rats aren't useful on the computer.

@Magisch Time for some more swag!

Users who entered previous ones are eligible for this one as well, right?

No, that would be unfair ...

Can't think of anything really good tbh

graps GoPro, clock, and bicycle, runs off

@Mithrandir yup :)

\o/

@Mithrandir but they're so cute...

"rats" isn't really a word I'd usually associate with "cute"...

lol

@JNat lol, just about time you replied

Hey, that's not fair:

I'm sure Tim and @JNat talked before this and planned that comment! :D

actually, no

I'm sure Tim did

haha

but I didn't

meh

But Tim did know when you're about to Post it. ;)

I'm not a fan of "first!" comments

@EKons Goes to clean up about everything there as no longer needed :P

noooooooooooooo

protecting all comments

using secret wizard power

well... not that we'll need to watch our comments when they're cleared up anyway... ;-P

@ShadowWizard Hey, why else did they pick me? It's what IPS mods do....

heh

btw, if you read the last comment... yeah, let's not clock our fellow people, please

I posted a time based horror story for the watch contest

alright, that was very, very quick

I used my frustration with my legacy project and wrote about the busted timehandling there

Why do they always post these things when I'm on a train?!

@Magisch It needs more frustration and horror related words!

@ShadowWizard you missed an excellent chance to say comments are just for requesting clarification or suggesting improvements :P

@Henders you counted 8 seconds too much... ^^

my stopwatch times up to and including the second!

@Tinkeringbell to help cleaning the toilets flag queue, of course! :P

@Magisch hey! I plan to post a story too! Driving home gives me the best ideas. :)

And... Time to go! :D

@Tinkeringbell wait.... they are?!

:P

@ShadowWizard Drive safe. Don't be distracted by... I dunno... Random stories? ;)

lol

lies, just read the placeholder text again @Tink :P

those comments clearly provide information!

ohh, lab results are back... no panic call from doctor... taking this as good sign my liver still functioning. ;)

I'm no doctor.. but results contain something not good. :(

Halp!

Cya...

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@JNat The number of horror stories I have about Access is...kinda horrifying.

Yeah, I assumed a lot of programming-related stories were gonna be posted :P

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time lapse footage: done

slowmo footage: done, I think

second timelapse: not done

video editing: a nightmare yet to come

Good luck!

@JNat If you scroll up a bit I complained about the story I posted before you even announced the contest to shadow wizard

So this is why I could hammer it out so quickly: It's actually what I'm working on at work atm

wait... so, was that secretly a ping to Shadow Wizard? ...

Apparently someone didn't get the memo that downvotes didn't count.

O_o

I just discovered that videoing a clock at 240FPS makes for some really boring footage.

@fbueckert just one someone? Looks like more...

@ShadowWizard hey, be careful ...

Eeeeek. Lots of answers being posted quickly here...

yes, that's what usually happens in contests...

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This contest is a good place to sneak Squidge and Spike in

@ArtOfCode plushies = automatic upvote! But now I have to find something better than a cardboard box to time travel in !

I always have a few old Amazon boxes lying around... which was perfect for this :)

@ArtOfCode SQUIDGE!!!

blublublub blub! blub blub!

:D

BLUB!

blub! blub blub blub! blub! blub blub! BLUB! BLUB BLUB BLUB! BLUB! blub! blub! blub! BLUB BLUB!

The current state of my entry...

Looks like you're progressing better than me. I'm stuck with:

Ooh, archeological entry! :D

Okay, picture nr. 2 is made as well ;)

I'm going faster than you @Mith :P

:(

I'm re-shooting stuff now.

Don't worry, you'll do fine :)

I'm sure it's going to be better than a one-liner time-pun ;)

Don't be so sure...

It's basically me playing around with time lapse and slowmo :P

Oooh, new swag competition... I could actually do with a watch!

So I guess I should probably try to come up with something for this...

People start to invite me for being a mod candidate here.

But I don't really want to take full mod burdens at the site. I just like to stay with my particular tag realm and probably have more powers to fight and get rid of VLQ questions (seen seasonally) and not spill the FAQ repository. What do you think would be a good path to take on?

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2k

@πάνταῥεῖ I expect you could camp on Meta in that case, discussing your unilateral misfortunes ....

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@rene I don't really like to take on these efforts to propose yourselves, explaining what your motivations are, a.s.o. just to be able for helping to clean up a narrow realm of interest like mine.

@rene Remind the salamaleikum" magic" !

sure

I am inclined to do moderation work, though I don't like to do diamond mod's work.

So, if anyone wants to take the tour, next one starts in 15 minutes!

I literally just covered my entire face in purple paint for the sole purpose of it not showing during a very short video clip.

@Mithrandir Perhaps a ski mask would've been easier :P

Or a scarf and sunglasses :P

Also, apparently 'hi everyone!' at the beginning of a post get's filtered out, even if you're a tour guide!

Yeah, but then I would have had to get a mask...

@Mithrandir You could always use a paper bag as a cheap face mask

Paper bags are a rare commodity

You can take the bag off ... I already did ...

squidge is so adorable

@Magisch I think spike is more adorable though :P

they both are

did you know squidge even has a twitter account?

@Magisch I think I saw something like that yeah ;)

should probably put that time machine on there

@ArtOfCode Wouldn't that be some sort of vote fraud? :P

only if you use Squidge's Twitter account as a source of truth on what to vote for :P

Hahaha. Do you have a link? I collect fun accounts to follow ;)

@ArtOfCode Three turns should do the trick

That account is a goldmine

blub

@ArtOfCode Nooo. not again. I just got rid of that earworm :P

blub blub?

@ArtOfCode childhood song

BLUB!

The times we spent annoying our parents (okay, only dad, mom happily joined in) by putting that on repeat and screaming along with the blub parts in the car :D

But it does stick. A lot :P

whew videoshoots are not simple

You can do it!

Keep going. You're nearly there.

I think I finally finished the different videos

I've got timelapse of the clock, slowmo of the clock, timelapse of me building the important bit, slowmo of the important bit, and the twelve stills I need, plus an ending shot

Now for the hard bit - the editing

@πάνταῥεῖ The guy that 'invented' spongebob died today, did you know that?

@Tinkeringbell No, I didn't. That's sad news :-(

I just read it when reading the news articles. I did like spongebob, though when I watch it now, I don't understand why :P

I always appreciated their kind of humor, and think it's quite appropriate to teach children what's actually going on in life.

I did like finding out that Patrick was so clueless because he lived under a rock :P

@Tinkeringbell One blatant example, why you might fail.

Did Patrick really fail though? He was generally quite happy

@Tinkeringbell Good point. That's something you can still keep being happy, by just ignoring the rest of the world :3

@πάνταῥεῖ That's a really valuable skill these days :P

Or you'll go crazy with all the social media going on.

@Tinkeringbell Well, the current U.S. president demonstrates that quite impressively :3

@πάνταῥεῖ Let's keep it at spongebob, not politics :P

@Tinkeringbell Ha, ha. The political aspects in the sponge bob cartoons always was, what attracted me most.

Okay, but there was no Trump when Spongebob episodes were made. Unless I've missed the newest ones? :P I never really recognized much politics in it either. Perhaps a bit of capitalism in Mr. Krabs, but that's about it :P

@Tinkeringbell No Mr. Krabs deserves symphaty to an extend, while certain U.S. presidents don't. They're just appearing dumber.

Think about their horrible burger advertisements. That's really discouraging stuff for any directions, financial, business development, political, whatever.

Their burgers don't need advertising though!

They're the best in town.

@Tinkeringbell Good finding that Trump won't ever match Mr. Krabs anyways. Plankton at best.

;)

:3

Plankton was fun in it's own way. If you didn't have plankton, there wouldn't have been spongebob.

And with that wisdom, it's time for bed ;) Good night!

Have sweet dreams my dear. That's honest from my side!

Night

@Tinker I am so happy you're moderating the site now.

live updates continue

I have absolutely no idea how to use this video editor

@Mithrandir Put your breakpoints, cut out the less interesting scenes, synchronize the audio track. :3

Ah, and don't forget to Drink coffee ...

Anyone know what the character is called that's used to depict a space? Looks like an underscore but with two little arms sticking up...

a sideways bracket

Brilliant

Lol I can just turn a bracket sideways! Thanks!!

...maybe I'll just do this tomorrow night instead, when I can get some help with the editing...

@Mithrandir I can help with editing, if you want

thanks for the offer, I'll keep that it mind

things are being hammered with screwdrivers relatively okay, I just need to figure out this still sequence and then slowmo

this... sounds like an interesting entry

it's my first attempt at doing any actual video editing :P

"happy tenth SO" conveniently has 12 letters

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@ArtOfCode (it probably sounds way more interesting than it actually is)

I'm rambling again. That's my cue to go to sleep. G'night folks :P

o/

@πάνταῥεῖ just careful not to get yourself suspended again and you can indeed run for next year elections! :D

Being a moderator isn't just about the unlimited closevotes thought