The Way of the Metagamer - We Must Observe With Hasty

31st Mar 2010, 4:00 AM in Fridge Logic

This title= text contains the best joke ever, which is: *Temporarycollapse!* <- That... is not good.

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31st Mar 2010, 4:00 AM

00Davo

TV Tropes references: Everything Sensor | Unsound Effect | Noodle Implements | Oh Crap

Trope-tan's line in Panel 6 is a reference to the hilariously bad fanfic Quarter-Life: Halfway To Destruction.

P=NP is a famously difficult and currently unsolved problem in theoretical computer science and mathematics. However, in the Way Of The Metagamer 'verse, it can be solved far more easily as follows.
P = Plot, expressed in kiloMacGuffins.
N = A given amount of elemental narrativium.
Therefore, plot equals plot multiplied by narrativium, which is why areas with high concentrations of narrativium (often referred to as "plot points") are so much more plot-relevant than other areas. Some isotopes of narrativium, such as phlebotinum, generate so much raw plot that entire stories can be built solely upon them.

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Let me be a Grammar Nazi for a second.

1st Apr 2010, 2:57 AM

Host

"Slowly become vaporise"? I think what you're looking for here is "slowly vaporise."

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Slowly Become Vaporise...

1st Apr 2010, 4:38 AM

00Davo

... is exactly what I meant. Perhaps I should have put the author note in 3em boldest emphasis?

Trope-tan's line in Panel 6 is a reference to the hilariously bad fanfic Quarter-Life: Halfway To Destruction.

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1st Apr 2010, 9:34 PM

Host

Oh god. I didn't even see that part. I suck so bad.

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so pleased

2nd Apr 2010, 11:01 AM

mystical vistor

that someone else fell into the slowly vaporise trap so i didn't even think it.....

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4th May 2010, 6:39 AM

Guest

I like the equation

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P=NP

15th Aug 2010, 3:23 AM

snowyowl

As of this comment, a potential solution to P=NP has been found. We may yet escape!

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28th Nov 2010, 1:11 PM

snowyowl

Message from the future: the solution previously alluded to actually sucks and doesn't work at all.

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Trope-tan: So, you spent an entire chapter trying to escape from this comic, to no avail?
Bob: Yes, that is exactly what I just said, except rephrased as a question.

Trope-tan: According to the comic archives, Jane knows a way out of the comic...

Trope-tan: I request that you now explain how to escape this comic!
Jane: Put the quill away, and let's talk.

Jane (imitating narrator): Several minutes of explanation later...
Trope-tan: Of course, that makes so much sense!

Jane: Exactly. Once you've got the SCUBA equipment, the rest is as easy as solving P=NP.
Trope-tan: But where can we find a carton of gooseberry ice cream at this hour?
Beep!

Panel 6
Trope-tan: Oh dear. According to my EverythingSensor... the entire comic's going to slowly become vaporise.
Except quickly.
We've got about... one comic.
Jane: Quick! With any luck, we can find the quick-drying cement mix before-

Temporarycollapse!

Jane: That... is not good.
Trope-tan: Screaming and running would be a suitable response at this point.