1000 signs you're not being a very good Lifenthusiast

[hotcrystal0]

EDIT by dvgrn: Thread locked and temporarily pinned -- EDIT2: now unpinned -- for reasons described here. confocaloid seems to be the only one showing any awareness (see item #54) of how likely a topic like this is to degenerate into escalating violations of forum rule number one. This first post didn't violate any forum rules, because none of these items can easily be traced to any specific users, and so can't be read as a direct attack on anyone. The problem is mostly just that things went downhill quickly, right after this first post.

This is inspired by 1000 signs you're not a very good chess player.
1. You celebrate for a day after discovering an extremely large P3 in WLS
2. You think Lifenthusiasts are categorized by post count and not by number of notable discoveries
3. You think lifeWiki contains ALL knowledge of CGoL
4. You discover something that was known back in 1969
5. You mix up oscillators and spaceships all the time

[hotdogPi]

6. You modify a c/10 spaceship slightly and claim you found a c/9 spaceship
7. You get overjoyed when you found a 300-generation "methuselah"
8. You find a "methusaleh" (sic) of any length
9. You find a "new" still life
10. You ask what a glider is
11. You think a pattern you created can be copyrighted/NFTed/etc.
12. You mix up WLS and WSL
13. You mix up JLS and jslife
14. You ask whether cubic or exponential growth in Life is possible
15. You solve the halting problem in Life

(these have all happened)

[haaaaaands]

bruh how can someone not know what a glider is, the most famous pattern in the game? (or was that the block?)

[C_R_116]

6. You modify a c/10 spaceship slightly and claim you found a c/9 spaceship
...

15. You solve the halting problem in Life

(these have all happened)

I need to see their rationel for these things. How on earth could those happen?!

[hotcrystal0]

16: You mix up LLS and LSSS

[hotdogPi]

6. You modify a c/10 spaceship slightly and claim you found a c/9 spaceship
...

15. You solve the halting problem in Life

(these have all happened)

I need to see their rationel for these things. How on earth could those happen?!

This is the c/9 thread:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4638&p=101994

[C_R_116]

17: You find a periodic glider eater.
18: You don't understand why a fishhook would be better.
19: You post your discoveries before looking at the wiki/jslife.
20: You name your random p2 oscillator discoveries.
21: You post your entrances and exits on the forums.
22: You call a B-Heptomino a Herschel.
23: You call a spaceship a "moving oscillator."
24: You successfully manage to break every single rule of the forums all in one post.
25: YOU write like this.on every post
26: You think you've just discovered the Eater 3 reaction and proceeded to make an oscillator using gliders from guns being eaten by the loaf.

[haaaaaands]

22: tyops in teh rle

[hotcrystal0]

23: The only posts you make are in The Sandbox
23.5: All the threads you post in get locked
24: You think that pseudo-period guns are useless

[haaaaaands]

23: The only posts you make are in The Sandbox

i mostly post in the sandbox though (because i've always been that offtopic guy)

[haaaaaands]

17: You find a periodic glider eater.
18: You don't understand why a fishhook would be better.
19: You post your discoveries before looking at the wiki/jslife.
20: You name your random p2 oscillator discoveries.
21: You post your entrances and exits on the forums.
22: You call a B-Heptomino a Herschel.
23: You call a spaceship a "moving oscillator."
24: You successfully manage to break every single rule of the forums all in one post.
25: YOU write like this.on every post
26: You think you've just discovered the Eater 3 reaction and proceeded to make an oscillator using gliders from guns being eaten by the loaf.

whatever.
27: "LoOkY lOoKy LoOk At My PoSt!!!!11!11!1" on every thread

[MEisSCAMMER]

28: You post things not related to the thread you're on.
Corollary to 28: I found a new still life!!

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[C_R_116]

29: When you realize a pattern has been discovered you respond by saying, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ."

[Haycat2009]

17: You find a periodic glider eater.
18: You don't understand why a fishhook would be better.
19: You post your discoveries before looking at the wiki/jslife.
20: You name your random p2 oscillator discoveries.
21: You post your entrances and exits on the forums.
22: You call a B-Heptomino a Herschel.
23: You call a spaceship a "moving oscillator."
24: You successfully manage to break every single rule of the forums all in one post.
25: YOU write like this.on every post
26: You think you've just discovered the Eater 3 reaction and proceeded to make an oscillator using gliders from guns being eaten by the loaf.

But 33P3.1 is a periodic eater and it is useful, so are you calling Arie Paap "Not a very good life enthusiast"?

[C_R_116]

But 33P3.1 is a periodic eater and it is useful, so are you calling Arie Paap "Not a very good life enthusiast"?

A periodic eater as in this:

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x = 60, y = 91, rule = B3/S23
bo$2bo$3o45$23bobo4bo14bo4bobo$23bobo3b3o12b3o3bobo$24bo4bo2bo10bo2bo
4bo$30b3o10b3o4$16b2o40b2o$18bo38bo$16b2o40b2o4$17b2o38b2o$16b2obo36b
ob2o$17bobo36bobo$18b2o36b2o11$18b2o36b2o$17bobo36bobo$16b2obo36bob2o
$17b2o38b2o4$16b2o40b2o$18bo38bo$16b2o40b2o4$30b3o10b3o$24bo4bo2bo10b
o2bo4bo$23bobo3b3o12b3o3bobo$23bobo4bo14bo4bobo!

[haaaaaands]

30: you just "discovered" the glider. in 2023.

[unname4798]

23: The only posts you make are in The Sandbox

Majority of my posts are in the Sandbox and the reason above doesn't apply to me.

[haaaaaands]

23: The only posts you make are in The Sandbox

Majority of my posts are in the Sandbox and the reason above doesn't apply to me.

me too, i'm most active here, but duh, i'm always in offtopic in most forums

[haaaaaands]

8. You find a "methusaleh" (sic) of any length

i sometimes misspell mathuselah (or whatever.)
english isn't exactly my first language...

[hotdogPi]

31: You find a "new" methuselah that's equivalent to the R-pentomino.
32: You find a "new" cluster of cells that fits in 4×4 and call it the "amogus" or similar.
33. You post mostly in sandbox and object to being on this list because you think you're an exception for some reason even though you actually do qualify.
34. You find a "p/4" oscillator.
35. You believe that Conway's Game of Life has to do with real-world biology.
36. You believe that Conway's Game of Life has to do with the board game of Life.
37. You claim that drifters can move through empty space and Snark loops contain no signals.

[haaaaaands]

36. You believe that Conway's Game of Life has to do with the board game of Life.

what board game?

[get_Snacked]

38. you don't know how to make rle.
39. you don't know how to make rle and write it like this:
a cell in the top middle
a cell in the middle right
a row of cells in the bottom
(this is related to something that has been done before, but i can't seem to find it.)
40. you find an oscillator and RLS and don't reduce it

36. You believe that Conway's Game of Life has to do with the board game of Life.

what board game?

well, a simple search will do the trick: https://www.google.com/search?q=game+of+life+board+game

[haaaaaands]

oh, THAT one

edit: just realized this was my 100th post!

[AlbertArmStain]

41. you call puffers and glider guns "factories".

[haaaaaands]

42 you dont use any punctuation
43: you mix up nft and ntfs
44: you think topics outside the sandbox are the best place ever to say "yomama so fat she's the 9th planet"