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Frame 1: (For references and credits, see mrob.com/time/de-yada/credits.html)
[[A woman and a man are sitting on a beach]]
Megan: It never gets old, huh?
Frame 2:
Cueball: Nope.
Frame 3:
Megan: It kind makes you want to -
Frame 4:
Cueball: Break into song?
Frame 5:
Megan: Yep.
Frame 6:
[[Several people are looking at a screen, and Cthulhu is behind them]]
I love the silly cults
Screen: ya na kadishtu nilgh'ri stell'b_
Cthulhu: Bacon?
Frame 7:
[[Part of the sandcastle with different shades of gray, showing which parts got covered and/or removed by the rising water]]
I love when pixels change
Caption: This is the sea level rise since just after the trebuchet pan . . .
Frame 8:
[[a frame from a GIF animation; there is a sancastle in black on the bottom part of the frame; and a similar shape upside-down in white on the top; with the space in-between a nedium gray]]
I love the Drostekastell
Frame 9:
[[Cueball and Megan on the beach, amidst three colossal sandcastles]]
And words that seem deranged
Cueball: I don't reckon we tin build it much taller than this. It be be-done fun, though!
Frame 10:
[[This image is a time-lapse composite of Time frames 215-700; the castle and scaffolding structure in in different shades of gray according to how long each bit has existed; there are also blurs and faint traces of Megan and Cueball and their dialogue]]
I love the wait...ing
Frame 11:
[[image "NP376 monolith.png" with HAL9000 hat image placed over the monolith]]
and haberdashery
Frame 12:
boom de yada boom de yada [Some image of the castle]
Frame 13:
boom de yada boom de yada [Same castle with hats]
Frame 14:
I love Time's mysteries ["???" castle from my ott-0878]
Frame 15:
I love predicting things [NP388 np10000 prediction.png]
Frame 16:
I love (to hate) the bot [Some frame with "ONNnngg..." and "%#$@! Ninja'd again!"]
Frame 17:
I love Time-travelling [part of a BlitzGirl signpost]
Frame 18:
I love the secret codes [Same image of the castle filled with Base64'd text]
Frame 19:
I love the plaintext more [Same image of the castle with plaintext]
Frame 20:
boom de yada boom de yada [Castle with rot16'd code text]
Frame 21:
boom de yada boom de yada [Same image of the castle with plaintext]
Frame 22:
I love analysis [NP379 Time Modified.png or NP156-trebuchet-shots.jpg]
Frame 23:
I love the poetry [one of the Frost adaptations]
Frame 24:
our future's pretty cool ["NP397 king of the world.png"]
Frame 25:
(I think we'd all agree) [BG's "NP450 FloatNext.png"]
Frame 26:
I love our Blitzrandir [last frame of "retrott-1120-blitzing-the-line.png"]
Frame 27:
I love to blur the line [BG icon as LePetite in frame 800]
Frame 28:
boom de yada boom de yada [M&C walking]
Frame 29:
boom de yada boom de yada [M&C are further to the right]
Frame 30:
boom de yada boom de yada [M&C leaving frame]
Frame 31:
boom de yada boom de yada [frame now empty]
Frame 32:
The Thread is Just Awesome
Frame 33:
mrob.com/time
Frame 34:
(credits)
{{Title text: This retrOTTification is spoiler-free for Newpage 465 or later.}}
