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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#151: Jul 25th 2013 at 12:51:54 AM

How did this thing get started, anyway? Is it just an effect of Hopey's form of schizophrenia, or what?

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#152: Jul 25th 2013 at 1:20:21 AM

Some questions are better off unanswered.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#153: Jul 25th 2013 at 4:21:27 AM

@ Muku. Shut up, you arse. tongue

No, it was started because uhhhh

well

someone said "hey, you have so many family, you need to draw a Tree".

Sometimes, the best answers are the simplest.

Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#154: Jul 25th 2013 at 1:31:07 PM

Hey, I'm not an arse. I'm a douchebag.

There's an important distinction.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Muramasan13 Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#155: Jul 25th 2013 at 5:43:33 PM

I have a question.

If Hopey adopts Bob, and Bob marries Alice, does Hopey become Alice's adoptive in-law?

If so, the Tree may have already passed the point where it no longer needs outside intervention to subsume all mankind.

Smile for me!
Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#156: Jul 25th 2013 at 5:46:38 PM

Hopey needs to adopt waaaay more people for that to happen

Muramasan13 Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#157: Jul 25th 2013 at 5:53:04 PM

No, because the mechanism I described increases the number of people in the Tree exponentially over time. New family members will only speed up the snowball effect; we reached critical mass with the very first adoption.

To clarify: what I'm saying is that, given enough time, everyone on Earth will be related to Hopey due to the adopted tropers giving Hopey new in-laws and grandchildren via "standard" familial means, and then those progeny infesting the next generation, et cetera, until total assimilation occurs.

tl;dr Hopey is coming for your future grandkids.

edited 25th Jul '13 5:57:18 PM by Muramasan13

Smile for me!
phoenixor Departed days ahead. from Scotland. Still. Since: Mar, 2010
Departed days ahead.
#158: Jul 25th 2013 at 5:59:41 PM

And yet he still wants babbies.

I guess we could go... wherever we please.
Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
Muramasan13 Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#160: Jul 25th 2013 at 6:17:27 PM

Babbies are cuuuute.

But their skin gets in the way of the really adorable stuff. waii

Smile for me!
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Absolutely no relation to NLK
#161: Jul 25th 2013 at 6:50:11 PM

So this is a thing. That happened. For reals.



...Welp.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Muramasan13 Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Not war
#162: Jul 25th 2013 at 8:28:14 PM

At no point did it "happen". Since the beginning of time, the Tree has waited to be discovered by mortals; as such, it always has been.

Smile for me!
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#163: Jul 26th 2013 at 4:41:08 AM

I have a question.

If Hopey adopts Bob, and Bob marries Alice, does Hopey become Alice's adoptive in-law?

If so, the Tree may have already passed the point where it no longer needs outside intervention to subsume all mankind.

Well, now I have a girlfriend, who is also my mother-sister.

Which makes me my own step-dad. And my own brother-in-law.

This makes everyone their own sibling-in-law and makes everyone each other's siblings-in-law.

Which means that I think I've accidentally the world.

Also, the Hopey Tree is sapient. Just putting it out there. I don't adopt, it adopts through me. I am merely a vessel for its inclinations.

edited 26th Jul '13 4:42:01 AM by Inhopelessguy

DhanaRagnarok Disturbingly mustachioed. from France. COCO-FLIPPIN'-RICO. Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Disturbingly mustachioed.
#164: Jul 26th 2013 at 5:50:31 AM

I'm pretty sure the Hopey Tree started way back, when people were still unaware I was a dangerous psycho. Actually, i wonder if it wasn't born in a chat between us, darkclaw and deathpigeon...

Look upon my R.O.U.S., ye mighty, and despair!
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#165: Jul 26th 2013 at 6:36:27 AM

I don't need to copyright this.

Nobody would dare try to steal it.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#166: Jul 26th 2013 at 7:41:32 AM

This makes everyone their own sibling-in-law

I know I already did this once, but...

"Yup. That tasted purple."
DiurnalBrocolli Something... from Somewhere... Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Something...
#167: Jul 26th 2013 at 9:19:49 AM

I gotta ask, where IS that picture from? It's been boggling me for a while.

Just floating around...
Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#168: Jul 26th 2013 at 10:10:24 AM

[up]Scanners

edited 26th Jul '13 10:10:36 AM by Boxen

dead devotion
deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#169: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:24:42 AM

Why is this only 2 dimensional? Surely by making this a 3, 4, or 5 dimensional model we can rotate or something this would be more complicated and hard to understand.

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#170: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:26:42 AM

I considered 4D but my parents said I'm not allowed to use the appropiate resources because they're not invented yet.

Stupid parents, always putting me down.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#171: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:27:59 AM

Since the fourth dimension is time, aren't we already seeing it? tongue

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#174: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:33:53 AM

I dunno man. I mean, this took a while.

But then again, if I work in 5D, then I wouldn't need to worry about time, so its okay.

deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#175: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:39:17 AM

Nah, you should do it in 11 dimensions with strings.


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