Talk:Bazookafish bubble gum
Does anyone know how to tell how many wrappers you saved and where in your inventory it is? I've looked in mine and couldn't find it. --Lemon-claw 00:45, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
You unwrap the bubble gum and read the crappy comic on the wrapper:
I am in so much trouble! What's wrong? My aunt caught me holding my barbells this morning. I guess you shouldn't have pounded all those kickboxers at the party last night. Groaning, you pop the gum in your mouth, and it tastes like fish blood. You spit it out in disgust. Fishbreath You acquire an effect: Fishbreath (duration: 5 Adventures)
Note that this gives you a comic for the joke lines.--Toffile 00:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Saving the wrapper will redirect you here: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/showcomic.php?whichcomic=38 for my case.
You stuff the wrapper in your pocket. If you want to look at it in the future, you can do so at
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/showcomic.php?whichcomic=38
You don't have to be logged in to KoL to view it, so feel free to share it with your non-KoL playing friends. If you have any. --Toffile 00:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
just got the comic http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/showcomic.php?whichcomic=110 --Alabit 01:19, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
if you replace the number in the url, you can view any of the comics.--Blood panther 01:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I added to it but it needs formatting and comic links, also my comic: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/showcomic.php?whichcomic=171 --Thagorn 02:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
After a bit of testing, there's some kind of randomizer going on with this. I tried several numbers, from 0 to 99299345, and they all worked. You can enter negative numbers, text, and just about anything else after the "whichcomic=" and it'll work. --Sparksol (t|c) 02:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Addendum to the above - There is no randomizer in the comics themselves. You'll notice there are comic numbers... if you enter a number from 1 to 275, it gives you that comic, and anything else randomly gives you a comic. Entering anything from 1 to 275, though, always gives you the same thing. --Sel Ibrix 03:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- I got up to 313 before they started randomizing. They might be adding more as we speak. That's a lot of comics. Wow. --TechSmurf 03:37, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
the asian-looking stuff in #36 appears to be Korean, and translates by Babelfish as: "Goes out and a in case says you you it will catch there was beautiful body, about me?" - probably is the "If I said you have a beautiful body" pickup line. in #97 it is the same, in German. --Mars the infomage 03:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- 323 is italian "Se dicessi voi avete avuto un bello corpo, lo terreste contro di me?" --Evilkolbot 22:47, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
i've got up to 768...--Shualdon 18:16, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
As of right this second, there are 18,045 comics! --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 07:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Puzzle?
It is possible that the comic strips contain a puzzle of some sort. They contain all sorts of seemingly random numbers and strings of symbols. It would be a great place to hide a hidden message.
The tiki head speaks in a language made up of in-game images. Perhaps his speech needs to be translated. The hobo who sometimes appears (comic 230 proves he's a hobo) seems to be able to speak tiki. In comics 126 and 140, the words in bold seem to be translations of the tiki language. But maybe not - it might just be hobo shouting. See 56, and 63 doesn't work with this idea very well either. 88 might give us a few words. And 274 and 124 and 61 and 86 and their variants, maybe. (103 contains french for "If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?") The mailaway offers that occasionally appear in the fourth panel each contain an image of an item and a number. The number of comics and meat that needs to be sent differs from comic to comic as well. This seems like it might be relevant, but I can't see how. Is there a relation between the item image, the descriptions, and the associated numbers? Lastly, a lot of comics are very similar to one another. 6 and 255, for instance. Note that the positions and actions of the characters change slightly from panel to panel, and what the characters hold change sometimes (types of hat seem to be popular). Even these could be symbols in a code. Sooo many possibilities.
Of course, it's also pretty likely that this is all just a bunch of it MadLib-style nonsense. (If they're adding more and more comics over time, as Techsmurf says above, that could speak against the idea that there's a puzzle.) --Quine 06:37, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Clearly they're generated from a series of templates. I think the numbers go up because new ones are generated each time someone uses a piece of gum. It would be interesting to see if the picture language does have consistent translations, although all the examples I've seen so far involve all the words being whimsical nouns. Still, I wouldn't doubt there could be some hidden puzzle, or at least an easter egg. --Prestige 07:06, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- And #164 almost certainly proves there isn't a 1 to 1 correlation between giant tiki head's pictures and their translations. --Prestige 07:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- smells like riff to me. given that there are numbers in pairs perhaps someone should note them down and see if there's a pattern. i can't look at them because it's all firewalled for me. --Evilkolbot 11:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Alright, I got something. A user named Amazing Free Stuff was created on October 22nd. This cannot be a coincidence, could it? I sent them a message giving ten meat and a link to a whichcomic number at the end of the comic. Is the meat asked for always different from between each of the whichcomic numbers. Also note that I have not gotten any drops of this item and have just been looking at the comics' URLs. Maybe someone who really has these items should play around with this too. --Misstrain 14:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- What about sending them a gift or proposing trades? --Misstrain 14:40, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Have you considered the possibility that another player created the "Amazing Free Stuff" account based on what they saw in the comics? --Quietust (t|c) 17:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- if "Amazing free stuff" were character 2337 it could mean something, but it's just a regular (and very lucky) player. --Evilkolbot 22:34, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
looks like the maximum number of the comic goes up all the time. maybe it's connected to people "saving the wrapper". (839 right now, was 828 minutes ago) --Hrag 20:36, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- I just confirmed that the number goes up based on players saving the gum. It does not go up every time a comic is generated, only when saved. Regarding a puzzle... I am always suspicious when I see a bunch of apparently random numbers in this game. Remember fortune cookies? One thing we can take from this however, is that the content of a comic does not relate to the comic's index number. Because the comic's content is generated before its index number is generated (if it's saved). I just point this out in case someone suspects that there's a puzzle that relates to the comics' numbers. --Prestige 23:44, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
It's also possible that the comic's content is determined solely based on its index number - that is, that the index number is used as a random number seed. Jick has stated that Hobo names in Hobopolis are determined this way, using your total adventure count as a seed (which explains why escaping from a Hobo without consuming an Adventure gives you the exact same name when you adventure again).Okay, so maybe not. --Quietust (t|c) 01:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: the penguins are involved somehow, and the Used-To-Be-Rafflehouse will be Amazing Free Stuff, Box 2337, Seaside Town. --Lexicon 12:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, all but two or three of the tiki language images and mailaway items don't load for me, and instead just show that generic 'broken image' icon. Is there some way to fix this? --Murnjendoof (talk) 06:25, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Mezzacotta
What if the comics are randomly generated when players view one, than saved in the database when a player saves the wrapper? Then it's probably a shout-out to the webcomic mezzacotta. Maybe. --Color Printer 03:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
