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I've seen a lot on this subject and thought it would be good to break it down as there does not seem to be a tutorial on it. How To Do A Thingie: STEPS 1. Get the stuff. 2. Do a thing* with the thingie. 3. Be sure the thingie is good. 4. Be sure the stuff was ready. * Advanced users may substitute a "whatsit", "doohicky", etc. as desired. This step is easily modified. Please note that only steps 1 and 2 are strictly necessary. Feel free to add to this tutorial as you explore its creative applications!

2012-09-06 04:04:00 Author: Unknown User

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This is... Beyond me.

2012-09-06 04:58:00 Author: yugnar Posts: 1478

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The other day I tried to do a Thingie: got my Whatsit mixed up wit a Whoseit, turned into a real Curfufle. I felt like such a noob!

2012-09-06 07:26:00 Author: Pookachoo Posts: 838

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If only there'd been a tutorial then!

2012-09-06 07:32:00 Author: Unknown User

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Quite advanced tutorial this. I'm particularly impressed with the presentation, which does a marvellous job of simplifying what would otherwise be very complex logic. I can't say I fully understand all of it, but I'm sure, given time, that I will. How many outputs does a Thingie have by the way? I'm used to Dooveries.

2012-09-06 09:01:00 Author: GribbleGrunger Posts: 3910

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Thanks for the feedback! When doing a thingie, there is always at least one output, usually. However, there could theoretically be more, or less, outputs. Also, an equal or inequal number of inputs. There is some flexibility regarding "always", "usually", "theoretically", and to a greater extent "least", "a" and "be". Also, the rest of the words. Here's a graphic flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/qiGE2.jpg As you can see, a thingie is being done with one output. It is reinforced with an input-output that is not not-doing the thingie, which frankly I don't know how that got in there. It's probably okay.

2012-09-06 09:14:00 Author: Unknown User

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Oh, thank you so much for this thread ! Now I have exactly what I need.

2012-09-06 09:26:00 Author: goranilic Posts: 332

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Now I'm confused. Could you perhaps give us an example of how the Thingie would be used?

2012-09-06 09:32:00 Author: GribbleGrunger Posts: 3910

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That's regrettably beyond the scope of this tutorial, but once you have the stuff, and do a thing with the thingie, you can do a thingie with the thingie which I imagine is the most practical use.

2012-09-06 09:38:00 Author: Unknown User

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Now I'm confused. Could you perhaps give us an example of how the Thingie would be used? I really don't know how, but it is very useful.

2012-09-06 09:42:00 Author: goranilic Posts: 332

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That's regrettably beyond the scope of this tutorial, but once you have the stuff, and do a thing with the thingie, you can do a thingie with the thingie which I imagine is the most practical use. I've got to say I'm very disappointed. I see no point at all in offering a tutorial but not giving any practical advice on using it. In the future, please be more prepared. The thingie is a highly complex piece of logic and you just seem to be using it as an alternative to the Dooverie gate... I'm sorry, but I'm angry at the moment and feel you've wasted my time.

2012-09-06 09:51:00 Author: GribbleGrunger Posts: 3910

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That's regrettably beyond the scope of this tutorial, but once you have the stuff, and do a thing with the thingie, you can do a thingie with the thingie which I imagine is the most practical use. And you can even change the colors of the thingie, which is, well, priceless.

2012-09-06 09:59:00 Author: goranilic Posts: 332

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@goranilic: You can? That's excellent! See, it's helping all over the place. @GribbleGrunger: I'm sorry you don't find it more useful. I would argue that it's the method that matters, especially as an alternative. Better said, I'm not familiar with how to do a Dooverie but s/he who seeks to do very maneuvery maneuvers might do very well to have two very different methods of doing a thingie. You know?

2012-09-06 10:00:00 Author: Unknown User

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@goranilic: You can? That's excellent! See, it's got useful applications all around. Absolutely ! And if you precisely place another thingie near first one (grid ON), you will have 2 of them ! Better said, I'm not familiar with how to do a Dooverie but s/he who seeks to do very maneuvery maneuvers might do very well to have two very different methods of doing a thingie. You know? I lost you here a little, but give me a time and i promise that i will try that all.

2012-09-06 10:13:00 Author: goranilic Posts: 332

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I find the Dooverie far more useful because it can be 'crimped' with the Tisler switch. Tisler switches have the remarkable property of automatically dividing an analogue signal by 2.3 and I'm sure I don't have to explain to a person as experienced in logic as yourself the significance of that. If you are not aware, 'Crimping' is the technique of folding pulses, a technique first discovered by George Crimp back in the late 90s. Sadly he died not long after the discovery in a coffee on computer screen incident. The finger he used to press enter is now in the British museum and is displayed lovingly suspended over the very keyboard he used.

2012-09-06 10:17:00 Author: GribbleGrunger Posts: 3910

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thank you for this! that's what I was doing wrong all along. I had my thingie and my stuff backwards! So instead of my thingie acting like a thingamabob, it was acting like a watchamacallit. But now that I switched in the stuff, my thingie pretends to be a whosit while the watchmacallit separtes the parameters and actually behaves like a thingamabob! Awesome! someone needs to install this widget on your computer https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xfulwd0ok6Y/T16dEC_7fAI/AAAAAAAABeQ/QnD_NBV1CwE/s90/badnewthread.gif

2012-09-06 12:30:00 Author: biorogue Posts: 8424

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Hello, maybe you can help me? I tried to make a Thingie as per your tutorial, but somehow I ended up making a whatchamacallit. I'm not the best at logic, could you detail where I've gone wrong?

2012-09-06 13:22:00 Author: Ali_Star Posts: 4085

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........ Mind = Blown.

2012-09-07 02:17:00 Author: Wolffy123 Posts: 406

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Hello, maybe you can help me? I tried to make a Thingie as per your tutorial, but somehow I ended up making a whatchamacallit. I'm not the best at logic, could you detail where I've gone wrong? Hmm. Was the stuff ready? Go back and make sure the stuff was ready between getting the stuff and doing a thing with the thingie. It's optional, but it can make a difference. UPDATE: Aha! I think the problem was that you aimed to make a thingie instead of do a thingie. Chances are you actually did a thingie. You just didn't make one. So, congratulations? And condolences. I'm sorry about your whatchamacallit. But, well done! Remember that many great creators throughout history have gone and done a whatever, a nabflarnit, a kerwhacker, etc. when intending to do a simple thingie, to the benefit of all humanity. For example, Einstein misdid a thingie and inadvertently provided the basis for 60 years of quantum theory. Bruce Banner did a thingie and became a hulk. Your whatchamacallit might be a discovery on par with the higgs boson (which is a kind of boson, that higgs). The very essence of a thingie! Capture it and share it around. Just be careful it doesn't cause a black hole or open the uberverse portal to nyartholep or something (that should probably be added to the tutorial).

2012-09-07 03:51:00 Author: Unknown User

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After several hours of meditation I think I've managed to understand Step 1. This is a really complex logic process my friend, no noob should try this on his own. Specially when there's a thingie related. Or two.

2012-09-07 04:40:00 Author: yugnar Posts: 1478

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thats where i've been going wrong, i've been using a whatsit all this time, what a noob!

2012-09-07 07:37:00 Author: thespacemonkey187 Posts: 318

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Hmm. Was the stuff ready? Go back and make sure the stuff was ready between getting the stuff and doing a thing with the thingie. It's optional, but it can make a difference. UPDATE: Aha! I think the problem was that you aimed to make a thingie instead of do a thingie. Chances are you actually did a thingie. You just didn't make one. So, congratulations? And condolences. I'm sorry about your whatchamacallit. But, well done! Remember that many great creators throughout history have gone and done a whatever, a nabflarnit, a kerwhacker, etc. when intending to do a simple thingie, to the benefit of all humanity. For example, Einstein misdid a thingie and inadvertently provided the basis for 60 years of quantum theory. Bruce Banner did a thingie and became a hulk. Your whatchamacallit might be a discovery on par with the higgs boson (which is a kind of boson, that higgs). The very essence of a thingie! Capture it and share it around. Just be careful it doesn't cause a black hole or open the uberverse portal to nyartholep or something (that should probably be added to the tutorial). This is all so confusing. Forget it, I'm just gonna copy a Mortal Kombat level and let the plays reel in!

2012-09-07 09:34:00 Author: Ali_Star Posts: 4085

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For anyone who is interested try this: Take three thingies (set to reverse Dooverie) and put them through a whatchamacallit. Now set the thingamabob to 1.2 and split the signal with another thingie. The result is extraordinary

2012-09-07 10:24:00 Author: GribbleGrunger Posts: 3910

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For anyone who is interested try this: Take three thingies (set to reverse Dooverie) and put them through a whatchamacallit. Now set the thingamabob to 1.2 and split the signal with another thingie. The result is extraordinary I think whatshisname did that on his whatwasitagain level. Whodathunkit?

2012-09-07 12:13:00 Author: Ali_Star Posts: 4085

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STEPS 1. Get the stuff. 2. Do a thing* with the thingie. 3. Be sure the thingie is good. 4. Be sure the stuff was ready. I can't believe you've been observing my private bedroom habits. I feel violated! :blush:

2012-09-08 02:27:00 Author: Ungreth Posts: 2130

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Subtle birth. People should realize that in order to do a thing with a thingy, that thing must be capable of doing a thingy. That thingy must be a result of different things doing things, and that thingy must accomplish a thing that does a thing or that thing will be a useless thing.

2012-09-08 04:21:00 Author: bonner123 Posts: 1487

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Subtle birth. People should realize that in order to do a thing with a thingy, that thing must be capable of doing a thingy. That thingy must be a result of different things doing things, and that thingy must accomplish a thing that does a thing or that thing will be a useless thing. Whoa! Thanks bud! Now I understand this thingie stuff. I think...

2012-09-08 06:24:00 Author: yugnar Posts: 1478

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Subtle birth. People should realize that in order to do a thing with a thingy, that thing must be capable of doing a thingy. That thingy must be a result of different things doing things, and that thingy must accomplish a thing that does a thing or that thing will be a useless thing. I hate to nitpick, but if I'm not mistake, you want the thingy to be capable of doing a thing. A very minute detail, but that's what it's all about, isn't it? I'd hate for this conversation to accidentally confuse someone, or lead them astray. Unless, of course, you're talking about the intrinsic nature of a thingy, which is, of course, it's ability to do a thing, and thus vice versa. In which case, I apologize for my correction.

2012-09-08 16:30:00 Author: EvilWuun Posts: 152

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You left out the part where you do that whatsitcalled. Which is crazy because that's probably the most important part of the whole thing, you might as well be speaking utter gibberish..!

2012-09-08 18:20:00 Author: Ironface Posts: 432

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Actually, you're only half right. The thingy must be capable of doing a thing and the thing must be capable of doing a thingy. The esoteric nature of doing things might confuse people, but confusion is the first step of being taught how to do things with things while doing things with things that results in a thing happening.

2012-09-08 19:13:00 Author: bonner123 Posts: 1487

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I prefer to make doohickies myself. Way more useful.

2012-09-09 02:22:00 Author: Dortr Posts: 548

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I found a more efficient way of doing this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk166q8KKH1qgb3r2o1_400.jpg It makes doing the Thingie so much easier.

2012-09-09 03:41:00 Author: Kalawishis Posts: 928

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I accidentally made a thingo instead of a thingie. Do they do the same thing?

2012-10-14 01:35:00 Author: Unknown User

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I accidentally made a thingo instead of a thingie. Do they do the same thing? I also comitted this mistake once. Anyway, if you try to replace a thingie with a thingo, nasty results may happen. So no.

2012-10-14 04:53:00 Author: yugnar Posts: 1478

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That's regrettably beyond the scope of this tutorial, but once you have the stuff, and do a thing with the thingie, you can do a thingie with the thingie which I imagine is the most practical use. ... This is just like my programming books all over again

2012-10-14 08:01:00 Author: koltonaugust Posts: 1382

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my friend touched an electric fence with his thingie, he wont be doing that again.........

2012-10-22 08:21:00 Author: evret Posts: 612

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my friend touched an electric fence with his thingie, he wont be doing that again......... I doubt he'll be doing anything with his thingie for some time. :hero:

2012-10-22 11:33:00 Author: Ali_Star Posts: 4085

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Hey, could I include a version of the thingie in my Health Meter Toolkit v6 ? You see, it's allready full of whatchamacallits, so I thought some variety would help, especially whith people who can't get used to stuff. Oh, and if you try to get the square root of a thingie output, it allows you to divide by things, which is wonderbelievable.

2012-10-22 13:17:00 Author: Unknown User

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Ok, so I made a doothingie now. Is this a doohickey and a thingie combined? Thanks!

2012-11-03 19:10:00 Author: Unknown User

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What would this "thingie" be anyway?

2012-11-04 03:57:00 Author: Unknown User

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You lost me at "1. Get" :

2012-11-27 15:43:00 Author: flyinhawaiian Posts: 357

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Man, I was trying to do a thingie in Karting and everything went wrong. I don't know for sure what it is now, but what I know is that it looks hungry.

2012-11-28 03:18:00 Author: yugnar Posts: 1478

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This is great and all, but I was really looking for a tutorial on the whatsisface. Any tips?

2012-12-01 13:52:00 Author: Protoraptor Posts: 960

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This is great and all, but I was really looking for a tutorial on the whatsisface. Any tips? Whoa, whoa, slow down man, we're still working on the Thingie, don't bring a whatsisface into the equation.

2012-12-02 03:34:00 Author: flyinhawaiian Posts: 357

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Hmm. Okay then does anybody have a link to a whatsisface tutorial? Only I need one in my thingamabob level and it's kind of important. My level is about a thingy who needs help from the something King and a whatsisface would be really useful.

2012-12-02 19:59:00 Author: Protoraptor Posts: 960

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