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I actually just recently started reading Homestuck myself, basically just on a whim after being vaguely aware for years now that it was a thing that existed and hearing it was going to be wrapping up soon. I'm literally right at the point where Dave installs the game finally and waiting for it to load. No one informed me I should have been posting about this in a live journal all along, oh well.
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Sounds like you just blew it, better mindwipe yourself and start over. Just... write it down on a wall or something, reminding you to keep a liveblog this time.
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Dec 23, 2013 21:19
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Zoe posted:I actually just recently started reading Homestuck myself, basically just on a whim after being vaguely aware for years now that it was a thing that existed and hearing it was going to be wrapping up soon. I would, personally, stop reading at the beginning of act 6 if I was you. Anything after that isn't worth your time.
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Dec 23, 2013 23:23
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Kheldragar posted:I would, personally, stop reading at the beginning of act 6 if I was you. Anything after that isn't worth your time. The best character in Homestuck doesn't show up until act 6, why are you tryin' to deprive the poor boy?
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Dec 23, 2013 23:33
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Angry Walrus posted:The best character in Homestuck doesn't show up until act 6, why are you tryin' to deprive the poor boy? Oh, you mean Lil' Cal? Haven't seen much of the guy recently. 
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Dec 23, 2013 23:40
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Angry Walrus posted:The best character in Homestuck doesn't show up until act 6, why are you tryin' to deprive the poor boy? I'm pretty sure Vriska shows up well before that, though?
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Dec 23, 2013 23:45
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Kheldragar posted:I would, personally, stop reading at the beginning of act 6 if I was you. Anything after that isn't worth your time. Or maybe he could keep reading and decide his own opinion of it.
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Dec 23, 2013 23:49
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Looking back I'm starting to wonder why I ever liked homestuck. I want my time back.
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Dec 23, 2013 23:54
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We were all younger and dumber in the past. It's normal.
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Dec 24, 2013 00:00
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I'm on the old side for a Homestuck fan (35, which is like 80 in Internet years), and I still appreciate it. Not enough to have read a single fanfic, but enough to have bought albums and some shirts and contribute to the Kickstarter. I think I look at it less like a narrative and more like "Let's look in and see what these characters are doing." And I like pretty much all of the characters, so that works. Well, maybe not "like," but at least "care enough to see how my favorite characters deal with them." I'll actually probably be a little sad when it ends, just because the game will probably be the only other chance to check in with them all. It might also be because I have a history of reading print comics though. An ongoing series with the Homestuck characters having adventures that last 1-3 issues a piece, and only focusing on a few characters per storyline, would be pretty much perfect for after this thing ends. It sometimes feels like it tries to do that anyway, but in a much more haphazard fashion and tied into the central story.
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Dec 24, 2013 00:10
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I'm pretty ancient too and I still appreciate it. I haven't given Hussie my momey in any form, however.
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Dec 24, 2013 00:22
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Dick Bitchwhistle posted:Looking back I'm starting to wonder why I ever liked homestuck. I want my time back. It's one of those escalating-secrets-and-revelations plots. But it does seem like even hussie can't make one of those stories that doesn't end up being kind of arbitrary by the end.
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Dec 24, 2013 00:56
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Fister Roboto posted:We were all younger and dumber in the past. It's normal. the true message of Homestuck The future is uncertain and the present is an illusion; the only truth is in the past, and that truth is that we are all complete morons, all the time, forever Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Dec 24, 2013 01:15
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Renaissance Robot posted:the true message of Homestuck My god.
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Dec 24, 2013 01:24
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Renaissance Robot posted:the true message of Homestuck Yup, that seems about right.
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Dec 24, 2013 02:20
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I thought the message wasquote:TG: the thing with time travel is
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Dec 24, 2013 03:08
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Zoe posted:I actually just recently started reading Homestuck myself, basically just on a whim after being vaguely aware for years now that it was a thing that existed and hearing it was going to be wrapping up soon. You're not too late to start a liveblog if you want to. Just write down your impression of it up until now and start your liveblog by posting that. I would also encourage you to avoid spoilers as much as possible, as to keep genuine first impressions as soon as possible.
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Dec 24, 2013 17:35
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Please don't start a liveblog.
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Dec 24, 2013 17:39
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Half of livebloggers are weird idiots that don't get jokes and hate Rose because girls saying words infuriate them.
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Dec 24, 2013 17:47
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Seoinin posted:Livebloggers are weird idiots More succinct and to the point.
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Seoinin posted:Half of livebloggers are weird idiots that don't get jokes and hate Rose because girls saying words infuriate them. I'm pretty sure that only happened with one specific liveblogger. And he a) realized he was being an rear end in a top hat and apologized, and b) disappeared shortly after that. But for a brief time, it was like having our own little Caliborn. 
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Dec 24, 2013 17:59
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I still like homestuck because pretty colors and things go boom 
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Dec 24, 2013 18:28
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I like Homestuck because it always makes me laugh sometimes.
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Dec 24, 2013 18:31
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But seriously don't do a liveblog. It'd be like... videotaping yourself playing a videogame for others to see. I mean imagine that.
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Dec 24, 2013 18:58
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Blackheart posted:But seriously don't do a liveblog. Hey everyone and welcome back to Let's Play Homestuck, today I'll be going all the way to page 7441, starting from where I left off last time on page 6526! Let's get going!
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CJacobs posted:Hey everyone and welcome back to Let's Play Homestuck, today I'll be going all the way to page 7441, starting from where I left off last time on page 6526! Let's get going! This is actually a thing. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=let%27s+play+homestuck&sm=1
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Dec 24, 2013 19:13
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Now uh as you may have um heard Homestuck was uh originally called Doki Doki Panic in uh japan but was reskinned as a um sequel to Problem Sleuth because Whattu Pampukin was uh worried that American audiences would uh find Problem Sleuth 2 too ummmmmmmmm difficult.
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Dec 24, 2013 19:15
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Fister Roboto posted:This is actually a thing. Are you loving kidding me 
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CJacobs posted:Are you loving kidding me Some of them even have facecams.
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Some of those are really freaking weird. They're basically audio books, where multiple people are acting out the characters, which is...fine? I guess? But what gets me about the only one I could look at for more than a minute is that they'd focus the video ON THE WORDS, and not just on the images. You're reading it to us, the dialogue, generally, isn't important enough to show AND tell. I mean I know the alternative is, usually, a static image-but it's still better than staring at words that some one is going to act-read at you at a much slower pace than you will take TO read.
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I'd rather watch a several-hour video of PewDiePie reacting to Homestuck than reading an actual liveblog. Liveblogs are just loving pictures of pages with comments like "Heh, Dave said something funny" or "I don't know what's going on?"
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Titty Hero posted:I'd rather watch a several-hour video of PewDiePie reacting to Homestuck than reading an actual liveblog. Liveblogs are just loving pictures of pages with comments like "Heh, Dave said something funny" or "I don't know what's going on?" Liveblogs basically exist for the people who pester their friends to read Homestuck because I WANT TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO THIS PART OMG OMG OMG
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Fister Roboto posted:Liveblogs basically exist for the people who pester their friends to read Homestuck because I WANT TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO THIS PART OMG OMG OMG Well I DO want to see how my friends react to media I like optimal word being "friends" most of these weirdos with liveblogs are not like friends I would choose. Dante Basco has done a sort of homestuck liveblog, just occasionally reposting panels on his tumblr with a short remark or something but not really a full liveblog, he even voice-acted one of Dave's rants. Apparently the part where he got to Tavros summoning RUFFFFIOOO was really funny but I don't remember it too well.
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I really like Homestuck liveblogs, but I am also a terrible person who enjoys watching the suffering of others.Rita Repulsa posted:Dante Basco has done a sort of homestuck liveblog, just occasionally reposting panels on his tumblr with a short remark or something but not really a full liveblog, he even voice-acted one of Dave's rants. Apparently the part where he got to Tavros summoning RUFFFFIOOO was really funny but I don't remember it too well. I don't know about that part, but the part when in-comic Hussie makes out with Rufio's corpse was a pretty amusing moment. Nobody told Dante Basco about it ahead of time, and he was, by his own admission, slightly tipsy when he got to that part.  
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Fister Roboto posted:This is actually a thing.  Some of them have tens of thousands of views. I find that deeply troubling.
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So when is Solaire of Astora supposed to be in Namco High?
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While the liveblogging thing is weird, when updates were happening regularly this very thread was basically SA's big liveblog, with all of the same hurried and blurted-out first reactions to big twists and rambling, mostly-wrong speculation. I guess the difference is in a bunch of people discussing the comic around a proverbial water cooler vs. a liveblog holding up the story of one person reading the comic being a story unto itself. Or something, I don't know.
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This retarded thing that you all like loving sucks.
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ColabHQ isn't actually a liveblog; it's actually a bunch of people who decided to voice act Homestuck, in all of its longer-than-War-and-Peace glory. This fandom is crazy, but it's an ingenious kind of crazy, like Nikola Tesla. I honestly don't get all this hate with livebloggers; maybe I just happen to follow some high-quality ones and because of that I have never seen this weirdness you speak of. Could someone explain?
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Haven't there been a BUNCH of projects wherein people voice act the entirety of homestuck? I mean just go on tindeck and you'll find thousands of nasally teenagers trying to be trolls.
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