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Poor white king. Spends an eternity waiting around with nothing to read but a badly written book, only to get killed the moment he comes out. Now if he has a dreambubble afterlife it would probably consist of him reliving memories of that eternity spent reading a lovely book.
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Tengames posted:Poor white king. Spends an eternity waiting around with nothing to read but a badly written book, only to get killed the moment he comes out. Now if he has a dreambubble afterlife it would probably consist of him reliving memories of that eternity spent reading a lovely book. At least he saw his wife one last time before he died 
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Mr. Pumroy posted:While talking to Karkat. It was from Karkat's perspective, so it appeared to happen instantaneously aka Andrew didn't have to draw that bit. Well that clears all that up I guess. I'm going to have to read back over those updates, none of it sounds familiar. Return to your homes, everyone. Nothing to see here.
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Yeah, WK definitely got the short end of the (yellow yard) stick. I would not wish an eternity of nothing but 13-year-old-authored wizard slash upon anyone.Zutaten posted:I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, I don't think anyone did, but if you mouse over and click the little coloured "act dots" on the Play button screen of [S] Cascade, you can jump to the different parts of the animation. Kind of handy if you just wanted to rewatch a specific segment. It felt much more fitting for PM to end up Jack's counterpart instead of WV (also because of Mailcarrier vs Dog). WV may have once led an army, but PM's the far more badass solo fighter, and she owes Jack so much pain for what their deal forced her to surrender, and is now fully the new white queen. Also- MrBims posted:I am ambivalent about the way one of my predictions and favorite pieces of fanart came true.  As an aside, AR starting to blow up the exile stations, even with his hands shaking uncontrollably by the penultimate one, to direction Jack's attention away from PM was adorable. The full suit of God Tier kids does clarify that the wings/no wings thing is a trolls vs humans thing, instead of possibly God Tier sexual dimorphism ala The Dark Crystal gelflings.
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Zutaten posted:I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, I don't think anyone did, but if you mouse over and click the little coloured "act dots" on the Play button screen of [S] Cascade, you can jump to the different parts of the animation. Kind of handy if you just wanted to rewatch a specific segment. The thing I like about the scene selection is that I'm pretty sure they indicate what universe the scenes take place in. The red dots correspond to scenes in the kid's session, the blue to the troll's session, the green to the felt, and the white to Doc Scratch/Jade breaking everything.
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Waffnuffly posted:There are no words to describe this flash adequately. It's a modern masterpiece, something I think people will be watching for a long time. I didn't expect ANY of the stuff that happened, aside from the things that were a foregone conclusion already like the universe destruction(s) and all that. And both the technical and art quality... just stunning. It's clear why this took so long to make. This is easily, without a doubt, the best thing I've ever seen on the internet. I think you may be overselling it a bit here.
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oh I just remembered this flash was supposed to arrive today. It was cool, but those clouds with weird transparency sticked out like a sore thumb. Other than that, it was cool but, as always, confusing. Can't wait to see what's up with Bec Blanc.
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Oct 25, 2011 20:56
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Dog vs. postal worker was foreshadowed here.
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Flash is back on in-website. For me at least. Newgrounds seems to be un-broken for the time being.
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kidcoelacanth posted:I think you may be overselling it a bit here.
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Wow, that was certainly a loving amazing flash. Remember when everybody thought the idea of a 10-minute flash was ludicrous? I was a bit ambivalent about some of the art in it, some of it didn't really seem to fit, but a lot of it did. Really, really good.
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And we get one more final teaser EOA panel. I really hope there won't be another hiatus. I was just starting to re-catch-up.
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Welp, the curtains have officially closed on Act 5. Holy poo poo, it's kind of weird to consider that it's finally over. It was certainly one mammoth of an act.
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Volume 8 is fantastic so far, and the art included is also really good. I can't believe how big it is!kidcoelacanth posted:I think you may be overselling it a bit here. No, not really. There's a lot of good reasons to regard this story very highly. Maybe I'm biased because it's my favorite story of all time (so far), and I've been waiting a month like most people to see this flash and it totally blew away my expectations, but I definitely do think it's something that will be regarded as a classic in a few decades or so. Maybe not a mainstream classic, but definitely something really special in its own class of works (which, so far, is very small). I dunno, it's kinda hard to explain, but probably not worth going into detail over! Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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Walliard posted:Dog vs. postal worker was foreshadowed here. But wait. If dogs hate postal workers, does that mean PM is going to go insane from the internal conflict now? 
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Wait a minute... I just realized something After the scene with jade when jack uses the red miles, he has that bloody hand of his. It then cuts to the planet and the arming of the eggstation and etc. with the red miles going on. Bluh?
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Forer posted:Wait a minute... I just realized something Time shenanigans allow many things to occur simultaneously.
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Red Miles using Jack is in the troll incinisphere and sees the frog the trolls made and shoots red miles into that. It then cuts back to when Jack kill the exiles and actually gets the bloodstain on his hand before going into the troll incinisphere.
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I just realized that the flash contained a shot that was actually the cover of Homestuck Vol. 7.
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He used the red miles on the universe itself (Bilious Slick). The red miles you see is the universe being destroyed. E:f,b
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Waffnuffly posted:Volume 8 is fantastic so far, and the art included is also really good. I can't believe how big it is! Well for me, the flash was just plain overwhelming. Not helped by the fact that I had been going cold turkey on Homestuck related anything for the last few months. Then again, the flash was always going to be amazing, given the hype it got. I would give this flash an A+. Great effort.
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Hussie once said something to the effect of "I consider Act 5 to be THE BIG MOTHERFUCKER OF HOMESTUCK". The man has a way with words, but even that seems woefully inadequate.
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Something I just noticed, don;t know how it escaped me before: Jade only brought herself and John through the fourth wall. Rose and Dave remain probably so they can fight Aradia. If we are really met with a new/reset/ancestor-flipped universe, as seems the case, what will become of our Seer and Knight? I somehow doubt they're simply going to become obsolete, an epic end to lives lost in a beta universe.
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BTW I would just like to chime in again and say that I adore the barbershop rendition of "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew" on the new album. 
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Some Strange Flea posted:There's four bonus tracks as well though! 
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MidnightSun posted:Something I just noticed, don;t know how it escaped me before: Jade only brought herself and John through the fourth wall. Rose and Dave remain probably so they can fight Aradia. If we are really met with a new/reset/ancestor-flipped universe, as seems the case, what will become of our Seer and Knight? I somehow doubt they're simply going to become obsolete, an epic end to lives lost in a beta universe. Rose and Dave are already out of the session, otherwise they wouldn't be with Sollux and Aradia, they are fine. John and Jade are likely zooming there to join them.
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MidnightSun posted:Something I just noticed, don;t know how it escaped me before: Jade only brought herself and John through the fourth wall. Rose and Dave remain probably so they can fight Aradia. If we are really met with a new/reset/ancestor-flipped universe, as seems the case, what will become of our Seer and Knight? I somehow doubt they're simply going to become obsolete, an epic end to lives lost in a beta universe. They can get there from the Furthest Ring. It connects literally everything. Also, we've got some serious curtainception going on here.
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Goddamn. I just got into Homestuck around the same time the hiatus for this update started, and it was definitely well worth the wait. So much great art and music, and so much going on. I especially liked the detail of Spade Slick's bullet actually being a cue ball and "sinking" Snowman. Also, Huitzil posted:The hoodie just has a map of E1M1 on it. There's a chip in the fabric that plays this when you press down on it. I would buy the unholy poo poo out of this.
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In the part where it shows Sollux psychicing the hell out of the Trolls meteor, which Sollux is doing it? I guessed it was the one on the meteor with the others since it shows dreamy-Sollux hanging with the GT's at the end and he looks perfectly fine, but i'm still not sure. On my first viewing, I thought it was the dreamy-Sollux pulling the meteor towards himself.
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:In the part where it shows Sollux psychicing the hell out of the Trolls meteor, which Sollux is doing it? Sollux half dies(or something) getting the meteor over there, resulting in weird half dream half alive Sollux hanging out with Aradia later.
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I'm not getting this Aradia is evil vibe that everyone else is, did I miss something?
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Mr. Pumroy posted:It was the White Queen's idea. The reason was never explicitly stated, but you can infer that they were attempting to destroy Jack's route to the Troll session, since that was his main goal upon reaching Earth. He rode a meteor there, then used the equipment in one of the labs to transport to the trolls right when they were about to win the game. quote:It's not clear if the queen knew this, but if she intended to defend the planet then it makes sense, since Jack needed to get outside of the universe in order to kill it.
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OmegaZultan posted:Red Miles using Jack is in the troll incinisphere and sees the frog the trolls made and shoots red miles into that. I would agree with you but I have an issue with that  And as I got that picture I realized what happened, Jack AFTER going on the whole "kill aradiabots" rampage did red miles. so the progression goes "jack gets his stabs on WV and the likes and goes to troll universe and does a lot of things and then red miles."
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Oxygen Deficiency posted:In the part where it shows Sollux psychicing the hell out of the Trolls meteor, which Sollux is doing it?
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OmegaZultan posted:Sollux half dies(or something) getting the meteor over there, resulting in weird half dream half alive Sollux hanging out with Aradia later. Wait, weren't there two Sollux's? I thought all the stuff post-Green Sun creation was happening all at once.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Well, her role (and that of the rest of the Exiles) was supposed to be repopulating Earth (or preparing it for repopulation, I forget which). I'd imagine that'd be easier with the psycho-god trapped in another universe. Not when trapping him in said universe gives him direct physical access to the entirety of your own. I think the plan was "blow up the gates, kill Jack Noir here, then rebuild". Of course, it didn't come even close to working.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do we have any indication as to where Sollux is taking the meteor? The Green Sun, presumably, to meet with God Tier Aradia and his dream bubble self.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Do we have any indication as to where Sollux is taking the meteor? they point to the giant green flash of light in the sky and then sollux psychic's the meteor, it's assumed he's taking them to the green sun Edit: Dammit, beaten
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Forer posted:they point to the giant green flash of light in the sky and then sollux psychic's the meteor, it's assumed he's taking them to the green sun There are a few shots towards the end (I want to say the PM vs. Jack showdown) where the background actually has the visible yellow trail from the meteor streaking across the sky towards the sun. No assumption necessary, that's where he's going.
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