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I really, really like the Sega Genesis vibe of Escape Pod. Makes me want to play Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine even though I am absolutely poo poo at puzzle games. Not to mention Davesprite, the 8-bit Carefree Action, etc. Also drat is Black Hole/Green Sun good, along with every part featuring in the Act 5 finale, gently caress man. But I think the song I'm replaying most is Hussie Hunt. Don't know why... I just really like it. And its artwork makes me laugh 
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Oct 27, 2011 00:35
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To be honest, it's not my favorite album. The main line of Homestuck and Alternia volumes have basically been getting exponentially better with each release up until now, but personally Vol 8 seems like a half-step back. There are a lot of excellent cinematic score type pieces, which is very thematically appropriate for where in the story it's getting released, but for me that just doesn't add up to a lot of must-listen pieces. Also I think my mind just subconsciously rejects it because it doesn't have enough Doctor remixes. "Wait," it says. "That thing I just listend to only had like maybe half a Doctor remix. It can't possibly be a Homestuck album." C'mon, music team dudes. We need more fuckin Doctor remixes. Hussie Hunt is a delightful change of pace, though. I dunno, maybe this will be one of those albums that grows on me.
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Forget Spider's Claw, I want God of War style god tier songs. But I guess it's hard to get a choir to sing FRIENDLEADER in ancient greek if your just some internet person.
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Oct 27, 2011 00:46
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Orfeo posted:I'll just leave this here. Amazingly enough it did survive the night! I think something's up with your image host or something, there's nothing after that line. Should there be? Also Do You Remem8ber Me might be my favourite Homestuck song of all time.
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Oct 27, 2011 00:52
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Dr Snofeld posted:Also Do You Remem8ber Me might be my favourite Homestuck song of all time. Unite Synchronization pumps me the hell up and makes me get tons of poo poo done. It's like the song is compressed Husslific energy. Also it reminds me of Dave for some reason, probably the art. Drift into the Sun has a really nice ending to it, too. There's way too much good stuff to mention on this album. I didn't listen to a single song before I bought it, either (well, aside from the flash). It's gotten to the point I don't need to guess if the asking price will be worth it or not. The best surprise of all when I realized Volume 8 was out was seeing how big it was, and then learning that only a few of the songs were the ones in the flash, so we got all the flash music (including the entire compilation, which I thought for sure would be broken up into individuals) AND loads more. Just tons of awesome material that we've never even heard before. Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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Oct 27, 2011 00:59
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YggiDee posted:If you carve a Homestuck pumpkin doesn't it vanish? What pumpkin?
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The album cover looks like a big swirly green mint candy surrounded by lollipops. I think the first thing that really strikes me about 8 is that it's representin a lot of downtempo stuff. I mean I know it's got a lot of fast paced tracks in it but the ones that slow down really stick out to me the most. Like Do You Remem8er Me, Flare, Galactic Cancer, Airtime, Gust of Heir and quite a few others. I really enjoy music that takes its time to build an atmosphere and these pretty much do it. I'm also glad to see a few ideas from Volume 5 get some attention here. I'm thinking primarily of Lotus (Bloom) and Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty). There were a lot of great tracks in 5 that seemed to get lost in the deluge of content. Personally I hope Sarabande gets reworked in something. It's a slow, nice waltz but it's got, you know, oomph. For a waltz. I also like Ocean Stars Falling. Ocean Stars is probably my favorite track in Squiddles and it's nice to hear it expanded on. Explore got rearranged in Hussie Hunt to sound like some music that would play while Abbot and Costello shuffles fearfully around in some ancient haunted house. It's pretty funny. The later section of the album has some pretty heavy stuff in it. I'm not going to pick a favorite but I'm just going to say that I've been listening to Infinity Mechanism a lot, which is by Thomas Ferkol. Between this and Dreamers and the Dead from Alterniabound I think that dude needs to put out a solo album. Then again I think a lot of these people need to put out a solo album. I still haven't sat down to give this a decent listen, I've mostly just had it playing in the background while I work. From my vague impressions I feel like some of the heavier stuff at the back of the album don't really feel like they have a central idea. Like Drift into the Sun. It kind of meanders. It's not terrible or anything, it's just kind of there. Contrast with Bargaining with the Beast, which really does sound like a dialogue between a deep thrumming string section and flitting pipes. edit: also I forgot Carefree Action because I haven't listened to this album long enough to get an impression of the very last tracks, but Carefree Victory has such a goofy fun melody that I'm happy whenever it pops up elsewhere. Mr. Pumroy fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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Oct 27, 2011 01:13
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Oh please god could we get another Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaledio before the end of all paradox space.
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What I've learned from EOA5 is that Andrew Hussie is not only a master storyteller and a guy who really, really, really knows his way around colors, he's also an incredible director and (visual) composer. As far as animation goes there's nothing too groundbreaking about the EOA5 flash--motion tweening, stretching, and scaling, generally--but when it comes to him setting a scene, juxtaposing elements, etc, he can do it, and do it perfectly. This is true of pretty much all of the flashes in Homestuck but it stood out to me the most here. I want to see Hussie direct some sort of film someday.
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Fren posted:Oh please god could we get another Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaledio before the end of all paradox space. This absolutely with the burning truth of a green sun.
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Oct 27, 2011 01:49
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Fren posted:Oh please god could we get another Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaledio before the end of all paradox space. Dawn of Troll and Alpha Version would probably be awesome.
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Well Manicured Man posted:What I've learned from EOA5 is that Andrew Hussie is not only a master storyteller and a guy who really, really, really knows his way around colors, he's also an incredible director and (visual) composer. As far as animation goes there's nothing too groundbreaking about the EOA5 flash--motion tweening, stretching, and scaling, generally--but when it comes to him setting a scene, juxtaposing elements, etc, he can do it, and do it perfectly. This is true of pretty much all of the flashes in Homestuck but it stood out to me the most here. Honestly, I'd rather see what he could do if he really buckled down and learned how to animate. If he can do things this great with simple tools, I can't even imagine how great his work would be if he really knew his poo poo and could work with a better animation program.
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King of Solomon posted:Honestly, I'd rather see what he could do if he really buckled down and learned how to animate. If he can do things this great with simple tools, I can't even imagine how great his work would be if he really knew his poo poo and could work with a better animation program. Didn't Hussie pretty much have to learn everything about Flash once he started Homestuck? Maybe come next project he'll start learning something else. He will be unstoppable.
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Just so everyone knows, if you check out the Albums 1-4 listing on Bandcamp, there's a few free songs that weren't in the original albums. Nothing mind-blowing, but Gardener's pretty good.
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I am very dumb, and despite kinda understanding what happens in individual scenes, I have trouble figuring out how the whole comes together (possibly because I never quite figured out the whole past/future/alternate universes deal and how they relate to each other). Does someone have a link to a handy explanation?
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Oct 27, 2011 02:17
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Well Manicured Man posted:Didn't Hussie pretty much have to learn everything about Flash once he started Homestuck? Pretty much, but as you said, he mostly uses really simple tools. I'm trying to imagine a work where he uses more complicated things and really pushes the boundaries beyond the sheer length of the project.
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Xander77 posted:I am very dumb, and despite kinda nderstanding what happens in individual scenes, I have trouble figuring out how the whole comes together (possibly because I never quite figured out the whole past/future/alternate universes deal and how they relate to each other). Does someone have a link to a handy explanation? http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/
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Dr Snofeld posted:I think something's up with your image host or something, there's nothing after that line. Should there be? You got me there. 
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Gonna out myself as not being a huge fan of Do You Remem8er Me. The opening is just too AM adult contemporary for me.
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Gonna have to agree with you there, however if you lop off the first 20 seconds you have an excellent track that doesn't remind me of a porno.
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So, be honest... Who's started checking the site regularly for updates since the flash? I don't even know if I expect to find any it's just sort of a reflex.
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Dolash posted:So, be honest... A little, but not much. I'd be checking it every five minutes or so if I didn't have that MSPA notifier program that checks the website for me.
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Oct 27, 2011 03:13
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You never know when he'll bust out a 10-page update!
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While you're waiting for an update, Andrew posted part 4 of the flash recap-explanation-thing on his blog.
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King of Solomon posted:A little, but not much. I'd be checking it every five minutes or so if I didn't have that MSPA notifier program that checks the website for me. Is that what Hussie refers to as HORRIBLE BULLSHIT in this comic?
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Ograbme posted:The fate of Snowman's ring is still unknown, right? We have no reason to believe it was anything but destroyed. Karkat said as much.
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Talorat posted:Is that what Hussie refers to as HORRIBLE BULLSHIT in this comic? Nah, that's just an RSS program.
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President Ark posted:While you're waiting for an update, Andrew posted part 4 of the flash recap-explanation-thing on his blog. Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer is an awesome name for a weapon. The god tier mechanics explanation is really interesting. Scratch's quote about Rose having a 50% chance at reaching godhood seems like funny math to me. To me, it sounds like his logic is that there's a 50% chance Rose goes god tier through option one, 50% chance through option two, and Scratch knows that she won't go with option one, therefore there's a 50% chance she'll reach god tier? Maybe he's not a gambling man just because he's bad at math.
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creationist believer posted:Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer is an awesome name for a weapon. I think the idea is that the 50% fail rate was because he knew she'd achieve it by the moon-core-explosion-bed route, so if he was speaking to Rose and she tried to do it on her quest bed she would fail (because that's not what she was supposed to do and she'd get split into a beta timeline and be doomed) Which... kind of makes sense?
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President Ark posted:While you're waiting for an update, Andrew posted part 4 of the flash recap-explanation-thing on his blog. Okay, so far in these recaps Andrew has pointed out that Lord English: -is basically a pimp -is associated with the kids' memories somehow -is a master of time D... Dave?  (still pretty sure LE is his own independent character and not something that an existing character "becomes" though)
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Gabriel Pope posted:Okay, so far in these recaps Andrew has pointed out that Lord English: I've said it once, and I'll say it again; Big Cal.
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Well main updates start up again on 11/11/11. Dude loves his numbers doesn't he?
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Shavnir posted:Well main updates start up again on 11/11/11. Dude loves his numbers doesn't he? There will be content in the meantime, though: quote:I WILL however plan to post a short intermission between now and then. I will let you know when this date approaches. Hopefully this doesn't balloon into another Midnight Crew intermission taking up 3 months.
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Gabriel Pope posted:Okay, so far in these recaps Andrew has pointed out that Lord English: I still think it's Hussie. Or the collective audience of MSPA. I just feel like it'd be unfulfilling for LE to be some guy we've never met before. Unless - it's fedorafreak.
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President Ark posted:Hopefully this doesn't balloon into another Midnight Crew intermission taking up 3 months. Hopefully it does balloon into 3 months. Because obviously it will be the long-awaited fedorafreak intermission.  (Also the Midnight Crew intermission wasn't even a full month long and probably barely over schedule at all. It was Hivebent that was slated to run 3 weeks and lasted 3 months instead.)
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President Ark posted:Hopefully this doesn't balloon into another Midnight Crew intermission taking up 3 months. The Midnight Crew intermission didn't even last a full month. (whoops, beaten) This is obviously going to be the 48 squiddles intermission.
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Boneless Jogger posted:The Midnight Crew intermission didn't even last a full month. (whoops, beaten) Each squiddle will be introduced and killed in the same update.
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creationist believer posted:Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer is an awesome name for a weapon. The 50% chance was simply that she might have been standing on the wrong quest bed during the detonation. v  vThis is how I feel about Cascade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMFNQDtGin8 Also, I'm betting that John and Jade become Colonel Sassacre and Betty Crocker
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