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Maybe both Striders will be named Dave. Bro created an AI duplicate of himself to talk to, and Dave became his own ghostly spirit guide, so theres already a theme of self-repetition going on in their family. Plus I'd say they both have the necessary ego to name their adopted charges after themselves.
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So the original con air bunny from this universe is inside Sebastian. But there is also an unmodified con air bunny on Janes bed, dressed as a wizard. Easily explained through standard time travel, but I dunno, something tells me they're different rabbits.
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Fagtastic posted:So the original con air bunny from this universe is inside Sebastian. But there is also an unmodified con air bunny on Janes bed, dressed as a wizard. The unmodified wizard rabbit is the one given to Rose in this flash page. The other rabbit is the one John gave to Jade, who gave it to Jake. Because Dave in this universe never gave the Con-Air rabbit to John, it's was held by this universe's Dave until it was stolen by Bro and encased in robotics.
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Something I noticed in this recent update: Yeah that's a meteor alright, hope they start quickly. 
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Dolash posted:Also, never mind seeing the all-Strider-conversation, I want to see Rose and this Bro go nine rounds on the psycho-analysis circuit. I'm not sure anybody could get the upper hand in a conversation with him. Never mind that. I want to see Rose meet her young mother. It will be like Kanaya's first impression of Rose, times twelve.
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Fagtastic posted:So the original con air bunny from this universe is inside Sebastian. But there is also an unmodified con air bunny on Janes bed, dressed as a wizard. No, it actually is not easily explained through time travel. To summarize, the meteors carrying the kids and their items (the rabbits, etc) were copied directly into the new session.
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spectralPrankster is making the best videos, every one of his videos is great and I hope he keeps making them. This one got uploaded a few minutes ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDiwgo9S2l0
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Tw1tchy posted:spectralPrankster is making the best videos, every one of his videos is great and I hope he keeps making them. This one got uploaded a few minutes ago. Joe Dimaggio makes a surprisingly good Gamzee.
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Tw1tchy posted:spectralPrankster is making the best videos, every one of his videos is great and I hope he keeps making them. This one got uploaded a few minutes ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ejJwz-kx4
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FebrezeNinja posted:
I'm glad I finally caught up with the thread today, since I didn't even realize the book was available yet. Hopefully folks'll like how I translated it to print. Act 1 came out to 155 pages of story, and it's been the shortest so far by over 100 pages.
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I love the idea of Dave being a big famous superstar director chilling with Stiller and the gang and collecting silly movie props.
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Warm Body posted:As long as people are posting videos, I saw this one and it wasn't bad. Good, but I was expecting more from The Vast Expletive.
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kjetting posted:I love the idea of Dave being a big famous superstar director chilling with Stiller and the gang and collecting silly movie props. Stiller is starring in the MOIVE.
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We really will never know whether or not Bro's plush rump thing is actually ironic. I wouldn't have it any other way. 
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King of Solomon posted:We really will never know whether or not Bro's plush rump thing is actually ironic. I wouldn't have it any other way. True, but now we're fairly sure that ironic, sincere, or ironically sincere it didn't stop being a thing in the post-scratch world.
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Oh dear, I sure hope there isn't a buddypower stuggle amongst the two friendleaders when they meet. I did however adore the callbacks to the puppet chat room on Plush Rump.
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Wow. Bro is my new favorite. That kind of eloquence and introspection totally speaks to me.
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Missed the doodled ones, what in tarnation! Oh well, ordered anyway.
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Mortal Sword posted:I'm glad I finally caught up with the thread today, since I didn't even realize the book was available yet. Hopefully folks'll like how I translated it to print. What part of act 2 would book 2 cover?
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Jane. Jane, don't you know that by saying "hopefully not literally," you have all but guaranteed it will be literal? Don't you know how this comic works? You poor soul.
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tinaun posted:What part of act 2 would book 2 cover? WV wasting four hours on this poo poo.
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I'm glad I saw the book show up on Topatco just about straight away, and with artist signings still available. Being all jumpy about them running out I ordered straight away. It took a couple of hours for it to sink in that I'd just spent $55 on a small book. International shipping 
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This has occurred to me in the past, but Homestuck has a pretty huge following. How likely might it be that comic book shops might actually be interested in carrying volumes of Homestuck? Do webcomics in book form tend to be sold in places like that?
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I've invested a lot of time into this so I'll keep reading until the end, but the fact that this comic has gone backwards and started over from the 'beginning' has really soured me on it. I don't care to spend time with these new characters or read their long drawn-out conversations about nothing. The cliffhangers and the poor pacing doesn't leave me with any patience for them. This is the same reasoning for why I stopped reading Robert Jordan books too.
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:This has occurred to me in the past, but Homestuck has a pretty huge following. How likely might it be that comic book shops might actually be interested in carrying volumes of Homestuck? Do webcomics in book form tend to be sold in places like that? They can be. I know the comic shop that was next to my old university carried the Penny Arcade books, and I saw Octopus Pie's book was available at a Barnes and Noble. It's up to the publishing house, whether or not they feel it's worth doing so. PA, for instance, was distributed by Dark Horse, so they have inroads to stores and whatnot. Topatco, I gather, is a pretty small operation in comparison.
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:This has occurred to me in the past, but Homestuck has a pretty huge following. How likely might it be that comic book shops might actually be interested in carrying volumes of Homestuck? Do webcomics in book form tend to be sold in places like that? I was just thinking about this. I'm not at all sure of the likelihood really, all I know is that I'd kill to get some copies of Hussie's works at a place like Powell's or something. Barnes and Noble seems like more of a stretch for some reason--I have seen them carrying Penny Arcade and Megatokyo books at one point or another though, so who knows?
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Ghost Hat posted:I've invested a lot of time into this so I'll keep reading until the end, but the fact that this comic has gone backwards and started over from the 'beginning' has really soured me on it. I don't care to spend time with these new characters or read their long drawn-out conversations about nothing. The cliffhangers and the poor pacing doesn't leave me with any patience for them. Ugh, a new batch of compelling characters engaging in interesting interactions? How boring. I'm outie - PEACE!
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I was just thinking about this. I'm not at all sure of the likelihood really, all I know is that I'd kill to get some copies of Hussie's works at a place like Powell's or something. Barnes and Noble seems like more of a stretch for some reason--I have seen them carrying Penny Arcade and Megatokyo books at one point or another though, so who knows? Eh. If Cartoon Network it turning lovely youtube oranges into full fledged cartoons I'm sure a big publisher would be eager to get some of what Hussie's got.
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tinaun posted:What part of act 2 would book 2 cover? All depends on whether Andrew asks me to break it up or not. As-is, it'd be longer than the first couple PS books, but might still be do-able as a single volume. Act 5 is where 1 Act/1 Book definitely becomes unfeasible, though. I'm working right now on polishing up Act 3 and the MC intermission.
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:This has occurred to me in the past, but Homestuck has a pretty huge following. How likely might it be that comic book shops might actually be interested in carrying volumes of Homestuck? Do webcomics in book form tend to be sold in places like that? The place I go has an entire section full of webcomic books, and occasionally hosts signings and panels. I've seen everything from fail-rear end CAD to Penny Arcade, and a ton of hit/miss in between. Now that I think about it, now would seem like the perfect time for me to check if there are any MSPA books.
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Kit Walker posted:Ugh, a new batch of compelling characters engaging in interesting interactions? How boring. I'm outie - PEACE! I have to grant that if you see the entire comic as belonging to a singular, monolithic narrative arc then the recent updates aren't really contributing to that yet. Sure if we take the long view the overall story is heating up, and once it's all been written a reader probably won't notice any lull as anything but the calm before the storm, but to live in the moment as we work our way through plateaus of introduction and preparation (albeit plateaus at high update speeds and with good compression) can possibly be frustrating. I tend to see the comic as being less of an overall arc and more of a regular web-comic that happens to be meandering forward toward a point (although when things heat up, they really do), so 'slow' spots don't bother me.
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Since I wasn't around when Hivebent was live, I can only imagine it featured many posts like that. At least here the new typing gimmicks aren't as unpenetrable. Also we pretty much know and understand the significance of what's happening now, which wasn't necessarily apparent in Hivebent until the very end.
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Personally I can forgive any slowdown in pace as long as it continues to make me laugh. Do I want the kids to burst through the fourth wall already and start messing with things? Yeah. But drat if every Kidmom chat doesn't crack me up. And with all the little clues and mysteries about the state of the new universe there's still plenty to keep me interested in the direction of the plot.
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In general I'm pretty skeptical of the feasibility of a start-over-from-scratch (heh) narrative turn like this, and there's no telling if it'll work in the end. Still, speaking as someone who read through the initial WV updates/Intermission/Hivebent live, I'm now pretty willing to accept Homestuck as a story of myriad digressions. That said, what this particular digression has going for it is this: Nate RFB posted:Also we pretty much know and understand the significance of what's happening now, which wasn't necessarily apparent in Hivebent until the very end. Act 6 has made it pretty clear that while we've "started over" in one sense, the forces we were dealing with before have some continuity -- the Troll Empire still has a presence, apparently, English is lurking somewhere, and so on. Smaller things, like Jack, have been sidelined for the moment as we set the stage for a broader final conflict. While in eg, Hivebent, which had a lot of complaints, it wasn't at all clear what we were running up to, here we know we're gearing up for the end. Might as well enjoy some zany chatlogs while we anticipate.
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Something I find amusing, is that there are now 4 temporally independent versions of Liv Tyler in this universe.
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