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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:Dream Jane lookin' at clouns. I'm guessing the latter - Alpha-Mom sending Mutini encased in ice would explain how Mutini ended up in the Beta session in the first place. Probably needed to break the window in the first place too for some reaon or another.
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tinaun posted:Totally snagging this one later. I'll let someone smarter and more creative than me think up text. Maybe a dumb dovahkiin joke I dunno
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Ferroque posted:A Good Flash. All the art was very coherent and worked really well together, which wasn't really the case with the Big Flash. Yeah, it's also a really slick way of showing poo poo happening during what is hopefully a badly-needed skip forward.
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Samovar posted:I'm guessing the latter - Alpha-Mom sending Mutini encased in ice would explain how Mutini ended up in the Beta session in the first place. Probably needed to break the window in the first place too for some reaon or another. kidMom destroying the window harkens back to Rose destroying the gates.
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That was a really slick flash and now I'm excited about Homestuck again.
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:Totally snagging this one later. "SKYYYYRIIIIIIM"
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:Dream Jane lookin' at clouns. To me, it looked like a Cruxite Artifact. The thing you have to use/break to get into the Medium.
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I'm gonna speculate that the last Prospit tower we're looking at is UU's, since it's implying a huge bird eye's view of everything.
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Chunky12345 posted:"SKYYYYRIIIIIIM" I used to like Homestuck. Then I took a bucket to the face.
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thanks alot assbag posted:I used to like Homestuck. Then I took a bucket to the face. *gets a tattoo of bucket hitting face* Kit Walker posted:To me, it looked like a Cruxite Artifact. The thing you have to use/break to get into the Medium. Those have all been monochromatic so far, so I doubt it.
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Chunky12345 posted:"SKYYYYRIIIIIIM" thanks alot assbag posted:I used to like Homestuck. Then I took a bucket to the face. Eh.
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Welcome to the Homestuck avatar army, NLTM! Great flash. Infinity Mechanism was one of my favorite songs from Volume 8 and I'm happy to see it getting some use!
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So that animation was pretty drat sweet, I must say. Nice to see the whole Prospit dream clouds visions coming into the story again, as well as the eternal stalemate. This flash really brought across the visuals of Skaia and Prospit better than any previous I feel
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I really, really shouldn't care... but you misspelled tongue in your avatar and it kind of bothers me.
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Kit Walker posted:To me, it looked like a Cruxite Artifact. The thing you have to use/break to get into the Medium. It looked like she was throwing Mutie through a 4th Wall to me.
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Tollymain posted:I really, really shouldn't care... but you misspelled tongue in your avatar and it kind of bothers me. If you never bought it up I wouldn't have noticed it either. 
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:If you never bought it up I wouldn't have noticed it either. If you never bought it up you wouldn't be having the issue! 
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English sucks. Edit: It apparently annoyed me enough to spend even more money on it. NO LISTEN TO ME fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Hahaha oh dear this is too funny.
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No text doesn't have those issues. 
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Wow, I didn't even realize how awesome of a song Infinity Mechanism is. Also, bandcamp is down for some reason  (edit: not anymore)
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:English sucks. Just because he eats universes doesn't mean you can blame him for your lovely spelling! 
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So I was just thinking back and I realised something, then rewatched the flash to double check. Is it just me, or does the prospit we just saw in Jane's dream here have no prototyping towers? We saw that the B1 session's Prospit had the towers even before the kids entered the medium (unless I'm getting the timing of this page wrong). More hints to an 8 player session maybe?
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In other, non-avatar related woes: Not that happy with it to be honest, this one was hard for some reason. I tried to model it after the classic "lava" level in a game, but this is what I ended up with, oh well. I'm not that experienced with basses yet, which is the problem. Definitely my worst so far. I tried to incorporate some sort of electronic noise to signify "brain", but it didn't really work out, so I scrapped it. Oh well.
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What a great flash. Infinity Mechanism is a fantastic song as always, but it worked really well here, and now I have even more reason to like it. I also really liked the cloud visions - reminds me of when I was reading Homestuck for the first time and getting to the parts where Jade was seeing things in the clouds and when we first discovered Prospit. Great nostalgia.
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So the wall Mom threw Mutie through had 5 panes. Is that significant somehow? Does that mean this'll be a 5-player session? Am I looking too hard for things?
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So here's a weird idea: What if the B2 kids don't prototype at all? Assuming Jane actually 'died' in that mailbox explosion and didn't just, like, faint, or something, then she's stuck in the session and can't get back to Earth to do it properly. We also see a cloud vision that shows the black and white chess pieces fighting at a stalemate, as they do pre-prototyping, without it expanding or anything, which seems significant. What if the other three kids also get into the session through alternate methods (death, teleportation, Jade's intervention, other stuff I can't think of)...or just don't prototype their sprites...and the session stays un-prototyped? This would be really interesting, because it would free up the narrative for more English-related matters, and it would also let us see what a blank-slate session looks like. There's normally a penalty for this: Skaia doesn't evolve and thus can't produce a new universe to live in. But we don't know if that is an issue or not, since they might still have Jade's volcano/tadpole to fall back on. edit: Hypothetically, Jane could get back to Earth by riding one of the meteors, but I'm not even sure if an unprototyped session, being still at a white-black stalemate, would even start the meteor cycle.
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Right at the end there, was Jane having a having a prophetic cloud-viewing of herself having a prophetic cloud-viewing?  Now that you mention it, a totally un-prototyped session may be exactly what Jade is hoping for, since that would leave English stuck in a dead end while she can still produce a new universe with her tadpole. That assumes it is still alive after falling into the volcano though. And of course Jane isn't dead. No exploding mailbox gently poofs in a cloud of black smoke for several seconds before finally catching on fire. She was just playing a cruel prank to escape from Dad (and the readers).
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Infinity Mechanism  Honestly more excited about the promise of an oncoming album, but that was a pretty slick flash all the same. If it represents a skip in time and we're going to be dropped in the middle of the kids exploring the game universe I hope we haven't gone so far ahead as to miss the part where Bro has an act-long swordfight for no discernible reason 
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Mr. Pumroy posted:Infinity Mechanism I'm kind of hoping we'll finally be able to see the hash modus rap battle that was foreshadowed in Dave's introduction (where he loaded up his sylladex with a ton of dangerous stuff before strifing with Bro on the roof).
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Tw1tchy posted:Don't know how many of you have seen this, but it's by BlahStudios who makes amazing homestuck typography videos. Jesus F. Christ the pop music in all of these videos is utterly excruciating
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Bobulus posted:So here's a weird idea: Wouldn't another issue be that there'd be no Black King to defeat and thus, scepter to destroy? The troll's session and what we know about Sburb seems to show that the Black King being killed and his scepter being destroyed is needed to start the endgame. Without prototyping before entering the game, there'd be no battlefield where Prospit would lose, and thus no Black King with scepter to defeat. If he did exist even without prototying, would he be just the generic unprototyped one we see in [S]WV?: Rise Up or just literally be a chess piece? In that state, would killing him still start the end game, or does he need the scepter to do so? Bringing the kid's Battlefield still has some issues. Since the Black King there was killed by Jack, what would trigger the endgame in their Battlefield? Jack cut the Black King's scepter in half, but that didn't trigger the end-game. Maybe doing something like killing Jack and/or destroying the White King's scepter is needed instead because the game registered Jack as the one that started the Reckoning, and is thus the kid's new target to start the end game.
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I'm saying maybe they don't even need to start the endgame. Let's look at this from a video-game perspective. In a video game, the game proceeds completely because of triggers. Stuff like "when object A arrives at location B, trigger event C". With the artificial gate on progress being that you can't get object A until after you've done events X, Y, and Z. ...but if you somehow obtain object A by a means other than the planned one, you could go to location B and trigger event C when it didn't make logical sense to do this. (Incidentally, it's a situation like this that lets you get silly stuff like General Leo standing beside his own grave, mourning himself. Courtey Elephantgun's FF6-glitching LP) I'm wondering the final act of this story, after dealing with Lord English, is going to be them showing up at the end of this game having skipped the beginning and the middle.
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The Black King definitely exists in SOME form, as both prospit and derse seem to have inhabitants, and way back when nannasprite stated that the simple, eternal stalemate struggle has been going on "forever", presumably since The Medium's inception. The White King must also exist because, if I recall correctly, the White king's scepter is the one that starts the Reckoning, after it has been captured by the Black king when the prospitans are inevitably defeated and we've already seen one or two meteors in the sky of the new session. Though I guess that could tie into the whole bifurcation of the B1 kids causing all this session B2 weirdness thats going on. edit: making facts more accurater Rohan Kishibe fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Rose did make a note about how catastrophic it would be for John not to prototype anything, back when he was helping Jade enter the game. So its not completely out of left field. I'm wondering the Agents and Dersites would be handled. Just a few guys hanging out, nothing special, like Spades Slick? Would the Queen's ring just be a regular plain ring?
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Is there anybody else who can't view the flash? It starts loading, gets to 2%, then the load indicator disappears and it never loads the rest of the way.
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Bobulus posted:I'm saying maybe they don't even need to start the endgame. I like to think of it like Chrono Trigger, where if youre strong enough you can just beat the game in the first 10 minutes with Crono and Marle. (On a New Game +)
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Ubik posted:Is there anybody else who can't view the flash? It starts loading, gets to 2%, then the load indicator disappears and it never loads the rest of the way. Try ctrl+F5, it will make it completely load over again.
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I can see how an unprototyped session might be a thing that happens - really, what's the point of setting up a Black King and Black Queen at this point, the kids would probably obliterate them.
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Bobulus posted:So here's a weird idea: Honestly, I've been of the opinion that this session wouldn't have a workable battlefield since Cascade. Jade brought the battlefield for some reason, even though the tadpole is still on LOFAF. Add to that, Jane's Prospit doesn't have prototyping towers. Going from the books in Rose's castle, there's some sort of plot hook that's going to add orbs to the rings. The same rings that seem to be heading straight to the new session.
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