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Hadn't heard Infinity Mechanism off Album 8 before, but I not only find it amazing but think the recent flash fits perfectly to it. I am still kind of in awe! My favourite part is the still with Jake.
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I may be misinterpreting things, but my understanding was that without the prototyping process, the Battlefield can't transform. It wasn't until Jade entered the game that the Tumor could be retrieved, after all. So if the kids don't prototype anything there's nowhere to raise the Genesis Frog Which I'm pretty sure is still a priority?
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Dec 30, 2011 08:58
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YggiDee posted:I may be misinterpreting things, but my understanding was that without the prototyping process, the Battlefield can't transform. It wasn't until Jade entered the game that the Tumor could be retrieved, after all. There's a perfectly good only slightly used Skaia being delivered to their Incipisphere as we speak.
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Dec 30, 2011 09:53
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Not Skaia, Battlefield. Skaia's the crucible of creation (the pond) inside. I... think? Anyways they'll need a new one I'm pretty sure. But what an incredible update. It was like a trailer of what's coming up, almost. He sure knows how to stoke the fires of anticipation. Starmaker fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 09:58
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Here's a set of icons for people to use, of the new kids. D???, Jake, R??? and Jane.      I so can't wait for act 6 part 2 
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Dec 30, 2011 10:11
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Armadillos! posted:I think it might be time for a change and unless someone else requested this already, I'm gonna go ahead and grab this and add the legendary piece of poo poo back to the available pile. edit: Searched the last 3 pages for "DS" and "Bro" and it didn't look like anyone asked for this, so I grabbed it! I'm sorry if I ruined your day. This one's available now: 
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Dec 30, 2011 10:26
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     ^^^ GOD DAMNIT Fortis you have failed me. Aurora fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 10:34
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Chunky12345 posted:
 I love making icons.
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Dec 30, 2011 10:39
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Armadillos! posted:
I just took yours and added the border explicitly so he would buy it with the border but then he bought it before I posted 
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Dec 30, 2011 10:40
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Also, going back to the translation talk no one likes but I find simply fascinating, there was mention of how only ~GLORIOUS NIHONGO~ was being translated but that isn't true. I give you le Homestuck (I love their logo) It was mentioned earlier that Frisian was the closest language to English, but that's not really true - it's the closest to Old English. As in, pre-Norman. I'm of the opinion French is the closest language to modern English, so it seems like a pretty good place to begin. FR3NCH TROLL posted:EB: c’est quoi ? The Angriest Frenchman posted:CG: MEME SI ON VOUS DETESTE. The trolls will be so much fun for translators/localizers. The second quote there had the line "cryptobabbling mind fuddlery" which translates to "baragouinage cryptillogique." Baragouinage Unfortunately the two languages are a bit too similar, so nonsense words in English are about just as nonsense in French (and for the same reasons), so captchalogue is... captchalogue (both capture and catalogue come from French). Sylledex is... Sylledex (Syllabus and index both come from Latin, so French has them too.) But STRIFE is CONFLIT, at least.
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Dec 30, 2011 10:42
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Starmaker posted:Also, going back to the translation talk no one likes but I find simply fascinating, there was mention of how only ~GLORIOUS NIHONGO~ was being translated but that isn't true. There's certainly potential for a Tintin-esque French translation, even if only in reverse - Karkat can rave about 'mille millions de mille milliards de mille sabords!' quite handily - but again there's the issue of localisation.
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Dec 30, 2011 10:48
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Chunky12345 posted:Fortis you have failed me. Sorry. I'll make it up to you, someday.  edit: On the subject of the Japanese Homestuck translation, I would think the troll typing quirks would/should be more like the way One Piece villains talk, than anything. They usually just pronounce a few syllables as something else, or add a suffix to their sentences. Also, Nepeta's quirk seems obvious (although it's been done); every instance of 'na' would be 'nya', the Japanese equivalent to 'meow'. Maybe they're doing that already, I don't know. I can't actually read Japanese, so I only skimmed their wiki. Fortis fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 10:51
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quote:It was mentioned earlier that Frisian was the closest language to English, but that's not really true - it's the closest to Old English. As in, pre-Norman. I'm of the opinion French is the closest language to modern English, so it seems like a pretty good place to begin. I'm going to dispute this. English only resembles French on a superficial level--as in, it borrowed a lot of words from French and some influences on pronunciation thanks to the Normans, but it had little to no effect on the more fundamental structures or core vocabulary of the language. Old Norse had more of an effect on English grammar than did French. In a nutshell English did not come to more closely resemble Latin languages on a structural level. Closest living language to English is Scots. That's even after Norman. It's even somewhat mutually intelligible, though the beautiful thing about Scots is that it retains Germanic vocabulary that is now obsolete in English. So in Scots, their language is called the Scots Leid. VVVVV Noooooo. The reason why Scots is not merely a dialect is because the division between English and Scots is actually very old. It happened during the early days of Middle English, before Chaucer. Please don't be one of those nationalistic linguists and take "a language is a dialect with an army and navy" seriously. Lady of the Beech fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 10:53
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Also very important, Sweet Bro et Hella Jeff Je tavais prevenu pour les escaliers mec!!!! Je te lavais dit ^^^^^^ You are correct, but some people think of it as a mere dialect, because the English did everything in their power to remove any sense of prestige it had. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff in Scots. VVVVV That's pretty impressive (also check your PMs. Linguistics debate wooh!) Starmaker fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 10:55
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Ic talde þec of stægras, broþor! Ic talde þec hund! </Old English, from memory, stuff is probably wrong> ^^^ Hey, don't congratulate me, like I said I could be very much wrong. Lady of the Beech fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Dec 30, 2011 11:00
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I find it a bit odd that the walls in Jane's room on Prospit appear to have purple wallpaper, which is usually associated with Derse.
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Dec 30, 2011 11:39
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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. Mine got to about 11% before the preload indicator vanished, but it finished loading for me shortly afterward v  vEDIT: Also, it is weird that there don't appear to be any prototype towers on Prospit. dumb brunette fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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dumb brunette posted:EDIT: Also, it is weird that there don't appear to be any prototype towers on Prospit. Maye it's a feature of a post-scratch prospit. I don't remember, did the troll kids have towers on their planets?
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Nostalgamus posted:I find it a bit odd that the walls in Jane's room on Prospit appear to have purple wallpaper, which is usually associated with Derse. quote:EDIT: Also, it is weird that there don't appear to be any prototype towers on Prospit. quote:Maye it's a feature of a post-scratch prospit. I don't remember, did the troll kids have towers on their planets? I suspect the key factor here is the survival of the pre-scratch Kids, their planets and their Battlefield - which didn't happen in the Troll session, so the Trolls would still need their prototyping towers.
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Somehow this will be related to the battlefield Jade's bringing, as well as the two Queen's Rings currently heading towards the session, I'm sure of it. The question now is how do the players enter the game without prototyping?
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VJeff posted:There's a perfectly good only slightly used Skaia being delivered to their Incipisphere as we speak. The whole problem with the slightly used Battlefield they're bringing is that it had a Tumor instead of the necessary frog-incubator.
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Obviously they're going to prototype one of the alpha kids' kernel sprites with the used Battlefield.
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Oh dang, it turns out that Eidelon Orpheus, the guy who was responsible for the music in this flash, also made music for Bravemule, that one really goddamn good dwarffortress LP that started in SA. Small world. I'm going to have to gather up links of all the musicians for when Homestuck ends. I don't know if they're going to be involved in whatever future project Hussie has but they deserve to be followed beyond HS as they are pretty awesome. Speaking of which, Bowman is going to have a new solo album out soon. Gonna include appearances by other HS musicians. Should be pretty sweet. Mr. Pumroy fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Oh boy, I do love me some Infinity Mechanism  Man, I love this update so damned much. It was just so choc full of awesome song-visuals-combos. gently caress it, I'm just going to GUSH. Wasn't it neat how the cloud colours matched the particular kid they were showing? Wasn't it cool how the Imperial Crockerdrones' collar-plate-things smacked together in time with the beat to the song? Don't you just love how the scenes change via that cool zoom-out-from-fullscreen thing that Andrew also did in Cascade that I love and I'm glad he did again? Wasn't it just plain loving awesome how the flicker of R-mom's fenestrated window over her I'm-about-to-do-some-sort-of-masterstroke grinning face was also in time with the song? You know that bit where Jane is looking out her tower window and it's all fade-from-white-out like it's goddamned bright and at the same time the music's all sounding what how it does when your eardrums get well-screwed by something loud as hell? Wasn't that just loving grand?! How great was it when the guitar bit came in with the fuckoff huge PROSPIT sign right damned there?! gently caress. Even with Andrew's kinda lacking animation abilities, he still manages to direct the [s] updates quite well, and his improvement is so clearly showing. And also, once again, Infinity Mechanism. 
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Paul.Power posted:*shrug* At least it matches her purple dream-slippers. Yeah, we see Troll Prospit in [S] Jade: Enter and Troll Derse in [S] Wake and they have the 12 prototyping towers as would be expected. Maybe the towers aren't constructed until the first player enters. Some stuff Nannasprite said near the beginning made it sound like the Medium didn't exist until the players enter and yet it had always existed. This is the first time we've seen Prospit or Derse before any players entered. But yeah, while watching this flash I really didn't care what was going on. I was too distracted by how cool everything looked and sounded to notice the prototyping towers weren't there.
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YggiDee posted:The whole problem with the slightly used Battlefield they're bringing is that it had a Tumor instead of the necessary frog-incubator. Most of the time when a Tumor is created though, it blows up the battlefield. Since that didn't happen in this case, maybe there's a way to screw with the kids' battlefield to make it capable of hosting the frog. Also, since I am always forgetting little details like this: where was it specifically said that the towers on Derse and Prospit had to do with prototyping?
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Right here: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002324
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If it's true that Jane is the Maid of Life, then in the 2 sessions we've seen with maids, they've both died pre-entry. I'm wondering if that's a feature of the class. Does Prospit have the alternate quest beds inside like Derse does? It's been a theme so far that all the Prospit God Tiers did it the normal way, while the Derse ones had dead waking selves and did it the alternate way.
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Slime posted:If it's true that Jane is the Maid of Life, then in the 2 sessions we've seen with maids, they've both died pre-entry. I'm wondering if that's a feature of the class. I'm wondering if she will follow Aradia or Feferi more. Feferi's domain after all has been the afterlife, and arranging the bubbles in the furthest ring.
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Thundarr posted:Most of the time when a Tumor is created though, it blows up the battlefield. Since that didn't happen in this case, maybe there's a way to screw with the kids' battlefield to make it capable of hosting the frog. Considering that the Tumor's purpose was to create the Green Sun, and everything we thought we knew about it came from Doc Scratch, how do we know there's ever been a Tumor before, in any session?
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Slime posted:If it's true that Jane is the Maid of Life, then in the 2 sessions we've seen with maids, they've both died pre-entry. I'm wondering if that's a feature of the class. Its been kind of a thing with the kids at least that the Prospit dreamers fulfill the heroic journey and the Derse dreamers subvert it. I don't see the Alpha kids changing from this as they've already the naive/cynical split going on.
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After listening to the volume 8 soundtrack a bit, I've started wondering if all/most of the songs in Cascade were made just for it, or if it was just several 'existing' songs mixed together. Specifically I'm wondering if the music that plays in the part where Jade wakes up can be heard separate from the rest somewhere. Also, this newest flash was thoroughly confusing and I'm quite interested in learning what is the importance of Mutini in all this.
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Hempuli posted:After listening to the volume 8 soundtrack a bit, I've started wondering if all/most of the songs in Cascade were made just for it, or if it was just several 'existing' songs mixed together. Specifically I'm wondering if the music that plays in the part where Jade wakes up can be heard separate from the rest somewhere. The part where Jade goes god-tier is Savior of the Dreaming Dead from Volume 7, albeit modified a bit to work best in Cascade. KoB posted:Cascade and Flare were the only completely new songs. Black Hole - Green Sun was a remix of Black Rose - Green Sun but I'd say it was different enough to be a new song too. Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Dec 30, 2011 |
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Hempuli posted:After listening to the volume 8 soundtrack a bit, I've started wondering if all/most of the songs in Cascade were made just for it, or if it was just several 'existing' songs mixed together. Specifically I'm wondering if the music that plays in the part where Jade wakes up can be heard separate from the rest somewhere. Cascade and Flare were the only completely new songs.
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Cascade wasn't even a new song, it was his fan music from before he even got on the team. It was also just barely changed for usage in the flash.
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Mr. Pumroy posted:Oh dang, it turns out that Eidelon Orpheus, the guy who was responsible for the music in this flash, also made music for Bravemule, that one really goddamn good dwarffortress LP that started in SA. Small world.
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Roger Explosion posted:I'd like to gush about a few things too. Namely in the panel before this one, PM is literally the last living being in the troll's session, and I didn't notice this until it was given the appropriate dramatic weight with PM flying away and the curtains closing on the entire incipisphere. I also love the way Hussie made an elaborate wallpaper for Jane's room, similar to the patterns we've seen associated with Derse, and how he used really simple effects to give visual depth to her window when she's peering out. Whoever said this flash was kind of like a trailer, I would definitely agree with that: I felt like we were watching the beginning of a TV episode that forecasts what sort of cool poo poo will happen this time on Whatever. Also, I hope Anonymous's upcoming email leak reveals all of Betty Crocker's dirty secrets, such as building massive robots to subjugglate humans.
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Hempuli posted:After listening to the volume 8 soundtrack a bit, I've started wondering if all/most of the songs in Cascade were made just for it, or if it was just several 'existing' songs mixed together. Specifically I'm wondering if the music that plays in the part where Jade wakes up can be heard separate from the rest somewhere. Hussie wrote a bit about the music for Cascade in this post on his tumblr, which should answer the things you were wondering about. (There's also a few other posts he made about other aspects of Cascade there too).
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Speaking of volume 8, I can associate most of the songs (the free ones at least) with their respective events except Ocean Stars Falling. It sounds far too relaxed for the Squiddles on its cover. I guess it's for the [s] update where 48 Squiddles are introduced and summarily killed off...
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A thought: given it got its own curtain rig, will Act 6 Intermission 1 count towards the curtain rig count? If so, then that might reduce the number of sub-acts and sub-intermissions before everyone meets up by quite a bit. Instead of five sub-acts plus at least two* sub-intermissions, it'd be five sub-acts and sub-intermissions total... * probably wouldn't be Intermission 1 if it was the only one.
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