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Happy Yeti posted:Nah, next pages are Jane doing the lifey thing pumpinglemma posted:No, I think he's got explosives in the neck of the Jade's tower or something. Hussie's going to drop the ball at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Sometimes I wonder if Hussie ever reads this thread.  Edit: VVV The ball drop yeah, but I'm pretty sure the lifey thing is new. MechanicalTomPetty fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:
It's the same thing he did last year.
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Jan 1, 2012 08:54
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Bowman's solo album is out. http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca Also Radiation shared the latest tumblr post from goon favorite, randy133 http://randys133.tumblr.com/post/15078538765/the-new-years and it is amazing.
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Jan 1, 2012 09:18
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Bowman's solo album is out. http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca Bowman is perpetually stuck in the 50/60's and I love it
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Jan 1, 2012 09:35
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So, if these are life powers, why is Feferi so dead? Hussie really dropped the ball this time. 
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Jan 1, 2012 10:09
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Hjalmar posted:So, if these are life powers, why is Feferi so dead? Hussie really dropped the ball this time. I still can't wrap my head around the "rules" of the Green Sun. It... doesn't work in the far reaches of the Veil, where it IS? What the gently caress? To test my understanding, if you have Green Sun space folding bullshit: 1) it works if you're in an SBurb Medium. 2) it won't work out in the furthest ring. 3) it won't work if you're flying past the author's self-insert.
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Jan 1, 2012 10:36
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Hjalmar posted:So, if these are life powers, why is Feferi so dead? Hussie really dropped the ball this time. They might be Maid powers.
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Jan 1, 2012 12:37
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AtomikKrab posted:They might be Maid powers. Theorycrafting: Maid powers deal with death a lot (which would tie in with Aradia's roles and the Handmaid legend) and Life powers seem to usually extend life, so maybe Jane's power is one step further and revives people from total death? Secondly, every Life character so far seems to be tied in with the Condence somehow (Jane is a Crocker; the Condence is Feferi's ancestor; the Condence has Life powers herself). Maybe the Condence represents Life as a counterpart to Handmaid as Death? On a grander scale than what we already know, obviously.
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Jan 1, 2012 12:49
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Also Radiation shared the latest tumblr post from goon favorite, randy133 http://randys133.tumblr.com/post/15078538765/the-new-years and it is amazing. Drunk post, Lalonde roleplay, or SBaHJ memorial. You decide. e: wait, he always posts like this? 
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:Drunk post, Lalonde roleplay, or SBaHJ memorial. You decide. It looks to me like he types exactly the way he makes and narrates his videos.
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Jan 1, 2012 13:33
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Hjalmar posted:So, if these are life powers, why is Feferi so dead? Hussie really dropped the ball this time. I was actually going to make this same post. I'm sure it'll be explained at some point, but yeah I'm curious why it didn't help Feferi. If she was going God Tier that'd explain it, but then just raise more questions. So I'unno
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The reboot kids haven't actually 'started' playing SBurb yet, have they? As in, they haven't gotten their hands on the disks and installed them yet, right? Maybe the game has some bullshit rules that allow players' dreamselves to come back to life if the game hasn't started properly? I dunno, I'm really scraping for answers 
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Jan 1, 2012 15:19
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A Spider posted:The reboot kids haven't actually 'started' playing SBurb yet, have they? As in, they haven't gotten their hands on the disks and installed them yet, right? This is pretty much what I thought, that Life players have immunity to cheatdeaths. Their dreamselves can't die if the game hasn't started yet, and perhaps either of their selves can't die while one is asleep and the other active (as in you can't go kill Jane's dreamself while it's asleep in her Prospit room and her realself is going around the medium kicking rear end). e: Maybe the Maid of Life has the God Tier revival abilities from the getgo as her special powers?
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That's a lot of pages! I guess he was saving them up. Happy new year.A Spider posted:The reboot kids haven't actually 'started' playing SBurb yet, have they? As in, they haven't gotten their hands on the disks and installed them yet, right? Some of them have their copies, but Jane was going to be the first one in; her mailbox blew up when she was going to retrieve the discs, remember. We don't yet have any confirmation on exactly what happened there. There are lots of potential explanations for why a lifey thing is taking place here when it didn't for Feferi - the game hasn't started properly, it could be something to do with it being Jane's dreamself or being in her own tower, it could differ between roles or Prospit vs. Derse dreamers, Feferi could have stayed dead on purpose to prepare the bubble deal - but we'll have to wait to see what comes out of it and why. I don't think we've seen enough to really clarify this point yet.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Bowman's solo album is out. http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca Thanks for posting this, really made my day. 
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Snollygoster posted:I still can't wrap my head around the "rules" of the Green Sun. It... doesn't work in the far reaches of the Veil, where it IS? What the gently caress?
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Hjalmar posted:So, if these are life powers, why is Feferi so dead? Hussie really dropped the ball this time.
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I'm also quite liking Ithaca. Well worth getting if you've enjoyed any of the stuff Bowman's done for Homestuck. (Most relevantly Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, of course.)Paul.Power posted:Well, she got chopped in half and then caught in a giant explosion, which might be trickier to come back from than a stab wound. Especially if there is some sort of link to the dream towers. Her other self only got zapped through the chest, which I think isn't really much worse than the best stab wound Jack Noir can come up with. The man's an expert, after all. I thought that was the death people were talking about (it was the one I meant, at least) since it was her last life, as this was for Jane if the mailbox explosion did kill her.
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It could just be that the "life powers" the characters get are based on their titles; Like the Maid of Life would have different powers than the Witch of Life. If I recall correctly (correct me if I'm wrong, though.) Aradia and Dave have different powers even though they're both the dudes of time.
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Ice_Mallet posted:It could just be that the "life powers" the characters get are based on their titles; Like the Maid of Life would have different powers than the Witch of Life. If I recall correctly (correct me if I'm wrong, though.) Aradia and Dave have different powers even though they're both the dudes of time. One excellent example though would be how different Rose and Vriska's Light powers are - the Thief stealing fortune from others to give her an edge against them (primarily a combat role?) and the Seer examining fortune to plot optimal strategies (primarily a support role?). So yeah, it could well tie in to the whole Maid - Witch thing. Maybe there are some patterns we can spot if we look at the other Maid (Aradia) and Witch (Jade)? Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 18:57
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I don't think this is going to be a very popular opinion, but I think Bowman's singing ruins his music for me. The music is great, but something about the way he sings just grates on my nerves. 
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Jan 1, 2012 19:45
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I find it's the opposite. It's his voice that helps set the songs apart - Bowman-voiced songs are some of my favourite parts of the Homestuck albums.
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Tollymain posted:I don't think this is going to be a very popular opinion, but I think Bowman's singing ruins his music for me. The music is great, but something about the way he sings just grates on my nerves. His voice is part of his music, though, so it's kind of unfair to say that his vocals "ruin" it. I like his vocals, but then again I also like a number of male vocalists with "odd" voices--John K. Samson from the Weakerthans, Win Butler from Arcade Fire, John Vanderslice, Jason Lytle from Grandaddy, John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats, Thom Yorke from Radiohead, etc.
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Jan 1, 2012 20:03
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Sorry, but it's impossible to take his voice seriously.
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Chunky12345 posted:Sorry, but it's impossible to take his voice seriously. I have kind of this same problem, even though I also seem to like unique voices (I like most of the artists HelloIAmYourHeart mentioned). It might have something to do that no matter what he is singing I can't dissociate his voice from my first experience of it, the intentionally terrible cover of How Do I Live. Edit: Also, quite a few of his songs give me the uncanny impression of a children's educational science show doing Rush style parodies to teach you about astronomy. Which has its merits, but it's not what I wanna listen to on long drives. H.P. Shivcraft fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 20:27
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I think the flow of lyrics and narrative in Ithaca is light years beyond what he did on the Homestuck album. At least, that's the best explanation I can come up with as to why I like this album but not Mobius Trip and that other douchebag.
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Jan 1, 2012 20:41
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:I think the flow of lyrics and narrative in Ithaca is light years beyond what he did on the Homestuck album. At least, that's the best explanation I can come up with as to why I like this album but not Mobius Trip and that other douchebag. I'm sure a ton of it is spillover Homestuck fans, but still, people wouldn't be buying it if they didn't think it was worth the money.
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Jan 1, 2012 20:48
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Or if Homestuck fans didn't want to buy every album ever.
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Chunky12345 posted:Or if Homestuck fans didn't want to buy every album ever. Do you have some kind of issue with people buying music they like?
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Waffnuffly posted:Do you have some kind of issue with people buying music they like? That's quite the loaded question you've got there.
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JavaJesus posted:As a fun side note, here's Hussie's note in the book on the page with the peanut allergy update: I kind of suspect he did have it planned, I've been doing a reread of the story and it's pretty impressive how far back some things are set up. For example, when Bec first appears on screen and is doing his first guardian glowing/flashing, you can see one of the frames that flashes up is being able to see the Green Sun through him.
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Chunky12345 posted:That's quite the loaded question you've got there. Apologies if I misinterpreted you, but you seemed kinda disdainful about people buying a lot of HS music. Maybe I just haven't slept well today or something
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Waffnuffly posted:Apologies if I misinterpreted you, but you seemed kinda disdainful about people buying a lot of HS music. Maybe I just haven't slept well today or something It was directed more at them buying anything tangentially Homestuck related regardless of quality. I personally love almost all the HS albums.
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Jan 1, 2012 22:34
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Ah, gotcha, my bad on assuming negativity in the first place. I'm in the same boat; I own all except for I think the Squiddles and Christmas albums and might have missed another somewhere. Although I don't usually buy an album unless I've listened to most of it first, or have listened to enough that I decide it's worth the asking price at that point even if the rest of it sucks (which has yet to happen). The only album I bought without even listening to the first song was Volume 8, and I sure as poo poo was not disappointed there!
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Jan 1, 2012 22:41
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http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005133 Tell me I'm not crazy, and that this is totally hinting at LE being the one to kill Jack/Bec Noir/whatever we're calling him now.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005133 You're going to have to explain this one a little more.
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Jan 1, 2012 23:06
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I guess it's because Little Cal is being mentioned in the same page as Falcor being brought behind the shed and having his brains blown out, which I believe is what Dave also told Jade she should do with her "devilbeast". Seeing as their Jack is now at least Bec, one could make a rather twisted leap in logic there and guess that LE is going to kill Jack.
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Jan 1, 2012 23:14
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Chunky12345 posted:You're going to have to explain this one a little more. He's telling Cal to dress up like LE, and says that he just finished with Falcor... the flying white wolf from Neverending Story... because of "rabies"? Hmmm... Okay, scratch that, PM is gonna bite it from LE, my bad, sorry for the confusion.
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Meanwhile, on Bandcamp, Mark Hadley has a solo single out. I wonder what it's like!
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SatansBestBuddy posted:http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005133 I'm just slapping myself on the forehead that I never saw the Cal becoming Lord English thing coming with panels like THIS sitting around. Mr. D Bewildering posted:Man, this girl just can't die. It's like she's MAID of life. I'd be surprised if Andrew doesn't make that joke at some point, as a callback to this page
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