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Welp, time for this computer to explode so we can get to Act 6 Intermission 2.
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I gave out a little cheer when I saw Captain Snoop there.
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Feb 11, 2012 05:13
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Oxxidation posted:I am more than prepared for something to actually loving happen already. Act 6: Hivebent 2.0 (I completely agree that this is starting to drag. Too much exposition, too little actually happening.) That said, hell yes, Captain Snoop!
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Feb 11, 2012 06:04
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So I stopped reading Homestuck cause I've got poo poo to do and one time waster had to go. I now have even more poo poo to do so naturally I put it all off to catch up on two weeks worth of unread Homestuck and...  I didn't think it could get more meta. HOW DID IT GET MORE META?!? Also I can't help but notice that the player select screen has enough room for eight...
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Feb 11, 2012 06:25
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Count me in as one of the people ready for poo poo to get going. We've established the new characters pretty well at this point. All Hussie needs to do is drop a new revelation/cliffhanger, and we'll be all set for another intermission or something.
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Feb 11, 2012 06:47
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While I want to add to the chorus of "it's dragging on a bit", I suspect this might be an archive/serial reading issue again. When you're bombing through the archive, it's okay to have nice, long build-ups toward local climaxes and milestones. You know it's there, you know it's coming up, and you don't really notice how long you spend waiting for the stage to be set. When you're living from update to update, though, there's a much stronger sense of "okay, we've had years of build-up now, let's get to the action already!" There are so many things that we, as serial readers, expect to be a big deal since we spend days and weeks dwelling on them (usually a character's emotional reaction to some event), but which gets brushed over in the comic - and again, when you reread the comic later, you don't notice the 'big deal' as much because much like the characters you don't have quite so long to think about it.
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Feb 11, 2012 07:30
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Dolash posted:While I want to add to the chorus of "it's dragging on a bit", I suspect this might be an archive/serial reading issue again. When you're bombing through the archive, it's okay to have nice, long build-ups toward local climaxes and milestones. You know it's there, you know it's coming up, and you don't really notice how long you spend waiting for the stage to be set. When you're living from update to update, though, there's a much stronger sense of "okay, we've had years of build-up now, let's get to the action already!" I talked this over with a friend who's also burnt out on Homestuck's current pace, and we both agreed that Act 6 might be even worse for archive readers. Act 5 is dense but there's always a ton of poo poo happening, to the point where linear time starts getting screwy in its effort to depict all the plot, and then after the EOA everything screeches to a dead stop and we get Act 1: The Redux. Except that now all the mechanics and even some of the characters are already known to us, and we get what amounts to weeks of prep time with an absolute ton of fluff. AR is great and all but I think we needed maybe half as many chatlogs of Dirk arguing with himself, if that.
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Feb 11, 2012 07:43
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Either way we're getting a several day break so I guess regardless of the actual pacing we're in for a wait.
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Feb 11, 2012 07:54
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I really like UU's uncomfortable reaction to the word "lord." There are ways in which this character definitely annoys and depresses me, but her connection to Lord English is something I really want to know more about.
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Feb 11, 2012 09:44
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I say "Cheerio" every so often. But then a lot of people say I'm the most British person they know (well yes, I do like tea and cricket and preserved steam railways...)
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Feb 11, 2012 09:48
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I said it back when Act 6 started and I'll say it again: gently caress it, let's re-do all of Acts 1-4. I'm game 
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Feb 11, 2012 16:49
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:I really like UU's uncomfortable reaction to the word "lord." There are ways in which this character definitely annoys and depresses me, but her connection to Lord English is something I really want to know more about. Her acting confused as to who Dirk's lord is left me wondering exactly who she thinks Jove is, too. 
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Feb 11, 2012 18:17
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FrictionlessEmu posted:I'm a sucker for cute things, so I decided to try my hand at making some Homestuck plushies. I started with an Aradia grub, and I think she came out pretty well! (There's some more pictures on my tumblr). Oh god I saw this image and my wallet jumped out of my pocket and leaped at the screen help
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Feb 12, 2012 03:46
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loquacius posted:Her acting confused as to who Dirk's lord is left me wondering exactly who she thinks Jove is, too. Maybe in her research on humans she came across only Roman gods?
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Feb 12, 2012 04:28
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Now, I might be a little bit dull, but if you ask me, Homestuck is a very complicated story! Just how does Hussie go about writing this thing and figure out how to tell it?
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Eggie posted:Now, I might be a little bit dull, but if you ask me, Homestuck is a very complicated story! Just how does Hussie go about writing this thing and figure out how to tell it? He organizes every minute detail together like for example he'll aggregate everything about cats and Jasper etc next to each other even if they currently don't have much in common.
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Feb 12, 2012 06:00
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I wonder if Hussie planned from the beginning for Sassacre's Text to kill Jaspers (hence intentional foreshadowing) or if he just got the idea from looking back at that quote or from fan speculation?
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Feb 12, 2012 06:10
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Nobody really knows for 99% of these things. More than likely he's just a master of throwing a lot of poo poo into the air and catching it when it falls - making references and statements synch up as opportunity knocks and making it look like he planned the Sassacre text to kill Jaspers the cat in a rest universe where the guardians and kids have swapped places all the way back in act one. It's part of the charm of Homestuck that the stream of references and connections is neverending, to the point that anything you happen to imagine seeing or speculate you might see in the future can be woven in. More of this probably relies on Hussie's relatively short-term improvisational skills than his long-term planning.
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It actually kind of reminds me of the way the story of Axe Cop unfolds. So, originally, there's this minor character called Uni-baby (a baby with a unicorn horn), and then uni-baby disappears. I think he's kidnapped or something. Then a few stories later another minor character called uni-man shows up (a man with a unicorn horn), who says he's looking for a lost son. A story or so later, he goes on a search for his son, finds the guy who kidnapped uni-baby, and takes uni-baby back. The person who writes Axe Cop is five years old (or was five at the time).
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Feb 12, 2012 06:57
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Eggie posted:Now, I might be a little bit dull, but if you ask me, Homestuck is a very complicated story! Just how does Hussie go about writing this thing and figure out how to tell it?  He's running out of walls to write on.
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Feb 12, 2012 08:02
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Lady of the Beech posted:I wonder if Hussie planned from the beginning for Sassacre's Text to kill Jaspers (hence intentional foreshadowing) or if he just got the idea from looking back at that quote or from fan speculation? Sassacre and Jasper rhymed so he put them next to each other and went from there
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Feb 12, 2012 08:07
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Are you saying that Dirk's sylladex is modeled after Hussie's story-planning system? He really is a self-insert!
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Feb 12, 2012 08:11
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SynthOrange posted:
Clearly he needs to turn it sideways and start writing on top of it: 
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Feb 12, 2012 08:20
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People keep linking to older Hussie comics but nobody has mentioned Humanimals? What the heck http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Blurbs&blurb=h&cid=blurbs/00047-h.gif
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Feb 12, 2012 09:20
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SynthOrange posted:
So THAT'S why he moves so often. He needs fresh walls.
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Feb 12, 2012 12:11
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Meme Emulator posted:People keep linking to older Hussie comics but nobody has mentioned Humanimals? What the heck There's a reason people don't mention Humanimals.
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Feb 12, 2012 13:03
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Meme Emulator posted:People keep linking to older Hussie comics but nobody has mentioned Humanimals? What the heck We dont mention it because we're all familiar with it. Frothing with glee when humanimals appeared in MSPA.
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Began reading Gunnerkrigg Court after seeing so many references to it in the past few days. Sleeping is a thing that people who get into web-comics with many pages do not do. Reminds me of when I first started Homestuck.  EDIT: Got up to the current page of that comic, and  EDIT2: Also read through the entirety of It Don't Stop, not that there was as much. Very good. I hope there is more of them then in this passing section of the Homestuck story. TOAST7312 fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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Feb 12, 2012 13:55
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With the deadline fast approaching, I threw together a third entry for the music contest. I can't say I like it as much as my other tracks, but hey, at least it's not a remix  . For Courtyard Droll. Originally started as a Jade song (hence the bass and flute) but the way the tune sounded made me think of CD instead - it has a bit of a Mission Impossible vibe to it. So here's the tale of Courtyard Droll and his many attempts to get the better of Jade.
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creationist believer posted:Aren't Scots still British? From a few pages back, but my Music Technology professor told us on the first day: "You can call me a rapist, you can call me a pedophile, but don't you dare call me British." e: Also he was Scottish, don't know why I didn't think that might be important to mention when I typed this up. Wrist Watch fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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Feb 12, 2012 19:10
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Meme Emulator posted:People keep linking to older Hussie comics but nobody has mentioned Humanimals? What the heck ...what the gently caress am I reading? ...why the gently caress can't I stop reading it?
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Feb 12, 2012 22:04
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What, you thought Equius came from nowhere?
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Meme Emulator posted:People keep linking to older Hussie comics but nobody has mentioned Humanimals? What the heck His legs are horses.
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Feb 12, 2012 22:34
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This this page always have Derse Dreamers, or was it added much, much later? I would have thought I'd remember that song appearing here.
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Feb 12, 2012 23:02
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Plom Bar posted:This this page always have Derse Dreamers, or was it added much, much later? I would have thought I'd remember that song appearing here. It was added much later. Like, around the time the album came out. I can't remember if it was before or after.
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Plom Bar posted:This this page always have Derse Dreamers, or was it added much, much later? I would have thought I'd remember that song appearing here. It was added much later, a week or so before the Prospit and Derse album came out, both to serve as a teaser for it, and I think to replace a removed Bolin song.
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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:What, you thought Equius came from nowhere? Well he  . But yeah, Hussie really likes making callbacks to his older works, Humanimals in particular for some reason.
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Feb 12, 2012 23:15
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But Humanimals borders on SB&HJ levels of badweirdawesome.
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Well, you thought I was bluffing, but I did it. I gave up knitting and took up the trombone. Music contest here I come.  It's about Dad. Yes, no longer will I spend weeks carefully considering color and shape, fretting over designs and trying over and over to get the yarn to go just right, spending an embarrassing amount of effort on something that's mediocre at best that will in all likelihood never be seen by anyone but me and a couple of goons on SA, where the same thing can be made certainly more efficiently and probably of better quality by machines or maybe little sweatshop kids in China. No, I've moved on to spending weeks practicing, trying to remember techniques from back when I was good, recording and rerecording, spending an obscene amount of effort on something that's mediocre at best that will in all likelihood never be heard by anyone but me and a couple of goons on SA, where the same thing could be created certainly more efficiently and probably of better quality with computers. I hate everything. 
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Olivia42 posted:Well, you thought I was bluffing, but I did it. I gave up knitting and took up the trombone. Music contest here I come. I'm so proud of you.
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