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Looks like I finally read the update before anyone decided to comment on it. This is a first. Also, since Jane is about to enter the Medium here, I don't think she's going to get to sleep soon unless Mindfang fixes that for her. VVV I read the update while people were derailing about MLP, but I didn't realize that I read it before anyone commented on it until you posted. Lady of the Beech fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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Lady of the Beech posted:Looks like I finally read the update before anyone decided to comment on it. TOAST7312 posted:Update. 
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DaveKap posted:Wait... so... what did happen to SBaHJ 39? I feel like I'm missing something here. As far as I know, it was never there. It's either a revelation of earth-shattering proportions that will tear asunder the firmament that we stand upon when it's revealed some time in the future or a clever commentary on lovely webcomics that can't get their archive system working correctly. or, somehow, both.
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So I did this thing a while back With all the Jane shenanigans it seems an apt time to post it  You'd be surprised how hard it is to create an image so lovely. I am just respecting the Huss more and more.
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Feb 23, 2012 07:27
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Fat_Cow posted:The bronies on tumblr are getting so worked up it is hilarious. "NOOOOO GIVE IT A CHANCE HUSSIE IT'S A SHOW FOR ADULTS" You have no idea how amazing this makes me feel. Schadenfreude!
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Feb 23, 2012 08:05
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Good to know Jack Noir being bad at puns is a universal constant.
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snucks posted:I feel like 15-17 is the big demographic homestuck is hitting, and Hussie recognized that by kicking the kids' ages up 3 notches. Really? It took me about 3 days to read from the beginning up to Jade's alchemizing. Granted, it was during the holidays, but I read almost all the pesterlogs, except for a few of the trolls' when they had just arrived in the Veil. Also, apparently some people think Jack in that last update is sexy. tumblr 
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Feb 23, 2012 09:56
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Oh, there's a useful WQ. Jane's going to have an interesting wake-up call, now (sleep-up call...?).
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Feb 23, 2012 11:06
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King of Solomon posted:Oh, there's a useful WQ. She's going to wake up spitting out Jack's teeth, in a callback to Sollux.
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Why does she have the sceptre? Doesn't the Queen have the ring and the King the sceptre?
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It's interesting that she has the scepter. Wonder what the kings' situation is... we did see the symbolic 3x3 chessboard battlefield earlier, which seemed to suggest they're both down there dueling endlessly or something, but if the black queen's been replaced and the white queen's holding the scepter, it seems like a fair bet there should be something unusual going on with them as well.
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Feb 23, 2012 11:12
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I wonder if the Kings have any kind of knowledge about what's going on back on their home planets from their war bases on Skaia.
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Feb 23, 2012 11:47
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Nilbop posted:Why does she have the sceptre? Doesn't the Queen have the ring and the King the sceptre? Maybe the king only gets the sceptre when he stops being a literal giant chess piece? It is probably just some shenanigans though.
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Feb 23, 2012 11:57
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I wonder if both kings have been killed. The reckoning begins when the Black King gets both scepters, right? Well maybe WQ got it first. Do you really think the Condesce would let the Black King stick around, and not take full control of the kingdom? She probably offed the White King too in an attempt to hurry things along. She isn't playing by the rules, after all. Also, yay, WQ kicks rear end.
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Feb 23, 2012 13:00
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Starmaker posted:I wonder if both kings have been killed. The reckoning begins when the Black King gets both scepters, right? Well maybe WQ got it first. Do you really think the Condesce would let the Black King stick around, and not take full control of the kingdom? She probably offed the White King too in an attempt to hurry things along. She isn't playing by the rules, after all. We've seen both kings in [S] END OF ACT 6 INTERMISSION 1 locked in the eternal stalemate on the unprototyped battlefield.
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Just caught up on the last few updates. Jeeze, Jane, why did you CEASE REPRODUCTION lie to Jake?
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YF-23 posted:We've seen both kings in [S] END OF ACT 6 INTERMISSION 1 locked in the eternal stalemate on the unprototyped battlefield. Yeah, but I always thought that was a symbolic representation, not the actual kings. So is the White King literally a chess piece until enough kids enter? But yeah, whatever he looks like that's pretty good evidence that he's still alive. Still pretty curious how the queen has the sceptor, though. Maybe she was crafty enough to grab it after the Condesce started meddling. Or maybe they just stay on Prospit/Derse till the battlefield is prototyped.
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Cryophage posted:Just caught up on the last few updates. Jeeze, Jane, why did you CEASE REPRODUCTION lie to Jake? I didn't even think about it like that, kinda makes "GG: I just want to go to sleep and not wake up forever." a little more sinister STAY ASLEEP too.
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Fizbin posted:I didn't even think about it like that, kinda makes "GG: I just want to go to sleep and not wake up forever." a little more sinister STAY ASLEEP too. I thought Hussie addressed this in his answers post by saying "there was no mind control, she's just a dumb teenager doing dumb things." I do wonder why WQ has the scepter. Maybe since the prototyping rings seem to be useless?
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I suspect that one or both kings are dead, due to the foreshadowing on this page http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006375quote:But his apprentice was able to beat him in the wizard's duel by first becoming checkmated, and through some unprecedented enchantment, continuing to play beyond the death of the king. Or maybe it's a reference to the previous session? Could be both.
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Feb 23, 2012 14:02
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WQ: Throw archagent into the slammer. You call it the slammer when you are extra angry at crimes.
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Tollymain posted:Huh, the white queen actually seems like a badass now The White Queen was always pretty capable in her own way, just last session she didn't have many ways to express it except in retreat (knowing the future can suck like that) and then got preempted by the unstoppable murder-machine. It'll be too bad if the White King is dead, too. I was thinking this'd be the final instance of the Incipisphere, and that it'd be nice if all the sympathetic carapace people had a chance to not die for once. Then again we've had Alpha and Beta universes, maybe the comic will end with a final release-version Sburb Incipisphere with all the characters living happily ever after? Let me dream the impossible dream.
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Hussie posted:It’s nicely done, but it’s a drat show for kids. I do some silly poo poo with my spare time but I am not a child. Well, this actually made me feel a little bad about my tv watching habits. WHOOOOOOOOOO lives in a pineapple under the sea?? Haha who am I kidding, I love that poo poo. fake edit: Really interested to see what goes down with the carapace people this time around. I wonder if this universe's WV will be inspired to do any uprising? Maybe not, since Dirk's pretty much got that in the bag. It would be kind of a trip if B1's WV showed up and met himself. I think if two Jacks met they'd probably just go for a tandem stab attempt, and whichever one had more omnipotent dog powers would win.
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D'awwww. Jack is all GOOD BLANKET, BEST FRIEND now.  Bobulus posted:I have internet friends who are bronies, and they tell me that the writers are putting in jokes to pander to the bronies, which is probably why people on tumblr think it's a show for adults now, rather than a show for kids with one or two pandering jokes. They think it's a show for adults because they are insecure and desperate for validation; this bit of insanity was embedded from the start, it didn't appear just because the writers caught on and threw in the occasional wink.
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I like how they're called the carapace people, or sometimes just carapaces. It's like calling humans "skin people" or "skins".
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Gabriel Pope posted:D'awwww. Jack is all GOOD BLANKET, BEST FRIEND now. They maintain it's a show for adults because society has, historically, told them that they're bad people for enjoying something that is for kids. Society just loves marginalizing and shaming people who do things outside certain parameters, so they need to try and redefine the parameters. Which is, in all honesty, pretty loving silly on every level-- you're an adult, enjoy whatever the gently caress you want and ignore anyone who decides they need to act an rear end in a top hat about it. Just, you know, maybe do it away from me.
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Lady of the Beech posted:I like how they're called the carapace people, or sometimes just carapaces. I'll have you know that's a long standing scifi tradition, meat bag. fakeedit/ I have got to stop walking into these kinds of posts, people are going to start thinking this is a gimmick account or something. 
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Hussie posted:Impatience among some generates toxicity over time, like they’re gradually, unwittingly developing a grudge against the story because of the pace they’re forced to read at. This then warps everything they see. As if a tainted a witness. If they crave swift advancement, then pages that do not accomplish this adequately like gags or character developing interactions become like personal affronts to them. Good material is like a slap in the face. And the irony is, the more they like the story, the more toxic the attitude can get, because they badly want to see it get somewhere fast, and they can feel let down or like the work is in decline because they’re forced to sit through its responsible, judicious development in realtime. But this is an almost nonexistent phenomenon with archival reading, which lends itself to a little more detachment and reservation as one cruises through the material at the speed of reading. Judgments are formed less at the atomic level of the story’s building blocks, a bit more holistically, and individual developments are never agonized over. They may ultimately not love the story, but at least the resentment complex that can fester in the space of the serial drip never had a chance to skew the result. I know he's said this before, but I really wish more people got it. I cannot tell you how many 'fans' I've run into who say they pretty much hate the story and the author now but continue to read anyway, and this would be why. The only reason he keeps having to reinstate this like a broken record is because they're all still reading and they are all still totally self-righteous about it; like they're doing the world a service or something when nobody honestly cares but them. I mean there's a difference between 'I keep watching this even though it's terrible because I want to see how it ends' and 'I keep watching this because I feel an unnecessary obligation to do so and will continue to complain about it every step of the way'. These types of people fall into the latter category. Not to mention the gap between plot developments inspires so much fic and fanart that it's entirely possible for some of them to actually care more about the fan-content or their own headcanon, which they in turn end up mistaking for the story in the interim and subsequently get pissed off by when everything doesn't line up. Or as also demonstrated, sometimes when the story does match up with what they want, they feel like they're being mocked or something, as in the Dirk and Jake case. Like everything up until (x) moment in the story was specifically orchestrated by Hussie to be everything but a story they're capable of enjoying. In the end it's all just an idea they don't really care for unless it's specifically crafted both a) to their interests and b) by their own design. In other words, whatever it is they do like, it sure isn't Homestuck. tl;dr: Entitled people suck, entitled fans of popular media even moreso.
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Welp, I was totally and completely wrong. But that's ok, because this is a good turn of events; I wasn't expecting a badass white queen. I'm also noticing she has BOTH the scepter and the ring, not just one or the other. I feel bad for WK, like HB, who seem to get chumped most of the time in Homestuck Edit: ^^^^^^^^ Also, WQ is RIDICULOUSLY TALL...
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TOAST7312 posted:Welp, I was totally and completely wrong. But that's ok, because this is a good turn of events; I wasn't expecting a badass white queen. I'm also noticing she has BOTH the scepter and the ring, not just one or the other. I feel bad for WK, like HB, who seem to get chumped most of the time in Homestuck She is the almighty tallest. Actually, it would make sense for the king to get chumped since the whole chess theme and the king is supposed to be the weakest (and yet most important) piece on the board.
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When she hit him with the scepter, it really really needed a *donk* or some other sound effect. It would've been perfect! 
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Level Slide posted:But where did Jack's blade go? It went flying into the air so it's on the floor somewhere.
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Level Slide posted:But where did Jack's blade go? Probably went through another Tinkerbull offscreen.
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