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Hamiltonian Bicycle posted:Can't leave the bubble! I guess this copy of Dirk still operates under dead dreamself rules even though technically what he is is an imaginary brain-ghost taken over by the real thing because his Earth and Derse selves only have one consciousness between them so when one gets knocked out both go down and there's nowhere else for them to dream? Something like that. The whole dream-dreamdirk raises an interesting question about how Dirk dreams regularly... put it this way: his real self and his dream self are awake simultaneously, so both sleep when he goes to sleep? Personally I kind of agree with you, but with the caveat that activating this dream-dreamself is akin to the "waking up" the kids from the other session had to do; that is to say, until they woke up they just slept normally, once they woke up they dreamed in their other self. Since dirk's normal dreamself is instead active while he's awake, it makes sense that he can't use it when he's asleep. edit: So the meteor has left, that means Dirk is stuck in that dreambubble with... Aranea and Meenah? I'm still predicting putting him to sleep with psychic powers. TheDemon fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jun 30, 2012 |
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So Roxy and Serenity are out and Dirk is stuck inside. Now that he's done just about all he can do, maybe he'll zoom back down to the meteor crew for chitchat time. I'm sure Dave would love that! I wonder how WV will react if/when he notices his insect buddy is MIA. I'm prepared for a panel of WV gazing silently at the sky as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
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Strongylocentrotus posted:So Roxy and Serenity are out and Dirk is stuck inside. Now that he's done just about all he can do, maybe he'll zoom back down to the meteor crew for chitchat time. I'm sure Dave would love that!
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Jun 30, 2012 09:30
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You toss that mom, Dirk.
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Jun 30, 2012 09:33
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SynthOrange posted:You toss that mom, Dirk.
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Sorry, WV. 
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Jun 30, 2012 10:02
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Aww, they left the bubble before they could learn more about the ancestors.
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Strongylocentrotus posted:I'm prepared for a panel of WV gazing silently at the sky as a single tear rolls down his cheek. Close enough.
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I'm wondering a bit how those shackles actually operate. I assumed it was by key but if that's so the keys would have to be able to be reached from the bed which should mean both would be in reach of whoever woke up. Gotta be magic plot shackles.
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Indecisive posted:I'm wondering a bit how those shackles actually operate. I assumed it was by key but if that's so the keys would have to be able to be reached from the bed which should mean both would be in reach of whoever woke up. Gotta be magic plot shackles. Well, given that the boxes to which they're anchored, the chains which connect them to those boxes, and the sarswapagus which is the entire point of all this business are all operated via mysterious juju enchantments... yes, that sounds like a pretty reasonable guess.
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Jun 30, 2012 14:46
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I love how much this sequence plays into Dave's hero-worship of Bro and the general theme of Dave building Bro up into this mythical figure far larger than the actual reality. We know that Dirk is stopped by the dreambubble and has to settle for the modest contribution of getting Dream Roxy pointed Derseward, but as far as Dave knows Dirk just completely loving upstaged everybody out of nowhere and flew off to save the day singlehandedly.
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Gabriel Pope posted:I love how much this sequence plays into Dave's hero-worship of Bro and the general theme of Dave building Bro up into this mythical figure far larger than the actual reality. We know that Dirk is stopped by the dreambubble and has to settle for the modest contribution of getting Dream Roxy pointed Derseward, but as far as Dave knows Dirk just completely loving upstaged everybody out of nowhere and flew off to save the day singlehandedly. When it comes to irony, he is simply the best there is.
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Indecisive posted:I'm wondering a bit how those shackles actually operate. I assumed it was by key but if that's so the keys would have to be able to be reached from the bed which should mean both would be in reach of whoever woke up. Gotta be magic plot shackles. I think it was mentioned that it was a word or something that opened them. So yeah, both are in reach but they can only unlock the one with their symbol on it.
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Myrdhale posted:I think it was mentioned that it was a word or something that opened them. So yeah, both are in reach but they can only unlock the one with their symbol on it. I don't think it was said specifically, but it would make sense if it was their own name that opened it. Since hearing their "sibling's" name will make them fall asleep, saying it to unlock the shackle would just put them to sleep and switch them.
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Tollymain posted:When it comes to irony, he is simply the best there is. If Dirk goes on about how he's even achieved the heights of dramatic irony I don't think I could handle it.
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I made some more music. Imagine being stuck on a dull, drab, gray meteor in space for 3 loving years. Or just listen to this since that's what I was going for. (Ambient)
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I like that, but between Rose and Kanaya's redecoration and Can Town I'd hardly call the meteor "dull", "drab", or "grey". Something more lively could probably go well with it.
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That last frame of Dirk just floating there all alone is really kind of depressing. 
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snucks posted:nah, he's gonna fly into the outer surface of the dreambubble and commit dream-suicide so at least one of his corporeal selves can wake up and escape immediate danger. he just wanted to make sure roxy has a little push in the right direction. Dirk's the exact opposite of Dave. Dave needs to minimize dead Daves popping up. Dirk maximizes it.
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You know, I was thinking about the Dave-Dirk dynamic, and realized something. Dirk's big flaw as we know it is that he sees himself as a puppetmaster who can handle and multitask everyone, including multiple instances of himself, and be totally in control of all the situations easily. As his AI-equivalent who IS capable of that knows, he really isn't and can't. There's way too much poo poo for him to deal with reasonably, so even trying to and not splitting the workload with his friends is ultimately self-destructive. But if you think about it, Dave is capable of doing that, purely by rote of not actually overthinking it at all and just going with the flow (also: time travel). He manages his many time-traveling selves and not creating paradoxes or falling short simply by being cool and doing what comes naturally; if he does what comes naturally and not being too overly calculating, he won't have to worry about doing poo poo wrong and developing a paradox side dimension that will punt him out. So he can manage things simply by dealing with things one at a time, letting people deal with their own things without micromanaging them, and doing what is necessary as it comes up and bit by bit.
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God I've been loving the visuals of these last couple updates. also gently caress yeah aranea
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Zorak posted:You know, I was thinking about the Dave-Dirk dynamic, and realized something. omg, aranea's psychic abilities are the opposite of vriska's 
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snucks posted:time paradoxes cause your problems to be as complicated as you can imagine them. Didn't Vriska cause John to wake up one time? Like the first time she actually used her powers on him? edit: yep! starting here, with the actual waking here
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Haha, goddamn this update. That whole trip must feel like an eternity of boredom followed by these prophetic points of absolute mind-gently caress. You almost feel sorry for the kids. I know the trolls don't. They're having a loving ball. Very confusing though.
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Looks like Homestuck is going on semi-hiatus for a while. Oh well, at least we'll get a few flashes out of it...
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HorseRenoir posted:Looks like Homestuck is going on semi-hiatus for a while.
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JT Jag posted:It'll be nothing compared to the Great Homestuck Drought of 2011. I was there, seven weeks long, it was. Cannibalism in the streets. This one won't break three, I bet. Well, no, but it'll be several breaks in a row.
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Any bets on the next update being called "uu: Wake" (perhaps after a few more arrows)?
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I'd caught up a few days before the Cascade update pause. A x3 Puase Combo is pretty much nothing, 'specially given we'll be getting flashes in-between.
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King of Solomon posted:Well, no, but it'll be several breaks in a row. Don't forget that AH also took a rest break after Cascade.
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The new hiatus is pretty much waiting for new episodes of a tv show in practice.
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So does this mean we have to close the thread again?  At the risk of sounding like a dork, that was the worst part of the Cascade hiatus.
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Olivia42 posted:So does this mean we have to close the thread again? In theory, we should be able to keep it open as long as everybody can hold it together over the hiatus In reality, yes lock it right now
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No updates? It's Vriska time.
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Norton Ghostride posted:No updates? Vriska is too dangerous. We cannot release the creature.
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Well, before the inevitable lock I would like to post my thirteen page thesis on why Vriska is objectively the most character in Homestuck. You see
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I'm going to post a 1000 word essay on Tumblr about why Vriska is the best character. It's just going to be "Vriska owns" copy pasted 500 times.
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I hate to momentarily derail Vriskachat, but apparently someone on Tumblr pointed out something. That review of SBURB in Game Bro way back in Act 1 gave it 1.5 hats out of 5, and the reviewer never even played it. Who had an unopened copy of SBURB way back ago? Who's post-scratch self has a hat for his icon? That's right. Bro writes for Game Bro. (That possibility was probably obvious for some people but gently caress it, it blew my mind) EDIT: vvv If that's gonna be true then boy am I gonna feel stupid Color Printer fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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I could have sworn that Dave explicitly mentioned at some point long ago that Bro was a writer for GameBro and that was the only reason he even had the magazine.
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Ominous Jazz posted:Well, before the inevitable lock I would like to post my thirteen page thesis on why Vriska is objectively the most character in Homestuck. Even a broken Vriskaclock is right twice a day.
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