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Technique posted:The worst thing is that i can't think of any single pairing that WOULDN'T already have fanart. This scares me. One of the amusing things is that one pastebin document with names for many of the pairings.
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Lord of Laughton posted:What I find interesting is how every single article I've seen lately (from the CNN one to O'Malley's or others) always describe it as a comic where 4 friends play a game that will save the world, or save/destroy the universe, or some iteration where the kids' actions have an effect on the fate of their world. Don't forget that, in the case of CNN or whatever, a bored staffer has a set amount of time to finish an article. Do you think he's going to do a wikipedia search and 5 minutes on tumblr, or read 5000 pages of deliberately dense chatlogs? graybook posted:One of the amusing things is that one pastebin document with names for many of the pairings. I ship a thousand rabid cosplayers in grey body paint with a meek webcomic author that has no idea how to respond to them.
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Also you don't want your catchline to be overly verbose and complicated. "Internet friends play a game that has serious consequences" is what I'd go with but "Internet friends play a game to save the world" is good for hooking people.
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Fister Roboto posted:Also you don't want your catchline to be overly verbose and complicated. "Internet friends play a game that has serious consequences" is what I'd go with but "Internet friends play a game to save the world" is good for hooking people. O'Malley uses the line "four 13-year-old internet friends trying to play a computer game that will either save or destroy the world", which not only includes the save the world hook, it one-ups it and does it in a way that remains 100% literally true.
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Additionally, "play a game to save the world" is exactly what John, at least, thinks they're doing, initially.
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Oct 2, 2012 18:24
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Playing a game to save the world is a fine description. For one thing it describes what the goal seems to be for the first couple acts, which is what is most important as it gives a new reader some context for the early parts. By the time they realize that saving "the world" as the planet they lived on isn't really the goal, they'll likely be invested in the story. You could also interpret "the world" in a more abstract sense to mean "all of existence" and it still kind of describes what the characters are trying to do now.
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A funny thing from that BLO'M interview that I didn't know: Andrew Hussie posted:For some characters I really quickly took to using a fan-made troll text conversion app. 
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Oct 2, 2012 19:24
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Hussie posted:The ones that are more frustrating tend to be the kind of haters who once seemed like they were into it at some point, but one thing or another soured them on it and now all of a sudden the whole thing is crap... Is it bad that I can think of several moments in Homestuck that this could easily be describing? Because man I definitely know what he means here. The one that REALLY jumps to mind is the people who cried foul at Kanaya's initial "death" as if it was some kind of negative statement/bash against lesbians, somehow. That whole response, actually, reminded me of that whole ridiculously overblown "the characters are whatever race you want them to be" debacle. Was that the "dark period" he refers to, perhaps?
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CidGregor posted:The one that REALLY jumps to mind is the people who cried foul at Kanaya's initial "death" as if it was some kind of negative statement/bash against lesbians, somehow. Wait, what?
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Wrist Watch posted:Wait, what? I don't recall specifics but there was at least one small tumblr circle out there that got really up in arms about Kanaya's death and accused Hussie of making a negative statement against lesbians by killing the character that was the closest thing to a lesbian the comic had. As I recall though they welcomed Homestuck back with open arms when Kanaya had her triumphant return.
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CidGregor posted:As I recall though they welcomed Homestuck back with open arms when Kanaya had her triumphant return. Actually, a related and perhaps smaller subgroup just got more pissed because of the "lesbian vampire" trope. And after the initial rage they were never heard from again, as far as I remember.
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CidGregor posted:As I recall though they welcomed Homestuck back with open arms when Kanaya had her triumphant return.
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CidGregor posted:Is it bad that I can think of several moments in Homestuck that this could easily be describing? Because man I definitely know what he means here. The one that REALLY jumps to mind is the people who cried foul at Kanaya's initial "death" as if it was some kind of negative statement/bash against lesbians, somehow. Wasn't there another point where he was being a bit ignorant of homosexuality in a Tumblr post, though? How he handled Dirk I think?
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Wrist Watch posted:Wait, what? AchillesAndT: Would you mind addressing the concerns of some that the death of Kanaya is some sort of commentary on homosexuality? AH: All I can recommend is you let the whole story run its course before you find it guilty of making any sort of anti-gay statement. I mean I'm not the tiniest bit anti-gay personally but I won't expect that assurance to pass for outright dismissal of those concerns. So really, just wait it out.
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Regy Rusty posted:You could also interpret "the world" in a more abstract sense to mean "all of existence" and it still kind of describes what the characters are trying to do now. Another way of looking at that description is that it's not really clear what's supposed to happen in Sburb. Maybe the game starts with Caliborn and ends with Act 7, maybe there are millions of other sessions out there who just win normally, start a new universe, and keep on truckin'.
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Here's a real summary of SBURB and Homestuck (sort of): What's supposed to happen in a normal successful game: play the game, end the world, make a new universe, cycle repeats. Yee-haw. What's happening here: A group of trolls play the game, oh poo poo they can't win, they reset, more trolls play the game, they win, except oops due to outside influence (Doc Scratch/Lord English) they gently caress up their new universe. So the humans in the new universe play the game, oh poo poo due to the aforementioned troll screw up (among other things) they can't win, so they reset, only they manage to escape the reset along with the original trolls (the ones that aren't dead), because the trolls' universe is ending because of something happening inside in the future (Slick kills Snowman) that has to happen because of outside influence (Lord English). Together the kids and the surviving trolls are all on their way to the new universe (which is also bugged up because of outside/inside influence (Lord English/Her Imperial Condescension)), where together they will find a way to stop Lord English once and for all. Oh, and eventually create a new universe. And somehow, somewhere, somewhen, two cherubs, Calliope/Caliborn, fit into this, especially since Caliborn most likely becomes Lord English. It's all so simple you wonder why you even bothered to ask. Color Printer fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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Technique posted:The worst thing is that i can't think of any single pairing that WOULDN'T already have fanart. This scares me. CalibornXMituna maybe
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Doug Rattman posted:CalibornXMituna maybe Nah dude, Doc Scratch/Dad OTP.
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Oh man. I found a SBaHJ quality anti-homestuck blog, it's hilarious reading a fundie-christian's theories on how every character is secretly satan. Here's a sample:   http://anti-homestuck-blog.tumblr.com/ On a deeper examination I feel like this is a parody... but a heavy dose of Poe's Law keeps me from being confident. Triskelli fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Oct 2, 2012 |
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There's no way that's serious. It basically went off the deep end, wrapped around to the shallow end, then went off the deep end again.
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Pretty much guaranteed to be a parody, yo.
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pumpinglemma posted:If it wasn't parody it wouldn't be using an SBaHJ-style font. Or MS-Paint coloring Kanaya into a space suit, for that matter. It takes a special kind of determination in doing that to tell you about the evils of not being able to breath in space.
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Elysiume posted:One true pairing. The ship that is the only legitimate one in your mind. It's worth noting that the average Tumblr user always has multiple, sometimes contradictory, OTPs.
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Triskelli posted:Oh man. I found a SBaHJ quality anti-homestuck blog, it's hilarious reading a fundie-christian's theories on how every character is secretly satan. Here's a sample: There is absolutely no doubt that this blog is a satire. As the kickstarter rolls to a close, i'm kicking myself for thinking about donating more here. After all there is only $300 between a snoutpak and all the paks. Also I rolled the dice and got Calliope x Eridan 
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So that O'Malley interview is pretty cool, but the page has mad spoiler images like #whoa. But then again I guess there's nobody reading it that isn't already reading Homestuck, so whatever.
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Color Printer posted:Here's a real summary of SBURB and Homestuck (sort of): You forgot to mention Vriska (Vriska).
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Seoinin posted:So that O'Malley interview is pretty cool, but the page has mad spoiler images like #whoa. But then again I guess there's nobody reading it that isn't already reading Homestuck, so whatever. It has images, but if you've never read Homestuck they're going to be so out of context as to be inscrutable. Two dogs are sword-fighting? Somebody wrote kill me on a devil girl's face? Somebody lives in a magical rainbow land? By the time you get to those points in the story, I don't think it's going give much away.
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Man when was the $2mil goal reached? Because it's already passed $2,100,000. Looks like getting a full digital copy of homestuck actually has a chance of happening, time to bunp my pledge up to $80 to get a physical copy of the game so I can get in on the ground floor of this thing.
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"Wow, the game got funded! That's cool! Still, I bet donations will really drop out now. No way homestuck rasies one million." - Me, in real life, about a month ago.
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Chexoid posted:"Wow, the game got funded! That's cool! Still, I bet donations will really drop out now. No way homestuck rasies one million." - Me, in real life, about a month ago. I'm eager to see how many people won't come through on their pledges when it turns out they have to actually give the money they said they would give.
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ActionZero posted:I'm eager to see how many people won't come through on their pledges when it turns out they have to actually give the money they said they would give. A boggling notion: even if a full 50% of the money turned out to be dust in the wind, he'd still have over one million dollars.
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What was the magic number for kickstarters? After lost payments, the kick back to kickstarter itself, and taxes, the amount the owner can reasonably expect to actually get is something like 80%, right?
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Oh poo poo, John's done it now.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7. Shockingly, no 8's.
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Man it was worth the wait. I wonder if this is Bec Noir's weakness? Also what ^^ said. Unfortunately, the downside to this is that we will never know what the Mcconaughey's like. ArfJason fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Oct 3, 2012 |
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Oh poo poo, John's about get his rear end woken up. Took out a good 12th or so of Jack's heath, though. Here's a still image for those curious:  Ariong fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Oct 3, 2012 |
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