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Aspergeoisie posted:Caliborn was still hilarious in his vicious attacks on Jane. But I wasn't laughing this time. Just too many feelings I don't know how anyone could find that funny. Calling someone fat is one thing, hell I was in hysterics all the times Vriska rubbed Tavros' face in being crippled, but this crossed the line. At least for me. I don't understand anyone considering Caliborn the best character anymore after this.
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Nephthys posted:I don't know how anyone could find that funny. Calling someone fat is one thing, hell I was in hysterics all the times Vriska rubbed Tavros' face in being crippled, but this crossed the line. At least for me. I don't understand anyone considering Caliborn the best character anymore after this. I mean, Gamzee is clearly still the best character. But Caliborn's typing quirk combined with what he says and his generally ridiculous sense of entitlement as a "boy" are consistently humorous.
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She's going to run straight into the STRONG yet comforting embrace of Equiusprite, who is waiting in her house. Being abused by a weird green skull kid is hard. It's hard and nobody understands. Fister Roboto fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Dec 9, 2012 |
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Nephthys posted:I don't know how anyone could find that funny. Calling someone fat is one thing, hell I was in hysterics all the times Vriska rubbed Tavros' face in being crippled, but this crossed the line. At least for me. I don't understand anyone considering Caliborn the best character anymore after this. There's a difference between best character and best person. Sometimes the villain just ends up more believable/engaging/compelling than any of the good guys--subjectively speaking, of course.
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The amazing thing about Homestuck is you can call any character the best and be objectively right.
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Nephthys posted:I don't know how anyone could find that funny. Calling someone fat is one thing, hell I was in hysterics all the times Vriska rubbed Tavros' face in being crippled, but this crossed the line. At least for me. I don't understand anyone considering Caliborn the best character anymore after this. On the other hand, I thought Vriska tormenting Tavros for being crippled was a lot worse than this (and yet I later went from hating Vriska to liking her somehow), so it probably depends on the person v  v(Also, HUMAN BORTH) Luminous Obscurity posted:The amazing thing about Homestuck is you can call any character the best and be objectively right. 
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Mister Gutsy posted:Cronus Cronus is the best... at being a creepy little gently caress.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Cronus is the best... at being a creepy little gently caress. Uh no how about you don't put "Cronus" and "best" in the same sentence again unless there is a definite note of negation towards the second word.
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YF-23 posted:Uh no how about you don't put "Cronus" and "best" in the same sentence again unless there is a definite note of negation towards the second word. Alright then. Cronus isn't the best at being a creepy little gently caress. Well, that's wrong. Your move chump.
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Mister Gutsy posted:On the other hand, I thought Vriska tormenting Tavros for being crippled was a lot worse than this (and yet I later went from hating Vriska to liking her somehow), so it probably depends on the person v To me Vriska doing that was so hilariously mean-spirited that it became funny. It was over the top and Tavros never really got too upset over it. The point is that it was mostly just mean. This is evil.
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It's amazing how Hussie can depict a discomfiting scene of mental torture and make it both effective at being that and slapstick-funny at the same time.
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Nephthys posted:I don't know how anyone could find that funny. Calling someone fat is one thing, hell I was in hysterics all the times Vriska rubbed Tavros' face in being crippled, but this crossed the line. At least for me. I don't understand anyone considering Caliborn the best character anymore after this. I recall a lot of people being disgusted by Vriska but the sheer absurdity of it all ended up defusing the nastiness. The more we learned about her the more we could understand her actions, though not condone them. As for Equius, were it not for few minor things like his distress over Aradiabot exploding and the last moments with Nepeta he'd just be a 1D character but with those he became rather likeable, in a disgusting, creepy racist kind of way. I honestly think Hussie down plays just how well he wrote Equius. He may be a joke character from start to finish but he still had some surprising depth. EDIT And reading the weird "Let's Read" by mousa pays off thank to him reminding me of this line; quote:AG: I don’t see how we’re supposed to 8e 8ecoming friends if you recoil from my olive 8ranch like I’m twitching a mummified 8ovine phallus in your direction. quote:uu: HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE BECOMING FRIENDS. IF YOU RECOIL FROM MY OLIVE BRANCH. Popo fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 9, 2012 |
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Cronus is not the best at not being a creepy gently caress!  Nephthys posted:To me Vriska doing that was so hilariously mean-spirited that it became funny. It was over the top and Tavros never really got too upset over it. The point is that it was mostly just mean. I didn't find this update all that funny myself (Dad  ) but I can still see the humour in watching the comic's villain go through his "bratty pre-teen on Xbox Live" phase and I think Caliborn is generally a pretty funny character, though maybe not the best one.In other news, it seems that some people have recieved the signed prints from the Kickstarter, so other rewards might be shipping out soon too. 
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Caliborn is normally a pretty funny character, but this time it's not very funny and instead just kind of very awful. It is still entirely possible to think that he is a good character even though he sometimes is not funny and also never a good person. I forgot the point i was making?
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Funny and awful are not really mutually exclusive. I know I probably would've laughed if it wasn't so terrible.
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Technique posted:Caliborn is normally a pretty funny character, but this time it's not very funny and instead just kind of very awful. It is still entirely possible to think that he is a good character even though he sometimes is not funny and also never a good person. I forgot the point i was making? Good person =/= good character.
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When you get down to it, Caliborn's personality is basically what Karkat would be if he was a sociopath.
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Zorak posted:When you get down to it, Caliborn's personality is basically what Karkat would be if he was a sociopath. So we've got like 4 inversions of Karkat by this point. Calliope, Kankri, John (sort of) and now Caliborn. It's Karkat's all the way down!
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Hey, guys, did you see this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DJ4MeGsbA 
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:So we've got like 4 inversions of Karkat by this point. Calliope, Kankri, John (sort of) and now Caliborn. The Karkat pile doesn't stop from getting taller.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:So we've got like 4 inversions of Karkat by this point. Calliope, Kankri, John (sort of) and now Caliborn. Calliope?
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Zerilan posted:Calliope? Her first pesterlog was more or less a reversal of Karkat's first (I think) pesterlog with Jade (the SO THIS IS THE DAY YOU gently caress EVERYTHING UP one). Plus the grey and her being nice and helpful to the B2 kids did make it seem like it was an inverse Karkat at the time.
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YF-23 posted:Her first pesterlog was more or less a reversal of Karkat's first (I think) pesterlog with Jade (the SO THIS IS THE DAY YOU gently caress EVERYTHING UP one). Plus the grey and her being nice and helpful to the B2 kids did make it seem like it was an inverse Karkat at the time. Not to mention that both Calliope and Caliborn's text color codes are extrapolations of Karkat's. Hussie was clearly going for the comparison.
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It's like all the characters are Karkat a little bit. This means that Karkat is Andrew Hussie's real persona.
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Has there been any word about the donation bonuses from the Kickstarter? I know it mentioned wanting to make sure everything got here by Christmas, and, well, that date is sorta fast approaching.
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Bobulus posted:Hey, guys, did you see this yet? You know, I've never really understood what a conductor actually does at an orchestral performance. Do the highly trained and skilled musicians just not know when the hell to start playing, and if that guy with the baton wasn't there some tuba would just start blasting off his piece in the middle of the first movement?
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Cabbit posted:You know, I've never really understood what a conductor actually does at an orchestral performance. Do the highly trained and skilled musicians just not know when the hell to start playing, and if that guy with the baton wasn't there some tuba would just start blasting off his piece in the middle of the first movement? To keep everyone's tempo and changes of volume in sync.
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Cabbit posted:You know, I've never really understood what a conductor actually does at an orchestral performance. Do the highly trained and skilled musicians just not know when the hell to start playing, and if that guy with the baton wasn't there some tuba would just start blasting off his piece in the middle of the first movement? Getting the tempo and volume right when you're in the orchestral pit is a bear. You need someone standing outside of it making sure the sound reaching the audience is just right. (Also very important for highschool productions because they're not highly trained and skilled musicians)
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Popo posted:And reading the weird "Let's Read" by mousa pays off thank to him reminding me of this line; The first of those was already a callback, of course.
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Cat Mattress posted:It's like all the characters are Karkat a little bit. This means that Karkat is Andrew Hussie's real persona. There's a little bit of Karkat in everyone. Especially if you count the fanfiction.
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Cabbit posted:You know, I've never really understood what a conductor actually does at an orchestral performance. Do the highly trained and skilled musicians just not know when the hell to start playing, and if that guy with the baton wasn't there some tuba would just start blasting off his piece in the middle of the first movement? When you're a soloist you can be performing off of sheet music that says "play this part slowly, with passion" and you can play it however the hell you want, but when you're in an ensemble you need that one guy in the front telling you how slowly and how passionately so that everyone's not off doing their own thing and getting in each other's way.
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Also the conductor is there to make funny faces and get really loving into it, like Fuckin Lenny B
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Cabbit posted:You know, I've never really understood what a conductor actually does at an orchestral performance. Do the highly trained and skilled musicians just not know when the hell to start playing, and if that guy with the baton wasn't there some tuba would just start blasting off his piece in the middle of the first movement? Among other things, if there's a pause in the music, the conductor has to bring everyone back in at the same time. Also, drummers and bassists without a conductor tend to go hog wild with the tempo. (I was a tuba player, I know.)
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Interesting! I didn't realize, but in retrospect it does seem like herding cats to get everyone on the same tempo.
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:Also the conductor is there to make funny faces and get really loving into it, like Fuckin Lenny B Perfect, it's so close to the end of the world as we know it and I finally learn who Leonard Bernstein is.
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Conductors collaborate with an ensemble in tempo, style and artistic intent. The goal is to bring together one cohesive image/impression during a performance, so conductors facilitate by cueing entrances, move to convey the style wanted (be it flowing and long, crisp and dancelike, etc) and time/dynamic. They take all the individual interpretations and combine them into one large performance. It may look like waving arms but they actually have a very important job a lot of the time.
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Cleretic posted:Perfect, it's so close to the end of the world as we know it and I finally learn who Leonard Bernstein is. He died tenth months after this was filmed, by the way.
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Cleretic posted:Perfect, it's so close to the end of the world as we know it and I finally learn who Leonard Bernstein is. Are you at least up on your Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs?
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So, my brother just told me about a new trend exploding on Tumblr: Reimagining musicians as Homestuck character and mashing up their music with Homestuck music. They're calling it Ke$hastuck. So there's that.
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