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I went to check the doritos panel (current update, not the original), and wow John's totally petting that frog a few panels after. That's cute. vvv It's this one mate vvv Blackheart fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Blackheart posted:I went to check the doritos panel (current update, not the original), and wow John's totally petting that frog a few panels after. That's cute. That sounds pretty neat! What's the link to the panel? e:  Oops, nevermind.
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Apr 6, 2013 02:52
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Just a note that the revised gifs all have retcon as a part of the file name
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Apr 6, 2013 03:01
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I dunno, you guys, this sort of thing might be armful to the space-time continuum. 
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Apr 6, 2013 03:02
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Ohtsam posted:Just a note that the revised gifs all have retcon as a part of the file name A note so important I'm surprised nobody repeated it sooner.
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TinTower posted:Oh please, the end of the anime series is grade-school comprehensible compared to Homestuck. code:ShardPhoenix fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Apr 6, 2013 03:06
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Just not quick enough with that fork, Meenah. Bets on where John went? John hasn't gone anywhere - he's just started being already here.
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Apr 6, 2013 03:38
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krakagar posted:John hasn't gone anywhere - he's just started being already here. John is in fact Lord English and Caliborn is a red herring. The JuJu could only be used once and now he used it.
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Apr 6, 2013 03:53
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John has gone to the Squiddle universe.
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Apr 6, 2013 04:02
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lotus circle posted:Then it's settled. It's gonna be a reference to that horrible animu lord english fanart, won't it?
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Apr 6, 2013 04:06
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This whole plot twist is pretty amusing but the trident at the end just loving killed me for some reason. Meenah 
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Apr 6, 2013 04:12
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You know, there have been times in the past I've kind of jokingly described Homestuck as "What if Bob and George was incredibly well written?" As much of a joke as that statement is, "the comic's most recent update retroactively changes a lot of the archives" is literally something I've only ever seen Bob and George do before.
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Apr 6, 2013 04:35
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Falls Down Stairs posted:You know, there have been times in the past I've kind of jokingly described Homestuck as "What if Bob and George was incredibly well written?" As much of a joke as that statement is, "the comic's most recent update retroactively changes a lot of the archives" is literally something I've only ever seen Bob and George do before. Order of the Stick had something similar, though it only retroactively changed the cast page (and mostly as a gag).
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Apr 6, 2013 04:57
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Falls Down Stairs posted:You know, there have been times in the past I've kind of jokingly described Homestuck as "What if Bob and George was incredibly well written?" As much of a joke as that statement is, "the comic's most recent update retroactively changes a lot of the archives" is literally something I've only ever seen Bob and George do before. I don't remember Bob and George doing that, but I remember Bonus Stage doing it. The last episode involved one of the characters going back in time and stopping the series being made, and so the 'last' episode started de-existing halfway through (which was honestly a kind of creepy effect). The show's archives were redone so that only the first episode was watchable, which was actually a modified version with the time-traveller turning up and killing himself.
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I have to say that John's arm floating around in [S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter really adds to that flash.
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Boneless Jogger posted:I have to say that John's arm floating around in [S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter really adds to that flash. Had to watch it twice to find it, it was in the last part of that I'd think to look for it. Even going through the update today I didn't even catch that one. Evrart Claire fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Zerilan posted:Had to watch it twice to find it, it was in the last part of that I'd think to look for it. Even going through the update today I didn't even catch that one.
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lotus circle posted:I checked through the updates and he didn't actually put an image of the arm in that flash within the panels. So there may have been even more changes that just didn't get highlighted. Yeah, he did. EDIT: vv Hey, I completely forgot that panel was part of the comic at all, much less a flash 
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Apr 6, 2013 06:18
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Oh oops, I didn't realize that was from the flash. My mistake. 
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quote:VRISKA: John, will you get your hand out of there? I love this comic.
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Apr 6, 2013 10:21
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I wonder how many fans are doing furious clickthroughs of the entire comic trying to determine where John is. I doubt Hussie's actually going to retcon a page until he wants us to know where John ended up, which could be a good long while.
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You have to admit, it'd be like Where's Waldo. (Or Where's Wally, for the applicable countries.) Except you're trying to find one instance of him in a set of books about as long and thick as the Encyclopedia Britannica. And some of them are actually videos or games.
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Apr 6, 2013 13:49
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The best thing is that someone reading it for the first time probably won't notice it at all, and if they do, they'll just say "huh that's kind of odd" and promptly forget about it.
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After I saw the hand in [S] Wake, I tried checking Cascade to see if it was there as well, but it wasn't there. 
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Cavatica posted:After I saw the hand in [S] Wake, I tried checking Cascade to see if it was there as well, but it wasn't there. Well, retconning Cascade, AKA The Thing That Broke The Internet, would be... problematic.
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What if John wakes up fine, but he's missing his arm?
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Bobulus posted:What if John wakes up fine, but he's missing his arm? Then he shouldn't have been noodling in paradox space to begin with.
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Then he shouldn't have been noodling in paradox space to begin with. What if he has to do it again to defeat Lord English, and the comic ends with John having no arms?
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Bobulus posted:What if he has to do it again to defeat Lord English, and the comic ends with John having no arms? Then Equius builds him two robot arms. John just has to retrieve them. From a chest.
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Holy poo pooA big flaming stink posted:Crazy Gnostic theory: Yaldabaoth gave Caliborn all of existence as he perceived it, so it takes the shape of the logo of the webcomic as a subtle nod to the utter limitedness of the perceived material reality. IE it's a loving webcomic, there's stuff outside of it. I....called it??? But no, really, this juju is literally the entire existence encapsulated in Homestuck. The loving Demiurge literally gave Caliborn the universe. Jesus Christ, I figured Hussie was only going to reference Gnosticism, not take its cosmology wholesale.
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A big flaming stink posted:Holy poo poo 
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Cavatica posted:After I saw the hand in [S] Wake, I tried checking Cascade to see if it was there as well, but it wasn't there. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that none of the arm panels were Cascade though? The only one that looks like it could have been was the Bec Head one with the Red Miles starting, but that's this page.
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Mazerunner posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure that none of the arm panels were Cascade though? The bit in [S] Wake where Nepeta gets stabbed is in Cascade for about two frames.
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A big flaming stink posted:Holy poo poo Well he also referenced it with the fact that in Gnosticism there are mentions of "four lights" who surround the Monad (which is god I believe) and these four lights are served by twelve Aeons. Bonus: When I was factchecking because I wasn't sure about the four lights stuff, Ephesians 4:13 kept popping up. Pretty weird coincidence. The verse is "until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[a] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ". Isn't it said Homestuck is a story about growing up? What a shame this is probably all confirmation bias.
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A big flaming stink posted:I....called it??? drat, son, well played. I really need to do some reading on Gnosticism - can anyone recommend a good place to start? Indie Rocktopus posted:One of the cool things about this act has been its fractal structure - it's everything Homestuck did before in miniature. We had suburban puzzle-solving, exploring a new planet, a Midnight Crew-style intermission with Jack Noir, Meenah's adventure as Hivebent, Trickster Mode instead of Rose going grimdark... I wrote this as a joke, but Hussie kinda just did this? It's the fractal thing again. Act 6 is Homestuck in miniature - and we just got, within Act 6, another Homestuck in miniature.
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Indie Rocktopus posted:drat, son, well played. I really need to do some reading on Gnosticism - can anyone recommend a good place to start? This is a pretty good starter for it as it relates to homestuck: http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2012/12/seer-of-light-ascend-why-homestuck-is.html In general, it's basically a subversion of the Platonic view of reality by making the supreme being (the Demiurge) an incredibly flawed and evil entity to explain the existence of suffering. To the followers of Plato, the Demiurge (literally "Artisan") was the perfect expression of reality and any flaws in his creation were a result of distance from him. To the Gnostics, the Demiurge was an aborted act of creation by the aeon Sophia, who was so ashamed of her creation that she wrapped him in shadows and hid him away from the rest of the Aeons. Thus, when the Demiurge became aware, he beheld nothing and concluded that he was the sole and ultimate God. He's basically thought of as a blind, hateful idiot. The form I'm most familiar with (and that I think Hussie references the most) is the Sethian version of it. A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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glowing-fish posted:What if when that happens, the entire Homestuck archive is replaced with videos of flashing lazers? And then from then on, noone can reread it? Quick, someone archive the whole thing! dumb brunette posted:I wonder how many fans are doing furious clickthroughs of the entire comic trying to determine where John is. Many, I'd bet. Hussie is once again troll cosplaying. 
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Update! Goddamn this is meta as poo poo 
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clockwork chaos posted:Update! Goddamn this is meta as poo poo It is, and i love it. I also love Caliborn, he's the loving best.
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Caliborn posted:I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE I HATE PUPPET PEOPLE. Finally, something Caliborn and I can agree on.
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