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John's definitely not stupid, but he is adorably goofy and awkward. That's why I'm super excited for his upcoming conversation with Roxy, which might just be the awkwardest conversation in paradox space (yet).
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Captain Oblivious posted:Roxy is the only good Beta Kid. The beta kids are the original four, Roxy and co. are the alpha kids. Yeah, I prefer saying B1 and B2 kids.
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Aug 20, 2013 03:56
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Dark Grapefruit posted:The beta kids are the original four, Roxy and co. are the alpha kids. You know what I have to say to this? gently caress the police, that's what. They're Beta kids cuz they came second, narratively. 
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Aug 20, 2013 03:57
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Apropos of nothing, hey guys Homestuck Vol. 9 is still really good
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Aug 20, 2013 04:18
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Speaking of volumes, when the gently caress is the next Homestuck book coming out? I needs me some more author commentary.
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Aug 20, 2013 04:53
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Bobulus posted:Speaking of volumes, when the gently caress is the next Homestuck book coming out? I needs me some more author commentary. I stopped reading before Homestuck books were a thing and have been wondering since I got back on board how the hell those work exactly.
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Aug 20, 2013 05:36
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WhiffleballDude posted:I stopped reading before Homestuck books were a thing and have been wondering since I got back on board how the hell those work exactly. Well, it'll be harder to pull off with later Acts that are more more flash-heavy, but the books are direct translation of the first few Acts to paper. Animated gifs are translated as multiple frames, and the first walkaround flash (where John wanders his house and WV issues commands) shows the highlights. There's several neat things about them: - The edges of the pages are colored with the chat color of the "main character" for that section. You can tell by looking at the closed book where Dave's section is. - Hussie put author commentary on the bottom of most of the pages. Sometimes they're comments about things he planned and discarded. Sometimes they're behind-the-scenes glimpses of his insane amount of foreshadowing and planning. Sometimes they're just snarky comments about parts he now finds incongruous or dumb.
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Aug 20, 2013 05:52
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And my copy got misprinted, so it jumps back half an act during Dave's section... to the same temporal point, just from John's PoV.
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Aug 20, 2013 06:02
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Jane posted:Our children will rule the empire when we are gone, which of course will be never, because we will be eternally young and beautiful and immortal and in love, for ever and ever.
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Aug 20, 2013 09:03
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reignonyourparade posted:I think the Condesce MIGHT have Aaaand how!
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Aug 20, 2013 10:09
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I started imagining Jake wearing Princess Leia's slave bikini and now I can't stop. It's unpleasant. He keeps blowing his nose on the skirt.
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Aug 20, 2013 10:17
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reignonyourparade posted:I think the Condesce MIGHT have dead-psiionic-and-sassacre issues. It does fit with Meenah's personality. She's rude, dismissive, or outright aggressive toward most people but when she gets attached to someone she really hates letting them go. See: begging John not to let her steal the Ring of Life so she could stay with Aranea and Vriska. If what we've seen of Condy throughout Act 6 is any indication that's most likely one of many things she has in common with... well, herself.
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Aug 20, 2013 10:35
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That's a depressing character trait to have considering the biological facts of troll lifespans and her place amongst them. Frankly it's no wonder how The Condence turned out.
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Aug 20, 2013 10:48
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Whitenoise Poster posted:That's a depressing character trait to have considering the biological facts of troll lifespans and her place amongst them. If only she had some sort of ability to counteract this.
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Aug 20, 2013 10:50
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Freudian posted:If only she had some sort of ability to counteract this. Like maybe the ability to  kill everyone before she gets attached to them!Yes, I believe we've made a breakthrough in our understanding of the Condesce.
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Aug 20, 2013 11:20
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Iny posted:Apropos of nothing, hey guys Homestuck Vol. 9 is still really good
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Aug 20, 2013 11:57
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Iny posted:Apropos of nothing, hey guys Homestuck Vol. 9 is still really good It really is! Seriously though, i'm starting to wonder where all the new albums are, too. I wonder if we'll get one more album when Homestuck ends, and that will be it.
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Aug 20, 2013 13:58
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Updates have slowed down, and some of the musicians are busy with projects of their own, like Radiation's Kickstarter. I've tried commissioning an album's worth, but the process has gotten slow and I'm not rushing an artist on any piece I haven't yet paid for.
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Aug 20, 2013 14:00
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Dorroile posted:Seriously though, i'm starting to wonder where all the new albums are, too. I wonder if we'll get one more album when Homestuck ends, and that will be it. Last I heard that was the plan, yes.
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Aug 20, 2013 14:01
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The past year or so it has felt like Hussie has distanced himself from the other "teams" that used to be involved. For the art team it was after Cascade, and for the music team it was around when solo album month got started. I don't know if this was planned or just kind of how things developed, but it just feel like most other people involved outside of Hussie have moved on. They pumped out a crazy amount of music for 3 years so it's kind of understandable that at some point it would slow down. I hope that there was no internal discord, at least. Another thing is that a lot of the releases and albums had themes to go along with new developments. Volume 8 for Cascade, Volume 9 for the B2 kids, Cherubs/Trolls/Exiles getting their own releases, etc. But nothing really "new" has been introduced that I think the team could latch onto as a theme without just retreating older ideas. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 14:06
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reignonyourparade posted:I think the Condesce MIGHT have dead-psiionic-and-sassacre issues. Let's not forget that it took 1,326 years for her to make it back to Alternia after the Vast Glub, travelling at near-lightspeed. That's a long drat time to be the only person in the universe.
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Aug 20, 2013 14:32
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YggiDee posted:Let's not forget that it took 1,326 years for her to make it back to Alternia after the Vast Glub, travelling at near-lightspeed. That's a long drat time to be the only person in the universe. Man if only she hadn't eradicated all the intelligent species she came across with her legions of fanatical minions. Well, hindsight and all that.
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Seoinin posted:Man if only she hadn't eradicated all the intelligent species she came across with her legions of fanatical minions. Well, hindsight and all that. Edit: I guess I can't find any citation that the Glub killed all living beings. I wonder why I thought it did... weird. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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Aug 20, 2013 21:16
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Maybe. The glub was specified to kill every troll in the galaxy (except for her, as it turned out) it's possible that it wasn't attuned to other species. Ether way, a hole in Snowman's chest eliminated whatever snowball's chance they had.
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Aug 20, 2013 21:32
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Nate RFB posted:I hope that there was no internal discord, at least. Well there was that one guy, the one who turned out to be kind of dysfunctional? I remember people were annoyed that hussie went and changed the music on several flashes after the guy melted down and left.
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Aug 20, 2013 21:54
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Bill Bolin. Yeah, there was certainly that though that was pretty long ago. I meant more in the post-Cascade period. I think it's more likely some folks just moved on, though.
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DaveKap posted:Doesn't matter, even those species would have died by the Glub. Wasn't it said that she tried to recreate the troll species several times, and that each time there was another glub to kill her experiments? It was my impression that this keep-happened while she was on Earth, including before humanity went fully extinct. I might have read that wrong but I think the killing glub is a troll thing.
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Aug 20, 2013 22:09
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Time for the SHOUNEN TRAINING ARC! or for hussie to just jump cut to something else and then reference the training we'll never get to see, one of the two
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Aug 21, 2013 02:47
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Once more, Roxy proves herself to be The Best Kid.
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Aug 21, 2013 02:54
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krakagar posted:Once more, Roxy proves herself to be The Best Kid. She really does. She's the best.
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Aug 21, 2013 03:08
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So this is what two sane people having a conversation is like.
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Aug 21, 2013 03:11
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Silly John, you don't know anything about that. You only ever stumble into new powers like a big goof.
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Aug 21, 2013 03:22
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Blackheart posted:Silly John, you don't know anything about that. You only ever stumble into new powers like a big goof. Which will end up being his advice, as opposed to focusing and trying super hard like Roxy's been doing.
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Aug 21, 2013 03:23
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Fancy that, John's meeting up with an unseen riddler.
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Nighthand posted:Fancy that, John's meeting up with an unseen riddler. Riddlers you say 
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I think it is pretty interesting that we have a reference to a sphinx here. Other than asking riddles, the sphinx is most famous for being involved in the story of Oedipus. And John is in a pretty Oedipal position here, since he seems to be (as others have suggested) about to romance a woman who is (in a different timeline), his father's partner. And if we want to get really esoteric (and if we don't, why are we reading Homestuck), Nietzsche's description of the myth of Oedipus is that only Oedipus, a man "outside of nature" (because he murders his father and marries his mother) can solve the riddle of the sphinx. And John Egbert is also the man outside of nature, since he has escaped the bonds of narrative causality.
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glowing-fish posted:I think it is pretty interesting that we have a reference to a sphinx here. Other than asking riddles, the sphinx is most famous for being involved in the story of Oedipus. And John is in a pretty Oedipal position here, since he seems to be (as others have suggested) about to romance a woman who is (in a different timeline), his father's partner. I am genuinely pissed off that this makes sense.
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Aug 21, 2013 04:28
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Nighthand posted:Fancy that, John's meeting up with an unseen riddler. Somebody needs to count how many loving references to the title screen that makes now.
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Oedipal themes are all over Homestuck, because the surviving Oedipus stories liberally stole from the best parts of each other and from a related cycle of myths and legends, and because Homestuck liberally steals from that milieu and many stories that were inspired by it. If it were just a straight-up retelling of Oedipus, then pretty soon we could expect John's dad and Jane's dad to kill each other.
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So Roxy needs to be more creative and is hiding in a fort? We know one way to max out your imagination stat...
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