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IUG posted:He might as well just release the last update in a torrent file. There's no way any server can handle that amount of load it's going to get when he releases that upon the wild. He's going to need the computing power usually reserved for Google or the NSA to handle the amount of traffic he's going to get that day.
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DaveKap posted:Now that I'm closing the MSPA tab in my browser, I'll have to make a new category in my RSS feed just for MSPA updates. I can think of no other proper way to ensure that I'll know when the update hits. Any suggestions? Have this thread bookmarked (you already do, as you posted in this thread), and check when there's 100+ updates in the course of 5 minutes. That's my plan.
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Because Hussie has promised news updates in the meantime, is closing the thread really necessary? The past couple of pauses have shown that we have finally grown up and reached Godtier poster status and no longer devolve into a collective gibbering mess when we have no comic updates to talk about. I would like to have a place to talk about whatever cool stuff Hussie drops on us in the meantime. Still, I would completely understand if we do close the thread as it is the safer option.
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This is really weird. In spite of all my griping at the last month of updates, it's been a hell of a ride. I dunno if I'm going to -miss- Homestuck, but it's gonna feel weird to see it actually, really end, and to remove the RSS feed from my bookmarks after 4 years.
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life_source posted:Because Hussie has promised news updates in the meantime, is closing the thread really necessary? The past couple of pauses have shown that we have finally grown up and reached Godtier poster status and no longer devolve into a collective gibbering mess when we have no comic updates to talk about. I would like to have a place to talk about whatever cool stuff Hussie drops on us in the meantime. Still, I would completely understand if we do close the thread as it is the safer option.
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nerdbot posted:I dunno if I'm going to -miss- Homestuck In other words, I mark this as the death of one of the best daily mixed-media webcomics ever. What we get from here on out will be great and entertaining, don't get me wrong, but it won't be a daily mixed-media webcomic. And so the world turns. Edit: This ended up sounding way more serious than I really meant. I'm just saying it sucks that I have nothing to F5 right now.
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I agree this pausing is a good idea. I've always been impressed by Hussie's ability to ad-lib the story a long and still have something resembling coherent. Being able to approach things from a practice more nuanced then 'first-draft last-draft' can only be a positive. I would hope.
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Homestuck. Homestuck why. I've tried to be good to you. I've given you the best of me. Why so cruel. Why must you only take.
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Homestuck has been a Good Experience. I liked it.
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Oxxidation posted:Homestuck. Homestuck why. Man I really don't want to be on your bad side then huh 
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Oct 18, 2013 01:53
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Pouring a bottle o' imagination booster for my main man MSPA. May your pumpkins (or lack thereof) ever mystify future internet archeologists.
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DaveKap posted:I'm not going to miss Homestuck, I'm going to miss MSPaintAdventures. The chances of this being Hussie's last webcomic are high; he's gotten over the idea of a user-idea-submitted story, he figured out a subject which resonates with a massive teenage fanbase that will feed his money gullet for years to come, and he is probably done having to work hard just to ensure he has daily updates. He's got a partner, he's got money, he's got some fame, and he can essentially work on whatever he wants; what else could he possibly need at this point? Nate RFB posted:Homestuck has been a Good Experience. I liked it. These two opinions reflect my own. I'll miss the thread too, I only joined recently but I've been STALKING YOU GUYS for... quite a while. It's been a super fun ride and I'm sure there's a bit left to discuss, even. I wouldn't say close the thread just yet since we should at least comment on the ending when it finally comes, and then we can put it to rest -hopefully without bloodshed-. Despite the thread becoming a bit whiny lately it's still the only sane place on the internet to discuss MSPA so thanks, dudes. I'm happy in a way that the Huss decided to do it like this, I first read most of Homestuck in the course of a week and it really is the best way to enjoy it. Not only is it still one of my favorite webcomics, but MSPA really made me find out about other excellent comics like Gunnerkrigg Court.
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I'm going to miss the daily-ish updates and all the speculation fuel it threw on the fires. I'll miss watching the manic glee and sorrow that this comic inspires in tumblr. I will miss this thread. gently caress it, I may actually install pesterchum if this thread gets locked.
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I am weirdly okay with this. Mainly because the increase of hiatuses and their lengths over the last couple years (I think the past two summers had virtually no updates!) really wrecked the pace of the thing. I'll be happy when it's back though!!
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Homestuck: The Series has ended on a sudden cliffhanger. The story shall be concluded in Homestuck: The I don't expect this thread will survive that long though. It's been real folks.
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I haven't really been attached to Homestuck as much as the other guys here as well as the tumblrs too since I've started reading this around the beginning of the month, so I'm not too bummed out regarding this gigapause or whatever. In fact, I'm sorta more excited about Hussie's new non-Namco High project he's teasing than Homestuck: The Final Acts Acts (Intermissions). I think it's refreshing for him and for myself as well take on something that doesn't have to do with quadrants nor troll/human sloppy makeouts.
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Time to buy Archives and read all the old Homestuck threads.
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Thwack! posted:I haven't really been attached to Homestuck as much as the other guys here as well as the tumblrs too since I've started reading this around the beginning of the month, so I'm not too bummed out regarding this gigapause or whatever. In fact, I'm sorta more excited about Hussie's new non-Namco High project he's teasing than Homestuck: The Final Acts Acts (Intermissions). I think it's refreshing for him and for myself as well take on something that doesn't have to do with quadrants nor troll/human sloppy makeouts. I thought the secret project was in fact Namco High?
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And I was just getting comfortable in this thread.  ...how's Problem Sleuth?
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EmperorFritoBandito posted:And I was just getting comfortable in this thread. Worth it. Plus you have plenty of time to check it out now, with the Gigapause in effect!
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Problem Sleuth is less a story and more a gigantic pisstake on old text-parser adventure games. But if you played any of those, you will probably enjoy it.
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Problem Sleuth is fantastic. I genuinely consider it one of the best webcomics. Do yourself a favor and read that poo poo.
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I think this is a good idea. A long pause where he can actually plan things out should make a better ending than where he sticks with the serial format. Can't wait to see how he ends this and what happens to everyone.
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nerdbot posted:Problem Sleuth is fantastic. I genuinely consider it one of the best webcomics. Do yourself a favor and read that poo poo. Then do Hussie a favour and buy that poo poo.
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If you've read Homestuck and not Problem Sleuth something is probably wrong with you. Go fix it now. It will take you something like an eighth of the time it would to reread Homestuck. Or less.
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The problem with Problem Sleuth (at least for me) is that if you read it for a long period of time in some kind of binge, you will narrate your life in the third person in your head. You go downstairs. You stare at the washer and open the door. You put your whites in and measure out your cup of detergent.
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Also, some important news that probably got lost in all the gigapause stuff:Hussie posted:(The cover of PS5 glows in the dark by the way.)
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IUG posted:The problem with Problem Sleuth (at least for me) is that if you read it for a long period of time in some kind of binge, you will narrate your life in the third person in your head. Your knife is out of fabric softener!
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Also a hell of a lot of jokes in Homestuck are direct callbacks to PS (as well as to Jailbreak and Bard Quest), so if you didn't read them first you kind of miss all of that.
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So.. will this be a huge string of updates dropped at once with a big flash at the end, or are we looking at a hour long flash?
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Fat_Cow posted:So.. will this be a huge string of updates dropped at once with a big flash at the end, or are we looking at a hour long flash? Feature length movie, opening in theaters across the world in three years. More seriously, likely the former. The final flash animation will undoubtedly be super long and filled with details that won't make any sense unless you're following a thread like this, though.
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So it begins, the last great Hiatus of our time. It's going to be weird seeing an internet without Homestuck, but then I basically went through all of this back when 8-bit finally ended so I'm not going in completely blind. Here's hoping Hussie somehow manages to bring all this poo poo together into one glorious shitstorm fireball worthy of what he's built up.
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This is probably a better way to do it. But I really wish he'd serialize it over, say, a week. A big part of the fun is hashing it out and reading people's crazy speculation - I'd love to have a week of freaking out over big, crazy endgame updates, instead of burning through it in a few hours. Still, it's good to have an excuse to get back to the annotations. Assuming the thread's open, I'll pop in next time I have a big chunk of them written and published. And hey, anyone want to reminisce a little? Favorite quotes or pages or whatnot? I'd like to submit Dave's confrontation with destiny in the form of his own personal holocaust of twitching foam noses. During my first read through, I remember enjoying the comic just fine until this point, but Dave getting clobbered by the puppet landslide was the first time I actually laughed out loud at it.
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Fat_Cow posted:So.. will this be a huge string of updates dropped at once with a big flash at the end, or are we looking at a hour long flash?
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Problem Sleuth is great. Whenever I get people telling me "I keep hearing about Homestuck, what is it/should I read it?" I always tell them to read Problem Sleuth first, if only because it's so much shorter and actually has a definite end to it; you can read through it in an evening. And with this pause now in effect, I may actually go reread Homestuck like I planned to with the Megapause! I initially read it in 30 hours (passing out twice, took me about three days), which was about a week before Cascade. I've been wanting to read it again at a much more relaxed pace, and Rocktopus' (I think it was you) notes on Homestuck reinforced that desire. If you do decide to go back and reread all of Homestuck in this break, perhaps you'll enjoy reading these notes alongside it. As for this thread? I think we should give it a week to see if we can hold our poo poo together. Though with such a big pause, it might be better for us to just start a brand new thread for the final update.
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Is it weird that the only thing I'm really disappointed with about the gigapause is the fact that he's going to be releasing everything at once? I don't mind a hiatus to create it all and gain the benefit from having better control of the storyline, but I did enjoy the serial nature of the comic. Also, what are the odds that there is an update tomorrow and this is all a Caliborn psycheout intro?
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Thundarr posted:Also a hell of a lot of jokes in Homestuck are direct callbacks to PS (as well as to Jailbreak and Bard Quest), so if you didn't read them first you kind of miss all of that. I actually did read those first two, and the callback with Spades on Prospit was one of the funniest things in the comic. Thanks for the PS endorsements! I'll be getting into that next.
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Man to think I started reading at around a month before the Doc Scratch intermission, and part of it in France. I think the first thing I did after I came back to my home country was play the "Past Karkat: Wake up" flash cause it wouldn't load on that lousy internet I had. It feels kinda weird, having missed the zeitgest of fantrolls and Homestuck oversaturation on the net, but seeing the fallout. Can't say I won't be a little sad about it ending, but thank god, it's been years now.
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