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Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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paradoxGentleman
Dec 10, 2013

wheres the jester, I could do with some pointless nonsense right about now

Burkion posted:

*Shhh* The mods don't realize we're still here.

How is that possible? The thread reaches the front page every time someone posts something, doesn't it?

A big flaming stink posted:

Gamzee is a joke character that has an extreme impact on the plot. Don't try to loving understand his character, the only trait he has is "be a lovely clown."

This seems dubious to me. Hussie invested too much in him for his whole character arc to end on a meta joke.

Angry Walrus
Aug 31, 2013

Quinn it
to
Win it.
You don't know Hussie very well, do you?

paradoxGentleman
Dec 10, 2013

wheres the jester, I could do with some pointless nonsense right about now

Angry Walrus posted:

You don't know Hussie very well, do you?

Ok, now that you've said it I kind of see where stink's coming from, but while an underwhelming climax to an highly anticipated development is one of Hussie's favorite tricks, he never contradicts the narrative, if I am not mistaken. And we know that Gamzee is the most important character in Homestuck, and while he has contributed to some significant events, I don't think it's going to end up like that.

On the other hand, this is Homestuck we're trying to predict, so anything is possible.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I'm expecting the ending to just be "a bunch of poo poo happened, but you don't get to see any of it, alright it's over back to 10,000 word pesterlogs".

Paul.Power
Feb 7, 2009

The three roles of APCs:
Transports.
Supply trucks.
Distractions.

Suaimhneas posted:

The "mysterious young woman" was Jane. She was literally in a suspicious-looking hat
Oh whoops, sorry.

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

paradoxGentleman posted:

How is that possible? The thread reaches the front page every time someone posts something, doesn't it?

How is it possible that you're this loving dumb

Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008

Jia posted:

How is it possible that you're this loving dumb

Don't underestimate Homestuck fans with pesterchum-style usernames.

paradoxGentleman
Dec 10, 2013

wheres the jester, I could do with some pointless nonsense right about now

Freak Futanari posted:

Don't underestimate Homestuck fans with pesterchum-style usernames.

Said the guy whose username includes an anime porn term and that was using edited anime comics for communication.

So let's see. The most simple answer is that Burkion was joking, and that the mods know of this thread. Is that right? If that's the case I guess I didn't get it.

paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 7, 2014

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008
Nice transphobia, dickmunch.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

paradoxGentleman posted:

Said the guy whose username includes an anime porn term and that was using edited anime comics for communication.

Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008
Also they weren't edited i made them myself.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

paradoxGentleman posted:

Said the guy whose username includes an anime porn term and that was using edited anime comics for communication.

Holy Christ were you born this loving dense or did you have to work at it

Lurk more. Lots more.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

Freak Futanari posted:

Also they weren't edited i made them myself.

Nice work, Freak Futa - those were some cool comics.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.


Should really be Hussie choking the reader instead of John/Vriska.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

paradoxGentleman posted:

we know that Gamzee is the most important character in Homestuck,

Nope, it's Lil Cal.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

net cafe scandal posted:

Nice work, Freak Futa - those were some cool comics.

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


Oxxidation posted:

Holy Christ were you born this loving dense or did you have to work at it

Lurk more. Lots more.

I'll be honest, I didn't think the source rendered comics were all that funny either.

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010

Triskelli posted:

I'll be honest, I didn't think the source rendered comics were all that funny either.

we've got a really low bar to work with here though

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Bobulus posted:

Don't forget that Gamzee has been under Aranea's mind control for an unspecified amount of time. Potentially two years of the three-year journey and, depending on if Gamzee has been doing any time-travel, maybe also while he's helping Caliborn. Let's break this down:


Gamzee and Terezi:
T-1) Gamzee is an rear end in a top hat. He had a black romance with Terezi that was abusive. When Aranea's mind-control faded, he 'woke up' just in time to see Terezi stabbing him and immediately started messing with her head, pretending to be 'nice' Gamzee for a moment, before going 'psych!' and then toying with her, violently.
T-2) Aranea has been mind-controlling Gamzee for a very long time. The lovely way he treated Terezi was Aranea's influence, because Aranea wanted to be 'right', and 'right' meant Terezi 'choosing' to heal her eyes. In this scenario, he 'woke up' just in time to see Terezi stabbing him, was honestly confused why she was doing that, and went into an unthinking RAGE in which he proceeds to torment Terezi. He may or may not feel bad about this if and when he calms down.

Gamzee and Caliborn:
C-1) Gamzee is an rear end in a top hat. He wants to help out Lord English in his rise to power, perhaps because of the whole 'Mirthful Messiah' thing, and is providing him with tools, resources, and advice.
C-2) Aranea has been mind-controlling Gamzee in order to... gosh, I have no idea why Aranea would want to help Lord English here.
C-3) Gamzee is secretly a 'good guy'. He's 'helping' Caliborn in his rise to power by giving him all kinds of shortcuts and helping hands, so that the finished Lord English is less good at doing things on his own and it's easier to pull the rug out from under him. Basically, planning a long-term sabotage.
C-4) Gamzee is an idiot. He wandered onto Caliborn's and Calliope's planet, helped raise them, and then just kept helping them / him without really ever considering what he was doing.

Most of the troll-prototyping seems to have happened before mind control (at the very least, the body hoarding), so we just directly blame that on Gamzee, I think.

C-2 is obviously false. Caliborn knows Gamzee is rude, but he doesn't talk when being mind-controlled. Which is also why T-1 is correct.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

I suspect Aranea could make Gamzee say specific things, if she wanted. I lean towards T-2 mostly because Terezi was talking about how both Aranea and Gamzee wore her down at the same time that Aranea was making her big 'control everything' play.

Cabbit
Jul 19, 2001

Is that everything you have?

Paradox Space. It exists.

I liked Gamzee's bobble-head bit.

SatansBestBuddy
Sep 26, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

I wish

Boneless Jogger
Apr 20, 2010
Joke's all on you guys for thinking Homestuck would actually ever end. :smug:

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

4:1 odds on vriska killing Lord English

Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008

Grapplejack posted:

4:1 odds on vriska killing Lord English

More like 8:8.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

October 8th is tomorrow time to see if the joke imgur url prediction was right.

Color Printer
May 9, 2011

You get used to it. I don't
even see the code. All I see
is Ipecac, Scapular, Polyphemus...


If it is, it's probably (if he noticed) going to be Hussie's trademark "sure let's just take that and run with it" thing. Did it with Lord English/British, among other things.

Dolash
Oct 23, 2008

aNYWAY,
tHAT'S REALLY ALL THERE IS,
tO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT,
oF ME GETTING HURT,


We're only nine days from the one-year anniversary of the hiatus, surely that's the sweeter Significant Date to shoot for?

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 4, 2004

USPOL July

Dolash posted:

We're only nine days from the one-year anniversary of the hiatus, surely that's the sweeter Significant Date to shoot for?

The old standard, 10/25, is closer to the one-month from the announcement though.

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Freak Futanari posted:

Nice transphobia, dickmunch.

:irony:???

I don't even know anymore.

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i will say that i prefer my impenetrable irony to be about something other than marginalized groups though

Cabbit
Jul 19, 2001

Is that everything you have?

Irony's pretty dumb and played out, see also Dirk Strider.

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
God, John and NannaSprite are going to have to double team the Batterwitch.

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001948 It's just about the OLDEST gag that hasn't paid off yet, in full.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Dolash posted:

Maybe not getting SBaHJ is the manner in which KC Green is recreating their terribleness? Instead of doing a good job of emulating the art style and writing he's getting it all wrong, which is a way of keeping with the comic being deliberately sloppy. At least, if I were him that's what I'd claim retroactively.

I missed reading your posts. I missed homestuck

paradoxGentleman
Dec 10, 2013

wheres the jester, I could do with some pointless nonsense right about now

Oh man, nice stoner Gamzee. I almost forgot that was a thing that existed at some point.

life_source
May 11, 2008

i got tired of looking at your edgy baby avatar that a 14-year old would be proud of
mirclas

i am - - - -

















- - ashamed
of him
and this entire
thread

King of Solomon
Oct 23, 2008

S S

Ahhh, that's the good stuff. Look at that loving insane artifacting near the end.

I've so missed real SBaHJ.

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CuddlyZombie
Nov 6, 2005

I wuv your brains.

i am so happy

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