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I'm thankful that Can Town will continue to prosper under The Mayor's guidance and vision.
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Absum posted:So if they're just sleeping does that mean Jane is going to revive Roxy and we'll have two? Also why are they surprised at Vriska being there if she never died? Jade should know she was on the meteor because she looked at them before they took off? Well, assuming this whole thing escaped the eye of Lord English, if Jade and Jane both were getting an information feed from )(IC they both "knew" Vriska was dead. For some reason I think both Rose and Roxy are going to get prototyped. Assuming less clown shenanigans, which is always a tough thing to assume.
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Nate RFB posted:I don't know why it never occurred to me that Vriska could just put them to sleep. It's been too long since she used those powers, I figured she was going just sort of clobber them with shenanigans. Well assuming the same thing happens as when Aranea tried putting Jane to sleep the fight will continue until they get the tiara top off her. That might allow for something to happen to the corpse.
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CJacobs posted:I do enjoy that the one time people were actually hoping for Hussie to do a bigass fakeout where none of the preceding leadup pages mattered, it turned out to not be one. The man works in mysterious and sometimes kinda annoying ways. Perhaps... not having a fakeout lovely twist... was the greatest fakeout lovely twist of all... efb GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 15:58
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You know, Vriska really only interacted with John among the humans. I'd be curious to see how her personality interacted with the others. - Dave and Vriska talking would be an exercise in frustration for Vriska, I think. When Dave doesn't like a conversation, he just leaves. In person, I imagine he'd just sorta walk off a lot. And 'not engaging' is basically the worst thing you can do to (undeveloped) Vriska. Look how much unemotional ghost Aradia pissed her off. - Rose and Vriska would be weird, because Vriska is smart enough to pick up on Rose's snarkiness (something Tavros and Eridan failed to do) but doesn't enjoy that sort of thing the way Kanaya does. I have no idea what Rose's reaction to Vriska's in-your-face attitude would be. - Jade and Vriska would also be weird, because they've got a same-but-different thing going on. Both Vriska and Jade are willing to think things through and do unconventional things to get the job done, but their motives are completely different. And unlike Dave and Rose, Jade is willing to tell people to their face when they piss her off. The Alpha kids and Vriska is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Jan 19, 2015 16:02
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I can't believe we only have two more Act Act Acts, one more Act Act Intermission, and one final overall Act before this grand quest of thrills and intrigue finally comes to a close in another five years.
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Jan 19, 2015 16:03
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Oxyclean posted:I read this as "Vriska is going to end up on everything" and just imagined the last part of Brodyquest, but with Vriska (appearing on everything.) I wouldn't put it past Vriska to do something like that either. Thanks for reminding me that this exists.
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Jan 19, 2015 16:40
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Bobulus posted:- Dave and Vriska talking would be an exercise in frustration for Vriska, I think. When Dave doesn't like a conversation, he just leaves. In person, I imagine he'd just sorta walk off a lot. And 'not engaging' is basically the worst thing you can do to (undeveloped) Vriska. Look how much unemotional ghost Aradia pissed her off. The obvious result of this is that she starts bullying the Mayor and/or generally terrorising can town. From there I can maybe see them ending up in a silly half-fake rivalry/blood feud deal, sort of like what she had going on with Eridan except not murderously pathetic (because Dave is chill and couldn't harbour a one sided hatecrush if he tried) I can't see them not interacting at all, because Dave's relationship with the Mayor is too precious for her to not try to gently caress with.
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Jan 19, 2015 16:46
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I can't stop associating the phrase "he/she's back" with that one track from Madworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC6vcsdd7LY
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Jan 19, 2015 17:24
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Renaissance Robot posted:The obvious result of this is that she starts bullying the Mayor and/or generally terrorising can town. From there I can maybe see them ending up in a silly half-fake rivalry/blood feud deal, sort of like what she had going on with Eridan except not murderously pathetic (because Dave is chill and couldn't harbour a one sided hatecrush if he tried) Except that Vriska will love the Mayor because everybody loves the Mayor. More likely she, Dave, and Karkat are in a blood feud as they fight over his attention.
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Jan 19, 2015 17:37
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Uuh, didn't the meteor crew have a problem with how to actually stop the meteor? Jade solved it originally, but now... Is the first post-pause update going to be them crashing directly into a planet and dying? Also the new Paradox Space seems promising. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Rand Brittain posted:Except that Vriska will love the Mayor because everybody loves the Mayor. I didn't say she wouldn't. Not-ghost Vriska is horrible at displaying affection though.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:00
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As other people said before, Vriska has gone through a growth arc at least twice now with no lasting consequences whatsoever, and I am dead tired of her. Her character is a sickly, rotting thing that needs to be taken behind the shed and have its brains blown off.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:08
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Weird how everyone who hates Vriska thinks "shuffling quietly out of the story and into the afterlife" was some terrific and satisfactory final arc for the character.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:11
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The one crucial difference is that this is the only time Vriska's had her plot-central superstardom forced on her, instead of actively seeking it out to the embarrassment of herself and everyone else. That might change her attitude a little, who knows. One thing's for sure, she's one of the very few characters left in this sludgy mess of a story with any loving initiative, and I'll take her over the Alpha Kids ten thousand times after what we suffered through with them.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:15
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I mantain that the Alpha Kids are cool, if not quite as cool as their Beta counterparts. I'd gladly see more of them over more Vriska.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:27
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WAMPA_STOMPA posted:All of Act 6 has been worth it to bring Vriska back. The best trolls, and humans, together again for the first time. And also Vriska.
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ThaumPenguin posted:Uuh, didn't the meteor crew have a problem with how to actually stop the meteor? Jade solved it originally, but now... We know what they do after this. With Jade 'missing', all the Batterwitch's plans are derailed, so the kids have time stage a jailbreak for Roxy.
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Bobulus posted:We know what they do after this. With Jade 'missing', all the Batterwitch's plans are derailed, so the kids have time stage a jailbreak for Roxy. Good point. But seriously, how are they going to stop the meteor. ThaumPenguin fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 19:17
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:I can't believe we only have two more Act Act Acts, one more Act Act Intermission, and one final overall Act before this grand quest of thrills and intrigue finally comes to a close in another five years. Speaking of half a page, I wonder if they still let Gamzee keep the troll corpses this time. ThaumPenguin posted:Good point.
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paradoxGentleman posted:As other people said before, Vriska has gone through a growth arc at least twice now with no lasting consequences whatsoever, and I am dead tired of her. Her character is a sickly, rotting thing that needs to be taken behind the shed and have its brains blown off. What kind of garbage opinion is this? What kind of insane person would think this, why- paradoxGentleman posted:I mantain that the Alpha Kids are cool, if not quite as cool as their Beta counterparts. I'd gladly see more of them over more Vriska. Ah, okay, that explains it.
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Quantum Toast posted:At least three of them can fly to safety, and probably carry the ones who can't. Also Rose isn't drunk anymore so she can probably pick just the right moment to jump off into space and doof gracefully down by the slab of the jaded fool's ennui or wherever they land on LOMAX.
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The way I always interpreted it is that if Vriska had actually stayed alive, her development from talking to John would have had a chance to stick, but she died and being the dreambubbles undid everything. Now she got to stay alive, so who knows how she turned out.
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Prison Warden posted:What kind of garbage opinion is this? What kind of insane person would think this, why- I was on my way towards liking her when she was alive and it seemed like John was having a positive effect on her, but then she died, and thousands of pages later, we find her in the dreambubbles, not having learned anything and still being as self-centered and damaging as ever. I ask you this: why am I supposed to like her? Because I'm clearly missing something here, since she is, if not the most popular troll, at least one of the most popular ones. e: Fortis posted:The way I always interpreted it is that if Vriska had actually stayed alive, her development from talking to John would have had a chance to stick, but she died and being the dreambubbles undid everything. Now she got to stay alive, so who knows how she turned out. paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 19:53
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paradoxGentleman posted:I seriously think that Vriska isn't all that great what
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This poo poo is exactly why Vriska is the best character. So divisive 
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How can anyone not like Vriska, the story can only get better now that she's finally in the plot again. I hope we get to see some of the changes that happened. For example, Vriska strikes me as exactly the sort of person to call Rose out on her drinking especially since no one else on the meteor was going to do it.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I know you're being facetious, but I seriously think that Vriska isn't all that great; she's an amoral character, of the kind that makes you wish that they would just stop loving things up for everyone else instead of snickering at their antics; a teenager with the power to do incredible amounts of damage. On top of that she just isn't fun to read about : I end up sympathizing for her victims more often than not. I'd say Karkat is the most popular troll, if only because when we heard his rant everyone was pretty much in agreement that it ruled.
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Renaissance Robot posted:This poo poo is exactly why Vriska is the best character. So divisive vriskas very polarizing. she evokes an emotion.
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Classtoise posted:I'd say Karkat is the most popular troll, if only because when we heard his rant everyone was pretty much in agreement that it ruled. Karkat's tiny frame has single-handedly supported this comic for years now. He is our rock.
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Supercar Gautier posted:Weird how everyone who hates Vriska thinks "shuffling quietly out of the story and into the afterlife" was some terrific and satisfactory final arc for the character. Well she's had around 3 satisfying and logical ends to her character thus far.
And now she needs a 4th end and I can't help but think she'll just pull a Tavros where she just gets the exact same development again but from a slightly different direction except now it is much more uninteresting because it has already happened.
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Karkat should have stayed dead because he had a satisfying logical conclusion to his character when he pacified Gamzee. Dave should have stayed dead because he had a satisfying logical conclusion to his character when he helped detonate the Tumor. These are things that no one says, why is it only Vriska that makes people have a difficult time conceiving that the story is, like, ongoing.
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paranoid randroid posted:Karkat should have stayed dead because he had a satisfying logical conclusion to his character when he pacified Gamzee. But Karkat and Dave didn't die when those things happened. Well Dave did but he was on a quest crypt, so it didn't count.
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paranoid randroid posted:Karkat should have stayed dead because he had a satisfying logical conclusion to his character when he pacified Gamzee. Except Dave coming back from the dead (sort of) had him deciding that timetravel was not something he should gently caress around with and he has sworn it off completely despite that being his primary power, and has time and again insisted he's no hero, eventually acting in heroic manner and dying as such. And Karkat JUST died and we have no loving clue what character development he'll have or ignore. It's not that she had 3 separate plot roundups. It's that she had 3 separate plot roundups that ended up almost the exact same way and amounted in "But Vriska refused to change"
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Karkat got offed as an object lesson by Robo-Jane. The point is, every character in the story has pretty much had new issues introduced to replace their old ones - Karkat's treating his friends like time shares, Dave's refusing to do anything, Rose got drunk, Kanaya.... is still boring. "No one learns their lesson" is hardly a problem unique to Vriska. e. Except Terezi. She gets credit for pulling her head out of her rear end long enough to do something constructive. Even if she did pretty much die and then stop existing immediately afterwards.
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Fortis posted:The way I always interpreted it is that if Vriska had actually stayed alive, her development from talking to John would have had a chance to stick, but she died and being the dreambubbles undid everything. Now she got to stay alive, so who knows how she turned out. It's been a long time, but when she died, didn't she want to go on a human date with John? How's she gonna feel when she finds out some recovering alcoholic from a not-even-beta timeline beat her to it?
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Homestuck: It's Like Groundhog Day, But If a Repeating February 2nd Were an Interminable April 13th, and If Bill Murray Were an Alien Teenager with Blue Blood and and a Superiority Complex
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Oh my god I'm arguing about Degrassi With Bugpeople - it really is Vriskatime again.
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