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Ytlaya posted:Also, Sollux and Feferi are glubbing about feelings. I like Feferi, she is like a better Jade. Uh oh.
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Ytlaya posted:
To some extent.
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Ytlaya posted:
it's never clarified in the sense of, like, a guidebook of rpg classes, but the story does explore the concept further in the future even if the bulk of it is left to reader interpretation
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Jan 19, 2016 05:50
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Bilirubin posted:Except in [S] Seer: Remember you mean? We have already seen that one person can have multiple ghosts in the bubbles. Seeing that John also has a ghost doesn't mean that the ghost is the "real" John. There are Vriska ghosts in the dream bubbles from both god tier and normal, but Vriska is alive and kicking. e: Some classes' powers are explicitly laid out as the comic moves forward; others are still vague as of the current point in the comic.
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Jan 19, 2016 06:28
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Plom Bar posted:Uh oh. Agreed, it is wrong to like Feferi. Even Hussie admitted she sucked.
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Jan 19, 2016 06:29
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Agreed, it is wrong to like Feferi. Even Hussie admitted she sucked. Feferi certainly isn't interesting as a character, but she seems like a good person. As far as trolls go, my current ranking (in terms of some combination of "funny or interesting character" and "cool person") is something like: Terezi -> Kanaya -> Karkat -> Tavros -> Equius (because he's hilarious) -> Gamzee (also because he's hilarious) -> Vriska -> Eridan (cuz he's hilariously dumb) -> Sollux (not that interesting as a character but I like his way of talking/"accent") As for the ones I don't find that entertaining, Nepeta isn't very funny or interesting and Feferi, as mentioned, isn't very interesting even if she is a good person. Aradia also doesn't have a very clearly defined personality.
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Ytlaya posted:Feferi certainly isn't interesting as a character, but she seems like a good person. You'll be re-evaluating this list pretty soon.
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CidGregor posted:You'll be re-evaluating this list pretty soon. It'll be Equiuses all the way down.
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Ytlaya posted:As for the ones I don't find that entertaining, Nepeta isn't very funny or interesting and Feferi, as mentioned, isn't very interesting even if she is a good person. Aradia also doesn't have a very clearly defined personality.
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Jan 19, 2016 07:25
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But dear and precious, at least to someone. This is reminding me of those read-along thing people post on Tumblr, people who haven't read Homestuck before and go in blind while recording their thoughts as they go so people who've already read it can enjoy it vicariously again. It's a little surreal to watch someone go through a fast-forward evolution on the matter of Homestuck that took the rest of us multiple years to grind through.
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Jan 19, 2016 07:32
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He's horribly mistaken about Nepeta. She is the most vital and important character of the whole work, except maybe Bird Dave.
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Jan 19, 2016 07:35
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Burkion posted:He's horribly mistaken about Nepeta. She is the most vital and important character of the whole work, except maybe Bird Dave. Well Nepeta is canonically¹ our waifu.
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Jan 19, 2016 08:12
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It's funny how many people forget that Nepeta is easily the most fightingist of the trolls.
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Jan 19, 2016 08:14
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Ytlaya posted:The dude with a bunch of horse cocks in his room has some strange fetishes. That dude rules.
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Ytlaya posted:So, question regarding John's conversation with Vriska after prototyping Becquerel: Is Vriska saying that if she hadn't put John to sleep that, even though Becquerel wouldn't have been prototyped, that they would have been doomed to some failed timeline? And that, as a result, her doing that was not only "not evil" but even necessary? Vriska is right that these events had to happen, but she's wrong that she had to be the one to make them happen.
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I believe her point is more "why not have me be the one who made these things happen, since they're going to happen anyway?" ...which is kind of why the alpha timeline is her making them happen but just insert the Looper time travel theory scene here and be done with it.
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Exactly. There was no need for her to be the one responsible for these events, but she wants to feel important so she makes herself be responsible for them. Through this, her whole point about these events not being evil because they were necessary is invalidated, she's doing bad things which have bad consequences out of pure selfishness.
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Jan 19, 2016 10:40
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Nepetaquest 2016 is coming, have faith
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By the way, if you enjoy reading newbies' reactions to Homestuck, Nora-reads-Homestuck has just encountered Murderstuck. e: I mean threadmembers. Ytlaya, definitely not for you. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:By the way, if you enjoy reading newbies' reactions to Homestuck, Nora-reads-Homestuck has just encountered Murderstuck. I didn't read any contents aside from the header, but I noticed she says "Hi, I'm Nora, a 2X-year-old who got Homestuck recommended to me because I'm a HUGE fan of tropes and mythology." How exactly can someone be a fan of "tropes"? Doesn't "tropes" just mean "elements that commonly show up in fiction" or something?
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Ytlaya posted:I didn't read any contents aside from the header, but I was reading it and she says "Hi, I'm Nora, a 2X-year-old who got Homestuck recommended to me because I'm a HUGE fan of tropes and mythology." It's tumblr you learn to just overlook stuff like that. (Or you're like me and rarely ever go there)
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there is a whole generation whose understanding of media and stories has been ruined by tvtropes
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i used to be really into tropes, but now im more of a cliches kind of guy
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Ytlaya posted:I didn't read any contents aside from the header, but I noticed she says "Hi, I'm Nora, a 2X-year-old who got Homestuck recommended to me because I'm a HUGE fan of tropes and mythology." I think the translation is "I'm a fan of making some superficial amateur literary analysis where I look for how Work of Fiction A is similar to Work of Fiction B because for example both have a redheaded protagonist".
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She links to Tvtropes a lot, but mercifully she doesn't quote. Skip the links and you're good. e: I know, I know, Hussie and deadlines, but he said on December 25th he'd have an update for us in "about a month". Which would be next week. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Jan 19, 2016 18:08
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yeah hussie says a lot of things
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Keiya posted:It's funny how many people forget that Nepeta is easily the most fightingist of the trolls. I'm pretty sure objective testing showed that there's at least one troll fighting-er than her. *honk HONK*
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by that metric, kanaya is the most fightingest troll link is spoilers ytlaya hold your horses for now Tollymain fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Ytlaya posted:
It is kind of unclear, after reading Homestuck twice and reading a lot of analysis of it, whether the game mechanics are thrown in there for convenience to move the plot along early on, and just for the fun of making fun of RPGs, or whether the game mechanics are central to the plot and theme of the work.
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Robert J! Lake, a Homestuck composer, is going through financial hard times and may have to sell some of his musical equipment to get by. The post I link to has details on how you can throw him a few bucks, if that's your thing. e: fixed link. edit again: His own post Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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So Eridan just went nuts and killed Feferi and Kanaya (and maybe Sollux? but it said KO'd for him so I'm guessing he's still alive). They don't have dreamselves left, right? I'm more or less okay with Feferi dying, but Kanaya is one of my favorite characters. And he destroyed her orb also =( Did they really foreshadow this at all, aside from Eridan kind of being a douchebag? I get his duel with Sollux and Feferi attacking him as a result of that, but not his plan to ally himself with Jack.
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Ytlaya posted:So Eridan just went nuts and killed Feferi and Kanaya (and maybe Sollux? but it said KO'd for him so I'm guessing he's still alive). They kind of did yeah. Especially when you learn what the Prince class does.
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Ytlaya posted:So Eridan just went nuts and killed Feferi and Kanaya (and maybe Sollux? but it said KO'd for him so I'm guessing he's still alive). Welcome to horrorstuck.
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Ytlaya posted:So Eridan just went nuts and killed Feferi and Kanaya (and maybe Sollux? but it said KO'd for him so I'm guessing he's still alive). Isn't Eridan's hobby genocide?
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Ytlaya posted:So Eridan just went nuts and killed Feferi and Kanaya (and maybe Sollux? but it said KO'd for him so I'm guessing he's still alive). BTW, you are probably getting close to the End of Act 5 Part 1, and when you do get to that point, you should probably pause and watch this non-canonical but pretty awesome flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19Up0dLzNw (But don't watch it before then!)
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glowing-fish posted:BTW, you are probably getting close to the End of Act 5 Part 1, and when you do get to that point, you should probably pause and watch this non-canonical but pretty awesome flash: They are WAY past that point now.
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Plom Bar posted:They are WAY past that point now. Yeah, I've seen enough to watch that. It has some cool art/animation, though some of the character art was wonky in parts. edit: That video reminded me that Vriska already had her god tier before that fight, right? Her god tier lets her siphon away luck or something I'm guessing? That seems kind of ridiculously powerful. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Ytlaya posted:That seems kind of ridiculously powerful. Welcome to Homestuck power levels.
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Homestuck or, How To Be Ridiculously Powerful When You Aren't Hamstrung by Your Various Personal Failings and Compulsions and Sometimes, Even Then
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Ytlaya posted:Did they really foreshadow this at all, aside from Eridan kind of being a douchebag? I get his duel with Sollux and Feferi attacking him as a result of that, but not his plan to ally himself with Jack. This whole segment is "Hi, welcome to Homestuck, don't get too attached."
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