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Plom Bar posted:HEY THAT'S A NEAT GUN HANGING ON THAT WALL DON'T YOU THINK SO ANTON CHEKHOV HUH HUH DON'T YA THINK??.  Giggle.quote:Similarly, Dave never passes up an opportunity to bring up his Reluctant Hero bit, but something has to come of the contrast of his words and his deeds (when Jade was killed in the Game Over timeline, Dave did not hesitate to leap into action in a manner that was practically soundtracked by Bonnie Tyler). And Jade just had her conversation with Lady Masse that entails a big important role she's stuck waiting in the sidelines to play. quote:John hasn't really had much character development at all. He's been sort of passively moving through the story, being lead around by one force or another, rarely taking any action on his own initiative.
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Plom Bar posted:John, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have any loose character growth threads dangling. Actually, thinking on it, John hasn't really had much character development at all. He's been sort of passively moving through the story, being lead around by one force or another, rarely taking any action on his own initiative. He's formidable and more than capable, but in general, I'd say that he, as a person, has evolved the least, and stands to evolve the least in the remaining story. You mean like, say, a video game protagonist?
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So this probably falls under 'incredibly obvious poo poo', but I twigged onto something a little bit ago that I never noticed before. It's been a reasonably popular theory that SBURB itself will somehow turn out to be the ultimate villain of the story, and there was that little speech about how there's always a bigger villain too. And then I went over Caliborn's discussion of his future, and remembered that ARquissprite ended up as part of Lord English. A character that's part troll, part AI, and part game construct- so, in a way, the big baddie was part SBURB all along.
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kvx687 posted:So this probably falls under 'incredibly obvious poo poo', but I twigged onto something a little bit ago that I never noticed before. It's been a reasonably popular theory that SBURB itself will somehow turn out to be the ultimate villain of the story, and there was that little speech about how there's always a bigger villain too. And then I went over Caliborn's discussion of his future, and remembered that ARquissprite ended up as part of Lord English. A character that's part troll, part AI, and part game construct- so, in a way, the big baddie was part SBURB all along. I honestly think Vriska's gonna be involved in the creation of Skaia somehow, probably being the thing that decides where the meteors go, making her responsible for unfathomable destruction and also being an ironic punishment for her: she's the person doing one of the most important things in all of paradox space, but she's only able to do that one job. As a bonus you can't spell Vriska without most of Skaia, though that's almost certainly a happy coincidence.
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Akett posted:As a bonus you can't spell Vriska without most of Skaia, though that's almost certainly a happy coincidence. That's not even a coincidence. That barely even qualifies as "a thing that is trivially true".
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you also cant spell Vriska without Risk, which says to me that shes going to be doomed to play against someone who just sits in Australia for hours and hours until everyone else quits and they win by default e. her light powers will be of no help because if youre stuck playing Risk then you are already, by definition, poo poo out of luck
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You can't spell "Vriska Serket" without "Taker revs ski", which means Vriska (the Thief, or taker) will drive a snowmobile directly into the heart of Lord English.
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Plom Bar posted:You can't spell "Vriska Serket" without "Taker revs ski", which means Vriska (the Thief, or taker) will drive a snowmobile directly into the heart of Lord English. and then Meenah suplexes him through a table
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paranoid randroid posted:and then Meenah suplexes him through a table Whose name you can't spell without "Exes hip enema" which is unfortunate news for either Aranea or Vriska.
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Plom Bar posted:"Taker revs ski" Alpine Taker was the best gimmick 
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Plom Bar posted:Whose name you can't spell without "Exes hip enema" which is unfortunate news for either Aranea or Vriska. You can't spell "Aranea Serket" without "Karate Ranees" so, uhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Who What Now posted:That's not even a coincidence. That barely even qualifies as "a thing that is trivially true". You're absolutely right. I just thought I'd pad my odd prediction with a goofy "evidence" that I noticed.
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paranoid randroid posted:you also cant spell Vriska without Risk, which says to me that shes going to be doomed to play against someone who just sits in Australia for hours and hours until everyone else quits and they win by default Now I want to see the Homestuck cast playing Diplomacy.
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Mar 19, 2016 02:14
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Keiya posted:Now I want to see the Homestuck cast playing Diplomacy. Terezi annihilates everyone without breaking a sweat, grinning like a shark the whole time.
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paranoid randroid posted:Terezi annihilates everyone without breaking a sweat, grinning like a shark the whole time.
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Poison Mushroom posted:Everyone except Vriska, who seems poised to win, but then falls victim to her own hubris. This, of course, was Terezi's plan all along. or it comes down to just the two of them, at which point they announce theyre forming the Union of Austro-Hungary-Turkey and declare a joint victory. objections that such a thing is "totally loving stupid" and "not even in the rules" are overruled with loud, self-satisfied laughter. paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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paranoid randroid posted:or it comes down to just the two of them, at which point they announce theyre forming the Union of Austro-Hungary-Turkey and declare a joint victory. objections that such a thing is "totally loving stupid" and "not even in the rules" are overruled with loud, self-satisfied laughter. Off to the side, Eridan is playing Italy and looking sad.
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Nepeta and Dave took their tanks off the board and are now in the corner playing pretend. Dave has stacked his into a 'tanka-zord', Nepeta's are actually Leopard-tanks and pounce on the tanka-zord. They are the only ones actually having fun with the game.
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Nah, John would have fun. He'd be terrible at it, of course, but he'd have fun anyway.
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i think Diplomacy could drive even John to experience real, powerful feelings of hatred.
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Equius accidentally breaks all the pieces, sweats all over the board. Game over.
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John keeps asking if anybody wants to play Cards Against Humanity or Munchkin instead.
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Kanaya, in spite of having knowledge of the rules and common strategies bordering on encyclopedic, is consistently the first player out.
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creationist believer posted:CCG tries to ally with PCG because FCG has been trying to invade the whole game. But suddenly PCG stabs him in the back and starts helping FCG. CCG becomes FCG and retaliates against PCG, who used to be CCG. Somehow the neutral territories end up winning. Dave keeps feeding the Neutral territories somehow. "Go plucky Sweden!"
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Brb, making the "Homestuck boardgame night AU" tumblr. It's a testament to Hussie's writing and Homestuck's lasting success that you can pick any mundane thing and run the cast through it and come up with a set of plausible scenarios off the top of your head. It's video game night. Jade is the undisputed queen of the FPS deathmatch and gets uncomfortably vulgar over Vent. Everyone has a youtube channel. John makes a pranking series but instead of traumatizing his friends or getting his rear end beat he does old-timey vaudeville slapstick. The trolls go shoe-shopping. Feferi buys crocs. Edit: Boardgame night would come to a screeching halt after they start playing Mafia and Karkat gets killed off first every time without fail, leading to a category-5 shouty meltdown. Dolash fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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Dolash posted:Edit: Boardgame night would come to a screeching halt after they start playing Mafia and Karkat gets killed off first every time without fail, leading to a category-5 shouty meltdown.
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Dolash posted:Brb, making the "Homestuck boardgame night AU" tumblr. It's a testament to Hussie's writing and Homestuck's lasting success that you can pick any mundane thing and run the cast through it and come up with a set of plausible scenarios off the top of your head. I read somewhere that if you want to write good characters, one of the best ways to develop and explore their personalities is to put them into random situations and think about how they'd act. I wonder how many bullshit things Hussie put the individual kids and trolls through before they got introduced.
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Poker night. It's a dead heat between Dave and Dirk. Rose was holding her own better than the others, until some one poured a drink.
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Terezi would do great but she's not allowed to play because she gets the cards all sticky.
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That's one we can all play.
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Remember that time Tavros danced? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dJtIcZzSc That was fun.
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They play Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes every so often when they want to watch Karkat going over 9000 on the apeshit scale.
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