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This thread will endure We've still got the game to wait for and endlessly complain about
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paranoid randroid posted:that cyanide capsule was implanted in your molar for a reason I've been hanging out by the stump for no reason??
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Tunicate posted:I've been hanging out by the stump for no reason?? Wait, what stump are you at? Because I think I might be waiting at the wrong stump. I don't see any other people, just wolves. Follow up question: what is the best way to fight off about thirty to forty wolves?
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Mar 29, 2016 23:28
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John please don't call your great grandmother/AU mother hot please thank you
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I do kinda dislike that the retcon erased some quality interactions, and the only comment we're getting on it is some vague 'eh, didn't happen'. Karkat's conversation with Meenah, and her subsequent moment of sincere emotion created some genuine pathos for the character that was otherwise lacking in the horrible lucre-obsessed seabitch. As much as I loved Aranea's big reveal, I'm starting to feel like the Retcon, and the events that led up to it, were a mistake from a narrative standpoint. Creating the usual sense of frustration that I have at GRRM: "What the gently caress was the point of the last 300 pages, then!?"
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Mar 29, 2016 23:33
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I am ready for Homestuck to end so that I, too, can end
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Mar 29, 2016 23:33
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Poultron posted:I am ready for Homestuck to end so that I, too, can end Why wait? You can't take it with you
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Mar 29, 2016 23:35
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Burkion posted:John please don't call your great grandmother/AU mother hot please thank you
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WAR FOOT posted:Why wait? You can't take it with you On the contrary. I will be buried with a full, hard-disc copy of Homestuck
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Mar 29, 2016 23:40
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The more I look at the last update, the more I'm convinced that Union Jack is actually Lord English. Spades Slick is even delivering him the staff, and the Felt.
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Mar 29, 2016 23:41
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Poultron posted:On the contrary. I will be buried with a full, hard-disc copy of Homestuck I could swear an offline version of Homestuck was one of the Kickstarter rewards
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Toxxupation posted:Quite literally every joke in homestuck has been beaten into the ground endlessly, to the point where it's become an active negative of the story as written that every single loving moment and plot beat is immediately undercut or kneecapped through a thin veneer of irony You seem to have missed Dirk (and thus also Hussie) explaining that his philosophy on irony is built on a core of "meaning it." I wish I could remember where in the comic this is, because I don't know where to look for it and act six is huge.
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Mar 29, 2016 23:56
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yes, the central irony of homestuck is that it has been 100% sincere all along
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Burkion posted:John please don't call your great grandmother/AU mother hot please thank you Continuing the comic's strong tradition of John's hot mom.
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Toxxupation posted:like, john reacting like a mature adult over X2 MELTDOWN COMBO or whatever shitass predictable non-"joke" reaction everyone expected, Karkat actually missing his boyfriend over having some bucket-based mishap or immediately goofed on for being a loud self-important fool, these are all Good Story Moments, Not Bad Ones Don't get me wrong I'm glad that the comic is progressing along what can conceivably be called a "plot" toward what is presumably an "ending". I've been a vocal critic of the comic's progression being waylaid by meaningless horseshit or events immediately invalidated on a whim. However the offbeat humor is what attracted me to MSPA in the first place, and I'm rather disappointed that Hussie has seemingly expunged it completely in the final act.
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Mar 30, 2016 00:27
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Follow up question: what is the best way to fight off about thirty to forty wolves? Cross-class into barbarian.
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Mar 30, 2016 00:29
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Don't get me wrong I'm glad that the comic is progressing along what can conceivably be called a "plot" toward what is presumably an "ending". I've been a vocal critic of the comic's progression being waylaid by meaningless horseshit or events immediately invalidated on a whim. However the offbeat humor is what attracted me to MSPA in the first place, and I'm rather disappointed that Hussie has seemingly expunged it completely in the final act. The central character reacts to the revelation that a baked goods mascot's true identity is Gigahitler Fishmagician with a shrug and a "yeah that checks out" while our deuteragonist tries and fails to rally an army of clone ghosts to battle an atemporal leprechaun demon from beyond the stars. We remain sufficiently offbeat.
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Mar 30, 2016 00:31
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Wait, what stump are you at? Because I think I might be waiting at the wrong stump. I don't see any other people, just wolves. no no, you're at the right place
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Don't get me wrong I'm glad that the comic is progressing along what can conceivably be called a "plot" toward what is presumably an "ending". I've been a vocal critic of the comic's progression being waylaid by meaningless horseshit or events immediately invalidated on a whim. However the offbeat humor is what attracted me to MSPA in the first place, and I'm rather disappointed that Hussie has seemingly expunged it completely in the final act. 
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we just had an update where a guy with a rocket rear end dumped a bunch of idiot leprechauns out of an oven before flying off to fight himself adn you guys are acting like this poo poo is suddenly Proust
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Mar 30, 2016 00:59
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Ammat The Ankh posted:However the offbeat humor is what attracted me to MSPA in the first place, and I'm rather disappointed that Hussie has seemingly expunged it completely in the final act. Karkat posted:CAN I BE AT LEAST A *LITTLE* MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIKE DOOMED EQUIUS #45832, WHO IS WEARING A SAUCY MAID OUTFIT FOR SOME loving REASON?!
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Mar 30, 2016 01:11
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It seems like a reasonable way to show that John has matured since he was 13.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:24
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no but you see they're not jokes about data structures and therefore I can't possibly relate
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Mar 30, 2016 01:25
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Hussie, we need more updates. The rust is coming off the gears. The terrible engine is screeching to life once more. Noxious black smoke clouds stream from every opening, blasting out the accumulated dust and grime. We're discussing Homestuck again.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:27
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Don't get me wrong I'm glad that the comic is progressing along what can conceivably be called a "plot" toward what is presumably an "ending". I've been a vocal critic of the comic's progression being waylaid by meaningless horseshit or events immediately invalidated on a whim. However the offbeat humor is what attracted me to MSPA in the first place, and I'm rather disappointed that Hussie has seemingly expunged it completely in the final act. oh no doubt
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Dolash posted:We're discussing Homestuck again. It's beautiful, is it not?
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paranoid randroid posted:we just had an update where a guy with a rocket rear end dumped a bunch of idiot leprechauns out of an oven before flying off to fight himself adn you guys are acting like this poo poo is suddenly Proust I'm obviously exaggerating a bit, but it feels as if the overall tone has shifted significantly away from what it was in the first four or five acts. Or maybe it's just that the humor is falling a little flat to me? Hell, I've never gone back to reread the earlier chapters past chapter one, maybe most of the jokes would fall flat to the me of today. The Spades Slick update was very good however and that's worth mentioning.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I'm obviously exaggerating a bit, but it feels as if the overall tone has shifted significantly away from what it was in the first four or five acts. Bro, the whole webcomic doesn't need to be homogeneously funny. poo poo is getting real!
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Yeah I felt like parts of the last update were a bit lacking. I think it's probably because Hussie normally just writes whatever the hell he wants, wherasnow he has to get serious and write the scenes that need to happen for this story to finally end.
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Mar 30, 2016 01:38
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Hell, I've never gone back to reread the earlier chapters past chapter one, maybe most of the jokes would fall flat to the me of today. as a guy who's done this three times: it would. trust me on that one
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I feel the newsposts are what's setting my perceived tone. Hussie seems joyless and beaten. A shadow of the man who answered questions with obesity jokes.
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Akett posted:You seem to have missed Dirk (and thus also Hussie) explaining that his philosophy on irony is built on a core of "meaning it." I wish I could remember where in the comic this is, because I don't know where to look for it and act six is huge. Luckily, TVTropes has it covered on the quote page for irony: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Irony
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Mar 30, 2016 02:07
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Just checked Instagram, no Saucy Maid Equius cosplay just yet.
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Mar 30, 2016 02:26
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Saucy maid Equius came out forever ago.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I'm obviously exaggerating a bit, but it feels as if the overall tone has shifted significantly away from what it was in the first four or five acts. I don't know if there's a "no poo poo" big enough for this situation
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Jia posted:I don't know if there's a "no poo poo" big enough for this situation  I can't even tell anymore, since it's been literally half a decade since I read the earlier acts, and everyone has a million different opinions on whether the comic is better, worse, or exactly the same as it used to be.
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Mar 30, 2016 02:44
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Saucy maid Equius came out forever ago. Then there's no excuse for no one cosplaying in him. Everyone should cosplay Maid Equius all the time forever. Also, it's kind of ironic that Equius is dressed as a maid considering he had a crush on Aradia who is also a Maid.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Also, it's kind of ironic that Equius is dressed as a maid considering he had a crush on Aradia who is also a Maid. How...scandalous.
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Mar 30, 2016 02:58
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The sweaty alternian maid, by troll Crassius Curio
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