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Cran posted:The password pages were added later? M, my kayfabe... More than that, all the pages in which John's arm, John's glowing essence, and oil slicks displaced from John's denizen encounter were originally posted WITHOUT those things and retconned in much later.
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I'm happy people are reading and liking it now that the dust has settled
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Feb 22, 2017 18:55
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Plom Bar posted:More than that, all the pages in which John's arm, John's glowing essence, and oil slicks displaced from John's denizen encounter were originally posted WITHOUT those things and retconned in much later. So I heard, took the wind out of my sails a bit. The original pages are still on the website, even. Worth it for the double-takes, but it makes me wonder how far in advance that twist was actually planned. It's hard glean that kind of meta info as a new reader since MSPA's forums are kaput and Hussie scrubbed his Q&As.
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Cran posted:So I heard, took the wind out of my sails a bit. The original pages are still on the website, even. Worth it for the double-takes, but it makes me wonder how far in advance that twist was actually planned. Well, there are some things that were hinted at pretty early. Remember this page, way back in act 2 or 3?  See something familiar on one of the monitors on the right?
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Spellman posted:I'm happy people are reading and liking it now that the dust has settled Well, at least one person.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Well, at least one person. There've been a handful in this thread.
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It doesn't help that the communities have sorta dried up. Not a lot of pushing.
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Cran posted:It doesn't help that the communities have sorta dried up. Not a lot of pushing. I started reading shortly after the start of the gigapause, the community seemed like it had died down already back then.
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Strangely, the cessation of content for over a year is a great way to dissolve a community, especially when you don't have a projected date for content to begin again.
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I think the archive reader has a very different time, but I don't think it's good to compare Acts 1-3 to Act 6. iirc, Acts 1-3 happened over the course of like... A few months, and were constantly introducing new and exciting elements of worldbuilding. I don't remember how long the 'start' of Act 6 took, but nothing new was really introduced, it was just Teen Relationship Stuff. Which, yes, has always been part of Homestuck, but normally there has been more happening in terms of the overarching story. Even after something happens and they enter the game, we flash forward to... Nothing happening. This was probably made more apparent by the fact that the pacing of Homestuck's updates slowed drastically for the live readers, and we had been spoiled rotten by the lightning pace of the trollocalypse. Even with my disappointment in nearly everything post-retcon, I still wouldn't trade the OH gently caress OH gently caress OH gently caress feeling of livereading the Trollocalypse. That was some primo poo poo right there.
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I guess I was more into it because the intermissions with Team Meteor, Caliborn, and Meenahquest filled my quota for Things Happening, and I'm a sucker for Teen Relationship Stuff if it's not Arrow-tier balls. Narratively, much of Act 6 is weak, but it had all my favorite parts, too. A6A5A1x2, Game Over, Dave and Dirk, just about every Roxy scene, Suplex... Nothing happening in the game itself was meh, but I give it a by for being appropriately unsettling at the outset when the new, exciting adventure turned out to be a quartet of desolate wastelands, leaving a bunch of sheltered, lonely, damaged kids with four planets of space, six months of time, and only each other for company. I have my issues, but they're not as much with Act 6 as they are with the overall structure of Lord English's arc and how it kind of sucked the life out of more interesting villains. Which...became mostly apparent in Act 6.
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Despite the overall lethargy people had by the end of the comic, people found individual updates entertaining/funny, which usually consisted of 5-20 pages dumped onto the site per day, even throughout Act 6. It was usually weeks later when people would say, "[This] or [that] was kind of bullshit, wasn't it?", or during the lengthy pauses. Once in a while someone would have a meltdown about how Vriska should've stayed dead or how Dirk is an awful human being, but updates were usually praised as they rolled out
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In tangentally-related-to-homestuck news, Dante Basco recently launched a kickstarter to make a Rufio prequel movie. Currently it has already reached its minimum funding goal. So that's a thing that's happening.
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CidGregor posted:In tangentally-related-to-homestuck news, Dante Basco recently launched a kickstarter to make a Rufio prequel movie. Currently it has already reached its minimum funding goal. Good for him! He's always seemed like a cool dude.
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You know what, Cran? I'm glad to hear it holds up.
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I'm glad, too. I read the whole thing the week before the last big pause ended, so I got to be there while the RetJohn (adding the passwords) was happening and flummoxed by the brilliance of it. I loved it a lot, still do, and disagree with the overall "oh, I outgrew Homestuck"/"Homestuck was good before you got here"/"Homestuck always sucked, you fools just didn't notice" atmosphere of this thread.
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For the John retcons, I just wish Hussie had a cookie given to the browser after the reveal that had the pages display the updated pictures/flashes instead. But I guess giving archival readers a different reading experience through cryptic foreshadowing is a pretty homestuck style thing in itself so whatever.
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"flummoxed by the brilliance of the retjohn" lmbo
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The retJohn was an interesting idea that wasn't used to its full potential, or very well at all honestly. That's my hot take on this year old issue.
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It just didn't feel worth it to go back and see the REMIXED TIMELINE. Like, okay, this character lives, sure, we're just gonna ignore how that changes the entirety of the Meteor Crew's dynamic, whatever. Maybe I'll go back and reread HS one day. But I'll probably stop when they introduce the fuckin Beforus trolls again because christ, who thought that was a good idea.
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i liked homestuck as it updated and i liked how it ended and i still like it Ask me anything
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thanks alot assbag posted:i liked homestuck as it updated and i liked how it ended and i still like it Are you me
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thanks alot assbag posted:i liked homestuck as it updated and i liked how it ended and i still like it What are you hoping the game will be like? Did you enjoy the snapchats? Have you ever watched a movie you've never seen before just because you saw it referenced in Homestuck?
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I'd seen Con Air before I read Homestuck, but when I saw the movie again on cable within the last few years, I couldn't help but laugh when How Do I Live played at the end.
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Feb 24, 2017 07:53
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Plom Bar posted:Are you me he's me, bitch
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I watched Con Air this morning because of Homestuck and it is so much better than it has any right to be.
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Con Air is the best chapter of Homestuck.
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I catch Hook every couple of years. It shows its age, but it's still plenty fun. Though I didn't realize that was Dante Basco until HS pointed it out. And come to think of it, I haven't watched it since Robin Williams died. Uh.
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Remember the man for his successes and mourn his loss for what happened, but do not let that stop you from enjoying his work. I don't think he would like people not smiling.
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Clawtopsy posted:Remember the man for his successes and mourn his loss for what happened, but do not let that stop you from enjoying his work. I don't think he would like people not smiling. Anyone else take a second to realize this was about Williams and not Hussie
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:What are you hoping the game will be like? The game will be good and funny and a low-budget indie game, the snapchats were fine (i think their existence kind of negates the end of the comic but whatever), and no why would I bother
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thanks alot assbag posted:The game will be good and funny and a low-budget indie game, the snapchats were fine (i think their existence kind of negates the end of the comic but whatever), and no why would I bother Because Conair is actually pretty fun.
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thanks alot assbag posted:The game will be good and funny and a low-budget indie game, the snapchats were fine (i think their existence kind of negates the end of the comic but whatever), and no why would I bother I dunno, I think they actually fit in pretty well thematically at least--'the story' is over, and thus our semi-omniscient narrative window into happenings closes, and the characters themselves take responsibility for the depiction of events--actually, within the context of the story, they've transcended being 'characters' and emerged from their trials as self-actualized 'people,' who don't have arcs, don't need to perceive themselves in grand narrative terms, can be creative without falling down defensive navel-gazing pits of metaironic self-consciousness, and thus mostly tweet/snap inane bs about their lives when given the burden of narrative responsibility. Note: I can only sustain this fiction of thematic cohesion as long as I do not pay attention to or read the snapchat stuff at all. I'm sure it will prove me wrong before too long. 
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The snapchats were an excellent vehicle for the credits, a neat idea for the halloween antics, but wholly unsuitable for the Jane assassination plot story.
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Plom Bar posted:The snapchats were an excellent vehicle for the credits, a neat idea for the halloween antics, but wholly unsuitable for the Jane assassination plot story. 
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The Jane-assassination part of the snapchats felt like a 60-year-old's idea of what the kids are up to these days. "You were kidnapped? Where are you?" "Hang on let me Snapchat you a selfie of where they took me"
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Bogart posted:Strangely, the cessation of content for over a year is a great way to dissolve a community, especially when you don't have a projected date for content to begin again. I mean, a gaggle of hiatuses will do that anyways, but it seems weird given that the forums were a major source of in-jokes, names, and minor plot threads. It's not like it was a thing Hussie made out of some obligation, as it was one of the major wells he went to for community input after killing text commands.
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Plom Bar posted:At the outset of the kickstarter, he said that his next big project after Homestuck will be making games, and that's exactly what he's doing now. Thinking on it, this explains why he's stubbornly pressing on with Hiveswap in spite of (reportedly) having no money and having every reason in the world to give up on it entirely.
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