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YggiDee posted:We've had this thread since 2011, and in honour of the original work it should be as long and incomprehensible as possible. Making a new, clean, fresh, thread is an affront to the eternal cycle of Paradox Space.
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Well. Here we go again. I'm glad Terezi is on this voyage; Dirk and Rosebot talking to each other is kind of insufferable to read. And I like Rose.
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Oct 25, 2019 18:59
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i wish terezi was more brutally owning dirk like the trash moron he is
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Oct 25, 2019 19:00
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I want to get off Andrew hussie’s wild ride.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:06
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Dirk seems like a bastard man
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Oct 25, 2019 19:11
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I appreciate calling Dirk's meta-narration sections a "prattle", but that doesn't make me appreciate the prattling.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:12
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poo poo, now I need Scrollable Pesterlogs and the update bookmarklet again. Also, I need to remember how I finally handled bookmarking my page, because "Save Page" never worked for me and doesn't seem to be working now.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:14
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Urgh, gimme five minutes, I haven't had breakfast yet.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:14
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I didn't know that was you!
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Oct 25, 2019 19:22
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Sigh Okay. So. After psyching myself up to read the Epilogues when they came out I never actually did it. Do I actually have to loving read them before I start whatever the poo poo this is.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:28
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My ending is that the Crucible was a giant fist and Shepard used it to punch the Reaper King. Everyone she helped along the way cheered her on.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:30
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I didn't know that was you! It's not, I'm just facing up to the reality of reading Homestuck: Again. Color Printer posted:Sigh Probably, yeah. It picks up immediately where they left off.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:30
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Homestuck 2, who cares. They removed a ton of albums (almost all of the solo albums plus squiddles) and randomly slapped others together, removing all the track art in the process. I didn't think they could make me feel anything anymore, but I am unhappy about them messing with the music that way.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:30
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Nope! Hussie has provided a handy cheat sheet. Which I, who read the Epilogues, am finding useful, cause that was a lot of data to synthesize. e: Wait, they took out the solo albums? But one of those was my favorite!
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Oct 25, 2019 19:31
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Anyone find an RSS feed for the new website? Surely I'm not the last person in existence that still uses that...?
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Oct 25, 2019 19:36
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So, locations at the beginning of Homestuck 2, per epilogue recap On Theseus (way to make classical reference, good job Dirk): Dirk, Rosebot, Pursuing from Meat timeline: Kanaya, Roxy, Dave and Karkat Pursuing from Candy timeline: dead!Calliope possessing Jade, Davebot, Aradia. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 19:41
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^ Terezi, not Kanaya, on the Theseus.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:44
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On the album pages it says 'links to retired solo albums are coming soon'
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Oct 25, 2019 19:50
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furiously mashijg the keyboard when asked for input ARANEA: BRING HER BACK
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Oct 25, 2019 20:02
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The only thing I'm a little salty about is that the patreon says you'll get exclusive content at the $5/month and $20/month level. Not my favorite web model, but I guess that's 2019 for you!quote:- Supporting Homestuck at $5 and above gives you access to BONUS UPDATES from the Homestuck: Beyond Canon team. Bonus updates will show side stories, vignettes, and more details from the world of the main story.
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Oct 25, 2019 20:08
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Arsenic Lupin posted:So, locations at the beginning of Homestuck 2, per epilogue recap Quick question, what the gently caress is this
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Bobulus posted:Anyone find an RSS feed for the new website? Surely I'm not the last person in existence that still uses that...? Coming soon apparently: https://twitter.com/Kohilaice/status/1187798070915948545 Bobulus posted:The only thing I'm a little salty about is that the patreon says you'll get exclusive content at the $5/month and $20/month level. Not my favorite web model, but I guess that's 2019 for you! I imagine people will pretty quickly figure out a way to  that stuff anyway, but personally $5 is more than fine for me if the quality of the story is good. I wanted to throw money at Hussie for years but the only way to do it was merch really (and the kickstarter eventually).
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Oct 25, 2019 20:29
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Saw someone point out that Dirk has a body pillow of himself in his room. Yeah, that seems about right for the kind of guy he is.
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Oct 25, 2019 20:31
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He will possess the pillow at some point since his whole schtick is multiple selves. And also being a villain now I guess
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Oct 25, 2019 20:34
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Bogart posted:He will possess the pillow at some point since his whole schtick is multiple selves. And also being a villain now I guess In a sense he always was, seeing how a splinter of himself became Lord English. In another sense Lord English was never the villain.
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Oct 25, 2019 20:52
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Remember when I foolishly thought Xamag was more or less finished with Homestuck What a fool I was. What a foolish fool who foolishly believed foolish thoughts borne of a fool. Also guess I REALLY need to make that meat and candy omelette now huh
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Oct 25, 2019 20:56
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Bogart posted:Quick question, what the gently caress is this Did you read the Homestuck epilogues? If not, that's why it makes no sense. We have three (at least) realities colliding right now. One reality contains characters from the Meat epilogue. One reality contains characters from the Candy epilogue. One -- I argue, and I think there's proof -- contains the characters in Pesterquest. See https://mobile.twitter.com/Homestuck_Info/status/1169302136083009536 this flash from Pesterquest. Yeah, you're defs on the hook, Plom Bar. Even on the jut.
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Oct 25, 2019 21:00
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Plom Bar posted:Also guess I REALLY need to make that meat and candy omelette now huh Dang straight  Edit: Also, what with all the talk of games, I'm kind of hoping Caliborn is going to pull a lovely twist and show up somehow.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Dang straight There might be room for him in Pesterquest if they're doubling up on trolls.
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So what do we think is Dirk's plan here? (assuming, of course, that he's not pulling a narrative fast-one and deliberately showing up the wrong things.) - Deliberately searched out a planet where a sburb-type session is taking place (and is currently on-going). - Carefully collected a bunch of entry items and other game objects. - 'Mind control' terminal. It all seems to be points towards steering the session in a direction he wants, but I'm kind of stumped at what he actually wants at this point, other than, perhaps, to be stopped. edit: He also implies that their actions here will be result in continuity being upheld, so it could be as simple as starting the origin of the Game or something. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 21:09
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WHAT'S BEHIND THE CURTAIN!?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nope! Hussie has provided a handy cheat sheet. Which I, who read the Epilogues, am finding useful, cause that was a lot of data to synthesize. I regret reading that
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Plom Bar posted:Also guess I REALLY need to make that meat and candy omelette now huh Would candied meat be acceptable? Some nice candied bacon or something.
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RBA Starblade posted:I regret reading that This is what I meant by “what the gently caress is this”
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I've been waiting for enough time and distance from Homestuck to let me go back to the start and try to re-experience and re-integrate it, and it seems like Hussie was doing the same thing. Dirk as sort of a manifestation of a post-Homestuck cynical authorial voice from out of Hussie's head is interesting, even if it's rapidly pushing the author-audience relationship up from subtext to just text. There's a lot of obvious ways in which this seems to be modeled as a throwback to Early Homestuck, like the suggestion boxes and poking around Dirk's room. The biggest way though is that it feels like a return to Hussie engaging with the discourse around Homestuck directly, in the way that the story used to in its heyday of hyperactivity. At some point while the Dark Old Days set in, Hussie seemed to become sort of cagey and detached, and not as an affectation but as an actual stressed creator wrestling with their obligations. Even if it's so heavy with accumulated canon and story material at this point that it needs a cheat sheet for the epilogue, it's still somehow refreshing to see Homestuck written like this. Hopefully this'll be enough of a clean break creatively that things won't immediately get bogged down in intractable poo poo. Edit: Oh, there's a patreon. Okay, intractable poo poo ahoy. Dolash fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nope! Hussie has provided a handy cheat sheet. Which I, who read the Epilogues, am finding useful, cause that was a lot of data to synthesize. I still haven't read the Epilogue and the synopsis still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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MonsieurChoc posted:WHAT'S BEHIND THE CURTAIN!? The first and most obvious guess would be a 4th wall, but Dirk as a narrator already has no problem breaking that. So the second-most referential thing that could be under the sheet is the portal from Hiveswap.
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Having just read the epilogue synopses, I can safely say Jane is the worst, and Candy is horribly depressing, and reading the actual thing sounds very draining.
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Clawtopsy posted:furiously mashijg the keyboard when asked for input
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