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So, if this is as much as a Plato's Allegory of the Cave reference as it seems to be then I suppose Terezi is about to achieve enlightenment, I hope this comes in the form of her ruining both Rose and Dirk's plans to create a species wide forever war.
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Terezi exited the scene in order to avoid Dirk's narrative based omniscience, didn't she? Dirk is gonna get gigawrecked by underestimating Terezi.
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Feb 15, 2020 17:06
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That cold little "More or less." slew me.
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Alitur posted:Terezi exited the scene in order to avoid Dirk's narrative based omniscience, didn't she? this is perfectly set up imo, since Dirk is guaranteed to be distracted by: -the philosophizing and alchemizing bullshit he craves, and, -being unable to fight the urge to show terezi how not mad he is by ignoring her he knows this about himself, of course, but can't help but to act as he is anyway- and having Dirk be the one to identify and outline this fact would be all the sweeter if him being him is what ends up letting Terezi gently caress his plans to all hell
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Feb 15, 2020 17:31
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Was anybody here around when the suggestion box was open for the planet's name?
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Feb 15, 2020 17:52
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No, was there one? I was sure I saw the upd8 almost immediately.
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Peanut Butler posted:this is perfectly set up imo, since Dirk is guaranteed to be distracted by:
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Feb 15, 2020 22:50
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Lmao at people speculating on the endgame when we are still in the "you can see me, right? Tell me what's wrong with this picture" phase of the story
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Humanimals??????????? https://twitter.com/remjie_malham/status/1229034037328719872
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Feb 17, 2020 06:45
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bullshit that none of the post-canon content has mentioned musclebeasts even ONCE. flagrant disregard for alternian fine art culture + zoology.
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Feb 17, 2020 07:03
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What's the significance of the planet name
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Feb 17, 2020 22:23
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Remember that Terezi has John's corpse. Rose is presumably going to clone/alter her half-dead body -- which would be why Dirk brought it along, instead of obliterating it a la Dave -- and Terezi conveniently has both a troll source and a human source.
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GunnerJ posted:What's the significance of the planet name I'm assuming it's just Delta (as in D/4 as in Earth D) + Detritus, so like, an Earth D where they're recycling biological matter?
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GunnerJ posted:What's the significance of the planet name Hedging a guess that it's a portmanteau of detritus (waste, gravel, debris) and delta (4th Greek letter, usually signifies change). The second bit I wasn't as sure about until Rose said "quadruply so," so I guess she's making a joke about not calling it Earth D.
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GunnerJ posted:What's the significance of the planet name Four. It's a pretentious way of saying "Earth 4".
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Anyone thinking about these two being Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido? Colour scheme sorta matches, not a two person session, but close.
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WilliamAnderson posted:Anyone thinking about these two being Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido? Colour scheme sorta matches, not a two person session, but close. Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaliedo were carapacians iirc
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Feb 18, 2020 07:06
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The new Pesterquest chapter is out. Jake English is a sad boy with complex problems and both endings are downers. Yaaaay....
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The new Pesterquest chapter is out. Jake English is a sad boy with complex problems and both endings are downers. Yaaaay.... Ehhh, I wouldn't really call the good ending a downer, per say? Sure, Mspar's "solve traumatized teenz deep seated psychological issues in 40 minutes or less" routine just crashed and burned in the face of the human brick wall known as Jake English, but I do think that spending some time with Jade will probably do him some good in the long run.
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Seems like Dirk's drawing some pretty hasty conclusions about intelligent design being the necessary origin point for Sburb. Why couldn't Skaia be a naturally occurring system? All of physics is naturally occurring, and it's heinously complex. Like, fruit evolved to be bright and sweet and hand-held so that primates would eat it. Why couldn't a universe creation mechanism evolve to look like a game so that sapient species would play it? I dunno. Right now it feels like...Dirk is being written as if he's very smart, but he isn't saying things that a very smart person would say. Lampshaded references to Philosophy 101 problems come off as extremely limp considering how dense with more complicated allusions Homestuck's been traditionally. "timaeusTestified" on its own is a deeper cut than the Ship of Theseus or the trolley problem, and given Dirk's prior characterisation, I'd think he'd find this baby stuff pretty tiresome.
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I guess Terezi's right, though? Because this conversation absolutely comes off as two philosophy undergrads talking about nothing and demonstrating their knowledge of simple theories by going like, "ah, that reminds me of the trolley problem, a thought experiment with which I'm quite familiar!".
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Feb 21, 2020 04:05
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Art's pretty though. Rosebot looks cool.
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I think it's pretty intentional that Dirk's philosophy is empty bullshit driven by his obsession with being the most important and wise protagonist.
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Sure, but it used to be at least advanced-level bullshit. Now he just comes off as...sort of dumb? Meandering screeds about the nature of meaning are what I'd expect from Dirk. This is less well delivered than usual though.
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Also, Rose comes off as roughly as stupid, which I'm sure can't be intentional. I guess she gets an out for being mind controlled, but her contributions to the conversation are pretty watery.
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i have not cared or paid attention to anything homestuck-related in a long while but Star Fetchers is a bizarre free indie game prologue that dropped last month and gave me extremely strong "dave strider swordfighting on a rooftop" vibes for its 45-minute duration, if anyone is interested
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Android Blues posted:Sure, but it used to be at least advanced-level bullshit. Now he just comes off as...sort of dumb? In the most recent podcast, Aysha (current ringleader of the HS^2 circus) described this chapter (and Terezi leaving the cave specifically) as "the blind leading the dumb". I think she's aware that Dirk is coming off as hollow here
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Android Blues posted:I guess Terezi's right, though? Because this conversation absolutely comes off as two philosophy undergrads talking about nothing and demonstrating their knowledge of simple theories by going like, "ah, that reminds me of the trolley problem, a thought experiment with which I'm quite familiar!". i mean both rose and dirk are very upfront in the epilogues that theyve never actually read any of the philosophy they reference beyond wikipedia articles
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Dirk is sharpened by conflict and uncertainty, and he's spent the last few years eliminating both from his life. Terezi is bored to tears of him, Rose is a complicated and glorified puppet. He loves puppets. Even this mini-session conflict that he and Rose are ginning up is like playing a single-player video game against an AI that he himself programmed. I'm pretty sure Terezi sees this, and I'm looking forward to seeing how she fucks everything up for him
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Peanut Butler posted:Dirk is sharpened by conflict and uncertainty, and he's spent the last few years eliminating both from his life. Terezi is bored to tears of him, Rose is a complicated and glorified puppet. He loves puppets. Even this mini-session conflict that he and Rose are ginning up is like playing a single-player video game against an AI that he himself programmed. scalemates scalemates everywhere
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Meanwhile, Rose’s Seer powers have progressed to the point of uselessness. She literally doesn’t know who she is or who she’s talking to.
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i think a big theme of homestuck is, 'isolation destroys people, community heals them'
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paranoid randroid posted:i mean both rose and dirk are very upfront in the epilogues that theyve never actually read any of the philosophy they reference beyond wikipedia articles Now that's meta
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Android Blues posted:Sure, but it used to be at least advanced-level bullshit. Now he just comes off as...sort of dumb? When you remember that Dirk's true self also includes Arquiusprite it makes sense Peanut Butler posted:i think a big theme of homestuck is, 'isolation destroys people, community heals them' This is why the carapace people are all perfect beings free from sin Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Peanut Butler posted:i think a big theme of homestuck is, 'isolation destroys people, community heals them' Look who's helping build a community to heal  https://www.instagram.com/p/B85ArZlgnFX
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Chapter 5 is live and that ain't no jive
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SO MUCH. There's one bit keep reading and being unable to parse. ROSE: You understand this bargain. ROSE: At least, you should. It's one that was made to leave you alone. What bargain? With whom?
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