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I think it's cool and normal to accept that the author of something you liked is a big weirdo of varying severity. It doesn't devalue the good experiences you had enjoying that content. something something author death etc Psycholonials is a trip and I would ask to not let this whole thing sour you on it. But please only consume the media content you want to consume.
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life_source posted:I think it's cool and normal to accept that the author of something you liked is a big weirdo of varying severity. It doesn't devalue the good experiences you had enjoying that content. That's the rational response, not the emotional one!
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It really sucks because all Sarah Z was trying to say was "in the end we don't know for sure what happened behind the scenes but it would have been nice if the team had given -any- sort of update to the people that funded your project." And to be clear, I genuinely think this is a case of Hussie severely underestimating what goes in to a project like this and really don't think he was trying to scam anyone. Edit: also for clarity, I never backed the Kickstarter .. I actually got in to HS because of the KS lol Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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Well I never played Hiveswap, that whole thing was radioactive from the very start. The public drama always bored me, to the point where I stopped caring about my Kickstarter pledge I don't know any of these people, so anybody involved in this story could be withholding critical information for good or for dumb reasons. But the whole thing was clearly dysfunctional. Hussie doesn't need to be the CEO of multi-media companies, he needs to be in his room, drawing and writing original stories like a prize workhorse life_source posted:Psycholonials is a trip I use the soundtrack all the time, it's so good. I've had it on in the background at parties, nobody knows wtf it is, but they like it
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Jul 6, 2021 23:33
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WalrusWhiskers posted:I regret backing the kickstarter and buying psycholonials. Hussie and What Pumpkin are cancelled (in the original meaning of `cancelled`, for me). The best part of Homestuck was reading along with this thread and its predecessor.
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Happy Landfill posted:It really sucks because all Sarah Z was trying to say was "in the end we don't know for sure what happened behind the scenes but it would have been nice if the team had given -any- sort of update to the people that funded your project." The nutshell really is the cold shock of whiplashing into being a business owner/administrator. A famously convoluted and terrifying role if you're primarily interested in being an artist. In that situation making rapid fire business decisions on reaction is a rush and ends up digging your own hole in the long run. When you consider it from that lens it's a very banal, sadly common tragedy.
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Yeah, I really, truly think that's all there is to it. At the same time, with how much money he raised and how big the Fandom was he absolutely had to deliver. Just poor decisions all around.
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Hussie just spent all that time when Homestuck was over and fan interest was waning on just the most random poo poo. Like Homestuck 2.0 or that ARG trying to tie poo poo like WW2 to Homestuck’s timeline and just…what? I think they should have just moved on to new work entirely, and trying to keep making Homestuck an enduring brand just did not work.
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I tend to think he got sick of Homestuck a lot earlier than he actually walked away from it.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I tend to think he got sick of Homestuck a lot earlier than he actually walked away from it. Honestly, after like seven years where writing and drawing Homestuck was not your job but your entire life from sun up to sun down, I don’t blame them for wanting out.
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It's perfectly reasonable to blame them for taking people's money right before wanting out, though.
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Spellman posted:I use the soundtrack all the time, it's so good. I've had it on in the background at parties, nobody knows wtf it is, but they like it
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Bell_ posted:I'm digging through old hard drives trying to find the two albums Clark took those from. They're so, so good. I may aswell just download everything Clark has https://clarkpowell.bandcamp.com/track/city-of-the-sun Spellman fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Bell_ posted:I'm digging through old hard drives trying to find the two albums Clark took those from. They're so, so good. A lot tracks came directly from Namesake or unreleased HS music team wips. Together was Day that Never Came and also Someday. Flare: Insurrection Remix was Flare (Green Sun Remix) from the unreleased HS tracks. I Have Some Ideas was All But Alone from unreleased tracks. giovanh fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jul 17, 2021 |
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giovanh posted:A lot tracks came directly from Namesake or unreleased HS music team wips. Such a good resource https://soundcloud.com/plazmataz/who-lives-in-love-lives-in-god Alt Attorney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM2U5rskC1o
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Oh, swell. Something about the change to Homestuck.com has broken all page links. Like this: https://www.homestuck.com/mspa?s=6&p=004690
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You know how a lot of beloved celebrities seemed to be dying recently, and someone eventually pointed out that it's because the increase in the total number of celebrities with the rise of mass media has finally synced up with the maximum age range of that generation of celebrities? I feel like it won't be long now until something very similar happens with beloved works of art more or less vanishing forever.
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So I've had my head stuck in a hole since this all started, what is going on with this stuff Is Homestucksquared updating or
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There was a big blowup with people harassing the new authors and Hussie announced that he was shutting down the Patreon, that there would be no more spaced-out updates, and that the whole drat thing would come out at once.
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Homestuck 2 is so wildly bad it defies belief, Sarah Z did a longass video about it, Hussie contacted her insanely, here we are
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh, swell. Something about the change to Homestuck.com has broken all page links. Like this: https://www.homestuck.com/mspa?s=6&p=004690 Worked fine for me this morning. Maybe whatever issue was there was just temporary?
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XkyRauh posted:Worked fine for me this morning. Maybe whatever issue was there was just temporary? No, I'm still getting quote:The page isn’t redirecting properly and I have PrivacyBadger turned off for that site.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:No, I'm still getting Weird it works for me. Also I guess I'm just going to ignore that mess entirely and if I want to read Homestuck again, I'll stick to that offline edition someone made
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Rand Brittain posted:You know how a lot of beloved celebrities seemed to be dying recently, and someone eventually pointed out that it's because the increase in the total number of celebrities with the rise of mass media has finally synced up with the maximum age range of that generation of celebrities? Sure, we have unofficial archives, but how long will those be maintained and kept compatible with modern computers?
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Aug 13, 2021 20:17
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remember when hussie thought he could put homestuck in a book
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Still waiting on those USB offline versions of Hamsteak from the kickstarter
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subpar anachronism posted:remember when hussie thought he could put homestuck in a book Honestly, I wouldn't been surprised if Viz feels like they took a giant bath when they purchased HS, and they're not going knock themselves out putting out more material for it.
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Hussie's commentary was the only worthwhile thing in the books, anyway, since they're incredibly tiny and hard to read. I'm actually pretty annoyed that they got me to buy the first part of a set and then cancelled it without telling anybody.
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Homestuck books were always doomed to fail as a commercial product. Each book has a smaller and smaller audience, so by the time you’re book on 17, you’re getting real lean on profit. If a Homestuck book was ever going to succeed, it would have been like a decade ago when you had the demand to keep that momentum going. I think the whole Viz deal was them catching onto Homestuck’s popularity too late, or at least thinking Homestuck would maintain a decent audience for a good while instead of Hussie pissing it away by flailing about aimlessly after Act 7. (Also this November is the 10th Anniversary of Cascade  )
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They should just release the entirety of Act 6 & 7 in one big black GRIMOIRE just like Problem Sleuth
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Pants Donkey posted:(Also this November is the 10th Anniversary of Cascade poo poo, this October is the tenth anniversary of this thread.
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And it's still titled "The Final Acts"!
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More like “The Final Axe”
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Pants Donkey posted:(Also this November is the 10th Anniversary of Cascade Ah yes. 10 years since the comic stopped being good.
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[S]GAME OVER is awesome.
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controversial opinion: Homestuck is good, actually
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Oh, swell. Something about the change to Homestuck.com has broken all page links. Like this: https://www.homestuck.com/mspa?s=6&p=004690 Sometimes mspa.php just stops working until somebody from Viz goes in and manually fixes it. Not sure what the problem is but I've reported it before and gotten "whoops, it was broken, we fixed it now" emails back.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:[S]GAME OVER is awesome. It was one of the worst flashes for me, all that endless waiting just to see everyone get butchered in comedic ways, the whole thing was uncomfortable
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At that point in the story we knew that Death was recoverable, so actually worrying that maybe the deaths were permanent was a new and exotic rush. And it turns out that once again death is meaningless in the face of protagonist powers.
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