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The only run-in I've had with Homestuck people in the wild is the time I dozed off on the Portland MAX and woke up surrounded by a group of cosplayers.
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snucks posted:I contemplate getting a broken record t-shirt like most people contemplate getting a tattoo. I understand why. I'm a doofus, so about a year back when I first got my Strider shirt I was careful not to wear the thing in public lest I be attacked by a crazy Homestuck fan. Two weeks after I got the shirt, I went out to do some errands unknowing I was wearing the thing. While I ate my food I realized what I was wearing and considered running home to change before continuing with my day. In an effort to avoid silly Homestuck fans, I had become a silly Homestuck fan.
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Sep 19, 2012 06:27
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Seoinin posted:The only run-in I've had with Homestuck people in the wild is the time I dozed off on the Portland MAX and woke up surrounded by a group of cosplayers. This must have been a Narnia-like experience.
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Sep 19, 2012 06:30
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My broken record shirt is still in my shirt rotation and I've never run into a homestuck fan that I personally didn't already introduce homestuck to.
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Sep 19, 2012 06:37
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Seoinin posted:The only run-in I've had with Homestuck people in the wild is the time I dozed off on the Portland MAX and woke up surrounded by a group of cosplayers. Which MAX line were you riding to wake up surrounded by Homestuck cosplayers?  I've seen like, one hoodie ever in Portland.And I don't really mind cosplay, or wearing t-shirts or whatever (I own a couple myself, the designs are pretty abstract) it's just that Homestuck fans are such a goddamn crapshoot. I admit I did laugh when an acquaintance of mine I had no idea was into Homestuck quipped "I warned you about stairs, bro," when I stumbled on a step and nearly bit it on the pavement outside their apartment.
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Sep 19, 2012 06:40
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quote:Which MAX line were you riding to wake up surrounded by Homestuck cosplayers? paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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Sep 19, 2012 06:41
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:My broken record shirt is still in my shirt rotation and I've never run into a homestuck fan that I personally didn't already introduce homestuck to. I know how you feel, my small town in Texas doesn't have many Homestuck people, or at least any that go outside. 
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Sep 19, 2012 06:43
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Wow, these stories are making me really nervous to wear my Beta kids badges when i get them. 
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Sep 19, 2012 06:44
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I've worn both the black Green-Slime-Ghost shirt and the Sepulchritude! shirt in my normal rotation, and I've never once had anyone comment on them. 
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Sep 19, 2012 07:01
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Being in the UK I think it's a lot safer for me to go around in public wearing my red record shirt because I'm so much less likely to run into someone who would recognise it. Plus I guess our national psychology prevents us from ever talking to any strangers in the street ever, so for all I know all I will ever get is a brief knowing glance and I'm totally fine with that.
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Sep 19, 2012 07:13
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Reene posted:I admit I did laugh when an acquaintance of mine I had no idea was into Homestuck quipped "I warned you about stairs, bro," when I stumbled on a step and nearly bit it on the pavement outside their apartment. Mostly because of this forum, but I knew about the SBaHJ stairs coming like a year before I found out it had anything to do with Homestuck, and it was a while longer before I finally read it.
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Sep 19, 2012 07:25
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So, uh. Is Davesprite dead? Deader, I suppose. He's been dead since the start. (Dude's crazy cryptic)
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Sep 19, 2012 08:19
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All I know is John is turning into Karkat at a rapid pace.
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Sep 19, 2012 08:24
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Oh poo poo, I think they're both asleep.
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Sep 19, 2012 08:24
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I miss derpy, happy-go-lucky John.
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Sep 19, 2012 08:34
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Maybe Karkat will learn to love himself and his friends. I'd be OK with the two of them switching narrative roles.
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Sep 19, 2012 08:43
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Ah, so John isn't just experiencing puberty, he's also gone completely loving crazy. Good to know. (What other watermark characters have we seen? Nick Cage at Vriska's death and Vriska at Hussie's death. Any more?)
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Sep 19, 2012 08:52
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Wait, what the hell is going on? Besides another picture of Dave SMILING
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Sep 19, 2012 08:54
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John is really coming down with cabin-fever.
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Sep 19, 2012 08:55
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Also, red eye of the sun. A bit randomly ominous especially since we know a bit more about a red sun.
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Bobulus posted:(What other watermark characters have we seen? Nick Cage at Vriska's death and Vriska at Hussie's death. Any more?) Snoop and the ICP come to mind. Saradiart posted:Also, red eye of the sun. A bit randomly ominous especially since we know a bit more about a red sun. Pretty sure that's just LOHAC being LOHAC.
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Sep 19, 2012 09:00
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So far, ignoring Snoop and the ICP, those faces have represented someone dying. I'm not worried for Davesprite, but it looks like someone is in danger. (Was there one of Bernie Lomax when the Bunny blew up? I don't recall)
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Sep 19, 2012 09:01
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Walliard posted:Pretty sure that's just LOHAC being LOHAC. It is, but Hussie called it the "red eye of the sun" and implied there was some sort of importance to it being repeatedly shown throughout the comic.
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CuddlyZombie posted:Wait, what the hell is going on? Well, until Jade said there's nobody there I assumed Davesprite was just sort of grinning down at them, non-shrunken. (The lands are all tiny and floating in some corridor on the battleship, remember.) Maybe it's just her bad eyesight because dog.
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Sep 19, 2012 09:09
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Huh, that's a thought. Strictly speaking, John is the ONLY pure human on the ship. Everyone else is either a game construct or someone crossed with a game construct. What's the bets that upon reaching the meteor, he'll find regular Dave just as douchey?
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Sep 19, 2012 09:42
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I'm kinda worried that Watermark Character is going to be a harbinger of death. Like, this wouldn't be the first time that Hussie make a running gag a Thing. - I would not guess Davesprite, since I think he still has more story to tell, but the clues are kinda pointing that way. He broke up with Jade (knew he was dying soon?), John talked about not knowing if sprites last that long, and now John is being a raving douche to Davesprite, making Davesprite's death extra-tragic. - The meteor crew seems safe, since they still have flash updates to go, but I wouldn't put it past Hussie to introduce us to all the A1-trolls only for Lord English to show up and nuke the bubble again, with only a handful (Meenah, maybe Arania) surviving somehow. - Jack and/or PM? I hope not.
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Sep 19, 2012 10:21
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This seems like a good place to cliffhang for the next walkabout.
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Sep 19, 2012 11:09
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Yeah, something's not....right here. Also where the hell is Nannasprite, come talk some sense into your poor grandson/son/ecto-whatever/player.
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Sep 19, 2012 13:05
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John is a game construct, don't be mistaken. He originated in the game, both literally and causally. Fake Edit: I'm not even sure he or anyone else in the story other than Dad(?) is classifiable as human, really. Double Fake Edit: Discluding Fieri and ICP and Sassacre, of course.
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Sep 19, 2012 13:11
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Davesprite definitely deserves a beatdown, making fun of a dude's dead dad like that is just going too far, even if it's ironic.
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Sep 19, 2012 13:18
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Bongo Bill posted:This seems like a good place to cliffhang for the next walkabout. I was under the impression that Kickstarter backers of a certain tier would be able to beta test that a few days before it came out.
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Yeah, everyone over $50. I am consequently checking my mail ever more anxiously the longer the wait for each new batch of pages lasts, but it evidently isn't time yet. (Incidentally, I'd suggest not discussing it in here beyond maybe saying "hey, only a few more days" once it does happen. Not everyone's backing the Kickstarter, so that would be unkind.)
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Sep 19, 2012 13:29
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I dunno, to me the letter read more like a sort of douchey teen dude trying to cheer his friend up, rather than Davesprite trying to mock John's dad. Davesprite posted:my darling son Especially that "i'm proud as poo poo youre my son or whatever", that just reeks of a lovely and awkward attempt at telling John that his dad would have been proud of him, but hidden behind thinly veiled insults so as not to lose cool. And it's Dave, what does he know about normal family interactions?
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Really? To me it read like the difference between Dave and Davesprite's relationships with John (at least in John's head, although maybe really). Using the notes felt kind of like a snarky insult, at the very least it's pretty thoughtless. If I were John, I'd be pretty insulted. That proud as poo poo bit in particular seemed derisive.
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Reene posted:Which MAX line were you riding to wake up surrounded by Homestuck cosplayers? I actually just moved back to Portland this summer, so there's a good chance you'll see me with one at some point, haha. And drat, John is really hitting the angst train. Whoever it was that called this John's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" phase was pretty much dead-on.
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Tollymain posted:Double Fake Edit: Discluding Fieri and ICP and Sassacre, of course. I have my doubts about Sassacre, considering he's a
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Renaissance Robot posted:I have my doubts about Sassacre, considering he's a No he isn't. Are you thinking of Jake?
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Well, to be precise there's nothing so far to suggest that he is, so the simplest assumption is that he's just a human who came about in the ordinary way. It could, for example, turn out that he and Dad (whose origins are pretty unclear - Nanna's statements on the matter suggest but do not explicitly confirm that B1 Dad was her son in the usual sense) are instead paradox clones of one of them, created in and sent back from the upcoming B2 session. Or something. But that's 100% speculation and maybe also kind of dumb? (No, it's totally true, and furthermore there never were any actual ordinary humans because everyone is secretly a paradox clone and the whole idea of reproduction is a hilarious lie concocted and maintained over the ages by...)
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I'm disappointed in you guys.
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I'm sure most of you already know this, but I love the hidden joke with Sassacre's death. So Sassacre is a thinly-veiled reference to Mark Twain, right? quote:Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. Not only was his dog named Halley, but he did indeed die immediately after a
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