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I don't think tumblr will be the only thing that will implode tomorrow. I'm sure the explosion that will be several thousand computers trying to access the server the EoA flash is on will be seen from space!  This puts me in a kind of dilemma. On one hand I know that the flash will be put online after work for me so I'll be able to watch it when I get home. On the other hand will his web host cope?Edit: oh for crying out loud! Top of the page again?!
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Nobody cares if you are at the top of the page. There is nobody. Zero people. The notion that we should care does not even enter our minds until you self-consciously call yourself out, so you, too, should stop caring.
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Oct 24, 2011 19:12
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Fat_Cow posted:Hussie will go on a week long hiatus after the flash drops 1. Where did you hear this? 2. You're wrong.
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Oct 24, 2011 19:20
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Radiation posted:1. Where did you hear this? It was probably a dumb speculation thing.
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Oct 24, 2011 19:26
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Chunky12345 posted:It was probably a dumb speculation thing. Yeah, it's not on the announcements section of the site, and I feel like Hussie usually tells us when there's going to be a hiatus? Also that would just be cruel.
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Oct 24, 2011 19:33
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Well Manicured Man posted:You missed the totally awesome Jailbreak album Oh what. Is there a link to this?
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Oct 24, 2011 19:36
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Mr. Pumroy posted:Oh what. Is there a link to this? http://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/album/jailbreak-vol-1
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Oct 24, 2011 19:39
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Man, it's time for the EoA flash already? I knew I should have reread Homestuck earlier. Oh well too late now! The thing I want to see happen the most is a Lord English reveal. What's his deal, anyway?
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Oct 24, 2011 19:41
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Well Manicured Man posted:You're better than I was when I was in high school after two months of mucking around in FL Studio. I'd recommend more backing instruments and a more constant drum pattern throughout. I tried and, well, this happened. Ah well.  But anyway, about EoA5: I don't care what we get, but I want some fights. fast paced troll/human/dog/puppet punching to the face. Especially Terezi, because for some reason I want to see her fight while blind. I hope the entire flash ends with John scratching the Beat Mesa, kind of like how [S] Enter built up to John entering the first Gate.
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Oct 24, 2011 19:50
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I am excited for the flash tomorrow. I hope everyone else is too.
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^^So excited!marsattacks posted:Yeah, it's not on the announcements section of the site, and I feel like Hussie usually tells us when there's going to be a hiatus? Seriously the guy's just joking. We've been so long without regular updates that it's kind of weird to think that tomorrow is meant to be the resumption of Homestuck, not just the singular event of the flash. Just imagine the mood-whiplash if we got the awesome update and then next day "Yeah sorry hiatus 2.0 comin' thru"
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Oct 24, 2011 20:27
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After this I can't even think of a week as much of a "hiatus."
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Oct 24, 2011 21:12
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FaceTime posted:I don't think tumblr will be the only thing that will implode tomorrow. I'm sure the explosion that will be several thousand computers trying to access the server the EoA flash is on will be seen from space! Yeah, this thread is probably going to gain like 100 pages overnight. The worst part about that? I can't decide if I'm actually exaggerating there. It might legitimately gain 100 pages.
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Oct 24, 2011 21:20
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I've seen the smallest flashes gain cause a gain of more than 10 pages over part of a day, I'm pretty sure?? 100 over the 24 hours after the flash drops is an entire possible and horrifying prospect.
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Oct 24, 2011 21:47
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I have pretty much no doubt we're getting to 100 + pages tomorrow. It is going to be catastrophic. Some of you seem to have an idea of around what time the flash is going to be posted - how do you know? Is this based off the assumption that he's going to release it around 10:25 or is there something else I don't know about? Edited to add: I realize I'm asking a lot of questions in this thread. Sorry. marsattacks fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Oct 24, 2011 |
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Oct 24, 2011 21:54
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There is no way to know when he's posting it beyond a general "tomorrow" which could mean anywhere from midnight EST to 11:59 EST tomorrow night. Just keep the notifier up or glance at the amount of posts in this thread as you go about your general business. You'll know.
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Oct 24, 2011 22:06
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Oh dear. Andrew disabled his formspring. Hopefully only to sort through the likely gigantic amount of questions/spam accumulated over the last two months.
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Oct 24, 2011 22:32
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I read through the entirety of Homestuck during the beginning of the hiatus, so this is a very exciting time for me. I have known nothing but bitter Homestuck famine. That said, as a new reader, I'm very surprised that so many people say things like "the beginning is boring and confusing but it gets better" to new readers. The beginning was awesome! I probably never would have bothered with it if it weren't for all the adventure game/growing-up-on-the-internet jokes, and probably never would have been able to convince anyone else to read it either. I guess nowadays people mostly get into it for the trolls and weird plot poo poo though? Anyway, I too am mostly looking forward to Lord English being revealed (hopefully). Though after the fanart thread, I'm worried nothing will make me happy now that I've him as Mr Resetti.
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Lord of Laughton posted:Oh dear. Andrew disabled his formspring. He's giving tumblr a try. Presumably because Formspring has, at a glance, no way to organize posts and updates. While tumblr can do that it also provides basically the same functionality with the "Ask" feature. He also mentions that he thinks Formspring gave the false impression that it was a good way to get in contact with him, whereas it was not. Susat fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Oct 24, 2011 |
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Oct 24, 2011 23:09
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Idunn posted:That said, as a new reader, I'm very surprised that so many people say things like "the beginning is boring and confusing but it gets better" to new readers. The beginning was awesome! I never get these people. The sylladex antics are still some of my favorite bits
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Oct 24, 2011 23:21
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When I first saw this on MSPA's front page, I thought "Oh great, the porn comics are now customizing their ads for Homestuck." However, clicking it just takes you to the MSPA homepage. Someone made a fake porn ad to put on the homepage that links to the same page?
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Oct 24, 2011 23:32
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A good poster posted:However, clicking it just takes you to the MSPA homepage. Someone made a fake porn ad to put on the homepage that links to the same page? It looks like the same style as the guy who bought the "DO IT HUSSIE" ad. I've seen him on the MSPA forums. He's a little... odd.
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Oct 24, 2011 23:44
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Welp, it looks like Hussie doesn't know how he's going to host the 10/25 flash yet. http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/11881428494/the-lowdown-on-10-25
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Oct 24, 2011 23:48
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A good poster posted:When I first saw this on MSPA's front page, I thought "Oh great, the porn comics are now customizing their ads for Homestuck." Well it keeps the site running I guess so...cool? Yeah, I have no idea why they did that either. v  v
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Oct 24, 2011 23:50
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What if he put up the flash as a torrent until he can work out hosting? It wouldn't take that long to gain a fuckton of seeders from the fan community, within an hour or so of him starting to seed it you could download that thing in like a few minutes.
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e: ^^^  marsattacks posted:Welp, it looks like Hussie doesn't know how he's going to host the 10/25 flash yet. Why doesn't he just torrent the thing and have people download it? That solves all the hosting issues immediately.
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Zorak posted:e: ^^^ Presumably for the same reason he doesn't convert it, throw it up on Youtube, and embed it: an entirely illogical bout of artistic fiat about the way in which his material is presented that seems monumental to him but is, in reality, insignificant at best. The difference between a Flash file and a recording of that Flash file seems insignificant.
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Cabbit posted:Presumably for the same reason he doesn't convert it, throw it up on Youtube, and embed it: an entirely illogical bout of artistic fiat about the way in which his material is presented that seems monumental to him but is, in reality, insignificant at best. The difference between a Flash file and a recording of that Flash file seems insignificant. I presume he doesn't want it as a video because there's some level of interactive components to it. He said it's a matter of format incompatibility.
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If there was any sort of interactive portion of it, Youtube wouldn't be an option at all. Hussie should definitely throw the .swf file in a torrent, and he could also put it up on Rapidshare and Mediafire, and all the other file hosting services. Is he assuming not everyone knows you can drag a flash file into a browser window and play it that way?
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Andrew Hussie posted:edit: Torrenting, megadownloading, etc are in reserve as last resort plans. It would be more ideal to find a way to run on site though. We’ll see. That's good to know. Hope we will see it before the last possible second of 10/25.
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A good poster posted:If there was any sort of interactive portion of it, Youtube wouldn't be an option at all. Hussie should definitely throw the .swf file in a torrent, and he could also put it up on Rapidshare and Mediafire, and all the other file hosting services. Is he assuming not everyone knows you can drag a flash file into a browser window and play it that way? I didn't know this. But I'm pretty sure Windows's default behavior when you double-click a flash file is to pop open a browser window.
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Idunn posted:That said, as a new reader, I'm very surprised that so many people say things like "the beginning is boring and confusing but it gets better" to new readers. The beginning was awesome! I probably never would have bothered with it if it weren't for all the adventure game/growing-up-on-the-internet jokes, and probably never would have been able to convince anyone else to read it either. I guess nowadays people mostly get into it for the trolls and weird plot poo poo though? If you're trying to sell it as a rollercoaster of drama and winding plot twists, the opening goes out of its way to make it look like you're trying to joke someone and waste their time. I went into Homestuck knowing nothing but "hey there's this webcomic and it is kind of like Earthbound" and was sucked in immediately after the piano refrain and title flash.
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A good poster posted:Is he assuming not everyone knows you can drag a flash file into a browser window and play it that way? When I drag a Flash file into Firefox, FF tries to download it. Or it did until recently. Guess it fixed itself somehow. Anyway, Hussie has distributed some of the walkaround flashes through alternate channels before, so he definitely knows he can expect people to figure it out. It's just odd that he has a hang-up about it now. Walliard fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Oct 25, 2011 |
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A good poster posted:When I first saw this on MSPA's front page, I thought "Oh great, the porn comics are now customizing their ads for Homestuck." There's also this which also links back to the MSPA homepage:  Stay classy, MSPA forum.
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As others have proposed, not wanting to make a video implies there's some amount of interactivity -- though not necessarily a walk-around. I think we might be in for fourth-wall breaking shenanigans (natch) that require the flash to play on the actual MSPA site (or simulacrum thereof) for full effect. Hence the resistance to off-site hosting. Also re: Newgrounds, I think they cap file-sizes, and this one might be too big. Unrelated and completely insincere speculation: the flash reveals Lord English by hijacking your browser, grabbing your profile picture from Facebook, and inserting you into the Cairo Overcoat.
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marsattacks posted:Welp, it looks like Hussie doesn't know how he's going to host the 10/25 flash yet. Time for https://cloudflare.com. It's even free. At this late date, he'll probably have to do something a little custom, like a new subdomain just for the flash file that cloudflare then 'fronts', but it's possible.
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It'd be pretty amusing if Hussie's attempts at dropping the flash on a significant date are stymied by being Too Big for the Internet.
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:
If you're actually submitting something to Newgrounds, yeah, there's a filesize cap of about ten megs I think. No limit on what filesize you can upload onto your own dropbox, although it has to be less than 512 megs. quote:Unrelated and completely insincere speculation: the flash reveals Lord English by hijacking your browser, grabbing your profile picture from Facebook, and inserting you into the Cairo Overcoat. This would be amazing.
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Wrist Watch posted:There's also this which also links back to the MSPA homepage: That ad is making fun of the lovely porn ads that pop up on MSPA occasionally. It's mildly amusing.
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