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Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I don't think I could possibly be more hyped up about the return of Homestuck than I am now, and I can't possibly imagine the enormity of work that AH has been putting into it.

And more than anything else, more Karkat. :3:

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Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Even though I saw this coming a mile away, the groin crushing desire to see this flash has crippled me as a person and I'm not going to be able to function until I see it.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Okay, Infinity mechanism might be my favorite song in the new album, but Hussie Hunt is the best by far for one little thing halfway through the song.
Creeeeeeeeeeeeak
AWwoooooooooooooooooo!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
The pesterlogs are the main draw for me, so many of them are so witty and hilarious, I can't narrow it down to just one, but I think this one might be my favorite Dave moment:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004672
code:
GC: WH4T 1S YOUR SP3C13S C4LL3D
TG: north american hollering phallus baboon
GC: >:?
GC: 1 TH1NK YOU M1GHT B3 PULL1NG MY FROND, F3M4L3 34RTHL1NG
TG: no its true we are highly endangered
TG: when our territory is threatened thats when the indiscriminate loving begins
TG: could gently caress a circus tent down a gas tank
TG: bunch it up in there good
TG: slam the lid and drive away
TG: beep beep albino hairless dickmonkey coming through
GC: 1M NOT SUR3 WH4T TH4T M34NS
GC: BUT 1 SUSP3CT 1T W4S SOM3TH1NG H1GHLY L4SC1V1OUS >:|
TG: the glittering civilization before you was built on angry apefuck power alone
TG: stand agog and marvel bitch
I can't read that without grinning like an idiot. Every single time. All in all though, I think Karkat produces the most consistently amazing dialogues in the whole comic.

So I guess I fail the challenge by not being able to choose. I'm fine with that.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I kinda hope the next panel is just Gamzee bludgeoning Dave to death, even though he's my favorite character, and everyone just shrugs and waits for him to come back to life since getting cudgeled by a juggalo is probably the least heroic or just death ever.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Some Strange Flea posted:

Homestuck is over until 4/13.

Everyone get out.

Welp, another thing to wait for to compound upon the others. How is my frayed psyche supposed to deal with this leisure drought?

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
I'm sixteen songs in and I'm definitely buying this first chance I get. And holy poo poo, there's a Stress remix? I thought that was done by whatshisname that went nuts and quit taking all his music with him?

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

SynthOrange posted:

Spoilered for stupid dumb prediction!


Why, past me, WHY.

That guy is a jerk. The only bigger jerk is future you.

Edit: Lil Sebastian, noooooo!

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

pumpinglemma posted:

Alternatively, Lil' Cal punched him. The panel is at least a little ambiguous.

Crazy theory: We know the cue ball made Doc Scratch omniscient, but we don't know for sure it turned him into Lord English. He was also created with Lil' Cal. And uu has been haa haa hoo hoo hee hee'ing a remarkable amount recently. I think Lil' Cal somehow contains the essence of uu - maybe it's his juju?

Calling it now:
Cue Ball + Lil' Call (uu's Juju) = Lord English
Cue Ball + Rabbit doll (UU's Juju) = ?????? (whatever Calliope's nickname would be)

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

creationist believer posted:

I agree with this statement probably until the next time we see Roxy.

I wouldn't have wasted 30 minutes reading DAVE_EBUBBLES if I knew I was going to waste another hour and a half with the rest of the flash. And by waste I mean enjoy every second of.

The sweetest moment was Karkat reusing the 'hatemarry myself' password. :shobon:

I can't remember where that was from.

God, out of all of this, the two things that spring up to mind are:

1)Meenah is the best pre-scratch troll.
2)Poor Karkat. Poor, poor Karkat.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Seoinin posted:

I'm sad that Terezi's gifs haven't made a comeback.

I think it's for the best; prolonged exposure to the smug cracker parlor wiggle results in brain artifacting.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

RandomFerret posted:

Several of them revolve around an ashen-skinned, exceptionally strong robot that spends his free time creating and appraising supermuscled horse porn and talking to a cat. Pretty clearly supposed to be a Lord English analogue.

And what about Riker's beard?

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I'm actually really glad Hussie decided to do the new kids' session in brief, because it's actually a lot of fun imagining what's going on in these gaps, and I'm pretty sure if it got a detailed look, it would ruin some of the adventure. Not to mention that all these dead worlds are fantastically creepy.

Without sprites, they have no reliable source of information on their side besides Dirk and his time as a sleeper (hah) agent. So they've been pretty much alone/isolated with nothing but each other in a phantom world of the dead. Spooky.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Triskelli posted:

In reference to recent downtimes, I think this might be... the MSPA server? I'm calling it The Server, anyway. Feels right and convenient. Anyway, The Server here is obviously going to let Caliborn jack the narrative entirely, if he doesn't destroy the keyboard out of spite first.


(Oh god, what if Caliborn starts loving around with Problem Sleuth, Jailbreak or Bard Quest first?)
That's pretty much how I see it going down, this is definitely the key to Caliborns rise to power. In fact, I'll bet it pretty much comes down to him writing his own counter-fanfiction to Calliopes self insert out of some form of petty spite. Which is pretty much the main motivation for Caliborn actually.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Fucknag posted:

A whole new class, the Sperg of Time.

Lord of Sperg

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Hussie throws a curveball, hitting us straight in the face, ricocheting off and knocking a bucket of water off a door onto our heads, as we stumble backwards into a pile of whoopie cushions before we realize that the entire ceiling is one coconut creme pie and it descends on us, killing the collective fan base instantly.

He maxes out his Prankster's gambit and all of North America explodes from the exchange.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
If anyone could be so kind as to post screenshot and links of the coming tumblr explosion, I would be eternally grateful. I don't keep tabs on crazies anymore. :allears:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Deploy the Crocker is without a doubt the most satisfying panel in the last year if not the whole drat comic.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

JT Jag posted:

Remember when Jack Noir was killing important characters left and right? Hahahaha. Good times.

Speaking of which, there's been one player mysteriously absent from all these "who else is gonna get trickster'd" suppositions, possibly the most important and dangerous factor that hasn't seen the spotlight in a while.

Trickster Mode Jack would be the single scariest thing in all of Homestuck.:stonk:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Omnomnomnivore posted:

Did anyone actually push -> 1111 times? Wanna tell me what happens?


^^^ gently caress YOU
SUCCESS!
Play again?
No gently caress no.



Whichever one you mouse over turns into a giant YES button.


Edit: Jesus, poor dirk. Even with magical reality warping brain melting candy power he can't be happy. I know what that's like. :smith:

Filthy Haiku fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jan 23, 2013

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Sweet bro and Hella Jeff handgun.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't mind infodumps on occasion. Everything is normally so grossly pregnant with meaning, undulating with squirming, all gestating at least 8 gooey octuplets thrashing around in an undulating belly full of mind slime, that I kind of welcome a bit of exposition. Homestuck has sort of trained me to challenge what it presents to me and file inconsistencies in my mind to bring back later. Take nothing at face value, not because of an incoming lovely twist, but because we're given a large portion of the story in advance and it rewards those who are attentive to it's details.

Frankly, I'm glad we got a little time to cool off from the action, lulls like this keep the constantly escalating plot from being exhausting.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I know he was apparently attacked by a mid-flip out Jade, but the "John Egbert is Missing." page is actually pretty unnerving to me. It's not that other characters can't find him or that we haven't seen him in a while, it just bluntly states that he's gone; somehow ejected from the narrative. From our perspective, John is just gone. Possibly even glitched out of existence.

I doubt Hussie would do this, but I think we might start veering into Earthbound end-game style creepiness soon. I'd kind of like to see this point hammered home in a simple way; the story continues as normal, but whenever a scene would change to John, it would simply go back to

"John Egbert is Missing."

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Captain Oblivious posted:

Oh my god I forgot all about Karkat's meltdown. Yes. Yes we have to go even further beyond.

Which meltdown? Karkat has had so many. :v:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

glowing-fish posted:

The thing about that Nietzsche reference is that it is a reference to one of his better known quotes, something that its hard not to know. It isn't a sign that Andrew Hussie is a devotee of Nietzsche's.

Given how much time and effort the Homestuck fandom has put into Homestuck, there seems to be very little information on what Hussie's philosophical leanings are. I don't know what his academic background is. The amount of references and plot structure put into Homestuck seems to suggest that he is very well read, but I don't know if his knowledge is as deep as it is broad. Its pretty easy to assume he is a post-modernist/existentialist, but just from what we read in Homestuck, he could be an earnest devotee of a mystical school. :iiam:

I'm pretty sure the dude worships horses as a belief system. :v:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
Jesus Christ Karkat, that's kind of brutal even if you do need to eat. :stare:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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AriadneThread posted:

Who is going to steal Jade's shoes and travel down the yellow brick road?

Serkets have a penchant for wearing red shoes.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Louisgod posted:

It's also possible that the cosplay pictures and weirdo obsessive fanbase have blurred my senses to what is clearly an amazing webcomic.

Koos we should compare how much I've spent on jerky to how much you've spent on Homestuck avatars for people.

I'd figure a games mod of all people would understand something mildly amusing ruined by loud, obsessive creeps. :v:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
All paradox space has really accomplished is making me wish gastrophobia updated more often.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
Do we even know if the real Hussie is even alive still?

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

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springy ride
You know, for such a huge goober John can really lay out a pretty massive beating. Where did that come from? :stare:

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
I just noticed Gamzee's left half was frowning and his right half was smiling when he was bisected.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Bobulus posted:

Hasn't everything post- Aranea resurrecting technically been a doomed timeline? She said-so herself that she was attempting to deviate from the alpha timeline.

She also mention that she can heal less tangible things like timelines and basically force a doomed timeline into being the main one.

Which is a really really horrible idea if you think about it for even a minute.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

WAR FOOT posted:

Note: Rose is also a Seer, and still lives. Scratch never outright states it has to be THIS Knight and Seer, and he's famous for telling half-truths to dodge his 'never lie' clause.

Entertaining that notion, that would mean that we'd have a situation where the narrative would have to pick between Dave and Karkat and that would be a real Sophie's Choice Awards hosted by Ben Stiller.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

ZZT the Fifth posted:

...plus Karkat already had his Life resurrection used up by having an example made of him.

On the other hand Messiah figures have a knack for bouncing back.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

Note Block posted:

Man what the hell is John's problem right now.

John is both literally and figuratively detached from the narrative.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride
Completely off topic; I was hoping that somehow, in some way Dad would be the one to finish gamzee off by pranking the poo poo out of him. Just ruthlessly out-jester him to the point where gamzee dies from a sheer rage overdose. The only thing that can kill a clown is something funnier.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


but at least
i have

springy ride

Bobulus posted:

Yeah, the point is, the two options she forced herself into were not "stay" or "go", they were "kill her" or "let her get everyone killed". So "stay" as in, get her to stick around and not kill her, is a valid third option. And an easily accomplished one if you have, say, John influence the coin-toss with his wind powers. Luck-manipution's got nothing on actual physical manipulation.

So, third options proposed:
- Make her actually stay
- Exile her
- Let her fight Jack, but prevent this outcome from getting everyone killed (Like have John blow away her sparkle-trail)


I'm leaning toward the 2nd option, but only because if she was exiled somewhere where she was dreaming, she could get all that 3-years of dreambubble experience.

-Beat her down with a newspaper because it doesn't matter how lucky you are; getting hit with a newspaper is sort of a grey area.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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springy ride

paranoid randroid posted:

She's sadness-rolling off those cliffs now. An eternal melancholy tumble down horse mountain.

And she's about to score a sad orange man on the rebound.

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Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010

i am shattering like glass


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Acne Rain posted:

When did Karkat encounter Bro in the main comic, I don't remember the guardians interacting with anyone that much before their murders.

Mind you; trollian could view any moment on earth so he probably just e-stalked Dave and peeped his whole life.

Which is infinitely way worse.

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