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David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Ammat The Ankh posted:

Not really, I have no trouble believing the average Homestuck fan would be the same people going around in public with Gir or Foamy the squirrel t-shirts.

E: Apparently Hot Topic sells MLP and Doctor Who merchandise. In that case it's definitely the same people.

The overlap is a lot like MRAs and Bronies - there aren't a lot of places that sell fedoras.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 21:57

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 22:59

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Individual office playsets to be stuck in, some with ethnically-diverse murals, and all with detachable windows.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2014 17:34

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

WilliamAnderson posted:

Cancer right?

Good catch.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 00:27

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

King of Solomon posted:

Oh no, Hussie is much worse.

At least George R R Martin has the balls to kill off (most) of his characters for good the first time.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 22:16

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

What the hell did I just read?

Time to close this thread again.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 23:08

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

I was more freaked out by the Toddler thing. It wasn't creepy as much as :wtc:

# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 00:05

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

I only clicked on this because of the thumbnail but boy howdy I was glad I did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_kkB-mIkT4

CAUCASIAN

# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 16:51

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Did the "mix everything with Quad City DJs" thing start with Homestuck, or did it start all the way back with Charles Barkley Gaiden?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 18:10

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

That would fit his pattern of moving every year or so, further delaying the comic.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 00:11

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Baron La Croix posted:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Breast

Be thankful that the MSPA wiki has no equivalent.

http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Bucket

Where there is a fandom, there is a way.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 21:04

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Much like a Muun or a Wookie, it's a mythical creature most of that wikia's readership needs a guiding entry to explain.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 21:07

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

It's sort of analogous, the way I liked Mac Hall and then was ashamed of it (but not as much as knock offs like Apple Geeks, ugh) is a lot like how I feel about MSPA.

The art was always great, though.

# ¿ May 20, 2014 22:42

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

All the honorable mentions are better than the winners

Yup.

But at least you're more likely to see the winners at Hot Topic.

# ¿ May 30, 2014 14:17

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

ThaumPenguin posted:

Well, whenever the servers get back up, it's going to.

I think my twitter died, too.

Employees at Newgrounds and Tumblr seen scrambling

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 22:18

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Bobulus posted:

The Homestuck fandom is Lenny from Of Mice and Men. We're big, dumb, and eventually kill the things we love by squeezing too hard.

Wait...Lenny had a transgender pansexual tumblr ask blog? Do you think he was a fem!Equius?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2014 23:30

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Good, I've been waiting for Hussie to finish that for years.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 04:42

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Burkion posted:

Oh God, all of the Vriska Avatars are dissapearing!

HOMESTUCK IS COMING TO AN END!

It's like End of Evangelion, but with Vriskas flying around instead of clone Reis.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 21:25

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Burkion posted:

So.

Porn then.

Hussie got jealous of all that fame and acclaim Willis got from Slipshine.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 21:44

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Weird aside: what happened to the glitchy stuff from before the Giga-Pause? Did that get resolved?

if you want the most efficient way to bring a bunch of people back, maybe you could find a way to make a dream bubble a new reality?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 11:46

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

This would have been an awesome flash to have right before the gigapause, come to think of it. Nonstop Infinite Deathclimax

edit:

David Copperfield fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Oct 25, 2014

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 11:48

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Dolash posted:

I like episodic games and thought it'd make sense for the Homestuck game from the start. Pretty skeptical that Hussie'll ever pull off the game, though - I mean, it was funded two years ago and they're still at the "putting together a team, drawing concept art, playing with pre-pre-alpha models" phase.

It's all starting to sound a lot like Broken Age, actually. An adventure game about two teenagers involved in separate but interlaced stories, plus the game being broken up into two halves (and maybe some development anxiety mixed in).

It sounds VERY Double Fine Adventure Game, and I bet the cost of prototyping it with one set of programmers/designers and then moving their work over probably extended their development time frame by years (you know, Hussie style).

That said, the previous studio (The Odd Gentleman) looked like it came out with pretty lovely material that didn't look anything adventure-gamey, or might have just wanted to do their new Kings Quest stuff full-time.

Freak Futanari posted:

Also, i think it's pretty lovely of them to split the game into two. Even if they claim that they're both going to be complete games, it's pretty obvious that they just decided to cut the game in half so they could recoup some of the money they lost when they decided to hire a bunch of nobodies to make their game.

You're still getting the whole game, so you can't complain about that. Here's what you can complain about :

Hussie almost never updating the progress of the kickstarter, so you had no idea how many changes in scope and scale were being considered, which then resulted in new possible delays
The risk that the new studio will keel over and die after the 1st installment. Double Fine, for all of its "holy poo poo we dug ourselves in too deep," is at least big enough to have other projects paper over their cash flows while it delays getting a game out there.

David Copperfield fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Oct 31, 2014

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 06:28

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

frozentreasure posted:

And Hussie/WP isn't? How much merch do they have that stupid teenagers keep buying at this point?

WP in my view is a weird holding company that sorta coagulated into doing everything Homestuck. It's run more by inertia than business sense.

1. People asked for the music other people contributed for the flash pages, so they sold music on bandcamp.
2. Repeat with fanart for calendars/posters
3. Sells t shirts on topatoco like every other webcomic, but begins taking over the inane troll/class/godtier shirt things
~Kickstarter happens and you can buy all the merch you ever wanted for $600 per plush doll~
~Gigapause happens and there's no new updates for a year~
4. During the gigapause, when homestuck is sorta riding on residual popularity with no real momentum, WP begins flooding merch into cons and whatnot. They are now the world's largest resellers of zodiac symbol shirts in the 15-18 demographic.
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5. WP takes over as a game company from The Odd Gentleman, who have probably not been doing that great of a job if they switched it over mid-project. This is like Nintendo running into the back of Lenscrafters to say, "No, stop selling eyeglasses to children with our name on it. We will be making them ourselves now." If anyone at Homestuck Industries LLC has any experience actually making games, it's probably whoever Hussie farmed out the programming of his flash games to (which isn't nothing).

(Wow, I remember too much inane poo poo.)

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 21:05

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

I wonder how much DoubleFine ironically shot itself in the foot with the "I AM A PAYING KICKSTARTER BACKER/PIONEER" crowd by revealing how hard/weird the game making process is with the documentary running alongside it.

But I don't think the HS crowd will be able to accomplish anything but some very entertaining blog posts about boycotts.

edit: Here's a good quote from the Mighty No. 9 kickstarter, which was asking for a similar fundraising goal:

quote:

Isn�t $900K a little cheap for the game you are promising?

Good question! Let us guess�you�ve worked in the game industry? Yes, it�s true�our internal estimates for the full production cost of this game are greater than our initial goal, especially once you take out the fees and reward costs. But that�s OK! Both Comcept and Inti Creates have the resources to forgo full funding to make this project happen, since both companies will benefit more than they would in a typical publisher-funded setup once the game releases. To put it simply, if enough fans are excited about this game to hit our initial goal, then we, the companies developing this game, are willing to put up more of our own money as well, right along there with you.

So, no, this is not a case where the initial goal is set irresponsibly low, risking everything in the hopes that the Kickstarter campaign will pay off over expectations and get us where we secretly, actually need to be financially. We do understand that concern, though, and kept it in mind when carefully setting our initial funding goal. More money over the initial goal would be wonderful�don�t get us wrong! �in that it could potentially reduce what our companies have to shoulder up front, and of course more importantly make for a lot more features and platforms and other stuff we�d love to see happen. But we have run the numbers and we are fully confident that, should we hit our initial goal and nothing more, we can make a great game that fulfills the promise of this project, both for our backers and for anyone else who plays the game.

By the way�if you have some spare time, you mind talking to any folks you might happen to see ask the next question?

Isn�t $900K a little expensive for the game you are promising?

Funny you should ask�you mind talking to any folks you see asking the question above?

Seriously, despite the fact that it�s a 2D game with its roots in the classic games of yesteryear, Mighty No. 9 is a full-scale production, being undertaken by professional developers�level and character designers, musicians, programmers�all with years and years of experience, who didn�t quit their jobs to make this project; in fact, it�s the companies they work for that are helping to make this happen! As mentioned elsewhere, the two primary collaborators on this project�Comcept and Inti Creates�are both indie developers willing to shoulder some of the budget in return for the profits once this game comes to market, but we still need a good amount of cash up front to make this happen. (It�s hard to think about awesome boss attack patterns when you are wondering if you will make the rent next month.)

In short, we can understand the question, but believe it or not, this is actually a very cheap minimum bar to set for this team and this project, especially after fees and reward costs are taken out. We set it as low as we could to make it happen, because we really, REALLY want to make sure it happens!

David Copperfield fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Oct 31, 2014

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 21:16

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Freak Futanari posted:

OFFICIAL HOMESTUCK TIER LIST

U HOMESTUCKIN': COOL
Vriska

U HOMESTUCKIN': GOOD
Roxy
Nepeta
Kanaya
Karkat
Dirk

U HOMESTUCKIN': BAD
John
Cronus
Kankri
Terezi

U HOMESTUCKIN': AWFUL
Tavros
Jake
Andrew Hussie

I'm just going to assume that the Mayor, Postal Mistress, Jack Noir, and FedoraFreak aren't present out of respect, as all of those horrible characters can't compare to them.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 03:02

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

ThaumPenguin posted:

I miss Hussie. he was a fun character, and I actually felt pretty sad when it turned out magic was fake as poo poo.

That said, he's a literal self-insert. How the hell is he one of my favourite characters?

A whole lot of trollcharacters take themselves too seriously and say too many boring things.

Hussie doesn't allow 'himself' to do that except in the recap sections.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2014 10:47

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Fucknag posted:

terezi still best troll status: yes

She also wins by default. :downs:

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 09:51

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

WAR FOOT posted:

If Hussie can somehow retcon life-ending events, he'll have to lose the power eventually. Otherwise the risk factor will be gone. Right? RIGHT?!

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 22:49

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

My only regret is that Current Dead Karkat will not be able to argue with Future Alternate Karkat in a closed time loop via Trollian.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2014 07:11

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

That's one way to make the narrative loop in on itself again without repeating or making first-time readers accidentally skip big parts.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2014 06:23

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

poo poo, is anyone going to be Santa?

# ¿ Dec 25, 2014 01:46

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Tenebrais posted:

Really there's three things I can imagine Terezi trying to achieve overall. Stopping Aranea (already done), saving Vriska, and keeping her away from Gamzee (which would be a consequence of saving Vriska).

She has to find a way to get Vriska to not lead a breadcrumb trail of pixie dust for Jack to come and murder everyone on the meteor. Otherwise, saving her is useless (she's pretty happy in death anyway), so I'm gonna guess this is more about the clown.

OR, she realizes John is out there pranking her, and gets in contact with him to do more even more bizarre retcons. We'll know for sure if the bathtubs in everyone's house stay in one place.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 17:29

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

John's officially made it into reader-surrogate mary sue mode, clueless as ever.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 06:17

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

I like how all of the continuity time travel changing designed to save everyone is still fine with leaving at least 6 trolls dead forever.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 00:56

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

This update made me miss when Homestuck didn't have any actual romantic pairings and when people died they only came back ONCE like God intended :bahgawd:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 16:04

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Izzhov posted:

I'm having this magnificent epiphanic vision of Equius leading everyone else into battle on horses (a detail Jane omitted due to Eq's Void powers)

That's actually a good point, even though it's Vriska.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 01:31

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

I think we're heading to the corrupted planet map screen again, but with a brand new-old planet

# ¿ Jan 16, 2015 06:23

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Suaimhneas posted:

I think that was just because of the humour value of John dating Dave's mom

Really looking forward to Dave's reaction to this btw

If only this was predicted beforehand somewhere

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 04:06

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

8-bit theater was a good comic: http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/21/episode-1130-so-close-yet-so-far/

That's a reference I didn't expect to pop up 10 years later.

edit: Okay, 5.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2015 02:48

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

Y'all missed the best part.

it says Vriskagram on top

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 01:57

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 22:59

David Copperfield: Mar 14, 2004; im david copperfield

WAR FOOT posted:

The more I look, the more I'm convinced that Vriska's seeing Aranea, not herself. The hair is an adaptation of Aranea's shorter bangs, and Aranea is the only Alpha troll not represented elsewhere.

Nope, no glasses. It's just the artist's different style.

So the real question is if Vriska pops out of existence and then back into existence from Meenah's POV.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 02:04

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