4/13/11 is here. The most we have for the moment is a dead cat. ;_;

I find it an amusing coincidence that my birthday is 13 of April.

Though it isn't THAT amusing...

>>14441
The day isn't over yet...

she isn't dead until there's a dead symbol over her moveless corpse.
Hell, she isn't even KO'd, she's probably just slowly dying in pain as Terezi just stands there a watches.

She looks pretty dead to me, and Terezi sure seems to think she's dead. And there wouldn't be much point in her not being dead.

>>14450
There's a point because she's devolved into a Schrodinger's joke.

>>14451
She was never anything more than a joke, just like Equius.

>>14454
>just like every single troll
ftfy

>>14454
First she was a joke about cat waifu roleplayers or whatever, the nature of her joke has changed since she can't roleplay anymore on account of being in a horrible state of between being alive and dead.

>>14455
>just like all of Homestuck
ftfy

Well fuck me and call me Shirley. That was the best flash yet.

>>14461
ಠ_ಠ

Bob 2011/04/14(Thu)10:40 No. 14465 ID: 6ba8b3
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Well it has been over 5000 comics/flashes and nearing the six. So it's no suprise that not everything goes according to plan. Pretty good.

Bob 2011/04/14(Thu)11:48 No. 14466 ID: 2eac65
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...and we have impact.

>Homestuck Thread 2
>Insert Disc 2

How appropriately meta. I feel special now!

Well, that was an anticlimax. Some neat character development, but it was the sort of thing that would pass for an everyday update. Not the sort of epic climax that usually happens on 413, despite the buildup with Rose vs. Jack and the Aimless Renegade's bombs.

Of course, that's sort of unavoidable, with Hussie's moving to a new house and all.

>>14466

>Not the sort of epic climax that usually happens on 413

You mean that happened once on 413, right?

Don't worry, I've got your epic climax here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcEBX74AWE

>>14468

this scared me, big time

Bob 2011/04/14(Thu)13:44 No. 14470 ID: 1963d1
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>>14456
>>14454
>>14451
>>14450
>>14449

She is not deads. She just sleeps in some bloods.

>>14468
Someone even paid 60$ to make an ad linking to this on the front page as Disc 2. The price has skyrocketed to 100$ now.

Bob 2011/04/15(Fri)00:45 No. 14479 ID: ba1062
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Ah, ambient music!

>>14479
Combine the songs!

Heat/Clockwork
Shade/Wind
Light/Rain
Frost/Frogs

DO IT FOR SCIENCE

Bob 2011/04/15(Fri)09:01 No. 14481 ID: 5d54a5
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>>14480
>Frost/Frogs

Hmm... This doesn't sound right.

Before anyone goes mad with worry we already know Terezi survives past the critical moment to post on the memo.

dammit terezi, stop being so black rom over vriska, we know you hate her but jesus.

So... I guess Eddie Morton is Lord English?

At this point, I'm thinking Lord English is Lord English. His own character.
It's the least and most disappointing reveal at the same time.

I think that Lord English is, using a stupid trope, the Giant Space Flea From Nowhere in Homestuck. Just like in many jRPGs, it's the final enemy that reveals his form only when the main villain has been defeated. And just like in those jRPGs, his presence in the story is anecdotical, other than giving the heroes a last enemy to fight.

>>14666
Nah. To be a true Giant Space Flea, there shouldn't be even hints of LE's existence until he shows up.

>>14666
>anecdotical
Dictionary redirects to "Anecdotal"
>1. also an·ec·dot·ic (-dtk) or an·ec·dot·i·cal (--kl) Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes.
>2. Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis:

Are you sure you didn't mean "incidental"?

Probably 'ancillary.'

Though really Lord English is way, WAY more relevant than most jRPG out-of-nowhere bosses like Zeromus and Necron.

I suddenly understand...nothing

>>14749
You were actually expecting to understand anything?
This is Homestuck, not understanding something about it is basically a trademark.

yay disk 2, imagine my excitement of extra clickery

terezi, why are you so dumb?

>>14779
Because plot demands that every troll die.

Oh dammit, I knew this would happen.

Bob 2011/05/04(Wed)23:25 No. 15043 ID: 0c9433
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Confirmed in newest update: Karkat's ancestor (and surprisingly Tavros' too) is a badass

A very dead badass.

But still

>>15043
...where'd you get that image from? I don't see if in any recent update. Also what the hell's with these artifacted gifs?

>>15046
>Also what the hell's with these artifacted gifs?
We're playing on a cratched CD, remember?

Didn't the "Karkat was a revolutionary" thing originate from /co/?

>>15043
Wait, was this hidden inside the .gif errors? Or just inside the purple prose?

>>15056

Karkat's 'ancestor' was probably a human who ended up in Alternia due to shenanigans.

tavros ancestor, dem horns. also rufio!

>>15060
His army thus inspired would spearhead a major re8ellion. Surely one at least on the scale of the sectarian revolt crushed 8y the High8loods, who thereafter for8ade its mention, or any invoc8tion of the heretical sym69ls at all, even in private journals.

>Heretical sym69ls

>sym69ls

>69

It's not all that hidden :V

>>15043
He totally looks like Simon from Gurren Lagann, and that's awesome (just saiyan).

Also, I'm guessing it's fan-art.

I'm willing to bet that theres something extremely important about Kakarat's red blood...
mainly as it's apparently special... and the first color in the rainbow... and most humanlike...
and other things.

>>15081
It's special because anyone who had the color was apparently killed off for being a rebel. It's shameful to karkat for that reason, most likely.

>>15199

>It's special because anyone who had the color was apparently killed off for being a rebel.

Actually, that was the sym69ls, not necessarily blood color.

Glitches

Glitches everywhere

>>15286
And, for some reason, they rule. They are really well used

Bob 2011/05/15(Sun)00:14 No. 15289 ID: 0d7a83
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Looks like someone needs one of these badboys.

>>15287
Shit is getting so real

THe universe is breaking

or at least that is the feel I get here

>>15287
I respectfully disagree. I hate them.

>>15287
Shit is getting so real

THe universe is breaking

or at least that is the feel I get here

Bob 2011/05/15(Sun)06:20 No. 15297 ID: 2eac65
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I just realized something.

Vriska wants to fight Jack, but Terezi wants her to leave the decision up to chance. Vriska can manipulate luck to ensure herself the best possible outcome to Terezi's coin flip... but which outcome is really the best? That depends on whether she's actually strong enough to defeat him or not.

If Vriska can beat Jack, then the best outcome would be "go". She will go out and fight Jack, win, and save the trolls. If it had landed on "stay", she would have wasted time and risked her life and the lives of her friends when she could have saved them.

If Vriska can't beat Jack, then the best outcome would be "stay". She'll avoid a fight she couldn't have won until she and her friends can come up with a better solution. If it had landed on "go", she would have wasted her live in a futile struggle and possibly destroyed the last hope her friends have.

That's the true purpose of Terezi's challenge: to prove whether Vriska's confidence is justified or not by revealing which option will really be the "luckiest" for her.

>>15297
immediate realization I had.
So, how long until our human players are back on the scene? They have a scratch to escape... Which I have a feeling will bring a certain foe to existence...

>>15297
If allowed to continue falling un-apprehended it would land on STAY which is the best option and is what Vriska actually wants.
But what will actually happen ins Gamzee will show up and snatch it out of the air.

>>15300
I still don't get it.

Just wtf is Gamzee DOING aside from clowning around!?

And Karkat and Sollux. Where the fuck are they?

>>15297
OR if Vriska fighting Jack and getting killed WOULD be the best outcome

>>15303
>What is Gamzee doing

>Gave Terezi her dragon and outfit
>Sent her after Vriska
>Used the heads to make a "jury"
>is using the Hammer as a gavel

He's re-enacting the Trial from the journal. DERP

>>15306
I think the bigger question is WHY.

Lil Cal should stay away from him. He's dangerous :(

well see, gamzee get's his power FROM clowning around. if he stopped being a insane clown he would become weak. hussie said this on the forums. it's why the joker is such a powerful villain even though he is mostly just dicking with people. evil clown power.

>>15310

Are you being ironical? Otherwise that's just dumb.

>>15312
Actually, it really is how things are. Hussie himself said so.

And I don't think it's dumb. The only thing I honestly hate in this comic is all this predestination bullshit, and lo, we just got MORE of it!

Bob 2011/05/17(Tue)19:35 No. 15327 ID: 2eac65
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>The Thief used her abilities to steal the fortune of her opponent, and forced the flip to yield what she regarded as the most favorable outcome.
So apparently my interpretation was off, and Vriska's abilities are dependent on her own biases.

Or maybe it has more to do with her stealing the luck from Terezi, her "opponent", and picking whichever outcome is worse for her as a result.

This, of course, would mean that Vriska going to fight Jack is the worst thing that could happen to Terezi, because it will get Vriska killed and lead Jack to their asteroid hideout, as opposed to staying in the asteroid and doing whatever it is she would have done there. Hopefully, Terezi can convince her of this in time.

>>15321
I agree. If there's one thing I don't like about Homestuck, it's the constant references to "non-linear time". It sometimes seems to render the events of the comic pointless, as if the characters were just going through the motions and nothing was actually occuring for any particular reason.

no see. the key is "what she regarded"
terezi must of worded it such that even though she lost the flip she still won the battle.

>If the result was the undamaged side, the Thief would agree to stay. If not, she would "go."
Notice the "go" is in quotes?
Vriska has just unwittingly opened herself up to actually be killed.
Her agreeing to the terms of the coin flip will make her death 'just' and thus actually possible.

Whether Terezi can actually kill her or not is another story, though.

>>15334
It turns out she can't.

>You cannot do it.
>You cannot kill the girl.

Welp. That was an utter fucking letdown. I usually love everything hussie does, but this scratched disk and doc fucking scratch summarizing? Complete copout. He's gonna have to pull out something huge to make up for this.

Oh hey he's pulling something huge now.

Bob 2011/05/19(Thu)11:14 No. 15347 ID: 0c9433
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ROUND 2

FIGHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWNYzwDYvs

Bob 2011/05/19(Thu)17:55 No. 15350 ID: 7dda9a
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>>15347
Rose confirmed as a hero.
Also confirmed as more dangerous than Noir.
This will be great to watch

>>15350

>Also confirmed as more dangerous than Noir.

Nope.

The only thing confirmed was that the noir at this point in the timeline is less dangerous than the one in the trollverse.

>>15354
that's cause at the moment he is holding back because he want's a foe to fight for a while so he isn't so ungodly BORED.

>I warned my neophyte protege not to stare into that ball.

Bullshit, he did exactly the opposite of that.

So much for 'I never lie.'

>>15387
he probably warned her in some round about an obtuse manner.

>>15384

Man, Dad looks like a weird superhero in that image.

>>15387
My thoughts exactly. For all his pretense of truthfulness, he's still a very dishonest man. Even when he doesn't technically lie, he knowingly omits information, is deliberately vague with the intent of being misinterpreted, lets others (Aradia) tell lies for him, and otherwise renders the claim "I never tell a lie" into essentially meaningless trivia. Rose called him out on this once, and he responded with an ad hominem statement about her feelings of entitlement.

Doc Scratch claims to play with his cards face up, but he still keeps them up his sleeve.

Hussy is such a pretentious dipshit. Since he started the disk fixing, nothing has been done in a way that's shorter or more condensed than how he was doing things before. And before you say that that's part of the joke (dragging out the coin flip, waiting forever to post these updates) I'd say that just because it's done on purpose doesn't make it either good or clever.

He's "trolling" his fan base. It doesn't make me mad, though, it just makes me not really give a shit about the characters or the outcome. I don't think it's all on purpose, either. I genuinely believe that he has a lot of cool ideas, but no clue how to properly string a narrative together, and, hell, a lot of the best stuff in Problem Sleuth was user-generated, although it suffered from the same painfully bad pacing as Homestuck.

>>15422

This is pretty much exactly how I feel.

>>15422
Yeah, this, pretty much.

I like the characters (most of them, anyway) but don't really care about the plot. So when we step away from the characters and focus on the plot, (in probably the worst way possible) it's pretty bad, from my perspective.

Well, I'm enjoying it just fine.

all the john/vriska shippers probably went SQUEE when they saw the hammer.

She probably dies and someone mixes her corpse and Zillyhoo together and gives John the code.
And her doomsday device possibly. Probably through some weird computer screencap using the trollian timeline viewport.

It seemed to also incorporate the aesthetic of Eridan's gun.

Vriska is so dumb.

Dammit Vriska

Bob 2011/05/30(Mon)15:59 No. 15799 ID: 0d7a83
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She has the dumb. ALL OF IT.

Noticing the action in the upper banner.

Two more fake deaths.

at this point I don't even care anymore
deaths have lost their meaning. There just have been too many, either permanent, with some form of revival, or fake.
Now I'm like happy because there's literally no suspense anymore about this shit. They're dead in a form. They're going to die again somehow. And another timeline shows up or we go to the afterlife bubbles and chill out there with them or just plain never see them again okay.
Where the fuck do we go from here?

Hussie and Whedon are going to form a singularity at this rate. The main difference is that Whedon's death sort of matter. You know there coming but how and who? Hussie doesn't have any fucking prejudice with those that have plot armor, all you care about is HOW. Which just inspires curiosity, not much emotion.

>>15827
This isn't even the right way to do it. Just hearing (sorta) Scratch monotonely explain everything as a fact is not good storytelling.

>>15832
There's no right way of storytelling
But this storytelling's quality is iffy at best
I wish I could be one of the fans getting all shocked and getting the suspense out of the situation. Yes, they exist. Been lurking in the PA forums and I see a few. I wish I could be one of those fans right now, but all I can do is sit back and go "alright. So when does the cool unpredictable parts happen? The last was when Rose went Grimdark." Alright alright, now lets move on to someone we do care about that isn't essentially acting in futility, like Jade or future Dave or Dead Past Dave and Aradia... or Gamzee. He's doing shit too in his crazy behavior. His wild card factor kept him from becoming a trophy at least, and Kanaya isn't a corpse either.

Music's still A-O-Fucking K though

>>15835
True.

You know at this point I realize that the banner-picture storytelling is what's really entertaining in these updates.

I doubt Hussie truly intended that in any form of irony whatsoever as he can't be that good a manipulator of emotions, but I could see it in that way so it's more impressive. The story going on in the banner is more interesting then the panels because we don't have a immortal villain Jack Noir killing everything we care about, we have the cool original Jack Noir being a good old fashioned renegade and tearing shit up.

He just brings a tear to my heart you know?

>>14434
Oh god yes ahahahaha. Always bet on Spades to save the story.

The only question now is how Scratch could possibly be surprised by this.

>>15872
Unsurprising but still incredibly rude. Now the question is how Scratch can continue relating the story with...well..fire everywhere