Thanks for proving my point?
Also like how you cherry-picked the "good" stuff and ignored how the characters usually look like this:
So like I said. Ugly and bad.
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Thanks for proving my point?
Also like how you cherry-picked the "good" stuff and ignored how the characters usually look like this:
So like I said. Ugly and bad.
Thanks for proving my point?
Also like how you cherry-picked the "good" stuff and ignored how the characters usually look like this:
So like I said. Ugly and bad.
It's actually not. Homestuck is one of the most dynamic webcomics ever written, in terms of tone, pacing, and plot. The story begins to slowly yet noticeably expand as the art becomes quite a bit more refined. (At the end of Act 5, arguably the climax of the comic, the sprite style had all but been abandoned. And the monochromatic style is dropped quite early on.)
Well its hard for me to recommend Homestuck to people as its kind of an insane thing, Problem Sleuth is fantastic, it gets a bet bonkers towards the end as it runs with the concept of RPG power scaling, but it is a really fun read all the way through.
XANDER CAGE
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I love Homestuck and all, but... read a book, man.
ZacharyDCCLXXVII
Member
I was laughing at them asking for 700,000$ within a month, but they've made over 250,000$ in less than 24 hours. Quite shocked that they've already broken that mark.
Meant to say webcomics, I'm sorry.
AliceAbstract
Member
This Kickstarter is definitely a hard-sell to non-Homestuck fans, but I've liked every generation of 'players' he's introduced so far and, given that this is a Homstuck game, as long as it's an adventure game where you play a group of kids playing Sburb, I'll probably love it.
Given Andrew Hussie's ability to pull crazy detailed plot threads out of the tiniest, least consequential of things, I don't doubt his ability to craft a good Homestuck-style tale even with this game being in the earliest of stages.
I am a little concerned that even Hussie doesn't know who they are going to have make it, and that it came out of the blue like this. But, eh....
As for the comic, it's both under-rated and over-rated. I like it, but the crazy fans can be a real menace to enjoying it.
Given Andrew Hussie's ability to pull crazy detailed plot threads out of the tiniest, least consequential of things, I don't doubt his ability to craft a good Homestuck-style tale even with this game being in the earliest of stages.
I am a little concerned that even Hussie doesn't know who they are going to have make it, and that it came out of the blue like this. But, eh....
As for the comic, it's both under-rated and over-rated. I like it, but the crazy fans can be a real menace to enjoying it.
EmCeeGramr
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i hope that about 1/6th of the way in it goes from a charming and clever adventure to completely up its own ass in meta shit and eight trillion characters who are literally rearranged versions of other characters and then you spend 90% of the game reading text boxes of the same callback jokes repeated over and over again
Wouldn't have it any other way. *wonk*
Haha I hear ya. Their forums are wack and tumblr's a mess (#dead, #serious).
Aside from a few friends and my brother, I don't really have anyone to talk to about homestuc unfortunately. I actually assumed that there was Homestuck community thread on gaf, but there isn't, and likely isn't going to be one forever, so we're kind of stuck.
Which sucks, because i realllllllllllllly wanna talk about the newest flash lol.
XANDER CAGE
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I hope we get some totally heartfelt and sad and not at all ridiculous AMVs out of it.
EmCeeGramr
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i hope that there's at least one character in it who is an obvious caricature directly insulting a huge portion of his insane fanbase and the made-fun-of fans in question all rationalize it as not being about them at all
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I like the music from the flash pages still I guess
yes I feel out of this over a year ago because it's way too fucking convoluted
Dont forget that theres 100 different variants of the character running around. Theres a fucking bird once-ler. Theres so many fan-specific steampunk once-lers that "steam-cest" has become a subvariant of "once-cest"
Once-cest is when the Once-ler fucks another Once-ler
I fucking hate the internet.
Haunted
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SolarKnight
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Damn, at first I was only kidding when I said that this would be fully funded by tomorrow, but at the rate this is going that's probably what's going to happen o_0
Well, if there isn't a topic on Community and you want to discuss HS on GAF then what's stopping you from making one? Honestly, it's not that bad on Tumblr as long as you interact more with a circle of friends than with the fandom in general and don't mind all the shipping.
Well, if there isn't a topic on Community and you want to discuss HS on GAF then what's stopping you from making one? Honestly, it's not that bad on Tumblr as long as you interact more with a circle of friends than with the fandom in general and don't mind all the shipping.
You're making me not want to read it now.
That's more about Homestuck, PS is basically fine and has very little of that.
As for homestuck, uh if you want to read it, the first act is pretty slow, but it picks up soon after and becomes really awesome for like 2 acts, then something called "hivebent" happens, and this is where both it loses fans, and also gained a billion others and started become the crazy thing that it was.
If you can make it through hivebent and still like homestuck, then its mostly smooth sailing from there.
Dude, i'm pretty sure it'll end up getting locked or deleted. IDK.
Anyway... who wants to talk about the newest flash? I've gotta say, this was arguably the best flash hussie put out, even better than the previous one (which I didn't think he'd ever top.) I thought the ancestors would be shitty characters, but I actually kind of like most of them. Even Kankri and his "social-justice" bullshit. My favorite is probably Latula, since her character through me for a loop & she's a rad game girl.
Her theme is too good.
XANDER CAGE
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Hussie's actual art/writing can be really good, especially in Problem Sleuth. The first 15 or so pages (the whole "fake arms" "get cake" thing) of Homestuck are some of my favorite things on the internet. At least I'll always have Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
But yeah, I really have no idea what the die-hard superfans of the series actually see in the actual comic. Like I said before, looking at the fanbase and then looking at the actual material is like... huh?
SolarKnight
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Oh yeah, I think I remember that topic. Don't think I ever saw it again after the first time.
Why though?
It's fun. Yeah, some fans go crazy and start over analysing or completely ruining the characters, but isn't that just everything with a large fandom?
Why though?
It's fun. Yeah, some fans go crazy and start over analysing or completely ruining the characters, but isn't that just everything with a large fandom?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Gravity Falls over My Little Pony?
Hivebent is also where the comic begins to transition from mostly comedic with science fiction elements to a light-hearted science fiction story with some unique characteristics and a lot of jokes.
The most popular pairing is between a twelve-year-old boy and his twin sister. That should tell you all you need to know.
XANDER CAGE
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Supernatural fans out-creep all other fandoms. Serial killers would get creeped out reading Tumblr posts about that damn show.
Because community threads should only be made for something if it has a thriving community on gaf(?). I'm not sure, but I don't it would be a good idea, we''re better off sticking to an OT thread.
I'll ask some mods though, just to be sure.
SpacePirate Ridley
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But its that art from him, or is he using art done by the community? Thats what I understand from all the descriptions, but maybe Im wrong, so correct me if I am.
If its not art by him, the real art of the comic is still bad.
Both, he uses community art sometimes and he makes his own detailed art.
He uses the small ugly kid art most of the time because when the comic is currently updating, he tends to update it like 10 times a day, so the characters have to be as easy to draw as possible. During flashes or action events or anything where the characters doing anything heroic, they go into "hero mode" where basically there drawn with actual detail and look like normal people.
PaleFolklore
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It's baffling to me that this has already raised $300k.
Not to me. Homestuck has a lot of devoted fans. Most of them are younger, though, so I'm not surprised that there aren't any backers in the ridiculo-tiers yet.
The god tier rewards are amazing by the way.
10,000 - Your fan troll will be canon in homestuck
100,000- Your fan troll will be canon in homestuck, as well as survive the first panel
1,000, 000- Your fan troll will become the most important character in homestuck
10,000,000- Andrew Hussie will "like" one of your posts on tumblr
100,000,000- Andrew Hussie will "reblog" one of your posts on tumblr
1,000,000,000- Andrew Hussie will write a courteous thank you note, and deliver it through the social media platform of your choice.
10,000 - Your fan troll will be canon in homestuck
100,000- Your fan troll will be canon in homestuck, as well as survive the first panel
1,000, 000- Your fan troll will become the most important character in homestuck
10,000,000- Andrew Hussie will "like" one of your posts on tumblr
100,000,000- Andrew Hussie will "reblog" one of your posts on tumblr
1,000,000,000- Andrew Hussie will write a courteous thank you note, and deliver it through the social media platform of your choice.
Vulcano's assistant
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Quite possibly the complete opposite of the Oculus; which only has around 9000 backers but plenty beefy ones. This could raise more than a million quickly, but it will be from a very different demographic. (not to mention that the Oculus' backers are actually much more niche).
Those first two would actually be pretty nice for 10,000.
Silvawuff
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I was at a convention and everyone was bonkers about it. I tried reading it, then I saw it would take weeks , if not months, to catch up. Wasn't happening.
I think Homestuck's culture of artistic expression is second-to-none, though! This will get funded early and above tier, for sure.
I think Homestuck's culture of artistic expression is second-to-none, though! This will get funded early and above tier, for sure.
Yep. Besides the picture of the girl floating in space, though, those panels I posted were all by Andrew Hussie himself.
Like, I want these stickers because they're basically the greatest thing ever but I don't want to shell out 5Gs. Hopefully they get released as a standalone thing down the line, because the ensemble pic is so good...
PS:The above pic is why I like homestuck / stick with homestuck. The main characters are cool, but it's the trolls and their interactions that kept me interested in the series for this long. Imagine 12 different distinct characters with their own personalities and quirks. You just can't help loving them, from the Harry Potter inspired royal douchebag that is Eridan Ampora to the downright sociopathic (at least on) Vriska Serket. In fact, I have half a mind to suggest that you start homestuck on act 5 hahaha.
True. I started sometime last fall and just caught up this past May. Still, give it a chance. I tend to hate extended non-episodic webcomics, but I thought this was worth the time.
Also, would fund this, but Hussie is known for trolling his fanbase even more than Clevinger. I can totally see him pocketing the money, posting about it on his blog with some jokes and going on like nothing had happened.
I think only My Little Pony does that.
cool, but I don't really give a shit about MSPA anymore.
if only Andrew would Kickstart a project for some of his good work. I would go in for like 100$ on an And It Don't Stop physical release or a new Whistles.
hell, I'd throw a few bucks at him just to continue BardQuest
I miss TSO and the old MSPA so much :/
if only Andrew would Kickstart a project for some of his good work. I would go in for like 100$ on an And It Don't Stop physical release or a new Whistles.
hell, I'd throw a few bucks at him just to continue BardQuest
I miss TSO and the old MSPA so much :/