♥/♦/♣/♠ - Homestuck

[Alduskkel]

I'd like to know how Andrew expects archival readers and readers not a part of the general fandom to understand this.

[Cheery Dog]

I don't know how he expects anyone to understand it, because I sure don't

[Alduskkel]

Which part? Trickster Mode, or "I feel so caucasian"?

[Cheery Dog]

Everything. (I haven't actually read the last day's updates yet, so both)

[Kcdaspot]

[Alduskkel]

Trickster Mode: In the opening flash game page of Act 2, if you press Ctrl + T you'll enter "trickster mode" featuring a similarly candied up John. (The hint is that one of the cliffs has Ctrl + T written on it.) In the majority of the other games, pressing Ctrl + T will also do something. This image of Roxy in trickster mode also hinted at it being more than just an easter egg. There's speculation that since trickster mode constitutes a glitch/exploit, it will be key to defeating Lord English.

Lord English is supposedly indestructible. He's rumored to be killable only through a number of glitches and exploits in spacetime.

"I feel so caucasian": Andrew Hussie is on record having said that all of the human kids are aracial, and only white in the sense that they are blank white slates for you to fill in whatever you'd like.

Needless to say, this opened up a can of worms. For example, on one page John refers to Dave's Bro as a "white rapper." Some people pounced on this... Andrew Hussie responded by changing the word "white" to a whole bunch of gibberish. It's since been changed back, but it was like that for a fair amount of time.

Since Trickster Mode Jane has more of defined skintone, this once again caused controversy.

What exactly Andrew Hussie means by "I feel so caucasian" is not precisely known. It could be a jab at Social Justice tumblr bloggers for getting up in arms over all this. It could also be Andrew violating the "rules" he set in the same way that Trickster Mode seemingly violates many rules of reality (and sanity). Jane's statement is still ambiguous enough that it's unclear whether or not she BECAME caucasian (and was not before) or she was already caucasian or whatever.

While it could be argued that Andrew is basically feeding trolls, I did read an anecdote that some people were issuing death threats to some other people who were drawing Roxy as black, and that Andrew Hussie was upset with the first group. I don't know if that's true or not, but that might explain why it seems to be somewhat important to him.

Personally, I think that saying they are aracial was fine, but he shouldn't have said anything else on the subject after that.

[Papa Zito]

The caucasian thing is him lashing out at people who criticize the lack of ethnic diversity in the characters.

What I know/guess about Trickster Mode:
- it was an easter egg you could activate in some of the walkthrough flash games by pushing Ctrl-T. It just did silly stuff like swap sprites or teleport you somewhere
- Calliope sent Roxy a "fan-art" image that looking back is apparently Roxy in Trickster Mode
- It seems to be a callback to Rose's Grimdark mode.
- It seems to have superboosted Jane's Life powers - she brought half her planet back to life, starting with the dead tree next to her. Also flying?
- The Life powers did the Final Fantasy thing of killing undead monsters. They left behind the grist needed for the Warhammer of Zillyhoo.

[Papa Zito]

oh god it's spreading

[Alduskkel]

do not want (?)

I really have no clue where Andrew is going with this.

[Cheery Dog]

Trickster Mode: In the opening flash game page of Act 2, if you press Ctrl + T you'll enter "trickster mode" featuring a similarly candied up John. (The hint is that one of the cliffs has Ctrl + T written on it.) In the majority of the other games, pressing Ctrl + T will also do something. This image of Roxy in trickster mode also hinted at it being more than just an easter egg. There's speculation that since trickster mode constitutes a glitch/exploit, it will be key to defeating Lord English.

Stop making me regret not bothering with all the games

This trickster mode will probably continue until the end of Act 6 Act 5 Act 2 at the very least. (these acts within acts are also annoying me, but they're only minor annoyances)

[Darox]

Stop making me regret not bothering with all the games

This trickster mode will probably continue until the end of Act 6 Act 5 Act 2 at the very least. (these acts within acts are also annoying me, but they're only minor annoyances)

Skipping the games is about the same as skipping a couple dozen pages. It's not like they are cute asides, they're part of the story as well.

[Cheery Dog]

Stop making me regret not bothering with all the games

This trickster mode will probably continue until the end of Act 6 Act 5 Act 2 at the very least. (these acts within acts are also annoying me, but they're only minor annoyances)

Skipping the games is about the same as skipping a couple dozen pages. It's not like they are cute asides, they're part of the story as well.

Yeah I know, I just found them boring to go through so I skipped them.

[Sanjay]

Whaaaaat is happening right now????????

[Papa Zito]

Whaaaaat is happening right now????????

precisely

[Phillammon]

I could not have put it better myself.

[Papa Zito]

Here's a Tumblr post on the subject.

Apparently Trickster mode (which I keep writing Trixter mode for some reason??????????????????) is like when Mario gets a star, so I guess it's a super powerful but temporary. Also contagious.

[quadz08]

Not gonna lie, IM-Batterwitch is fucking hilarious.

[Sanjay]

This is embarrassing, but I didn't figure out how to make these: ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ until now.

If I had figured it out earlier, I would have used them like crazy during Mafiastuck.

[redFF]

there arent many things worse than homestuck and its fanbase.

[Phillammon]

Nice to know. Fancy leaving us to our bewilderment?

[redFF]

lol so random xD

[Cheery Dog]

Well that finally ended at last - I thought it would have gone to act 6 act 5 act 3 though, but going back to act 6 act 5 act 1 messes with the timeline more so I guess that is also normal for this story.

[xtopherusD]

Four years of Homestuck! *party noises*

And we get a Flash page!

... Where we learn that John has the strangest idea of how to play Solitaire.

Spoiler: no look

I MEAN WHAT IS THIS. YEAH IT'S 413 BUT COME ON put it somewhere that it MAKES SENSE

[quadz08]

lol the music was pretty excellent

[Phillammon]

Aces wild is a legitimate (if odd) way of playing Solitaire, and the 4 and 3 were fine. Although there was no good reason to play them *there*.