♥/♦/♣/♠ - Homestuck

[Papa Zito]

I think the cherubs are from the universe that the kids create, because:

1. Based on the trolls and post-scratch kids, we know you can message within your own universe's timestream or with a universe connected to your session. We know the kids' universe ends with the red miles, so they can't be from the same universe
2. They only interact with the kids, not the trolls, even though Calliope says she likes the trolls so much. She can't interact with them because their sessions aren't connected
3. They only interact with the post-scratch kids, not the pre-scratch ones, because the pre-scratch kids failed to create their universe

If this is true and if it turns out that Caliborn is English then I guess that means the kids are responsible for creating LE, good job?

[Papa Zito]

There were several very obvious parallels drawn, beyond just their similar appearance. He bites off the same leg that English has his cue-stick on. They both use similar weapons (English used an assault rifle earlier in the story) He loses the same tooth that LE has as a gold tooth. They have the same color blood.

What was confusing in the animation?

[Papa Zito]

Simplest explanation is they're different people.

Also, English is traveling in a) the Incipisphere, where time flows "parallel" to time in the regular universe, and b) the Furthest Ring, where time and space are unstable.

[Papa Zito]

God he introduced yet more characters ffs.

[Papa Zito]

Hey quadz. Quadz. Did you preorder your Homestuck Game yet?

[Papa Zito]

too many characters

too
many
characters

[Papa Zito]

OK I knew about MS paint adventures of course, read over an early one and whatnot, but I am reading Problem Sleuth for the first time now AND I CAN NOT STOP LAUGHING

It gets hyper convoluted at the end.

[Papa Zito]

Jack entered a dream bubble hoping to ditch PM. The dream bubble contains Jack's memories of slaughtering a bunch of people in a castle on Skaia. John, who shares this memory, woke up in the dream bubble after fainting during his rant at Davesprite. Rose, who I assume is also asleep on the meteor, also shows up because she shares this memory as well. Now they're doing the fightings.

[Papa Zito]

If I still played, yeah.

[Papa Zito]

The rate of updates is way way down. Too much entrepreneurial bs. I know a guy's gotta eat but one of the big reasons for his success is the constant deluge of updates to keep the readership's attention.

[Papa Zito]

I've been reading since Problem Sleuth.

Before around Cascade flash animations tended not to be an issue. In fact you could easily tell when a flash was coming because he'd miss a day, then things would go back to normal. Now it's days between three or four regular panels. eh

[Papa Zito]

kinda forward ain't she

[Papa Zito]

I'm not terribly enamored with them either. I'm not sure what they're supposed to bring that a simple animation or a series of standard pages wouldn't accomplish just as well. They just seem to be a way to make people miss content unless they explore everything.

[Papa Zito]

The way I interpreted it, she's looking back on these events from the future. She talked before about self-insertion into their story, so I think that's all that was. She's not really there.

[Papa Zito]

Sure she would. It's self-insertion into a set of events that already happened. Roleplaying like she's there.

I mean, that's how I read it. I could be wrong.

[Papa Zito]

I should have seen that coming. We were flat-out told it was going to happen.

[Papa Zito]

Huh? When?

That would be here, specifically:

UU: bUt yoUr viewport is beginning to black oUt more freqUently.
UU: i wanted to talk to yoU one last time before yoU enter, and yoUr whole session blacks oUt for good.

...

UU: if the effects are wearing off, it coUld explain the increase in viewport blackoUts.
UU: and once they wear off completely, perhaps that is why yoUr entire session goes dark on yoUr entry.

Their session went dark for us too.

[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

[Papa Zito]

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

precisely

[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.

[Papa Zito]

I'm kinda lost.

[Papa Zito]

I used to have a pretty good grasp of what was going on, with Gamzee being the major exception. Now I'm pretty lost.

Best guess - Dave combines his time powers and the glowy white Homestuck symbol thing that's been teleporting John around to go back to when Caliborn was born and erase him from the alpha timeline, thus winning the comic?

[Papa Zito]

AND WHO WEILDS CALEDFWLCH????//??

[Papa Zito]

I'm really excited to see this thing finally end. I've enjoyed it a lot, but it's needed to be finished for quite some time now.

I'm also glad to hear that the game is actually progressing.

[Papa Zito]

wait what really

I was 100% that he'd taken the money and run

[Papa Zito]

$2.5 million, who gives a shit amirite

[Papa Zito]

He raised $2.5 million for the Homestuck game.

Then updates to the site stopped and the game hasn't ever gotten the dev blog or anything.

So I figured he took the money and went to Costa Rica or something.

[Papa Zito]

I don't remember wtf is going on

[Papa Zito]

Reviving this cuz Omegapause is over!11!!!1!

[Papa Zito]

Is it just me or did that final battle not feel very final

[Papa Zito]

Not sure what I did to earn that.

It was described as the final battle but our big bad is still very intact.