♥/♦/♣/♠ - Homestuck

[Papa Zito]

If I still played, yeah.

[quadz08]

START PLAYING AGAIN JUST FOR THIS

duhhhhhhhhhh

[Phillammon]

Thii2 thread ii2 relevant to my iintere2t2.

Done with the typing quirks now, just posting to watch and bookmarking for now.

[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.

[Phillammon]

To be fair, the flash games are taking a while- we can almost certainly expect the rate to rocket again once we leave the intermission.

Though I have to admit, I only started reading, chronologically, at the start of the intermission, so my view may be skewed in that respect.

[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

[quadz08]

honk

also ololol at drunkrose

[Papa Zito]

kinda forward ain't she

[Cheery Dog]

The flash games aren't even interesting, I don't think I've actually bothered to play through the whole of any of them yet. (well maybe back when they first appeared with just the trolls, but they were still just bleh)

[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.

[quadz08]

I agree; I think he's being too clever by half (par for the course on homestuck).

[Alduskkel]

It does capture a certain "feeling" though. Normal panels don't let you feel any control since there's no real interactivity. There's no aspect of exploration. The games allow you to step into other characters' shoes on a deeper level than just what the commands and the second-person narrative can do.

[quadz08]

So uhhhh

apparently Callie has been invisibly watching everything happen and writing it in her journal?

what.

[quadz08]

HI PEOPLE

YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT REPLACING INTO MAFIASTUCK

PM ME AND GORRAD IF YOU ARE INTERESTED

(please we need 4 replacements aka a whole bunch)

THANKS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[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.

[quadz08]

huh. But then wouldn't she know that they can't interact with her?

[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.

[quadz08]

You're probably right. We'll see.

[Phillammon]

Well, that was quick.

[Papa Zito]

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

[Gorrad]

Huh? When?

[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.

[Darox]

No it didn't.

Because we got a straight up flash showing their exploits within the game, post entry.

[xtopherusD]

I think I found my new favourite line in probably the entire comic:

FineryFiend: @WANT_MORE_SOCKS can one unsit on a hat???

[quadz08]

what.
in.
the.
actual.
fuck.