04-22-2016, 05:02 PM | #1601 |
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7 Years of Homestuck in 11 Minutes (Spoiler and Extremely Flashy Image Warning). It is just cool to see just how far we've come, but also just how fast the time has gone by.
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05-09-2016, 12:31 PM | #1602 |
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05-09-2016, 07:11 PM | #1603 |
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I have to say I do like that Hussie is developing a brand, even if I think the HS fandom as a whole is pretty much shit.
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The individual people are generally fine and likeable. It's the collective that I dislike.
But this tends to be true of most relatively large fandoms. There's kind of this air of obsessiveness and shallowness that I associate with the HS fandom as a whole that I don't find terribly appealing. There are large swaths of the fandom that are dismissive of Hussie's earlier work (namely, Problem Sleuth) or refuse to look at Homestuck as a whole and instead just choose to focus shallowly on certain aspects of it. It also really doesn't help that HS has had a lot of overlap with tumblr culture which I pretty actively avoid and dislike. Honestly a lot of my distaste comes from being kind of pretentious when it comes to HS because I really do think that it's a masterful work in spite of all its goofiness and deserves some level of respect and deep thought and I just don't think the HS fandom as a whole sees it that way. That said, I have to say Homestuck is one of the few fandoms where I've seen the author interact directly in a meaningful way and still maintain a solid brand and the spirit of the story/media, so in spite of my jadedness/distaste, I still think Homestuck is pretty solid. |
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It's times like these where I wish Talon read HS because I'd love to read the mega essay he'd write on the ending.
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02-15-2017, 10:49 PM | #1611 |
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Man. I've taken to rereading bits of Homestuck and I'm so impressed by the way Hussie wrote the story.
tl;dr: It's basically just me and Jeri who actually care about basically any of this but if you, too, wish to talk about Homestuck as literature, FEEL FREE TO KEEP READING. There's a lot of material towards the end that relates to obligation and choices. It's actually quite powerful. I guess if I could describe it analytically, I'd say "the meaning of choices in an RPG as it relates to life in general." Obligations, paths forward, choices we make - in games, we always pick the option of doing something. Finishing quests and making decisions. Life's a lot more nuanced than that. Spoiler: show And later: Spoiler: show The easiest comparison is to the trolley problem in philosophy - the ethical concept of choosing to not make a choice. Things happen in the MSPA universe whether Rose Lalonde completes her personal quest or not (and indeed [SPOILERS!] in the end she chooses not to "play the rain." We will never know what that would have meant, or how it would have helped her develop in her abilities and her identity. And yet, the universe continues.) This is known as "absurdism" - the concept that the universe is fully deterministic and that it follows neat rules...which is why things don't really make sense to us as humans. Homestuck takes absurdism to the next level, however, by establishing the universe as NOT fully deterministic. It's explicitly a story that was written to take a certain shape, and characters keep interfering with the fabric of it depending on their level of power. Vriska tears the storyline away to look at her. Calliope and Caliborn jerk the story around with wild abandon, and Caliborn (as the most powerful character) seems to be able to manipulate the universe itself, dumping glitter and sugar into the cartridge and glitching up everything. The universe does follow strict rules, and it is unpredictable, but it's fundamentally a little different because people in the story have an influence on the way the story goes. I cannot control if tomorrow a car hits me, since it's related to events I don't understand or control (the car was invented, the road was built, the person had a full life leading up to that moment, I had a full life leading up to that moment, our ancestors, etc.). In Homestuck, it could be for a lot of other reasons. Someone could randomly hit me with a car for the sake of the story rather than because my path and the path of the driver happened to cross at that moment. In Homestuck, cars may not even have existed until the point where I was hit by one. The key similarity, though, is that I am helpless in this situation, as most characters are (besides Calliope, Caliborn, Vriska, Terezi, Gamzee, Meenah, and all 8 human characters, all of whom exert some degree of influence over the story). And so it's in this context that we have to try to understand the absurdist questions that Homestuck poses. What if I don't participate in the story? Homestuck gives us an answer, thankfully: Spoiler: show It's a little cliche to say that Homestuck follows the philosophical concept of "making your own meaning," and it's not completely accurate either. It's a lot more nuanced than that. In fact, Vriska is confronting (Vriska) about that concept. (Vriska) has meaning to her life. She's happy and comfortable. If your life goal is to just find meaning, what is the fundamental difference between Vriska and (Vriska)? And yet they hate each other. They are polar opposites. And as Vriska says...she's recessed. Fallen. Become a "shamelessly self-indulgent, punk-ass NOBODY." Similar to Jade's earlier feat of self-confrontation, she's realizing that the person she would have become, if she'd just done whatever she wanted and ignored her duties and obligations, is a person she doesn't want to be. Jade was overcome by despair and helplessness. Vriska sacrificed her identity to find respite from pressure and guilt. Both of these are very forceful, active personalities (and that's probably why they were chosen to meet their "other-selves" rather than more passive characters who probably would have turned out more or less the same - John meets other-selves all the time and simply notes that they seem more naive than him, but there's no soul-searching element to it). This is just scratching the surface of the literary merit that Homestuck has to offer but it's something that I was sort of thinking about recently (Not sure about the direction of my degree or career). Who do I want to be? What do I have to do? While it's not exactly as CLEAR as what Sburb would have offered me, with magical tomes and odd puzzles and enemies and worlds that need saving, goals and life paths do exist for me, as they do for everyone. Odd that A:TLA philosophical questions show up in Homestuck as well ("You need to start asking yourself the important questions: Who are you? And what do you want?") but I guess it's a.) a recent enough philosophical question, what with the rise of individualism in the modern age and b.) a natural enough question that lots of literature would ask it. Fun stuff to think about. If you ever needed to know that I have a screw loose and look for meaning in children's cartoons, here's your Exhibit A.
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Wow, I love that! I feel like a lot of those things I touched on, but I didn't take it far enough because I wasn't really paying attention to what exactly was happening when Homestuck changed the mechanics of the universe/Paradox Space. More focused on why it was that way and what universal truths I could extract from the change in paradigm. Just incredible writing.
Can I just say, too, that Homestuck completely changed my perception of how time works? Space is pretty simple, but I was never able to conceive of time or time-shenanigans until Hussie illustrated it and wrote a story happening inside and outside of it. Even Interstellar doesn't come close (Slaughterhouse-5 does though). (I'm sure Hussie is inspired a lot by physics as references to it show up every-fucking-where.)
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Jeri's post is pretty legit.
I'm just honestly waiting for The Huss to give us a detailed explanation on classpects. D: |
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Hussie doesn't write stuff down...but I would love to get some insight into his thought process for what each class means to him and why he chose them over other things.
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08-29-2017, 10:19 AM | #1618 |
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>Act 1
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08-29-2017, 02:10 PM | #1619 |
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That's... worrying. UPN Game 23 confirmed to be out before Hiveswap finishes.
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09-15-2017, 06:05 PM | #1622 |
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I didn't think I'd like it at all but it's full of Hussie-level humor, the music is great, the characters are great, and it's pretty fun all around.
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11-16-2017, 07:02 PM | #1623 |
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Apparently dril (the twitter dril) is a writer on hiveswap
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04-03-2018, 02:23 AM | #1624 |
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So either it’s a late April fools joke. Or homestuck has been purchased by Viz? It seems?
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04-03-2018, 07:02 AM | #1625 |
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Viz came up in the past a few times in the news so it's probably not a joke.
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