It lives

It sure is stupid though.

i didn't say that Homestuck was great

>>89274955
did something update?

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>>89274955
Homestuck is dead and I never scored with a cosplayer.

Hiveswap is coming and in MSPA says that Homestuck is in progress

>>89275037
I WANT TO BE OPTIMISTIC. BUT IT'S HARD.

>>89275105
Look at the archives in mspa and u will se that homestuck is in progress

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>>89274955
fuck you hussie why did you have to make me so miseralble

>>89275375
its hussie power

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>>89275528

>>89274955
ok

But my interest in it sure is.

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>>89275031
That's your own fault, they're so fucking easy.

>>89276097
Would you indulge feral Jade, even if it meant your probable death and or disease?

>>89276124
No but I'd read a fic about feral Jade not understanding personal boundaries as she's brought back to civilization.

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>>89275590
Hey, at least it's not like you wasted most of your youth on this thing, right?

>cohen's last anything about hiveswap is a month ago

Fucking great.

>>89274955
Well
https://www.myinstants.com/instant/postal-2-fuck/

>>89276498
His last tweet about it is from months ago too.

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Didn't tumblrinas and similars hated the homestuck ending too? What will Hussie even try to milk from this?

>>89276542
Yeah. They hated it because
>Davekat wasn't confirmed and Davejade looked to be more likely
>No character was confirmed as trans
>Many characters they thought were trans were shown to have boobs
>Also the ending didn't really show anything happening

>>89276521
And his current tweets are all not funny.

>>89276403
Back when I still cared about Homestuck I would have been all over this.

Sad.

>>89276856
Hey, Homestuck might be bad but the porn still flows freely.
You can't tell me you aren't interesting in Jade trying to sleep in the wrong bed, forcing Dave to shove his hand down her pants in the middle of a crowd, or going full tribal on a cashier when they ring a bell too loud.

Or you can set it as a more period piece.

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>>89276845

Where were you when you realized that this embarrassment of a webcomic was the final nail in the coffin for webcomics in general?

Guys, let's be honest here. The ending isn't that bad and you would have been disappointed no matter what we got regardless of quality

hussie failed to post an awful few hour long game

>>89275138
that shit hasn't been changed in ten years

So Hiveswap is really fucking coming out this month...?

>>89276845
>>89276974
You know that software is a trojan, right? Did you read the list of permissions you have to allow to run that software?

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>>89277383

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>tfw Kingdom Hearts is literally stealing the Lord English plotline

Not even joking. They just revealed that the big big bad is a clock themed guy in a mystery coat who sets up everything in the series so that he can be born and get powers

>>89274955

Yes it is, it's time to let go.

>>89279832
got any link or article about that?

>>89279933
I mean you have to get into the series which is fucking complicated

>>89278537
did you? or did you just skim a clickbait article and panic like all the other sheep?

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Remember this? Because Hussie doesn't!

>>89279961
Assume I'm into the series but not the latest reveals and link me to something that mentions that unborn clockvillain

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>>89280029
there isn't one but there are lots of assumptions that the clockguy is a dude who is an extraction of pure negative energy (sound familiar?) crossed over with another guy

said negativity guy looks like the main protagonist for maximum POETRY so if it ends up him being the mastermind it would be pretty funny

I recommend the series if you like convoluted bullshit like Homestuck and they even recently added timetravel

>>89280088
Aw c'mon, since you guys assume there's a clockguy surely you can tell me where he appears, is mentioned, hinted at or whatever? Which of the games started the clockguy thing?

>>89280184
the newest movie called Kingdom Hearts Back Cover

warning: you will have no idea what's going on

>>89280088
>Van(i)tas
POTTERY
O
T
T
E
R
Y

>>89280278
That's not all

>the foretellers are all named after sins
>the seventh, the Master, would be named after Pride


>Vanitas is Latin for Pride

>>89280212
so far the obstacle to understanding just seems to be your reluctance to link shit or answer questions

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> hussie will never open the formspring again
> you will never be able to ask whether he really did rip off the wizard of new zealand's cosmology and this is why he filled homestuck with wizards

How is it living? Seems about as done and dead as a comic can get

>>89280555
>"Epilogue"
>"Hiveswap"
>"Post-canon content"
It's Weekend at Bernie's, Hussie and his team are parading the comic's corpse around pretending it's still alive.

I'm still fucking mad.

>>89277383
what ending

>>89280896
Just wait three months for HSG to celebrate a full year of being completely pissed off and/or dead inside.

>>89277383
We need new pasta, this is stale

>>89280312
>Karkat is the final boss

When will we get another webcomic with as big and productive of a fanbase as Homestuck?

is karkat still shit........?

>>89274955
it is dead, for good.

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>>89282815

>>89281966
NOW
plz check out my new comic on keenspot.com and dont forget to vote for it on top webcomic rankings

>>89280316
There arent any english vids on youtube yet but the master of masters has his eye in his keybade which lets him see the future and people think he is braig who set it all up to get norted and get a jeyblade and become MoM and then??m

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>>89276487

>>89285641
>dirk enters
I don't understand

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What did Terezi Pyrope mean with this?

>>89285641
>>89276487
I used to regret not reading Homestuck in 2012 but judging by how you guys are I should be happy to be an archive reader.

>>89276576
i wish this was exaggerated but god they do care about their transdemihumanheadcanons.

>>89286223
Archive reader is definitely the best way to read homestuck, since it went to shit with hiatuses. You missed out on now reading problem sleuth as it was being released though.

>>89276877
I had a terrible idea for a fic that won't leave me the fuck alone where Jade starts going a bit more feral after a few years/centuries as a goddess. Kind of got inspired by the John bummer ending and thinking how desperate for human contact both Prospit twins'd be after some god time ditched by their friends.

>>89286223
Same
>Be me in 2009
>All my internet friends are into Homestuck
>Check it out, quickly give up on it
>2013
>Replay Paper Mario 2, look for fangames, find a fanadventure
>Read Problem Sleuh, read Homestuck
>Get caught up and be batshit about the comic for a few months
>Gigapause hits
>Fandom slowly falls apart, internet friends are no longer fans
>Spend months wishing I'd read it years earlier
>Comic resumes
>Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>Suddenly, horribly noticeable quality drop
>THE END, FUCK YOU
>Rage takes months to subside, still isn't entirely gone
And now I'm really thankful I didn't get into it in 2009
I'd have probably killed myself over the ending or something.

>>89286479
>You missed out on now reading problem sleuth as it was being released though.
That I do regret, especially since I knew about it at the time.

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>>89286518
>Rage takes months to subside, still isn't entirely gone

>implying it'll ever leave

>>89286223
Meh.

I enjoyed the ride. There's a lot of reasons to 'regret putting time into it'. But even knowing all of that, I don't regret reading it to the end as a non-archival reader. But I definitely agree that the hiatuses were just murder. Here's hoping for the epilogue to shed some light on bit of glaring points aforementioned.

>>89286518
>batshit about the comic for a few months
So, what drew you in about it if not the interactive part? Was it the characters, Hussie's writing, the worldbuilding or what?

The ending was absolutely terrible. The complete lack of resolution was a blow to us, make no mistake.

But we'd be sad even if the ending had been good. We'd be sad because the ride would finally be over, and we'll never know the joys of such an active, interactive, constantly-updating story with endless, fresh fan content and discussion again. Because there was only one man who could completely devote himself to a comic like that. And not even he was able to keep that up all the way through.

Homestuck wasn't just the comic. Homestuck was the experience, and you had to be there to get it. You can read the comic now, but you can never experience Homestuck if you hadn't done so when it was alive.

happened to go through the nudestuck tag a few nights ago and im surprised people still do that shit to this day. everyone is still as ugly and unappealing as ever.

>>89275031
Had the chance to but wusses out

>>89277355
I was right here on /co/, mourning with my /co/mrades.

>>89276097
Fucking Dave cosplayers

>>89287082
Hot and attractive people should stay away from this suffering tbqh.

>>89286518
And I'm glad I didn't get into it at all.

>>89286594
I hope it does. Andrew Hussie doesn't even deserve my anger. Only cold and distant contempt.

>>89286785
Pretty much all those things. It was a huge complex story where anything could happen and every time you would wonder how you didn't see it coming. It was full of colorful concepts I liked (Jumanji: the RPG, alchemy, chessboard armies, player planets, cloud visions and squid terrors). And it was the first time I really got emotionally attached to characters in a work. I really loved the interactions and how every member of the cast was memorable. Also, the symbolism and plot theorizing, that was fun.

>>89287659
Yeah, you dodged a bullet here
I'm glad I did because at least I met my date plus a lot of good internet friends that way, but those are the only reasons

>>89287335
Aren't John cosplayers worse?

>>89287741
>Jumanji
Oh fuck, now I want a Jumanji fanadventure. Actually, I wonder if it was an influence on Hussie.

>>89288077
Did he ever compare it to Lost meats Jumanji, or was the Jumanji half of that us?

>>89287335
Yes that's what most jade cosplayers are doing

>>89288055
I've never heard anything them
Do tell

>>89288661
>jade lets jasprose molest her in front of everyone because she's too nervous to say no

>>89288419
I swore he talked about Jumanji being an inspiration at some point

>>89288788
Jade's only nervous because she can barely hold back from jumping her bones in front of everyone.

>>89289211
Jade is not into girls, especially catgirls, you damn nepeta shipper.

>>89289234
If you say so

>>89274955
It's certainly not the same as it was before. The Homestuck I loved, at least, is dead forever.

>>89276542
>Abortion spelled on the fridge
What did they mean by this.

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>>89289354

>>89289270
It's true. Jade's singleminded need for dick could crush stars, but girls she doesn't want, which makes it hotter when she's fondled by jasprose against her will

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>>89289571
>no art or fic ever of Kanaya going breedmad and forcibly impregnating Rose for years on end

I wonder if Hiveswap won't give brief life back to troll porn.

Homestuck is the prime example of how Tumblr can ruin a series.

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>>89290122
I'm afraid the "space players need to breed" meme came too late in Homestuck's life cycle to gain any sufficiently impressive porn

Back in 2010 I was in a very famous webcomic

>>89290122
>no fic of Rose getting forcibly impregnated by anyone

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>>89279967
that's bait, but I'll bite anyways.
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>>89275031
is it really too late? do you guys know of any cons or anything I could try out? I really don't wanna miss the boat on hardcore rawdogging a vriska/jade from behind.

>>89290448
Zahaak Hussman

>>89289162
no, his inspiration for the SBURB reality-altering mechanics was The Sims and Spore.

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11 days remaining in January, the promised release date for Hiveswap Episode 1

Think it'll come out?

>>89294084
It will come out for alpha testing by the backers who are still willing to touch it

>>89294084
Artists tweet about still drawing assets for it all day so long and that smug little greaseball who wrote it went oddly quiet

I doubt it

>>89294235
>Artists tweet about still drawing assets for it all day so long and that smug little greaseball who wrote it went oddly quiet

If they don't release this game in January I'm gonna call up some mates and make a documentary about this whole thing.

>>89292561
What's rawdogging?

>>89294687
what's google

>>89294084
I remain firm in my predictions: wherever people are getting "January 2017" from is going to be changed to just "2017" with no official announcement. Then angry people are going to tweet at the Upper Echelon of Chucklefucks in of understandable anger. Cohen will not respond. Andrew will reply to a random complaint of the lot with no words and a choppy gif of a horse shrugging. Piggy will make a tweet in her and Andrew's patented format of pretentious lowercase, saying they need more time to "make everyone gayer."

The odds of anything else happening are about as likely as the Cubs winning the World Series.

>>89294873
i hate that every word you said is true. what has this come to what the fuck

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Andrew Hussie is a self-loathing betacuck numale whose been emotionally castrated by Halftruth and literally castrated by IPGD. All of his friends and employees are SJWs who demonize men and it comes through in his writing of all male Homestuck characters been wimpy and emotionally broken and the female characters as strong independent women who don't need no man.

>Trump became President before Hiveswap got released
Bravo Cohen

>>89294873
>The odds of anything else happening are about as likely as the Cubs winning the World Series.
Anon that literally happened just a few months ago

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>>89295115

>>89295090
To think January will only see one instance of a buffoon succeeding a retiree from 2009 in a tasteless, boorish, ignorant, self-destructive fashion.

>>89295167

heh.

>>89295167

Shhiiieettt anon that was fucking brutal.

>>89294724
Or tell me

>>89295539
>transgender
>canadian
>vriska
>cosplayer
I'm pretty sure this post isn't serious because no one could be slow low.

>>89295539
Go to a Canadian anime con, Steve. I am sure they are there.

>>89295638
thanks for the advice brother

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Does anyone have the picture that's Caliborn's head shoped over the Thinker statue, with the significant numbers floating around him?

>>89294873
>Andrew will reply
everything else is on the mark except this.
andrew hussie has gone into complete isolation, he doesn't respond to anything and only makes posts about official business on anniversary days.
those posts are probably ghostwritten too, anyway

>>89295539
sup, i'm caddy. how do I meet hot roxy cosplayers in the states?

>>89295726
build a time machine

>>89291403
>but I'll bite anyways
evidence was posted, plus you had absolutely nothing to lose. baitpost destroyed.

Seriously though, they need to announce the Hiveswap release date to start hyping people up. Now would be a good time.

>>89294084
You know what? I'll buy it when it goes on sale or gets package in a Humble Bundle.

>>89295992

The hype is dead anon. Hiveswap is dead. Homestuck is dead. Deader than dad. Dad and DAOOTS

>>89295539
>cosplayer
Okay
>transgender
Different strokes for different folk, I guess
>vriska
Getting worse here, man
>canadian
You want to fuck a Leaf?! Get the fuck out

>>89292561
bumping for...interest. I joined too late to take advantage of the hype, is there no hope for me to give a dogjade cosplayer a bone? i really wanna take one to the pound town. get her to eat peanut butter off my balls even

>>89295992
I wouldnt build hype if i was them, even if the game turns to be good.

>>89296332
You need to get people excited. If there's no good word of mouth, this game is going to flop so hard.

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>>89295539

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>We're once again back to people wanting to get laid by disgusting cosplay chicks at cons

Not gonna happen, never would have happened, and you should be thankful it's so. No one actually gets laid at cons.

>>89296321
Your best shot is to try and hype up Hiveswap in hope that, for a short while, it revives the fandom.

>>89296478
>No one actually gets laid at cons.
Wrong. The truth is that it is not that common but it happens. Also, your best chance may not be with the cosplay chicks.

>>89276542
Fucking Kino

>>89296538
Well of course it does happen some, Cons often involve going out and drinking too much alcohol in the evening. But it's not a great setting for it, and the only people who do end up getting any are those who are able to get laid elsewhere.

>>89296619
>the only people who do end up getting any are those who are able to get laid elsewhere
Well yeah, that goes without saying.

>>89296478
>No one actually gets laid at cons.
Pipe down, virgin

>>89296392
The game flopping hard is exactly what needs to happen, because it may be the only thing that will make Hussie realize how deeply and seriously he fucked up and screwed his fans over in every respect.

>>89296808
think about it really. who is going to buy this game? The only people who would give a shit that didn't already buy it would be Undertale fans because toby did some music right?

Look at the views for the final videos on youtube. they're ~1 million for collide and below 500K for the other 2. No one came back and stayed after the shitshow of an ending. there is no market for this game. the only way its getting made is through Toby Fox personally funding it. Like. Thats the only explanation I can think of.

And they still have 3/4 more "acts" to release before game 2 when they might make money.

>>89297029
also one of the promised rewards was open beta testing for all backers (not just the meenahquest but the actual game). ha ha whoops.

>>89297029
Undertale fans would also get a refund because Toby tricked them into playing an unfunny point and click adventure game.

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>>89296808
i think he already knows

>>89297072
>"I can't believe how much I ruined my life since I last visited this cave"

>>89297072
All I want out of him at this stage is an acknowledgement and apology for what he did to his fans. I don't expect him to try to fix it. He couldn't if he tried, really. But we all deserve that much, particularly the donors he swindled.

>>89287175
>>89277355
Kill Six Billion Demons is still a thing you pessimists.

>>89297189
Don't remind me of how Cio is just a hotter Vriska with some semblance of a conscience.

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>>89297270
>Cio
>Going anywhere
>Aside from shitty Yuribait

>>89297470
>implying Vriska went anywhere else in the end

>>89297560
hes got ya there anon

have we gotten any updates of any kind, even news since the christmas snap? we only got 10 more days for the game

reminder that if you hate what happened to homesuck you're too cynical to not kill yourself

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>>89275031
Same anon again. I want to go as karkat but i'm scared of looking like an idiot since hs isn't relevant any ore.

>>89297641
Thank you for reminding me

>>89297716
Don't worry, most cosplayers are idiots, you'll fit right in.

>>89297641
>you're too cynical to not kill yourself
Fuck you. You must be trying to trick me for your own benefit.

>>89297641
I have hope that like Trump is going to make America great again, Cohen is going to make Homestuck great again

>>89297762
I guess? But i'd be the only grey asshole over there.
>tfw no nepeta, muelin or terezi

>>89297716
Go as a kid or whatever. Anything involving troll makeup may become passe for a while but Daves are forever.

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>>89297716
The problem isn't looking like an idiot
The problem is you'll get attacked by all those yaoi shippers and fujoshits, and none of them are attractive or in any way redeemable.

>>89297716
Don't bother
Most cosplays are based on flavors of the month
Homestuck's time has past
Do something current
Like that Overwatch thing

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>>89297803
Maybe, maybe. My hair's real dark though.
>>89297809
>implying dave isn't fujoshit material as well.
>>89297641
Not falling for that one agaim.

>>89297918
I play it but don't like any of the characters. I can't stop dwelling on the past.

>>89297961
ive made progress leaving it behind by starting up my own creative stuff. Still hurts though. Had to remove all of the homestuck music from my phone.

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>>89297944
>implying dave isn't fujoshit material as well.

Except plenty of Jades also want to fuck your boypussy.

With Karkat, you've pretty much no other option than to have some fat black dave cosplayer try and spank you.

>>89297978
Why remove the music?

You don't have to get rid of one of the best parts of Homestuck just to be able to move on from it.

>>89297944
>My hair's real dark though.
Obvious John Egbert. Harder mode: Dad, Grandpa, Spades Slick or a character from Problem Sleuth.

>>89297978
I work on my own stuff too but have an addiction to drawing mspa girls.
>>89298090
This. The music's so good. But it hurts so bad.

>>89298144
Nightmare difficulty: male!Jade

>>89298090
Physically makes me ill hearing the music now. I can't take that every time it comes on shuffle.

>>89298333
Wait, what?

It makes you ill? Why would it do that?

>>89298375
The associations with the comics past? All the music does for me now is remind me of what the comic used to be and makes me feel sick.

>>89297716
The numbers have been dwindling but you'll be fine--cosplays of Homestuck are really common because it's easy as fuck and recognizable.

>>89297918
Homestuck is one of the most enduring things at cons.

It's undeniably started dying over the past two years but it is *always* there in some way. I've only been to one con ever where I didn't see any Homestuck cosplay other than me and that was a con mostly catering to those old fucks who hang out at the library.

The yaoi girls often don't attack other cosplayers, but rather just do genderswap cosplay of it themselves. That could just be my experience though.

>>89297189
I don't think KSBD is going to get that big, to be honest. It updates pretty slowly, the subject matter borders on the esoteric, and it's lacking in general cuteness and sexiness... Cio excepted, of course. It just doesn't have the right ingredients to be wildly successful.

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>>89298144
I've done a john cosplay before with mild success. Didn't doo too much though. pS characters sound fun but too vague
>mfw remembering homestuck and the inability to NOT post on these threads
>>89298333
Mfw
>>89298446
Oh thank god.

>>89298436
Listening to Harleboss/Descend/Black is painful as fuck.

Which is a shame because they're all really good fucking songs--the sentimentality in them contains so much suffering.

>>89298569
Maybe I just joined the fandom too late to be that sentimental about them. I still listen to the music a lot when driving or playing videogames.

My attempts at a homestuck-inspired novel have hit a roadblock due to the fact that I can't get the time travel mechanic to work consistently

Imagine a version of homestuck where time travel is only possible by moving through the furthest ring, meaning only stable time loops are possible, but terezi is also there and still has her "synaptic causality" ability.

If there's only one future then what good is her power? If there are many futures then if you take the reverse path then which timeline are you going to when you move to the future?

>>89274955
Still waiting for the rest of the comic to be voice acted, from all the spoilers iv'e gathered Jane is going to fuck things up for everyone, and Little Hal is a shitty linux

>>89298727
Never ever
The autists made it right to stop at meenahquest even if by the wrong reasons.

>>89298515
>Oh thank god.
Don't get too comfy. The yaoi girls are like, half of the people who still do Homestuck at cons. If you start interacting with Homestuck congoers at all you *will* overlap with them.

>>89298615
I started reading in 2013.

>>89298805
>yaoi girls
What do they even do, try to get you to kiss guys in cosplay?

>>89298473
>It updates pretty slowly
This is why webcomics as a medium have failed. Only Hussie could update a webcomic almost every day in its prime, and multiple times per day, at that. This is not a criticism of other webcomic creators; that is by no means reasonable to expect of anyone. This also means that virtually nobody can keep a webcomic updated regularly enough to nourish a huge following over the many, many years it will take for the story to get going anywhere. There's a reason all the other most acclaimed ones that update regularly and reliably are basically online newspaper gag strips. Using it as a medium to tell a story just isn't going to work, no matter how good the art, characters, and plot are, if you can't sustain interest with constant content. Ava's Demon is dying because the author just can't handle the workload she's forced on herself, Lackadaisy is almost forgotten because it updates once a year, and so on.

>>89298805
I caught up in March of 2013. Like about 20 days before the Megapause and I don't think I even knew about HSG until after the pause ended.

I think the main thing is I try to remember the good times I had with Homestuck whenever I'm dissapointed with what happened.

>>89298707
>If there's only one future then what good is her power?
What do you mean? If there is only one future probability theory still applies. You can still say some events are more likely to occur than others. You can still imagine the branches of the future, even if they don't turn out to be true. You can make predictions about human brains, obviously.

Here is a list of good Vriska ships:

>>89298707
>If there's only one future then what good is her power?
As good as any other power. Nothing can change the future if there's only one future.

Worm had some interesting ideas about precognition. Precogs weren't able to predict other precogs because of some kind of infinite precognition feedback loop.

anything yet


t. aradia

>>89299016
I wouldn't go so far as to say that webcomics have failed, I kind of agree with you that it's a fundamental flaw of the medium. It's a problem with all serialized or episodic media, but worse for webcomics for some reason. (Is it just that art is harder to do than writing as Hussie once alleged? You tell me. My impression is that serialized fiction with a nontrivial number of followers does completed more often. It also gets ridiculously long for archive readers. )

It's a tough problem. You could hack around it by basically working in another medium, i.e., writing and drawing your entire webcomic ahead of time like a traditional graphic novel and then publishing it bit by bit, but then you wouldn't be able to do the reader input thing. As a compromise you could prewrite X month long installments, but that reintroduces the possibility of stagnation into the process.

>>89299175
That list doesn't contain anything!

No, but seriously. I don't think there are really any good ships at all, especially when Cohen is writing it. Hell, Hussie wasn't really even that good at making any sort of good dialogue of that type.

>>89299352
but I kind of agree*

>>89299220
Jade's tight sweat pants.

comics are dead
webcomics are dead
cartoons are dying
anime is dying

animation is on its last legs

>>89299352
>Is it just that art is harder to do than writing as Hussie once alleged?
I think the problem is that webcomic artists are trying to imitate printed works. They need to change the process and accept a lower quality output in order to compete with serialized media that has entire teams of people behind it. Basically you have to draw your characters as stick figures or copy-paste art (sprite comics) just to get through the story you want to tell at a reasonable speed.

Art is harder than writing in the sense that it takes more time to draw the sequence than to write it.

>>89296061
I feel like at this point not only do I have an obligation to pirate it, but also to seek out all those who would buy it and give it to them for free

It's sort of an ethical issue at this junction. Like, a mere boycott won't do, I think I won't be able to live with myself unless I know I've negatively impacted What Pumpkin's profit margins

>>89299424
What will take over after all of them die, genius?

>>89290633
Well, there is the porn Sparrow did of that

>>89299442
Learn to hack and leak it before the launch.

>>89295167
Trump took a small loan of one million dollars and became President

Cohen took a small loan of two point five million dollars and can't even finish Hiveswap

>>89299456
podcast fiction
but with actual coherence, none of that Welcome to Nightvale shit

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>>89299458
That one wasn't that great. His weird giant belly-distending cocks are a major turnoff

>>89299473
>podcast
>coherence
Ain't happening

>>89299493
That is the problem with sparrow, isn't is?

>>89299502
The Japanese are pretty good at making and selling radio dramas
And it's not like they didn't used to be big in America at one point either

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>>89299531
Yep. I have to get my fix from Planetofjunk, do you know what that's like?

>>89299548
I've seen the nuhuss, bowman, and fat pink dave ones
Is there a cohen version of this?

>>89299607
there aren't enough photos of cohen to do anything with

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>>89299638
>>89299607
Just have photos of money burning, same thing basically.

>>89299427
>They need to change the process and accept a lower quality output
This is very likely true. Unfortunately, it's at odds with a goal that many webcomic artists seem that have, namely to learn to art. Implicit in that goal is learning to be as good as their traditional media inspirations.
>Basically you have to draw your characters as stick figures or copy-paste art (sprite comics)
Or learn 3D. Not enough ambitious webcomics have tried to do 3D. Or use skeletal 2D vector characters like lots of Flash cartoons and games like Aquaria. You'll only have to make each art asset once. Or be rich and hire artists to keep up with your writing. (If you can deliver on the writing.)

>>89299661
That Vriska.

It just isn't fair.

>>89299685
God I know, putting her next to Jade like that just makes her look even more unattractive

>>89299456
/qst/
Serious answer: /v/

>>89296321
>>89292561
fuck no, dude. most of the people who are still cosplaying hs are like 15 year olds who recently got into it

>>89299683
>vector
Just beware you may end up like this if you aren't careful: http://badwebcomicsarchive.blogspot.com/2007/10/cheshire-crossing.html

Stuff to consider if you like(d) Homestuck.

If you're a pleb who likes flashy visuals, music, and inch deep meta nonsense - Undertale. Y'all have probably played it, but it's competently made and exists, unlike Hiveswap. Like Hiveswap, it also have music by Toby Fox

If you liked the gradual but deliberate build up and obscure plot points from like two years ago coming back up to bite the reader in the ass - Boku no Hero Academia. Karkatfags in particular will like the love interest girl since her role as "cute moe love interest who says MC's name a lot" is mercilessly examined, ripped apart, and fucked with, all while small but consistent details suggest she might be a huge problem for everyone despite being fundamentally a good person.

If you like Sci-Fi that isn't just an excuse for weird gender prounouns and /d/ body suit tier sex... well you're SOL. I'd say Star Citizen but let's face it that's never coming out. Hitchiker's Guide is an option but it's pure silliness that just happens to also be vivid Sci-Fi. You can consider Foundation and other Asimov stuff but let's face it if you truly liked Asimov you wouldn't be reading a webcomic about trolls.

If you liked Murderstuck, then Ava's Demon. I'd have said Unsounded a while back but that got boring edgy, not fun edgy. Much like Hussie, the illustrator is a pillhead, so quality varies. Still good tho.

If you like shipping and fat people, then, uh, Steven Universe I guess. Why do you like shipping? What is wrong with you? Lesbians are boring.

If you like Old Huss's humor - well Hitchhiker's guide is the best you're gonna get. Old Huss was truly a loss for us all, RIP formspring.

>>89299712
There's always going to be some sort of media for non-interactive entertainment. Sometimes people just want to relax and be entertained rather than needing to be constantly involved in their own entertainment like what video games demand. I mean, sometimes I just want to relax and let someone else be a hero and watch *their* adventures, not just the adventures in videogames where I take the place as the hero.

>>89299707
Dude that is a rather unremarkable drawing of Jade. It seems like her head is too small. However, the Vriska more than makes up for the problems with Jade in that picture.

>>89299776
if you like genres being subverted as well as the gradual world-building, i would also suggest Venture Bros. it does great things with that johnny quest, hanna-barbara action kind of genre, and builds up to a massive and complex world

>>89299776
>gradual but deliberate build up
If you aren't allergic to fanfiction and this particular author's style, there is HPMoR. It does that but unlike Homestuck it ties the loose ends. Unsong is a milder case with better prose and copious Judaism.
>If you like Sci-Fi
http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/CrookedHouse.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20041228202049/http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html
Not going to spoil how those relate to HS.
>Murderstuck
The Japanese apparently like this stuff. Look into manga/anime/(visual) novels/movies like Danganronpa, 999, Kaiji and Battle Royale. Also, Ten Little Niggers.

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>>89299955
>Venture Bros
I always thought it was a goofy comedy. Is it any good? This is the scene from BnHa that reminded me of Karkat when he wasn't such/just a joke.

>>89299661
WORSHIP
FISH
AND
SPIDER

>>89299776
if you like stories about author-gods with metatextual musings, then consider Umineko

if you like long-as-fuck serial fiction with a fuckton of characters and intricate lore, consider Worm, by Wildbow

if you like meta jokes and pop culture absurdity OR the barty anderson theme, then watch Gremlins 2: The New Batch

if you like sprite comics with witty, irreverent humor and nerd culture references, then consider 8-bit Theater

>>89300028
Venture Bros is a strong contender for the best Adult Swim original series, and also the only one with an actual budget

it's good

>>89300058
>if you like stories about author-gods with metatextual musings, then consider Umineko

And then consider suicide when it doesn't deliver and mocks you for expecting an answer. Umineko's saving grace is that it ends before it can devolve into late Act 6 insanity

>>89300090
>the only one with an actual budget
Xavier: Renegade Angel proves you don't need one.

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>>89299776
If we're throwing recommendations I'm going to shill Dorohedoro because it's got great worldbuilding and twists. A certain character's backstory is about as convoluted as Caliborn's.

>>89300181
>And then consider suicide when it doesn't deliver and mocks you for expecting an answer.
you just need to love harder
without love, it cannot be seen

>>89276542
no one liked it
no one

>>89276542
>What will Hussie even try to milk from this?
Nostalgia

>>89299776
Farscape is the best scifi series ever made.

>>89274955
Does any series really die if evidence exists of it? People certainly still talk about Homestuck, so it's more alive than a lot of things.

Well, it's on Greenlight, so it's PROBABLY gonna come out, right?

They wouldn't have fans vote for it, get it on Greenlight, and then NOT deliver on it, right?

Right?

>>89301242
Some things are better off dead

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>>89300292
Dorohedoro remind me a lot about Homestuck with the whole "Partners" thing being way too similar with moirail relationships.

>>89294084
They said January
They meant January 2018.

>>89294227
>Implying they remember the backers at all

>>89297978
I had to remove the music too. Moonsetter is ruined and even good old stuff like Explore makes me sad.

>>89299776
I'll also suggest:
If you liked the mysteries and scale of the setting, the cosmology of SBURB and its odd imagery, Fallen London/Sunless Sea get it right.
If you were into the epic aspect of the story and all the over-the-top silly shit, maybe you'll enjoy JJBA.

>>89300058
For another HS comparison, if you like stories where you end up hating and/or being disappointed by all of the cast at the end, then I second the Umineko rec. Though I guess Erika makes it out relatively unscathed.

> Ava's Demon is dying because the author just can't handle the workload she's forced on herself
Good thing we watch more for the art, also hiatus ends this month. I want so hard to buy the books but having regretted getting the HS ones ill wait for it to finish.

>>89299776
>Much like Hussie, the illustrator is a pillhead, so quality varies
Talking of undounded right? Avas been pretty consistent.
Shit i should do a list of /co/ recommended fanadventures, im just afraid itll get posted on reddit and they leech them to death.

>>89302298
>fanadventures
Eh.
>reddit
fuck them they legit believe what pumpkin's behavior is what "all video game developers do"

im going to Ruin hussie's prized hat

what is pre-retcon karkat doing...

why is he holding two sickles while running towards (vriska) and terezi...

>>89302637
He is eager to give them the tools for his castration.

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>>89302981

>>89298088
He sure is now.

Jeeeeeeeeeeesus did davekat bring out the turning fetishists, who briefly looked away from fapping about forcing John to be a homosexual to fap about Dave embracing a sincere love of cock.

>>89303315
Most Johnkat fans jumped ship, yes.

>>89298707
You're thinking too much about the mechanics of a bullshit pretend thing.

Think about what good time travel does to the characters. For Dave it let him be the guy to fix his mistakes and look super cool and be super important like he always wanted and then he realized the downside, which is horror and responsibility and a duty to reality itself. Time travel is important to Aradia because it influences the fatalism that controls her for her entire existence; we later find out that there WERE ways she could have rebelled against the control of Paradox Space, but the Maid of Time had some comfort in being at the whims of fate.

How a superpower effects your character is WAY more important than making it sound clever. That's one thing you should learn from Homestuck because it did it really well at first and then fucking forgot because writing is hard lets get other artists to make pictures for me.

is there even a remote chance that hivesmup will show us why trolls have boobs?

>>89299352
Art is hard but Hussie's contempt for the writing process led to a giant fucking mess of a written work so.

Its a pretty typical artist reaction to writing in my experience, "Oh its easy wait fuck what's going on no this is everyone else's fault."

>>89298707
She could have a regular "see the future" power. I'm sure it's been done by non-Homestuck media before.
Alternatively, remember that many characters barely show their aspect powers like karkat and do that

>>89303357
They have torsos. They probably evolved visible tits to attract mates, like we did, because standing upright your ass isn't as prominent. It's not that fucking hard.

Aranea is _____

>>89304369
Eight spiders piloting a mechsuit

>>89304369
Proof Hussie can't move the plot along without a literal mind controlling spiderbitch.

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>>89299776
If you like time travel shenanigans being forced on a bunch of losers, try out the VN Stein's Gate.

It deals a lot with the mechanics of time travel, some internet nerds being in over their heads, twists, mysteries, etc. The characters mostly end up being very believable and likable as their development is usually spot on, the plot is engaging, time travel is well thought out, and it only SORT of shits the bed at the ending. It even has a non-CIS character that isn't fucking awful, if you can believe it.

The only downsides are having to deal with a certain level of ANIME, and a main character that spends the first half of the game being a cringeworthy fuck before getting his shit together.

>>89303354
Fuck you Guy-Who-Wrote-Looper, the rules do matter. Being consistent with your world rules is what grounds the story and gives the character's actions meaning.

A great comparison to draw is action scenes, and the movie Die Hard. The reason Die Hard's action scenes are some of the best ever made, despite not being very flashy, amazingly choreographed, or having notably great effects, is because it's grounded in a set of rules. When John gets glass in his feat, he limps for the rest of the movie. When his arm gets banged up, he stops using that arm. There's an effect to every action, and there are real stakes. The world maintains a consistent set of rules, and the protagonist needs to react and deal with those rules, and that's why the events of the movie even matter.

>>89305597
>it only SORT of shits the bed at the ending
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was bothered by that
By then I was lusting after Kurisu enough to overlook it, though

>>89305883
Yeah, the "villain" just kind of comes out of nowhere and is pretty weak, and the scene that compels the protagonist to get into the thing to go to the place is really stilted and weird.

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>>89304926

Tell me of the sleeper OP classpects

>>89307342
heir of light
you basically don't gotta do shit and everything works out in your favor

>>89307342
Page of Blood
Knight of Blood

MHA I think shows how Homestuck could have worked just fine if it was just, like, a BIT sincere?

MHA uses "shipping" as misdirection, but its always very purposeful misdirection that gives you more insight into the character once you realize what's ACTUALLY going on. Meanwhile Homestuck is content to basically just say DUDE SHIPPING IS DUMB AND DIMINISHES THE CHARACTERS LMAO, but never does much to show the characters having any depth outside of shipping.


And then ironically reduces Karkat, Dave, Rose, and Kanaya to shells themselves purely because of shipping - but I guess shipping doesn't count when it's gay?

>>89299743
This guy gets it. You'd be pedo as fuck.

>>89307342
Prince of Doom.

Power wise it's likely pretty standard, but considering it's destiny would be to destroy doom, it's basically built to win the game as long as the player doesn't fuck it up.

>>89308143
Is this a pasta or something?

>>89295080
I used to fucking hate this post. But now I see the importance of this reminder. We are not allowed to forget. Thanks Caliborn.

>>89308802
Fuck caliborn i still want to believe my $100 is being used for good.

>>89308143
Ehhh I've only watched the anime but I feel like MHA occupies an awkward middle ground between sincerity and irony and doesn't really succeed at either. That's not to say that Homestuck couldn't be better with a little more sincerity, but I think it could also fail catastrophically, too.

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delicious blasphemy

>>89309240
Too much unoficial garbage, its not for everyone.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaB-7wnj5Ag

>>89311192
Was Condy naked the whole time?

>>89312399
No, anon, you're using the wrong 4chan theme

>>89312399
Yes, that is why all of the trolls and humanity were intimidated by her.

>>89303058
>>89302981
LOL NERVOUS INVESTOR HAHAHAH
I'M A HACK

>>89307900
What do you think Blood does?

>>89313148
A nude hoodrat is p intimidating.

>>89314999
It would at least explain why Jake and Jade ran away from the Condesce in the beta and alpha timlines, respectively.

The most important question about hiveswap is if i can break the game with trickster mode. Or if its even there.

>>89315633
>hackswap
>written by mr. tweets
>having something cool
doubt it

>>89317735
I still can't get over it

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THE WAR IS ON

I'm pretty sure receiving two and a half million dollars fucked his mind. He was just dicking around, and suddenly it became an enormous work project to pay off that debt.

Assuming he has a six figure job, which he does not, that 2.5 mil represents over 25 years of pay. That would weigh heavily on anyone.

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>>89317680
>>89317993
>>89319121

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>>89319254

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Posting this here because it's the only Homestuck thread around, and stop me if I'm being cancer, but why does Dirk Strider's wallpaper look so much like Underswap Sans and Papyrus when Undertale itself wasn't even out? I mean, it could be explained if they looked unswapped, as Toby Fox made songs for Homestuck and Hussie may have been privy to Undertale's development, but they're Underswap, which had to be created by fans after Undertale's release. Is this just coincidence? Am I just seeing things because I've spent way too much time in the Homestuck and Undertale trash cans?

>>89305781
>Being consistent with your world rules is what grounds the story and gives the character's actions meaning.
This right here. You can break the rules, sure, but you better have a damn good reason each time you do it if your target audience is even modestly intelligent and mildly nerdy. Otherwise it will leave the audience somewhere between unsatisfied and infuriated, depending on the severity what you did.
>>89302103
>Fallen London
It also has really fun writing. Just be aware that the grinding in that game gets really tedious after level 60 or so. You might want to quit and play Sunless Sea after that.

>>89303368
Seems like Hussie is, or at least was, good at writing in the small (i.e., dialogue, prose style, jokes) and bad at writing in the large (i.e., plot, character development - worldbuilding is a partial exception, I guess).

>>89319648
Its time travel bullshit, don't question it

>>89319172
>which he does not
Not sure. I think Hussie said he was living "comfortably" off the merchandise before the Kickstarter. At implies at least upper 5-figures.

>>89319938
Right. Forgot this is Homestuck we're talking about.

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>>89274955
>got into the fic scene too late to get any appreciable volume of (you)s

Bit disappointed in myself tee bee aich

>>89319648
>Is this just coincidence?
Either that (remember how AH said that if you planted enough small hooks in your story some of them would inevitably pay off and make you look like a genius at planning later?), or Underswap, whatever it is, is stylized after Dirk Strider's wallpaper.

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>>89319648
A tall thin guy and a short round guy is perhaps the most common pair design out there. And then they just happen to have on hoodies. So yes, it's just a coincidence.

Also, fuck you for knowing what Underswap is, and fuck you for making me now know what it is. You disgust me.

>>89320326
Makes sense.
>>89320422
Aw, thanks.

>>89320313
Do these threads like any creative stuff? I've been wanting to drawfag but I have a busy schedule and am not sure if these anons like that type of stuff. My art's also pretty ass.

>>89320313
I'd give you (you)s.

I like calling people shit.

>>89319985
"comfortably" for artists is different than "comfortably" for normal people

>>89320682
Maybe, but consider that Hussie's parents are very much upper middle class, which may compensate for the whole starving artist thing.

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>>89320546
We had drawfags, ficfags, and similar but they mostly left.

>>89320836
>rich straight white guy writes a webcomic where the only real gay ship are lesbians (which is pretty much a meme at this point)
>dumb teenage girls lap it up as some amazing progressive capstone work on what it's like to be homosexual

Amazing

>>89320975
I liked Loki.

>>89320975
I should try taking up the mantle of the last drawfag in existence in these dying threads. Not now though.

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>>89321149
Yep

>>89321056
I mean everyone knows at this point lesbians aren't gays cause they have no balls to touch

>>89321181
It's more that girl on girl is hot to rich straight white guys, every fucking webcomic and show has them. It's not progressive really anymore, it's more a fetish than anything.
You don't get points for making two hot girls kiss each other. Yet these morons lap it up.

>>89321056
Lesbian subculture exists only because idiots in positions of power consider homosexuality taboo. Everything aesthetically lesbian is either an act of rebellion or discretion. In short, they need a rich straight way guy in order to have a sense of identity.

>>89321056
>lap it up
They fucking praise it to the heavens. Remember that giant article about how Homestuck was the most progressive work of all time or something?

>it's not really gay if it's lesbians!!!
lol?

>>89321178
>dress already off

Wow Jade, you're a thirsty slut

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>>89308294
>>89299743
Yeah, and during the height of it I was 16/17
I got with a few cosplayers during that time during the time but I had the chance to get with an 8/10 but I never went for it ;_;

>>89321364
Literally everything is lesbians these days.
Every fucking webcomic has lesbians. People don't bat an eye at lesbians, because guys find girls kissing girls to be hot.

>>89321416
What's impressive is that Hussie managed to make alien lesbians boring.

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post something really LEWD and SUGGESTIVE
with

aradia
feferi
latula
jane
or porrim

for variety's sake

>>89321546
Literally whos

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>>89321546
Hey, I want to milk Jane like the whorish cow she is, but people don't like Jane.

>>89321476
Hussie is very good at running surefire ideas into the gruond.

>>89321577
There's two things about Jane I like.

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>>89321546

>>89321056
You've figured it out. Every "progressive" thing ever is made by WASPs, for WASPs.

>>89321864
What the fuck is a wasp?