17776

This thing, man. Holy shit. I came for weird football and didn't expect feels.

Anyone else find the part where Eddie breaks the fourth wall kinda weird? This update was otherwise pretty perfect, but that one part was a little odd.

>>93844184
It was odd, but man. There isn't a part of this story that isn't odd. It fit in pretty well, I thought, considering this is a comic about millenia long games of football played by immortals with no sense of scale.

>>93843658
>>No Nine in this update
Nine is a needy cunt, we need more Juice and more of those guys who were casting the game from their car.

>>93843658
is this War Thunder on low settings?

does this really count as /co/

like does it do the bare minimum to be a "comic" if it's a chatlog and some pictures of the Earth

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>>93844401
I'd call it a webcomic. It's kinda like homestuck except it doesn't blow ass and faggots posted a lot of that shit back in the day so this should be okay.

>>93844184
My takeaway was that it was a jab about ridiculous 'don't try this at home kids' type messages. But god knows

>>93844798
i think it came from an honest concern from the author, it wouldnt be the first time someone does something stupid because of the internet

but i fear he just provoqued the idiots in the crowd to actually go and do it anyway

>>93844184
I knew humans knew about the satellites, I just didn't know that they could detect when they're being watched. Guess they don't really care at this point, since no one ever stopped their conversation when Juice or 9 tuned in.

>>93844184
I guess he was worried someone would attempt to visit the place so he made it to fit as part of the narrative

>>93844401
Webcomics are a medium of their own. Many old webcomics had gifs and moving parts, others sound. Then came Homestuck and took the medium to the limit by adding lots of different features, even playing with the website hosting the webcomic itself. 17776 draws from that.

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I am tempted to cosplay Juice.

>>93845286
>17776 draws from that.
So, do we know yet if Jon Bois has read MSPA?

>>93847182
I kinda find it hard to believe that he hasn't. The feel is so close to Homestuck itself that honestly if the story stopped right now and, inexplicably, impossibly turned into Homestuck 2 on the fucking spot I would still totally believe it.

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>>93847445
>I kinda find it hard to believe that he hasn't.
True enough. Has anyone actually asked him on Twitter?

>>93845197
He wasn't talking to the satellites, the guy explicitly says he's breaking the 4th wall. Canonically people can tune in to the satellites' conversations but we don't know if they can detect when they're being watched.

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Why didn't humans built probes that harvested material to built more probes?

>Thu-Huong Ha described 17776 as "part Italo Calvino, part Peter Heller, with humor seemingly from within the depths of Reddit," saying that the story would appeal to both sport fans and literary fans alike.[1]
>Ian Crouch of The New Yorker described the series as, "despite its seemingly meagre parts, a thing of startling beauty". ... He also noted that the series was compared to Homestuck and relayed additional comparisons to Thomas Pynchon novels and "a Reddit thread hijacked by robot trolls".[6]
Ugh.

>>93849650
some of those comparisons seem okay, some seem a bit sill, especially the reddit parts.

>>93843658
I'm loving this. And unlike say Welcome to Night Vale it won't get stale and lame.

>>93850129
If you are not going to reference HS and the associated forum culture, at least compare it to weird Twitter or something.

>>93845286

I dunno if it's really accurate to say it draws from Homestuck, Jon was doing similar multimedia stuff long before Homestuck began.

>>93844401

It's about as /co/ as Worm.

>>93850343
Nah, it is definitely more so than Worm, but it's still borderline /co/ntent.

>>93844401
It's basically Homestuck if it was good and Homestuck was deemed appropriate for /co/, so why not? I couldn't imagine what other board this could be discussed on

>>93846030
Otakon's coming up pretty fucking soon. Could I bullshit a Nine cosplay on relatively short notice?

>>93850566

/sp/

>>93850581

Sure, just get an oatmeal can, some old radio antennas and red spray paint and youre good

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Either there have been MASS cases of people just mentally cracking under the strain of "FOREVER" and they just haven't talked about it yet, or something about whatevers caused immortality also made people super mentally resistant to stress and strain

>>93850586
>Oddball Sci-fi comedy
Sports fans.

>>93850566
/lit/, but /lit/ sucks.

>>93850627
It's 15,000 years after whatever caused them to become immortal. They've had plenty of time to detox and decompress.

>>93850627
I haven't followed this in a few days but there's two things they've established that could address that:
1. It could simply be that "people don't get sick anymore" includes mental illness/unwellness.
2. I think it said the population of America is only like 8 Million people or so when today it's like 350 Million; maybe there were mass suicides at some point prior to the nanos existing.

>>93850627
Most people just play all the time. However I think we have outliers like Eddie who cope in weirder ways.

>>93850697
nah they corrected that, when they said that only 8 million people were around that was actually a typo, and Juice will probably give Ten shit about it later

>>93850274
It lends itself to a lot of good off shoots and fanfictions. The lore is so fucking good.

Honestly I would writefag but I suck at writing so eh

>>93850697
It was confirmed that Ten made a typo. There's 8 billion people on earth, not 8 million.

>>93850627
>tfw there are people out there right now thinking how to make the immortal post-scarcity future fun
http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/

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>tfw jon bois hates capitalism

>>93850994
I don't think it was a purely anti-capitalist confession, but more along the lines that capitalistic societies can eventually break down into organized chaos where everything is made up and the points don't matter.

>>93850627
It's been 15,000 years. Even if they did crack, they've had time to get used to it. It's not like they're going anywhere, you know. In a way, that makes it even more sad.

>>93850745
So, have they tried football?

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Remember that last scene from pic related?

17776 is that but is a webcomic and less good.

>>93852444
>So, have they tried football?
No, but they discussed how the future superhumans (think nanos and enhanced bodies and minds) might integrate adventures with real stakes into their eternal lives. Somebody wrote a short story about what that may look like.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/8zs/just_another_day_in_utopia/

>>93850745
>>93852889

>lesswrong

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Juice IRL

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>>93846030
>>93850581

https://twitter.com/KatSmilodon/status/883794896032854016

> everything is /co/ if I refuse to post in the proper board enough

Congratulations, you're just as bad as worm and jojofags.

>>93855410
SEQUENTIAL ART

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>>93855410
Where would this go instead of /co/?
/sp/?

>>93850343
So...uh....*is* Worm /co/ or not?

>>93858309
Worm isn't.

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Got a soundtrack.
https://play.spotify.com/user/jonbois/playlist/7JQ7t1EUGIKChdnBvAYkqp?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

>>93859037
>shitify
No

>>93858309
It's not, but /co/ adopted it because /lit/ won't discuss it. It's a problem with the 4chan board system.

>>93844484
>It's kinda like homestuck except it doesn't blow ass

I started watching/reading this just earlier today. Holy fuck what an apt description. A transmedia web-novel-thing that doesn't utterly suck. Why weren't you here for me in 2013, 17776?

If the ending is shit I'm never reading anything again

>>93859760
>>93859037
someone rip it?

>>93852878
I liked that movie, it was the only "artsy" film I ever watched that didn't come off as pretentious

>>93844484
I think the best description is Homestuck without plot and not made for the "nerd" crowd.

If Hussie, or any other big webcomic writer, would have made this, humanity would be playing crazy VR video games all day, or ultra extreme LARPing. The sport theme is refreshing.

>>93850994
Look, I'm full ancap, but I can accept capitalism being unsuitable to a magical post-scarcity world where no one dies and no one is born.

>>93861389
Well, it ends tomorrow, so I doubt we will get a truly satisfying end.

>>93844184
It was weird, but I totally get it. People reading this would definitely try to find the cave. The writer was probably trying to cover their bases.

>>93843658
>literally wewuzzing the lightbulb

sensible chuckle

You remember the homestuck guys that jumped on only for the trolls and couldn't give a damn about the wider narrative or what was actually going on?

somehow, and I don't know how, 17776 has them too. people discussing the space probes without a clue as to what's actually going on. like sure, you don't even have to understand football to jump in and enjoy the thing, but it's such a small project and the probes are basically the pov FOR the whole 'story'. how do you get into this thing just for these stupid probes god damn.

also posting this /co/ OC from the other thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4A-IJp3x88

>The beetles that Eddie mentioned were Louisville Cave Beetles
>They're so critically endangered that Eleven Jones Cave is their only habitat and decades pass between sightings
>Some people want to protect the cave since further development could spell the extinction of a species
>But nobody really cares
>Because they're just 0.25 inch beetles
hit me harder than the actual update

>>93863995
I'm glad this is a short project.

Can you imagine how cancerous the Fandom for this would be?

>>93847664
he's interacted with cohen a couple of times from what I've seen but I think that's just because he has a large twitter following and mentioned 17776

>>93864146
Not like it even could last very long in the first place. I imagine you'd run out of things to say about the subject matter fairly quickly. Somewhat ironic given that it's a story about immortality. Or maybe that's the point.

>>93844184
someone irl is definitely gonna' go to that cave. if anything it's provided the opposite effect intended. a lot of place names and stuff have been mentioned so far, and I've googled each and every name/location to verify them. if every one of them was tacked with 'don't go here' or 'don't bother these people' in a 4th wall break, it would just make me think they're part of the meta-narrative.

this is gonna' be like an unintentional gravity falls-esque ARG, I can feel it.

>>93848806
I think with the nano-machines around, a grey goo scenario is probably the biggest fear of humanity.

>>93863144
Watch The City of Lost Children.

>>93863995
I googled 17776 yesterday and found the TVTropes page about it. The said page prominently mentioned readers skipping the football. I am not a footballfag, and yet I'm, honestly, baffled. Is this an age thing? Does a substantial par portion of the younger generation just enjoy fiction in a different bizarro way inaccessible to us?

>>93864034
Did you realize the Bee, Nebraska architect was real?

>>93866033
Its stupid

I am the most non-football person I know, and even I read the football stuff, its important context for the other stuff! Even if I only sort of get it I still read it.

There has to be a word or phrase for this, where instead of just reading it anyway, plowing through it or just skimming you just outright go "NAH FUCK THAT SHIT", selective reading or something

>>93866033
>>93866096
17776 is about as much about football as LOST is about the Island. even reading the wiki excerpt makes it sound interesting.

>the space probes watch multiple football games occurring across the United States, including: a game using the entirety of Nebraska as a field in which the next point scored wins the game, a game in which players strive to possess every existing football signed by Koy Detmer, a game played between the Canadian border and the Mexican border deadlocked for 13,000 years at the bottom of a gorge in Arizona, a standard game between the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers that changed over 15,000 years into 58 playing teams owning portions of the field and a lost ball, a 500 game that results in the destruction of the Centennial Light, and a game in which the possessing player is attempting to score an automatic win by hiding in his team's end zone for 10,000 years.

not wanting to strawman anybody, but if people read this kind of stuff while ignoring the bulk of the content just so they can fawn over some (let's face it) pretty inconsequential one dimensional characters, then count me confused.

>>93865753
>The City of Lost Children
my comrade of african-american descent.

>>93863926
wait, it does? damn. i was starting to get attached.
oh well. maybe it's better this way.

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>>93866096
>>93866033
I think those guys (kids?) might simply be MOPs.

>>93866033
I'm not American and I don't know any of the football terms, but that's still the most interesting part of the story.

>>93866594
Yeah, I'm in the same boat and I'd sure play a video game version of some of these "football" games.

>>93866033
When I was a kid I would skip chapters if there was a pov switch and I didn't like the characters. So I'm guessing they're kids

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>Go Browns

Goddammit, now you have to go back to being about football.

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>>93867899
>Not liking the lore

>>93867970
I love the lore, I just thought once they'd go back to football it'd be a little lighter.

But man, that shit didn't happen.

I can already see people pranking 10 cosplayers by drawing dicks on their face at parties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liTD7ZZZwz4

>>93868549
I know the artist is taking the gender-neutral thing to heart here, but I can't help but see them all as girls, and as such I can't help but see them as daughters I'll never be able to care for, and that makes me sad.

>>93844374
pretty sure it's a modified google earth, but maybe an older version.

>>93844401
IMO one important distinction for things that are 'read' vs watched is that reading is 100% at your own pace. this is a graphic+text production using 3D graphics, free online. it's a webcomic.

>''story continues tomorrow''
>not ''story concludes tomorrow''

one job

>>93868661
Well 9 and juice are dudes so better get over it

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>>93868932
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/homer-nebraska

>Ten: "Nine's a little bit ... Nine's new. Just woke up a couple days ago. She hasn't talked to anyone but Juice and I. Not so good at the small talk yet."

>>93868915
Nothing ever ends, Adrian.

>>93868661
To me they look androgynous, but all more on the girl side to about the same extent. Which is too bad, since it doesn't reflect that Juice uses the masculine pronoun. I'd make Ten look more like a girl, Juice like a boy and leave Nine completely ambiguous.
>>93868932
>Nine
>dude

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>>93868970
oh fucking come on, I hadn't even read that page yet and I was sure 9 was called he at some point

>>93869128
Then what are you doing in this thread? Catch up then come back.
>into the trash.png
You are really in no position to post this.

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>>93869193
I couldn't find the other version I had saved. Oh look here it is

>>93868661
Weird, I can't help but see most of them as guys.

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>>93868970
I love it when 10 throws little tantrums.
>"Sometimes i wonder if you're really a scientific instrument"
>"I'm a failure as a big sister"

>>93845124
>>93844184
The moment the update came out idiot teenagers in my discord channel were talking about checking the cave out because it was totally some kind of ARG and that's why he told people not to go there.

He shouldn't have done it, because people are stupid.

>>93870412
>ARG discussion in a Discord channel
Are you in the same ARG Discord channel that I'm in? I'm in one that primarily discusses Camdrome.

>>93870657
Nope, unrelated homestuck discord

>>93870657
>ARG Discord channel
That's a thing? Where do people discuss ARGs nowadays, anyway?

>>93863830
>or ultra extreme LARPing
I mean, they are

>>93871300
You have a point.

>>93871400
noticed that too. could there be a common source where homestuck and 17776 were both inspired by? are any movies famous for "don't talk shit about X. X rules?"

>>93871486
*common source that

>>93866080
literally every historical fact is true except evolution being a "miracle" comparable to immortality

>>93871529
I'm not sure. Is there really an account of how they built that thing out of leftover sidewalk concrete?

>>93871592
http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/seward/bee/

yep

>>93871620
Holy shit. I guess Jon Bois was making a real point about every place in America having a story. Though it makes me wonder if he found the story first or just stumbled upon a town with a weird name on Google Earth and then researched its history.

>>93871702
Considering that's the single result in google, I'm sure he did the latter, but it still works to make a point.

I'm not letting this thread die just yet

>Got a warning for posting FART in relation to today's update
does it for free, etc.

>>93871986
lmao you think /co/ janitors bother to read the source material nowadays?

>>93867899
>browns never win the superball

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>>93873000
I know, right?

>>93873000
Hey man, the Cubs won the world series, anything's possible.

>>93873075
No nancy says they never won

>>93873045
Its the most realistic thing that in 15059 yesrs they never win

>>93873182
Oh, sorry.

>>93873182
The NFL ceased to exist in its current form a long time ago. The Broncos/Steelers game is effectively the last one.

>>93873275
The broncos still exist. Id like to believe the browns do too and they just suck no mstter whst kind of game they play

>>93869128
Well, Nine did say something about not subscribing to the gender binary, though that could have been just a computer joke. Anyway I don't think it matters, apart from me having to find a new voice for Nine that fits.

>>93873687
>Nine did say something about not subscribing to the gender binary,
Juice suggested it to Nine.

>>93873719
Clearly 9 identifies as a beer can.

>>93863894
Star trek is essentially a post scarcity commie wonderland

>>93871279
/x/ has like 20 discords competing for spoops and investigation. most of them have one or two females that the other anons orbit tho which makes actually getting anything done hell

>>93868661
Juice is definitely some sort of frat bro.

>>93875532
you mean dave

>>93875532
>>93876502
Tomayto-Tomahto

Link to comic?

>>93879293
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=17776

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>>93875147
How could you solve this problem? Pic related?

Any fan games yet? I want more weird American football, and I even don't know the rules.

>>93883478
Just watch Breaking Madden

>>93859824
>>93859824
It is yet more evidence that 4chan needs a general science fiction board. The wannabe literary critics of /lit/ don't give a shit about speculative fiction, and neither do the pedophiles of /tv/. Between this and the ever-blurier dividing lines between genres, /sf/ is due.

>>93885546
Just looked it up, isn't this buy the same guy who makes this comic?

>>93886516
I meant the dividing line between media, not genres.

>>93886516
I think the problem there is that by that metric, you'd have a precedent to create a sub-board for any genre.

But I feel what you mean. I'm still hoping for a /pod/ - Podcasts & Audio Dramas board.

>>93886775
Maybe. The Nips have a ton of specialized boards, and so do the Russians, and it seems like it works for both. The trick is to not make them too niche - say, nothing slower than /an/.

>>93848806
they explain that they believe they believe they have determined an absolute max speed achievable for anything they launch at less than half the speed of light. so they just don't see any point in bothering

>>93887015
I think that it would have been more realistic if some humans left Earth and never came back even if there was nothing out there. There have always been frontier types and wanderlust probably isn't something you can get rid of easily, especially if you're forever young. They'd colonize Mars, build Moon bases, etc. just for the hell of it. More darkly, they'd probably want to get away from the people who are content with less.

>>93887182
yeah I would be shocked if they didn't reveal the moon is totally colonized.

really though the existence of 'quantum communication' itself gives lie to the speed limit rationalization. if information can be transmitted instantaneously there will be some way to wrangle that to matter.

>>93887015
>>93887182
If they really invented all that shit they said they did and figured out the tip top speed for space craft, why didnt they invent cryogenics, or even just some kind of hibernation tech that will wake them up when they get there, its not like they'll age

>>93887015
5053772 miles per hour is nowhere close to close to the speed of light

>>93887421
they did, there was nothing special elsewhere, no matter where they looked

>>93887477
its not about looking, its about colonizing

If they've basically hit post science and know all the tech they bothered to care about, then at some point someone shouldve figured out a good way to terraform a planet

Mars is RIGHT THERE, you mean in all the time no one even bothered to try? Bullshit

>>93887551
You should reread the intermission. There's a reason or two why humanity didn't try to progress outward.

>You will, and you'll be remembered as the person who died in some crappy cave because you read it in a story you read online about sentient 178th-century space probes who watch football all day,

lmao

Bois just posted on Twitter, update is going to be late today for some reason. I expect something big.

>>93889150
Well it's ending today isn't it?

>.I have to see New York.

this made me tear up for some reason

Welp

It's ogre

I'm glad it didn't go on for too long, but that final page was lazy as fuck with it's paragraph long exposition.

>>93894209
I'm sure Jon didn't really anticipate getting this much attention and didn't want to leave people hanging.

But yeah, it felt cheap as hell.

>no heat death of the universe

hmm

i'm not sure how to feel about this

also that went out on a pretty melancholy note with the actual probe info

So what are the chances of Juice getting some meme shit scribbled on it before it gets launched now

goodnight, sweet prince
GO BROWNS

>>93894209
Yea that ending wasn't anything special. The New York City chapter was pretty good though.

this was great, although I thought it'd evolve into something bigger

>Implying it's not gonna come back in a couple months

>>93847182
man Juice is like literally Dave Strider and he says something at one point that is not 'dunkass' but extremely similar to 'dunkass'

If he hasn't read Homestuck there are a lot of weird fuckin coincidences in this very similar piece of media.

>>93894492
it might

after Nine is done charging

>>93894479
The best speculative fiction is that which you can see being followed upon.

>>93894492
I could see this becoming a yearly story, though I can also see how it wouldn't necessarily last too long.

2progressive4me

>>93894552
neck yourself on your way back to /pol/

>>93894630
So much for the tolerant left.

>You know they've started putting in entries for apartment histories?
Brilliant.

This was an exciting and slightly confusing ride at first, then it became kind of a downer, then just relaxed and melancholic. Not quite my thing in many ways, but I enjoyed it. The ending especially made me want to explore -- not that stupid cave, but something like an abandoned city, if I can get my hands on one. Maybe run an ARG related to some ruins? I think I even like football a bit more now. Thanks for the /co/mpany, everybody, and thanks for telling me this existed with that first thread.

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Well that ending sucked

At least I didn't wait 5 years for it

>>93896666
>Well that ending sucked
Why did it suck, uber-satan?

>>93897580
One giant exposition dump that answers questions that didn't need answers isn't how you cap off a story

>>93897580
the big exposition dump by Juice wasn't really needed. Ending would have been a lot stronger without it.

>>93897933
I agree. If Jon Bois really wanted to communicated all those things, he could have incorporated them in the narrative or put them away for a sequel/side story or something. I suppose it was important to him to emphasize that this Earth wouldn't be destroyed by the expanding Sun or entropy and that the satellites wouldn't die, but it kind of cheapen the story to be so blunt about it. Then again, maybe that's on purpose? Maybe it's to illustrate how attached to their and the Earth's "afterlife" the satellites have become?

>>93887551
>you mean in all the time no one even bothered to try? Bullshit
well, there's the no rock left unturned chick prreaching about god and asking people how they feel about restarting the space program, I'm sure they'll try to at some point in time

>>93897933
desu it's just juice answering 9's miscellaneous questions from the intermission so she can go "sleep" in peace, it felt perfectly fine to me

Will agree that the exposition dump left a bad taste in my mouth. Besides that, I'm glad that this exists and that it ended before it got out of hand.

Didn't bring much new to the table but it was something unique for the medium. Most football I've ever taken in in my life. Would deffo recommend checking out Jon Bois' Pretty Good youtube series too.

>>93900308
I thought All Is Lost was the closest mood-wise.
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball

did anyone else think 10 was annoying piece of shit, especially when it got to points like their conversation about god and why humans didn't keep expanding into space? just came off like a know-it-all dickhead, nice enough to people until you start disagreeing

>>93900817
an annoying piece of shit*, oops

>>93900817
I think 10 played the necessary straight-man role to counter juice. She was kind of a know-it-all, but I don't think that trait was so exaggerated that it became annoying.

I want to fuck Pioneer 10

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>>93903797
o baby

>>93903878
I jerked off to this image, thanks.

>>93903878
you're gonna get banned
but it's so worth it