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Post by Ike on Dec 31, 2015 14:21:38 GMT -5
I read everything in the OP and I genuinely am in a worse mood because of it. Teenager humor is trash
That said, Humanimals is the superior comic but nobody ever talks about that one
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Post by Ike on Dec 31, 2015 14:46:39 GMT -5
like serious question. Where is the humor in a single screenshot of anything that was posted with this webcomic. Literally all of it is random wacky monkeycheese shit, except for the one joke about a funeral that is described literally except then he ruins it by laughing at his own joke.
Like. Andrew Hussie isn't an idiot, because his other work that isn't Homestuck has like, jokes in it, but I swear Homestuck is just one huge art project to bilk money and popularity out of people with a 14 year old's sense of humor.
Thanks for reading this post by me, Ike. Let me tell you a little about myself in this short bio: I am a SALT SHAKER MANUFACTURER, like my father before me. I live in A CRASHED TRAIN CAR that was never cleaned up by TUMWATER MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY because they deemed that the crash that killed FOUR HUNDRED LONELY MEN, on their way to the SEATTLE SAD GUYS CONVENTION 1984, was just a little TOO AWESOME, LIKE FOR REAL. My hobbies include practicing alchemy to find the PHILOSOPHER'S KIDNEY STONE, a lesser-known artifact that will allow me to SEE THROUGH THE VOID.
this is literally all this comic is.
oh wait i forgot let me format this correctly
Ike: Thanks for reading this post by me, Ike. Let me tell you a little about myself in this short bio: I am a SALT SHAKER MANUFACTURER, like my father before me. I live in A CRASHED TRAIN CAR that was never cleaned up by TUMWATER MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY because they deemed that the crash that killed FOUR HUNDRED LONELY MEN, on their way to the SEATTLE SAD GUYS CONVENTION 1984, was just a little TOO AWESOME, LIKE FOR REAL. My hobbies include practicing alchemy to find the PHILOSOPHER'S KIDNEY STONE, a lesser-known artifact that will allow me to SEE THROUGH THE VOID.
Gunther: hahaha lmao
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on Dec 31, 2015 15:02:34 GMT -5
Getting deeper into act six and I like the new characters more than I was expecting. really? I find them insufferable. kids 2 are basically kids but with more forced quirks (that one girl who is drunk all the time) and teenage drama, trolls 2 are basically trolls. I also dislike the convoluted ways of bringing back the dead characters, it retroactively makes their deaths stupid. |
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Post by Ike on Dec 31, 2015 15:30:40 GMT -5
let m etell you, about homestuck,
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 15:36:37 GMT -5
What in the holy fuck was that.
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Post by Ike on Dec 31, 2015 15:37:10 GMT -5
homestuck
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Post by llj on Dec 31, 2015 15:43:17 GMT -5
At the local indie comics festival in my city a few years ago, the fan lineup for Homestuck-related merchandise far outstripped everything else in the festival.
It was at that moment that I decided I already hated that comic.
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Post by Ike on Dec 31, 2015 15:57:03 GMT -5
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Post by JDarkside on Jan 1, 2016 0:25:58 GMT -5
Getting deeper into act six and I like the new characters more than I was expecting. really? I find them insufferable. kids 2 are basically kids but with more forced quirks (that one girl who is drunk all the time) and teenage drama, trolls 2 are basically trolls. I also dislike the convoluted ways of bringing back the dead characters, it retroactively makes their deaths stupid. I don't mind it because the new kids are obviously just the guardian characters from the earlier ats switched to the main role, and it works pretty well. I also don't mind it when the series gets meta because I eat that meta lunacy up with a spoon most of the time. But the trolls are my favorite part so far ESPECIALLY uu. Holy shit this guy.  This entire series of posts is just him getting Dirk to draw him cutesy fanart and he treats it as the dirtiest porn imaginable and this is the funniest shit I have ever read. |
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Post by vetus on Jan 2, 2016 11:58:39 GMT -5
It's like if 8-Bit Theater fans were still getting shit to this day. Which I just realized was over 5 years ago. They were still making it? Wow! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Bit_TheaterI loved the flash video adaption but never bothered with the actual web comic. Seeing it animated is much more enjoyable. |
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Post by JDarkside on Jan 2, 2016 12:08:35 GMT -5
The comic was long as hell, but it was great.
It also ended with possibly the greatest brick joke of all time.
As for Homestuck, further in and I'm just laughing my ass off whenever we switch over to the cheurb arguing with the narrator. Or whenever Gamzee does literally anything. Act 6 has finally made proper use of that creepy alien juggalo.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Jan 3, 2016 4:45:01 GMT -5
It's like if 8-Bit Theater fans were still getting shit to this day. Which I just realized was over 5 years ago. They were still making it? Wow! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Bit_TheaterI loved the flash video adaption but never bothered with the actual web comic. Seeing it animated is much more enjoyable. It's how I discovered it. But I got really impatient waiting for new videos and decided to start reading it somewhere around the Water Orb. And yes. That ending is something that still gets me to this fucking day. You just don't see it coming. Although I do like how he tries to pull the "it's all a dream" thing. I seem to recall he even like skipped the next update day with a news post saying 'Yes that really is the ending'. |
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Post by JDarkside on Jan 3, 2016 12:08:40 GMT -5
I DID IT! I CAUGHT UP WITH HOMESTUCK! I'M FREE FOR A FEW MONTHS!!! FREE!!!!!
I SPENT ALL DAY YESTERDAY JUST READING HOMESTUCK OH GOD I COULDN'T STOP
*cough*
Well, despite the bumps in the road (late act five and the slow development of the story in act six), I think this may be one of my favorite webcomics ever, if not my absolute favorite (Unsounded is really hard to top).
It's not the comedy that kept me around, but the character writing. The cast, even the most jokey characters, have unexpected depth and complexity to them, and I wanted to know what would happen between individual characters more than see how the main story would resolve. But I also do see why people jumped ship, because it takes forever for act six to really define its new cast and make them stand out significantly. But the payoff is wonderful, and goddamn if it didn't get me to tear up a few times.
The best parts, though, come from every time Hussie decides to bend the forth wall down for a ridiculous gag to move along the story. The entire Cherub plot is hilarious, especially once John gets involved in it. Also, whenever he shows off just how tight the continuity of the series is, I get such a mixed swirl of emotions. The flash video showing off the entire Cal loop is fucking wonderful.
But yeah, I powered through it, I can't imagine the frustration of trying to read this series as it updates, especially during the later portions of act five. There is payoff for those insanely long subplots happening between the far more gripping stuff, but it takes YEARS to get to it.
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on Jan 3, 2016 17:29:32 GMT -5
is it worth going back to if I quit sometime after the meteor arrived in the new universe or should I wait until it's finished/just drop it altogether? keep in mind I disliked act 6 so far.
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Post by JDarkside on Jan 3, 2016 19:23:55 GMT -5
is it worth going back to if I quit sometime after the meteor arrived in the new universe or should I wait until it's finished/just drop it altogether? keep in mind I disliked act 6 so far. I'd say give it a shot just to see the stuff with John and Roxy. If that arc isn't doing it for ya, I'd wait until it wraps up (hopefully this year). Seems the plan is to end the series in time for its anniversary. |
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