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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49665 on: September 17, 2014, 08:22:47 pm »

Far, far too long. But at least there's a good backlog to sort through. So much variety!


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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49666 on: September 18, 2014, 09:44:13 pm »

I got bored, so I decided to pen that idea i came up with the other day.

Spoiler: Accentstuck, I guess (click to show/hide)

image-dunking will commence whenever I find the time this weekend
« Last Edit: September 18, 2014, 10:09:35 pm by ggamer »
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49667 on: September 18, 2014, 10:03:51 pm »

Thank'y fer sharing that, I like to spilt my mint julep w' all the laughin I just done.

Okay that was a horrible impression of my grandfather, but only because of the mint julep part.  He only drank Coca Cola.  Other than that, the bit about end consonants is hilariously true in my experience.  I don't even realize I'm doing it.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49668 on: September 19, 2014, 11:20:22 pm »

I'm putting my null dollars and void cents on the Eighth of October, simply because it was (likely jokingly) determined that the image url for a horse that Hussie retweeted was an acronym to determine the end of the gigapause. I'd pull it up if I could find it, but sadly I did not reblog it when I had the opportunity.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49669 on: September 20, 2014, 08:30:25 am »

You mean this image?
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49670 on: September 20, 2014, 10:47:19 am »

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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49671 on: September 20, 2014, 12:44:13 pm »

Huh. 7oda looks kinda like "Yoda", and there's a Y right after it.

...On a more on-topic note, I think it's a coincidence. You can't pick your imgur URLs, and I doubt that AH has enough influence to make imgur give him a specific URL. It is possible, though.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49672 on: September 20, 2014, 12:49:13 pm »

He might have just looked for a picture with a notable url, noticed that this one was relevant to his interests, and then shared it with a bit of improvisation.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49673 on: September 20, 2014, 03:57:29 pm »

Except his girlfriend (fiancé?) said on the subreddit she posted it when he wasn't looking.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49674 on: September 20, 2014, 05:19:04 pm »

...On a more on-topic note, I think it's a coincidence. You can't pick your imgur URLs, and I doubt that AH has enough influence to make imgur give him a specific URL. It is possible, though.

http://www.imgur.com/Queen.jpg

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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49675 on: September 20, 2014, 10:19:49 pm »

...On a more on-topic note, I think it's a coincidence. You can't pick your imgur URLs, and I doubt that AH has enough influence to make imgur give him a specific URL. It is possible, though.

http://www.imgur.com/Queen.jpg

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...Are 5-character URLs a thing on imgur?
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49676 on: September 27, 2014, 01:07:43 am »

new news post

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Giga-Almost-Unpause, Probably.

Let's see if I can "tldr" a few things up top, since this news item might begin to nose dive dramatically through the vertical space of this web layout. Am I finished HS yet? Um, nope. But I think enough is probably enough on the site's indefinite period of hibernation, so it's likely I will just start posting some stuff I have anyway, starting next month. Either mid or late October, let's say.

I said it would be a long pause, didn't I? Let's face it, a gigapause is just one big ass pause. It contains the smaller word "giga", which, in addition to literally meaning "one billion", you will find to be the root of the word "gigantic", which as we all know, means super huge. This intriguing fact reminds us that in our culture of words, we hold the number one billion as the indivisible quantum of general bigness, as a matter of principal. Food for thought!

We're coming up on almost a year since I paused. So that means I got like, SO much done on the story, right? Wow, no. Innumerable unspecified problems happened which badly prevented this from being true. I'd estimate out of those 12 months, I maybe squeezed in a grand total of 3 months worth of work on HS in there. Kinda dribbled across the year in the most frustrating way possible. So, I'm just gonna cry uncle on this dogshit pause and start posting stuff, but probably in a regimented way so I don't blow through everything I have too fast, thus giving me some time to work on the rest.

Back at the onset of the pause, I said I'd just post everything at once. (I was oversimplifying. I had always intended to stagger the final content to whatever extent, so as not to destroy the server.) But also that "post everything at once" idea was predicated on actually sorta... having it all done. Which as I have already culpa'd, is not the case. So I'm improvising at this point. I'll (probably) relaunch the story next month, come up with some kind of update schedule, and we'll see how it goes.

What have I been doing all year? Let's chalk it up to, in this order of relevance, a swirling multitude of Daunting Life Challenges, a flurry of accidental weird adventures causing me to thrash wildly across the nation, and the escalating complexities of running a business while tending to peripheral creative projects, not the least of which has been overseeing the development of an expensive video game. Actually, all things considered, I'm surprised at how much I actually HAVE gotten done this year. It just happens that "making a ton of HS pages" isn't one of those things.

What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet. Did you follow that? Look over there. (When you look back at me, I am slowly rolling into a pile of trash.)

The good news is, I'm still all about horses. Did you know that about me? It's true as shit. Horses; wow. Pretty good weird big animals? Or pretty GREAT weird big animals??

What else should I say here. Oh.

We've also been chipping away at upgrading the server over the last year. It's been surprisingly complicated and slow-going. Actually, prior to the pause, it was one of the most difficult things about updating, having an insufficient server that was GUARANTEED to crash every time I posted something. This was even after many, many upgrades over the years. It gets a little demoralizing trying to make tons of cartoons every day for a small nation of lunatics when the server constantly struggles to keep up with the ever-burgeoning readership, no matter how much I upgraded it. This was one of the (lots of) factors which contributed to me finally just saying, fuck it, time to pause.

Hopefully it can handle it now, but guess we'll see. It all runs on fancy clouds and such now. Which has been tricky to configure for such a complicated site utterly dependent on all the garbage ass-backwards code I've written over the years. Maybe... maybe once I start updating again, nobody will notice?? Man, wouldn't that be sweet. It will just be me and like a cozy little clique of 50 randos and 10 web bots, just like the old days. We'll bring this sucker home together, then hit up the local bargain Italian restaurant to celebrate. (Then a horse nuzzles me out of my sleepy dream fantasy, and the hammock flips over and dumps my screaming body on to the lawn.)

Feels a little odd even TALKING about revving up this monstrosity again. It's been pretty serene on the web these days. I've been reluctant to even drop a pebble into the pristine glass-like state of the fandom, before being good and damn well ready to. Why wake the beast prematurely? We'll enjoy more than our share of blistering pandemonium when all is said and done. We are slowly building to a particular moment I foresee on the horizon. It's not just characterized by the end of the story, though that should be a factor. It's more than that. Things I have planned, and some other things we'll say may be fortuitously aligned. Invisible pieces of a heinous machine all snapping together, mechanically congealing with a grim sense of purpose. I'm tentatively branding to this moment as The Rapture, and it will be more than you can bear. More than anyone can. And everyone won't.

How has your year been?

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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49677 on: September 27, 2014, 02:00:25 am »

I love how he writes.

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What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet.

Such honesty!  I don't feel like any apology is owed, as he announced the gigapause and warned it would be ass-long.  We aren't getting the ending in one massive dump as planned, but I consider that a good thing.

This has been the least painful hiatus for me, since we knew to freeze-dry our anticipation.  I just hope he can get back into the swing of creating it...  It might be a hard thing to restart.  I think he once explained his update schedule as a stream of consciousness he was afraid to interrupt.  Though maybe he was being unserious ironic.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49678 on: September 27, 2014, 09:02:34 am »

I feel like this update is both good and bad news.

Good News: We're likely getting updates in October.

Bad News: Shit ain't done yet, and won't be done in October.

I'm curious as to what the size of these small updates will be. Will they be 10-20 page updates, uploaded at the same time each day? Will they be massive chunks of 50+ pages?
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Re: MSPA Homestuck
« Reply #49679 on: September 27, 2014, 11:05:06 am »

Well. That happened. I eagerly await MOAR UPDOOTS, although I am somewhat sad that the story isn't finished being written yet. Or maybe its done being WRITTEN, but has yet to be DRAWN?
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