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[Aqizzar]

No matter what the kids could have thrown in their kernelsprites, their foes would be immensely powerful regardless.

They would have been immensely powerful, but as the Trolls' game shows, Jack wouldn't have gone on his inter-planetary murder spree quite as fast.  He was driven mad by the stupid costumes he had to wear, and apparently goes on to trash the game so completely that it winds up breaking other games.  Maybe.  Gonna find out soon I guess.

For reference, Hussie has hinted in his Q&A threads that he intends for Homestuck to have seven acts.  Length is variable of course (he says he planned for the Troll intermission to take about half as much time), but I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to wrap it up in line with next April.

[Zai]

I just read Problem Sleuth.

Good story. I found it funny that the final boss battle started around halfway through the comic, chapter-wise.

[Cthulhu]

I figured there wasn't anything major orchestrating Jack/Sovereign Slayer, it was just a fluke of the butterfly effect.

[tehstefan]

PS doesn't get enough love. I really do enjoy it.

Still, I hope trollflash comes out soon. And that it promiently features HeRo MoDe GaMzEe

[ToonyMan]

Problem Sleuth was enjoyable (I remember first finding the MSPA site when it was half over, thanks VGCats!) but it doesn't have the depths and characters that Homestuck has.

[Aqizzar]

(I remember first finding the MSPA site when it was half over, thanks VGCats!)

Ditto.  And yeah, while Problem Sleuth was a lot of fun, the characters were essentially only as developed as the situation demanded.  While there is something respectable in crafting a character from only their responses and actions, it's not as much fun to churn through a page-a-day.  Not to mention the mounting aggravation of watching half the comic's run turn into fighting Demon Mobster Kingpin, constantly lengthened by one bullshit contrivance after another, even if the mechanics themselves were fun to conceptualize.

Also, some Homestuck prediction I just found: Hivebent started on June 12th.  Six months and twelve days later will be December 24th.
CG: shit. lets be santa

[CobaltKobold]

Spoiler: much maundering (click to show/hide)

Well, he did have a four month head start with a lot of his cooler stuff.  The SBAHJIFIER is probably the best thing he's made yet though.

Should totally make other things that cost negative grist. Infinite money hax! (Due to gristTorrent, all kids effectively have unlimited Artifact grist.)

+Support for Paint.NET over Gimp. Tried the former for three months and was never pleased, have used the latter for probably a year. Though my preferred tool of choice would still be MS Paint if Windows hadn't 'upgraded' the old 2003-and-before version and basically broken most of the features.

I found that Paint was broken before then. The program it was an update of (Paintbrush, for Win3.1) I have more fond memories of, fewer "how did this crash?"

Also, if you can get your program to make isometric mockups from DF screens it would be impressive.

You could buy ad space, like that one guy did. It won't actually get your music into the comic (Andrew has enough music already), but it's probably the next best thing.

"Shatterface" DID get put into one, when AH had had enough of one artist's drama.

You threw me to Troperland. >,,< My day!

You're not thinking like a global superpower. Or a supervillain.

There are plenty of reasons to hold weapons of unimaginable power, but never use them.

>Reed Richards
I'm stuck with GC, or AT. I'd prefer AC.
Fistkind, ha.

Voted Nepta. there are a few close seconds thou, most notably Terezi.

Nepeta yay!

why am I reading the entire thread from when I last looked there are still 230 pages

edit: two hours, also, what is this?

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=9332

These're all broken. BUT OF COURSE RESTRUCTION

Glad to hear I'm not the only person missing the good old days of weaponized fetch modii and Sburb shenanigans.

STRIFE SPECIBUS: MODUSKIND
STRIFE FETCH MODUS

In the past few days, I read this thread front to back. Fuck.

Me too!

One day.

Almost as bad as when I was catching up on that RP in that other forum that had a continuity spring up between a random thread, its nemesis, and a Last Post Wins.

Is it "share your physical disability history" time?

three out of four appendages broken at differing times.

MEOOOOOOOOW

gods damnit bandcamp continues to not function for me

try metal gear solid

I need scissors! 61!

There is some more fanart by someone under this spoiler. Some bloke called "Eyes5". I would try describing it but words fail me.
[spoiler]

that explains so much

Camelot 30K
don't ask

"I'M SORRY I RUINED ALL YOUR PERFECTLY GOOD SHIPS BUT HERE ARE TWELVE MORE CHARACTERS FOR YOU TO PLAY WITH TO YOUR HEART'S CONSENT."

Or spades, or clubs, or diamonds.

Argh, somehow, cA is quite appaling.

He looks, uh, like some elderly, bored triton superman in purple robe or something.

appalling or appealing?

I am very pissed that Hussie apparently decided to skip right over Terezi's entry into the game.  Gamzee was her server player.  That's a feelgood comedy goldmine right there.

It would be nice...

Who is gonna say that cA looks like a villain in hero mode, raise your hand!

I'm outta hands. *tail* [size=8]Oh, um, oops.[/size]

Because really, since they know what the prototypings do now, I don't think they'll intentionally supercharge the BBEG.

Yeah, but it's Jade.  Even when awake, she's bonkers and lacking in that whole consequences-of-actions sense.

Prototype Jack.

I actually am really enjoying the troll arc.

It is also world-building in that you find out things about how SGRUB and [probably] SBURB, or rather, how the system of...um...everything? works.

but I'd enjoy them much more if we were learning about the world the kids have plunged headlong into.

It's there.

Spoiler: more maunderings (click to show/hide)

I'm afraid there's gonna have to be a showdown.

I personally chose Vriska, if only because she was able to temporarily outsmart an omnipotent being.

Prithee desist in thy championing of that detestable harlot, lest I be forced to sunder thy head from thy body in defense of my chosen lady.

I'm going to have to side with Josephus here.

Though, Scratch isn't omnipotent, and getting a Perfect Oracle should give anyone an edge.

Seconded.

And Harleboss gets a special mention for being kickass boss music.

EDIT: Actually, now that I look back, the music that played during the Jade vs. Bec strife was excellent boss music as well.

It's one of the Bolin switchouts, old one was better.

And yes, Harleboss wins.

Oh God.  Oh God no.  It's happened to me.  Oh God, not the shipping.

Delicious corruption.

I'm not sure if we will actually see Troll Skaia, but if we do, it'll probably look like a Mandelbrot fractal, calling back to Problem Sleuth.

Someone linked Andrew posting exactly this; a link to a BHMK mandelbrot page.

Land of Miracles and Rainbows, maaan, there's no other possibility.

CC: Will you just clam up for once in your life?
CC: Always carping and carping and carping!
CC: You go completely overboard with your emotions, always looking to reel in drama wherever you can.
CC: I am up to my gills in it! I just can't salmon the strength anemonemore.

I fucking love her.

Listen to the song, "Wet Dream".

Deep down, I wish that Hivebent was it's own story, so that Andrew didn't feel obligated to skim over most of the story to get to the important bits just to get things done.

*Brofist*

Somehow this was fated.

STOP PLAYING ROLEPLAYING GAMES FOR GIRLS.

But, uh, yeah, let's not.

I'm not sure which part of this I should even begin with.

more than two genders

Oh god how would that work.

Sometimes I forget how young you really are.

WHATEVER GUYS WITH YOUR DUMB SINGS THAT ARE DUMB. I'M JUST ALL SORTS OF COOL WITH MY OWN. AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS SIGN, AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE ONE OF THE LOSERS STUCK WITH A DIFFERENT ONE.

Y0U T4ST3 L1K3 R41NB0WS
aND THAT'S PERFECTLY OK

FEFERI/NEPETA

Why do shippers only pair?

My impression is, they type with their quirks naturally, but typing "normally" requires a concerted effort, like enunciating without an accent.

Those who paid attention to me with any regularity will see something here.

Poll on a moving reference frame = bleh.

Also, were all the SBaHJ comics uploaded at the same time? 

No.

but as long as there's grist, nobody in this game is going to starve.

And as long as there's SBaHJ, there's infinite grist. Artifact grist anyway. I'm sure things exist in most grists for negative-cost stuff.

6.  Nepeta
. Feferi
. Eridan
2.  Terezi
4.  Gamzee
5.  Tavros
. Equius
7.  Sollux
8.  Kanaya
.  Aradia
3.  Vriska
1.  Karkat

I would hope so, I mean hasn't he heard of buffer comics and stuff?  Jeez.

I know, right? Releasing updates when he finishes them so we don't have to wait, what a dick.

It kills the suggestion box idea.

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[ToonyMan]

That just means you have more reaction posting to do!

How would having three genders work CobaltKobold?

[Neyvn]

T_T
I feel so left behind, my brain hurts when I try to red the Trolls Pesterlog...
I have no ability to read any form of the mutilation of the English text that these trolls do, I struggled when it was the kids talking to the trolls but it is just one big blur of letters for me when its Troll to Troll...

[JoshuaFH]

I'll admit, Hussie is a bit of a douchebag when it comes to those troll logs. I mean, English is my native tongue and I have trouble reading them sometimes, but placing that same text in front of someone who only tentatively has English as a second language, it might as well just be gibberish.

[Neyvn]

Has anyone ever Translated it???

[Aqizzar]

I'll admit, Hussie is a bit of a douchebag when it comes to those troll logs. I mean, English is my native tongue and I have trouble reading them sometimes, but placing that same text in front of someone who only tentatively has English as a second language, it might as well just be gibberish.

What exactly do you propose he do, rewrite the troll-logs in Esperanto?  That it might be difficult to read for someone who doesn't understand English well anyway is kind of a ridiculous standard to hold a webcomic to, unless you're going to hold that to the entire body of English-language literature.  Besides, it's much more a symbol-grasping issue than language; plenty of people can read them just fine.

[dragonshardz]

Has anyone ever Translated it???

I could.

I'm not going to anytime soon, I don't have that much time on my hands right now, but I could.

What exactly do you propose he do, rewrite the troll-logs in Esperanto?  That it might be difficult to read for someone who doesn't understand English well anyway is kind of a ridiculous standard to hold a webcomic to, unless you're going to hold that to the entire body of English-language literature.  Besides, it's much more a symbol-grasping issue than language; plenty of people can read them just fine.

I think what he is suggesting is that we turn the troll's quirks into plain English.

[Neyvn]

Some of it I can understand, but when it becomes very jumbled with the letter and numbers and symbols making letters/numbers and then numbers/letters making symbols and AGGHH!!!!!!!!! Even that hurts my brain, a headache is coming, I can feel it...

[Soadreqm]

They replace the old FAQ, but it basically used to say no slash. :P Of course Hussie's really brought it on himself now.

Like Hussie said, originally the kids were going to be ten years old, when he put up the original test-flash intro on April 10th.  He changed his mind about the flash and started over on April 13th, making the kids thirteen years old.  He only realized later that this gave them just enough leeway for the shipping to begin.  Like most things, he considered any retardation it spawned as good as any other publicity.

Also consider this: At what point did Nepeta's shipping wall and the ridiculous troll romance stop mocking the shipping community and become a celebration of it?

How can someone have trouble with the troll logs? Are you reading this on a braille screen? A text-to-speech application? 1T R34LLY SHOULDNT B3 4 PROBL3M TO R34D MOST OF TH3M. >:]
D --> The words are quite 100cid
:33 < They make purrfect sense!
the text is 0k 0_0
iit ii2 2iilly. at wor2t you ju2t have two mentally 2ub2tiitute a 2ymbol for a 2iimiilar lookiing 2ymbol.
Or IGNOR--E some characters GLUB GLUB! 3:D
oR iGnOrE tHe MoThErFuCkInG cAsE. :o)
oR, uHHH, sOME VERBAL TICS,
how can you havve problems wwith somethin as simple as that?
Strange Typing Styles Also Have The Benefit Of Giving Each Troll An Unique Voice
And personal8y!!!!!!!! You should quit your 8itching! ::::)
ASSHOLE.