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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36135 on: March 16, 2012, 12:49:17 pm »

Oh wow, now I know where uu came from...

Discovering that thread is actually what prompted me to do this avatar, even though one of the final concepts made it into MSPA itself anyway.

Truly it was the best thread.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36136 on: March 16, 2012, 01:00:10 pm »

How is it possible that I have already read that?

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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36137 on: March 16, 2012, 01:02:21 pm »

It was posted earlier.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36138 on: March 16, 2012, 01:02:48 pm »

It's also linked to by uu's wiki page.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36139 on: March 16, 2012, 01:21:44 pm »

It's the best thread in any forum ever.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36140 on: March 16, 2012, 01:49:33 pm »

Geez, I show up two hours late and there's 8 new pages of crazy speculation on time mechanics that we should already understand.  It's not exactly "simple" but we've seen stuff like this before.  How is creating a timeline where they arrived at different points different from creating a timeline in which a Dave which never existed arrives and saves John's life, except in the scale of the change?

Skaia basically exists whenever.  And unless I'm reading something wrong, it's specifically stated that scratching the record and bringing it to Skaia changes where the portals went.  So basically, everybody gets sent back, the scratch happens, and then everybody gets sent back to different times.  It is, in my mind, exactly the same as John dying, Dave learning as much as he can, and then Dave going back and saving John.

The troll session is only a slight bit weirder.  I'm not sure I fully understand it, and it's possible that all that changed is Doc Scratch was sent back instead of whatever the alpha first guardian is supposed to be, but I don't fully understand the arrival of the first guardians, because I don't know where the heck GCAT even comes from.

Here's my theory though.  When Karkat sends the trolls through their portals, they initially arrive at their alpha destinations.  Something happens, even though it sounds like they did fine, and they're forced to scratch the session.  This scratch changes the destination of the portals they arrived through, and it creates the beta session.  I can kinda see a problem with the troll alpha session causing the scratch, but it's still a basic paradox in which somebody changes the situation leading to their arrival, and since it was always going to happen that way, it doesn't affect things too much.

I'm kind of getting the impression that a beta session is one that gets to create players, and an alpha session is one that doesn't, but it's gotta be more complicated than that.  However, I feel like all this talk of the scratch being a hard reset is just to hide the fact that all it does is turn the session that causes it into a doomed timeline that basically never existed.  Time travelers can't get to it though, because in the new timeline, they never learned time travel to be able to get back to it.  Or something like that.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36141 on: March 16, 2012, 01:54:53 pm »

Alright, is it possible that, through time shenanigans, that the beta kids and the alpha kids are canonically eachother's guardians? I mean, is it possible for the beta kids to grow up, then get sent back in time in Alpha be the parents of the alpha kids, who then grow up and get sent back to beta to be the parents of the Beta kids?

I'm not sure if that makes sense, my mind is full of fuck.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36142 on: March 16, 2012, 01:58:44 pm »

I don't think so.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36143 on: March 16, 2012, 01:59:11 pm »

Nah, post-scratch John's death was neither heroic nor just.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36144 on: March 16, 2012, 02:12:14 pm »

How did he die? I don't think it said.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36145 on: March 16, 2012, 02:13:54 pm »

Alright, is it possible that, through time shenanigans, that the beta kids and the alpha kids are canonically eachother's guardians? I mean, is it possible for the beta kids to grow up, then get sent back in time in Alpha be the parents of the alpha kids, who then grow up and get sent back to beta to be the parents of the Beta kids?

I'm not sure if that makes sense, my mind is full of fuck.
Nah, John's not racist.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36146 on: March 16, 2012, 02:15:50 pm »

How did he die? I don't think it said.
Same way Nanna did.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36147 on: March 16, 2012, 02:28:18 pm »

Jesus Fuck, I just tried to read through about a hundred and fifty posts of people repeatedly misquoting different sections of the same damn update.

I don't even know if I want to try to explain what happened, because I know nobody is going to get it, because everybody is going to miss one part or another because you don't know how wrong you are to see it.

Tangentially, I seriously wonder why HalfTruth bothered putting anything on her blog about the coffee colors.  Girl, have you learned nothing from Hussie's writing style?
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36148 on: March 16, 2012, 02:35:43 pm »

I don't even know if I want to try to explain what happened, because I know nobody is going to get it, because everybody is going to miss one part or another because you don't know how wrong you are to see it.
Well aren't we presumptuous today?

I don't even remember anybody actually quoting anything from the update.
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Re: MSPA Homestuck: what do you think Zach?
« Reply #36149 on: March 16, 2012, 02:41:28 pm »

I can pick out a couple of things wrong with what Rose says.
ROSE: But Skaia is a very passive entity. It only "knows" and "sees," but it never quite "acts."
ROSE: When it is asked to change everything, there is only so much it has control over.
ROSE: In fact, it has control over exactly one thing. The defense portals.
ROSE: It can decide to send important meteors to different points in time than originally planned, thus creating alternate realities.

This is wrong. It also has control of the clouds. I think. It never showed anything to Jack Noir when he was on the Battlefield.
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