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[Descan]

The gay jokes are getting a little old. :/

[Leafsnail]

Should I start reading MSPA again?  I'll check the thread to see what's going on

At this point the only real questions are how much more heavily Hussie is going to lay on the borderline (borderline?) pornographic description of Caliborn impregnating a puppet, and how literally he's going to take it

Maybe not.

[Aqizzar]

I would say don't judge it by the current stint, but really the whole last year was kinda eh.  For me, it's not the magnificent parade of gay innuendo (let's all be serious here, this guy did write Humanimals) or the endless summer of Tumblr jokes.  This just feels so fucking pointless, and worse a lot of showing a story instead of telling a story.  I'm don't even care about the direction, with all this puppet and clown nonsense, I only want to see it go somewhere.

Hell, Hussie said he wants to end the story this year.  I can't help but think it's going to feel a bit rush by the end, and he'll chalk it up to "you're supposed to be disappointed, that's the joke waka waka."

[Jim Groovester]

Should I start reading MSPA again?

No.

It's just not enjoyable anymore. It hasn't been for a very long while.

[Dermonster]

Shush you.

Yes you should read it.

[Duke 2.0]

 Heck the story seemed somewhat aimless back in act 5. Although this is an incredibly long time for a story like this to go on. Hussie is still a very talented guy for all the good stuff he has pulled off and I can't imagine the lessons he learned from dealing with producing this all this time.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah I do think that Hussie is capable of producing genuinely funny and insightful stuff but the feeling I got and continue to get is that the story is aimlessly zig-zagging around without any real rhyme or reason (AKA Bleach Syndrome).

[Rose]

I'm not sorry to say I've been skimming throigh most of the recent chatlogs. They're just... tedious.

I figure I can get the gist of them from youre guys reactions.

[frostshotgg]

I stopped reading pesterlogs properly a long time ago. I just skim them now.

[Slayerhero90]

Yeah... I never really cared for act 6. The intermissions are the only good part.

[Bauglir]

I've actually enjoyed it. Reminds me of the random zig-zagging of some earlier acts, but with the addition of reverse foreshadowing. By which I mean, some conversations have a tendency to make you think back to previous conversations, and plotlines, as parallels (which seems to me to be the point of Act 6 entirely). It's definitely taken a step down, relative to act 5, in terms of advancing the plot rapidly (even if the actual events that need to be resolved are significantly fewer, each one takes longer and is more drawn out, so that you end up with an act that takes about as long to execute as Act 5, but feels longer between the length of each plot point and the hiatuses).

On the other hand, we had an extremely rapid resolution of Act 6 Act 4. If you aren't a fan of Hussie's dialogue with the reader's evolving, then you're not likely to appreciate many of the intermission flashes. The way in which it's done has changed significantly. I've actually enjoyed the way things have going, but I've only started reading since Cascade, which is likely to warp my perspective relative to longtime readers. So you may wish to judge my claims accordingly.

[frostshotgg]

See, the difference between now and the very beginning is how the plot zig-zagging was done. Back then it wasn't serious at all and there were just 4 characters (8 if you count the wanders, but they were all in one plot so they count as a 5th at best) so Hussie could switch freely between them without getting readers too completely lost. Then the trolls happened. Then more of act 5 happened. Then more of act 5 happen. Then even more. And then the cherubs/LE meta shit happened.

[FuzzyZergling]

My love of Homestuck is just as powerful as it has been the past two years.
I am incapable of comprehending how a person's mind would function so as to dislike Homestuck. I just don't get it.

[Aqizzar]

It's not like it's overly serious now, and certainly nobody needs constant plot all the time.  The characters shitting around with each other, including the Act 6 folks, is still worth it's reading.  It's just so much of the story, especially this crap with Caliborn and the puppet and Gamzee, is just so much here's a bunch of stuff that's happening with absolutely no explanation of how or why.  Now Hussie is all but straight up saying this is happening because these characters know they are in a story and can do whatever they feel like.

I keep thinking there's going to be some revelation about how and why a joke character is suddenly traveling time and space to facilitate an elaborate and pointless plot apparently just for the sake of doing so, but I can't shake the feeling that it's not going to happen and that will be exactly the point.

[fqllve]

I keep thinking there's going to be some revelation about how and why a joke character is suddenly traveling time and space to facilitate an elaborate and pointless plot apparently just for the sake of doing so, but I can't shake the feeling that it's not going to happen and that will be exactly the point.

Yeah, that's how I see it playing out, but honestly that's one of the few things from last year that I thought was actually funny. I really didn't like Gamzee until all the time-traveling horrorsprites for no reason, it's even made me look back on all the drug-addled Juggalo jokes more fondly.

On the other hand, most of the rest seemed to be infinte expository pesterlogs, and while there are some gems in there, it is mostly a big pile of "Bluh I don't care learn to edit." It is way too late in the game for him to be laying so much exposition, considering how much end we are approaching. I know it's not anything new, I've just gotten tired of it.