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Post by soeroah on Apr 5, 2016 23:25:25 GMT
I actually thought that was Hussie for a few seconds before the surrealism cleared.
Also yes, it feels like we're in a bunker watching MSPA.com from afar, ready to panic at the drop of a hat.
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Post by cookiefonster on Apr 5, 2016 23:30:43 GMT
Hello, I have decided to join this fancy shmancy new site :u Nice to see you. What took you so long to join these alt forums?
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Post by therationaldove on Apr 5, 2016 23:37:01 GMT
Yo, Aepokk! Good to see you around. We are gathering more and more of the old crew here, all ready to discuss the ending on the horizon!
I don't know, but let's recap what the protags have at their disposal to defeat their respective enemies.
John has the ability to become wind, meaning he is unable to be attacked, and his ability to teleport to any point in the comic as well as anything around him makes him pretter formidable.
Rose can see the most fortuitous outcome, which means she can help the other get into position and do things that are most favorable for part at large.
Dave can use time travel to summon many different copies of himself to overwhelm Lord Jack. Hopefully he will want to time travel in order to have all of those copies.
Jade has access to First Gaurdian powers, is practically omniscient and can teleport at will. Even if she looses those powers, she can enlargen and shrink anything around her. She could theorectically shrink anything to a real small size and squish it with her foot or something like that.
Jane can pretty much bring everyone back to life once as long as they have access to their body.
Roxy can summon items from the void if she concentrates hard enough and can turn invisible and phase through things at will, making her untouchable.
Dirk can literally rip souls right out of their bodies to kill them.
Jake's hope power can theorectially make anything real as long as he believes hard enough. He could make allies real as well as use his hope powers in a Hopesplosion. He's really potent, even more powerful than most of the villains. He just doesn't know it yet.
Terezi presumably has knowlegde from the GO timeline about what didn't work. Additionally, her Seer abilities let her predict in the same way Rose can
Kanaya is functionally undead as a rainbow drinker, so think she can probably take a beating or two if she wants.
The ghost army has strenght in numbers
Vriska has an absurd amount of luck that she can use to sway the battle into her favor and she has the Ultimate Juju, which could potentially do something helpful....depending.
Jack Noir, though he is a third party, has survived in canon for a really long time purely through sheer will. He could just not give a fuck so hard that he survive for no other reason.
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Post by Gab on Apr 5, 2016 23:52:46 GMT
Hey let's talk about something that's not Davekat. What's your opinion on the dark humor in Homestuck? I don't mind it much, because there's clearly a distinction between sad scenes with a touch of humor and humorous scenes with a touch of sadness. In my third read I'm on the scene where Terezi investigates Tavros's murder and I find it a lot funnier this time around than previously for some reason. This is kind of only tangentially related to what you're actually asking, but in certain situations, "dark" humor (in this case the kind that intentionally crosses offensive lines) can be some of the most hilarious jokes I read. Certain stuff Andrew made has put me almost into laughter-induced tears. Generally, the only joke I've never really gotten behind is sbahj. Some of it I find funny, and it is kind of amusing how it is continuously and aggressively referenced back to like an annoying forced gag, but that's about as far as my appreciation of it goes. I get a chuckle out of its memetic status and fandom-wide recognition as a symbol of ironic garbage comedy. But I don't really enjoy any of the content of the comic itself in any direct fashion, ironically or otherwise. Oh my god Homestuck is finishing in a week A WEEK Why did this just hit me? edit: my friend's sage advice: "Don't think of it as a forever end, think of it as the most extreme pause yet" THAT DOESN'T HELP It only goes on until Hiveswap releases. I am ready for the Infinipause. Let us embrace the void. 'nyways, what do you guys think, EOA6 will have new music, or use old songs? I'm expecting a Cascade kinda deal: New song made from old ones + some new bits. Any hopes for any particular song? I'm hoping for at least one or two new songs, and expecting some from the albums to be used. Which is kind of why I like what that one person was doing by avoiding listening to the albums, so it's ALL new. I find it so weird having to get my homestuck fix, just before the PENULTIMATE FLASH, from reddit and a hastily built, fan-made forum. It feels like I'm a refugee of some sort of crisis, having to find temporary shelter from some disaster that has forever changed my life... Bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point. Atleast you guys are still here. Almost like some kind of... RAPTURE???
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Post by soeroah on Apr 6, 2016 0:00:05 GMT
Every now and then I just kinda nonchalantly refresh Homestuck, not really expecting it to update for like another twelve hours or so, but I know as soon as it does this general anxiety I always feel as a background process is going to give me a brief panic attack.
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Post by Blaperile on Apr 6, 2016 0:01:17 GMT
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Post by accipitrineOutlier on Apr 6, 2016 0:02:29 GMT
Every now and then I just kinda nonchalantly refresh Homestuck, not really expecting it to update for like another twelve hours or so, but I know as soon as it does this general anxiety I always feel as a background process is going to give me a brief panic attack. Same. I think it just sank in for me, and I am SHAKING OH GOD.
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Post by Strawhat Luffy on Apr 6, 2016 0:53:28 GMT
Well Hussie has been known for releasing updates right after midnight before.
Sometimes, even earlier than that.
I'd say an update could happen anytime soon, though going by the recent schedule, 18 hours or so is more likely.
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Post by Gab on Apr 6, 2016 0:58:49 GMT
I would expect the update to hit around the same time the others did, perfectly on schedule. Which was... I think, noon? For me it's more like 3 in the afternoon since that's when I get home and can read the updates. But the point stands.
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Post by wheals on Apr 6, 2016 1:05:54 GMT
There was actually a pretty wide range of update times, from around 11:00-4:00 (all Andrew time). Cascade and Game Over both went up between midnight and 1AM, though.
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Post by therationaldove on Apr 6, 2016 1:13:08 GMT
Andrew lives in EST, right?
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Post by wheals on Apr 6, 2016 1:13:25 GMT
EDT right now, but yeah.
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Post by sasuke on Apr 6, 2016 1:20:31 GMT
i didnt mention it here since it might have been real and didnt wana spoil anyone but now that its confirmed by james roach as fake, ill say that fake eoa6 music "leak" that appeared a few months ago, if someone made that themself as a prank, that was actually pretty cool. (or they took it from some source so unknown no one had heard it before)
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Post by soeroah on Apr 6, 2016 1:29:48 GMT
Personally I kinda hope the update is in about 12-ish hours, so I can watch it with an Internet friend without dodging it all day, and won't be tempted to watch it before going out for a while in the afternoon and obsessing over it =P
The only thing that makes me think it might show up within the next 12 hours is that for a while HS was updating closer to Australian timezones than American, but that hasn't been the case since the Omegapause so perhaps that'll continue to be the case.
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Post by wheals on Apr 6, 2016 1:50:58 GMT
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Post by cookiefonster on Apr 6, 2016 1:52:39 GMT
I guess I could wake up to that update. But I think I won't read/watch it till I get home from school, because it sounds like such a whopper.
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Post by Gab on Apr 6, 2016 2:09:20 GMT
Wait wait wait really?? But that's so close, now I don't know whether to stay up or save it for tomorrow. Made worse by the fact that at the moment my internet is so crappy it can barely even load this page. Do I delay my excitement until tomorrow?? I'm not sure which option is better here. Aaaaaagghhhhhh.
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Post by therationaldove on Apr 6, 2016 2:11:01 GMT
Oh c'mon! I need to sleep tonight because I have a test tomorrow! Goddamnit...
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Post by thezcmme on Apr 6, 2016 2:13:37 GMT
As much as I would hate to, I probably won't see the update until tomorrow afternoon if it's true that it's happening sometime at 12:00 tonight. I cannot contain the hype.
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Post by soeroah on Apr 6, 2016 2:21:16 GMT
Drat. I'm in Australia, I'll be out at exactly 1:30 (which is midnight EST) for a couple hours, but even then at that point (I'll be home at 4) I might as well delay watching it until I can watch it with a friend at my own midnight.
Ooooh it's gonna be hard to abstain. Guess I'll just switch off the Internet for those hours and read.
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Post by lyla on Apr 6, 2016 2:24:43 GMT
OOOH MAN, I'm excited!! It's out in about an hour!
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Post by trek on Apr 6, 2016 2:25:00 GMT
So glad I found this forum, I'm super bummed that the MSPA forums are down for this landmark event.
But I'm super excited for this update! I think EST is a couple hours ahead of my time zone now, so hard to remember when you don't follow DST. Hoping it doesn't happen too late, I have classes!
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Post by soeroah on Apr 6, 2016 2:32:14 GMT
Just remember what the High Over Admin said, folks~
When the update hits, all we are allowed to say in this thread is "UPDATE", then discussions go in the dedicated discussion thread and no references go anywhere else until 24 hours have passed, excepting posting reactions to the Reaction thread, if I understand correctly.
Reactions go in Reaction thread, Discussion goes in the special Discussion thread. That way those of us who have to wait to see it don't get spoiled by avatars or signatures or thread titles =P
Oh gosh I am excited.
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Post by sasuke on Apr 6, 2016 2:36:21 GMT
YES! IF THATS TRUE I DONT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE 9 HOUR WORK DAY WAITING FOR THE UPD8!
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Post by soeroah on Apr 6, 2016 2:44:13 GMT
You do, however, get to go to work obsessing over it~
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