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Post by TrickleJest on Sept 18, 2016 17:05:13 GMT
No offence, but Simji is a bit of a downer.
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Post by mementovivere on Sept 18, 2016 20:48:30 GMT
Which is ironic, since Hexane was going to be abandoned without an ending for HOW long before they decided to finish it? Content takes time to make, and that's okay. Hussie's not on a time limit anymore, and we know his current focus is on getting Hiveswap out ASAP.
I think an epilogue is definitely at least planned, partly since Hussie said so, partly because that's what he did for Problem Sleuth, partly because's fully aware that people have complained about the abruptness of the ending, and partly because I think there are textual reasons to suspect that it's been part of the plan for a while--namely, the Masterpiece showing "spoilers" for an ending different from the one we got, which was made during a time period when work had already begun on the Collide and Act 7 animations. Homestuck is the big thing he's known for, and whatever you think of its quality it's still one of the most labor-intensive webcomics EVER, so if he's on record as saying he wants to add on to it, I'm not especially worried think he's going to shrug and leave it in a state where he feels it's incomplete but he doesn't want to finish because it's too much work. Please.
That said, I also think it's the kind of thing he's going to work on once Hiveswap is out of the way (at least the first episode) and probably once he's had a little space from 7 years of webcomic madness... so I wouldn't especially be surprised if it didn't come for a year or more. Obviously I hope it's sooner, but at the same time I'm content to wait.
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Post by The One Guy on Sept 19, 2016 14:36:23 GMT
It should be noted that the anouncement he took down did not say he would make an epilouge, only that he was considering making an epilouge. If he doesn't make one, then all that would mean is that we were reading too much into things, not that he was trolling or lying.
That said, I still think he's going to do it.
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Post by SpottedBlades on Sept 19, 2016 15:48:13 GMT
Having an epilogue is fine, even though I would be quite saddened if there wasn't; but we all know what really matters.
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Post by alleywaycreeper on Sept 19, 2016 16:13:13 GMT
It should be noted that the anouncement he took down did not say he would make an epilouge, only that he was considering making an epilouge. If he doesn't make one, then all that would mean is that we were reading too much into things, not that he was trolling or lying. That said, I still think he's going to do it. That would kind of a be a dick move though, to just leave people dangling and hoping for an epilogue someday. Maybe.
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Post by The One Guy on Sept 19, 2016 16:56:40 GMT
It should be noted that the anouncement he took down did not say he would make an epilouge, only that he was considering making an epilouge. If he doesn't make one, then all that would mean is that we were reading too much into things, not that he was trolling or lying. That said, I still think he's going to do it. That would kind of a be a dick move though, to just leave people dangling and hoping for an epilogue someday. Maybe. It's entirely possible he didn't intend for people to react the way they did to the anouncement and he took it down to prevent further misconceptions.
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Post by alleywaycreeper on Sept 19, 2016 17:57:16 GMT
That would kind of a be a dick move though, to just leave people dangling and hoping for an epilogue someday. Maybe. It's entirely possible he didn't intend for people to react the way they did to the anouncement and he took it down to prevent further misconceptions. Eh, I honestly doubt it. Hussie's not a dumb, oblivious guy. He knows how crazy his fan base is. And he knows (as evidenced by his comic) what drums up suspense. And he'd know that people would take screen shots or just remember what the message originally said. *shrug*
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Post by 1337Walrus on Sept 20, 2016 4:46:08 GMT
I'm thinking 10/25 or 11/11 at this rate. Or next 4/13. You never know with Hussie.
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Post by amiabletemplar on Sept 20, 2016 7:48:47 GMT
I'm thinking 10/25 or 11/11 at this rate. Or next 4/13. You never know with Hussie. Which is, effectively, "six months" or "one year." 10/25 will be a bit over six months, and 11/11 would be just under seven. It's just barely possible that he might consider Christmas and/or New Years to be an appropriate time to dump stuff on us, which gets us close enough to nine months that you might call it that (it'd be almost eight and a half months).
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Post by SpottedBlades on Sept 20, 2016 7:59:42 GMT
By the time we reach next year's April 13th, the hype about Act 7 will have died out, and people will have accepted the end as it is. The more we wait, the less logical it is to release an epilogue. Although i'd see Hussie go and try for eight years of Homestuck.
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Post by amiabletemplar on Sept 20, 2016 14:54:16 GMT
By the time we reach next year's April 13th, the hype about Act 7 will have died out, and people will have accepted the end as it is. The more we wait, the less logical it is to release an epilogue. Although i'd see Hussie go and try for eight years of Homestuck. Being perfectly frank: You don't think the hype about Homestuck generally hadn't already died out by the time Act 7 rolled around? Hussie and WP have wasted an enormous amount of audience good-will. Not all of this is their fault--TOG royally screwed them--but the complete lack of audience outreach, the silence, and most importantly the fact that they allowed the central community website to literally fold up and disappear without so much as a tweet to explain what happened? Yeah, I'd say Homestuck had *already* been living on borrowed time when we started getting more content again. People have been strung along now for something like three goddamn years; adding a fourth year to that isn't going to make as much of a difference as you're suggesting.
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Post by mementovivere on Sept 20, 2016 17:50:20 GMT
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if dialing down the hype were a part of the point, based on the way he's talked about it on a few occasions in the past.
"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."
"Over time, knowing so many people are slamming refresh many times per day starts to be more of an omnipresent distraction than anything. I think there is sort of a perception that I am creatively feeding off the hysteria surrounding the comic, but on a very practical level this is not true. Creating entertainment is not really a lifestyle of madcap shenanigans. It is a very sober, often dull process that requires a huge amount of time and concentration. It will be better to disarm the hype machine while I get the hard stuff done."
As he said about the epilogue, he's "not in a huge hurry at this point." Can't say I blame him!
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Post by SpottedBlades on Sept 20, 2016 18:25:33 GMT
Maybe the true epilogue was the friends we've made along the way.
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Post by TrickleJest on Sept 20, 2016 18:40:29 GMT
Maybe the true epilogue was the friends we've made along the way. You stole that joke from Homestuck's subreddit, bro. Noooot cooool.
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Post by SpottedBlades on Sept 20, 2016 23:24:12 GMT
I ain't stole nothing. This sentence is a meme in itself, it's merely re-use. I don't even use reddit.
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Post by TrickleJest on Sept 22, 2016 10:32:30 GMT
I just saw it on reddit, so I must've mixed it up. Sorry.
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