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Post by The One Guy on Jul 27, 2017 15:39:35 GMT
W H A T ?
Aradia?
What’s she doing here?I’d just been assuming that the noisy neighbor was Snowman, since Scratch said she was acting up “again” but ARADIA? Wait, is that even Aradia? I’ve never seen Aradia wear her hair like that, this could be her ancestor instead. That doesn’t actually clear up what in the fuck is going on, but that does make slightly more sense. Well, he figured that out awful quickly! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAID THAT THIS GUY IS REALLY JADE’S GRANDPA? Well I was wrong! He was telling the truth about being Jade’s grandson. In his timeline.He’s the grand father pre-Scratch, and the grand son post-Scratch. How does that make sense? I don’t know how that makes sense. I don’t know who he’s able to communicate with a scratched timeline. But now I’m sure that’s what’s going on. And this was a pretty quick revelation too. Yet despite being so quick on the uptake with those, he didn't seem to make the connection between the Condesce's battleship's logo and the Betty Crocker logo... |
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Post by whitehelm on Jul 28, 2017 8:52:48 GMT
Minda will be starting his liveblogging tomorrow with a 5xShowdown video react, and I'm betting that will turn into an EOA5 stream.
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Post by The One Guy on Jul 28, 2017 17:12:20 GMT
Yet despite being so quick on the uptake with those, he didn't seem to make the connection between the Condesce's battleship's logo and the Betty Crocker logo... Never mind, it just took him a day. |
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Post by whitehelm on Jul 28, 2017 17:50:46 GMT
Yet despite being so quick on the uptake with those, he didn't seem to make the connection between the Condesce's battleship's logo and the Betty Crocker logo... Never mind, it just took him a day. Being spoiled by Google Images helped a bit. Edit: It's a good thing he didn't scroll down further, there's a screenshot of Jane in her bedroom on that results page. |
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Post by The One Guy on Jul 28, 2017 18:43:19 GMT
Edit: It's a good thing he didn't scroll down further, there's a screenshot of Jane in her bedroom on that results page. Huh, I just did a check and oddly enough this image was even higher on the page than the part he shows, good thing he missed it. |
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Post by whitehelm on Jul 28, 2017 22:30:51 GMT
Edit: It's a good thing he didn't scroll down further, there's a screenshot of Jane in her bedroom on that results page. Huh, I just did a check and oddly enough this image was even higher on the page than the part he shows, good thing he missed it. Nah, that one was waaaaaay farther down when I checked; it probably got some recent traffic somehow. |
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Post by morganwick on Jul 29, 2017 8:36:08 GMT
Keep in mind Google will give you different results based on your history. I still don’t see how the ICP aren’t the capricious minstrels that were foretold. Unless there’s some part of the prophecy that Gamzee failed to mention, they seem to hit it pretty bang on. But whatever could have possibly been left out of the description of the capricious minstrels, hmm? And as for the main villain of his comic, well... Skipping past the video to his early Act 6 thoughts: Still doesn't quite have as good a grasp on how the Scratch works as you might think. Wow, he's 50/50 on calling all the post-Scratch kids' names, two out of three when you consider he didn't try to guess Jane's. But then, he can't get everything. In fact, he sees Hemera on Jane's desktop and doesn't think it automatically means Hemera's her denizen; he thinks it's Roxy's. |
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Post by The One Guy on Aug 1, 2017 17:08:01 GMT
I wasn’t really aware of it the first time I watched it, but this is the moment where the window expands to take up the rest of the screen. It wasn’t until later in the flash that I noticed, wait a minute, the window’s bigger than it was before. Huh, that's interesting. When I first watched Cascade, that was the first part of the flash to really blow me away, yet he apparently didn't even notice! |
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Post by morganwick on Aug 2, 2017 19:06:48 GMT
...I actually don't think I noticed the screen getting bigger the entire first time I watched the flash. I noticed how big and detailed the art was compared to all previous flashes, and that there were several points where there appeared to be a "frame" around the main action, but it wasn't until I started rewatching it that I noticed the "frame" was where the title and Newgrounds logo were at the start. Annnnd here’s another plan that doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere. What was so important about Rose’s second journal? Because the White King wakes up, has a touching reunion with his wife, and then they’re both murdered on the spot. So unless Jack or PM grabbed the notebook before flying off to another session this is the last we’re ever likely to see of the thing. Yep, I'm sure Complacency of the Learned will neeeeeeeever come up again! In response to an ask about the varying interpretations of the same title: Somewhere, BKEW has an orgasm and he doesn't know why. Minda also received an ask asking him to take another look at the whole "most important character in Homestuck" line in the wake of Cascade, and put up a screencap that showed Cal in Gamzee's lap, but didn't get what the asker was getting at: He also seems to have only received one "Doc Scratch is an excellent host" ask, possibly because people expected him to go into more detail on Intermission 2 and were waiting to see if he'd make the connection himself. john nothat thing is CURSED it’s going to awaken and thirst for preteen blood if you continue this mindless abuse IT KEEPS HAPPENING |
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Post by The One Guy on Aug 3, 2017 15:30:39 GMT
Upon the first conversation with UU: Well, they’re a troll, clearly. Clearly. |
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Post by morganwick on Aug 3, 2017 17:33:28 GMT
I know I said I’d do a retrospctive, but I’d rather wait until the other two Alpha kids have been introduced, so with any luck I’ll be able to do that tomorrow. I hope you aren't expecting to learn their names and go through all the formalities... Noooooooope. The pre-Scratch Sufferer isn't exactly like this. In reality, of course, they're not about to start their adventure at all, and it's not going to end happily for anyone except the one in her body. Sorry, Meenah and Damara aren't much like this either. An instinct Jane and the AR would have done well to internalize. Of course, there's also a trap waiting with Roxy's files... Another one for the fan club! |
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Post by morganwick on Aug 17, 2017 19:34:30 GMT
It's been two weeks and I've let too much Minda stuff sit on the shelf for too long... Jake would totally have a thing for Lapis Lazuli if his world wasn’t destroyed two years before Steven Universe aired. Jake will probably be disappointed that he missed out on Mass Effect 3 (released a mere 4 months later in March 2012) but that’s probably for the best. He can enter the medium still believing that Shepard and Liara will have a well written ending. Don't be too quick to jump to conclusions, although he *is* going to jump to the Medium before those things happen, and who knows how the Condesce's influence would change things (especially SU). Well, that's not inaccurate... Don't be too quick to assume... Also, after Jake referred to him as "dickprince" he correctly predicted that Dirk would be the "prince" of his aspect, but also seemed to become absolutely convinced his name is Dick after correctly predicting his name earlier, referring to him as Dick in a couple posts. He seems to have lost his accurate-prediction mojo somehow. On the flip side, he got out-and-out spoiled on Roxy's name, meaning we don't get to see what he might have guessed upon hitting "Ro-Lal"... To be fair, he can't imagine that Jane's sprite won't be prototyped at all before entry and will eventually be prototyped with Vriska and Tavros by Gamzee for its brief existence, and then with just Tavros and GCat in the post-GO timeline. Well, you will have still been keeping her around. After seeing the Nick Cage easter egg: Yeah, that's supposed to be closer to the end of Act 6. Submitted witho - ...does he seriously think Jane's already god-tier? And for Roxy I'm going to go with Thief of Mind, because her "hacking" thing makes her a thief of knowledge, in a way And yet this is amazingly close, especially if you consider the relationship between void and knowledge (and yet he still thinks Dirk will inherit his aspect from Rose or Dave). Meanwhile, Duck didn't seem to recognize Terezi's drawing as the in-universe origin of SBaHJ, and I'm not sure, but I *think* Emily made it to Jade: Enter without calling Becsprite? |
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Post by The One Guy on Aug 28, 2017 17:40:52 GMT
Blue finally started updating again and Minda's starting to get suspicious about UU's identity...
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Post by morganwick on Aug 28, 2017 19:26:55 GMT
Well, Minda got pointed to the hints of the classpects in Jane and Jake's character introductions, before getting to Roxy and Dirk's. But he also came about as close to Roxy and Dirk's actual titles as might be expected: Thief of Void and Prince of Mind. But on the flipside, even with Waking!Jane up and about and not a god, he seems to think her dreamself went through the second method of god-tiering Doc Scratch was hinting at... Between the name “Cal” and his/her green aesthetic, I think Calmasis is related to Lord English. I don’t think they’re Lord English himself though. There haven’t been any hints that English is non-binary, so whoever Calmasis represents, they’re someone new. *WONK* Yes, that is definitely a theory you just came up with.  Submitted without comment. After already scratching her head over her reference to having a brother and her horns seemingly shooting down his "pre-Scratch ancestor" idea: ...has anyone else ever figured out that Calliope wasn't a troll at this point (not counting Nora who seemed to go back on it)? And yet: One wonders what he'll think when he hears from Caliborn from the first time and the Discord mods consider it in-bounds to mention Ophiuchus. Will he go back to thinking they're trolls, or is the above reasoning too persuasive?
… Well. That’s a problem. Still, could be worse. He could have to drop a ring into that lava. Luckily, he won't be the one on that duty. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll love it when all is said and done. When Karkat sends Dave his "shitty clip art":  (not that I'm a Davekat shipper, but...) i relate to TT in the sense that analyzing the situation comes first, followed by a sudden realization that i’m supposed to be concerned, while in most of humanity empathy is an automatic reflex. i hope that she’s a more morally grey character, those tend to be my favorites Leaving grimdark aside, stealing this from Krix in the Minda chat: I think we might have another future Vriska fan on our hands. It's been starting to feel like there's more discussion of even non-Minda blogs there than here...  Also, the first thing Blue noticed upon seeing Rose was the resemblance to Mandy from Grim Adventures. |
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Post by The One Guy on Aug 31, 2017 14:30:15 GMT
I find it a little strange that the Queen’s ring and the King’s scepter don’t have any of the little bulbs on them. They should at least be present and grayed out, right? Looking back at Rise Up and Descend, they disappeared from the Scepter after it had been “deactivated” but the rings have never done anything like that. Come to think of it, the Condesce had a gold ring in the last flash too. I’d just assumed it was some of her usual jewelry, but if it is the Queen’s ring, and if that really means there will be no pre-entry prototypings… that has some wide spreading implications for the course of this session. Wow, well spotted! |
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Post by axolotlSushi on Sept 4, 2017 23:41:07 GMT
Hey, uh, I have no idea if this is the right place to post this, but it's the closest I can think of, so here goes. I'm going to be doing a liveblog-esque reread of Homestuck on one of my Tumblrs, starting tomorrow. If any of you want to check it out, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!  |
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Post by morganwick on Sept 5, 2017 20:29:19 GMT
Oh my god… AR is totally going to quote 2001 at Dave isn’t he? TG: open the fucking door ar TT: I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave. TG: … TT: I’m fucking glasses, dude. Ask Roxy. She’s the hacker. Well, he is going to increasingly evoke 2001, but by the time Dave meets him he'll already have become STRONGer than a mere pair of glasses... Well, someone else is going to end up taking after Roxy's drinking... He may sometimes come to weird conclusions, but when he gets on the right track he can ride it all the way into the station. Yeah, I realized that once I got to that point in my Lil Sis re-read and saw how few suitable names there were. So if circumstances hadn't conspired against guessing the girls' names with all information available before their introductions, he might have gone 4-for-4. Funny, that's not the impression I get from most livebloggers or at least most readers (outside of Roxy of course), though it does seem to be the same thing Nick thought. |
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Post by The One Guy on Sept 7, 2017 15:38:05 GMT
Now I’m just thinking about how Cal’s presence here makes sense. It’s possible that this is the same Cal we’ve been following since the beginning, and if that’s the case, then this is probably Cal from before Gamzee cursed Dave, since this is what he looked like back then. Maybe that’s why Cal is safe for Dirk. Gamzee hasn’t put the bad juju into him yet. So right, yet so wrong. |
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Post by morganwick on Sept 12, 2017 18:46:23 GMT
Well, Minda still seems to be laboring under the impression that the kids were separately ectobiologized compared to the pre-Scratch universe. Once he realizes the meteors that delivered the alpha kids are the same exact meteors that came from the pre-Scratch session, this Cal's timeline will be greatly clarified...or so he'll think. (Although he also called both Feferi and the Condesce "descendants" of Meenah, if only for lack of a better term to refer to both, so make of that what you will.) Also, the slow dawning realization of what Dirk and Roxy's deal is in his Jane: Enter video is just fantastic. So that’s the delineation now? Alpha kids in the “main” act, Beta and Troll kids in the “Intermissions”? How long is this going to go before they meet up? How eventful can three years of travel really be? More than you'd think. Or they could even find themselves in the presence of their own sleeping self. and how much of a bitch is rose’s mom, if at all here? we’ve already seen that rose doesn’t like her, but i want to see if rose is justified or if she’s just misinterpreting. like, rose, i think you’re missing the point that that mausoleum is really fucking cool no matter if you hate your mom or not, you cute little gothic-wednesday adams motherfucker Well, that was quick. Heh, if I had to predict how this was gonna go, I’d say that Dave and Karkat get together, Rose and Kanaya get together, John ends up with… I don’t know, Feferi or Nepeta, and Jade’s asexual. Well, you got that half right. If you only knew that neither Feferi nor Nepeta will even make it to the point where they'd meet any of the kids... Also, his Alterniabound stream turned into "Duck discovers Trickster Mode". |
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Post by The One Guy on Sept 18, 2017 18:33:51 GMT
okay, rose said earlier in her sassy gamefaqs post that the fact that this game brings about the end of the world isn’t to the fault of the player, rather that the world was ending was already set to happen. was she being literal or symbolic? which begs the question, if john hadn’t played the game, would the world have not ended, or would it just mean that he would have no way to survive it? is the game itself the bringer of the apocalypse, or is it a tool to survive it? Already asking the important questions. Meanwhile Minda has some great reactions to Gamzee at Jane's house. |
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Post by morganwick on Sept 18, 2017 20:02:14 GMT
Wait, we’re talking about healing Terezi’s vision? Interesting, but I’m not wild about the idea. From time to time, you’ll get a story where Daredevil gets his vision back, and he ends up being much less effective because vision is just a distraction to him. I feel like Terezi would be in the same boat. Hey, you entertained the notion longer than most livebloggers. Again going through the stream was worth it for his utter exasperation at having to deal with Gamzee (unless you were following the chat when he didn't have the screen up when he tried to start the second video). How many livebloggers raise that possibility this early? Well, you will get your wish. But for right now... :DDDDDDDD my favorite color is actually red, i’ve considered rebranding my “name” a few times, but i’m in too deep now and it adds a layer of irony you gotta appreciate So, does that mean Dave will be your favorite character? He has already contributed at least two favorite quotes. ...he even used "medium". Blue is climbing up my favorites list too fast, guys. why can't it be motherfuckin BOTH THINGS. |
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Post by The One Guy on Sept 21, 2017 14:24:49 GMT
Upon learning more about Calmasis from Roxy's mom's book: Are they the same person? Is this a multiple personality thing or something? If the shackles represent the Brother and Sister, is there a third entity represented by Calmasis themself? Or is Calmasis just the combination of the two? Canonically, Calmasis uses “s/he” pronouns, so it’d make sense for them to represent the combination of a masculine and feminine personality. He's starting to get it! But then Rose’s book series also seems to be an allegory for Lord English so where does he fit into all this!? GAAAAAAAAH! Still not connecting the dots here, though. |
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Post by morganwick on Sept 22, 2017 17:45:58 GMT
this looks like either a. a bomb/apocalypse shelter or b. the entrance to a ship that was covered with sand over years of exposure leaning more towards hypothesis b here…. A ship, you say? ...except I'm not sure any livebloggers predict WV being the one sending commands to John... How cute, you're confused by time shenanigans this simple. I’m guessing we’re talking about “the sun” that exists in the Game. When players enter the Game, they leave our reality and enter a new one, with different physical properties, but with similar physical concepts like gravity. Even though we’ve seen the Battleground at what we could consider “daytime”, we’ve also seen the Lands at different states of “day” and “night”. But we haven’t seen any stars. And yet, regardless of whatever “day” or “night” players find themselves at in their Lands, they’re not freezing cold in the way you would expect a place to be without a sun heating it. Wow, this is way off, as he's clearly forgotten past references to the Green Sun... ...and yet in a roundabout way, this is still relevant. Proving once again that Vriska has ego enough for the both of them (quite literally, in this case). I lol'd. I lol'd x2 combo. |
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Post by The One Guy on Oct 9, 2017 17:16:42 GMT
I’m going to assume that uu has an as yet unnamed Class as well. Let’s see, some of the known active classes are the Thief, Knight, and Prince, and uu has the “Master Class” above all of them. So what then? A King? A Duke? A Lord? Oh my god, if uu is a fucking Time Lord, I’m going to lose my Whovian shit. |
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Post by morganwick on Oct 10, 2017 21:06:03 GMT
Actually is Hussie still the narrator at this point? I mean, storywise, he’s literally dead right now, so is he writing this from beyond the grave (which admittedly would not be all that difficult), or is someone else providing the narration text in the interim? *WONK* I wonder how they might get along if they ever met? Oh, don't give up on it just yet... Well, you'll get your wish eventually, though arguably not as much as Meenah and Vriska. Not yet, but unfortunately not for the entire trip. Submitted without comment. After what happened with the Calmasis image, I didn't quite expect that Minda would figure out what was going on with the Lord English-cherub connection until seeing what Calliope looks like, same as Nick. Turns out he may have a different hangup going on. But I still figured it was a logical enough conclusion that Minda wouldn't be kept away from it for long. Welp, can't win them all. Gonna hold off on covering stuff from Duck and Blue, this post is long enough as it is. |
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(not that I'm a Davekat shipper, but...)
Also, the first thing Blue noticed upon seeing Rose was the resemblance to Mandy from Grim Adventures.
