No they are posting updates about it and it actually looks good?
thatās fair, though i think having to take commands from his audience was a check on hussieās ambition. hussie closing down the suggestion box for good is followed almost immediately by the troll arc, which is, wellā¦ itās like he kept the tone of a conversation with his audience, except now heās just talking to himself, and going farther and farther off the deep end.
you chose the perfect place to stop imo; i think Cascade is as good of an ending as weāre ever going to get. i watched the 18 minute end of act 6 animation and felt pretty much nothing. at this point it feels like the 10th season of a generic shonen, but with MEMES (thereās literally a fight scene with the undertale ui; the reference makes no sense in context to anyone who doesnāt recognize it, and itās embarrassingly ham-fisted)
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I dunno, man. Considering Toby Fox made a lot of music for Homestuck over the years and actually started initial design of Undertale in Andrew Hussieās house, it seemed really appropriate for Homestuck to throw a nod in that direction in its final moments, and considering itās only a handful of frames in what is already a frenetic and bewildering video (entirely in keeping with the animations thus far, in that regard), it struck me as no more perplexing to the uninitiated than the average Homestuck animation to its own readers since, say, [S] Jack: Ascend.āthatās the first video where I could only describe with confidence maybe 75% of what was being depicted; it was only with the assistance of wiki entries or subsequent summary pages that such animations resolved in my perception from impressionistic blurs into concrete and specific plotting.
On an unrelated note, this topic reminded me that three years ago, I compiled an unnecessarily literal index of all commands to increase altitude.
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so i read everything up until the last pause in a week. it took seven or so times over the years before i could get through act i without abandoning it. from what iāve read so far, iāve come away with being surprised that i enjoyed what i read at all. iām a pretty casual fan, but some of these characters and subplots made me feel some really ungoofy and serious stuff so, props to hussie.
homestuck is so old that i remember livejournal rp blogs for it.
iām glad fandom antics didnāt stop me from enjoying something.
i do not regret my abrupt decision to read most of this!
Iām so old Iām confused that lj was a thing when homestuck was around.
Now I canāt remember if Iāve nuked my livejournal from orbit?
If I can give Homestuck credit for anything (which is easy, since I have an Heir of Wind hoodie and a signed copy of the first book), itās that all my irl homestucks and I have been disturbed at one point or another in how well certain characters portrayed our own flaws. Tavrosā character arc really goofed me up.
my twitter feed has posted this several times already so i thought i would just link it here too
The final stretch ended up being a lot more straightforward than Iād have thought. Iām not sure whether to be happy or disappointed. Because thereās nothing really new, you know? It lacked a twist. The way the defeat of Lord English (and many other things, really) is left completely offscreen is rather surprising. I canāt help but wonder how it differently would all have been handled if it had been in classic form rather than an animation. Or maybe Iām just not quite getting whatās happening?
I donāt get the ending either.
Gamzee felt like an unfired Chekovās Clown.
is this supposed to be an Infinite Jest style ending, āall the plot threads meet just right of frame?ā
because, uh, fuck that. fuck this.
there were so many people speculating EoA6 was a false climax, which all signs seemed to be pointing to, but, uh, nope. SUCK IT, NERDS
Nah, itās much more literal than that. I agree with the interpretation posted here: there was nothing more to the confrontation than what we saw. Itās a Perfectly Safe Capsule ending, Ć la Mother 3.
it was arenea and dirk for me
i found out what homestuck was because of lj.
i didnāt have a computer at home so i didnāt get to surf as much back then.
your journal is probably still around if you didnāt delete it yourself.
there was a purge of inactive accounts but i really donāt know how that worked since i stumble across blogs from over a decade ago all the time.
I had a livejournal that I gave to a former forum member for a secret project. It is long gone or heavily transmogrified by now.
I had a livejournal and at some point I figured out that through that I crossed path with a couple of known IC figures (before I knew they were such), via lj groups.
I remembered them because they used their lj time to be Huge Public Assholes go figure.
btw whatās a Homestuck?
A foe
I still have a top 10 GOAT list on my LJ. It isnāt even really that embarrassing. Maybe it ought to be and my taste has become terrible???