Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

When it was announced that the next update would be the last, I made two assumptions. First, that the update will dwarf everything else in the comic in sheer size (and cause that entire sector of the internet to break for at least a week from the traffic), and that it will, consequently, take so long to come out that I'll have forgotten what updates were like by the time it does.

So I've just been pursuing other things in the time since then. I'll come back to Homestuck when the game comes out, or when I hear a great wailing and gnashing of teeth to signify the ending update.

Yeah, I don't know where all the cynicism is coming from. "Never going to get an update again"? Really?

It was clear, given how much needs to be tied up, there's going to be a lot of panels that need to be done before it updates. So, it's going to take awhile. The fact that it's taking so long means that he's probably actually tying them up, not that it'll never update again.

[Locke cole]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Yeah, I don't know where all the cynicism is coming from. "Never going to get an update again"? Really?

Wait, are you saying this in solidarity with me, or to admonish me?

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

Wait, are you saying this in solidarity with me, or to admonish me?

In solidarity with.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Also Dirk has consistently been a gigantic mary sue that keeps having to jump in and quickly do something to move the plot along when Hussie ends up painting himself in a corner while writing everyone else's pointless bullshit.

Riiiight up until he got ignominiously Worfed by Aranea so that, in her sudden yet inevitable betrayal, the newly revived Ghost Girl could establish herself as a credible threat amongst ever-escalating tiers of power after sitting on her ass/own hot air for untold aeons.

Also forgot: though not ancestors, Caliborn provides the audience with a completely unnecessary and unsolicited origin story when he's not providing a vehicle for the author to see just how progressively depraved he can make someone while still keeping its fanbase. Calliope serves no purpose except as a disposable vector for said depravity before stepping aside to reveal the True Secret Final Weapon That Will Surely Resolve The Plot, towards whom we have utterly no leads except wishful thinking.

[Locke cole]

Dirk got Worf'd by Jade. It was a mind-projection of Jake's in the form of Dirk that got Worf'd by Aranea.

Well, I say Worf'd by Aranea. It was more of a sudden existence failure when Jane temporarily killed Jake in the middle of "Dirk"'s attack.

...how did i remember all that

[Overcast]

Cause technically it didn't happen long ago. As my brain has compressed this media project serially in an attempt not to allow it to get overburdened nor for me to take it so seriously that I have a cynical self destruction I have found nothing particularly troubling in the developments or the overabundance of characters. Mostly because even for the small second Aranea was worth caring about I didn't care about her. I was against the introduction of the Trolls as some people may note from an eternity ago, so as it grew I just faded more. I was oddly very positive about the human ancestors, because I like the human dualities a bit. And I responded with absolute fine-ness to the persona shifts that occurred during the time in flux.

Though I'll note I did pretty much barely pay attention for Caliborn moments, save for the fact that I am hoping that one mystery more can be clarified in the narrator that helped him along with in the megaupdate potential to come. That was a hook that interested me. And honestly unless he says so I am still totally on board that a megaupdate will occur. Mostly because mentally the series is in stasis until it does and I don't even look at it unless a post happens here.

You bastards.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

Dirk got Worf'd by Jade.

It was a necessary jobbing so that Dirk could start spending the next couple years flying to the site of the battle like Goku while the others fight a battle they can't win on Namek so he can arrive just in time to save them.

[Locke cole]

He hasn't become any more effective against Jade in that time, though. He's been in transit the whole time.

It's like as if Goku had to spend a full year flying back to Earth after dying in battle with Raditz, but Raditz was still around and Goku didn't get any training from King Kai in the intervening time.

[POS Industries]

I dunno, I think he could probably wail on Jade's broken corpse pretty effectively.

It's like a 10-0 matchup in his favor ATM.

[Locke cole]

...So... someone else sorted things out while he was in transit.

Martiest of Stus!