Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

So in creating the circumstances under which original Vriska gets her comeuppance Hussie has created a new Vriska.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by K-Re$ha

So in creating the circumstances under which original Vriska gets her comeuppance Hussie has created a new Vriska.

I kinda hope this means that the Vriska who did finally get her comeuppance has to go give - ̗̀new ̖́- Vriska her comeuppance.

Because - ̗̀new ̖́- Vriska hasn't learned a goddamn thing.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Oh no, new Vriska's learned a lot of shit. One of those things is that the universe will practically unmake itself to make her relevant again.

Taking this into consideration, her assertion that old Vriska is an idiot for not doing anything is totally reasonable: The universe literally revolves around her.

[Amake]

2x character moment combo! And none of them even involve - ̗̀new ̖́- Vriska even though she's standing just off screen and has to hate every moment of it. So weird. But beside that anomaly, bittersweet.

[Bum Bill Bee]

<shrug>

I guess I'm not quite understanding the Vriska haters.

Bunbun from Sluggy freelnace
Richard from Looking For Group
Lothar from Exterminatus Now
Guy from Two Guys and Guy
Belkar rom Looking for Group
Black Mage from this place

those are all guys that are a bigger or just as big series-wide focal point,
have a knack for avoiding punishment
are just as or more damaging
are just as flat or flatter

and I've still liked them, and thats not even getting into other mediums

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Originally Posted by Bum Bill Bee

<shrug>

I guess I'm not quite understanding the Vriska haters.

Bunbun from Sluggy freelnace
Richard from Looking For Group
Lothar from Exterminatus Now
Guy from Two Guys and Guy
Belkar rom Looking for Group
Black Mage from this place

those are all guys that are a bigger or just as big series-wide focal point,
have a knack for avoiding punishment
are just as or more damaging
are just as flat or flatter

and I've still liked them, and thats not even getting into other mediums

The ones that I'm familiar with from that list are monsters, but they're too fantastical. For most of the audience there's no way to empathize with a person who just had their orphanage burned down and all the orphans bones being used to form a chair that's shaped like a dick.

Contrast, a lot of the audience absolutely can empathize with being yelled at and talked down to by someone who you think doesn't know what they're talking about, who is blatantly ignoring their own shortcomings and lying to your face about having learned from their mistakes in order to make you feel worse. It's the same reason people hate Umbridge more than Voldemort a fair amount of the time. One is magical wizard genocide man, and the other is just a more fantastical version of that really really horrible authority figure that abused you.

[POS Industries]

Did my man just say BLACK MAGE of all people never got punishment?

The guy who was tricked into learning a spell that makes him, and only him regardless of who casts it, vomit up his own organs? THAT Black Mage?

[Bum Bill Bee]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Did my man just say BLACK MAGE of all people never got punishment?

The guy who was tricked into learning a spell that makes him, and only him regardless of who casts it, vomit up his own organs? THAT Black Mage?

He got punished lots.

With Belkar (and for the matter Vriska too) it kinda zig zagged.

But the others, heck yeah they avoided punishment.

[Flarecobra]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Did my man just say BLACK MAGE of all people never got punishment?

The guy who was tricked into learning a spell that makes him, and only him regardless of who casts it, vomit up his own organs? THAT Black Mage?

Let us not forget all the times he was hammered into paste.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

SO. A subject that I think has come up in these threads and certainly has all over the place in the Homestuck Fandom is: What the fuck happened with the pauses and why the fuck is the Homestuck game still not out.

Here's why: https://web.archive.org/web/20150704...y-now-that-the

Delicious exerts follow.

you may remember that what pumpkin announced that the game studio “the odd gentlemen” was originally attached to develop the game, and you may also remember that they quietly moved to in house development in 2014. what they didn’t tell you: the reason they did this was that odd gentlemen stole kickstarter money and spent it on king’s quest.

according to the timeline in the doc i got, WP gave 788k to TOG in 2012 to develop hiveswap. they then proceeded to do next to nothing, completely blowing off the dev schedule that they agreed to. (the game was supposed to be done by oct 2014. instead, that was when WP ended up having to switch to in house development and start from scratch.) the doc included a detailed rundown of everything TOG actually did. in summary:

“Over 8 months of development, TOG produced exactly one “playable build”. It is a single room, involving one character, no animation, and almost no other key features. Virtually nothing works properly. It was submitted in February of 2014, and no improvements or additional versions were submitted beyond that date.”

a link to it was included in the doc. it’s… probably the worst thing i’ve ever seen in my life?? if you try to click on ANYTHING, joey runs into a bookcase and flies into the air and the demo gets stuck. the only thing that distinguishes it from an out-of-the-box adventure creator demo is its very subpar models and the fact it is unplayably bugged.

why am i posting this? well, king’s quest was developed with stolen money, so it’s probably in your best interest to know this before you buy it. all things considered, it’s a miracle that hiveswap is doing as well as it is – at this point, i think hiveswap has moved past this fiasco and isn’t in any danger of falling through. it’s uh, pretty late, but from what i’ve seen, they’re well on their way to an Actual Game that may be Actually Good despite getting jerked around by a circus of incompetent clowns for 8 months.

at this point, i’m not sure what to DO about this. what pumpkin is bound by the settlement they had to sign if they wanted to get any of the money back at all, so there’s not much that they themselves can do to retrieve the money TOG stole from us. i actually tried messaging sierra, the company that licensed KQ to TOG, but they don’t seem to care that KQ was made with stolen money. maybe activision might want to know. in any case, it’s important that this info get out there so people know what they’re dealing with when buying something from the odd gentlemen.

This is the lion share of the pertinent details but I would still recommend checking the link out to see the full thing.

So.
Goddamn. and fuck., basically.