Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Arcanum]

Well my reasoning was that this was a result of perceived distance; that at their current size they perceive the distance to be 3 light years (and thus take 3 years to traverse it), but if they were larger they would perceive the distance as say 0.01 light years (and then it would only take like a few days to cross it). If that even makes sense to anyone but me.

[Locke cole]

The percieved distance doesn't, I think, change the actual distance, at least not when you're moving at lightspeed. Humans can cover more ground than ants because we have longer legs and can go faster, but no matter how big Jade makes the ship, lightspeed is lightspeed.

[Arcanum]

And yet here Hussiebot moved roughly one yard in less than three nano seconds, and that's not counting him moving from the grey area with the curtains to the area with the walls. That's why I think size has something to do with this.

Basically I've stopped trying to figure this out with real physics, and now I'm just trying to make sense of the Hussie-physics.

[BitVyper]

John's gonna end up with Con Air hair. Three years without a barber.

[Art of Hilt]

Originally Posted by EckScizor

I was in an HSG when the update dropped and they collectively flipped their shit. Something about ships capsizing and whatnot. Or not wanting characters aged up? I dunno.

They assume that if John and Jade will be stuck together on a ship for three years, then Rose and Dave will be with the trolls on the meteor navigating to the reset session for three years as well. The primary complaint comes from John/Rose shippers not liking the idea of Rose spending three years in person with Kanaya.

Also, they feel that skipping from 13 to 16 in a coming of age story is like picking up the characters and placing them "at the finish line", which is pretty absurd because as we've all seen the reset kids are just as dysfunctional and immature at 16 as the original kids are at 13. Also since when is 16 a "finish line" in terms of growing up? This isn't the Industrial Revolution. We're not expected to choke ourselves in coal mine dust before our balls drop.

edit- I think Jade plain doesn't know that being bigger is an option. They don't understand the dimension they're in (even though it's just the space between two windows in a normal study covered by a green curtain), and they might not want to take any risks by changing their status quo.

[Amake]

I know I didn't do jack shit between age 13 and 16. In between a crippling fear of being seen acting like a child and lacking any physical, emotional or mental capacity to function as an adult, I pretty much stayed in my room and read X-men for three years. 16 was actually exactly when things started to get interesting again.

[Revising Ocelot]

There are no physics, only the rule of the author. It's his domain, after all. And the author has been firmly established in canon as a deranged lunatic, so it's best not to think about it.


In other news: You suck!!!

[BitVyper]

In response to all the physics stuff, I see a lot of people treating this as if they're moving at light speed, but they aren't. They're moving "about as close to light speed as [Jade] can make [them] go." My physics may be waaaaay off on this, but if I'm not mistaken it's something to the effect of this: Light speed being a constant, anything moving at C should still be moving that much faster relative to them even if they are very close to C. If Hussiebot himself is moving at C, then everything more or less works.

I'm basing this all off faded memories of a class I took five years ago though, so I could be completely wrong.

Edit: I mean, from Hussiebot's perspective, it should still take him years to get that curtain up, but we don't really see things from his perspective, and with him being both a robot and the author, it probably wouldn't matter anyway since our perspective of his perspective is subject to his own influence. Just like how he's not going to make us watch John and Jade cross that gap for three full years of daily updates.

[Revising Ocelot]

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?faqs=science probably still holds true for the current situation.

Anyway, if John grows Cameron Poe hair, there'd be absolutely no excuse for him not to replicate Reunite with your loving wife and daughter. Again.

As for JackvsPM: apart from Jack having showed a few people his stabs after prototyping, there's no reason to suggest he has any more combat skills than PM. It'll be a stalemate... one that lasts for 3 years, obviously.

[BitVyper]

PM is a badass. She took shots from HB and then killed him her damn self. That puts her about on Guardian level or a bit lower in terms of combat ability, and the years she's spent wandering the wasteland have probably only made her harder. She would probably stand a reasonable chance of taking Jack even in their base forms.