Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Locke cole]

Hasn't he been quoted as saying that he has plans for projects after Homestuck? I don't think money's much of an issue, but I agree that the act structure could've been handled better.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I have this strange feeling that from now until the end of Act 6 I am going to absolutely love the Intermissions and force myself to stomach through comparatively boring Guardian Session shenanigans in the non-Intermission updates just to get to the Intermissions.

Also, I totally believe my earlier theory regarding Andrew deliberately stretching out Act Six (and, back in the day, even Act Five) in order to keep his income flowing has been validated. Act Six was supposed to be far shorter than it will be, especially now that he's dividing Act Six up into sub-parts that will inevitably each become longer than the preceding sub-part and now that we don't even know whether the story will actually wrap up in 2012. I'm not saying I blame him for loving money and loving how Homestuck's continuation will give him more money but I wish he was a bit more honest about it from the get-go.

EDIT: Like seriously, Act Five and Act Six both should have been divided up into multiple Acts, and the only reason why Andrew is maintaining the seven-act structure is because he wrote himself into a corner by promising everyone a seven-act structure and it would be exceptionally dickish for him to suddenly go "Nope, there will actually be twelve Acts!" even though that's precisely what he should have done from a long-term narrative perspective, because once Homestuck is actually finished new readers are going to have a bitch of a time navigating through the Act Five and Act Six archives because they will be unapproachable in their monstrous girth.

That's our Snake!

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[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Liz

haha...

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That is all.

Originally Posted by Liz

The thing I don't get is why you gotta come in here for the express purpose of being a complete bag of dicks.

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[Art of Hilt]

I really don't think money is an issue for Hussie. He has, like, two or three patents for color programs used in hospitals to help track cancer. If he's making a lot of money through MSPA, then a lot of it would be to keep the site up; I can't imagine that a website which hosts so many long flashes would be cheap to keep alive. I think the costs is in... the several hundreds? More? It's a lot.

I think Act 6 being longer than planned is a story decision in response to how Act 5 played out, not a financial one. Frankly I used to be worried that Act 6 would be too short, and hearing that it might be almost as long as Act 5 is a relief since a lot of what felt unresolved in Act 5 could be resolved in Act 6 finally.

[Kim]

The twist is that Homestuck is itself merely the prologue of a much longer and greater epic.

[Amake]

I don't know about the money issue. You'd think any site with this many viewers and that many ads and a booming merchandise sector on top couldn't help making money, but the thing is bandwidth. Maybe someone with some experience in web hosting can better put this in perspective, but from what I've heard it seems like Homestuck has become by far the most read webcomic in Internet history, with unique viewers per day that dwarfs even Penny Arcade. And with so many large files being downloaded, I imagine the scale of bandwidth the site uses is completely unprecedented in its field, and whatever hosting Hussie is using is being constantly pushed to the limit, maybe forced to redesign their whole business model to accommodate this creature that they have no frame of reference for judging how to treat it; it's somewhere between what's normal for a webcomic and what's normal for Youtube. So I think it would be hard even for the host to guess what it's going to cost to run the site on any given day.

That's got to be pretty stressful when you're paying the bill. Not that Hussie is showing any signs of giving up or selling out. I mean given the freestyling form of storytelling in the comic, it would be easy to do anything that would be likely to keep the readership up. (More Vriska! Makeouts! And hey why not a five year time skip instead of three *NUDGE NUDGE* and at least stop telling us about this yet another group of four characters we don't care about geez there's a reason Hollywood movies try to introduce all characters within the first 30 or 45 minutes you know.) So that's got to be something.

[Locke cole]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to POS Industries again.

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[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

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Gotcha covered

[stefan]

re: hussie's money

we're talking about a guy who, when his computer breaks, just goes out and buys a new one instead of repairing the old one. he's moved, like, 4 times since homestuck began. I'm pretty sure Hussie is independently wealthy.

[Marc v4.0]

re: hussie's money

Why are we even talking about "hussie's money"