Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

Well then why didn't Jack teleport after the meteor? Or PM teleport after Jack? Hmmmm?

Why has Jack ever decided to travel by any manner other than teleporting since gaining Bec's powers? Because he's been shown flying and walking around quite a lot before PM started chasing him.

EDIT: Well, actually, I take it back, according to this page, the Furthest Ring really is outside of the Green Sun's domain in spite of it being where it's physically located, which doesn't make any goddamn sense, but there you have it.

EDIT x2 COMBO: I mean, no, really, that's the dumbest possible thing and I guess it's something I'd blocked out of my mind because that whole page was completely preposterous. If the ship is going at the fucking speed of light, which is 186000 mph, then it would almost instantaneously clear the distance of a single yard regardless of how small the object is, because even if that was how it worked, which it is not, they obviously aren't smaller than a particle of light which would of course also clear that distance almost instantaneously BECAUSE THAT'S HOW FUCKING LIGHT WORKS.

And then Hussie also threw in that whole bullshit of the Green Sun's powers not working near the fucking source because apparently it's always Opposite Day in the Furthest Ring or something. Like, there is no way that makes any sense. The energy would have to travel through the Furthest Ring to reach any session or universe that it would be used in, meaning that it would have to be present within the Ring itself for that to work. None of this was even remotely thought out well at all just because Hussie decided he needed to have a three-year timeskip and needed a bullshit excuse to handwave it away because in a story about TIME TRAVEL it's just completely unbelievable that a group of characters from 2009 could just wind up entering a session taking place in 2011 without having to travel to that point in time at a speed of one second per second.

Obviously.

So thanks guys for making me remember that. It had been a while since I'd been angry at Homestuck and I'd started to forget what that was like.

FINAL EDIT: I'm actually not really all that mad about it but it was pretty lazy and dumb from a narrative standpoint. I was hoping that it wouldn't have to be a thing again but I guess it's going to be with this John/Jack fight scene. Oh wellz.

[Art of Hilt]

For some reason I didn't really question the Green Sun thing.

In my head it sort of automatically translated to the Green Sun being like a battery, the Furthest Ring being a compartment with a mess of wires in it, and the universes were where the wires from the battery actually connect to. The power doesn't go to the compartment, it only goes through it to where the wires lead.

The speed of light thing is just straight out wrong though, you're totally right to be mad about that.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Space poooooooooowers.

Also I just thought it was just Hussies house being weird that made the journey take so long from John and Jade's perspective.

[Revising Ocelot]

Just file it under the Weird Plot Shit folder and walk away.

Like how Slick's robo-arm, back when he invaded Scratch's apartment, never got explained and probably never will.

[Locke cole]

Maybe the space between the Walls is actually a sort of extradimensional space that is only a yard when looked from outside. Kinda like Futurama, with the boxes that contained an entire universe on the inside, but were only about a few feet cube on the outside.

And I guess the Green Sun is just really weird. Seems like it's less "It works everywhere but for these designated exceptions", and more like "It works inside incipispheres and those sessions' home universes, and that's about it." I guess I'll go with the "big battery" thing myself, or rather the idea that if the Green Sun were a nuclear reactor, the Furthest Ring would be that big tub of water they sink it in so that it winds upb glowing blue.

[Odjn]

Hammer time.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I thought the joke behind the three years thing was a riff on the 'Webcomic Time' that had occurred in the plot until then. Like, it was only one day in between Act 1-5, but it took around 3 years for all of that to be written. Now that John and Jade were in Hussie's home (the realworld more or less), they had to take as much time as everyone else for things to move along.

[Aldurin]

Epic casual block by Jack, he gets all the cool points until Meenah takes them back.

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Epic casual block by Jack, he gets all the cool points until Meenah takes them back.

Or he's repeating that thing of not even trying to fight back.

Don't prove me right now Hussie, I HATE being right.

[Flarecobra]

Prepare to be disappointed then.