Homestuck Thread Ver: ww - The Eridan Ampora Apprecation Station.

[Suikama]

Wait so is that John or Jake

[MatsuriSakuragi]

Looks like John's room to me, so...

[Suikama]

The green shorts confused me

but then I noticed the Nick Cage poster

now it is all clear

[Stuffman]

Hussie says hi

happy 'it's been almost 6 months since the last update', everyone

mite b cool

Maybe it'll offset the immense amount of anti-hype the end of updates has brought upon Homestuck, but I have my doubts that anyone can write as well as Hussie did when he was on top of his game.

[Chaore]

>Zack Morrison

Oh shit. This is gonna be good.

[Suikama]

No update but some people animated the Black King vs Trolls fight

[Chaore]

No update but some people animated the Black King vs Trolls fight

Wow, that project finally finished.

Dang.

[Edible]

That was probably better than an actual update.

[Solais]

That wasn't half bad!

Also, it's weird, what's with the negativity towards HS by old fans since the gigapause commenced?

[Stuffman]

Also, it's weird, what's with the negativity towards HS by old fans since the gigapause commenced?

Act 5 was a rollercoaster ride of high points and low points but for the most part Act 6 is pretty bad. The fact that the constant flow of content has come to a stop at the lowest point of the series leaves a pretty bad taste in one's mouth.

[Chaore]

Act 5 was a rollercoaster ride of high points and low points but for the most part Act 6 is pretty bad. The fact that the constant flow of content has come to a stop at the lowest point of the series leaves a pretty bad taste in one's mouth.

It's more people are moving on and Homestuck has a bad rap so if you're like 'hey i only liked this ironically' you become dave strider and cool.

I say we plaster sunglasses on your and edible's avatars. Stat.

[Edible]

Don't get me wrong, I still like Homestuck (though I generally echo Stuffman's opinions), but a video featuring one of my favorite homestuck fan songs and a really famous fight from the series from back when the comic was at its highest point means more to me than more of the current plot arc <_<

[Stuffman]

I say we plaster sunglasses on your and edible's avatars. Stat.

I liked Homestuck before it was cool. (actually that's a lie I started reading around the time Jade entered the session)

Here, Edible.

[Edible]

http://www.paradoxspace.com/soul-fraying-games/3

"AND K4N4Y4... K4N4Y4"

"YOU C4N'T ROLL 4 D3MON T3MPTR3SS FROM TH3 UND3RWORLD 45 L4WFUL GOOD"

"Huh"

[Edible]

(tl;dr homestuck is starting back up in a few weeks)

Posted on 27 September 2014 by Andrew

Giga-Almost-Unpause, Probably.

Let's see if I can "tldr" a few things up top, since this news item might begin to nose dive dramatically through the vertical space of this web layout. Am I finished HS yet? Um, nope. But I think enough is probably enough on the site's indefinite period of hibernation, so it's likely I will just start posting some stuff I have anyway, starting next month. Either mid or late October, let's say.

I said it would be a long pause, didn't I? Let's face it, a gigapause is just one big ass pause. It contains the smaller word "giga", which, in addition to literally meaning "one billion", you will find to be the root of the word "gigantic", which as we all know, means super huge. This intriguing fact reminds us that in our culture of words, we hold the number one billion as the indivisible quantum of general bigness, as a matter of principal. Food for thought!

We're coming up on almost a year since I paused. So that means I got like, SO much done on the story, right? Wow, no. Innumerable unspecified problems happened which badly prevented this from being true. I'd estimate out of those 12 months, I maybe squeezed in a grand total of 3 months worth of work on HS in there. Kinda dribbled across the year in the most frustrating way possible. So, I'm just gonna cry uncle on this dogshit pause and start posting stuff, but probably in a regimented way so I don't blow through everything I have too fast, thus giving me some time to work on the rest.

Back at the onset of the pause, I said I'd just post everything at once. (I was oversimplifying. I had always intended to stagger the final content to whatever extent, so as not to destroy the server.) But also that "post everything at once" idea was predicated on actually sorta... having it all done. Which as I have already culpa'd, is not the case. So I'm improvising at this point. I'll (probably) relaunch the story next month, come up with some kind of update schedule, and we'll see how it goes.

What have I been doing all year? Let's chalk it up to, in this order of relevance, a swirling multitude of Daunting Life Challenges, a flurry of accidental weird adventures causing me to thrash wildly across the nation, and the escalating complexities of running a business while tending to peripheral creative projects, not the least of which has been overseeing the development of an expensive video game. Actually, all things considered, I'm surprised at how much I actually HAVE gotten done this year. It just happens that "making a ton of HS pages" isn't one of those things.

What were the problems? What were the adventures? Sorry, nothing to see here. Me and the General Public just aren't that tight, and wild sob stories ain't my bag (unless they pertain to visits to the Olive Garden). Well, maybe I'll mention some things some day. But definitely nowhere in the proximity of a virtual stage adjacent to the sphere of rhetoric which could conceivably be construed as a series of excuses for why a mammoth load of free entertainment hasn't been finished yet. Did you follow that? Look over there. (When you look back at me, I am slowly rolling into a pile of trash.)

The good news is, I'm still all about horses. Did you know that about me? It's true as shit. Horses; wow. Pretty good weird big animals? Or pretty GREAT weird big animals??

What else should I say here. Oh.

We've also been chipping away at upgrading the server over the last year. It's been surprisingly complicated and slow-going. Actually, prior to the pause, it was one of the most difficult things about updating, having an insufficient server that was GUARANTEED to crash every time I posted something. This was even after many, many upgrades over the years. It gets a little demoralizing trying to make tons of cartoons every day for a small nation of lunatics when the server constantly struggles to keep up with the ever-burgeoning readership, no matter how much I upgraded it. This was one of the (lots of) factors which contributed to me finally just saying, fuck it, time to pause.

Hopefully it can handle it now, but guess we'll see. It all runs on fancy clouds and such now. Which has been tricky to configure for such a complicated site utterly dependent on all the garbage ass-backwards code I've written over the years. Maybe... maybe once I start updating again, nobody will notice?? Man, wouldn't that be sweet. It will just be me and like a cozy little clique of 50 randos and 10 web bots, just like the old days. We'll bring this sucker home together, then hit up the local bargain Italian restaurant to celebrate. (Then a horse nuzzles me out of my sleepy dream fantasy, and the hammock flips over and dumps my screaming body on to the lawn.)

Feels a little odd even TALKING about revving up this monstrosity again. It's been pretty serene on the web these days. I've been reluctant to even drop a pebble into the pristine glass-like state of the fandom, before being good and damn well ready to. Why wake the beast prematurely? We'll enjoy more than our share of blistering pandemonium when all is said and done. We are slowly building to a particular moment I foresee on the horizon. It's not just characterized by the end of the story, though that should be a factor. It's more than that. Things I have planned, and some other things we'll say may be fortuitously aligned. Invisible pieces of a heinous machine all snapping together, mechanically congealing with a grim sense of purpose. I'm tentatively branding to this moment as The Rapture, and it will be more than you can bear. More than anyone can. And everyone won't.

How has your year been?

[Suikama]

Inb4 Homestuck takes another 5 years to complete :V

[Solais]

Hooray!