Yeah, I like how I was honestly asking, just to check, and of course you put words in my mouth. There's a reason I checked instead of just being teh stupid and going straight to that kind of elitist argument. You always test the water before you jump in. Imagine if I had jumped in the water before testing! Oh what a thrashing that would be.
So now for another check.
Is there anyone here who really likes Homestuck, but does NOT have copious amounts of time to spare? Any Homestuck fans with 9 to 5 jobs? Or maybe children to take care of?
I'm thinking maybe this is one of those situations like JRPGs. When I was young, FFVI was the best thing ever because I could afford to sit through the pain of random encounters and other such bullshit. And even though today I still like the the story and characters of FFVI, I can not possibly bring myself to play it because it is just too time consuming and painful. Maybe if I had a cheat that maxes out all characters and skips any non-plot combat.
The one difference being that JPRGs make sense. If you remove all the random encounters and grinding and pain, the plot still makes perfect sense to anybody.
If you started reading Homestuck from the beginning, it's no more intensive than any other webcomic to read. It didn't take me much longer to grind out the archive than to read the Order of the Stick, though. They are both about equally wordy.
Now that I think about it, actually, the Order of the Stick and Homestuck are very similar. Lots of words, very abstracted art style, playing with game concepts. The only difference is that game concepts in OotS are familiar to D&D players, while Homestuck's are made up.
If you started reading Homestuck from the beginning, it's no more intensive than any other webcomic to read. It didn't take me much longer to grind out the archive than to read the Order of the Stick, though.
WTF kind of magic brain powers do you have. It took me like an hour, and I still didn't get to that part where the plot supposedly starts.
The one difference being that JPRGs make sense. If you remove all the random encounters and grinding and pain, the plot still makes perfect sense to anybody.
You can probably skip all the random encounters and grinding in Homestuck too and actually it's pretty much all skipped and handwaved already.
Yeah. It takes a while for John to kill his first Imp and Ogre, but after that the various characters just blaze through fights. I mean, Rose just makes her needlewands and we pretty much never see her fight again.
If you started reading Homestuck from the beginning, it's no more intensive than any other webcomic to read. It didn't take me much longer to grind out the archive than to read the Order of the Stick, though.
WTF kind of magic brain powers do you have. It took me like an hour, and I still didn't get to that part where the plot supposedly starts.
I might have said this few times already, but while Homestuck is little slowpace altogether the beginning is slowest of them all. If Homestuck were a vehicle in the beginning it didn't have any wheels and was stuck to a mud.
Are you kidding? I can't call this trolling, at this point, he's practically trolling himself. I didn't get him into this argument, and I didn't make him push it so far off the deep end that he's found Harold Holt swimming laps, I'm just stoking the coals a little to ensure an even burn over sufficient time - after all, if I'm having goose, I like to see it well cooked. I don't need to dump firewood on it, I can simply observe and poke a little.
I think the best part is that if he just had the ability to say "Well, I don't get it, I don't see it, but fair enough" rather tripping over his ego and falling into an argument of "I don't get it and I'm better than you, so therefore there can't be anything to get, clearly it doesn't exist", then this thread would be two pages shorter, and my weekly popcorn budget would be a lot lower.
Maybe it's a little cold of me, considering, but hey, it's a pretty harmless situation, and he got himself into it entirely by his own actions, so as far as I'm concerned, like I said, he can suffer in his jocks. I mean, like the Skyhooks song says, Ego is not a dirty word, but neither is birdseed, and that doesn't stop you suffocating under too much of it.
And I'll be honest, call me a hopeless dreamer if you must, but I really do think that there is a chance he'll learn something from these encounters. Realistically, it's not a fantastic chance, but hey, call it the placebo effect if you wish, but I'd swear I've seen gradual improvement over the years I've been interacting with him.
Yeah, I like how I was honestly asking, just to check, and of course you put words in my mouth.
Yes, Apreche. We know. Don't worry. Close your eyes, lean back in your comfy $1000-something chair, take a deep breath and relax. When you open your eyes you think you're a rabbit, GO!
The people who legitimately like it are short attention span tweaked out punk kids, or on drugs.
Is there anyone here who really likes Homestuck, but does NOT have copious amounts of time to spare? Any Homestuck fans with 9 to 5 jobs? Or maybe children to take care of?
I don't think I'm a punk kid, and I've not consumed drugs and read homestuck at the same time. Though I am starting to think I should give that a shot.
The people who legitimately like it are short attention span tweaked out punk kids, or on drugs.
Is there anyone here who really likes Homestuck, but does NOT have copious amounts of time to spare? Any Homestuck fans with 9 to 5 jobs? Or maybe children to take care of?
Don't need a question mark on that because all of us are short attention span, tweaked out punk kids, or on drugs.
Was that "us" in there just a slip or actually something that can be considered as acceptation of weakness in you character Scott. I have to say I'm surprised.
I havn't yet bothered to look into this "Homestuck" thing, but this thread makes me fear for my age. I'm already getting more and more of that "I think I'm right and you are just a dumb kid" running through my head.
I thought I would make note of the fact that Andrew Hussie was just killed today by the villain, Lord English, who crossed the forth wall to take him out. This leaves the distinct possibility Lord English will cross the fifth wall and kill the reader, too.
So it's probably safer not to not be reading right now.
Both the Hussbot and Hussie himself died. Hussie was gunned down by English's Cairo Typewriter because magic isn't real. Basically his only hope now is that either Ms. Paint revives his dreamself with a kiss, or Rufio from the Robin Williams movie Hook comes back from the dead at God Tier, presumably as the Page of Breath, to save him.
See, that's what I love about Homestuck. It means I can type the above in total seriousness.
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So now for another check.
Is there anyone here who really likes Homestuck, but does NOT have copious amounts of time to spare? Any Homestuck fans with 9 to 5 jobs? Or maybe children to take care of?
I'm thinking maybe this is one of those situations like JRPGs. When I was young, FFVI was the best thing ever because I could afford to sit through the pain of random encounters and other such bullshit. And even though today I still like the the story and characters of FFVI, I can not possibly bring myself to play it because it is just too time consuming and painful. Maybe if I had a cheat that maxes out all characters and skips any non-plot combat.
The one difference being that JPRGs make sense. If you remove all the random encounters and grinding and pain, the plot still makes perfect sense to anybody.
Now that I think about it, actually, the Order of the Stick and Homestuck are very similar. Lots of words, very abstracted art style, playing with game concepts. The only difference is that game concepts in OotS are familiar to D&D players, while Homestuck's are made up.
I don't need to dump firewood on it, I can simply observe and poke a little.
I think the best part is that if he just had the ability to say "Well, I don't get it, I don't see it, but fair enough" rather tripping over his ego and falling into an argument of "I don't get it and I'm better than you, so therefore there can't be anything to get, clearly it doesn't exist", then this thread would be two pages shorter, and my weekly popcorn budget would be a lot lower.
Maybe it's a little cold of me, considering, but hey, it's a pretty harmless situation, and he got himself into it entirely by his own actions, so as far as I'm concerned, like I said, he can suffer in his jocks. I mean, like the Skyhooks song says, Ego is not a dirty word, but neither is birdseed, and that doesn't stop you suffocating under too much of it.
And I'll be honest, call me a hopeless dreamer if you must, but I really do think that there is a chance he'll learn something from these encounters. Realistically, it's not a fantastic chance, but hey, call it the placebo effect if you wish, but I'd swear I've seen gradual improvement over the years I've been interacting with him.
So it's probably safer not to not be reading right now.
See, that's what I love about Homestuck. It means I can type the above in total seriousness.