Hussie works on Homestuck from dawn to dusk. It's a stated fact that he could take a 13 year break and STILL have the fastest update rate of all webcomics.
He's very obviously working on a flash, and probably has been since the last minor break. This DD intermission was probably to avoid a long puase before the flash hits.
This isn't the first time we've seen GCat with the Condesce. I'm a bit concerned about that.
I'm also wondering why Hussie has one of the prototyping rings, though I think this isn't news either, I just didn't notice before. I wonder if this is a thing that's important. I never know what to think about the importance of any event involving Hussie.
I like that he used the a capella Midnight Crew for this. It's an amusing song and certainly sets the tone for this flash. I think it's the first time I ever recognized a song used in Homestuck from an album, I don't listen to the albums very often.
mnkboy907 posted... Also interesting that GCat seems to be doing the Condesce's bidding.
I guess you forgot the page where the Condesce was using Tavros' powers to control Gcat then.
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It was recently, one of the pages during the Jake/Dirk exposition dump. There were shots of some different stuff happening, and at one point GCat could be seen with the Condesce.
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From: Paratroopa1 | #268 I like that he used the a capella Midnight Crew for this. It's an amusing song and certainly sets the tone for this flash. I think it's the first time I ever recognized a song used in Homestuck from an album, I don't listen to the albums very often.
You will never know what it's like to click on a brand new Strife page and recognize SUNSLAMMER starting up. awesome moment for sure
Also the opening guitar riff in Wake, because god damn do I love Megalovania.
mnkboy907 posted... Ooh, yeah I didn't notice GCat. I saw the dragon, though, and didn't think much of it. I was probably distracted by the broken Statue of Liberty...
The broken Statue of liberty didn't catch my eye the first time I looked at this page. It took me three looks at it to finL what she was doing with Aradia's powers.
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I think the main thing this update confirms is actually that the planets don't seem to exist until their player enters the game. Which seems very strange to me. I think Hussie will have to explain that further.
But what about all the stone slabs in LOHAC? They talked about the consorts waiting hundreds of years for the heroes, only to die before they ever showed up.
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Haven't we known they didn't exist til they enter for a long time?
It's the same thing that happens with the battlefield in Skaia. It only changes shape when prototyping happens, but due to 'magic' it simultaneously always looked like that.
mnkboy907 posted... But what about all the stone slabs in LOHAC? They talked about the consorts waiting hundreds of years for the heroes, only to die before they ever showed up.
just a trick by satan to fool you like dinosaur bones!
except maybe actually possibly the case except replacing teh devil with hussie :p
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From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #279 I think the main thing this update confirms is actually that the planets don't seem to exist until their player enters the game. Which seems very strange to me. I think Hussie will have to explain that further.
From: mnkboy907 | #280 But what about all the stone slabs in LOHAC? They talked about the consorts waiting hundreds of years for the heroes, only to die before they ever showed up.
Also stuff like how Hephaestus was mad that the Forge was frozen, which was on Jade's planet, LoFaF. I just took it as Hussie hiding the appearance of the planets for now.
It's been a theory for years now that the planets don't exist until the player enters, but then suddenly always existed.
The main thing that irks me about that is that PM and AR were on LOWAS very soon after John entered. Even if the planet and consorts appear with their entire history already having unfolded, the chess people certainly don't.
If this flash only hides the other planets to prevent spoilers, Hussie should definitely make a statement about it or everyone will be confused.
mnkboy907 posted... And theoretically, couldn't Jane go through the gateways to the other planets before the other three enter?
I don't think she can considering she has to most likely wait for them to enter as well, the planet not existing and all at the moment presumably.
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From: HeroDelTiempo17 | #283 Also stuff like how Hephaestus was mad that the Forge was frozen, which was on Jade's planet, LoFaF.
actually, he was angry about the Forge not existing:
http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004736 DAVESPRITE: and he wants it back DAVESPRITE: to do something important with it though not really sure what DAVESPRITE: hes a pretty ornery dude DAVESPRITE: kept raving about how he was waiting for the forge to come DAVESPRITE: which he needs to complete his work DAVESPRITE: but in my timeline the forge would never come DAVESPRITE: so he was extra pissed off
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Lord Bob Bree posted... From: HeroDelTiempo17 | #283 Also stuff like how Hephaestus was mad that the Forge was frozen, which was on Jade's planet, LoFaF. actually, he was angry about the Forge not existing:
http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004736 DAVESPRITE: and he wants it back DAVESPRITE: to do something important with it though not really sure what DAVESPRITE: hes a pretty ornery dude DAVESPRITE: kept raving about how he was waiting for the forge to come DAVESPRITE: which he needs to complete his work DAVESPRITE: but in my timeline the forge would never come DAVESPRITE: so he was extra pissed off
The forge is Jade's volcano, though, and it never appeared because Jade never entered.
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Wouldn't that bit with alt-timeline Dave be evidence that the planets DO exist? After all, Dave had gone through several gates (five, I think?). Wouldn't Jade's planet not being there interfere with that?
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I just took it as being something like the Land of Rays and ?????? from way back when; not something that was being hidden or was missing in the game, just something Hussie doesn't want us to see yet.
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SantaRPG posted... The hussie that wrote midnight crew, the hussie that's writing homestuck, the one that went with ps2, and the one that wrote hivebent.
Doc Scratch wrote Hivebent if what Aranea said was true.
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Whoa, I think you guys are seriously overthinking things. <_<
There was a brief interlude with Andrew Hussie in Hivebent, where he posted that HUGE troll romance text back to back. Hussie's been writing the whole story. Of course now that he's dead, that might not be the case anymore unless he's writing from the dream bubbles.
The only thing he alluded to not writing was the stuff about the Ancestors being fanfiction, which seems possible could have been "written" by Doc Scratch in the sense that he orchestrated it all.