COMPLAININ 'BOUT HOMESTUCK ( tUMUt )

[Agni]

I can definitely see why someone who doesn't like text would find Homestuck frustrating, but I don't think it's reflective of any kind of contradiction in the work itself. The fact that there's so much text (an abundance made possible by the script format) means that the comic isn't "primarily visual." Considering that it probably has enough text at this point to fill an 800-page book (with no pictures), it's just as reasonable to say it's a "serial novel with pictures" as it is to say it's a "comic."

Edit: Ninja'd by someone making the same point better in half the space.

Oh, I don't mind words. It's just that the text does get quite long sometimes.

But then again, Homestuck isn't really a "serial novel with pictures" or a webcomic. It's....not really like anything else. That's one of the things I love about it, actually. Hussie made a work that really is like nothing else in the world. That takes some serious skill.

[Nimz]

Huh. I can actually directly relate with colwag on something. I can understand having an irrational hatred for X, where the reasons for the hatred are basically the flimsiest of excuses. I broke a cell phone in the not-too-distant-past because I received a text message. Let me start at the beginning of the story, though... spoilered for not Homestuck.

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Initially I was somewhat ambivalent towards texting. "I'm not going to send any, and I'm not going to read any that I receive" was my mindset. Then I found the texts I received, even if left unread were costing me. Talk about a scam. That prompted my hatred for texts. I even told my carrier to block incoming texts - at least that way my bill doesn't get dinged when some pillweef decides to text me. They did block texts... sort of. They still sent their own text messages to my phone. The texts they sent were gratis, of course, so my only legitimate complaint about texts didn't really apply to the texts I still received. By then, of course, it was too late. My texting hatred had already become irrational. I talked with service reps about the issue, but it was never resolved beyond the half-assed thing I already mentioned.

Finally, I got a notice that the plan I was under was being phased out in favour of a new plan. They needed my stated approval to complete the process. I did not budge until I got confirmation that with switching over to the new plan, I would no longer receive texts from my carrier. A month later I got a text. I FTFO, and my phone somehow (I can't possibly imagine how...) ended up in several pieces. When I went to get a replacement phone, I took the opportunity to switch to a different carrier. Several things are not quite as great, but at least I get zero texts.

The part I find most ironic about this whole thing is the degree to which I am an IRC junkie. Even if I miraculously didn't have to pay for any texts, incoming or outgoing, and even if you make a brilliant case for texting being just like IRC, but on the phone, I will still hang on to my grudge against texting. I'm perfectly fine with other people texting each other, as long as they don't try to get me into that mire.

Even if you tell me all about the wonderfulness of texting, my emotion will not be swayed by the facts. In that sense I can relate to being unmoved by Dave facts that show he's really not such a terrible guy after all. I don't grudge easily, but once I do, it's even harder ungrudging. If I ever did get a grudge on something Homestuck, I would probably stop reading it altogether. I'm kind of simple like that.

[OrangeAipom]

>:?

[Solaris]

ha ha ha ha ha
like he has time to do anything like that
like he even cares to do any of the work involved in fixing the most miniscule of typos
especially for any of the games
If it was a pesterlog it would be pretty easy but one of the games?
haaaaa

[*Sigh*]

What's so hard? All you'd have to do is just see the typo and then ctrl-f the code, right?

[Solaris]

Code is never that easy.

There's also re-uploading and re-exporting the file, and it is possible that Andrew doesn't even have the necessary file as it was Gankro who programmed it!

[temporalPeregrine]

He has fixed typos in the past, I'd assume he'd have to recompile the whole flash to fix that tiny mistake, though, so he probably doesn't think it's worth the time.

[OrangeAipom]

that's why it would be better to ask gankro instead. but even that's kind of stupid.

[PetPeeve]

Hey, do I get to call out a "BINGO" because of the tragic FandomSecrets containment breach?

Please keep that stuff the heck away from, well, ANYWHERE. FandomSecrets are inherently lame, and reposting one is thus doubly so. Also, you're FTFOing over a missing space? Really? Kind of a waste of a wish, isn't it?

Edit: Man, it gets even WORSE. That's not a FandomSecret, it's a "HomestruckSecret" (sic). I think we're approaching the lameness event horizon, from which nothing, even cool, can escape.

[Crispiness]

Edit: Man, it gets even WORSE. That's not a FandomSecret, it's a "HomestruckSecret" (sic). I think we're approaching the lameness event horizon, from which nothing, even cool, can escape.

Way to make a big deal over nothing. v_v

[Sporkaganza]

Hey, do I get to call out a "BINGO" because of the tragic FandomSecrets containment breach?

Please keep that stuff the heck away from, well, ANYWHERE. FandomSecrets are inherently lame, and reposting one is thus doubly so. Also, you're FTFOing over a missing space? Really? Kind of a waste of a wish, isn't it?

Edit: Man, it gets even WORSE. That's not a FandomSecret, it's a "HomestruckSecret" (sic). I think we're approaching the lameness event horizon, from which nothing, even cool, can escape.

wow

who

cares

[PetPeeve]

wow

who

cares

What's the point of posting a "who cares" on a message that is telling you not to care, in the first place?

[*Sigh*]

I think they meant who cares that it's a fandomsecret. It's probably a complaint that a lot of people have, just organized into a picture format.

[wait]

My main complaint is that Homestuck is too good.

I don't think it's right for any living creature to experience such strong feelings of awe and adoration towards something which isn't real.

It is the Lotus Land story. I have been broken by a crafter of dreams.

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Is it so unusual that a blind alien girl might miss the space bar?

You don't mind the block caps or 413s?

[Crispiness]

That's some John-level-insensitivity, I tell you what.

[PetPeeve]

I think they meant who cares that it's a fandomsecret. It's probably a complaint that a lot of people have, just organized into a picture format.

Before the forums became the nigh-unfollowable giant mass of crap it is today (last Thursday), there was a topic on one of the boards where people reposted fandomsecrets. The thread was so toxically full of butthurt, report spamming, and general badness, that the mods locked it and demanded that another one must never be created. I think this is still a good rule. I don't even like being reminded that place exists, let alone that there's a knockoff just for MSPA that can't spell the name of itself correctly.

[*Sigh*]

Oh I remember the Fandom!Secrets thread very well, both of them! And should this thread go down that same path then I'm sure the mods would come down upon it as hard as Odin's might. But just posting one on its own is hardly the end of the forum, especially since the screencap was taken in the middle of a flash and telling people to go to that page just to find it would be inconsiderate.

[Dmatix]

My main complaint is that Homestuck is too good.

I don't think it's right for any living creature to experience such strong feelings of awe and adoration towards something which isn't real.

It is the Lotus Land Story. I have been broken by a crafter of dreams.



Is it so unusual that a blind alien girl might miss the space bar?

You don't mind the block caps or 413s?

They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem’d the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, “We will return no more;”
And all at once they sang, “Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.”

Thus, they stayed on the forums, and their home saw no more.

[Tenebrais]

Before the forums became the nigh-unfollowable giant mass of crap it is today (last Thursday), there was a topic on one of the boards where people reposted fandomsecrets. The thread was so toxically full of butthurt, report spamming, and general badness, that the mods locked it and demanded that another one must never be created. I think this is still a good rule. I don't even like being reminded that place exists, let alone that there's a knockoff just for MSPA that can't spell the name of itself correctly.

Although most of the problems were due to people complaining about how stupid FandomSecrets is and how much the whole idea sucks and how the thread itself was a bane on the forums.

[Avi]

Ah, the good ol days.

[The_Unoriginal]

I am going to complain that people are complaining about am (at least halfway) legitimate complaint.

[ghastlyMeme]

that picture of the missing space that i dont feel like putting here

BLASTAS USUAL I SEE

im so sorry please dont kill me

[lamseteid]

okay this has probably been said but it's like 4:23 in the morning

but what the hell is with all the nosebleeds

[Quirk]

okay this has probably been said but it's like 4:23 in the morning

but what the hell is with all the nosebleeds

Homestuck characters have VERY FRAGILE blood vessels in the nasal regions.

[*Sigh*]

To be honest we've seen more eye bleeds than nosebleeds. Maybe that has to do with the fact that noses aren't usually drawn???