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Doe
04/20/25 2:26:31 PM
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to get exposure of some of Toby Fox's influence and earlier music.

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GeminiDeus
04/20/25 2:28:01 PM
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I tried reading Homestuck like 3 different times and I just couldn't do it.

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Hambo
04/20/25 2:28:01 PM
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It's fun if you can power through the intro long enough to get into it and then dip out at some point.

The animations and music rule though.

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s0nicfan
04/20/25 2:29:16 PM
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Don't. It was a neat experiment in interactive media, but 99.9% of the actual comic is reading chat logs with obnoxious typing styles. Then, once you get to know the characters, it'll hard pivot to a different set of characters and you start all over. This will happen multiple times.

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Doe
04/20/25 8:14:32 PM
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gamefaqs mentioned
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f69915e4.jpg

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Hambo
04/20/25 10:36:31 PM
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Of course. This place was relevant once.

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pegusus123456
04/20/25 11:48:17 PM
#7:


It's actually very good, but the others aren't wrong about it having a slow start or it being a lot of text logs. It's honestly more novel than webcomic.

If you do stick with it, I'd recommend this. A lot of the original Homestuck broke when Flash ended and they didn't bother fixing it. I think they just threw up YouTube videos. This fan project does fix it.
https://homestuck.github.io/

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OzNarcissus
04/21/25 12:11:30 AM
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Problem Sleuth was a great read, albeit all over the place at times.

Homestuck was a clusterfuck that was great at times, as well as utterly incomprehensible.

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pegusus123456
04/21/25 2:19:19 AM
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Problem Sleuth is great fun. Still pretty long but much, much shorter than Homestuck. Might be worth trying that to see if you "get" Andrew Hussie's sense of humor.

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snake_5036
04/21/25 3:29:07 AM
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Homestuck is entertaining until almost everything after Game Over's animation (Collide is good). At that point it feels like Hussie let some fans take over and write a bunch of bullshit that murders multiple character personalities and characte arcs for.... no pay off at all. Some stuff that was alluded to earlier in the comic also go unaddressed (Dave being the one to kill Lord English, as an example). Don't read any of the snapchat, meat/candy routes, or homestuck^2 slop if you reach the end. Feel free to read Paradox Space. You're also missing all the fun lunacy of the fandom, which I'll admit was a big part of the fun over the years. Also, please use the unofficial fan archive. Viz Media has let the site fall into disrepair, and the flash animations are replaced with static panels instead of walkarounds and such. The archive has working flash animations, all the bonus panels like Problem Sleuth/Midnight Crew interactions, etc.

Problem Sleuth is worth reading as well. Though, over half of the comic is spent on the final boss. So keep that in mind.

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viewmaster_pi
04/21/25 4:26:12 AM
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there are two homestuck things I will always hold near and dear to me, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, and Ghostbusters 2: the MMO

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Kanaya413
04/21/25 4:30:15 AM
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snake_5036 posted...
Homestuck is entertaining until almost everything after Game Over's animation (Collide is good). At that point it feels like Hussie let some fans take over and write a bunch of bullshit that murders multiple character personalities and characte arcs for.... no pay off at all. Some stuff that was alluded to earlier in the comic also go unaddressed (Dave being the one to kill Lord English, as an example). Don't read any of the snapchat, meat/candy routes, or homestuck^2 slop if you reach the end. Feel free to read Paradox Space. You're also missing all the fun lunacy of the fandom, which I'll admit was a big part of the fun over the years. Also, please use the unofficial fan archive. Viz Media has let the site fall into disrepair, and the flash animations are replaced with static panels instead of walkarounds and such. The archive has working flash animations, all the bonus panels like Problem Sleuth/Midnight Crew interactions, etc.

Problem Sleuth is worth reading as well. Though, over half of the comic is spent on the final boss. So keep that in mind.
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pegusus123456
04/21/25 5:08:19 AM
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snake_5036 posted...
At that point it feels like Hussie let some fans take over and write a bunch of bullshit
IIRC, that's exactly what the "epilogue" was.

I never felt the need to read it. I thought it ended well. The bits I've seen since convinced me I made the right choice.

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Turbam
04/21/25 5:27:15 AM
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Read Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff instead

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KhlavicLanguage
04/21/25 6:02:30 AM
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The *premise* of Homestuck was awesome. 4 e-friends hop on the newest game and things get really wacky. Very nostalgic for me as someone who grew up on web 1.0, AOL messenger, etc.

The execution, however...ugh. The above ends up being maybe 5% of the experience and the rest is filled out by lolsorandumb nonsense, self-insert OCs, WAY too much esoteric terminology made up just for the story, time travel shenanigans. Also I don't think any other work of fiction in human history treats character deaths - even gruesome death - as something so inconsequential. Literally DBZ had higher stakes for characters dying than Homestuck does.

Honestly, the main reason it was popular is because dressing up like a certain alien race in the story basically became this furry/brony-adjacent thing for a while. I can't believe how many fans I met who admitted they only skimmed the comic and skipped all the chat logs where like 90% of the story happens. It was a large majority of them.

I dunno where I'm going with this. Let me try to wrap it up.

The core idea was cool.
It got bloated to hell very quickly.
The majority of the plot is incomprehensible meandering.
The ending sucked.
The fandom was uniquely cringe, participating in it was the major draw of the series, and everyone has moved on.
It's not worth reading.

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pegusus123456
04/21/25 6:05:40 AM
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KhlavicLanguage posted...
self-insert OCs
My dude, what does this even mean in the context of a single work of fiction written by a single person

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KhlavicLanguage
04/21/25 6:07:16 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
My dude, what does this even mean in the context of a single work of fiction written by a single person
basically every troll was a parody of an online subculture but the satire went over the heads of the audience it ended up with

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Powdered_Toast
04/21/25 3:31:46 PM
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I enjoyed the original MSPaint Adventures comics, and Problem Sleuth was pretty fun, even though it dragged on a lot, but I just couldn't get through Homestuck. There were some decent moments, but when the trolls became a major focus I gave up. That part was honestly the most painful thing I've ever read.

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Doe
04/23/25 1:16:05 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6f25a0d7.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e51ce888.png

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 1:18:01 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/doswin/home/926714.html

The world is doomed

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Hambo
04/23/25 1:21:46 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/190052-sburb

Don't worry, it's just a different url now. What with the site updates and all.

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 1:24:51 AM
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Hambo posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/190052-sburb

Don't worry, it's just a different url now. What with the site updates and all.
Ha, that's pretty cool.

TC, don't click that.

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Doe
04/23/25 2:21:25 AM
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there are Deltarunes everywhere for those with the eyes to see

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/07757847.png

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 2:24:31 AM
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I hope TC keeps this topic up at least until he gets to [S] Wake, the animation that uses Megalovania.

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 3:34:48 AM
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Man, this topic made me go back through a bunch of the animations and I don't care what anyone says. This shit was fucking incredible and still is. It requires you to vibe with Hussie's humor, remember the deep-ass worldbuilding, and keep track of the convoluted plot, but it's excellent if you do that.

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hivebent4life
04/23/25 3:56:20 AM
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Seeing this topic reminded me that my username on here is still named after Homestuck. If you want to read it today, youll need to use the Unofficial Collection since the official website is broken.

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Kanaya413
04/23/25 4:01:44 AM
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hivebent4life posted...
Seeing this topic reminded me that my username on here is still named after Homestuck. If you want to read it today, youll need to use the Unofficial Collection since the official website is broken.
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PerseusRad
04/23/25 4:17:55 AM
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GeminiDeus posted...
I tried reading Homestuck like 3 different times and I just couldn't do it.
I think I tried it twice and clicked off after like 1-2 screens lol
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viewmaster_pi
04/23/25 4:25:29 AM
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i never finished it- which seems like it's for the best- and lost interest as it was less and less about being funny, and more and more about the trolls

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Hambo
04/23/25 4:53:07 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I hope TC keeps this topic up at least until he gets to [S] Wake, the animation that uses Megalovania.
They almost certainly know it's coming, but it'll still be a slap in the face in this day and age. I hope the same, partly cuz it also means getting through other, imo better animations. There are so many good ones.

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 5:05:32 AM
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Hambo posted...
They almost certainly know it's coming, but it'll still be a slap in the face in this day and age. I hope the same, partly cuz it also means getting through other, imo better animations. There are so many good ones.
I've never played Undertale, so I fully associate this song with Homestuck. When they put Sans in Smash Bros Ultimate, there was a full two seconds where I thought Vriska was going to be in Smash lmao

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Hambo
04/23/25 5:25:13 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I've never played Undertale, so I fully associate this song with Homestuck. When they put Sans in Smash Bros Ultimate, there was a full two seconds where I thought Vriska was going to be in Smash lmao
XD That's hilarious. I'm sure you're not the only one though. I remember when Undertale came out, I kept being confused seeing posts with Megalovania with a picture of some weird skelly that definitely wasn't in Homestuck. Also you should totally play the games or at least watch a good playthrough of them. They're super charming and jam packed with great tunes used really well. But I'm sure you've heard enough pitches for it before lol.

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Doe
04/23/25 10:14:05 AM
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In 2012 was the "r-word" just seen as a slightly punchier synonym of idiotic

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snake_5036
04/23/25 10:21:12 AM
#34:


Yeah, that word wasn't seen as a slur and was thrown around online all the time in those days.

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Doe
04/23/25 10:23:13 AM
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I don't mind it's just funny that this project is strongly associated with Tumblr in today's public consciousness

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pegusus123456
04/23/25 5:56:55 PM
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Yeah, you do see people nowadays saying it's problematic for stuff like that.

But you also get people criticizing for things like a bad person mocking someone's physical disability, so it's safe to ignore them.

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pegusus123456
04/26/25 4:33:23 PM
#37:


<_<

You been reading more of it?

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Doe
04/28/25 9:52:08 AM
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i got distracted by oblivion

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