MS Paint Adventures thread

Game_boy · Postby **Game_boy** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:41 am UTC

Jorpho wrote:Wow. I daresay this past week of updates has bordered on nifty.

You... liked it? I thought this was one of the weakest scenes in HS thus far. Like he's trying to write a parody of dystopian fiction but it ends up using all the tropes in an obvious way plus clown references. I thought it was better with the information we had; we could imagine for ourselves how bad the Condense's rule could have been based on her past character.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:17 am UTC

If nothing else, I did not see this coming.

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:57 pm UTC

The only problem is that it's been so long I can't really remember what Jake was doing trying to get down to the time capsule in the first place.

Also, I don't think I'd ever heard of Guy Fieri before.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:03 pm UTC

Spoiler:

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:06 am UTC

Game_boy wrote:
Jorpho wrote:Wow. I daresay this past week of updates has bordered on nifty.

You... liked it? I thought this was one of the weakest scenes in HS thus far. Like he's trying to write a parody of dystopian fiction but it ends up using all the tropes in an obvious way plus clown references. I thought it was better with the information we had; we could imagine for ourselves how bad the Condense's rule could have been based on her past character.

I agree. I just didn't find it funny. Or tragic. Or interesting. And usually he manages at least one of the three.

It also felt like Hussie mocking, yet again, anyone dumb enough to actually engage with anything he's written. "You care about whether these characters get together? HA HA, DUMBASS. You care about whether these characters live? HA HA, DUMBASS. You care about whether billions of thinking, feeling creatures are murdered? HA HA, DUMBASS. You care about whether two people are merged with a game construct in an unholy abomination? HA HA, DUMBASS. You care about Earth getting taken over by an evil alien overlord and every human save two being exterminated? HA HA, DUMBASS, IT WAS JUGGALOS AND OBSCURE FOOD NETWORK PEOPLE. What is with you and your giving a shit about this stuff??"

:/

And IIRC Jake's trying to send Jade the mecha-bunny with the uber-weapons.

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:51 am UTC

ameretrifle wrote:It also felt like Hussie mocking, yet again, anyone dumb enough to actually engage with anything he's written.

I don't think I'd put it that way, but you might be on to something there.

Oh, and the other refreshing thing is that all the narration has been in perfectly ordinary, unadorned, grammatically-correct English.

And IIRC Jake's trying to send Jade the mecha-bunny with the uber-weapons.

The other thing that throws me is, didn't the robot smash the uranium it yanked out of itself, rendering it unusable? I suppose we'll find out. Or not.

Joeldi · Postby **Joeldi** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:20 pm UTC

I didn't hate the info dump, because Striders are always entertaining to listen to, but it was very info-dumpy and violated all manner of show-don't-tell rules. It's not like info-dumping isn't one of Hussie's things, though.

EDIT: And the latest update was great!

Postby **Belial** » Thu May 17, 2012 1:04 pm UTC

The current DD cinematic. The first music used, before he scratches the record and starts over. Can anyone remember which animation it's from? I like it and can't place it.

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Thu May 17, 2012 1:28 pm UTC

Hmm, it was the one in which Jack puts on the ring, if I'm not mistaken.

Ah. Bingo.

Which track that was in the album collection, I am uncertain. (Crikey, that was two years ago!)

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:16 pm UTC

It's this track, by the way. And the new song in the recent cinematic was simply fantastic.

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Fri May 18, 2012 12:08 am UTC

For definitions of "new song" that include 2011 acapella renditions of songs from 1909. XD Not that the term doesn't apply... I just find it amusing that it does.

Bandcamp link, originally apparently the last song of volume 8. God damn that is a lot of volumes.

Putting overarching plot/pacing/character complaints aside-- as a flash/concept/music video/etc? That was very good.

Game_boy · Postby **Game_boy** » Fri May 18, 2012 12:21 am UTC

ameretrifle wrote:Putting overarching plot/pacing/character complaints aside-- as a flash/concept/music video/etc? That was very good.

To me it was more - I don't feel like animating this week, and when I do I'd rather not draw anything new for it.

I just hate AMVs/PMVs though, and this was undeniably one of those. (The word 'milk' is in a song so let's find an scene in this anime/pony cartoon with milk in it and show that, I'm so creative)

I'll only stop when its value becomes less than zero, and it's nowhere near that. And of course one is not entitled to anything on the internet.

Not A Raptor · Postby **Not A Raptor** » Fri May 18, 2012 4:09 am UTC

Game_boy wrote:
ameretrifle wrote:Putting overarching plot/pacing/character complaints aside-- as a flash/concept/music video/etc? That was very good.

To me it was more - I don't feel like animating this week, and when I do I'd rather not draw anything new for it.

I just hate AMVs/PMVs though, and this was undeniably one of those. (The word 'milk' is in a song so let's find an scene in this anime/pony cartoon with milk in it and show that, I'm so creative)

I'll only stop when its value becomes less than zero, and it's nowhere near that. And of course one is not entitled to anything on the internet.

He was deliberately mocking them, though. Well, most likely that was the case. I got to a point when the multiple times the audience has been made fun of (among other things) suggests that he's up to poking fun at everything his fandom does. (While still, naturally, forwarding the narrative. The song's been played before in-comic. Showing the milk panels hammers in the point that he's matching panels to the words. Then the reader, if in possession of a good memory, remembers how the rest of the song goes before seeing the other, newer, panels. Instant foreshadowing, just add context.)

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Fri May 18, 2012 5:15 am UTC

There were a few tiny, tiny grains of plot advancement, though. Like, all the plot threads advanced by about a millimeter! If you watched through the whole thing and ignored the John/Gamzee smooching or whatever the fuck. So I don't think there was nothing new there.

I just don't hate AMVs, which means my issue is "JEGUS FUCK CAN SOMETHING HAPPEN ALREADY?!" instead. XD

...However, since it is Hussie, I must agree with NaR that it is, in fact, very likely that anything he posts is meant to directly mock anyone fool enough to enjoy it, so, you're probably on the "winning" side there.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:09 am UTC

Some people have way too much time on their hands. (Homestuck things in Garry's Mod.)

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:55 am UTC

What's the thing in the black robe standing with Dirk? Was that ever covered at some point?

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:59 am UTC

Isn't that one of his rapping robots? I thought he'd made a few...

xkcdfan · Postby **xkcdfan** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:29 am UTC

Yeah. It's Sawtooth, previously stated to be traveling the world challenging people (Carapacians I guess?) to rap-offs. He showed up while Dirk was fighting the drones, during the "Dirk draws pornography" set of updates.

Game_boy · Postby **Game_boy** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:14 pm UTC

uu

SPOILER 17/06/12

Spoiler:

PeteP · Postby **PeteP** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:08 pm UTC

Hmm quite a cute alien.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:31 am UTC

Theories about UU/uu that're looking pretty good to me...

PeteP · Postby **PeteP** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:54 pm UTC

The "same body, switch when asleep" stuff is pretty obvious (if it isn't true then it was an intentional misdirection.)
I don't know about the lord english with peg leg.

Game_boy · Postby **Game_boy** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:42 pm UTC

Now that he's moving on to new characters and settings and not fourth-mirror-alternate repeats of the same story (how many Vriskas have been introduced now?), I'm looking forward to HS again for the first time since Act 5 Act 2.

Postby **Belial** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:00 pm UTC

Game_boy wrote:Now that he's moving on to new characters and settings and not fourth-mirror-alternate repeats of the same story (how many Vriskas have been introduced now?), I'm looking forward to HS again for the first time since Act 5 Act 2.

1 vriska, two mindfangs.

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:46 pm UTC

Belial wrote:
Game_boy wrote:Now that he's moving on to new characters and settings and not fourth-mirror-alternate repeats of the same story (how many Vriskas have been introduced now?), I'm looking forward to HS again for the first time since Act 5 Act 2.

1 vriska, two mindfangs.

Unless you're of the opinion that Mindfang can be substituted with 1/Vriska, but I'm not sure mathematics has reached a consensus on that equivalence.

(intuitively i think there's an argument, but i have not worked out a proof)

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:07 am UTC

Well that update was... eventful.

Spoiler:

PeteP · Postby **PeteP** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:53 pm UTC

Spoiler:

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:36 am UTC

Spoiler:

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:50 am UTC

Dirk is completely fucking awesome. (This is not in a spoiler, because it is self-evident.)

Bright Shadows · Postby **Bright Shadows** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:00 pm UTC

Spoiler:

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:22 am UTC

Well that was... creepy...

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:01 am UTC

D'aww, he'd been doing so well with making sense for a while.

I have no idea WTF happened.

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:15 am UTC

All I know is

Spoiler:

ETA: Now I am even more worried.

Postby **Belial** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:55 am UTC

I always assumed that dream referred to his

Spoiler:

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:12 pm UTC

I wouldn't be surprised if

Spoiler:

ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:20 pm UTC

Yeah, that link earlier doesn't mention the other piece of evidence I've seen cited, which is http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003746.

So yeah, it could've referred to a lot of things, and I'd kind of dismissed it as already-fulfilled myself, but... it's a pretty compelling argument. And Davesprite is my favorite.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:16 am UTC

Still no updates... But somebody combined all of the trolls. Wow.

Magnanimous · Postby **Magnanimous** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:18 am UTC

FINALLY UPDATE

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ameretrifle · Postby **ameretrifle** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:47 am UTC

You know, I saw that yesterday, and I was all, "I, think I will look into that when I am less tired."

Holy shit, was that a good decision. That took like a goddamn hour, what the fuck. I'm not sure I shouldn't have put it off till another less tired day because now I have a headache but nonetheless.

I am not sure whether or not that is a complaint. Probably not. Anyway I thought it should be noted that it's really frickin' long. Jesus.

(and i may have been forced to consult a walkthrough)

Spoiler:

Anyway yeah that was pretty sweet. Just. I'm probably just tired, but my overwhelming impression was 'loooooong'. Which again isn't exactly the worst thing in the world...

Jorpho · Postby **Jorpho** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:53 am UTC

Good $deity, and there's going to be more. I thought he might actually be winding down at this stage. But no, it's getting worse! We're going to have to read all about another twelve freakin' characters! This is... Lucasian levels of crazy.

By the way, was the bomb-suicide actually shown in the comic? I can't even remember anymore.

Also, aside from the first theme, none of the music looped for me. (Also, music with obnoxious lyrics does not go well with attempting to read textwalls with garbled characters.)

EDIT:

Spoiler:

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