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  • Atari SoulAtari Soul Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Is the MSPA website down for anyone else? I just woke up and wanted to check it, but I can't! And everybody is sad for some reason and I want to know why!

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    SabreMau wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    oh hey I was wondering if people would be able to justify Vriska's actions

    SHE GOT HIM KILLED BY THE DEMON SHE IS COMPLETELY INSANE

    It's not a matter of justifying it so much as a matter of not worrying about it. This is not the type of story where he dies and that's the end of him and you mourn. This is the type of story where he dies and he's better later. I mean, it makes sense when you think about it:
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    shenmq.jpg

    :^::^:

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Hard to miss. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    john noooooooo

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Atari Soul wrote: »
    Is the MSPA website down for anyone else? I just woke up and wanted to check it, but I can't! And everybody is sad for some reason and I want to know why!

    Nope, it's working fine for me. Maybe your browser just wants to protect you.

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  • OctopüsOctopüs Registered User new member
    edited December 2010
    I'm trying to find those pages where Jade has that dream about the squiddles, and it turns into this horrible creepy nightmare.

    Does anyone remember what those were called? :U

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  • EricsErics Charming to the last Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Aw, man, this update.

    Seriously wtf Vriska.

    Maaaaaaaaaaan.

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  • ocpmovieocpmovie Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    The big Flash pages [and even that one] are listed on the Art and Music credits pages; you'll find Let the Squiddles Sleep very easily in such a short list.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

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  • OctopüsOctopüs Registered User new member
    edited December 2010
    Found it. It was Jade: Wake Up.

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  • EricsErics Charming to the last Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

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  • ThreadbareSockThreadbareSock Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm no Vriska apologist but there might be some sort of loophole reward to the godtiers where you get a new regular body or something.

    If such a thing exists at all. John needs to stop being such a gullible chump.

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  • SnerkySnerky call me trick the c is silentRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Erics wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

    So... Vriska's "soon you'll have to make your own choices!" came a bit quicker than expected?

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    and since he wouldn't have been asleep on his quest bed otherwise, he could never access the god tiers

    I'm gonna go ahead and posit that "quest bed" is some bullshit that Vriska made up to make John fall into step with her plan

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    KC just can't stop pulling those SBaHJ callouts.

    http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Erics wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

    Excellent.

    Fuck her.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    vriska is so awesome i really like how the people who like her all dirdrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrqcccccccccccccccccbtwrggggggggggggvvvvvvvv--

    Brolo on
  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Erics wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

    so what does this imply about karkat's first conversation with john then

    Squall on
  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So did Vriska put John to sleep to really make him more powerful? I mean, she died and became only a dream self, so maybe that's the only way? Make John like her and what not. Same clothes and everything.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    Just needed to share this
    ShyGuy wrote: »
    First, it's time to be captious old ladies pulling at loops in scarve, cause it's nit-pick time!

    really hussie... a panel of john dying... john... dying... and you don't hit the saturation on his shirt correctly? I mean you know this is probably the most graphically shocking and narratively intense visual of the story so far (even if he has a dreamself, it's like having your protagonist in a nightmare. you might know he gets out of it all right, but it's still bad) and I respect the effort you put in, but a bit more t crossing and i dotting.

    Also, I know this is also an intense nitpick, but why did you arrange the panels in this manner? As much as the "ho shit" when I saw bec was, it made dead john look not as shocking or dramatic. in the slightest. 4984 was the reveal that john dies. If you possibly had a panel similar to 4983, but instead it was a gif that shifted to bloodied john, without sword in his chest. Then reverse the POV shot back to Bec Noir (maybe a close up of the bloodied sword first, so that you couldn't tell it was sticking out of a torso (yeah you wouldn't fool anyone, but dramatics)). Suspense and wtf factor would both be improved (of course, both standard concepts of fiction : P)

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    actually I retract my last statement. At the end of the last flash, there is a glowing "wind" symbol above the bed. So it's something, at least and not just a sacrificial altar

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    i got off work with severe gastric flu AGAIN and came home to see this update

    worst day

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  • LexxyLexxy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Hahahaha, I saw that in the chat thread.

    I was like

    reallly, dude?

    really?

    *facepalm x2 combo*

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    dangit beateh stop being diseased

    Squall on
  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    can it be a double reacharound facepalm combo

    I've been looking for one of those

    ZeroFill on
  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    actually I retract my last statement. At the end of the last flash, there is a glowing "wind" symbol above the bed. So it's something, at least and not just a sacrificial altar

    The same symbol shown here, in fact.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    tynic wrote: »
    Just needed to share this
    ShyGuy wrote: »
    First, it's time to be captious old ladies pulling at loops in scarve, cause it's nit-pick time!

    really hussie... a panel of john dying... john... dying... and you don't hit the saturation on his shirt correctly? I mean you know this is probably the most graphically shocking and narratively intense visual of the story so far (even if he has a dreamself, it's like having your protagonist in a nightmare. you might know he gets out of it all right, but it's still bad) and I respect the effort you put in, but a bit more t crossing and i dotting.

    Also, I know this is also an intense nitpick, but why did you arrange the panels in this manner? As much as the "ho shit" when I saw bec was, it made dead john look not as shocking or dramatic. in the slightest. 4984 was the reveal that john dies. If you possibly had a panel similar to 4983, but instead it was a gif that shifted to bloodied john, without sword in his chest. Then reverse the POV shot back to Bec Noir (maybe a close up of the bloodied sword first, so that you couldn't tell it was sticking out of a torso (yeah you wouldn't fool anyone, but dramatics)). Suspense and wtf factor would both be improved (of course, both standard concepts of fiction : P)

    seriously i watched like 4 movies in film class and i read manga {japanese graphic novels}

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  • EricsErics Charming to the last Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I don't watch american cartoons because they are artistically inferior

    Erics on
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  • EricsErics Charming to the last Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    Erics wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

    so what does this imply about karkat's first conversation with john then

    Remind me what this is implying, cause I really do not remember what Karkat's first convo with John was.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Hard to miss. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Lexxy wrote: »
    Hahahaha, I saw that in the chat thread.

    I was like

    reallly, dude?

    really?

    *facepalm x2 combo*

    I can't fathom the mind that would post that. I mean, what's the expected reaction? Hussie going "oh shit, this guy is right!" and then pulling the comic and redoing it as suggested?

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  • u63ru63r Jon "Bad Wasabi" Wood Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    ZeroFill wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    and since he wouldn't have been asleep on his quest bed otherwise, he could never access the god tiers

    I'm gonna go ahead and posit that "quest bed" is some bullshit that Vriska made up to make John fall into step with her plan
    So the fact that it had his crest on it-and hovering over it-was just a coincidence? Or did he adopt the crest later?

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It's linked in my post above Erics.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    tynic wrote: »
    Just needed to share this
    ShyGuy wrote: »
    First, it's time to be captious old ladies pulling at loops in scarve, cause it's nit-pick time!

    really hussie... a panel of john dying... john... dying... and you don't hit the saturation on his shirt correctly? I mean you know this is probably the most graphically shocking and narratively intense visual of the story so far (even if he has a dreamself, it's like having your protagonist in a nightmare. you might know he gets out of it all right, but it's still bad) and I respect the effort you put in, but a bit more t crossing and i dotting.

    Also, I know this is also an intense nitpick, but why did you arrange the panels in this manner? As much as the "ho shit" when I saw bec was, it made dead john look not as shocking or dramatic. in the slightest. 4984 was the reveal that john dies. If you possibly had a panel similar to 4983, but instead it was a gif that shifted to bloodied john, without sword in his chest. Then reverse the POV shot back to Bec Noir (maybe a close up of the bloodied sword first, so that you couldn't tell it was sticking out of a torso (yeah you wouldn't fool anyone, but dramatics)). Suspense and wtf factor would both be improved (of course, both standard concepts of fiction : P)

    this dude

    he mad

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2010
    Delzhand wrote: »
    Lexxy wrote: »
    Hahahaha, I saw that in the chat thread.

    I was like

    reallly, dude?

    really?

    *facepalm x2 combo*

    I can't fathom the mind that would post that. I mean, what's the expected reaction? Hussie going "oh shit, this guy is right!" and then pulling the comic and redoing it as suggested?

    I think the idea is simply that andrew goes "Man, this dude knows what he's talking about" and just basically acknowledges his inherent superiority and dedication to detail.

    And then ... sloppy makeouts.

    tynic on
  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Erics wrote: »
    Squall wrote: »
    Erics wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Can Vriska affect dream people?

    I know we've seen her put John to sleep, and then wake him up, but she's always interacting with his normal body.

    I'm wondering if this closes the door on her ability to screw with John anymore.

    No, it's been mentioned several times in the past that the trolls can in no way see or interact with the kid's dream world.

    So yeah, she is basically shut out from him.

    so what does this imply about karkat's first conversation with john then

    Remind me what this is implying, cause I really do not remember what Karkat's first convo with John was.

    his first conversation with john was when john is in his windy clothes

    so if the trolls can't interact with the kid's dream selves

    it implies that windy clothed-john can't be dream-john, maybe?

    Squall on
  • LexxyLexxy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    At this point, I am really hoping Dad doesn't randomly decide to take a trip to LOWAS.

    Lexxy on
  • Corp.ShephardCorp.Shephard Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Rolo wrote: »
    vriska is so awesome i really like how the people who like her all dirdrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrqcccccccccccccccccbtwrggggggggggggvvvvvvvv--

    Oh god Vriska struck again

    This shit is too bananas.

    I guess Sollux is super awesome too? Or maybe he was too much of an in2ufferable prick to level up into the God Tiers.

    I dunno, this just doesn't make any sense in terms of powergamin'. Why throw away an extra life? Unless you had to... but I think Vriska's just being weird and wants John to be like her.

    God who knows. Still sucks.

    also,
    FAA: versed in the deadliest fraym0tifs b00nd0llars c0uld buy
    I guess they're like techniques?

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    dangit beateh stop being diseased

    come here and give me a big ol kiss

    petitioning to namechange to typhoid beasteh

    Beasteh on
  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    tynic wrote: »
    Just needed to share this
    ShyGuy wrote: »
    First, it's time to be captious old ladies pulling at loops in scarve, cause it's nit-pick time!

    really hussie... a panel of john dying... john... dying... and you don't hit the saturation on his shirt correctly? I mean you know this is probably the most graphically shocking and narratively intense visual of the story so far (even if he has a dreamself, it's like having your protagonist in a nightmare. you might know he gets out of it all right, but it's still bad) and I respect the effort you put in, but a bit more t crossing and i dotting.

    Also, I know this is also an intense nitpick, but why did you arrange the panels in this manner? As much as the "ho shit" when I saw bec was, it made dead john look not as shocking or dramatic. in the slightest. 4984 was the reveal that john dies. If you possibly had a panel similar to 4983, but instead it was a gif that shifted to bloodied john, without sword in his chest. Then reverse the POV shot back to Bec Noir (maybe a close up of the bloodied sword first, so that you couldn't tell it was sticking out of a torso (yeah you wouldn't fool anyone, but dramatics)). Suspense and wtf factor would both be improved (of course, both standard concepts of fiction : P)
    i like how this links to some random post in a two-year-old starcraft thread

    crwth on
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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    If someone pesters John now all they'll get is a lot of
    Dead heir
    8888)

    BlueBlue on
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Delzhand wrote: »
    Lexxy wrote: »
    Hahahaha, I saw that in the chat thread.

    I was like

    reallly, dude?

    really?

    *facepalm x2 combo*

    I can't fathom the mind that would post that. I mean, what's the expected reaction? Hussie going "oh shit, this guy is right!" and then pulling the comic and redoing it as suggested?

    andrew if you want to save MSPA from turning into a shitty naruto wannabe you have to listen to me. I know you are more of a 'big picture' person but i am more of a 'bigger picture + details' person which is why you should use this ending that I wrote in my fanfiction version of your comic, please I have invested a lot of time in reading your comic and i think you owe it to your fans and to your contemporaries like me to give us what we want

    SCENE: it is completely dark and there is a circle of red on the floor we do a slow zoom in on the drop of blood and it revealed as a drop of blood... and in the drop of blood we see a reflection of JOHN, VRISKA and SHYGUY fighting. for this style you should be drawing it like a manga (only for these Epic Scenes), NOT using the shitty pixel style you were trying out earlier.... the battle goes on for chapters 7 8 and 9, john ends up dying but ShyGuy and Vriska save the day and then there is a love scene with them (this must be drawn tenderly and should be done in sepia tones to make it classy), then there is a THE END that will fade in slowly...

    ...BUT THEN IT CHANGES INTO A QUESTION MARK ("?"), and you see a bloody hand reach out to grab the question mark, it is important to use this as foreshadowing (a literary term, it means 'hinting') of a sequel

    Brolo on
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