AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I've been around, vaguely. I mostly follow maybe a dozen media threads on the forums and spend the rest of my internet time on derpibooru, which is still totally whoever it was that hosted the one version of the forum server's fault for getting me interested. Now that I'm currently burnt out on WoW again, at least, so I have some small amount of free time in between college classes.

Even presuming that it's only an approximation and that doesn't include the stuff that's written but not posted we're still only talking a couple hundred pages tops, really.

2 years after the release of the demo, UNDERTALE, a game made by Toby "Radiation" Fox of Homestuck and undertale fame is finally out!

spoiler alert: it's like, really really good

Okay, I have to know.

Am I the only one, when reading Karkat's lines, in my head...

I give him the voice of Dan from Dan VS?
Can't only be me, right? They're both really angry all the time.

Hiveswap news: The studio downsized in order to transition from 3D to 2D, but they're still chugging along.

goddamn hussie what the fuck is going on

i mean other than getting fucked over by the guys making the game so you had to take it all on with your own team and thus had to focus much more time and energy on getting the game completed as it was already announced and people have already paid for it, meaning the devlopment time is under extreme scrutiny as compared to other in-process games which go through similar issues but with significantly less attention needing to be drawn to them

It's almost as though cheddar doesn't make first-time game creation easy!

i know right

next thing you know, it'll turn out that getting cheddar bodaciously stolen from you makes it even harder!

Andrew confirmed today that EOA6 is at 65%. If he keeps up the pace he's kept between the last two news posts, he'll be perfectly capable of resuming updates on 4/13.

Get hype.

Updates resumed today. An update is happening every day until the 2nd, where we'll get a 4 day break, then an update once a day for a week with EoA7 posted on 4/13.

Here's a refresher course to remind everyone of what's going on (unceremoniously copy/pasted from this fellow):

-the goal - to create a new universe free of tyranny. vriska has drawn up battle plans. the battle is about to commence.
-john, roxy, and alpha rose (specifying bc we have 2) are on the meteor and plan to go fight the condesce. their goal is to kill her, or barring that, keep her busy so she doesn’t mess with anything during the important shit.
-john also has the earth (alpha kids’ version, dirk and roxy’s point in time, flooded and inhabited only by carapacians) shrunked and captalogued. the plan is for jade to unshrink it after the battle and for everyone who survives to live there.
-dave and dirk are on dirk’s planet, lotak. they plan to fight “lord jack”, the jack from the alpha kids’ session who got lord-english-ified by the condesce. lord jack is on his way to the session.
-terezi is jetpacking on her way to lotak and plans to fight lord jack with the striders, and just used her mind powers to do some remembery shit to gain alt terezi’s memories in the most recent panel/flash.
-alt terezi (from the game over timeline) and (vriska) are hugging it out in the dreambubbles. they’re not really super relevant anymore but they were in the most recent panel so they get to be up top.
-jane is on healing duty, and will be using teleporty windows placed by jasprosesprite to get to people during the battle. she is currently on the meteor.
-the mayor, alpha calliope, and jade’s body are inside on the meteor. jade is asleep, and needs to stay that way until the condesce is killed, so that she doesn’t go grimbark again. should jade wake up and not immediately go grimbark, vriska’s plan is for her to go fight dog tier jack, and a note has been left tied to her finger saying this. wv and calliope are just hanging out, since neither really has any combat capabilities. calliope has the ring of life.
-meanwhile, jade’s consciousness and alt calliope (the one who predominated) are travelling through the dreambubbles. alt callie is saying cryptic shit about space while jade waits impatiently to wake up. alt callie plans to do Something that is not yet made clear.
-karkat is passed out on lofaf (jade’s planet) after kanaya knocked him out. he wanted to go fight, but kanaya promised echidna she would protect him, so he is sleeping.
-kanaya is also on lofaf, and has just received the matriorb from roxy. she plans to light the forge and get this frog universe business moving.
-echidna has just met with karkat and kanaya and agrees to allow a new universe to be created as logn as karkat is protected. she wants karkat to guide the new universe’s inhabitants.
-jake, gcatavrosprite, and jasprosesprite are on lomax (jake’s planet). gcatavrosprite is asleep. jake is supposed to deal with spades slick when he comes. vriska wasn’t sure if ss would be a threat so she just stuck jake with the job. jasprose plans to help jane move around and heal people.
-spades slick is on his way to the session, carrying in a magic storage oven the entirety of the felt and ms. paint.
-dog tier jack and dog tier pm are on their way to the session, still in seemingly eternal combat. vriska’s plan calls for letting pm deal with jack, and if/when jade wakes up, send jade to help her.
-alpha vriska, meenah, and tavros are in the dreambubbles with a giant army of ghosts of dead alt-timeline trolls that tavros assembled. they plan to take on lord english. aradia and sollux are there too.
-lord english is on his way, destroying space as he goes.
-caliborn knows the future and how he will imprison the beta kids in the homestuck juju, beat up the alpha kids, and then jake will use his hope powers to fuck with caliborn. then arquiusprite will come in and hold off caliborn long enough for dirk to imprison his soul (along with arquiusprite’s and half of gamzee by mistake) in lil cal. then eventually he becomes lord english. caliborn has the ring of void in his future vision.
-the condesce is in her battleship on her way to fuck shit up. she has the ring of void. her motive is to create a new universe which she will be dictator of.
-gamzee is in the fridge.
-davepetasprite (davesprite and alpha nepeta) and arquiusprite are bro hugging. they both plan to go fight lord english, though davepetasprite did not appear in caliborn’s future vision.

low-relevancy players

eridan and feferi aren’t really relevant to the plot anymore it would seem, they’re probably mixed in with tavros’s army.
casey has an army of skeleton consorts.
nannasprite - both pre-retcon nanna and post-retcon nanna survived so there’s two. they are on locah (jane’s planet).
dad crocker is in jail on derse.
dd, hb, and cd from the alpha kids’ session. hb was killed by dirk ages ago. the other two are alive and on derse.
edit: oh yeah and aranea is not only dead, but never got back alive to begin with

I am so pop flyin' that shit is happening.

I want it to end, I want off hussie's wild ride.

The forced romance and contrived character directions makes me pop flyin' that it's finally going to be over.

You say this like homestuck used to not be completely silly and contrived.

Forced romance is what did me in. I cannot connect to any of the new ACT 6 characters.

KIDS AND FUN is what I like, not SHIPS AND SOAP OPERA

But hey, just my opinion to each their own etc etc

Don't get me wrong though, I still have hopes for how it's going to end.

within the first half of homestuck, earth has been destroyed, several main characters have died in numerous ways, and it's been revealed that they've doomed another group of players in another universe entirely to failure due to actions that nobody had any proper control over

homestuck has bodaciously never been kids and fun