$335k. I really wonder how close they'll be to meeting the goal by morning, since they'll be able to pass the halfway mark in the next few minutes at this rate.
The Mouth of Madness and Adventure Every now and again, someone submits the baffling (and somewhat vulgar, so readers beware) MS Paint Adventures' Homestuck for our review, even though it's not technically a game in the typical sense that we'd review. Well, there goes that excuse. Creator Andrew Hussie has just launched the Homestuck Adventure Game on Kickstarter, with an aim of $700,000.00USD to bring his baffling internet sensation to gamers everywhere in 2014. It seems as if fans have been waiting for this, since as of this writing, less than a day after the initial launch the project has raised $545,000.00USD of its goal, with $15.00USD the minimum donation required to receive a digital copy of the game once it's released. The comic/madness project the game is based on has a planned ending in 2013, so chances are by the time the game finally arrives fans will be lounging around in mourning garb. Odds are that by the time this article goes live the funding will have already been successful, but if you're a fan then this is a great opportunity for you to support it. For the rest of us, it's time to do some research and try to penetrate the cloud of maximum bizarro mist that lays heavily over the whole thing. Wish us luck!
Does anyone else really think that Hussie wasted an interesting character with Kankri? A polite version of Karkat who avoids swearing is an awesome idea; but Hussie seems to have made Kankri a thinly veiled Take That at overly polite pseudo-intellectuals who try to avoid the triggers of depression or panic attacks.
With Kankri, Hussie has started coming off as trying more to make a point than trying to tell a story.
In short, this is a very small step in the direction of Ayn Rand-type writing.
I disagree; Kankri isn't a thinly veiled take that, he's an obvious parody, as are quite a few Homestuck characters (e.g. Gamzee, Nepeta, Calliope, Latula, arguably Dave).
And he's not just a pseudo-intellectual, he's a windbag and a know-it-all with a catastrophic lack of self-awareness, who worries that everything will cause offence and doesn't realize how comical he is.
Frankly, I think Hussie could have done much worse with Kankri. Sure, the foundation of his character is a parody of tumblr's social justice bloggers, but he gets some fleshing out through his conversations with Porrim and Latula (a character that could have been fleshed out a bit more, in my opinion). He's meant to portray what the Sufferer would have become if he didn't succeed.
Frankly, I think he's a more interesting character than a lot of the original trolls (Sollux, Nepeta and Feferi, to be specific)
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This is gonna be great. It's probably early for speculation, but what do you guys think the game will be like?
I want one. ::::D
I have the yarn and everything.
A deliciously red warm snuggly turtleneck sweater of JUSTICE.
Or get a Sufferer pendant to wear with it.
XXXXD
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
With Kankri, Hussie has started coming off as trying more to make a point than trying to tell a story.
In short, this is a very small step in the direction of Ayn Rand-type writing.
And he's not just a pseudo-intellectual, he's a windbag and a know-it-all with a catastrophic lack of self-awareness, who worries that everything will cause offence and doesn't realize how comical he is.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Frankly, I think he's a more interesting character than a lot of the original trolls (Sollux, Nepeta and Feferi, to be specific)