Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
The Homestuck deck is fine. It uses the Rider-Waite deck - the most popular tarot deck out there.
Like I look at Dishonored, and there are Rider-Waite cards mixed in with all kinds of nonsense cards, that fit specific characters instead of the other way around. Some enemy features as the 'Man on Stilts', which takes away the mystery and everything.
There's a reason why the cards are filled with symbol and metaphor; so that any one event, idea, or person cannot correspond one-to-one with the cards on the deck. You murk up the meanings because nothing is certain; what's important is the generalities of what might happen. The moment you make something certain, your prediction will 90% of the time be wrong.
And then DC Comics just flat-out makes up goddamn cards to add a mystical air to the whole stupid thing. I don't care if it's a fictional, fantasy world; there is and will never be a goddamn 'Detective' card, because it's always going to refer to fucking Batman. Likewise for 'Politician', 'Betrayer', 'Freak', 'Gameplayer', 'Archer', 'Thief', 'King', and 'Conman'.
The Homestuck deck is fine. It uses the Rider-Waite deck - the most popular tarot deck out there.
Like I look at Dishonored, and there are Rider-Waite cards mixed in with all kinds of nonsense cards, that fit specific characters instead of the other way around. Some enemy features as the 'Man on Stilts', which takes away the mystery and everything.
There's a reason why the cards are filled with symbol and metaphor; so that any one event, idea, or person cannot correspond one-to-one with the cards on the deck. You murk up the meanings because nothing is certain; what's important is the generalities of what might happen. The moment you make something certain, your prediction will 90% of the time be wrong.
And then DC Comics just flat-out makes up goddamn cards to add a mystical air to the whole stupid thing. I don't care if it's a fictional, fantasy world; there is and will never be a goddamn 'Detective' card, because it's always going to refer to fucking Batman. Likewise for 'Politician', 'Betrayer', 'Freak', 'Gameplayer', 'Archer', 'Thief', 'King', and 'Conman'.
My favorite deck currently is the DC Vertigo deck, but it didn't make up any cards and it's based on Rider-Waite.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Justice: Specifically, I was referring to DC's recent Trinity War event. Which was terrible.
The unrelated Trinity series they put out a few years back had pretty good tarot imagery, with Superman being branded with Sun, Justice, and Emperor, Batman with Magician, Devil, and Moon, and Wonder Woman with Strength, World, and High Priestess.
Then the world changed and the bad guys and good guys arranged themselves into the Dark and Justice Arcana respectively, with new heroes and villains taking the place of the fallen because they fit that role.
I love tarot suits, although I find the way that they tend to be read a bit dubious. The original trumps were symbolic, but the symbolism was clearly satirical of mediaeval life rather than any pseudo-Jungian flim-flam. For example, the first two numbered cards, translated literally, are The Juggler (meaning a street magician or confidence trickster) and The Female Pope (which could refer to quite a few things). The whole order is a reference to temporal and divine power: At the top, you have The World and The Archangel (or Judgement), while at the bottom you have temporal rulers and tricksters, and between them The Fool.
Incidentally, Vriska as one of the Jacks/Knaves and Dave as a Cavalier/Knight would be perfect.
And these highly popular glasses were bought by Kansas Dave Strider? Dave 'so cool and hipstery that he refuses to acknowledge his own lameness' Strider?
In 1939, the word hepster was used by Cab Calloway in the title of his Hepster's Dictionary, which defines hep cat as "a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive".
^ Those that are either stated or very easily surmised: Knights (likely active) wield their aspect as a weapon; Seers (passive) and Mages (active) have absolute knowledge of their aspect; Thieves (active) and Rogues (passive) take or take from their aspect; and Sylphs (passive) heal or transform (others with) their aspect.
Witches seem to be the active version of Sylphs, Pages the passive version of Knights.
Heirs and Maids are probably a pair, but what they do is slightly ambiguous. Heirs are likely passive, Maids active, but that is hard to say for sure. Maids could also be of a pair with Sylphs and Witches with Heirs, but that seems like an odd digression from the pairing theme to me.
So Davesprite was just announced as the last Homestuck character for Namco High. One of the more unique things they could've gone with, so I'm all for it.
So far I've played through Davesprite and Terezi's routes. Terezi was decent, Davesprite's gimmick got old pretty fast, but both still made me laugh out loud several times.
It's all on a pay plan. You can either get one character for $2, three characters for $5, or the whole set for $15. And you can't buy the Homestuck characters without getting the deluxe, $15 set.
Wow, they really went out of their way to prevent this from being all about Homestuck, didn't they? Or they just fixed it so they'd profit as much as possible from the Homestucks without sacrificing their original characters.
Watching Let's Read Homestuck, and I notice that CoLab's Karkat sounds a bit like Budnick in Salute Your Shorts. Which is kind of how I imagined Karkat anyway.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
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
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
ALL OF THEM.
"a destroyer of Blood" or "One who destroys with Blood".
So, in that case, what are the "actual" definitions of all the other classes.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
radchard:
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
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
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Think of all the references that will go over the schoolchildren's heads:
ARquius's OVER 9000
John's reference ot the move Contact
All references to Con Air
Everything involving Nic Cage
Troll Will Smith
Nepeta's LOLCAT land
FLARP