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>>1154
Homestuck is THE troonslop, I don't know what's sooooo good about it, and it's extra long from what I know

>>1156
It's le long therefore it's le good. Same applies to Dickens. And Infinite Jest I guess? The fact that it takes more than a day to read doesn't make it le bad o algo xir, quite the opposite.

(Troonslop allegations completely baseless by the by)

>>1156
It's a quest, and quests can be fun. Everything until the introduction of the Troll is decent, but Hussie (the author) started to completely subvert the quest format, basically turning it into a webcomic while neglecting or mocking everything that makes quests fun, removing almost every instance of player choice. Regardless, most people say it got bad at Act 6, since that's when Trolls really took off with Tumblrfags who came in and said you could start with when the Trolls were introduced and neglect everything else, and Hussie bought his own hype.

Consecutive failures when it came to expanding Homestuck, the most egregious of these being the development of Hiveswap, caused it to go even further into the gutter. $788k, largely KickStarter money, disappeared between Hussie and the developers, with both blaming each other and only one "playable" demo made. This demo was a single room, with a single character, and a single interaction. The Odd Gentlemen (the devs) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, despite being commissioned by Microsoft for King's Quest and Neil Gaiman for Wayward Manor, of backer money, and Hussie allegedly spent some on Homestuck. Hussie moved across the country to try and direct development at TOG himself, but they locked the doors on him. A lawsuit settled the matter, and development on Hiveswap had to start from scratch with inexperienced developers. Its original release date was 2014, and it was supposed to be released in full. Now, it's still in development, with only two acts released.

When it comes to the appeal of Homestuck itself, the characters are a big draw, but, again, Hussie ruins things with the Trolls. The moment the phrase "Troll romance" appears, stop caring about the characters.

>>1154
Two months is enough time to read this webcomic. From 0 to 10, what would you give it?
(Jannies, I am not doing this necrobump with malicious intent. Honestly)

>>2253
>two months
>necrobump
nu…

>>2254
Nu…

>>3200
What are these cucks up to????????
Anywho two months is enough time to read homestuck if you're a bored teen who can pour all of their time into it. Not so much anyone with an occupation.
>>1407
Blanket claiming that everything after the trolls get introduced is LE BAD is just a bit silly tbh? Certainly things get a bit "overblown" in places, especially in areas such as the ancestors but still, the whole "web-comicy" nature of having the bulk of the comic being teens complaining to each other about their teen problems wasn't something that "the evil timblrs" brought upon the series. Homestuck is a different beast to Problem Sleuth and either you roll with that or you GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM o algx. Saying it gets bad with Act 6 is pretty fair though, the quality had definitely dropped off significantly by that point. By the time it finishes up Homestuck has presented itself as a mostly irredeemable mess, leaving a bad taste in your mouth and wishing for simpler times when it was just kids bumbling around etc etc. If this is a grand meta-textual plot device by Hussie or just the fact that the a large portion of the rear half of Homestuck sucks rump is besides the point.
Anyway uh homosuck is zarty kultuur of zo dergelijks

>>1407
>Hussie (the author) started to completely subvert the quest format, basically turning it into a webcomic while neglecting or mocking everything that makes quests fun, removing almost every instance of player choice.
It was funnier the first time he did it with Problem Sleuth, and that also way wore out its welcome.
The trolls were interesting when they were just faceless weirdos messaging the kids out of the blue, but when they were introduced as characters it turned into a fanfic of itself.
Intermission was the best part.