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Well I have a new ship
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Oh boy, these seem like fun.
My guess is that not all these characters are going to have big roles in the game. How could they all?
(Smash Cut to several months from now, where each troll has their own 6-hour route in Hiveswap Act 2.)
It's been fun.
Mr. Clueless
Man, the Grand Highblood looked really weird in his teenage years.
De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
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You can probably talk to them in the backgrounds of certain stages. Maybe a dozen will have plot relevance.
*Spongebob timeskip card*
"Presenting, Hiveswap #37: The Tale of Two Trolls - Soleil Twins Electrict Boogaloo Strikes Back"
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"Hey Hussie, where's the Epilogue?"
Hussie and Cohen emerge from the solitary confinement they've held up in for years, plotting the epic tale of the 3rd Highblood that rejected their role in society
Jointly they hiss at us and retreat back into their confinement.
Flashbacks
The Video in Question
edited 1st Dec '17 9:45:34 AM by DrPsyche
Just caught up on my Act 2 news, took the quiz, and got Taurra. It seems like a fairly accurate description of me, though there are a few bits I disagree with, mostly the part on Mind about fluid identity.
kc and dril answered questions about the new book.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7gwz5a/were_dril_and_kc_green_and_were_the_good_internet/
and a certain horse_enjoyer shows up
Glad to see it officially confirmed that Shrek is Eridan's father.
Yubi yubi!
I still can't believe that dril is part of homestuck now
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Like any great twist, it was unpredictable before it happened but inevitable in hindsight.
On the personality test, I think I found another reason it can spit out weird answers. With the way the questions are set up to be a spectrum between two aspects, it can't tell the difference between, say, "I, a person of imagination and strong convictions, am choosing Hopey options" and "I, a coward of no imagination or convictions, am choosing the least Ragey options because those qualities make me terrified of the chaos Rage brings."
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A real bad hombre
Really late to this party but I got Prospit/Light. Shame there's nothing about classes in there. Always thought of myself as more Mind/Hope anyway.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
The thing I took away from the quiz is that being a Doom player really sucks.
Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
The main twelve trolls and the dancestors had the same symbols, so they couldn't have anything about Classes added in as a deciding factor.
Also, somebody pointed me to a link about the quiz, that seems like it has it figured out? It lines up with my observational evidence, and makes sense. Except one bit is put into mathematical terms strangely, so I'm going to change that in the summary here.
The basic principle is that, as said before, every question concerns a pair of Aspects, directly across from each other on the wheel. Answers give a certain point total to one of those Aspects, and then give half of that affect to the two adjacent Aspects.
When you answer strongly in favor of a certain Aspect (A or E), that Aspect gets +4 points, and the adjacent Aspects get +2 points.
When you answer moderately in favor of a certain Aspect (B or D), that Aspect gets +2 points, and the adjacent Aspects get +1 point.
When you answer neutrally on a question (C), both Aspects get -4 points, and all of the Aspects adjacent to either get -2 points.
(This bonus to adjacent Aspects doesn't carry over to its adjacent Aspects. That would get silly.)
Sum up all the points, and the highest wins. If there is a tie, check the first place contenders in the order of Time, Space, Heart, Mind, Hope, Rage, Light, Void, Breath, Blood, Life, Doom, and take the first, except skipping any that are tied with their opposite; if there aren't any, go through the order again, and just pick the first.
So that's fun!
Also I am a giant nerd and this is why I got Hope.
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Funny but not helpful
Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
Hah! I'm still pretty confident in being a Page of Mind, though.
This is a really cool quiz and all but it's still a personality quiz, so, you know. Bullshit. It's still informative and authoritative, but more for what leads to what and how, and the given blurbs, than in the questions actually accurately gauging someone.
(The arrows are color-coded, also, if anyone's confused what's going on in that picture. The grey at the end are the two C votes for Time/Space, which are represented as +0 for the neutral Aspects, +2 for their adjacent Aspects, and +4 for the rest of the Aspects, because that's easier than legibly drawing backwards arrows and it's equivalent to the -4/-2/-0. As is the -1/+1/+3 given in that tumblr post.)
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
Wouldn't tbe strength of your conviction on pursuing this matter just be evidence for Hope? Your abosolute belief betrays you. Mind users are much more flexible in their sense of self.
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
> personality test
i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess
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Uh, okay, your input is appreciated but not really the smoking gun you are (jocularly?) suggesting it as?
For one thing, my conviction on the matter is hardly 'absolute belief'. It's not something I wanted to be true, and then convinced myself of. (I went through that phase of 'Cool-sounding classpect is totally what I am' and it was for Rogue of Blood, for what that's worth. Pages are silly, also.) It was something I got to by introspection and self-examination, and a large amount of crossing things out.
If you want to see my perspective on a sense of self, that would lie in the actual life experiences I've had, and the way I interpret them. I act differently in different spaces, and I have all my life. It's something I've known I've done for a long time, and something that, when I was younger, I thought about a lot. The idea that I was putting on a mask, or changing to fit into a niche. Times I outright lied about myself to perpetuate the version of myself I was pretending to be. More recently, I've still been thinking about that sort of thing, but on a more serious, less melodramatic (pre)teen level. And I still act in different ways about different things around different people. And that's normal human behaviour, of course, and I know that. But I still think about it the way that I do, and know that I think about it that way
It's metacognition, and phrasing a relatively simple and fairly normal process as a layered self-referential process, because that is how I interpret it and is the way that interpretation matters to me and my idea of myself, and that is because I am Mindy (and Lighty) as fuck.
It's a fake system, with boxes drawn such that they don't categorize all of human behaviour and personality. Although they do in Paradox Space, we're, not in that, since it's, fake. So it's broad, and while I'm sure it's been legitimately insightful and/or meaningful for some people, like any system of personality classification, it's just kind of. Bullshit. Which only matters as much as one wants it to matter?
I recognize that, and then call myself a Page of Mind anyways, because I find myself confident that in the application of the system to real human personalities that is the box I would fit into, and I can find some meaning in that. Not existential meaning, but 'Oh hey this is cool and fun to fuck around with and just passively believe in' level meaning. And before somebody points out that enjoying the very fact that I believe something and continuing to believe it a little more because of that fact is Hopey, and not Mindy, I'll point to the fact that they're like. Literally right next to each other? On the wheel? So that's normal, and not points against Mindiness? Hooray.
Also I'm fairly certain Terezi displayed strong convictions before, even about her own self. And she held certain things important to her identity. Like being blind. Because that's a thing people tend to do, in general, really.
And you can't point to one trait that fits Box A and not Box B and then go "That's it, that's your box, not B" when the boxes are defined by shared general statements and a principle of best fit, rather than strict requirements; and also you can't do that when the trait demonstrated doesn't necessarily violate the requirement; for instance, having a conviction in a part of my identity does not mean my identity as a whole isn't fluid. A fluid thing can still have some generally applicable or rigid facets.
(Also before anyone cries foul at responding so seriously to a post that was probably not itself (totally?) serious the joke here is that that's a thing I do unironically because I enjoy exchanges like this. It's not supposed to be combative, and any "because [obvious thing]?" are intended as very simple examples to show where I'm coming from and not, I dunno, meant to be condescending or barbs or anything. Tone is difficult?)
edited 9th Dec '17 5:52:46 PM by RaichuKFM
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
Right. Sorry for joking.
I'm out.
Nine thousand nine hundred eighty-two reasons.
...Do I need to be more explicit with the "This is also a joke, I'm sorry if it didn't come off like one" or
Mostly does better things now. Key word mostly. Writes things, but you'll never find them. Or you can ask.
I'm sorry, the opportunity was there and I had to.
This song needs more love.