Heh, I described Homestuck to my friend as, "Imagine if the Earthbound kids were really fucked up and started playing a game of The Sims that caused the apocalypse."
Haha. You think that's bad, wait. Once you get through the whole thing you'll find it becomes pretty much impossible to describe the thing to the uninitiated. You were a bit more eloquent about it than me, though. When I introduced Homestuck to my nephew last year, literally all I gave him for a description was this: "It's about a world-ending video game and time travel."
That's actually not bad either.
Moar Random Stuff• I remember what I was gonna post last time, but it's wrong. I was guessing that, since we saw John's "Land" from far away and it looked like a broken-up planet, maybe all four of the kids' Lands fit together to form a whole planet. Just got to the Year One Recap and I can see that's wrong -- the Lands are all planets in the "solar system" in The Medium.
• Reading the recap and remembering things, I now know why John's Kernelsprite dodged the Colonel Sassacre text when Rose tried to Prototype it with it -- it would've made the game too hard. Pre-Medium Prototyping decides what sorts of upgrades the Imps get. If it got a Sassacre upgrade, they'd be too strong, 'cause Sassacre's too awesome. Indeed, all the Kernelsprites seemed to purposefully try to get Prototyped with dumb stuff (Dave's dead crow, Rose's doll), so that the Imps wouldn't get too strong.
• Mysteriously, we didn't see Rose or Dave's sprites "hatch" the way John's did, but in the {S} Jack Ascend animation, I can see they must've, since their respective Spires are lit up.
• I wonder if "fetal paradox clone" implie that the creature could be grown to a full paradox clone. Whatever that would mean.
• As I suspected, all the Guardians are "in" on Sburb. The Jack animation showed all four of them fighting "bosses." Probably the Slumbering Whatevers that each Land has.
• The Black and White Queens' heads are shaped like Becquerels. And Jack's is now, too, now that he put on the Black Queens' ring at the end of his animation. Confusing, 'cause I was sure Snowman from the Midnight Crew was the Black Queen. Maybe she is, maybe she wasn't really killed by whatever was in Jade's box (WTF is that thing, already?!) but teleported away.
Anyway, yeah, their heads are the same shape as Becquerel's, but only when wearing the rings. When the White Queen took off her ring and gave it to PM, her head lost that shape. I wonder, then, if Becquerel is the White King.
• How's Dave have posters of the Midnight Crew and the Felt?! I'm pretty sure they actually exist, on the far-distant future Earth, after the Exiles rebuild it. Freaky.
• Oh, hey! I wonder if the "defense portals" Skaia uses to defend itself from meteors when White inevitably loses happen to warp those meteors to the world that spawned that instance of the Medium, thus creating a stable time loop. Like, the meteors raining down on Earth are actually the meteors from John's Medium instance that will be hurled at John's Skaia instance.
• Seriously? Rose has messed-up drawings on her walls, too? Bluh. Bluuuuuuuuuuuuh.
• Another thing that bothered me and the Recap has rebrought it to my attention -- Dave is clearly currently playing his own copy of the Sburb game right now. You can see "Dave" written on them. But he shouldn't have those copies! When his Bro kicked his ass, he left him
his own ("Bro") copies! Dave's copies were stolen by the crow
Here's the game copies Dave's using to play Sburb...
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003411But those shouldn't say "Dave!" The "Dave" copies were lost! His Bro gave him the "Bro" copies, Dave should be playing Sburb with the "Bro" copies!
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002971Presumably this will be explained. I know better than to think Hussie has made a mistake.
• Another brothersome thing. When the mansion exploded at the end of the Intermission, it said that it killed everyone except Spades and Snowman (presumably, Lord English wasn't there). It shouldn't've killed the other Midnight Crewmembers, though, 'cause they got knocked literally into next week by that Felt guy.
Edit: I also love how it's a forgone conclusion that ~7 billion humans were killed during the Sburb event, and nobody seems to notice or care.
With two boys and two girls surviving from Earth in the form of our protagonists, I CERTAINLY HOPE Hussie isn't planning for an Adam-and-Eve ending minus the incest (like, Rose and Dave hook up and John and Jade hook up and each pair's kids have kids with each other, rather than the normal Adam and Eve ending where A&E's kids have to mate with each other).
Edit 2: And haha! I was right about the "cork" thing ^_^
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003574(Ctrl-F for "cork")
Edit 3: Wait, what?! From the Recap...
"Prospit's moon has two towers of identical design, and similar design to Jade's house. Dream Jade lives in one tower. Dream John lives in the other. Dream John is still asleep, and John has no knowledge of the dream world, which is to say, the entire game session he would initiate on his 13th birthday."
The Medium is the Dream World? I mean, I sorta realized that Yellow Mooney Dream Jane is on Prospit, but then that means The Medium is a dream world? So the Apple didn't transport John to another world, it made him fall asleep? So John's either still on Earth, but sleeping, or died on Earth and his whole consciousness was subsumed into the dream world (aka The Medium), or maybe his body was teleported somewhere else and is sleeping, and he'll wake up when he's finished what he needs to do in The Medium. Crazy.
"When he goes to sleep, instead of waking up on the moon as Jade does, he remains slumbering in his dream room, tormented by his subconscious. This torment is expressed when he sleepwalks, and draws troubling scribbles on the walls of his room."
Sleepwalks? When has John ever sleepwalked? (Or is it sleptwalk?)