quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: It may be closer to a "MS Paint Adventures" sort of thing, really.
I read Homestuck about half the way through up to the truly autism-levels of intricate detail and then the fanbase went off the deep end and I slowly backed off and
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I've seen people on the internet talk about "Homestuck" before but I don't really understand what it is. I assumed comic at first, but I'm not so sure anymore.
I googled it, and found a terrible looking comic, but I'm not sure if that's actually it, or...
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homestuck actually has a neat visual aesthetic and an interesting presentational premise and much care and devotion has gone into it and it's worth experiencing, but jesus christ it is so easy to get lost, also it has spawned an insane fanbase, like,
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: so wait, that means that this is some sort of Fight Club scenario where it's me hilariously injuring myself all summer
Yeah you just stay safe in a chair, good boy.
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Yeah, "Homestuck" isn't exactly terrible-looking once you realize what he's doing. I'm a fan, but I'm not a FAN -- in the sense that I don't really know who half the characters are and couldn't begin to tell you what's going on right now with all the ancestors on their dreamworlds and, um....On the other hand, I know what a "moirail" is. I firmly believe that the story has gone on long enough and he needs to start pulling it back in, though; if he adds another cast, even if just to troll -- perhaps literally -- his audience, I may have to stop reading.
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I'm glad that my penis was mutilated. I don't want some crazy looking slug, folding space and time to pass spice on to the unsuspecting masses of women.
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I looked at when the thread started, and was shocked to see how long ago it was. The fact that it stopped growing must be due to other forms of social media or social life or life outside of Hatrack. Also, broken Windows. I mean, I don't think that 8 is that bad, but maybe others didn't take the transition quite so well.
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I get the feeling this is a prank, where we all order our own pizzas with that on them, and find out when we eat it, that we have been duped.
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Nope, I'm serious. My dad used to make pizza with them all the time and I loved it. Talking about it is making me hungry, might have to go out and get some supplies.
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"I think we've all been there, jobless with nothing but a bucket of hotdogs, a block of processed cheese, a van, an American flag, and a goddamn dream.
Or at least that was my initial impression. Since the campaign started, the guy has actually built his kitchen (look at the updates!), done some hotdog catering, set up his entire supply chain, and he appears to have his budget planned very well, albeit with the help of "How to Start a Hotdog Cart" eBooks. He's got a dream, man, and none of us and not even the devil himself is going to be able to stop him. Unlike a lot of crappy Kickstarters, I believe this is going to happen with or without our funding. This guy is Forrest Gump and his shrimping boat/hotdog stand might as well be built right next to the Field of Dreams. I don't mean to imply that he's an idiot, but that I admire his blind confidence and hotdog faith.
I come from Hipsterville where we only eat hotdogs ironically, as a joke, so that other people can look at us and say "Haha. That's hilarious. Let me take an Instagram of that. Imagine if you ate hotdogs and actually liked them." So this campaign touches me in ways both mystical and nostalgic. It makes me yearn for the days when I could eat bad food unironically and wear plaid because it's warm and because lumberjacks are cool, not because I'm trying to convey some dumb hidden message. Every time you eat a hotdog, you get to become a kid again for two minutes.
The hotdogs are hilarious, but I genuinely hate it when people get flak for "trying too hard." We badly need more people who try too hard. It's the most foolish insult to say, "I dislike you because I dislike effort." We are a generation of people who were told their entire lives by nurturing, caring, hippie parents they we are all geniuses. Every boy a wonderboy. Every child above average. But rare is a parent who doesn't care about test scores and IQs, but instead praises their kid only for trying and failing. Effort, man. Effort. That matters so much more than innate intelligence, than knowledge, than wit. You should try to do new things even when (hell, especially when) you think you will fail. This man is trying hard, with all his might, for an aspiration that isn't even lofty. It's humble man wanting for a reachable goal involving the most meager of foods in the tiniest of towns in the poorest of states.
Yeah, I'll be damned if I'm going to dislike a guy for trying too hard. It's apparent that he has turned to crowdfunding only because he has already put every spare dollar he owns into this business. I might not believe in the superior deliciousness of Doobie's hotdogs, but I want to believe in them. And I would eat one.
Another thing is that this appears to be a very small town where the median household income is 20 grand and the most prominent restaurant is a Subway. A hotdog stand, of all things, could affect real change there. It's a good story: The unfeeling internet hordes pulling together to fund a rural hotdog stand in Reform, Alabama. That is something I want to be part of. "Doobie's Dog House" is a name worthy of headlines. I want confused journalists to try to figure out what the **** happened, why it happened, and how they can possibly convey the idea of crowdfunding to their readers. It'll be like when CNN tries to explain memes. At the very least, this has the potential to make an entire town wonder about Something Awful. Someday, I would like to drive to Doobie's Dog House, eat a hotdog, and think of goons.
To finally answer your question about our motivations, it's definitely the third option. We are good and bad meats processed together and extruded as 6 foot tall tubes, both cynical and kind, complicated and salty. Goons are actual hotdogs. I pledged $25 for both entertainment and charity. If this works and there's a hungry Alabama goon who wants my hotdogs, they can have them. Just please take pictures so it's like a child sponsorship charity, only for meat tubes instead of impoverished children. If the Kickstarter fails, then I will have paid nothing and told a guy that I admire his efforts and his gumption."
goons power doobie's dog house (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657642328/doobies-dog-house) to fruition
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quote:We haven't talked too much about the town where this Kickstarter is from, but I think that's part of the story: Reform, Alabama. Named apparently by an irate preacher. Population: 1675. Median household income: $15k. 45% African Americans. It has a a Dollar General, a Subway, a small grocery store, and some gas stations. Google maps comically labels nothing but three cemeteries and an airport.
It's like a place we all picture in our minds when we think of proverbial small town America. Heck, if you walk the town there are American flags down the entire stretch of the road. But this place has lost a fifth of its population in 10 years. Incomes, already poverty-line, have dropped 25% in a decade. Exactly a year ago, a storm wrecked the place. It decimated a thrift store (now rebuilt) that is right next to where Doobie's Dog House will be located. I tell you all of this just to make a round-about point: A humble hotdog stand, of all the things in the world, could help this town. It could affect real change.
Hotdogs are hilarious. They're also universal, a sort of basic meat currency. And they're edible time machines. They bring us back to child-like states of glee and energy. If you eat a hotdog, you get to travel back to an age when you thought that anything was possible, you could do anything, you could become anyone.
Reform, Alabama could probably use a few hotdog-shaped time machines.
I clicked on that thread Wednesday night thinking "yeah right" and left it minus $25 thanks to Noni's posts.
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yeah likewise. it was just another terrible kickstarter being mocked along all the other ones, but somewhere along the line someone just saw this complete earnestness in it and was like 'you .. you know what ..'
end result, I'm invested too and i hope the frogdog happens
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: No I'm serious there are way too many colors of mountain dew AND i want a burger.
My boys are upset that all the slushies at Taco Bell are now various flavors of Mountain Dew. They aren't allowed caffeine, so no slushies for them.
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WHY CANT YOUR KIDS HAVE CAFFEINE I HAD CAFFEINE EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE AND I TURNED OUT FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE ASDJKF FHJLSADR RKJF;DLK.
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FLOPPY INTO THE SLOT. IT’S HATRACK RIVER FORUM AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, SAMP. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME BAD POSTERS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED THE GALAXYS MOST DANGEROUS FORUM. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng
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Samprimary, this is hands down the greatest thread you have ever started. For this, I love you, you gorgeous hunk of man meat. I went over to my Jamaican neighbors and let them see your posts, and they fell in love with you as well.
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My Jamaican neighbors are ridiculously nice. I could even work near them, that's how together we are. I only see the individual.
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Were your Jamaican neighbors there when you singlehandedly sailed to the rescue of the USS Cole? I imagine they'd have to be, since they're so nice, right?
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this is getting oddly specific and I would like to remind you that they are background information. talking about them pertains only to my sense of inclusiveness, anything more than that and you're just distracting from my all-eclipsing life experiences. which are about me.
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