#psycolonials

[tinfoil-03]

whos your favorite mizzlebip disguise im inbetween qtip mcchicken and crayola piehole

[thewebcomicsreview]

Are there any webcomics where you wish the author would stop their project and start something new? Personally; There are some webcomics where I feel like the creator has grown as a person, a writer, and an artist to the point where their old material is just holding them back, and I would love to see what they would come up with if they started something new with their current skills. Not saying all long running webcomics where the cartoonist have improved are like that, but there are some where they are barely making the same comic anyway.

I dunno, but I get why successful artists don't do it. I wrapped up Legend of the Hare and started Saffron and Sage, and do this day I'm not sure if that was a good idea or not. Change is scary, especially is a comic is your job! And there haven't been a lot of examples of a cartoonist who did a hit webcomic and then tried a new comic and had a second hit.

I have a lot of respect for a Big Established Artist who takes a creative risk, like Scott Kurtz of PvP Fame making a side comic about dealing with a dying parent. But it didn't exactly take off.

I have often complained about Andrew Hussie dragging Homestuck way past its breaking point instead of ending it a few months after Cascade. But, like, in retrospect was that really a bad idea for him? When he finally moved on and made Psycolonials, even though it was good, no one seemed to give a shit. The clown made the most successful webcomic of all time, and it did a hundred times more for Toby Fox's career than it did for Andrew Hussie's. And, yes, a lot of that was people getting sick of Hussie's bullshit (and the fact it was a video game), but if he'd ended Homestuck in 2013 and made Psycolonials as the fifth MSPaint Adventure, would he be better off now? I don't know, but I kind of doubt it.

The sad truth is that becoming Zombie Simpsons and slowly bleeding out is usually the play that best pays the bills. Those willing to end a popular comic when it's time to let it end and create something new are adventurers and heroes, especially in this era of reboots and nostalgia trips.

[spacefighter413]

yesterday: finished psycolonials! holy SHIT that was deep

today: my brain does not work. i don't remember a single thing i learned in school. i am filled with the urge to commit a crime.

in all seriousness, go check out psycolonials! it's a visual novel by Andrew Hussie, available for FREE on Steam!

anticapitalist, gay-friendly, possibly cognitohazardous! check it out!

it's about clowns, sort of

[strilondism]

ohhh wait lol. doc scratch is the pedo imperialism guy bc imperialism uses children for their bodies by sending them to war. and both of those are the same as using characters to tell a story. would be awesome if we could see planets colonized by the alternian empire other than alpha earth (which is i think just arguing that colonialism eats its tail forever). tho in the paradigm of scratch/hussie using the cast to "colonize" smth i suppose it would be the audience

[wifegideonnav]

psycolonials

have definitely heard of that as a thing that exists. should i. read it??

[starsnores]

I don't know if you know Andrew's other works, but I like to think that Gamzee, Whistles, and Zhen are siblings. Whistles being the oldest, and Zhen being the youngest. Gamzee is middle child, sad. Whistles is the most chaotic one and Zhen being the level headed one (well in the end if you read Psycholonials) WHAT IM GETTING TO IS THAT THEY'RE CLOWN SIBLINGS!!!

I know of them. I think i went looking for the whistles comic as a teenager and i bought psycolonials when i was getting back into hs bc i was curious but i never actually played it. At this point i don't think im going to tbh. Idk it seems like you're excited about this stuff and I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. I don't mean to rain on your parade i just feel idk jaded. Getting back into hs was fun and great until i came into contact with some of the new stuff and then it wasn't and it just sort of felt weird and hostile and soured me on some things. I can't really buy into him as some auteur or anything. He still made stuff that's good and it seems like psycolonials got good reviews. I'm just not interested in his other work really.

[theorigamiphoenix]

you see when you get down to it andrew hussie's Psycolonials is a bit like The Who's Tommy

[shin-the-loser]

Ok I know Homestuck is Dead and all but I finally played Psycolonials and it was definitely trippy but I definitely enjoyed it!!!

Would recommend if you got about 10 dollars and an afternoon to spare reading a visual novel

[get-owo-ed]

[refinedpunfessional]

I just finished Psycolonials. I liked it. Not recommended to those who can't wade through a metric ton of BS, but you're on the internet so you should be fine. 8/10.

[mamposteria-deactivated06192023]

strongest homestuck panel vs weakest problem sleuth panel

[telltaletypist]

i wanna finish reading the other routes of heaven will be mine so i can reread we know the devil again

[itsbenedict]

Z Psycolonials

wh- you- do you really need me to tell you why dating Z Psycholonials is a bad idea? like, you played the game, right? what is that game if not an endless litany of reasons to stay far away from Z at all costs? i don't even want to get into detail and spoil it, just- she has never done a single thing that was not the worst possible thing she could do in any given circumstance! i'd be dead or worse inside 24 hours!

[muelinleijons]

I love how quickly we all forgot about psycolonials.

[fuck-philip-banks]

Have you played Psycolonials?

nope

[wakraya]

(Virgin)

I'm going to try and get through at least Chapter 5 of Psycolonials before your stream then. Only just got through chapter 2.

Hope that goes well! Sorry if I manage to go through more of the story than you tomorrow. X3