Author: Goldpanner

universalgamingreviews:

Hello once again folks (another really busy day haha) Here’s some concept art and screenshots for an upcoming episodic adventure game by the creator of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie, and his indie dev studio What Pumpkin Studios called Hiveswap, a Homestuck based game.

Below you’ll be able to find some information about the upcoming game.

Hiveswap — Episodic Adventure Game Based on Hit Homestuck Webcomic — Will Debut This Spring
Funded by $2.4M Kickstarter, sci-fi / fantasy Hiveswap will
release in four Acts on PC, Mac, and Linux

NEW YORK – February 17, 2015 – What Pumpkin Studios is announcing that
Hiveswap, a point-and-click adventure game based on the cult webcomic
Homestuck, will debut this spring with the first of four episodes for
PC, Mac, and Linux. The game’s development has been funded with proceeds from a
$2.4M Kickstarter campaign completed in October 2012.

In Hiveswap, a young human girl named Joey gets sucked through a
portal to the alien planet of Alternia. There, she joins a band of scrappy troll
rebels and embarks on an epic journey to save the world and find a way home,
discovering the true meaning of friendship along the way. This point-and-click
adventure has 3D graphics, puzzle-solving gameplay, and an original story
spanning four content-packed Acts that will release throughout 2015.

Hiveswap is a spin-off of Homestuck (http://mspaintadventures.com) — an
irreverent, 7,500-page webcomic started by Andrew Hussie in 2009 to parody
classic adventure games. Though it’s based on and loosely related to
Homestuck canon, the Hiveswap adventure game has a completely
self-contained story that does not require any familiarity with the
webcomic.

“Homestuck itself has always been sort of a mock adventure game,
one the reader ‘plays’ by navigating the story, but what started relatively
simply has developed into a huge world with its own lore and backstory,” says
Hussie. “Bringing all this to an actual adventure game is a natural next step
for the license — one we hope existing fans will love, but that should also
appeal to anyone who enjoys the point-and-click style games I grew up playing,
even if you’ve never heard of Homestuck.”

Hiveswap is being developed in-house by Hussie’s production
company, What Pumpkin Studios. The game will be shown to press for the first
time at next month’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, with public
demos to follow at Emerald City Comicon, Denver Comic Con, and other conventions
this spring.

For more Hiveswap details, visit the archived Kickstarter page (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game)
to learn about the project’s origins, or sign up for email alerts (http://hiveswap.com) as the first episode
approaches release.

About Homestuck and What Pumpkin Studios

Homestuck is a hit webcomic, created by Andrew Hussie and heavily
influenced by audience participation, involving four teenagers who get sucked
into a beta version of a computer game and end up saving the universe. The
sprawling story is told with static images, animated gifs, Flash animations, and
dynamic text across approximately 7,500 webpages at http://mspaintadventures.com, with
around 1M daily unique visitors. Multimedia entertainment production company
What Pumpkin Studios (http://whatpumpkin.com) creates Homestuck
related merchandise and is developing the property’s first commercial video
game, Hiveswap, for PC, Mac, and Linux.

Happy gaming folks!

-Shaun Meyers (Kyo Akiara)

Shit can be traced back to the Old English verb scitan (which meant exactly what it does today), and further back to Proto-Germanic skit (the Germans still say scheisse), and all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European word (c. 4000 BC) skhei, which meant to separate or divide, presumably on the basis that you separated yourself from your faeces. Shed (as in shed your skin) comes from the same root, and so does schism.
An odd little aspect of this etymology is that when Proto-Indo-European arrived in the Italian peninsula they used skhei to mean separate or distinguish. If you could tell two things apart then you knew them, and so the Latin word for know became scire. From that you got the Latin word scientia, which meant knowledge, and from that we got the word science This means that science is, etymologically, shit. It also means that knowing your shit, etymologically, means that you’re good at physics and chemistry.

Mark Forsyth (The Inky Fool), The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (via wordsspentinvain)

things that make me genuinely upset

jumpingjacktrash:

there are not a lot of them anymore, but this whole ‘kick out the allies!’ thing is one of the few that still does.

you didn’t see my mom taking in fucked up kids in the 80’s, feeding and sheltering and reassuring them when their own parents kicked them out.

you didn’t see my dad playing bodyguard when i’d let him, and teaching me to fight when i wouldn’t, enrolling me in taekwondo and telling me over and over that i was NEVER obligated to let anyone physically push me around, all anxious because i refused to stop wearing a pink triangle pin on my jacket but not trying to talk me out of it because he understood why it was important.

you didn’t see the teachers and students at my school rallying around those of us who were brave enough to come out, you didn’t see how one kid came out in his senior speech and talked about fear and oppression and courage, and got a standing ovation, and the queer students were sobbing with joy and relief because we didn’t expect that to happen. we expected to have to protect him afterwards, but instead the whole school protected him, and we were so grateful and so proud.

you weren’t there the time when three big college boys started harrassing me, nerving themselves up to throw a punch, and i was getting ready to fight back — there were no cel phones back then, no way i could call 911, and there was absolutely no guarantee the cops would help me anyway — and a couple more boys charged out of their frat house, and i was thinking “welp this is where i die” but instead those new guys started yelling at their frat brothers, “what the fuck are you doing, you assholes, knock it the fuck off, this is not what we’re about!” and i wanted to buy those guys flowers, yeah, i wanted to literally give them cookies for being allies because they saved my fucking life.

you weren’t there when coming out meant your friend group was abruptly reduced to one or two people, you don’t know the desperate joy we felt toward the few people who stuck around — because now THEY had to deal with all THEIR friends ditching, and people accusing THEM of being queer, their parents interrogating them and not letting them be alone with us — because people back then assumed the only reason you’d be friends with a queer is if you’re queer too. but they stuck it out because friendship and fighting injustice were important to them, and they refused to let us go it alone.

you. weren’t. there.

and now you come in swinging and you want to kick these people out of the community? now you’re angry they get praise and appreciation? you know what that tells me?

it tells me you’re only in this for praise and appreciation yourself. it tells me you’re an emotional vampire who doesn’t care about the cause.

so fuck right off with your anti-ally gatekeeping. allies save lives.

fughtopia:

salon:

As a sniper I was not usually the victim of a traumatic event, but the perpetrator of violence and death. My actions in combat would have been more acceptable to me if I could cloak myself in the belief that the whole mission was for a greater good. Instead, I watched as the purpose of the mission slowly unraveled.

The non-propaganda version of what it’s like to be an American sniper.

Excerpt; During my combat tour I never saw the Iraqis as “savages.” They were a friendly culture who believed in hospitality, and were sometimes positive to a fault. The people are proud of their history, education system and national identity. I have listened to children share old-soul wisdom, and I have watched adults laugh and play with the naiveté of schoolboys. I met some incredible Iraqis during and after my deployment, and it is shameful to know that the movie has furthered ignorance that
might put them in danger.

…As a sniper I was not usually the victim of a traumatic event, but the perpetrator of violence and death. My actions in combat would
have been more acceptable to me if I could cloak myself in the belief
that the whole mission was for a greater good. Instead, I watched as the
purpose of the mission slowly unraveled.

I served in Iraq from
2004 to 2005. During that time, we started to realize there were no
weapons of mass destruction, the 9/11 commission report determined that
Iraq was not involved in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center, false sovereignty was given to Iraq by Paul Bremer, the
atrocities at Abu Ghraib were exposed, and the Battle of Fallujah was
waged.

The destruction I took part in suddenly intersected with
news that our reasons for waging war were untrue. The despicable conduct
of those at Abu Ghraib was made more unforgivable by the honorable
interactions I had with Iraqi civilians, and, together, it fueled the
post-traumatic stress I struggle with today.

steam-powered-jetskis:

pinkhairedpuke:

I am very proud to finally present to you my student film, 1900-2000!

A retro-futuristic tale of show business and machinery, presented by Georges and Madeleine, time-travelers extraordinaire!

Co-directed at Supinfocom in 2013 with my talented teammates and friends Gabrielle Locre, Agathe Pillot, Vivien Risser, Armelle Renac, and Benoît Berthe

Please like and share!

HEY GUYS, I see you reblogging Pixar/Dreamworks gifsets, DO YOU LIKE ANIMATION? THIS IS MY STUDENT FILM PLEASE WATCH IT and like/share if you enjoyed it!!

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)


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prozdvoices:

Anonymous said:

Can you do voices for an imaginary Kingdom Hearts scene based on your flawed knowledge of the series?

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I take offense to that because I happen to have very extensive knowledge about the Kingdom Hearts series.  Here is my take on that beautiful scene, Goofy’s death.