The MSPA Simple Questions and Simple Ansrews (*Answers) thread

[Nokob]

Not sure if this is an easy question to resolve, but pretty from the start of me reading Homestuck the chatlogs have been alinged to the left of the text box. Now they're showing up in the center of the text box. Is there any way to put it back to the way it was, or does anyone know what caused the shift in alignment? As it stands the text being in the middle makes the chatboxes pretty much unreadable for me. It might seem petty, but that's the way it is.

Thank you for any assistance you can render.

Hmmm, it's not showing up that way for me, although I think there is more space around the words. Maybe try a different browser? I'm using Chrome on Windows 7, if that helps.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Firefox 15 on Windows 7 and no problems here.

[tastySalamanders]

Well, using the same method, I got April 30, 2010 for book 1 and November 14, 2010 for book 2.

They say May 1st and and Nov 15th for me, but I am fairly sure that's due to my crazy Australian time zone :P Also that is the reason I was never sure Problem Sleuth Book 4 was released July 29th or 30th, I mean I did try to compensate for the time zone but the result seemed to be around midnight so I wasn't sure if it was pre-midnight or post-midnight /stupid problems

Also I did some Googling and found a Flickr with a picture of PS Book 2 from November 7th, so I have no idea.

[temporalPeregrine]

Hmmm, it's not showing up that way for me, although I think there is more space around the words. Maybe try a different browser? I'm using Chrome on Windows 7, if that helps.

Oh god, I can see it too. And I can't find a single screenshot of how it was before. Now there's a line break before the pesterlog ends, and more space between the words. Using chrome on windows 7 too.

[LMLYP]

Oh god, I can see it too. And I can't find a single screenshot of how it was before. Now there's a line break before the pesterlog ends, and more space between the words. Using chrome on windows 7 too.

haha cool andrew finally fixed the bizarre combination of css and <font> tags that comprised the pesterlogs; i see it too

thats probably how its supposed to look

[Blaperile]

It looks like that for me as well on IE8 on Windows XP. It's been a couple of days like that.

[tastySalamanders]

*opens random pesterlog*
Looks fine to me, Firefox 15 on Windows 7.

thats probably how its supposed to look

Being that the pesterlogs are supposed to basically be like reading a chat program and if you see them in a panel they are all left aligned, I will say that, no, they probably aren't meant to look like that at all.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Oh, wait, you mean the fact that there's a left & right margin there now? Or whatever it is, I don't know, I was just trying to say there's space on the left now and I get what all the fuss is about. Okay, yeah, I see that too. I like it!

(I like how, to test these things, I keep clicking the links on the left and am rewarded with a random panel of Dirk's decapitated head every time! It is the prize at the bottom of the world's worst cereal box.)

[Nokob]

They say May 1st and and Nov 15th for me, but I am fairly sure that's due to my crazy Australian time zone :P Also that is the reason I was never sure Problem Sleuth Book 4 was released July 29th or 30th, I mean I did try to compensate for the time zone but the result seemed to be around midnight so I wasn't sure if it was pre-midnight or post-midnight /stupid problems

Yeah, time zones are confusing, especially once you bring in Daylight Savings Time… urgh.

Also I did some Googling and found a Flickr with a picture of PS Book 2 from November 7th, so I have no idea.

Oh, interesting.
It looks like Andrew went to New England Web Comics Week End on the weekend of Nov. 6-7 (source), so he probably sold books there. I guess he didn't put it online, or at least announce it on the forums, for another week? Huh.

[acerPandoren]

Where does the idea of Doze having a blue teddy called Humphrey come from?

[Arcanum]

Where does the idea of Doze having a blue teddy called Humphrey come from?

A non canon fancomic involving the Felt? Really, its just a play on hats in both the intermission and PS. Hats held various items, such as candy corn, black scottie dogs, and bombs, so why not a teddy bear?

[acerPandoren]

Yeah, I realised that it was a fan thing, and the name seems to have come from the Felt album? Just wondered if it was provoked by anything or where it started

[ebonySable]

In the Felt Fan-adventure, Doze was told to look under his hat for a bomb. He found the teddy instead. Don't know if the origins go back further than that or anything.

[Psychstix]

I've been confused about the dream sequences in act 4ish. How do the others become intertwined in the network of dreams and how is it significant in the reality of the world seeing that the reckoning only happens in the dream? or was that reality? And if the reckoning does happen in reality, how does dream John exist? Sleeping and awake?

I probably missed something along the way that explains this...
Lots of questions here...
KINDA CONFUSED HERE

[kwinse]

Dreamselves are real, physical beings that reside in a tower on the moon of either Prospit or Derse. If a player is Awake then when they sleep they wake up as their dreamself, and everything they do is real and has real consequences.

[Tenebrais]

I've been confused about the dream sequences in act 4ish. How do the others become intertwined in the network of dreams and how is it significant in the reality of the world seeing that the reckoning only happens in the dream? or was that reality? And if the reckoning does happen in reality, how does dream John exist? Sleeping and awake?

I probably missed something along the way that explains this...
Lots of questions here...
KINDA CONFUSED HERE

Your question is kind of confusing. Hard to see where you're coming from.

When the players sleep, they wake up in a different body elsewhere in the Incipisphere. It's not a separate dream realm; a player could find their own dreamself if they wanted. At least up until the dream self dies; then their dreams show them the afterlife instead.

[GoggleChild]

I've been confused about the dream sequences in act 4ish. How do the others become intertwined in the network of dreams and how is it significant in the reality of the world seeing that the reckoning only happens in the dream? or was that reality? And if the reckoning does happen in reality, how does dream John exist? Sleeping and awake?

I probably missed something along the way that explains this...
Lots of questions here...
KINDA CONFUSED HERE

If I remember right, all dreams we as readers view Homestuck are "real". They dreamselves of players are physical bodies that live on Prospit or Derse and can effect reality just as much as the players could in their wakingselves. The Reckoning is very real and [spoilers depending on where you are] destroys Earth, sends paradox babies to Earth, and a whole load of other Weird Plot Shit. Things seen in the clouds of Skaia are events that actually take/have taken/will take place. It's just a matter of when, like most things in Homestuck anyway.
All dreamselves exist on the same plane of reality in the Incipisphere (where Prospit, Derse, and the rest of the game take place after the player enters). The dreamselves of players are preexisting, sleeping on Prospit or Derse until they are "awakened" by some event in their life, usually connected to the game. Once they are "awakened", the players conciousness takes control of the dreamself whenever they fall asleep as their normal self (with the exception of Dave who was always awake but never realized it and Dirk who is constantly juggling both bodies).
I don't understand your last bit about how Dream John exists sleeping and awake. Could you elaborate?
The wiki page might help more.

[Psychstix]

To Gogglechild, that last part, I was under the assumption that there were two worlds and that John and dream John could exist in two worlds "Dreaming and Awake" (kinda like an alternate dimension.) Though I think you answered the question with:
"The dreamselves of players are preexisting, sleeping on Prospit"
"Once they are "awakened", the players conciousness takes control of the dreamself whenever they fall asleep as their normal self"

And with Tenebrais description, he answered my last point where I was confused whether the dream world and or dimension actually houses a sort of different self and that the area existed in the Incipisphere. Though I now learned that is not true and that both dream and awake self exist on the same plane of reality.
So I now assume that a dreamer has his awake and sleeping self, and that the two coexist in one world, depending on one another.

Thanks kwinse for answering the question on reality and how dreams do have consequences, and with Tenebrais response, that while acting in a dream, reality will face consequences

Kinda complex, but I think I understand. Thanks for every bodies answers + the details and information and helping out a newbie into the series .

PS. Sorry if the question was worded strangely, it's one of those things I run into a lot. Therefore you'll see a lot of edits on my posts.

[LMLYP]

Being that the pesterlogs are supposed to basically be like reading a chat program and if you see them in a panel they are all left aligned, I will say that, no, they probably aren't meant to look like that at all.

wait are you seeing the chatlogs as

actually centred

as opposed to

having a bigass margin

because if the former thats Fucked

im seeing this

show spoiler

hide spoiler

[The_Codfish]

*opens random pesterlog*
Looks fine to me, Firefox 15 on Windows 7.

Being that the pesterlogs are supposed to basically be like reading a chat program and if you see them in a panel they are all left aligned, I will say that, no, they probably aren't meant to look like that at all.

They are supposed to be left aligned. They're even aligned to the left in the images of pesterlogs.

[tastySalamanders]

No I didn't say I was seeing them as centered, to me they appear left-aligned, but yeah they do have that margin, wasn't it always like that or am I misremembering?

[simon.clarkstone]

And with Tenebrais description, he answered my last point where I was confused whether the dream world and or dimension actually houses a sort of different self and that the area existed in the Incipisphere. Though I now learned that is not true and that both dream and awake self exist on the same plane of reality.
So I now assume that a dreamer has his awake and sleeping self, and that the two coexist in one world, depending on one another.

Having read AH's previous work - Problem Sleuth - would help a lot here. There are many themes carried across.

[Psychstix]

Having read AH's previous work - Problem Sleuth - would help a lot here. There are many themes carried across.

I will take your advice and read Problem Sleuth.

[Fish]

Having read AH's previous work - Problem Sleuth - would help a lot here. There are many themes carried across.

I might also give HS a reread. Or just these two recaps.

There were indeed two selves in different "realms," but one crossed over into the other's realm pretty early on. In fact, before we even knew that there was a second self. Anyway, when one self sleeps the other wakes up. They are both real and tangible, and though dreamselves have some extra powers derived from being "in a dream," their actions don't have an imaginary effect on the plot. Jade really did punch out CD? and take his ring.

[roccie]

Has there been anything retconned in Homestuck? Just for curiosity's sake. I know the whole "white rapper" thing with Bro was retconned temporarily. But someone mentioned to me Karkat's shoes were changed later then he went back and retconned it? Not sure if thats true. But it did spark curiosity to know if anything had ever been retconned.