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But it was good while it lasted. I got to keep my brain sharp by doing a lot of arithmetic in my head, I managed to cut myself off at $120 (quite a feat with the Seerpak wearing down my defenses), and in the comments I found out about sbarg, a Sburb alternate reality game on Tumblr. I'm not playing it myself; I just love the land generator. There's a title generator, too, but I think that's kind of silly; a title is so intrinsically linked to a person's interests, strengths, and personality that a randomly generated one will have no meaning whatsoever. Besides, as much as anyone who hasn't spent their life destined to play the game can, I've already figured out what my title might be.

Yes, I've determined my hypothetical Sburb player title. Yes, I know I've gone completely nuts, and no, I won't say what the title is. It's personal.

But anyway, the land generator is awesome. I generated a whole bunch of names, but the first was my favorite: Land of Silk and Ink. It's compatible with my interests, it's compatible with my chosen title, and, come on, it sounds absolutely beautiful. There's a lot of room for interpretation and lore in it too.

I could go on about how cool LOSAI is in the alternate universe where Homestuck is real and I'm a Sburb player and I don't die immediately upon entry, but there is also the matter of THE KICKSTARTER BEING OVER NOW to revisit. In my last post on the subject, I mentioned that I was oddly psyched about reaching the EFIGS stretch goal. Now that I'm feeling the same way about the "Digital copy of Homestuck included with physical game" goal - because, come on, if the PayPal drive doesn't put it over the top, Ryan North's credit card will - I think I understand it better. Do you know what this means? Even if the whole internet plus the MSPA servers spontaneously goes up in flames, Homestuck will never die. There are the books, obviously, but Homestuck isn't meant to live in books. Digital media may not be permanent, but the information on them can be transferred as a single unit and upgraded and dispersed, and the digital ether is where Homestuck was meant to live. It will always be around. I can show it to my grandchildren. Future generations can study it in school. And they will; I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Similarly, the EFIGS goal represents a ubiquitousness, but of Space rather than Time. The more languages it can be in, the more people it can reach. The more people it reaches, and the longer it perseveres, the more it can enrich its universe. Just as it will always live, it will always grow.

A healthy frog: I'm for it.

I am finally watching these 30 Rock DVDs I bought on Black Friday. The first season is so amazing, but am I crazy or is the second season not that great? The writing is amateurish and nonsensical, rather than the delicate balance of over-the-top eccentricity and heartfelt realism* that I have come to expect after the first season. I had such high hopes for the second season, too, after its first episode. "Things have been said that can never be taken back. She called my vanity license plate 'inscrutable'!" Oh god, it doesn't stop being funny. Anyway, I'm hoping it's just a temporary (writers' strike?) thing and the later seasons are better.

The new Homestuck album had better come out soon. I mean, you know, whenever. I certainly haven't been checking the Bandcamp page and Andrew Hussie's tumblr and twitter multiple times a day in addition to the MSPA main page or anything. Oh god I am so overinvested in this soundtrack. Homestuck music, why must you be so good?*

I can't decide whether I hope Emissary of Wind and/or Joker Strife (from Land of Fans and Music) are on the album or not. On the one hand, if they aren't, that means more new music for me to listen to. On the other hand, I desperately want the people who wrote them to have my money. (The same is also true of Growin' Up Strider and, to a lesser extent, MeGaDanceVaNia, but those aren't about a single character and therefore won't be on the album, plus they remix existing music so the composers wouldn't get as much of my money.)

*Coincidentally, this is the same thing I love most about Ace Attorney, especially in Trials and Tribulations.