HOUSETRAPPED - SYLLADEXES AND STRIFE ABSTRATI

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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:19 PM

Have you ever wished you could just, pick things up? With your hands? So do we. But unfortunately we live in a world created by a GUY WHO THINKS COMPUTER SCIENCE JOKES ARE FUNNY!

Which

Honestly

They can be lol.

So the punchcards mentioned briefly are actually these things called captcha cards

It's basically Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon -- pokemon in that u can just put things inside the cards, yugioh in that, they're cards

Front of the card shows u what you put in it, back shows u a captcha (yes captcha) that represents the item

If you use the punch designix u can input the words n number combo and translate it into punchcards, readable by the totem carver, readable by the item maker

You might be wondering. Why the fuck is the totem carver a step

And not just integrated into the item maker. Just put the card in get an item out

And you'd be right lol

They just merge that shit by panel like 1500

Never see a totem lathe again

I guess it forces the player to interact w the cruxtruder

But like

If you're getting rid of the totem who cares

Just say none of the machines work until you free the kernelsprite (edited)

Anyway will be a sec

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:33 PM

Okay back

Sylladexes are fun!!!!

So you might look at your captcha cards and be like (edited)

Why can't I hold, all these cards!

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:34 PM

that picture will never not make me laugh

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:34 PM

Changed the channel name.

That's good bc that's why I posted it :3

If I was home I'd have photoshopped that to have him holding a bunch of blank captcha cards

Anyway

Homestuck operates on computer science joke logic

And the first few characters we meet

All have very silly mathy inventory systems

Sure, you may think video games nowadays have unique and fun inventory systems

But how many of those require you to, like, do math on the value of the letters subtracting for vowels adding for consonants, to figure out what inventory slot your item goes in? Forcing you to be creative w what you call shit?

Or, like, operate on tree sorting algorithm logic, where the biggest items become the root of the tree, and unbalanced leaves fall out of your inventory

Or like get silly w it

Sillier*

Fuckin, draw on a drawing tablet to get your items out of your inventory

Use a Ouija board to summon your items

Grab em from where they're crumpled up inside the empty wine bottles from your like, semi-real wine cabinet!!!

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:39 PM

Mario kart modus! Yugioh Duel Dex! the possibilities are endless and all very silly

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:39 PM

Exactly!!!

It's one of the, imho, more fun aspects of the Infinite Sorting Ceremony esp bc u can simply choose to switch your modus out for boring ass Array modus at any time

Every single character has the option to just

Choose their cards from a list

And they all choose not to

Which is deeply fucking funny to me.

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:40 PM

wheres the fun in a sane inventory

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None!!!!

And it can also reveal like, bits abt your character

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:40 PM

sometimes you want to accidentally launch a can of shaving cream across the wilderness

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:41 PM

Jake English action hero ofc has the inventory system from Resident Evil 4, except absurd bc it's gigantic and he should've never run out of space except one of the cards is literally a fucking building his grandma told him to hang on to

Like. I stan

And John fucking launching cards from his inventory bc he can only pick the card at the top of the deck, spewing shards of glass and cake everywhere

Good shit

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:43 PM

ooh, idle game sylladex where you need to buy back your items for ever more ludicrous amounts of Arbitrarium

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just a little dude swinging a pickaxe in the corner of your screen forever and sometimes you grab something and shove it into your inventory cause itll help the lil guy mine faster

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:45 PM

Yes

Exactly

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:45 PM

doom sylladex

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:45 PM

Send your Funko pops to the Funko mine

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:45 PM

doesnt hold any items

but it runs doom

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:45 PM

Nft sylladex

Will spit out 10,000 randomly generated variations of your item, SELLING FAST! GET IN ON IT NOW

All are fucking garbage

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:46 PM

lmfaooo

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:46 PM

But if you're lucky

U can sell it to some alligators

And make sweet boondollars

Goddamn, uh, roguelike sylladex

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:47 PM

why are alligators so dang gullible

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:47 PM

Put in your item and it could be way better

But if you take damage while using it for x amount of time following taking it out

You lose the item

Basically chaos boons lol

Bet your skill against the benefit of the boost

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:48 PM

great up until you stub your toe and your phone vanishes from existence

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:49 PM

Shouldn't have taken that!!!

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:49 PM

sonic sylladex

its just array except every time you get hit everything fucking explodes out of you like a pinata

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you do get iframes tho

which is very helpful in real life

fun fact! you can alchemize sylladexes

so you could combine the sonic sylladex and the roguelike sylladex to make a sylladex that deletes your inventory every time you take damage :O

the sansladex

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:01 PM

OH you also get a new really good grist reward every 100 unique cards wout getting damaged (edited)

For the Sonic one

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:02 PM

i mean that would be pretty great

i do like free stuff

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:02 PM

So is being Sonic the Hedgehog!

But also

If you have no cards on you and fucking anything touches you

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:03 PM

r i p

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:03 PM

So

Sylladexes are one thing

There's also the strife deck

Very similar but slightly different

Weapon slot as opposed to inventory slot

And for each type of weapon, you get infinite slots (I think?? Or maybe by the time you start doing weapon upgrades, how many cards you have becomes irrelevant)

But! You can only register one kind of strife weapon per strife abstratus

Everyone across reality gets one free one on their thirteenth birthday

And u can choose from a vast list of different kinds of weapons

I actually like

hope you like hammers bro!!

You can get multiple if u want, but for the sake of like

Restrictions breeding creativity

Most players stick w one

John has to think of more and more goofy and elaborate and powerful hammers

Yeah he could get a riflekind abstratus but like

Why lol

He likes hammers :3

Strife specibi are just like, one of a bajillion comedy props Homestuck can decide to use at any time

As well as being a unifying part of the art style

Most power progression for players involves upgrading weapons within their specibus

Cool new swords or rifles or swords or canes

Or, very memorably and iconically, dice

Anyway yes

See, the front and back of a blank strife abstratus, and two examples of assigned ones

I have no recollection what the 3 boxes on the side do

And I'm 100% sure neither does Andrew Hussie

God Homestuck really does operate on Dora the Explorer logic doesn't it

Go inside the computadora

Get commands and then proceed

Giant mouse

Fuckin. Animal friends

I think that's more or less everything for sylladexes and strife specibi

There's like, a fuckin, wallet modus too

That's the only actually important one to point out

All other moduses are like

In the Game Inventory

In like

A vague and inexplicable way

But the wallet modus is just

A wallet that you put cards in

It's one of very very few w physical tangibility

And so losing it sucks lol

But also facilitates certain plot points in Homestuck

Haha

Knowing John's dad has a wallet is goddamn vital information

Anyway. That's really it for now

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:22 PM

the wallet also has like

no size limit

can just stuff a car in your wallet

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:22 PM

It's morreeee or less the best one?

aorticAblution

can just stuff a car in your wallet

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:22 PM

John's dad carries a spare car in his wallet luckily

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:23 PM

its a damn good wallet

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The physicality of it is definitely the only drawback. U can lose it

It's not backed by the blockchain

Hahaha

Oh god

Is Homestuck just fucking

Nfts the webcomic?

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:23 PM

oh no

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Each Sburb session

Is infinitely customizable

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:24 PM

viri no please stop

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:24 PM

But does come at the small cost of Literally Unhyperbolically destroying the planet

aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 08:24 PM

dont go into the Light

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 08:24 PM

I will simply

Refrain

From the joke that Homestuck makes abt crypto

Because that joke sucks and was dated the second it game out

Instead I'll generate every consort to be part of a unique series of 10,000 bubble salamanders

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If I was home I'd have photoshopped that to have him holding a bunch of blank captcha cards

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 14-Jan-22 01:10 AM

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@aorticAblution i never joke

too many limes modus

wait doesnt jade like

actually have that

aorticAblution 14-Jan-22 01:11 AM

the memory one?

match the fruit!

【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 14-Jan-22 01:12 AM

yes!