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THE HOMESTUCK ANIMATED PILOT IS LIVE NOW!

First of all, HOLY SHIT THAT PILOT??? fucking loved it. Yes it was fast paced, but for what it was and all it had to show and get across, it was extremely impressive.

Now onto the important shit

I truly believe that if Dave was voiced in the original, this would be much closer to how he would sound.

Throughout the pilot we almost exclusively see Dave when he is talking to john. We never see him interact with anyone else. He is acting as his namesake, an insufferable prick. He talks fast, he gets on johns case, he talks up his bro, all totally normal early acts Dave stuff.

My theory is that the tone feels off because of the way we normally see Dave type. All lowercase, no tone indication, no punctuation. But lets remember, much of Dave's character hinges on the mask he wears Infront of his friends.

With the switch from totally text based story telling to animation, this meant having some updates to how the kids spoke to each other. Having them physically talk on shitty flip phones rather than texting each other was needed to help with narrative pacing and to give ease with the visual story-telling.

Its very easy to mask as the ironic cool-guy through text, but when talking with your voice, whether its over the phone or face to face, ya wanna know the best way to mask? Raise your pitch, sound upbeat, act happy and cool and, in Dave's case, insufferable.

When Dave isn't trying to play up his personality for john, we do see him frown, and his voice sounds a lot more "normal" to how we may expect him to sound all the time. But also, Dave is 13 years old!! His voice being a bit higher pitched, slightly crackly, lots of fluctuation, is perfect for a teenage boy right at the cusp of puberty!

As an experiment, below I'm going to type out the "title drop" conversation that Dave and John have in the pilot in their typing styles (Filling in the parts where john gets cut off and adding potential page changes) to see how it physically reads.

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-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:13 --

TG: dude did you get the title drop yet

EB: what?

TG: title

TG: drop

EG: Dude, what the fuck are you even (talking about?)

TG: for fucks sake

TG: dont tell me you missed the fucking title drop you gotta pay attention to this shit

TG: did jade knock you off your game with her fucking space cadet bs

EG: dave i don't have time for your vaguely ironic horse shit, i need to go (grab the game)

TG: i got my title drop with haste bro

TG: up at the crack of dawn

TG: early bird and all that

TG: just looked up at the sky (and) boom

TG: there she fucks

===>

TG: felt mad significant

TG: gave me a hella jolt of protag syndrome

TG: not that imma be the hero of this bitch thats all you bestie

EG: you are such a piece of shit!

EG: can you just tell me (what the fuck you're talking about?)

TG: look in the sky numb nuts

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This entire conversation is so in character! its hard to tell outside of the medium we are used to, but it really is. I think we all pictured Dave talking a bit quieter, playing up more of the "too cool to talk to you" sort of thing. but john and Dave really are best friends. this is how they talk to each other.

I understand why people feel the way they do. It can be challenging to interpret a piece of media in a different format, and when we don't think something is interpreted the way it should be, it's frustrating and easy to dismiss it as "out of character." This really isn't anyone's fault, art is always interpreted differently by each individual, eye of the beholder and all that.

Link: https://t.co/ELKq4b5tdd

We already have laws to jail those who make certain types of harmful content, don't accept anyone saying censorship is 'safe' because it just lets the government take control over everything.

we have the power to stop our speech from being filtered, censored, inspected, silenced--all of that. im not signal boosting solely to make people worried, but im also very much not doing it to reassure anyone. we're at an EXTREMELY integral tipping point with all of this, and, if it bears reminding:

if we lose access to the internet and all the things we can do on it now, by the time we get it back, it will be too late.

the only advantages we have is that a group of congresspeople are slower in legislation and implementation than the wider population is in raising hell about it. which is why you need to NOT RELENT about any of this shit in the SLIGHTEST.

i get it if you're tired. i get it if you're over hearing about every new censorship law. but that is what the ENTIRE OPERATION hinges on: your inaction. your apathy. so stop feeding all of your energy into not doing anything, because there is literally NO EXCUSE for you not to be annoying the shit out of credit card and payment processing companies over the phone. there is NO EXCUSE for you to not be calling your representatives in droves.

there are scripts you can use. there are resources. there are places for further information about all of this. it's all out there, and you need to go and use it. find all the pages about KOSA you can. about SCREEN. about all the other awful laws being proposed. find all the pages about the laws being proposed in the EU and Australia if you live in those places, and use whatever email and phone-sending powers you have to put pressure on lawmakers to change this shit.

an assault on everyone's right to the internet should scare you. it should scare everyone. and it should make you want to do the right thing. i don't know what else i could possibly tell you to make you care about this.

stab your apathy in the back and stand up for yourself and everyone who will be affected and damaged by these laws. because they will affect EVERYONE.

Tell your congress or senators to say NO to these proposed nationwide laws:

S.1748 - Kids Online Safety Act

S.1409 - Kids Online Safety Act

H.R.1623 - SCREEN Act

S.737 - SCREEN Act

S.5364 - App Store Accountability Act

H.R.791 - Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act

Block BEARD

Kids Online Protection & Anti-Grooming Act

S.278 - Kids Off Social Media Act

S.4213 - Kids Off Social Media Act

H.R.7891...

BREAKING NEWS:

Another state in the US has joined in on the censorship of the internet. This comes after red and blue states are pushing similar bills.

What "HB 4938" within Michigan does is Outlaw VPNs entirely with $500k fines for using or selling them. Require 24/7 surveillance of all internet traffic for users. Restrict porn, erotic AI, ASMR, manga, and even depictions of trans people. Add porn distributors to the sex offender registry and carry up to 25 years in prison for violations.

these bills are about CENSORSHIP AND MASS SURVEILLANCE. “protecting the children” is a conservative smokescreen and by repeating that narrative, even in contradiction, you are reinforcing it. do not give these far right wingnuts an ounce of credibility. I know you know the words censorship and surveillance.

courtesy of past failures of legislation, it’s increasingly difficult to keep kids away from the dangerous parts of the internet, even in spaces that are supposed to be child safe. do not insult people for struggling to navigate the internet.

kids need opportunities to exist outside of their parents, and the internet is one of the last safe havens left in countries rotting under the weight of industrialization. children are already the most oppressed class in the world. do not encourage parents to invade their kids’ privacy.

again, and I cannot stress this enough, these bills are about CENSORSHIP AND MASS SURVEILLANCE. the goal of these laws is to allow governments to monitor and manipulate huge swathes of the human population. the goal of these laws is to weed out political dissenters and destroy access to information that contradicts propaganda. I do not believe it's a coincidence that this is happening now, in the wake of mass disillusionment with Israel.

1.It’s because this is hard to enforce we can literally see that with the uk people are being loud about their anger at the government

2. Doing this wrong could lead to a revolt of a physical nature

3.(most likely one) It’s obviously deeply unpopular! My representatives assistants got mad at me saying they know about kosa and all the others from all the other people calling! Yeah strength in numbers duh! So if they don’t pass one of them they might be hoping that we take that as a victory and back off then in the middle of the night they’ll try to pass one of the others! (Like they always do!)

The AI would scan all of the content of your phone continuously and report the data to the companies, it would also report anything it deems offensive or illegal to the police and send the all of your information. A blind person can see the problems with this, especially given how AI policing systems regularly identify POC as more likely to commit crimes.

~Youtube support (technically youtube tv support)- 877-763-9810

~Google support- (866) 246-6453

~Alphabet customer service-(650) 253-0000

The Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors Act (Block BEARD Act)

And the equally ridiculous and ineffective Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act

Both of these acts seek to force Internet Service Providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said this is ridiculous and ineffective, that site-blocking bills only serve to censor the internet and make it more unsafe for everyone. AND THE'YRE RIGHT!!!

Piracy has existed until the dawn of time. And pirates will find ways around bills like these with no issue. But these bills are still dangerous and essentially pave the way for your ISP to block whatever our government thinks is "Objectionable". These DINOSAURS who dont understand the internet have no BUSINESS creating legislation around it. This is a bald faced attempt to block the internet for users for corporate gain. Wanna know how I know that?

The people that have endorsed the bill

Are all

People

Who

Would benefit from a bill like this. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!! TELL THEM YOU DO NOT SUPPORT EITHER OF THESE BILLS! OR KOSA WHILE YOURE AT IT! TELL THEM YOU OPPOSE INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN ALL FORMS!

We will not sit idly by while these GHOULS try and block and censor a free Internet!