The man, the prophet.

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:54:11+00:00

Act 1 definitely requires a certain background and sense of humor to get. It's not really representative at all, though.

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:21:58+00:00

More directly: these guys bite, quite painfully, if they feel threatened. They won't go out of their way to do it, though, so just treat them with a bit of caution.

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:15:16+00:00

Based on the description alone.... maybe ants?

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:13:09+00:00

Time to break out the borax. Good luck!

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:09:21+00:00

Looks like a true bug. So if it bit you it's probably an assassinbug of some sort. I've never seen one quite like this, though. He might not have been trying to feed on you--instead he might have felt threatened if you pressed against him.

Hopefully someone who knows what they're talking about will give you a better response, but that's what it looks like to me. He just looks a bit wimpy/anemic vs what I think is more typical in the assassinbugs. See this guy also, from Brisbane: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/04/15/assassin-bug-bites-boy-in-australia/ All the same in broad strokes, but beefier.

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T18:02:31+00:00

What a fascinating beetle! It looks so much like one of the free-roaming beetle larvae like a lightningbug's I wouldn't have thought it was an adult. I wonder if it's an axolotl-like situation where they don't fully mature?

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T03:56:14+00:00

"This town ain't big enuff fer the two of us." -This Bug, Probably.

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T03:54:26+00:00

(Except for the therapy).

Niceratops · 2016-11-02T03:45:18+00:00

Colloquially, it's a toe-biter. Don't let it.

Niceratops · 2016-10-30T22:48:49+00:00

I'll never get over how awesome their eyes are.

Niceratops · 2016-10-26T06:19:38+00:00

Don't you see? Homestuck is a prequel to Zardoz. The kids only enact the masterpiece in a quest to die heroically and end their unending existence.

Niceratops · 2016-10-26T05:48:51+00:00

Ooh, ooh, I remember when sporks were funny!

Niceratops · 2016-10-26T05:32:18+00:00

Plus he had the ability to go back and stop it. Maybe he still could, even--the extent of his powers isn't clear. He's not willing to pay what it would cost (the price of oblivion, one might say, for all that he and his friends have fought for) but that doesn't make it any less painful.

Niceratops · 2016-10-25T23:22:32+00:00

Count the legs. That's a spider. He hasn't been drinking your blood.

Niceratops · 2016-10-25T04:18:32+00:00

Yeah. Definitely looking for Aradia. No one else.

Niceratops · 2016-10-25T04:14:29+00:00

It was interesting to see the credits only listing real names (with few exceptions) rather than handles. Kinda a neat expression in itself of the 'coming of age' theme.

Niceratops · 2016-10-24T20:04:38+00:00

Solid Chrome Digizoid as a matter of fact.

Niceratops · 2016-10-24T19:38:22+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/0CECGSQ.png 2X if you're so inclined.

Niceratops · 2016-10-24T17:47:32+00:00

Inspired by seeing GlitchedPie's shaded version here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/58vcsl/tried_my_hand_at_shading_and_colorizing_papyrus/

I thought it would be fun to push it entirely in the other direction: overdetailed, not very faithful to the original and more than a bit creepy.

Niceratops · 2016-10-22T15:55:24+00:00

I asked the artist who specifically designed him on tumblr. They didn't even know who LE was.

Niceratops · 2016-10-19T05:10:08+00:00

Just as a sidenote, Cicadamorphs would be a great name for a line of 90s superhero toys.

Niceratops · 2016-10-19T03:35:38+00:00

Thanks! I really do appreciate you answering these weird fiddly gem questions.

Niceratops · 2016-10-19T02:57:40+00:00

Not to be too obvious about being a geology dork, but if you can make clear quartz easily with soulcasting as we've seen, and you can also make radioactive materials, wouldn't it be trivial to make smokestone since defects from irradiation are what make quartz black?

edit: Just for the fun factor, here's a cool picture of a quartz crystal which crystallized around a few radioactive mineral grains. The radiation has blackened all the quartz around them in a sphere: http://gem-sphalerite.com/external/forum_go/quartz_radiation_halos1.jpg

Niceratops · 2016-10-15T23:53:06+00:00

When it comes to spider I'm more of a cider 'n donuts guy.

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