10/8 Upd8 Discussion Thread!

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Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:04 PM7 days ago

Hi guys! I would like to know what ppl thought of todays update! I would say my thoughts, but unfortunately I just skimmed the upd8 because I’m busy. I will reread to formulate my thoughts later. So for now, feel free to tell me what yall think!

— matpat

matthew
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:05 PM7 days ago

satyrs real i'm normal about this (lying)

the tail wag auugghhh

Choir
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:09 PM7 days ago

His name is fucking Swiss. like the cheese.

Honestly Dirk being a big Roman History guy makes a lot of sense. I thought all the assests in Swiss's home look really good, and some of the portmantaeu's were really funny. Fucking. Senataur. Politrician. Great stuff.


Also, while I kinda hate him, I think his little tail wagging is very cute

Haven't had the chance to read the librarium fully yet, but the music is great and I'm glad we're getting a lot of lore in an S page like this.

Blueberry Lunascratch
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:11 PM7 days ago

absolutely demented. Dirk's my little pony retvrn society is completely noxious and i love it. i laughed so fucking hard

Spades Slick is a butch lesbian 2k25 (Big Felt doesn't want you to know)

archivalAngel
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:13 PM7 days ago

The one thing I can comment on is the tail wag and the hop made me imagine Swiss as a bunny LOL it was very cute

— matpat

matthew
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:14 PM7 days ago

of course the species dirk makes is just my little pony

what who said that

red ozymandias
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:14 PM7 days ago

@archivalangel my first reaction to seeing all the grecoroman stuff was NERRRRRRRRRD but like i said i skimmed it so its probs a lot more noxious once i actually read it after finishing my assignments RIP

— matpat

matthew
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:22 PM7 days ago

Exemplar. EXEmplAR. Glasses. Do you see.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:30 PM7 days ago

swiss kicks so much ass hes awesome. i am interested to see what they do with the different fraternities. also my mind is blown with the possibility of the examplar being the glasses holy peak

This guys a chad, a legend, and a fucking goat...

April
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 9:48 PM7 days ago

[Before expressing this, I just want to say I respect the Beyond Canon creators.]



Dirk you suck, you've never sucked more than in this sacred and prestigious moment of unveiling your fanspecies. All of your Epilogues shitty moves are nothing compared to this travesty of a worldbuilding. What did you even DO to these poor Satyrs.


Dirk took one look at the worldbuilding class and decided that he was better than this, no, he didn't need to "study" Tolkien or Herbert or Jemisin or Bigencenryin or anything.


Read Alabaster here: https://mspfa.com/?s=236

Oasis Nadrama
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, 11:09 PM7 days ago

i love love love swiss. yeah he sucks but he can so totally be saved and fixed from that...it's no wonder he's the one jane gets (the hand on the console has jane's color as nail polish, and also the command voice uses "shucks" which is a Jane-ism). he's 16 and let the class president role really get to his head. candy jane would probably actually like this kid over her real kid, so i wanna see him and tavvy duke it out a little bit...so good. auguhg. i love worldbuilding i love satyrs i love nymphs i love deltritus!!!

alexArtform
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 0:10 AM7 days ago

Wow!!! SWISS!!!!

I pictured Swiss as being a huge, uppity nerd. But instead, he's a huge uppity nerd AND a valedictorian political scientist... and a meninist grifter! Because Dirk.

I thought the console person might've been June (because of course I would jump to that) but it being Jane makes more sense and is a cool as hell set-up for what the MeatCrew will be doing in Act 2... also, this means that one of the kids will be commanded by Karkat and I'm very excited to find out which one will get stuck with him screaming commands into their head all the time.

Phenomenal upd8! Loved the huge lore dump of Satyrs and their relationships with the Nymphs. The comments Swiss makes on the library page imply he doesn't know that some of his friends are Nymphs. Also, the music was ok. It didn't really fit the vibe of a library (I think, ironically, it would fit the Vrisual novel better while the music from the Vrisual novel would fit this scene better... how sillywacky). It did remind me of the soundtrack to crticially-acclaimed and beloved Undertale fan-AU comic Inverted Fate! So thats a plus I think?!


And like everyone else has said, his little tail and hopping around made me think he was a bunny, and despite already revealing himself to be a pretty shitty person (not a bad thing!), he's still pretty cute (which feels fucked up to say).

A little pink guy with purple hair named Fullstop is responsible for yapping the above post by way of speechbubble.png


M. (al rab)
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 0:20 AM7 days ago

give the new kids a bad inside joke and have it negatively impact the story in 4 acts time



Please make sure to read my profile before making assumptions.

Radiation
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 1:57 AM7 days ago

Ok finally read it and digested it. Swiss is racist

I mean not surprising due to his whole aesthetic, but actually reading it a instead of skimming just showed me how racist he is

— matpat

matthew
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 2:09 AM7 days ago

I just hope the satyrs are named after cheese

And that's about it.

Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 3:06 AM7 days ago

I genuinely love the very concept of the satyrs thus far and seeing that stallions are just mlp earth ponies down to the "they have weird magic stuff going on that make them the way they are even if they're Normal Ponies" was great like
Oh Dirk Strider you will never leave behind your love of MLP even as a god creating a dude centered war horse society

"We Dirk splinters can be pretty Machiavellian but we do actually have some fuckin' standards."

horse guy
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 3:52 AM7 days ago

+1 to yay yippie cute tail wag animation


ive always said a tail is always an instant +10 cute modifier to ANY character at minimum

A drawing of a red anthro wyvern holding a stylus with arm-wings open captioned "> Autumn: Retrieve wings."

Autumn
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 4:52 AM7 days ago

WHO named him Swiss???

Spades
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 6:40 AM7 days ago

Oh god he's a fucking Greek statue RETVRN dudebro. I hate him. I hate using the word "knockama" to refer to his friends. Is...is that the Dean from community?

https://youtube.com/@DeepDiveDevin

Deep Dive Devin
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 9:24 AM7 days ago

hate him sosososo much i am putting dirk and his racist mlp ocs in the blender bring me back to roses beautiful lesbian squids (good upd8)


antimony
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 9:28 AM7 days ago

i think that he's swiss because of swiss army knives, like how a dirk is a knife or smthing.

GregisCool
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