2019-04-25 13:34:42 ¶ ●

> I wonder how much facetious housework mom had to do to gain the XP necessary to score the IRONIC NEGLIGENCE technique in her GUARDIAN RUBRIC menu? Maybe she had JUST earned it with that bit of faux-mopping she did a few pages ago. She was probably dying to try it out in battle.

I love this line from Andrew’s Homestuck book commentary on page 388 because it raises the possibility that all of Rose’s Mom’s pretentious ironic housewife shit is just a weird kind of XP grinding, and none of that ever really got any satisfactory alternative explanation.

Is this made funnier or somehow more significant by the fact that Roxy is a gaming enthusiast in the Alpha timeline? Probably not.