My Little Pony XXX: Trixie Treats!

[the_druid_droid]

Behind on thread progress. Will catch up when there's time.

Time enough to post this though: Dr. Adorable (http://ask-dr-adorable.tumblr.com/)

Will be following with every fiber of my being!

[Brazen Shield]

Dude, someone kicked your cat or something? :smallconfused:

I'm leaving this alone because I was asked too.

However, please be aware that asking this type of question is insulting.

Also, just because you don't understand what's going on doesn't mean I don't have a good reason for saying or not saying something.

In the future, a PM would be a better means of communication.

[byaku rai]

You've all seen this before, I merely leave it here in the hopes of
A) defusing any tensions, and
B) getting it out of my head, or at least sharing the glory.

Maremelldansen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMAH8b-TbM&feature=related)

[Eakin]

You've all seen this before, I merely leave it here in the hopes of
A) defusing any tensions, and
B) getting it out of my head, or at least sharing the glory.

Maremelldansen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMAH8b-TbM&feature=related)

I used to think that was the pinkiest PMV possible, until I found an even pinkier one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpt5Z2-jvA)
But the pinkiest original song I've found that doesn't use any clips or voice samples from the show would be the SUGAR RUSH MIX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDPjNM6AYl0)
Pinky is totally an adjective now


Muppets target audience:
Everyone who likes the Muppets. Or comedy, if they were deprived of the Muppets. Maybe even Statler and Waldorf.

Twilight target audience:
Sparkly-vampire-loving girls. Count double because they drag along their boyfriends.
Brace yourself to feel old: The muppets have been off the air and out of the pop culture collective unconscious for about a decade. Most of the people who'd be going to see Twilight have probably never heard of them

[Kindablue]

Brace yourself to feel old: The muppets have been off the air and out of the pop culture collective unconscious for about a decade. Most of the people who'd be going to see Twilight have probably never heard of them

It's a bit before my time. I've never seen an episode or any of the movies.

[BlasTech]

Wugh, was feeling a bit down yesterday, y'know one of those moods where you feel like shunning human/pony contact for a while?

I ended up playing some games with some friends, and felt a little better in the end, but must have still been a bit under because I had a night of restless sleeping and nightmares (not scary ones, but the kind of ones that depress you with life-affecting things; eg. your boss being replaced with someone you really hate etc)

Anyway, in amongst all the flickering visions of running around fixing things, having to deal with stress from said manager and the like ... I remember one brief scene.

Lix.

I have never seen her before, I still can't remember what she looked like in my dream, and I still don't know how I knew it was her ... BUT I KNEW!

Anyway, she was only there for a brief moment ... she turned me into a toy Tonka Truck and gave me a hug.

I kinda feel a bit better now ...

But I still gotta ask ... LIXIE, WHAT THE HAY WERE YOU DOING IN MY HEAD?!?!




Pony thread has slowed to a crawl, hasn't it? One page per night now, when it used to be two or three... There are times when I hate to be proven right - even partially...

I'm still here! I just have to be up and out for work early and back late this week, so minimal pony for me :smallfrown:

That said, guess what has just started showing on Cartoon Network down here early in the morning? :smallbiggrin: Only up to Ticket Master though, so plenty of catching up to do.

One advert, however, has a horrible G3.5 flash pinkie pie advertising a plushie ... it really hurts to see that while waiting for the show to come back.


Share in my seizure. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPA6QPrqvI&NR=1)

POOOONEEEEEEEEEE.

[Kurgan]

Never seen anything with the muppets?! Well then, lets just solve that right now:

The Great Gonzo! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6TTU1knUM)

Swedish Chef (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qj8PhxSnhg&feature=related)

[Vorpalbob]

Actually, if I had anything that resembled either time or creative talent, I would try to make Statler and Waldorf heckle My Little Pony. It would be glorious. Someone please make this happen http://i.imgur.com/EvxT1.png

I am a huge fan of Statler and Waldorf, and riffing in general. I was raised on a steady diet of MST3K. I would LOVE to do a riff of some pony episodes. Anyone else interested?

I don't understand the technical side of such things, but I'm sure I could learn.

[Forum Explorer]

Brace yourself to feel old: The muppets have been off the air and out of the pop culture collective unconscious for about a decade. Most of the people who'd be going to see Twilight have probably never heard of them


Which makes the plotline of the movie (as far as I understand it) hilariously accurate. Also I don't feel old but instead marvel on how short a decade is or rather how much happens.

On another note I have too many pony tabs going. Far too many. Mostly because they are all fics I'm reading through at the same time or this thread. (Sometimes thats the same thing.)

Anyways have some pony art

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NzwS90_JT2Y/Tq9V2nQhztI/AAAAAAAAQTY/qQyaLFYLzzs/s1600/applebloom_departs_by_atticus83-d4egafw.png
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--ab9JkGHMXs/Tq9V3T82evI/AAAAAAAAQTo/x4iyGD9jOvU/s1600/treat_pwees_by_larrle-d4eic1x.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5xNLM1aIYw/Tq9V4l6A71I/AAAAAAAAQT4/5wZOl5TNPxY/s1600/run_away_by_n1de-d4e7edr.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8piwphd_hL4/Tq9V584qkyI/AAAAAAAAQUM/KrbqbhiqWXM/s1600/happy_halloween_from_luna_by_snowpeak-d4ek2a8.png

[Lix Lorn]

Wugh, was feeling a bit down yesterday, y'know one of those moods where you feel like shunning human/pony contact for a while?

I ended up playing some games with some friends, and felt a little better in the end, but must have still been a bit under because I had a night of restless sleeping and nightmares (not scary ones, but the kind of ones that depress you with life-affecting things; eg. your boss being replaced with someone you really hate etc)

Anyway, in amongst all the flickering visions of running around fixing things, having to deal with stress from said manager and the like ... I remember one brief scene.

Lix.

I have never seen her before, I still can't remember what she looked like in my dream, and I still don't know how I knew it was her ... BUT I KNEW!

Anyway, she was only there for a brief moment ... she turned me into a toy Tonka Truck and gave me a hug.

I kinda feel a bit better now ...

But I still gotta ask ... LIXIE, WHAT THE HAY WERE YOU DOING IN MY HEAD?!?!
HEY PONYTHREAD WHATS UP
...
:smallredface:
:redface:
I'mma gonna blush bright red, hide under my desk, and never come out now.

[Gaelbert]

Wugh, was feeling a bit down yesterday, y'know one of those moods where you feel like shunning human/pony contact for a while?

I ended up playing some games with some friends, and felt a little better in the end, but must have still been a bit under because I had a night of restless sleeping and nightmares (not scary ones, but the kind of ones that depress you with life-affecting things; eg. your boss being replaced with someone you really hate etc)

Anyway, in amongst all the flickering visions of running around fixing things, having to deal with stress from said manager and the like ... I remember one brief scene.

Lix.

I have never seen her before, I still can't remember what she looked like in my dream, and I still don't know how I knew it was her ... BUT I KNEW!

Anyway, she was only there for a brief moment ... she turned me into a toy Tonka Truck and gave me a hug.

I kinda feel a bit better now ...

But I still gotta ask ... LIXIE, WHAT THE HAY WERE YOU DOING IN MY HEAD?!?!

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

[Trixie]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

...out of curiosity, what form I had? :P

...

Also, relevant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clm3GjqncJs) http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

[Mystic Muse]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

What did I look like?

[Gaelbert]

Should have seen that coming. I'll try to remember, but like I said, I had completely forgotten about it until now. Some of the details are rather sketchy.


...out of curiosity, what form I had? :P

Blue, but the color of the G&PT's hair. The mane was a darker blue or purple. You definitely had a horn, you might have been an alicorn though.


What did I look like?

Orange earth pony, yellow (maybe green?) hair, cherry or some other type of fruit cutie mark.

Wow, I'm a little impressed I remembered both of those.

[Nameless]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

I hope I was there. Because if I wasn't... http://i.imgur.com/2E2Va.png

I actually had a dream about ponies once too, which is strange because television has never directly effected my dreams before. All I remember from it, is Applejack calling me "Sugar Cube". http://i.imgur.com/gMCGS.png

[Shadowy]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

Kinda wondering if I should ask about this...

Or if the distinction was clear enough between us...

[Mystic Muse]

Orange earth pony, yellow (maybe green?) hair, cherry or some other type of fruit cutie mark.

Wow, I'm a little impressed I remembered both of those.

....Huh.

Any chance you remember what my mane and tail looked like?

[Tectonic Robot]

I'm writing a Dwar Fortress mlp crossover!
When I first saw that, I thought, woah! The Dorfs and ponies are going to meet up and it's going to be exactly how I imagined it! But it wasn't. Still, it's a pretty interesting fic.


I am a huge fan of Statler and Waldorf, and riffing in general. I was raised on a steady diet of MST3K. I would LOVE to do a riff of some pony episodes. Anyone else interested?

I don't understand the technical side of such things, but I'm sure I could learn.
Statler and Waldorf are best ponies. Or should be best ponies. And that sounds fun, but I'm too self conscious to do anything like that.


I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.
...Did I show up?

[kpenguin]

Was I there? I mean, I don't really have a pony-persona, so. Did your mind make one up?

Or do I not count as a ponythread person.

[Welf]

In which Kindablue kinda commits murder.
Seriously. This is much easier than you're all making it out to be. Even on the soulless, toneless Internet, this is easy. He gave a list of three things. "An depression," "a thyroid dysfunction," and realizing that "nothing matters anyway" (all in a single, long, I'd say kind of beautiful polysyndetic sentence). Two of those are legitimate medical disorders that could be used in a serious argument to refute what you were saying, as you just admitted. The third was cribbed from my middle school diary. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WhuikFY1Pg)

Rarity approves of this and any future killing sprees.http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png


Apologies; I study philosophy. I've spent long enough arguing that for real that I forget irony.

You know, today I wondered if several ancient philosophers were just early trolls who liked to annoy people.


I'll back up what Thanqol said here. Nihilism (defined in this sense) isn't even tenable from within nihilism. That's what Camus was all about. If you have any doubts, read something like the Myth of Sisyphus or The Rebel. He trashes it from within.

Does it? Nihilism says there's not objective moral, and I haven't seen a rebuttal of that. I don't count increased pheromone levels caused by evolutionary useful behaviour as objective measurement.


Medical and hormonal problems are outside my area of expertise, but I can contest nihilism. Nihilism is a weak-ass philosophy. If everything we do is predetermined, meaningless and brief then the only ideal left to us is sharing joy with each other. If the universe is cruel and impersonal, then the only thing that is human is us, and it falls upon us alone to show kindness and love to each other. If this is all there is, despair is a waste of the valuable, transient time you have available to you. May as well be happy. May as well make others happy. Just because a flame doesn't burn forever doesn't mean the flame can't be beautiful.


It#s not that easy. To quote Angel:


ANGEL: Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because I don't think people should suffer, as they do. Because, if there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.

The point is, if the smallest act of kindness is the greatest, what does this make the greatest act of kindness? If it's also the greatest act of kindness, it would mean any amount of effort or effect will always lead to the same result.

by the way: I don't go around and quote Nietzsche all day. I like the increases of happy hormones in my blood stream when I act evolutionary useful.

Random image dump to increase ponyness. by CSIMax (http://csimadmax.deviantart.com/)

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/303/4/6/castleluna_by_csimadmax-d4ejlaa.png
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/303/4/6/canterlot_voice_by_csimadmax-d4ejl9c.png
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/303/2/1/twilight_seine_by_csimadmax-d4ejl8g.png
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/283/c/3/a_diferent__celestia_by_csimadmax-d4cek6s.png
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/283/0/a/luna_vs_baseball_by_csimadmax-d4cek4e.png
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/277/f/1/rarity_rouge_by_csimadmax-d4butg2.png

[Lix Lorn]

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/283/c/3/a_diferent__celestia_by_csimadmax-d4cek6s.png
ALL ALICORNS ARE BORN AS TRIPLETS

[Gamerlord]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.
Out of curiosity, was I there?

[Eakin]

Hey everypony! I got the results of the CISSP exam I took three weeks ago! Did I pass? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpgy21r_dRE)

[Gaelbert]

Almost all of them were directly related to your avatar. If you don't have a pony avatar, then the color scheme of your avatar. Also, everypony was female. No exceptions.

So...

I hope I was there. Because if I wasn't... http://i.imgur.com/2E2Va.png

I actually had a dream about ponies once too, which is strange because television has never directly effected my dreams before. All I remember from it, is Applejack calling me "Sugar Cube". http://i.imgur.com/gMCGS.png

Black body with a black and purple mane. I remember that one in particular, you really stood out (even enough for me to notice it inside my muddled dream-state)


Kinda wondering if I should ask about this...

Or if the distinction was clear enough between us...

You guessed it.


....Huh.

Any chance you remember what my mane and tail looked like?

Here, something like this. (Made from the pony generator)
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z270/coolcalbert/SoftServe.png


...Did I show up?

Unicorn, gray body with a darker gray mane. Cutie mark was some sort of lug nut. No idea why.


Was I there? I mean, I don't really have a pony-persona, so. Did your mind make one up?

Or do I not count as a ponythread person.

Interestingly enough, there was a penguin there. It wasn't you though. You were a dark gray pegasus with blue hair. The cutie mark was a sceptre.


Does it? Nihilism says there's not objective moral, and I haven't seen a rebuttal of that. I don't count increased pheromone levels caused by evolutionary useful behaviour as objective measurement.
Just curious, have you read the Myth of Sisyphus? The whole point is that there is no meaning to life (or if there is, it's impossible for humans to know), but yet everyone tries to find a meaning in their life. The combination of the two is what is know as the absurd. He calls for "acceptance without resignation" of the absurd, and for a continual revolt against it.
Now wait for a person better versed in philosophy than me comes and demolishes that.

[Bayonet Priest]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

The only dream I can remember that was related to ponies in any way was just of me posting on ponythread. Completely mundane. All my dreams are either mundane stuff like that or random crazy nonsense. Like that time I got chased through Slidell, Louisiana by Professor Snape after stealing his scooter that he kept at the Juneau, Alaska airport for some reason. Or the one where the Walmart I once worked at was located inside my grandmother's house and my former coworkers glued gumballs all over my car that was parked out front. The gumballs were inexplicably chicken flavored.

On a less crazy subject I just saw this.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H2BsiyIvSUw/TrA8JpdnMZI/AAAAAAAAQag/xDoJZ8VLis4/s640/FromMhairi2.jpg

I want a Big Mac so bad. I usually don't even care too much about pony toys but it's Big Macintosh. For some reason that makes it different.

[byaku rai]

duplicate post, please ignore

[Nameless]

Black body with a black and purple mane. I remember that one in particular, you really stood out (even enough for me to notice it inside my muddled dream-state)

Yay, that's pretty much how I imagine my pony self. I must know everything that happened in this dream, as well as what kind of pony I was and what my cutie mark was.

The great and powerful Nameless demands it! http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

[MBI]

I had a pony dream last night too. I have no Idea what happened in it, But I remember waking up with the mental image of Twilight Sparkle In Gears of War armour with a lancer modified for pony use. Which is kinda odd, considering I haven't played a Gears of War game in months. I also remember Page 6000 of Homestuck being made out of Minecraft Blocks. It was 248 blocks high.

I once also had 6 pony dreams in the space of a week. It was pretty darn awesome.

[byaku rai]

I haven't actually had any pony dreams, but i'm sure that's only a matter of time.

... Actually, I did have one where I was watching a movie with a humanized Fluttershy, but I'm not sure that counts. :smallconfused:

On an unrelated note, the Ponyhammer RP is dying! If you're involved with it, please, for the love of Luna go save it! And if you're not, feel free to join!

I also feel the urge to ask whether I was in Gaelbert's dream, but that's not likely, so *shrug* ^^"

[Mando Knight]

I had a dream about ponies last night.
Le gasp! Me too!

...Though mine was relatively unsolicited. I'd have expected zombie apocalypse or Fallout related dreams last night, but ponies was relatively out of the blue. Except for the affirmation of the spread of pony throughout the university.

My dreams are generally pretty weird, though.
Something about a fashion related event in Ponyville, then the Mane 6 realizing they all had something really important they had to do (Spike bursts in with a message for Twilight), then a mysterious figure (a talking cockatrice, I think?) getting upset that they all had to leave. Cut to a first person view of Applejack running some errands, but as she was paying for whatever she was buying, she saw a hand.

Her hand. AJ had turned into a human. Cut back to third-person view, and AJ is in--a field?--looking for Twilight. She runs into Luna (I think?), who is visibly upset about something (she may have also been at the opening event). When asked, she says that something's wrong with Twilight. They run to her, and found that Twilight is writhing on the ground, with roughly her back half turned flesh-colored.

My memory of the dream (or at least, any memory that follows any kind of plotline) kinda stops there. The apparent plot from the part that I remember is that the figure from the opening scene cursed the Mane 6 (and possibly Luna), and they were turning into humans one by one. And no, they weren't naked. Or, at least, AJ was wearing a stylized cowgirl outfit, as I don't recall seeing the others in human form throughout the dream.

[Kindablue]

Almost all of them were directly related to your avatar. If you don't have a pony avatar, then the color scheme of your avatar. Also, everypony was female. No exceptions..

Do you remember mine by any chance?

[Kris Strife]

Gaelbert, was I in your pony dream?

[Eakin]

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

[Tiki Snakes]

So, it struck me earlier, but Spike doesn't have any wings.
Wonder what he'll look like when he's older? Either they grow in seperately at some point, or he'll look potentially significantly different to the Dragon's we've seen so far.

[Tectonic Robot]

Almost all of them were directly related to your avatar. If you don't have a pony avatar, then the color scheme of your avatar. Also, everypony was female. No exceptions.

Unicorn, gray body with a darker gray mane. Cutie mark was some sort of lug nut. No idea why.


...

I SHOWED UP???

Squuuuuuuuueeeeeeee!

As a mare! Ok, that bits weird, but still! Squeeeeeeee...

Edit: I just read that Halloween thing.
I really can't talk about what I'm feeling right now.

[MBI]

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

Wow. I have no words to describe this. Words are never enough to describe things like this. I can't image what it must feel like, knowing that you won't live to a decent age. It must have been terrifying for her, especially as she was only ten.

[Dirtbag]

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

Why would you post such heart-wrenching sadness. ;_;

[Forum Explorer]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

I'm kinda curious if I was in it.

Doubt it though.

In other news I slept in today and this has enraged me apparently as I've been snappish and easily angered by everything today. Though the anger doesn't last. So today has been Angry-calm-angry-calm-angry-angry-calm.

[Lix Lorn]

Le gasp! Me too!

...Though mine was relatively unsolicited. I'd have expected zombie apocalypse or Fallout related dreams last night, but ponies was relatively out of the blue. Except for the affirmation of the spread of pony throughout the university.

My dreams are generally pretty weird, though.
Something about a fashion related event in Ponyville, then the Mane 6 realizing they all had something really important they had to do (Spike bursts in with a message for Twilight), then a mysterious figure (a talking cockatrice, I think?) getting upset that they all had to leave. Cut to a first person view of Applejack running some errands, but as she was paying for whatever she was buying, she saw a hand.

Her hand. AJ had turned into a human. Cut back to third-person view, and AJ is in--a field?--looking for Twilight. She runs into Luna (I think?), who is visibly upset about something (she may have also been at the opening event). When asked, she says that something's wrong with Twilight. They run to her, and found that Twilight is writhing on the ground, with roughly her back half turned flesh-colored.

My memory of the dream (or at least, any memory that follows any kind of plotline) kinda stops there. The apparent plot from the part that I remember is that the figure from the opening scene cursed the Mane 6 (and possibly Luna), and they were turning into humans one by one. And no, they weren't naked. Or, at least, AJ was wearing a stylized cowgirl outfit, as I don't recall seeing the others in human form throughout the dream.
Write it bro! xD

[MBI]

Write it bro! xD

He did write it...

[Nameless]

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

...
I'm gonna go lie down for a while.

[Eakin]

Why would you post such heart-wrenching sadness. ;_;

Because ultimately it's a joyful and uplifting story about how a show I like and a kind-hearted person brought joy and happiness into the life of someone who needed it more than most.

But it still made me cry.

[Lix Lorn]

He did write it...
As a fic. xD

[Dirtbag]

But it still made me cry.

Me too. :'(

[MBI]

But it still made me cry.

I didn't actually cry. Now I feel bad for not feeling bad enough.:smallfrown:

[Beacon of Chaos]

Johnny English Reborn is soul-splittingly hilarious. Neither me nor Mum have laughed that much for ages. It's fragging brilliant!
*blink* There's a new Johnny English movie!? Hell yeah! This I gotta see!


On a less crazy subject I just saw this.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H2BsiyIvSUw/TrA8JpdnMZI/AAAAAAAAQag/xDoJZ8VLis4/s640/FromMhairi2.jpg

I want a Big Mac so bad. I usually don't even care too much about pony toys but it's Big Macintosh. For some reason that makes it different.
Th-those are official!? Official Big Mac and Lyra? Wooooo!

...wait. I don't collect the toys...

Oh well. Woooooo!

[SiuiS]

It's a bit before my time. I've never seen an episode or any of the movies.

I don't understand. You have encyclopedic knowledge of obscure musicians but the muppet show is beyond your time?

And you seem so well adjusted, except for the spider thing, which means my priorities are probably entirely out of whack :smalleek:


I had a pony dream last night too. I have no Idea what happened in it, But I remember waking up with the mental image of Twilight Sparkle In Gears of War armour with a lancer modified for pony use. Which is kinda odd, considering I haven't played a Gears of War game in months. I also remember Page 6000 of Homestuck being made out of Minecraft Blocks. It was 248 blocks high.

I once also had 6 pony dreams in the space of a week. It was pretty darn awesome.

Aw man~
I send out a call for GoW players and nothin', either!
Oh well.

Now I'm seeing Pinkie as a Butcher with a squeaky Mallet.

[MBI]

Aw man~
I send out a call for GoW players and nothin', either!
Oh well.

Now I'm seeing Pinkie as a Butcher with a squeaky Mallet.

You are aware that you just used the words 'Pinkie' and 'Butcher' in the same sentence, right?


d20-2
damn, that didn't work. There goes my Saving throw Versus cupcakes Joke.

[Vorpalbob]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

Have to say I'd be curious to know what I showed up as, if at all.

Because ultimately it's a joyful and uplifting story about how a show I like and a kind-hearted person brought joy and happiness into the life of someone who needed it more than most.

But it still made me cry.
I cried too. And that never happens.


Statler and Waldorf are best ponies. Or should be best ponies. And that sounds fun, but I'm too self conscious to do anything like that.
DOO EET.
DOOO EEET NAO!

Seriously, that's how I felt before I uploaded my song. I just kept thinking "gah this is ridiculous i feel silly why did i spend a week working on this nobody will like it gah" and I continued feeling like that until I checked the site the next day. In less than 24 hours, three people had downloaded it.
Not just listened to it, DOWNLOADED IT. http://i.imgur.com/CXTge.png
By the by, if any of you missed my song, link's in my sig.
If you want to do this, just do it. Once you get any sort of response to your work, all you want is to create more.

I think this is good plan. LET'S DO IT!

[Trixie]

d20-2
damn, that didn't work. There goes my Saving throw Versus cupcakes Joke.

I think it only works in roleplaying games subforum.

Also, it means I didn't show up? :P

[Forum Explorer]

I didn't actually cry. Now I feel bad for not feeling bad enough.:smallfrown:

I almost never cry so don't feel bad. You don't need to express emotion to feel it.

[MBI]

I think it only works in roleplaying games subforum.

Also, it means I didn't show up? :P

I'm assuming you mean "It Didn't show up?", as you questioning your own presence due to the result of a dice roll makes little to no sense.

It was DC15. If I had succeeded, I would have Posted a link to something incredibly silly. Possibly this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1-6ZO7O1Qk&feature=feedlik).
Had I failed, something Cupcakes related would of came up. How dark that thing would have been depends on how much I had failed by. Under no Circumstances would I of actually linked to Cupcakes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hello_naomi/2210569000/).

[Dirtbag]

*Pinkie Gasp* (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/748553-181-mine-little-pony-v03/)

[Trixie]

I'm assuming you mean "It Didn't show up?", as you questioning your own presence due to the result of a dice roll makes little to no sense.

No, I meant my absence from dreamquote, to be honest :P

[MBI]

*Pinkie Gasp* (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/748553-181-mine-little-pony-v03/)

I know. I'm seriously considering downloading this. And I've never downloaded a Minecraft a mod in my life.


No, I meant my absence from dreamquote, to be honest :P

I'm suddenly confused. What is this dreamquote you speak of?

[Beacon of Chaos]

Oh, almost forgot: Obligatory "was I in your dream Gaelbert?" post.


*Pinkie Gasp* (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/748553-181-mine-little-pony-v03/)
Ooh! A reason to start playing Minecraft again :D The look pretty good!

[Gaelbert]

There were hundreds of bronies in there, people from here, people from real life. I highly doubt I missed anypony who has posted in the last two weeks or so (since I began lurking again). And fortunately, my sleep-addled brain had the foresight to write a dream journal in the middle of last night! I have absolutely nothing in there but descriptions of dozens ponies. All I remember from the dream event-wise is just a discussion. And a cuddle-pile, but that's no big surprise. And like I said before, most of ponies are based on avatars, so don't expect anything particularly insightful.


Out of curiosity, was I there?

You looked like a Rapidash pegasus.


Yay, that's pretty much how I imagine my pony self. I must know everything that happened in this dream, as well as what kind of pony I was and what my cutie mark was.

The great and powerful Nameless demands it! http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

Don't remember the exact type, maybe a unicorn? The cutie mark was a scythe. Apparently my brain isn't terribly original.



I also feel the urge to ask whether I was in Gaelbert's dream, but that's not likely, so *shrug* ^^"

Same as your avatar, but the white streaks in the mane were candy pink.


Do you remember mine by any chance?

Dark blue earth pony with a pencil cutie mark. The mane was purple and blue.


Gaelbert, was I in your pony dream?

White unicorn, red hair. Your cutie mark was a knife, and you had some sort of scar on your head. It didn't seem as intimidating at the time.


I'm kinda curious if I was in it.

Doubt it though.


Hah, you doubt me? Dark blue pegasus, light pink hair. It was spiky and short, a little like Scootaloo. Don't remember the cutie mark though. Sorry about that. :smallfrown:
Still, I think I'm doing pretty good. It's not easy remembering dozens of ponies. The journal really saved me there.

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)
As sad as that is, it's good that she had someone to help her out towards the end. It sounds like that brony really cared for her, and I'm sure MLP helped to take her mind off it.

[Callos_DeTerran]

Was I there? I mean, I don't really have a pony-persona, so. Did your mind make one up?

Or do I not count as a ponythread person.


Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

This story reminds of a picture I found on Ponibooru...a bit large, but very fitting.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1135/rarity2.jpg

[Mystic Muse]

I almost never cry so don't feel bad. You don't need to express emotion to feel it.

Exactly. I can't remember the last time I cried at something.

[Kindablue]

I don't understand. You have encyclopedic knowledge of obscure musicians but the muppet show is beyond your time?

And you seem so well adjusted, except for the spider thing, which means my priorities are probably entirely out of whack :smalleek:

Well, I was going to write some self deprecating one liner here, but I think I'll just take the compliment like the well adjusted person I am.


No, I meant my absence from dreamquote, to be honest :P

You were:


Blue, but the color of the G&PT's hair. The mane was a darker blue or purple. You definitely had a horn, you might have been an alicorn though.

ETA


I almost never cry so don't feel bad. You don't need to express emotion to feel it.

I cry at most things.

[MBI]

There were hundreds of bronies in there, people from here, people from real life. I highly doubt I missed anypony who has posted in the last two weeks or so (since I began lurking again). And fortunately, my sleep-addled brain had the foresight to write a dream journal in the middle of last night! I have absolutely nothing in there but descriptions of dozens ponies. All I remember from the dream event-wise is just a discussion. And a cuddle-pile, but that's no big surprise. And like I said before, most of ponies are based on avatars, so don't expect anything particularly insightful.


That sounds like an absolutely amazing dream. It even blows my Hitler Maria Theresa Thaler Chocolate Coin Treasure Hunt dream out the water. And that was my favourite dream of all time.

I've really got to start a dream journal one of these days, instead of of writing down just the funny dreams as they come along.

So, I guess it's time to ask if my avatar showed up in your dream in Pony Form.

[byaku rai]

Same as your avatar, but the white streaks in the mane were candy pink.


... Huh. Off to paint to see how that would look (odd how the show has reduced my natural aversion to the color pink).

[Eakin]

This story reminds of a picture I found on Ponibooru...a bit large, but very fitting.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1135/rarity2.jpg

Yeah, it reminded me of this comic (http://pashapup.deviantart.com/art/Carnations-and-Forget-Me-Nots-260432910)

[Trixie]

Blue, but the color of the G&PT's hair. The mane was a darker blue or purple. You definitely had a horn, you might have been an alicorn though.

Ah, sorry then, I'm too tired to retain reading comprehension, I only looked at big dreamquote that followed. Now I feel stupid :smallfrown:

...

In other news, I'm about to update the OP, is there anything you want to be there? Also, should I also paste it into 2 last threads?

[Topaz]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

The Element of Dreams Approves. :smallwink:


Random image dump to increase ponyness. by CSIMax (http://csimadmax.deviantart.com/)
I love Paradise (the fanfic). It's on my "Woo! It updated!" list.


I want a Big Mac so bad. I usually don't even care too much about pony toys but it's Big Macintosh. For some reason that makes it different.
A Big Mac and a Lyra? Woo!

Image time! Have some adorable:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwzc4GTdq1r3jxd1o1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId =AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1320276331&Signature=oHGLkikxTPQKZpqp2uPsOnM4qRU%3D

[MBI]

Ah, sorry then, I'm too tired from saving the word from doom, I only blew up that big spaceship that followed us. Now I feel awesome :smallcool:

...

In other news, I'm about to update the OP, is there anything you want to be there? Also, should I also paste it into 2 last threads?

You could perhaps include a link to Ponythread learns to draw (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220815). And maybe the IRC thing. I dunno.

[Trixie]

You could perhaps include a link to Ponythread learns to draw (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220815).

<points to place just above my sig in new, test OP uploaded 20 min ago> :P

[Brazen Shield]

HEY PONIES!!

I've been told to buy mead *hopes this means she can get SiuiS drunk ;)*

What should we toast over the fire tonight?

[Trixie]

Right, so, with new forum table code I had to cut 20% of the OP, while trying to maintain content...

Biggest new change: We switched from individual GitP work links to ED tags - this will not only guarantee new works will be in the OP the moment ED posts them, but shortened table (and amount of work it needs in each new thread) by 40%. Only non-ED links were retained. Authors, can you make sure your works are tagged properly by ED?

Especially Grif, whose ED Fic lacks author tag so was left in place for now :smalltongue:

By the way, I know we missed some of the new authors - can you guys post your author tags/non-ED works, too, so I can add them? ^^"

...

Also, anything more I should add? http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

[byaku rai]

Right, so, with new forum table code I had to cut 20% of the OP, while trying to maintain content...

Biggest new change: We switched from individual GitP work links to ED tags - this will not only guarantee new works will be in the OP the moment ED posts them, but shortened table (and amount of work it needs in each new thread) by 40%. Only non-ED links were retained. Authors, can you make sure your works are tagged properly by ED?

Especially Grif, whose ED Fic lacks author tag so was left in place for now :smalltongue:

By the way, I know we missed some of the new authors - can you guys post your author tags/non-ED works, too, so I can add them? ^^"

...

Also, anything more I should add? http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

Link to the Google Docs of my story is in my sig if anypony thinks it deserves to be in the OP...

[Trixie]

Link to the Google Docs of my story is in my sig if anypony thinks it deserves to be in the OP...

Well, I take it wasn't posted on ED or DA yet?

[byaku rai]

Well, I take it wasn't posted on ED or DA yet?

That's right. I've been meaning to post it to DA, but haven't gotten around to it...

[Trixie]

That's right. I've been meaning to post it to DA, but haven't gotten around to it...

Well then, do you prefer it added now, or when you have it formatted on DA?

[byaku rai]

Well then, do you prefer it added now, or when you have it formatted on DA?

... I'll put it up on DA and let you know when that's done. :smallredface: sorry for the bother.

[Nameless]

Don't remember the exact type, maybe a unicorn? The cutie mark was a scythe. Apparently my brain isn't terribly original.

Hm, so I'm a Death Pony. I can live with that. :smalltongue:

Either that, or I'm particularly good at reaping harvests.

[Kris Strife]

White unicorn, red hair. Your cutie mark was a knife, and you had some sort of scar on your head. It didn't seem as intimidating at the time.

I... I have no idea how to respond to that. :smalleek:


HEY PONIES!!

I've been told to buy mead *hopes this means she can get SiuiS drunk ;)*

What should we toast over the fire tonight?

Ponies! :smallbiggrin:

Also, the fact that you can find mead?

[Brazen Shield]

Ponies! :smallbiggrin:

Also, the fact that you can find mead?

... You can't find me---! I sense A trap!!

[SiuiS]

What, nopony has any toast suggestions? Where's your holiday spirit? :smallwink:


You are aware that you just used the words 'Pinkie' and 'Butcher' in the same sentence, right?


d20-2
damn, that didn't work. There goes my Saving throw Versus cupcakes Joke.

Well, my only other choice was mauler. Or Kantus! Best Kantus ever, reviving his team-mates by screaming "par-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" in a gurgly voice.

Now I like to think of Rainbow Dash as Hoffman. Glitterati can...
Ok, first, what by Fire of the Radiant Sun is a glitterati? Second, I'm sad that it's been so long since I've really posted that Fluttershy isn't a word in the spellcheck anymore.

*ahem*

Fluttershy has the hair to be her Byrnie. This leaves Applejack as Sam, Rarity as Baird, Pinkie as the Cole train, and Princess Luna as Queen Myrrah. I'm thinking yes.
:3

...

Hurry up and charge laptop! I need to consolidate a character!

[Thanqol]

I am a huge fan of Statler and Waldorf, and riffing in general. I was raised on a steady diet of MST3K. I would LOVE to do a riff of some pony episodes. Anyone else interested?

I don't understand the technical side of such things, but I'm sure I could learn.

I volunteer my voice. I've got a half-decent mic and no shame.


Was I there? I mean, I don't really have a pony-persona, so. Did your mind make one up?

Or do I not count as a ponythread person.

You count as a ponythread person to my subconscious.


You know, today I wondered if several ancient philosophers were just early trolls who liked to annoy people.

If? I'm sorry, have you met Socrates?


Does it? Nihilism says there's not objective moral, and I haven't seen a rebuttal of that. I don't count increased pheromone levels caused by evolutionary useful behaviour as objective measurement.

I don't particularly believe that there's objective morality either. But just because something doesn't exist doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Sure, there may be no true, universally applicable form of justice. But striving for that ideal has worth. I think that beauty is in the self, and that human beings can manifest beautiful things through the act of striving for beauty.

A photograph is not beautiful, what is beautiful is the photographer's desire to seek out and create that beauty. So 'fairness' is not an inherently beautiful concept but someone who strives, genuinely, for fairness is doing something amazing. The search for morality would seem to me to hold more worth than it's application. Hence why I'm a Virtue Theorist.


It#s not that easy. To quote Angel:

The point is, if the smallest act of kindness is the greatest, what does this make the greatest act of kindness? If it's also the greatest act of kindness, it would mean any amount of effort or effect will always lead to the same result.

Haha, well played. But I wouldn't argue that point. I don't think the consequences have as much worth as the motivations of the people behind them.


by the way: I don't go around and quote Nietzsche all day. I like the increases of happy hormones in my blood stream when I act evolutionary useful.

I do go around making decisions based on "who would the person I would like to have making this decision be?" My conscious mind may be a trick of evolution and my thoughts predetermined by momentum and physics - in fact, I don't particularly contest a number of nihilistic assertions. I just don't think that it changes anything even if it's true. Many folk use nihilism to justify inaction, which is primarily where my grievance with it lies.

TLDR: I don't need a higher purpose to be a good person.

[Kris Strife]

What, nopony has any toast suggestions? Where's your holiday spirit? :smallwink:

AHEM.


Ponies! :smallbiggrin:

Also, the fact that you can find mead?


... You can't find me---! I sense A trap!!

What? :smallconfused:

I just meant that you can find mead in stores over there. I always kinda wanted to try it.

[Aotrs Commander]

Ooh! Bad happen! Bad happen!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AbMk6l6fkck/TrBORxMNZDI/AAAAAAAAQbs/g8Av7hdDaaI/s1600/79136+-+The_Great_And_Powerful_Trixie+Trixie+avatar+azula +crossover.png

One assumes they will get along like a house on fire (i.e. lots of fire and people running screaming everywhere; which is an ironic metaphor because that's exactly what will happen.)

[Bayonet Priest]

Ooh! Bad happen! Bad happen!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AbMk6l6fkck/TrBORxMNZDI/AAAAAAAAQbs/g8Av7hdDaaI/s1600/79136+-+The_Great_And_Powerful_Trixie+Trixie+avatar+azula +crossover.png

And then Philomena became the Phoenix Queen and annihilated the world in a firestorm of trolling.

[Kindablue]

I volunteer my voice. I've got a half-decent mic and no shame.
Yeah, I'm up for it.

Image Dump: Stuff Gadora (and Beeskee) Posted in the IRC Edition!
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/5e/92/5e9288d28bd3304f48f5fb845c0be55e.png?1318729072
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/5f/8b/5f8bdd965977bb942bcfc09b420efa3d.jpg?1318339648
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/26/03/2603c1fdbd38e2b94173d07a99f1c507.jpg?1317664377
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1736eaf811a280da516ff3bce39cb1e4/8861%20-%20animated%20artist%3Arusselh%20fourth_wall%20pin kie_pie.gif
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/6a4c0da4857d8dc5079083992defeb4e/64540%20-%20Marvel%20artist%3Agiantmosquito%20cabl%20e%20de adpool%20pinkie_pie%20rainbow_dash.jpg
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/61/fc/61fc1bfbea6df63f6099a14a6302d029.jpg?1318550858

Creepy:
http://i.imgur.com/xloPX.png

[Mando Knight]

Write it bro! xD

As a fic. xD
I'll put it on my to-do list, then. You may not hear of it for a while, though. I have a lot of things that I ought to be doing and quite a few other things that I do even though I don't need to...

[Mystic Muse]

Yeah, I'm up for it.

Image Dump: Stuff Gadora (and Beeskee) Posted in the IRC Edition!
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/5e/92/5e9288d28bd3304f48f5fb845c0be55e.png?1318729072
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/5f/8b/5f8bdd965977bb942bcfc09b420efa3d.jpg?1318339648
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/26/03/2603c1fdbd38e2b94173d07a99f1c507.jpg?1317664377
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1736eaf811a280da516ff3bce39cb1e4/8861%20-%20animated%20artist%3Arusselh%20fourth_wall%20pin kie_pie.gif
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/6a4c0da4857d8dc5079083992defeb4e/64540%20-%20Marvel%20artist%3Agiantmosquito%20cabl%20e%20de adpool%20pinkie_pie%20rainbow_dash.jpg
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/sample/61/fc/61fc1bfbea6df63f6099a14a6302d029.jpg?1318550858
http://i.imgur.com/xloPX.png



That last image is creepy.

Nameless, you don't want to look at that last one if you can avoid it.:smalleek:

[Anarion]

I volunteer my voice. I've got a half-decent mic and no shame.






Yeah, I'm up for it.



Okay, so I took a shot at writing a few post-episode lines as done by Statler and Waldorf. These are bad puns and it's a first run, so be warned before opening the spoiler.

At the end of the first episode
Statler: “I think I like Pinkie Pie Best”
Waldor: “Why’s that”
Statler: “Her first line is about the same as my reaction when I saw this video had more than 2 views.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At end of the second episode
Statler: “Well, that was uplifting”
Waldorf: “Yeah, it’s uplifting me right out of my seat.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At the end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “Hmm, you know, I think that episode was trying to say something about producers.”
Waldorf: “Yeah, that they’d look better in a Rainbow Dress with good intro music.”
Both: “Dohoho”

Alternate end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “You know, I think they should have cut out some of the lights during the fashion show, it was probably way too hot up there”
Waldorf: “So, you’re saying the stage should have been 20% cooler”
Both: “if you laughed at that, there is no hope for you.”

Luna’s entrance during the Halloween episode
Statler: “Well, that certainly was some entrance by Luna”
Waldorf: “Yeah, I think it would only be improved by her exit!”
Both: “Dohoho”

[Kindablue]

That last image is creepy.

Edited.


Okay, so I took a shot at writing a few post-episode lines as done by Statler and Waldorf. These are bad puns and it's a first run, so be warned before opening the spoiler.

*snip*

These are really good! I liked the alternate line more.

[Thanqol]

Okay, so I took a shot at writing a few post-episode lines as done by Statler and Waldorf. These are bad puns and it's a first run, so be warned before opening the spoiler.

At the end of the first episode
Statler: “I think I like Pinkie Pie Best”
Waldor: “Why’s that”
Statler: “Her first line is about the same as my reaction when I saw this video had more than 2 views.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At end of the second episode
Statler: “Well, that was uplifting”
Waldorf: “Yeah, it’s uplifting me right out of my seat.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At the end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “Hmm, you know, I think that episode was trying to say something about producers.”
Waldorf: “Yeah, that they’d look better in a Rainbow Dress with good intro music.”
Both: “Dohoho”

Alternate end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “You know, I think they should have cut out some of the lights during the fashion show, it was probably way too hot up there”
Waldorf: “So, you’re saying the stage should have been 20% cooler”
Both: “if you laughed at that, there is no hope for you.”

Luna’s entrance during the Halloween episode
Statler: “Well, that certainly was some entrance by Luna”
Waldorf: “Yeah, I think it would only be improved by her exit!”
Both: “Dohoho”

TAKE ALL MY VOICE! I'll send auditions in a few hours.

[Aotrs Commander]

Yeah, I'm up for it.

Image Dump: Stuff Gadora (and Beeskee) Posted in the IRC Edition!
Creepy:
http://i.imgur.com/xloPX.png

Pfftahahahaha!

[Dexam]

I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

Okay, now I'm curious to know if I showed up in this dream? Especially as you said we were all mares...

*eyes avatar with it's neat manly stallionly beard, which is coincidentally not dissimilar to the guy behind the keyboard's*


Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

Saw it coming.

Teared up anyway.

Damn it.


HEY PONIES!!

I've been told to buy mead *hopes this means she can get SiuiS drunk ;)*

What should we toast over the fire tonight?
Ooh! Ooh! I know! MARSHMALLOWS!!! http://i.imgur.com/w3dl4.png

Oh, Pinkie... never change.


... You can't find me---! I sense A trap!!


What? :smallconfused:

I just meant that you can find mead in stores over there. I always kinda wanted to try it.

You guys can get mead in stores? :smallconfused: I go to a meadery to get mine (my state has two very different but very nice meaderies).

[Shadowy]

I curse sleep for it drives me not to pony!

[Dirtbag]

Yeah, I'm up for it.

Image Dump: Stuff Gadora (and Beeskee) Posted in the IRC Edition!
Creepy:
http://i.imgur.com/xloPX.png

This makes Fluttershy Second Best pony ever. Of all time.

[MBI]

I just finished drawing my first ever pony! Anyone wanna see?

http://i.imgur.com/bZVAC.png[/URL]

It could probably use some work. [This may be the conksunkiest pony ever. 8^y.]

Edit: I think I decreased the quality to the point where all the small subtle mistakes can't be seen any more.

[Kurgan]

Back on the topic of The Muppets, how did I not know there was a new muppet movie coming out this year? I now need to free up some time for that. And get a time machine to make it three weeks in the future right now.

[Kris Strife]

You guys can get mead in stores? :smallconfused: I go to a meadery to get mine (my state has two very different but very nice meaderies).

I can't. :smalltongue:

[Thanqol]

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-1jafVv4c&feature=feedu) is why iBringDaLulz is the best ever.

[Brazen Shield]

What? :smallconfused:

I just meant that you can find mead in stores over there. I always kinda wanted to try it.

SiuiS:Oh!? Is he on? Find out how old he is: We might be able to ship him some!

Braz:See... Trap. ><

Edit:




Ooh! Ooh! I know! MARSHMALLOWS!!! http://i.imgur.com/w3dl4.png

Oh, Pinkie... never change.


Marshmallows it is!!




You guys can get mead in stores? :smallconfused: I go to a meadery to get mine (my state has two very different but very nice meaderies).

Anypony know what BevMo is? We get mead there, they don't have many kinds.

[otakuryoga]

Yeah, I'm up for it.

Image Dump: Stuff Gadora (and Beeskee) Posted in the IRC Edition!
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1736eaf811a280da516ff3bce39cb1e4/8861%20-%20animated%20artist%3Arusselh%20fourth_wall%20pin kie_pie.gif

AHHHHHH!!!!! THE PINK ONE!!!

She is escaping!!!!

[Aotrs Commander]

Back on the topic of The Muppets, how did I not know there was a new muppet movie coming out this year? I now need to free up some time for that. And get a time machine to make it three weeks in the future right now.

I didn't, actually, until I saw the trailer. (Didn't know about Puss in Boots either, actually.) I think it's partly due the huge glut of movies this year, more than we've had in ages. (At one point, me and Mum were going to the cinema once a week; I think we went maybe three times last year or something by comparison.)

[the_druid_droid]

That said, guess what has just started showing on Cartoon Network down here early in the morning? :smallbiggrin:


Wonder if this'll happen in the states? I'd love to actually be able to watch ponies on TV!


I am a huge fan of Statler and Waldorf, and riffing in general. I was raised on a steady diet of MST3K. I would LOVE to do a riff of some pony episodes. Anyone else interested?

I don't understand the technical side of such things, but I'm sure I could learn.

I also fully support this endeavor!


Which makes the plotline of the movie (as far as I understand it) hilariously accurate. Also I don't feel old but instead marvel on how short a decade is or rather how much happens.

On another note I have too many pony tabs going. Far too many. Mostly because they are all fics I'm reading through at the same time or this thread. (Sometimes thats the same thing.)

Anyways have some pony art

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NzwS90_JT2Y/Tq9V2nQhztI/AAAAAAAAQTY/qQyaLFYLzzs/s1600/applebloom_departs_by_atticus83-d4egafw.png
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--ab9JkGHMXs/Tq9V3T82evI/AAAAAAAAQTo/x4iyGD9jOvU/s1600/treat_pwees_by_larrle-d4eic1x.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C5xNLM1aIYw/Tq9V4l6A71I/AAAAAAAAQT4/5wZOl5TNPxY/s1600/run_away_by_n1de-d4e7edr.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8piwphd_hL4/Tq9V584qkyI/AAAAAAAAQUM/KrbqbhiqWXM/s1600/happy_halloween_from_luna_by_snowpeak-d4ek2a8.png


Applebloom is rockin' that coat!


I had a dream about ponies last night. That shouldn't be surprising, I had been doing a pony episode marathon for several hours before going to sleep. What was surprising was that I was a pony. And all of the mane cast was there. And we were in Ponyville, and it was in cartoon. And everybody from the ponythread was there in ponyform. In fact, I dreamed of ponies all last night. I woke up a few times, so I know I had a few distinct ones. I don't remember much about them, I had completely forgotten until reading this post, but yeah. Kinda cool actually.

Ooh! Ooh! Was I there?


Hey everypony! I got the results of the CISSP exam I took three weeks ago! Did I pass? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpgy21r_dRE)

Awesome! You rock!


Almost all of them were directly related to your avatar. If you don't have a pony avatar, then the color scheme of your avatar. Also, everypony was female. No exceptions.


Heh. Given the show's gender ratio, this isn't that surprising I guess.


HEY PONIES!!

I've been told to buy mead *hopes this means she can get SiuiS drunk ;)*

What should we toast over the fire tonight?

Hmm, dunno what to toast, but mead is tasty!


Okay, so I took a shot at writing a few post-episode lines as done by Statler and Waldorf. These are bad puns and it's a first run, so be warned before opening the spoiler.

At the end of the first episode
Statler: “I think I like Pinkie Pie Best”
Waldor: “Why’s that”
Statler: “Her first line is about the same as my reaction when I saw this video had more than 2 views.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At end of the second episode
Statler: “Well, that was uplifting”
Waldorf: “Yeah, it’s uplifting me right out of my seat.”
Both: “Dohoho”

At the end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “Hmm, you know, I think that episode was trying to say something about producers.”
Waldorf: “Yeah, that they’d look better in a Rainbow Dress with good intro music.”
Both: “Dohoho”

Alternate end of Art of the Dress
Statler: “You know, I think they should have cut out some of the lights during the fashion show, it was probably way too hot up there”
Waldorf: “So, you’re saying the stage should have been 20% cooler”
Both: “if you laughed at that, there is no hope for you.”

Luna’s entrance during the Halloween episode
Statler: “Well, that certainly was some entrance by Luna”
Waldorf: “Yeah, I think it would only be improved by her exit!”
Both: “Dohoho”

This is awesome. More please.


I just finished drawing my first ever pony! Anyone wanna see?

http://i.imgur.com/bZVAC.png[/URL]

It could probably use some work. [This may be the conksunkiest pony ever. 8^y.]

Edit: I think I decreased the quality to the point where all the small subtle mistakes can't be seen any more.

Yes! More ponies are being drawn! This pleases the droid!

[Brazen Shield]

Hmm, dunno what to toast, but mead is tasty!

I wouldn't know. Last time we managed to get any ( over 4 years ago) it had expired by the time we got around to drinking it. I tired, but didn't indulge. I don't remember what that tasted like.

As long as it doesn't taste like "bad" vinegar I'm good >>

[Bayonet Priest]

Yes! More ponies are being drawn! This pleases the droid!

All these ponies starting to draw ponies has me wanting to draw ponies. If I can stop procrastinating on this paper and get it finished I'll actually have time to do that too. Bad BayonetPriest, posting when you still have 3 pages to write.

I think I failed to complement your Applejack, Druid. Allow me to rectify that. It was pretty dang awesome.

[Aethralux]

Hahaha was just wondering if we'd commandeered these forums yet. Naive me we have 30 Threads apparently XD.

[Topaz]

Wonder if this'll happen in the states? I'd love to actually be able to watch ponies on TV!
In the USA? Not a chance. Hasbro wants people to watch the Hub, not lure people to other channels. These deals only happen in countries where Hasbro doesn't have its own channel.

I do feel for you. I watched Season One in a YouTube window. Before Season Two we got Verizon Fios in the apartment complex and it was cheaper for better service, so we switched. Now I get the Hub in HD, and a HD DVR so I don't have to get up early. :smallcool: It's way more awesome then I expected it to be; I was pausing and rewinding constantly during Nightmare Night just to admire the costumes.

Who is your TV provider?

[Kris Strife]

Hahaha was just wondering if we'd commandeered these forums yet. Naive me we have 30 Threads apparently XD.

We also have an IRC, an avatar request thread on it's second iteration, a few free form rp threads and now a "Ponythread Learns to Draw" thread.

[MBI]

Hahaha was just wondering if we'd commandeered these forums yet. Naive me we have 30 Threads apparently XD.

Nope, we have 31 (There were two 20th threads), plus a Draw thread.

There's a very good reason as to why we're taking over the forums. As you may or may not be aware, the Order of the Stick is very Troperific. As TvTropes put it: "The GitP forums are almost an unofficial troper forum".

My little Pony, Friendship is magic has also reached Critical Troper Mass. anyone who spends any amount of time on TvTropes.com will start to see the name pop up everywhere. Eventually, they will open up the My Little Pony page while in a wiki walk, and learn about the series. Since TvTropes also helps train people to see shows for what they are, it has a significantly higher conversion ratio than other methods of pony recruitment.

TL;DR: Don't get pessimistic friends hooked on My Little Pony. Get them Hooked on TvTropes and wait until they naturally check out the show.

[Tectonic Robot]

So, the IRC chat just got attacked by MURDERPEDE!

Don't worry, he was sent back to his pokeball.

(In case you're wondering, that is where the craziness has gone.)

[the_druid_droid]

I wouldn't know. Last time we managed to get any ( over 4 years ago) it had expired by the time we got around to drinking it. I tired, but didn't indulge. I don't remember what that tasted like.

As long as it doesn't taste like "bad" vinegar I'm good >>

It's actually quite sweet. It's what we got my college roommate for his 21st, because we liked the idea of drinking mugs of mead :smallbiggrin:


All these ponies starting to draw ponies has me wanting to draw ponies. If I can stop procrastinating on this paper and get it finished I'll actually have time to do that too. Bad BayonetPriest, posting when you still have 3 pages to write.

I think I failed to complement your Applejack, Druid. Allow me to rectify that. It was pretty dang awesome.

DOOOOO IT! Draw ponies!

Also, thanks for your compliments on AJ. I've got a Rarity in the works right now which I hope to post soonish.


In the USA? Not a chance. Hasbro wants people to watch the Hub, not lure people to other channels. These deals only happen in countries where Hasbro doesn't have its own channel.

I do feel for you. I watched Season One in a YouTube window. Before Season Two we got Verizon Fios in the apartment complex and it was cheaper for better service, so we switched. Now I get the Hub in HD, and a HD DVR so I don't have to get up early. :smallcool: It's way more awesome then I expected it to be; I was pausing and rewinding constantly during Nightmare Night just to admire the costumes.

Who is your TV provider?

Good point... *sigh*

I...actually don't know what my provider is. It's whoever the apartment has a deal with, but the bill is bundled in my rent, so I don't know the name, and I'm not sure I can change it.

[MBI]

So, the IRC chat just got attacked by MURDERPEDE!

Don't worry, he was sent back to his pokeball.

(In case you're wondering, that is where the craziness has gone.)

Ah, I was wondering why there was a severe lack of silliness in this thread.

[Thanqol]

Ah, I was wondering why there was a severe lack of silliness in this thread.

This is what adding Essence Vents to a Manse feels like.

It's less likely to detonate in an enormous fireball. But for some reason you're not sure that's a good thing.

[MBI]

This is what adding Essence Vents to a Manse feels like.

It's less likely to detonate in an enormous fireball. But for some reason you're not sure that's a good thing.

I feel like I'm missing a reference here...

[Thanqol]

I feel like I'm missing a reference here...

Exalted. Manse = Giant magical death fortress with a tendency to explode in miles-large fireballs if someone messes with the feng shui. Essence Vents = A function that allows the manse to vent those fireballs in the forms of mile-high spires of burning magic, thus reducing the general collateral damage. Disappointment = Not sure that it's worth living in a doom fortress which couldn't explode at any minute.

[byaku rai]

Exalted. Manse = Giant magical death fortress with a tendency to explode in miles-large fireballs if someone messes with the feng shui. Essence Vents = A function that allows the manse to vent those fireballs in the forms of mile-high spires of burning magic, thus reducing the general collateral damage. Disappointment = Not sure that it's worth living in a doom fortress which couldn't explode at any minute.

Of course, upon reading this, my first thought is: can those vents be pointed forwards to act as mile-long flamethrowers? Because that would be pretty darn awesome. [/neverplayedExalted]

[Kris Strife]

Of course, upon reading this, my first thought is: can those vents be pointed forwards to act as mile-long flamethrowers? Because that would be pretty darn awesome. [/neverplayedExalted]

Probably.

They can even be mile long flamethrowers of water essence.

[Vorpalbob]

TAKE ALL MY VOICE! I'll send auditions in a few hours.

Huh-buh-duh-whah? Wow, this might actually become a thing.

If we're doing this, we should do a few things (not necessarily in this order):
A) Figure out the medium
B) Find out who wants to participate
C) Start a thread for it
D) Pick which episode(s) to do
E) Start watching lots of MST3K and other riffers, to get a feel for the art.

I really hope this takes off!

[Thanqol]

Of course, upon reading this, my first thought is: can those vents be pointed forwards to act as mile-long flamethrowers? Because that would be pretty darn awesome. [/neverplayedExalted]

No. They're essentially magical radiation, which means that the town that lives outside the manse will eventually mutate into fishpeople/disembodied light/redheads, but it's not a viable weapon.

What is a viable weapon is the mile-long flamethrower you can build and attach to the top of your manse. A manse basically converts ley lines into magical death energy, like a power plant, which then you then use to fuel your insane weaponry.

Exalted: Supervillainy is mandatory.

[byaku rai]

No. They're essentially magical radiation, which means that the town that lives outside the manse will eventually mutate into fishpeople/disembodied light/redheads, but it's not a viable weapon.

What is a viable weapon is the mile-long flamethrower you can build and attach to the top of your manse. A manse basically converts ley lines into magical death energy, like a power plant, which then you then use to fuel your insane weaponry.

Exalted: Supervillainy is mandatory.

I feel a sudden urge to learn this game... or sleep. sleep is good too. *falls over asleep*

We should probably stop derailing the thread with Exalted stuff now. :smalltongue:

[Dexam]

In the USA? Not a chance. Hasbro wants people to watch the Hub, not lure people to other channels. These deals only happen in countries where Hasbro doesn't have its own channel.

Pretty much this. Here in Australia we have a number of free to air TV channels (about 16 or so, currently), plus a few "pay TV" providers - Foxtel being the most popular/prominant - that allow people to purchase a basic channel package, or certain types of programming packages, or a full channel subscription for varying fees.

The channels/providers will purchase broadcast rights for overseas produced programs from their original providers, which may be then later picked up or additional broadcast deals made by other channels - in this case, the broadcast rights to MLP:FiM in Australia have been purchased by Foxtel and they're showing it in their "Cartoon Network" channel. Personally, I'm hoping that ABC2 or ABC3 get broadcast rights from The Hub, because that will mean free to air *and* commercial free. :smallbiggrin:


I do feel for you. I watched Season One in a YouTube window. Before Season Two we got Verizon Fios in the apartment complex and it was cheaper for better service, so we switched. Now I get the Hub in HD, and a HD DVR so I don't have to get up early. :smallcool: It's way more awesome then I expected it to be; I was pausing and rewinding constantly during Nightmare Night just to admire the costumes.

I usually do an inital watch in Youtube, but I've been downloading the webrips in 720p DivX (.avi) format to watch the show with my wife on our TV, because she refuses to watch TV on a computer monitor. When I eventually get a better TV, I'll have to download the episodes in 1080p.


It's actually quite sweet. It's what we got my college roommate for his 21st, because we liked the idea of drinking mugs of mead :smallbiggrin:
Mrs Dexam and I had mead at our wedding for doing the toasts and speeches, instead of champagne (we had a medieval-themed wedding :smallbiggrin:).

EDIT: Now I have an OC pony idea starting to form in my mind, who's special talent is bee-keeping, honey, and honey-related products (like mead, because I can *totally* see ponies drinking mead!)
Now... what to name this OC pony?

[Thanqol]

I feel a sudden urge to learn this game... or sleep. sleep is good too. *falls over asleep*

We should probably stop derailing the thread with Exalted stuff now. :smalltongue:

Derail? I see you haven't met Ponythread.

Exalted's a wonderful setting, I can't in good faith recommend the mechanics. Optimal solution is playing Exalted rules-lite or with Heroquest.


Pretty much this. Here in Australia we have a number of free to air TV channels (about 16 or so, currently), plus a few "pay TV" providers - Foxtel being the most popular/prominant - that allow people to purchase a basic channel package, or certain types of programming packages, or a full channel subscription for varying fees.

Wait, Dexam's living in Australia? Awesome! Where 'bouts? :smallbiggrin:


Mrs Dexam and I had mead at our wedding for doing the toasts and speeches, instead of champagne (we had a medieval-themed wedding :smallbiggrin:).

And this is why I need to know where 'bouts, because you sound like the coolest guy ever.



EDIT: Now I have an OC pony idea starting to form in my mind, who's special talent is bee-keeping, honey, and honey-related products (like mead, because I can *totally* see ponies drinking mead!)
Now... what to name this OC pony?

Sweet Tooth? Need more data. Like gender/appearance.

EDIT:

I have discovered that I cannot do a Statler and/or Waldorf voice right. I can do some voices, just not those ones.

[Kris Strife]

Derail? I see you haven't met Ponythread.

Exalted's a wonderful setting, I can't in good faith recommend the mechanics. Optimal solution is playing Exalted rules-lite or with Heroquest.

Plus Leo makes a lot little more sense if you know Exalted. :smalltongue:

[Dexam]

Wait, Dexam's living in Australia? Awesome! Where 'bouts? :smallbiggrin:
... it's taken you this long to realise this? STALKER FAIL! :smalltongue:

Not that I'm stalking anypony from the ponythread... ¬_¬

To answer your question: Perth, Western Australia.


And this is why I need to know where 'bouts, because you sound like the coolest guy ever.
I'm nothin' special... :smallredface:

Anyways, here's some proof (http://ckimagesperth.blogspot.com/2009/11/dean-and-mivhelle-29th-november-2009.html).

(And now you all know what we look like.)


Sweet Tooth? Need more data. Like gender/appearance.
I'm starting to think something along the lines of "Honey Buzz" or "Sweet Sting" or similar. Earth pony mare, with bright yellow and black striped mane & tail. Not sure about coat/eye colour, but cutie mark is definitely a beehive with a honey bee flying out of it.

[Kindablue]

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/14d021a00f1ab998cf3be6500c3e8e8a/75976%20-%204chan%20NeoGAF%20Ponychan%20animated%20applejac k%20meta%20pinkie_pie.gif

[Thanqol]

... it's taken you this long to realise this? STALKER FAIL! :smalltongue:

Not that I'm stalking anypony from the ponythread... ¬_¬

To answer your question: Perth, Western Australia.

My e-stalking is generally poor regarding ponythread. I've been cutting back.

Ah, Western Australia; the great, inaccessible desert that we Easterners regard as a mining colony populated by undesirables.



I'm nothin' special... :smallredface:

Anyways, here's some proof (http://ckimagesperth.blogspot.com/2009/11/dean-and-mivhelle-29th-november-2009.html).

(And now you all know what we look like.)

Good gracious, that is classy.


I'm starting to think something along the lines of "Honey Buzz" or "Sweet Sting" or similar. Earth pony mare, with bright yellow and black striped mane & tail. Not sure about coat/eye colour, but cutie mark is definitely a beehive with a honey bee flying out of it.

One picture, comin' up!

[Topaz]

I...actually don't know what my provider is. It's whoever the apartment has a deal with, but the bill is bundled in my rent, so I don't know the name, and I'm not sure I can change it.
Ah, yeah, I've been there before. You might be able to order extra services through the apartment management, but not necessarily (and that's assuming the Hub is available at all and it isn't too expensive to add the service that contains it). :smallfrown:


EDIT: Now I have an OC pony idea starting to form in my mind, who's special talent is bee-keeping, honey, and honey-related products (like mead, because I can *totally* see ponies drinking mead!)
Now... what to name this OC pony?

Topaz has a sister named Honey Buzz (I've mentioned her in a previous post to SiuiS) and you're certainly welcome to use the name if you like it.

EDIT: Apparently one of the blind bag ponies is named Bumblesweet (http://dimespin.deviantart.com/art/Bumblesweet-the-Beekeeper-256524473).

[Grif]

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/14d021a00f1ab998cf3be6500c3e8e8a/75976%20-%204chan%20NeoGAF%20Ponychan%20animated%20applejac k%20meta%20pinkie_pie.gif

This is so meme-able.

[kpenguin]

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/14d021a00f1ab998cf3be6500c3e8e8a/75976%20-%204chan%20NeoGAF%20Ponychan%20animated%20applejac k%20meta%20pinkie_pie.gif

*whistles quietly*

I really do I hope no rule 34 type stuff is happening in here. You've got a nice thread. Be a shame if, oh, somepenguin came in and had to close it.

[Bayonet Priest]

Anyways, here's some proof (http://ckimagesperth.blogspot.com/2009/11/dean-and-mivhelle-29th-november-2009.html).


Holy damn that looks awesome. Those outfits are absolutely fantastic. I am officially declaring your wedding to be 20% cooler than any other wedding I know of.


Edit: image snipped due to not wanting to bog down the page with .gifs

I loled. :smallbiggrin:

[Thanqol]

*whistles quietly*

I really do I hope no rule 34 type stuff is happening in here. You've got a nice thread. Be a shame if, oh, somepenguin came in and had to close it.

I don't know what you're talking about. We only watch this show for the plot.

[Kris Strife]

Ah, Western Australia; the great, inaccessible desert that we Easterners regard as a mining colony populated by undesirables.

So basically it's Australia's Australia? :smalltongue:

[Thanqol]

So basically it's Australia's Australia? :smalltongue:

Precisely! Haven't we learned that things always get worse?

[Grif]

Precisely! Haven't we learned that things always get worse?

So what will be Australia's Australia's Australia? :smallbiggrin:

(Aussieception!)

[Kris Strife]

Precisely! Haven't we learned that things always get worse?

I thought that was the point of Australia? :smalltongue:

Also, I need a custom Exalted Limit break related to ponysanity. Care to help? :smallbiggrin:

[Kindablue]

I don't know what you're talking about. We only watch this show for the plot.

The tight, well rounded plot.

[Thanqol]

The tight, well rounded plot.

It's surprising the amount of stuff they can fit into the plot.

[Mystic Muse]

Guys, remember.

Every time you make perverse jokes involving ponies, you make Nameless sad.

[Thanqol]

Guys, remember.

Every time you make perverse jokes involving ponies, you make Nameless sad.

Really? 'cause that's kind of all I do around here.

[Gaelbert]

Oh, almost forgot: Obligatory "was I in your dream Gaelbert?" post.


Purple unicorn, green hair I think. If I recall correctly, think Spike's color scheme on a pony. No mustache though.


That sounds like an absolutely amazing dream. It even blows my Hitler Maria Theresa Thaler Chocolate Coin Treasure Hunt dream out the water. And that was my favourite dream of all time.

I've really got to start a dream journal one of these days, instead of of writing down just the funny dreams as they come along.

So, I guess it's time to ask if my avatar showed up in your dream in Pony Form.

Light green coat, and either white or very light hair. Don't remember the cutie mark, sorry.
The crazy thing is, I don't normally do a dream journal. I just happened to be brainstorming a ponyfic before I went to bed last night, so I had paper and pen next to my bed. When I woke up, I must have though there was something in there I would use for the ponyfic.


Okay, now I'm curious to know if I showed up in this dream? Especially as you said we were all mares...

*eyes avatar with it's neat manly stallionly beard, which is coincidentally not dissimilar to the guy behind the keyboard's*

Silver coat, dark gray mane. Cutie mark was some sort of machine part. For some reason, your username makes me think of robots and that bled over into my dream.


Ooh! Ooh! Was I there?


You were a zebra. The description I have written down is basically similar to Zecora, but with silver jewelry instead of gold. Don't know if you spoke in iambic pentameter though.

In other news, a while back I converted a brony. He's not too involved in the internet community, but he's seen all the shows and knows the lingo. Anyways, he knows how to rap and expressed interest in doing a MLP rap with yours truly laying down the sick beats, yo. So, that's what I've been doing recently and will continue to do until I feel comfortable with my electronic music composition again. I used to do a lot more, but right now I don't have much of my equipment and I'm completely out of practice (although even when I was in practice, my beats were pretty much BASS DRUM BASS DRUM BASS DRUM BASS DRUM KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK BASS. I wasn't very subtle.)
So if anypony knows were I could find previously made samples and such of MLP, or just has any good resources in general, I'd appreciate it. It's been a while, and I'm rusty. Here's to hoping DJ-EntleColt and MC-SweaterHat* drop their first single soon.

*Note: These are neither our stage names nor our real names.

[Kris Strife]

Guys, remember.

Every time you make perverse jokes involving ponies, you make Nameless sad.

I'll get the tear collecting bottles. :smallbiggrin:

[Dexam]

My e-stalking is generally poor regarding ponythread. I've been cutting back.
Fair enough. I just thought that I'd mentioned it enough in passing through the various threads that everypony already knew I was Australian.


Ah, Western Australia; the great, inaccessible desert that we Easterners regard as a mining colony populated by undesirables.
Just remember that the "Western mining colony" practically owns the Eastern states. The only reason why we haven't seceded and then purchased the eastern states back is because the paperwork isn't worth the hassle. :smalltongue:


Good gracious, that is classy.
Heh. Thanks! It was a lot of hard work to set up, but well worth it.


One picture, comin' up!
... wait, what? :smalleek:


Topaz has a sister named Honey Buzz (I've mentioned her in a previous post to SiuiS) and you're certainly welcome to use the name if you like it.

EDIT: Apparently one of the blind bag ponies is named Bumblesweet (http://dimespin.deviantart.com/art/Bumblesweet-the-Beekeeper-256524473).
I thought I read the name somewhere already in Ponythread, I just couldn't remember where.

And I'm not really surprised that there's a beekeeper pony already. Oh well.


Holy damn that looks awesome. Those outfits are absolutely fantastic. I am officially declaring your wedding to be 20% cooler than any other wedding I know of.

We had a lot of "Best wedding ever!" comments from our guests - most of whom dressed for the occassion. :smallbiggrin: A couple of my friends are LARPers and brought along their weapons, so there were even some mock duels going on while we were off having our photos taken.


The tight, well rounded plot.

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/304/8/b/at_the_library____by_clk300-d4eo7x9.jpg

Twilight working on the plot for upcoming episodes. :smallwink:

[Thanqol]

Yo. Dexam. Have a bee pony.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7788/day168.jpg

Bees are ftagen vicious, man.

[Topaz]

Humanized Mane 6 cosplay:
http://chzfandom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/fanart-cosplay-the-mane-human-version.jpg

And Dexam, if there can be hundreds of Apple ponies there can certainly be more than one Beekeeper pony out there (when I was locating the Bumblesweet fan art I even found a drawing of Luna as a beekeeper).

[Mystic Muse]

I mostly just don't want anypony to be uncomfortable, or this thread to get locked. I think Kpenguin was just joking earlier, but I'd prefer for that to remain the case

And now, less doomsday and more ponies. I have a question involving an OC. Her cutie mark is a rising tide. I'm curious what the thread's interpretation of that is. She's a pegasus pony, so she does not control the sea.

[Thanqol]

I mostoy just don't want anypony to be uncomfortable, or this thread to get locked. I think Kpenguin was just joking earlier, but I'd prefer for that to remain the case

And now for a question involving an OC. Her cutie mark is a rising tide. I'm curious what the thread's interpretation of that is. She's a pegasus pony, so she does not control the sea.

What, you mean visually? Like, a wave? I dunno how to depict a rising tide; that's by definition a slow movement. If you're talking metaphorically? That's really strange, I'm not entirely sure what talent that would result in, especially if we've ruled out water.

Uh. A rising tide lifts all boats? I dunno.

[the_druid_droid]

My latest project:

Line by Line, Sketching It Slowly
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee385/the_druid_droid/Rarity.png

[Thanqol]

My latest project:

Line by Line, Sketching It Slowly
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee385/the_druid_droid/Rarity.png

Rarity's poses are best poses.

Fantastic work on her mane and tail, those are hard.

[Rebelhero]

Well I was happy about passing my test, until I read the saddest thing ever (http://bronyshow.com/?p=574#more-574)

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpsj4wqKgG1qem3h6.gif
That is all.

[Dexam]

Silver coat, dark gray mane. Cutie mark was some sort of machine part. For some reason, your username makes me think of robots and that bled over into my dream.
Hmmm... interesting. I shall have to ponder this further.



In other news, a while back I converted a brony. He's not too involved in the internet community, but he's seen all the shows and knows the lingo. Anyways, he knows how to rap and expressed interest in doing a MLP rap with yours truly laying down the sick beats, yo. So, that's what I've been doing recently and will continue to do until I feel comfortable with my electronic music composition again. I used to do a lot more, but right now I don't have much of my equipment and I'm completely out of practice (although even when I was in practice, my beats were pretty much BASS DRUM BASS DRUM BASS DRUM BASS DRUM KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK BASS. I wasn't very subtle.)
So if anypony knows were I could find previously made samples and such of MLP, or just has any good resources in general, I'd appreciate it. It's been a while, and I'm rusty. Here's to hoping DJ-EntleColt and MC-SweaterHat* drop their first single soon.

*Note: These are neither our stage names nor our real names.
I'm not exactly sure what you're after, but for existing brony rappers do a Youtube search on Swagberg, iBringDaLULZ, and Mic the Microphone.



Yo. Dexam. Have a bee pony.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7788/day168.jpg

Bees are ftagen vicious, man.
Holey moley, that's AWESOME!

I love the mane, and that expression... that's pretty much what I was thinking - a pony who is patient, calm, relaxed, and sedate when she's working with her bees and honey; the rest of the time she's flighty, impatient, easily irritated, and zipping all over the place.

I shall call her Honeysting. :smallbiggrin:


And now, less doomsday and more ponies. I have a question involving an OC. Her cutie mark is a rising tide. I'm curious what the thread's interpretation of that is. She's a pegasus pony, so she does not control the sea.
Hmmm, a tide is representative of a border between land and sea. As it's rising, it's also symbolic of change. Have you ever heard the expression "a sea-change (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_change_(transformation))"?


What, you mean visually? Like, a wave? I dunno how to depict a rising tide; that's by definition a slow movement. If you're talking metaphorically? That's really strange, I'm not entirely sure what talent that would result in, especially if we've ruled out water.


In most parts of the world, a rising tide is slow movement. But in some places close to the equator it can go from "the ocean is a thin blue line on the distant horizon" to "I'm meters under water" in a matter of an hour or so. It's like a freaking tsunami twice a day.

[BlasTech]

So what will be Australia's Australia's Australia? :smallbiggrin:

(Aussieception!)

Tasmania :smallbiggrin:

Apologies to any Tasmanians who might b- bahahahahahaha no, I can't finish that sentence with a straight face![/Evillaugh]

Oops back to review now. *flees*

[Thanqol]

Holey moley, that's AWESOME!

I love the mane, and that expression... that's pretty much what I was thinking - a pony who is patient, calm, relaxed, and sedate when she's working with her bees and honey; the rest of the time she's flighty, impatient, easily irritated, and zipping all over the place.

I shall call her Honeysting. :smallbiggrin:

My design documentation reads "Looks like she can take a day off Applejack."

And I'm really glad you like her :smallbiggrin: I love being able to throw out random half-decent pony pictures on demand.


In most parts of the world, a rising tide is slow movement. But in some places close to the equator it can go from "the ocean is a thin blue line on the distant horizon" to "I'm meters under water" in a matter of an hour or so. It's like a freaking tsunami twice a day.

How do you draw that?

[SiuiS]

today had it's highs and lows.

Bad news: I wasn't paying attention to settings, and then had to put my. Moustache out of it's misery :smallfrown:
Good news: the day could only get better from there :smallbiggrin:



Ooh! Ooh! I know! MARSHMALLOWS!!! http://i.imgur.com/w3dl4.png

Oh, Pinkie... never change.

I suppose I could have worded that better XD



You guys can get mead in stores? :smallconfused: I go to a meadery to get mine (my state has two very different but very nice meaderies).

You can get mead at a meadery? I have to get mine in a store.
I'm actually kinda jealous, and will continue to be until such time as I find somepony with a cellar they will let me ferment my own drink in. I've been studying for years, man! Years! Soon the golden goodness will be mine!


Hahaha was just wondering if we'd commandeered these forums yet. Naive me we have 30 Threads apparently XD.

Welcome!

Stay a while, and listen!

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/06c7d0d2105a1314ea928cadd5a55a09/7961%20-%20animated%20jumping%20scootaloo.gif
http://arch.413chan.net/1288640640381.png
http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb426/AwesomeHolzy/Welcome-to-the-Herd.gif
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/LordRyu/bronies/index.php.jpg
http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/0da1a106ff7923e0fb2630d06310c636/12549%20-%20macro%20scootaloo.jpg



In the USA? Not a chance. Hasbro wants people to watch the Hub, not lure people to other channels. These deals only happen in countries where Hasbro doesn't have its own channel.

I do feel for you. I watched Season One in a YouTube window. Before Season Two we got Verizon Fios in the apartment complex and it was cheaper for better service, so we switched. Now I get the Hub in HD, and a HD DVR so I don't have to get up early. :smallcool: It's way more awesome then I expected it to be; I was pausing and rewinding constantly during Nightmare Night just to admire the costumes.

Who is your TV provider?

Totally check this out. It was so grand when I had tv instead of YouTube on a smartphone.

Oh man. I still tear up out sheer awesome overload whenever I see winter wrap-up. Such a beautiful song in such a beautiful place, and they're all so damn earnest. Made me a believer in HD.


So, the IRC chat just got attacked by MURDERPEDE!

Don't worry, he was sent back to his pokeball.

(In case you're wondering, that is where the craziness has gone.)

So... The hay is a murderpede?


It's actually quite sweet. It's what we got my college roommate for his 21st, because we liked the idea of drinking mugs of mead :smallbiggrin:

Mead is one of those things that reaffirmed my faith in life being an incredible gift and a wondrous journey.

I remember watching Disney's Sleeping Beauty as a wee'n and watching the two blokes and a minstrel get drunk on champagne or wine or whatever. I remember thinking about that and imagining the taste, the texture.

And lo, 16 years later I buy mead on a lark, and there it is; that taste was real.
I still hold out hope of stepping foot on Irish soil and being flooded by a sense of home.


This is what adding Essence Vents to a Manse feels like.

It's less likely to detonate in an enormous fireball. But for some reason you're not sure that's a good thing.

There's only one thing to do.

QUICK EVERYPONY
INVEST ALL YOUR XP INTO MERITS TO IMPROVE THE MANSE PONYTHREAD

You may divert the flow, but you haven't touched capacity! I will over-run this thread with shenanigans the likes of which shall make you tremble!

FOR THRRAD!


No. They're essentially magical radiation, which means that the town that lives outside the manse will eventually mutate into fishpeople/disembodied light/redheads, but it's not a viable weapon.

You sayin' I'm a mutant?


*whistles quietly*

I really do I hope no rule 34 type stuff is happening in here. You've got a nice thread. Be a shame if, oh, somepenguin came in and had to close it.

Wait, what? Did I miss something?

are you guys holding out on me?!


Guys, remember.

Every time you make perverse jokes involving ponies, you make Nameless sad.

Does he? The slips and such seemed like neutrality disguised as care for kicks. I honestly thought he was in the "not my thing, but whatever" camp.



And now, less doomsday and more ponies. I have a question involving an OC. Her cutie mark is a rising tide. I'm curious what the thread's interpretation of that is. She's a pegasus pony, so she does not control the sea.

Inspiration and rallies! Those in her charge swell with resolve as she flies back and forth, to and fro, hither and yon, yin and yang, shouting encouragement!

A closer look at the wave on her flank shows it's composed of ten thousand fists, in the air.

-

So I feel bad.
You know you're a munchkin when your character sheet contains an "if/then, else" flow chart...

Oh, Thanqol, I need to talk to you about my character :smallwink:

[Thanqol]

There's only one thing to do.

QUICK EVERYPONY
INVEST ALL YOUR XP INTO MERITS TO IMPROVE THE MANSE PONYTHREAD

You may divert the flow, but you haven't touched capacity! I will over-run this thread with shenanigans the likes of which shall make you tremble!

FOR THRRAD!

I feel positively shenanigan-starved, so let it be so.


You sayin' I'm a mutant?

Today's mutant is tomorrow's master race.

That's why we gotta oppress the muties, otherwise they might get ideas. *Whips*


Wait, what? Did I miss something?

are you guys holding out on me?!

If I stopped holding out on you this thread would be engulfed in an unending tide of ribald jokes.


-

So I feel bad.
You know you're a munchkin when your character sheet contains an "if/then, else" flow chart...

Oh, Thanqol, I need to talk to you about my character :smallwink:[/color]

You know how to contact me. :smallsmile:

I'm trying to imagine what in the Mage ruleset you can find if/then clauses for, though.

[kpenguin]

Wait, what? Did I miss something?

are you guys holding out on me?!

...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

[Thanqol]

...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

Joking aside, I have neither posted nor am aware of any posts of rule 34 stuff and I read almost every post.

[SiuiS]

Today's mutant is tomorrow's master race.

That's why we gotta oppress the muties, otherwise they might get ideas. *Whips*


Whips are supposed to discourage me, Thanqol?



If I stopped holding out on you this thread would be engulfed in an unending tide of ribald jokes.

I miss Raz_Fox too, Thanqol, but he'll come back on his own, without us having to lure him. No worries.



You know how to contact me. :smallsmile:

I'm trying to imagine what in the Mage ruleset you can find if/then clauses for, though.

Dependent on further input from other players, and an optional thing I already broached.

I'm compiling though, so you'll get a full-blown character sheet with explanations for how I go there. Then possibly another wave of revisions http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3931/rolleyes0qd.gif

I'm able to wear this man's face though. Think his thoughts. I'm halfway there.


...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

You have my word of honor that nothing in all thirty threads exists which breaks the rules except for A) things that have already been scrubbed and B) YouTube links we were all summarily warned for already.

[Athaniar]

Ooh! Bad happen! Bad happen!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AbMk6l6fkck/TrBORxMNZDI/AAAAAAAAQbs/g8Av7hdDaaI/s1600/79136+-+The_Great_And_Powerful_Trixie+Trixie+avatar+azula +crossover.png

If that isn't a crossover fic already it needs to be. I'd read it.


I don't know what you're talking about. We only watch this show for the plot.
What makes this show so good is that it has some of the best plots of any show on TV. I think that's what makes the adult male demographic enjoy it so much. In my opinion, Celestia has the best... no, sorry, I can't do this anymore. It's too much.

[BlasTech]

Incomming tumblrbomb!

Duck and cover!

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlhlsV8yU1qmah9bo1_500.png

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltv815OXpY1r3uxqco1_500.png

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lty3josL5W1r2ulmeo1_500.png

Cuteness Hazard:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo1_500.png
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo2_250.pnghttp://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo3_250.png
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo4_250.pnghttp://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo5_250.pnghttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyku3plmY1r0biauo6_250.png

Dr Fluttershy cuteness hazard:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0qdvJZL61r5i8k8o2_500.jpg
Yes, yes she does.
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltn77egmNl1qmah9bo1_500.png

Also, Fighting Is Magic posted a new update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFnpBh22Sg&feature=player_embedded)on the game:

[Thanqol]

Whips are supposed to discourage me, Thanqol?

Well, y'know, don't feed the slaves and they'll revolt and all that.


I miss Raz_Fox too, Thanqol, but he'll come back on his own, without us having to lure him. No worries.

Can't you, y'know, draw some ponies in harem outfits to speed up the process?

...

What would Griffon-Jayden look like in a harem outfit? I'm guessing 'angry'



Dependent on further input from other players, and an optional thing I already broached.

I'm compiling though, so you'll get a full-blown character sheet with explanations for how I go there. Then possibly another wave of revisions http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3931/rolleyes0qd.gif

I'm planning on kicking up an OOC thread in a couple of days so players can discuss ideas with each other. Communication has thus far been limited between the group as a whole due to no two sharing the same chat program.

I'm looking forward to seeing this character sheet. Just a quick refresh of my houserules: No fighting styles, no dots on raising gnosis, you can only start with two skills at 4 or higher (one's your hobby, one's your job). You'll also have 35XP to start with.


I'm able to wear this man's face though. Think his thoughts. I'm halfway there.

For a moment I saw "I'm able to wear a man's face" and my reaction was "Oh, you took Life 3, cool".

'Think his thoughts' was 'I thought Mind was the Inferior Arcanum for Thyrsus?'


What makes this show so good is that it has some of the best plots of any show on TV. I think that's what makes the adult male demographic enjoy it so much. In my opinion, Celestia has the best... no, sorry, I can't do this anymore. It's too much.

It's fine. I'm overwhelmed by plots on a regular basis. When this happens, I feel the need to take a lie down until I recover.

[Grif]

Also, Fighting Is Magic posted a new update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFnpBh22Sg&feature=player_embedded)on the game:


[/AppleBloom] I WANT THIS NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

In all seriousness, this may well be the first fighting game I would play. AND I WOULD PAY FOR IT TOO!

[Thanqol]

[/AppleBloom] I WANT THIS NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

In all seriousness, this may well be the first fighting game I would play. AND I WOULD PAY FOR IT TOO!

They're giving it away for free. And they won't even take donations.

[Aotrs Commander]

...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

I can assure you, rotten - though Lawful - bastard that I am, had such a thing cropped up on my watch, I'd have let you in, as they say, ten seconds flat...
While I don't have any particular objection to other people enjoying such fare - I don't judge - there are proper places for it, and those are not here.




Whips are supposed to discourage me, Thanqol?

Depends what they're made from, doesn't it? E.g. laser energy, electricity, blades, plasma, monofilament wire1...



It never rains but it pours, right? Got to take in Mum's mobility scooter 'cos it suddenly keeled over and died yesterday - and they're flying on to Tennerife next Tuesday...



1Okay, not that last one; despite being a common idea in some sci-fi, that is one weapon that always makes me skullpalm and point out that PHYSICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! It it's one molecule thick, then you can't swing it and even if you could there'd be no mass for it to work. And if it's stabilised/strengthened by a forcefield or something (like energy whips), why not, I dunno, just use the forcefield?

[Sean Mirrsen]

I can assure you, rotten - though Lawful - bastard that I am, had such a thing cropped up on my watch, I'd have let you in, as they say, ten seconds flat...
While I don't have any particular objection to other people enjoying such fare - I don't judge - there are proper places for it, and those are not here.



Depends what they're made from, doesn't it? E.g. laser energy, electricity, blades, plasma, monofilament wire1...



It never rains but it pours, right? Got to take in Mum's mobility scooter 'cos it suddenly keeled over and died yesterday - and they're flying on to Tennerife next Tuesday...



1Okay, not that last one; despite being a common idea in some sci-fi, that is one weapon that always makes me skullpalm and point out that PHYSICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! It it's one molecule thick, then you can't swing it and even if you could there'd be no mass for it to work. And if it's stabilised/strengthened by a forcefield or something (like energy whips), why not, I dunno, just use the forcefield?
Well, one way it could work better is if you assume that a forcefield isn't something you can easily swing either. A monofilament whip, despite being a molecule thick, still has some sort of mass to it, and presumably creating a forcefield around a molecule-thick string of matter is easier than simply creating a free-floating forcefield of the same shape. Assuming some kind of physics limitations, forcefield-supported monowhips are actually decent.

[Deadly]

A few days of really slow ponythread, and then you go and give me six new pages overnight. Yay http://i.imgur.com/aRDpW.png Now I recognize ponythread again


Almost all of them were directly related to your avatar. If you don't have a pony avatar, then the color scheme of your avatar. Also, everypony was female. No exceptions.

Was I there? I suppose I was Fluttershy, or her twin, then :smalltongue:

Also, yay http://i.imgur.com/aRDpW.png for being female!

[Bayonet Priest]

My latest project:

Line by Line, Sketching It Slowly
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee385/the_druid_droid/Rarity.png

I thought you were an inexperianced artist but you keep posting all these awesome sketches. When you mentioned you were drawing Rarity I thought about how I people had said that her hair was rather difficult but you seem to have pulled it off just fine. Rarity is best pony.

[Aotrs Commander]

Well, that was a trying trip. It'd have been nightmarish if Mum hadn't been with me navigating... Not only did every sodding traffic light stop me, but we nearly crunched into some woman who was trying to nose in waaay to close to the car in front and had to suddenly brake because she did. (I think we just touched - but not actually bumped - the bumpers.) I stalled it out about four times (though not, ironically, on the bloody awful hillstart). This sort of thing does not help my confidence... I really hate driving.




Well, one way it could work better is if you assume that a forcefield isn't something you can easily swing either. A monofilament whip, despite being a molecule thick, still has some sort of mass to it, and presumably creating a forcefield around a molecule-thick string of matter is easier than simply creating a free-floating forcefield of the same shape. Assuming some kind of physics limitations, forcefield-supported monowhips are actually decent.

No, no it really doesn't have any appreicable mass. That's kind of my point.

Rant incoming.

Oh boy... *gets popcorn*

We're now talking atomic physics. Atoms are small. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly small they are. I mean, you may think it's a short space between Pinkie Pie's words, but that's just peanuts to atoms.

Fagpacket calculation:

A 2m whip, made of, for the purposes of arguement, lead (because it's a conveniently heavy atom with confirmed stats, and thus a good upper estimate for atomic size and weight) is 4950495050 atoms long (for the Van de Walls radius of 202 picometres.) The approximate volume of a lead atom is thus 0.00000000000000003452571789 cm³. As lead has a density of 11.34gcm-3, this gives an estimated mass per atom of of 3.9 x 10-16 grammes (i.e. 0.0000000000000039g). So your one-atom thick whip would weight about 0.00000017g. A seventeen millionth of a gram.

From a quick google search, the largest molecule know to science is about 10 nanometres across - but it's also a liquid, so it's density is likely to be different. (Unless, of course, you count a single piece of metal as a single molecule, and then it can, technically be as big as you like - but then you can molecularly build a sword and call it a monomolecular blade...)

Rough calc: lead has a molar enthalpy of vaporisation (i.e. how much energy it takes to not just melt, but evaporate, 11.34g of lead, or 6.0 x 1023 lead atoms) of 179.5kJ/mol-1. So, let's take a higher melting point metal, like, say platinum, which has 4695kJ/mol-1. So, using the same number of atoms (4950495050), it takes 479 x (4950495050/6.0 x 1023) 3.9 picojoules or 0.0000000000039 kJ (or 0.0000000039 J) to vaporise your 2m one-atom-wide whip.

Which is suspect you'll find, is rather less than you'd apply to it, trying to swing it... (You know the sound of a whip cracking is the tip breaking the sound barrier, right?)

(Now, granted, I'm a necromancer with an engineering background, not a molecular chemist, so thse numbers are not going to be accurate - but they will be roughly in the right handful or orders of magnitude (which is close enough, given how very, very small we are looking at.))

Long story short, monomolecular weapons are bullcrap (and monofiliment is not much of an improvement) the way people think they should work. They are either so thin they couldn't possibly apply any force, or they are basically thin wire, which does't bend well; have you tried whipping someone with wire? Doesn't work so well does it? No. (Decapitating a motorcycle rider with a taut wire and whipping someone are two entirely different things.) And, course, whips not made of metal need to be fairly hefty to do anything significant. Cutting things, does actually require the application of energy, the other fact that escapes many of these sci-fi writers (the tales of katanas so sharp they cut a feather dropped on them are apocryphal - well at least not without magical enhancement). Energy weapons get away with it because they, are, you know, energy (and they apply - mostly - heat energy to vaporise the local area as their "cutting" method (see lasers)).

"Sharp" is emphatically NOT the same thing as "thin", which is what these people seem to think. (Sword with monomolecular edge to the blade, yes - because you've got something to give some welly to and to resist the equal and opposite force applied over that very small area. This is why swords (and knives and scissors etc etc) are not made of thin plates...)

As described in a lot of these places, monowhips are actually basically magic, or would have so be so supported by technology that the technology is doing all the work - because the strength of a single molecule is actually basically negligable.



A really, really, really STUPID example of this was in a Star Trek novel I read, whereby an alien race used monomolecular wire web strung between starships as a weapon (i.e. they'd fly past a Cardassian ship on either side, and the ship would be destroyed, because apparently Star Trek shields can't stop something one molecule thick (despite that being the sort of thing that the navigational deflector is expressly designed for). Oh, and they're not held by forcefields, so they're invisible to sensors. The sheer, mind-numbing idocy of that idea I simply cannot describe. It is just about stupid on every single level. Never mind the fact that you'd have to get within hundreds of metres of the target (point-blank range), the fact that it simply wouldn't work (shields, the hull, the speeds involved (significant fractions of c) veres the strength of a material); the most obvious thing in the world would have been to just slice your phaser down an arc between the two ships! Job done! Guess what nobody thought of doing? (And if the material is phaser proof, why not just coat your whole sodding starships with it?! Hell, even if you could only do one, you would still be laughing all the way to the bank.) Grrrr.

And now I need to go hit something, because remembering that particular bit of concentrated stupid makes me madder than the Nostalgia Critic and the Bat Credit Card...

[the_druid_droid]

You sayin' I'm a mutant?


You sir, are some sort of high-powered mutant; too weird to live and too rare to die!

((Cookie if you get the reference))


Joking aside, I have neither posted nor am aware of any posts of rule 34 stuff and I read almost every post.

Aye, this has been my perception as well.


I thought you were an inexperianced artist but you keep posting all these awesome sketches. When you mentioned you were drawing Rarity I thought about how I people had said that her hair was rather difficult but you seem to have pulled it off just fine. Rarity is best pony.


Rarity's poses are best poses.

Fantastic work on her mane and tail, those are hard.

I am proud of how the mane and tail came out, but OH MY SWEET CELESTIA did they take effort. I think Beeskee mentioned in the IRC that he thought that the 'Rarity losing her tail' thing in the pilot was an in-joke, and I'm starting to think that's spot-on!

Also, the proportion of the leg widths is off...I really need to practice pony legs.

Also @AotRS - Sorry to hear that today was so rough. I hope things improve!

[otakuryoga]

...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

closest i think we have come was a mention of Dom Fluttershy and there were some spoilered links to some tame pics on ponibooru
but the pics themselves were not posted here

[Nameless]

Creepy:
http://i.imgur.com/xloPX.png

http://i.imgur.com/CXTge.png


That last image is creepy.

Nameless, you don't want to look at that last one if you can avoid it.:smalleek:

[byaku rai]

*lich rant snip*

The first thing to realize with "monofilament" weapons like that is that they operate pretty much solely on the Rule of Cool. They are indeed stupid, but to a certain mode of thinking they're pretty darn cool, and that justifies their existence. I personally don't agree with that, but it's something that's difficult to escape, just like a lot of things in sci-fi. I prefer my sci-fi to be a bit "softer" most of the time, partially because I'm fascinated with the concept of GODLIKE POWER THROUGH SCIENCE and partially because I don't like having to think too hard when I'm reading for pleasure.

Personally, I prefer Warhammer 40k Power Weapons, because they at least make a token effort at making sense and accomplish the same thing with much less hassle.

[Tiki Snakes]

Personally, I think that rule of cool has no place with monofiliment stuff.
In as much as a weapon whose explanation for badassery is basically Yay Science!, doesn't get as much leeway with, you know, science.

I'm fine with monomolecular edges, though. They are at least less painful to my brain than 'vibro' weapons.

[Trixie]

I'm fine with monomolecular edges, though. They are at least less painful to my brain than 'vibro' weapons.

Despite dentist drills working on exactly this principle? :smallwink:

I'm fine with both, BTW.

Also, anyone got more requests for OP, wants to be added, or is the matter closed? :P

[Tiki Snakes]

I have no problem with Vibro-Drills. A vibro-drill weapon is something that I would definately call Rule of Cool for. Just who the hell do you think I am? And so on.

If nothing else, it just sounds a lot less like it would end up exploding if used in an actual combat situation. :smallsmile:

[Rebelhero]

I have no problem with Vibro-Drills. A vibro-drill weapon is something that I would definately call Rule of Cool for. Just who the hell do you think I am? And so on.

If nothing else, it just sounds a lot less like it would end up exploding if used in an actual combat situation. :smallsmile:

I thought that said something COMPLETELY different 0.0

[RdMarquis]

As described in a lot of these places, monowhips are actually basically magic, or would have so be so supported by technology that the technology is doing all the work - because the strength of a single molecule is actually basically negligable.

I'm guessing this is a bad time to talk about my Shadowrun character's weapon of choice? :smalltongue:

Oh, and to make this post pony related, here's filly Twilight playing with Smarty Pants.

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/79393?search=cute

[Athaniar]

Oh, and to make this post pony related, here's filly Twilight playing with Smarty Pants.

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/79393?search=cute
Aww, she's just so adorable.


Also, I started writing that fic (based on the RP idea I posted earlier), and here is the first chapter. Constructive criticism is always appreciated!

Preceeding fic: Dragonscar (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12126854&postcount=280) (alternatively Paladin's and Dragonscale's biographies)

Incursion
Chapter I - Talons of the Griffon
The royal guard tried to get away, but in the shape he was in that was easier said than done. Wounded by claws, fangs, and dragon-fire he attempted to fly away from the deep forest cave. There was the exit! For the first time in days he felt fresh air... and was promptly rammed to the ground. The dark-feathered griffon clearly wanted to end the pegasus there and then, but he was stopped by a commanding voice.

"We want to keep him alive for now, Bloodwing," the unicorn mare said. She was not quite like a normal pony, though, her yellow eyes were like those of a reptile and her teeth were sharp. In color she greatly resembled the green dragons of the deep woodlands, with a sea-green coat and a moss-green wild and spiky mane. She wore a cape, but there appeared to be something hidden under it, probably wings. "Go fly to your master Iron-Talon and tell him to have his troops prepared. It will not be long before we strike now." She looked at the bleeding pegasus. "Pitiful. I expect Paladin to put up a better fight when I catch him..."

The strawberry-colored filly looked at the scene in horror one last time before running as fast as she could in the other direction. Why did she have to disobey her parents and sneak into the Everfree forest? This wasn't fun at all! Fragaria ran, and ran, and hoped the bad ones hadn't seen her...


"Of course I'm sure we were seen. I can smell it.” Dragonscale frowned. “An earth filly. Scared. Too close to Ponyville to just fly and grab now. We need to do this with subtlety and swiftness. The filly knows. She must not be allowed to live. Bloodfeather, this one is yours."

The griffon, Bloodwing’s brother, grinned with homicdal glee. "Consider it done, miss Dragonscale. The small one will be silenced, and we will have our revenge." As he flew off Dragonscale returned to the cave, her sanctuary. The sound was still in her head. Always in her head.


It was late at night, but Fluttershy was still awake. Owlowiscious had broken his wing, so she had volunteered to take care of the bird for Twilight. He was feeling better now, so she thought about getting some sleep. She was just about to when she heard something moving outside, coming from the direction of the Everfree Forest. It didn’t sound like a big horrific monster, so she took a quick look outside. It was a scared little filly! Quickly she placed herself in the way and stopped the panicking pony with her body.

“I’m so sorry,” she apologized as she checked to see that the filly was all right, “but you seem to be awfully scared, not to mention on your own at a time like this. Where are your parents? We need to get you home and into bed at once.”

Even in the presence of kind Fluttershy the green-maned girl was too terrified to speak, so the pegasus smiled at her and took her inside and started cooking some soup for her. However, neither of them noticed the skulking griffon in the shadows near the house. Bloodfeather frowned slightly. He now had to deal with two ponies, but the yellow one didn’t appear to be much of a threat. He was a trained killer, she was, what, an animal handler? And not another pony around, either. Just perfect. Unheard and unseen he looked in through one of the windows. Neither of them were paying any attention to what was going on outside, so he quietly opened it and in one quick leap pounced at the filly with his claws extended.

What happened next went very fast. At the last moment Fluttershy noticed the assailant, and placed herself between the griffon and her ward. The claws struck her side and left a deep wound, but she still stood.

“I don’t know who you are,” she told Bloodfeather in desperate anger, “but you DO NOT hurt my friends! You DO NOT hurt defenseless fillies!”

The griffon chuckled. “And you will stop me? You are resilient, but your death is inevitable. It’s my mission to slay all who interfere, and right now that means you two!”

Whatever Bloodfeather thought would happen next he did not expect her to open her eyes wide and simply stare at him. Simply stare? No, there was some kind of power at work.

“You back down this instant, Mr. Griffon! Go back to wherever you came from and don’t return!” There was indeed power to the pegasus’s stare. She was far more powerful than she looked, and when angered like this her will was steel and her might unstoppable.

“I… am… too disciplined to fall for… your tricks!” he managed to say, and after about a minute or so he shook off most of the paralysis. By then both ponies were gone, so he rushed out the door to chase after them. He could not be allowed to fail. However, something was now in his way: a huge brown bear. He began to charge it, but with a swipe of its huge paw it knocked him to the ground, the lingering effects of the stare making his reflexes slower. Another strike and he was knocked out. When he regained consciousness he was bound by chains and surrounded by royal guards. Not according to plan.


“There, there, you should be all right now,” the nurse told Fluttershy, “there will probably be scars, but otherwise you will be just fine.” Her friends were visibly relieved.

Fluttershy coughed, but responded with a smile of her own. Then she remembered. “What about the filly? There was a little filly who…”

“Don’t you worry about that, sugarcube,” Applejack assured her, “Lil’ Fragaria is back with her parents, and guards are there too. Whatever’s going on they’ll get to the bottom of it.”

Pinkie moved uncomfortably close to Fluttershy. “You know what you need? A party! Nothing helps a pony to recover like a party, you know. Just last week, I…”

They all continued to be cheerful and happy, but one of them felt uneasy. Rainbow Dash had thought about it ever since she heard what happened, and she was worried. She was the only one of them who was familiar with griffons, and she had dark suspicions. If this was what she thought it was… WHO she thought it was…

[EsperDerek]

[/AppleBloom] I WANT THIS NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

In all seriousness, this may well be the first fighting game I would play. AND I WOULD PAY FOR IT TOO!

I don't know much about fighting games, I'm absolutely terrible at all of them (except for obscure Dreamcast fighter Tech Romancer), but for ponies, I will try to find a way to get good at this.

[Aotrs Commander]

Personally, I think that rule of cool has no place with monofiliment stuff.
In as much as a weapon whose explanation for badassery is basically Yay Science!, doesn't get as much leeway with, you know, science.

Exxaactly.

If thou shalt invoke science in thy fiction, thou shalt at least have a first clue as to thou art talking about, unless thou is most desirest of a rocket launcher beating applied to thine internal organs.

Thy soul's internal organs.

I don't mind psuedo-scientific bullcrap, if at least you've tried. Monowhips are so utterly stupid, they are in the "the aliens have a different periodic table to us" territory or "making the bolt inherently aerodynamically unstable means it makes it more accurate for shooting at targets that can dodge"1.

Whips made of little connected blades? Fine. Whips made of energy? Fine. Whips made on the basis of thin equals sharp? Pass me my Snake Launcher.




I'm fine with monomolecular edges, though. They are at least less painful to my brain than 'vibro' weapons.

I dunno. Vibroweapons - and they are a fairly common thing in sci-fi and often different in each one, so exactly what you've been exposed to varies - are not quite as unreasonable, depending on the occilation of the weapon. The ones that I first encountered (in Douglas Hill's books) were the ones that I associate with vibro-weapons; essentially they work a bit like an electric carving knife. (One assumes that in most if not all cases, the handles would be shock-absorbant, so the vibration doesn't reach the wielder.) This improves their cutting ability, as basically it meant they worked a bit like a saw, kinda.

How. Ever.

It must be said that the vibrational effect in a lot of sci-fi is waaay over-stated; it improves the cutting ability (for a given value of "cut"), not makes a blade into a fragging lightsabre.

(After all, there are some things that use the same sort of principle in the real world.)



1Actually, the tumbling bolt deserves a special mention for being quite probably the Most Stupid Thing I Have Ever Encountered.

As I once (infamously) said:

Who can forget the delight of Sword and Fist's tumbling bolt? I certainly can't, and I've tried. Even after repeatedly cleaning my skull with anti-francium, the horror remains.

Yes, let's make the attack more accurate by making it aerodynamically unstable. (Fer crying out loud, they used the word tumble! If you had an aircraft 'tumble' it usually means it's about to make unwelcome aquaintence with the ground, assuming it gets that far!)

This is not so much raping the laws of physics (which D&D and fantasy do as a perfectly acceptable matter of course), as violating the laws of physics in front of it's parents, juvenile siblings, various friends and acquaintences and any nonevil ecclesiastical personality of your choice, then sueing the laws of physics for damages incurred and winning.

[Athaniar]

I don't know much about fighting games, I'm absolutely terrible at all of them (except for obscure Dreamcast fighter Tech Romancer), but for ponies, I will try to find a way to get good at this.
I've only played the Super Smash Bros. games to any real extent, myself, and have little experience with the style of fighter this appears to be, but I share your determination! Because of Pony!

[Kairaven]

Also, Fighting Is Magic posted a new update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFnpBh22Sg&feature=player_embedded)on the game:

maybe it's just me, but it looks like pinkie is all smiles as she is being hit, and masochist pinkie is all I can think of now.

I am a bad bad pony.

[byaku rai]

*more snipping*

I agree with you, I just have an irritating habit of attempting to play Devil's Advocate in any given argument.

I'm just the Element of Contrariness, I suspect. ^^"

@vibroblades: I'm fine with them as long as they're portrayed somewhat realistically. They wouldn't be able to cut through absolutely anything (in fact, their primary use would be in penetrating body armor and allowing soldiers to cut through obstructions, two areas in which they are hopelessly outclassed by modern tech), and they'd probably be limited to small blades like knives without some sort of technobabble explanation for why the oscillation doesn't increase towards the tip.

@fighting games: I'm also mostly used to SSB. ^^" but I'd be happy to give this game a shot as long as it isn't full of MK Walkers. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MKWalker)

Oh right ponies: http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/d620bf894d196ae77c2b26f986156e02/79616%20-%20celestia%20comic%20fluttershy%20luna%20men_in_b lack%20pinkie_pie%20rarity.jpg

[Zevox]

Also, Fighting Is Magic posted a new update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFnpBh22Sg&feature=player_embedded)on the game:
Very nice. And hearing Twilight's theme confirms the expectations from AJ's - music in that game is going to be very good.

Zevox

[Beacon of Chaos]

Purple unicorn, green hair I think. If I recall correctly, think Spike's color scheme on a pony. No mustache though.
Neat. I may have to draw that sometime.


I don't know much about fighting games, I'm absolutely terrible at all of them (except for obscure Dreamcast fighter Tech Romancer), but for ponies, I will try to find a way to get good at this.
*Gasp* Someone else who played Tech Romancer! On Dreamcast, no less! Hell yeah!

Anyway, I love fighting games. I'm terrible at them, but love them all the same. And Fighting is Magic is not on one of the new consoles, so I'll actually be able to play it! Woo!

I hope it's going to be online. We should get a tournament going :smallbiggrin:

[Gamerlord]

I don't know much about fighting games, I'm absolutely terrible at all of them (except for obscure Dreamcast fighter Tech Romancer), but for ponies, I will try to find a way to get good at this.
Same here. The only fighting games I ever played were Street Fighter Alpha 3 and a game where you played as mecha I cannot remember the name of, and I was terribad at both. But this is a pony fighting game, and I WILL master it!
Though I am still worried the game could end up on the receiving end of a Cease & Desist from Hasbro...

[Callos_DeTerran]

Very nice. And hearing Twilight's theme confirms the expectations from AJ's - music in that game is going to be very good.

Zevox

I've got to try and find the themes on Youtube. Most videos I've seen have sound effects or people talking in the background. Can't get a good listen of them.

[Grif]

Just a little something I been working on. :smallsmile:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596953050206944260/A719EF7737211536C6E8AD0EA644596D554E10D9/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596953050206260472/D5986B357081863C93B427CC2D09D17DD9739CAB/

[Gamerlord]

Just a little something I been working on. :smallsmile:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596953050206944260/A719EF7737211536C6E8AD0EA644596D554E10D9/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596953050206260472/D5986B357081863C93B427CC2D09D17DD9739CAB/
How did you do this?

[Grif]

How did you do this?

Mods. :smalltongue: Well, learning how to mod anyway. The avatars and badges are fairly easy to do since the art is already available.

[Gamerlord]

Mods. :smalltongue: Well, learning how to mod anyway. The avatars and badges are fairly easy to do since the art is already available.
All of a sudden I regret not getting the game while it was on sale...

[otakuryoga]

just finished reading "the ballad of twilight sparkle"

i havent laughed so much in ages

[Soras Teva Gee]

Hmm I take a break for a few days and I miss half a ponythread... anything massively weird happen that I miss?

[EsperDerek]

Neat. I may have to draw that sometime.


*Gasp* Someone else who played Tech Romancer! On Dreamcast, no less! Hell yeah!

Anyway, I love fighting games. I'm terrible at them, but love them all the same. And Fighting is Magic is not on one of the new consoles, so I'll actually be able to play it! Woo!

I hope it's going to be online. We should get a tournament going :smallbiggrin:

Tech Romancer was, and still is, my favorite fighting game. I got stupidly good at using Kikiaoh/G. Kaiser and Dixen.

Now I want to dig out my Dreamcast...


Same here. The only fighting games I ever played were Street Fighter Alpha 3 and a game were you played as mecha I cannot remember the name of, and I was terribad at both. But this is a pony fighting game, and I WILL master it!
Though I am still worried the game could end up on the receiving end of a Cease & Desist from Hasbro...

The game with the mecha was most likely Tech Romancer. :smallsmile:

[Lix Lorn]

So, the IRC chat just got attacked by MURDERPEDE!

Don't worry, he was sent back to his pokeball.

(In case you're wondering, that is where the craziness has gone.)


Ah, I was wondering why there was a severe lack of silliness in this thread.
Aaah, I see.
Bring it back please. :smalleek:


Disappointment = Not sure that it's worth living in a doom fortress which couldn't explode at any minute.
I mean, what's the POINT?


http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/14d021a00f1ab998cf3be6500c3e8e8a/75976%20-%204chan%20NeoGAF%20Ponychan%20animated%20applejac k%20meta%20pinkie_pie.gif
Wiiiiiiiiin


Can't you, y'know, draw some ponies in harem outfits to speed up the process?

...

What would Griffon-Jayden look like in a harem outfit? I'm guessing 'angry'
...as I understand it, that'd do the OPPOSITE of bring him back. xD
...would make happy Lixie though. ;3


It must be said that the vibrational effect in a lot of sci-fi is waaay over-stated; it improves the cutting ability (for a given value of "cut"), not makes a blade into a fragging lightsabre.
Amusingly, vibroblades are the primary non-lightsaber melee weapon in star wars. :P

[Eakin]

I've got to try and find the themes on Youtube. Most videos I've seen have sound effects or people talking in the background. Can't get a good listen of them.

Subscribe to RainbowCrash88's YouTube channel. He's the composer and has begun posting the themes up there. Just Applejacks so far but now that this preview is out we might get Twilight's too

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Though I am still worried the game could end up on the receiving end of a Cease & Desist from Hasbro...

Hmmmm...I doubt it. While I am NOT all that versed in copywrite law, I do know that the main concern for Hasbro is "will this game cost us money" and "are these people making money off our property?"

Apparently, the game is free and they aren't even taking donations for it, so they aren't making any money off the game. I believe that they simply aren't worth Hasbro's time to go messing with and if worse comes to worse, tweak the names and the shades of colors on the ponies, call it a parody and you're protected for the most part there, as well.

As long as no money is being exchanged, I think they're good.

[Grif]

After some more work, here's another result of my little project.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5298/swordofthestars20111103.png

Ninja Rarity is best Rarity.

[BlasTech]

Despite dentist drills working on exactly this principle? :smallwink:

I'm fine with both, BTW.

Also, anyone got more requests for OP, wants to be added, or is the matter closed? :P

The only two things I can think of are a link to the IRC post by Titanium, and the link to the crazy twilight emote imgur.

Sorry, am still running around @ work so didn't have time to do a throrough check of previous threads to find them I'll do it this weekend unless someone else beats me to it.

[Gamerlord]

The game with the mecha was most likely Tech Romancer. :smallsmile:
Having looked up Tech Romancer, I doubt it. From what I remember, the game was 2D.

[Anarion]

Oh dear, I actually went through the missed pages of ponythread in detail and found a bunch of stuff I wanted to reply to. This must be how SiuS feels all the time.


Huh-buh-duh-whah? Wow, this might actually become a thing.

If we're doing this, we should do a few things (not necessarily in this order):
A) Figure out the medium
B) Find out who wants to participate
C) Start a thread for it
D) Pick which episode(s) to do
E) Start watching lots of MST3K and other riffers, to get a feel for the art.

I really hope this takes off!

I will write more of this, but I haven't ever produced any online media and I'm not going to take the time to learn it. I'm supposed to be researching a paper on Korean law right now anyway. But yeah, if you want to make this happen I will commit to writing more bad puns. Also, setting me an arbitrary deadline is about 1000% more likely to result in work getting done (I choose not to specify the base number from which 1000% is improving).


I thought that was the point of Australia? :smalltongue:

Also, I need a custom Exalted Limit break related to ponysanity. Care to help? :smallbiggrin:

Didn't see this get answered. So, first off, I think duck punch advanced Sidereal Martial Arts should almost surely be involved. Perhaps as a limit break, your character becomes overwhelmed by the realities of the world and turns their own arts on themselves, temporarily permanently transforming into a pony until their mind can be properly restored. This pony would, of course, be very brightly colored and retain many of the advantages of an exalt, but might have difficulty wielding a 30 foot long sword in his/her mouth. Twilight cast turns into unicorns, of course.


I mostly just don't want anypony to be uncomfortable, or this thread to get locked. I think Kpenguin was just joking earlier, but I'd prefer for that to remain the case

And now, less doomsday and more ponies. I have a question involving an OC. Her cutie mark is a rising tide. I'm curious what the thread's interpretation of that is. She's a pegasus pony, so she does not control the sea.

Couldn't pegasus ponies potentially control the oceans and tides as well? They're in charge of the weather and the creation of large storms and hurricanes is related to conditions at sea, so it seems like pegasi, at least in large enough groups, could exert tidal influence in order to properly alter other weather conditions.


Incomming tumblrbomb!

Duck and cover!

[SPOILER]
Also, Fighting Is Magic posted a new update (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFnpBh22Sg&feature=player_embedded)on the game:

I'm definitely maining Twilight when this game comes out. That finisher:smalleek:

Also, I think this game looks somewhere about halfway between smash and Soul Caliber in overall difficulty. Smash had one button and some directional imputs whereas Fighting is Magic has multiple buttons in arcade style. But, it looks way easier than the Soul Caliber games, where you had to do button combos and frame by frame timing to even make certain moves come out. Also, the combos consisted primarily of basic attacks, chained into specials only at the end, so most everyone should be able to execute them if you learn the correct positioning.


I have no problem with Vibro-Drills. A vibro-drill weapon is something that I would definately call Rule of Cool for. Just who the hell do you think I am? And so on.

If nothing else, it just sounds a lot less like it would end up exploding if used in an actual combat situation. :smallsmile:

Must...resist...ah forget it
GIGA DRILL BREAK!!



Subscribe to RainbowCrash88's YouTube channel. He's the composer and has begun posting the themes up there. Just Applejacks so far but now that this preview is out we might get Twilight's too

You didn't subscribe already for all the awesome 8-bit music:smallconfused:?


Hmmmm...I doubt it. While I am NOT all that versed in copywrite law, I do know that the main concern for Hasbro is "will this game cost us money" and "are these people making money off our property?"

Apparently, the game is free and they aren't even taking donations for it, so they aren't making any money off the game. I believe that they simply aren't worth Hasbro's time to go messing with and if worse comes to worse, tweak the names and the shades of colors on the ponies, call it a parody and you're protected for the most part there, as well.

As long as no money is being exchanged, I think they're good.

I don't have an answer for this at the moment, but I thought I would point out that I'll be taking a course entirely on copyright law this spring, so it's possible I might actually know something about all this stuff by the end of the fiscal year. Of course, being a law student ironically means I can't actually give legal advise to anyone ever without opening myself to massive liability, but I can probably still comment on stuff.

[Deadly]

Strange question time: Would you say that Big Macintosh has an accent, beyond his characteristic "Eeyup"? (and what about Applebloom, while we're at it?)

I've listened to his speaking at the beginning of Applebuck Season, and I'd say he doesn't seem to have an accent, and definitely not the same as Applejack. I'd say the same of Applebloom, it seems that it is only Applejack who speaks that way.

And yet I've seen at least Applebloom given the same accent as Applejack in fanfics and comics. I haven't read a lot of BigMac/Applebloom stories, and haven't paid much attention to their speech in the ones I have read, so I'm not sure how widespread this is.

So my question really is, is Big Macintosh usually given an accent in fanfics even though he doesn't have one in the show? And if so, might it seem odd if a fic didn't give him an accent?

I'm currently writing a small Big Mac fic, and right now I've given him no accent. I kinda wondered a bit whether to change that.

[otakuryoga]

Strange question time: Would you say that Big Macintosh has an accent, beyond his characteristic "Eeyup"? (and what about Applebloom, while we're at it?)

I've listened to his speaking at the beginning of Applebuck Season, and I'd say he doesn't seem to have an accent, and definitely not the same as Applejack. I'd say the same of Applebloom, it seems that it is only Applejack who speaks that way.

And yet I've seen at least Applebloom given the same accent as Applejack in fanfics and comics. I haven't read a lot of BigMac/Applebloom stories, and haven't paid much attention to their speech in the ones I have read, so I'm not sure how widespread this is.

So my question really is, is Big Macintosh usually given an accent in fanfics even though he doesn't have one in the show? And if so, might it seem odd if a fic didn't give him an accent?

I'm currently writing a small Big Mac fic, and right now I've given him no accent. I kinda wondered a bit whether to change that.

i would say applebloom has the accent..just not as over the top as with applejack

[Anarion]

i would say applebloom has the accent..just not as over the top as with applejack

Applebloom usually says "ah" instead of "I" and similar replacements but otherwise doesn't use the expressions or strong accept that Applejack has. Big Mactintosh probably has the weakest accent, although he speaks very slowly and deliberately so maybe he's just practicing to cover it up?

[ScionoftheVoid]

Wow, I can still (just about, if I chuck some other stuff out) keep up with the thread. Might make it back at some point, though I suspect the IRC will not bleed off quite so much ponysanity in future. We'll just have to wait and see, eh?

Just popping in to say that I'm now typing up to the end of chapter three in my fanfic (Blood Brothers, I'll provide a link if you ask and are okay with grimdark and reading the story as it's being polished). Chapter four is between halfway and three-quarters done, depending on where I decide to end it.

Also, on a related note, I need a name for a pony. White-coated scientist, wears glasses. May or may not be Derpy's father from Bubbles (I think that was the name of the 'fic, it was sad and involved filly Derpy Hooves). Currently I've got 'im down as Mortar (as in the long-ranged weapon, and as in mortar and pestle), and that could certainly work. But I'd prefer the best name possible, rather than just working with something that still feels a bit off.

...Oh, right! Typing! Scion, away!

That is not how a villain should make an exit.

Nor should a villain have a pink DSi, that didn't stop me either. Away!

Edit: Also, could I get your opinions on the use of "moonlit" as a slightly more serious pony-curse (assuming "horseapples" is something a pony could get away with saying on the Equestrian equivalent of these boards, but that "moonlit" would be censored)? Is it fairly obvious? Would it work for the rare occasions in which a pony needed such a word? Is it good enough to let me get away with not using actual profanities (I scold myself for using such words, and tend to avoid saying them unless they're part of a quote)?

[Kindablue]

Guys, remember.

Every time you make perverse jokes involving ponies, you make Nameless sad.

... He started it.

[Deadly]

Applebloom usually says "ah" instead of "I" and similar replacements but otherwise doesn't use the expressions or strong accept that Applejack has. Big Mactintosh probably has the weakest accent, although he speaks very slowly and deliberately so maybe he's just practicing to cover it up?

Yeah, aside from speaking slowly it doesn't seem like he has any special accent. Sadly, "slow speech" isn't easy to represent in written form, which is why I figure it may be tempting to give him a slight accent to make up for it.

[Tectonic Robot]

So. Guys.

Lord English appeared.

I want to see him as a pony. Or a diamond dog. Or maybe a dragon or something.

Uh, or just continue doing whatever you're doing. I'm cool with whatever.

[MBI]

So. Guys.

Lord English appeared.

I want to see him as a pony. Or a diamond dog. Or maybe a dragon or something.

Uh, or just continue doing whatever you're doing. I'm cool with whatever.

I'm fairly certain that making him a pony or a diamond droog would take away from how utterly terrifying that face is.

[ScionoftheVoid]

Okay, apparently I suck at reading my own notes. Chapter two is finished, I'm less than midway through chapter three (not quite sure how many chapters it will finish at, probably five, maybe six at a stretch).

[Tectonic Robot]

I'm fairly certain that making him a pony or a diamond droog would take away from how utterly terrifying that face is.

I suppose you're right. I was so swept up in excitement I lost control of my common sense.

[Eakin]

If Hasbro sends Mane 6 a cease and desist letter, the project dies. These guys do not have the resources to fight a court battle, even if they might eventually win. Which I'm not sure would be the case, it's not really a slam dunk that developing a video game based on someone else's IP is fair use.

[Beacon of Chaos]

Lyra comic! Grif, I think you'll like this one:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/bd91eed85dd21523f9231cff64798adf/79372%20-%20Lyra%20artist%3Aemlan%20comic%20mane%20rarity%2 0twilight_sparkle.png


Tech Romancer was, and still is, my favorite fighting game. I got stupidly good at using Kikiaoh/G. Kaiser and Dixen.

Now I want to dig out my Dreamcast...
I was more of a Twinzam guy myself.

[SiuiS]

Depends what they're made from, doesn't it? E.g. laser energy, electricity, blades, plasma, monofilament wire1...


At my level of paranoia? No. There's spells for everything if you go through enough supplements.



1Okay, not that last one; despite being a common idea in some sci-fi, that is one weapon that always makes me skullpalm and point out that PHYSICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! It it's one molecule thick, then you can't swing it and even if you could there'd be no mass for it to work. And if it's stabilised/strengthened by a forcefield or something (like energy whips), why not, I dunno, just use the forcefield?

I always assumed the monofilament "whip" worked like a meteor hammer. A weight on the end, so an arc would work like a wire between trees + motorcycle, not... That whippy stuff you sem upset about. I guess I mentally compensated.

I also figured you could use a small amount of energy to reinforce the strength of the wire so it wouldn't bend, and when the current stops it can be wound up again.


I thought you were an inexperianced artist but you keep posting all these awesome sketches. When you mentioned you were drawing Rarity I thought about how I people had said that her hair was rather difficult but you seem to have pulled it off just fine. Rarity is best pony.

Rarity's mane is $*%@&ing insane. I haven't drawn Rarity very often for just this reason. Which is why I'm so impressed! Atupid orgeous coiffure...


maybe it's just me, but it looks like pinkie is all smiles as she is being hit, and masochist pinkie is all I can think of now.

I am a bad bad pony.

KAIRAVEN! *hug*

Nah, she looked distraught in a couple of those. The expressions were fabulous, though. I haven't seen that mug attention put into spruces since the days of Darkstalkers / Vampire Saviour. Even the newest iteration of accurate 3D model fighting games don' do that. It's refreshing and I didnt know I'd missed it until now.


Hmm I take a break for a few days and I miss half a ponythread... anything massively weird happen that I miss?

Nothing massively weird.
But I am the one least capable of giving you an accurate answer. I think most of this stuff as normal.


Wow, I can still (just about, if I chuck some other stuff out) keep up with the thread. Might make it back at some point, though I suspect the IRC will not bleed off quite so much ponysanity in future. We'll just have to wait and see, eh?

Just popping in to say that I'm now typing up to the end of chapter three in my fanfic (Blood Brothers, I'll provide a link if you ask and are okay with grimdark and reading the story as it's being polished). Chapter four is between halfway and three-quarters done, depending on where I decide to end it.

Is that... Hm. Sure, put up a link.
And the insanity is going to oscilate up and down, because we're trying to be more inviting, but we're also trying to appease the folks in-thread with appropriate levels of Strange.

So you've been forewarned.

And Anarion; I can't help myself, it's a sickness.
I'm getting better at not sweating the small stuff; I've acknowledge quotes without answering them. It buys me time. I'll probably work on the wall some more today though.

[Darthteej]

I...there is no possible way I can keep up with this.

IT'S YOG SOGOTH TIME

http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/2402227445401587758.gif___1_500_1_500_cb94de6a_.pn g

[SiuiS]

I...there is no possible way I can keep up with this.

IT'S YOG SOGOTH TIME

http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/2402227445401587758.gif___1_500_1_500_cb94de6a_.pn g

OH HEAVENS NO!
DERPY
THIS IS NOT WHAT YOUR CUTIE MARK IS SUPPOSED TO BE
¿¡¿¡POOOOOR QUUEEEEEEEE!?!?

[byaku rai]

I...there is no possible way I can keep up with this.

IT'S YOG SOGOTH TIME

http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/2402227445401587758.gif___1_500_1_500_cb94de6a_.pn g

... Oh...
http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/8/8a/DerpyCompetition1.png

http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/b/b9/Welovefine_Derpy_cutie_mark.jpg

... Oh my...

EDIT: Pinkie'd...

[Darthteej]

Derpy Hooves knows the gate. Derpy Hooves is the gate. Derpy Hooves is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Derpy Hooves. She knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. She knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

(in all seriousness i wasn't thinking of that at all)

[Gaelbert]

If Hasbro sends Mane 6 a cease and desist letter, the project dies. These guys do not have the resources to fight a court battle, even if they might eventually win. Which I'm not sure would be the case, it's not really a slam dunk that developing a video game based on someone else's IP is fair use.

This is true, but if Hasbro were to start enforcing its intellectual property rights, they would probably start with the Youtube videos and move from there. It's not like Hasbro is planning on making a pony fighting game that this would leach an audience from. And, frankly, if Hasbro starting enforcing copyright laws, this fandom would die. I see no way around that. But I can't imagine why they would want to kill the fandom, considering how much press and more money they're getting from us. Take me for example. I'm notoriously stingy, I eat on something like $3 a day in one of the most expensive regions of the U.S., but I've still spent way more money on Ponies than any other show/franchise I've ever been interested in (even more than Pokemon). In fact, I don't know if I've ever purchased a shirt or toy from another show, but I have a pony shirt (in the mail) and toys of all the mane cast. And I'm not even done with my collecting.
So while Hasbro is fully within its legal rights to crack down on us, they have to realize nothing good for them could come of it. Right? :smalleek:

[Soras Teva Gee]

Nothing massively weird.
But I am the one least capable of giving you an accurate answer. I think most of this stuff as normal.

All right then, is good.

I'm kinda on a low ebb myself. I think I've emerged at last from initial-ponysanity to chronic-ponysanity. It like a case of really awesome Herpes or something, can flare up any time and you never get rid of it entirely.

[Bayonet Priest]

just finished reading "the ballad of twilight sparkle"

i havent laughed so much in ages

I really like that story. It's probably the funniest story I've read on Equestria Daily, except for maybe Progress at it's peak.


After some more work, here's another result of my little project.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5298/swordofthestars20111103.png

Ninja Rarity is best Rarity.

This is so much win that I don't even know what to say. It looks fantastic.

[Kindablue]

So while Hasbro is fully within its legal rights to crack down on us, they have to realize nothing good for them could come of it. Right? :smalleek:
The Hub's a new network, and it needs all the press it can get. They wouldn't put up with us nearly as much if that wasn't true, but for the moment I'm not worried.

[Topaz]

I'm definitely maining Twilight when this game comes out. That finisher:smalleek:
I'm waiting to see Rainbow Dash's finisher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxZnwvSra4). http://i.imgur.com/OqjNV.png


Strange question time: Would you say that Big Macintosh has an accent, beyond his characteristic "Eeyup"? (and what about Applebloom, while we're at it?)

I've listened to his speaking at the beginning of Applebuck Season, and I'd say he doesn't seem to have an accent, and definitely not the same as Applejack. I'd say the same of Applebloom, it seems that it is only Applejack who speaks that way.

And yet I've seen at least Applebloom given the same accent as Applejack in fanfics and comics. I haven't read a lot of BigMac/Applebloom stories, and haven't paid much attention to their speech in the ones I have read, so I'm not sure how widespread this is.

So my question really is, is Big Macintosh usually given an accent in fanfics even though he doesn't have one in the show? And if so, might it seem odd if a fic didn't give him an accent?

I'm currently writing a small Big Mac fic, and right now I've given him no accent. I kinda wondered a bit whether to change that.
Currently working on a mostly Applejack fic myself, I decided after much pondering to write Big Mac and Applebloom with a hint of accent compared with AJ's much more prevalent one.

[Gaelbert]

All right then, is good.

I'm kinda on a low ebb myself. I think I've emerged at last from initial-ponysanity to chronic-ponysanity. It like a case of really awesome Herpes or something, can flare up any time and you never get rid of it entirely.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Herpes
That better be the next thread title.


The Hub's a new network, and it needs all the press it can get. They wouldn't put up with us nearly as much if that wasn't true, but for the moment I'm not worried.

Actually, promising news on that front. Apparently in the new pony blind-bags, Derpy was actually named Derpy Whooves instead of Ditzy Doo. That would show a great deal of respect for the brony community if true. Might just be a rumour though.

[Welf]

If? I'm sorry, have you met Socrates?

Not personally, no.
But he was truly the Ur-Troll. He once said, "I'm gonna troll them all, even if it kills me". But it didn't killed him, so he screwed up his trial and killed himself. Got to respect that.


I don't particularly believe that there's objective morality either. But just because something doesn't exist doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Sure, there may be no true, universally applicable form of justice. But striving for that ideal has worth. I think that beauty is in the self, and that human beings can manifest beautiful things through the act of striving for beauty.

But things get rather fuzzy when it comes to the details. What is "better"? Say, you see a homeless. What is the right thing to do? Give him money to improve his current situation, or not give him money, so he'll learn to not rely on others? Or would it be kind to make his situation even worse, because he's probably in this mess because his own past misdeeds, and making him pay for that would make the universe a more just place?
It'#s like Pascal's wager: sounds right on general, but has no practical use.


Yo. Dexam. Have a bee pony.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7788/day168.jpg

Bees are ftagen vicious, man.

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1344b52db753d61428516046115ded6d/70706%20-%20BEES%20Dragon%20applejack%20bronies%20honeys%20 spike%20twilight_sparkle.png

[Rappy]

Huh-buh-duh-whah? Wow, this might actually become a thing.

If we're doing this, we should do a few things (not necessarily in this order):
A) Figure out the medium
B) Find out who wants to participate
C) Start a thread for it
D) Pick which episode(s) to do
E) Start watching lots of MST3K and other riffers, to get a feel for the art.

I really hope this takes off!
Is there any need for plain ol' writers? I don't have a mic, but I have seen every episode of MST3K proper (and at least one of the "season 0" episodes, though which one I forget).

[Welf]

OH HEAVENS NO!
DERPY
THIS IS NOT WHAT YOUR CUTIE MARK IS SUPPOSED TO BE
¿¡¿¡POOOOOR QUUEEEEEEEE!?!?

:smalleek: I can't unread that

[Thanqol]

Derpy Hooves knows the gate. Derpy Hooves is the gate. Derpy Hooves is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Derpy Hooves. She knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. She knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

(in all seriousness i wasn't thinking of that at all)

We do not speak of the Gate.

[Soras Teva Gee]

My Little Pony: Friendship is Herpes
That better be the next thread title.

I'm totally down for that.



Actually, promising news on that front. Apparently in the new pony blind-bags, Derpy was actually named Derpy Whooves instead of Ditzy Doo. That would show a great deal of respect for the brony community if true. Might just be a rumour though.

I thought Derpy Whooves was the biological daughter of Derpy and the Doctor from that one episode?

(On a side note I need to purge Ditzy Doo from tvtropes since nopony calls her that it only needs to be mentioned in the character description as a possible name)

[SlyGuyMcFly]

You know, today I wondered if several ancient philosophers were just early trolls who liked to annoy people.

That would explain Pliny the Elder.

[Aotrs Commander]

I thought Derpy Whooves was the biological daughter of Derpy and the Doctor from that one episode?

(On a side note I need to purge Ditzy Doo from tvtropes since nobody calls her that it only needs to be mentioned in the character description as a possible name)

Define "nobody".

[Kindablue]

OH HEAVENS NO!
DERPY
THIS IS NOT WHAT YOUR CUTIE MARK IS SUPPOSED TO BE
¿¡¿¡POOOOOR QUUEEEEEEEE!?!?
http://www.goominet.com/uploads/tx_cenostripviewer/w141_math.jpg (http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/41/Yogzotot/)

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Derpy+teaches+time+travel_078a32_2523260.jpg

:smalleek:

[the_druid_droid]

Strange question time: Would you say that Big Macintosh has an accent, beyond his characteristic "Eeyup"? (and what about Applebloom, while we're at it?)

I've listened to his speaking at the beginning of Applebuck Season, and I'd say he doesn't seem to have an accent, and definitely not the same as Applejack. I'd say the same of Applebloom, it seems that it is only Applejack who speaks that way.

And yet I've seen at least Applebloom given the same accent as Applejack in fanfics and comics. I haven't read a lot of BigMac/Applebloom stories, and haven't paid much attention to their speech in the ones I have read, so I'm not sure how widespread this is.

So my question really is, is Big Macintosh usually given an accent in fanfics even though he doesn't have one in the show? And if so, might it seem odd if a fic didn't give him an accent?

I'm currently writing a small Big Mac fic, and right now I've given him no accent. I kinda wondered a bit whether to change that.

I would say that Applebloom does have a slight accent. It's not super pronounced, but it is there - much like the accents I heard growing up. I think you could probably get away with giving Big Mac one, but since he's pretty taciturn anyway, the most show-accurate way to portray him is to probably minimize his speaking as much as possible.


*snip*

Hey Scion! Good to see you 'round!

Regarding 'moonlit' as a curse, it might work, as long as you made the context clear beforehand.


Lyra comic! Grif, I think you'll like this one:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/bd91eed85dd21523f9231cff64798adf/79372%20-%20Lyra%20artist%3Aemlan%20comic%20mane%20rarity%2 0twilight_sparkle.png


I heart this comic so much!


Rarity's mane is $*%@&ing insane. I haven't drawn Rarity very often for just this reason. Which is why I'm so impressed! Atupid orgeous coiffure...


The dark secret: it's cylinders all the way down!

Seriously, look at the curls, all the big clumps are is just nested cylinders with squished edges. Connect them with swoopy lines and you're mostly there, then tweak until satisfied.

Easier said than done, of course...




OH HEAVENS NO!
DERPY
THIS IS NOT WHAT YOUR CUTIE MARK IS SUPPOSED TO BE
¿¡¿¡POOOOOR QUUEEEEEEEE!?!?


... Oh...
http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/8/8a/DerpyCompetition1.png

http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/b/b9/Welovefine_Derpy_cutie_mark.jpg

... Oh my...

EDIT: Pinkie'd...


Derpy Hooves knows the gate. Derpy Hooves is the gate. Derpy Hooves is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Derpy Hooves. She knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. She knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

(in all seriousness i wasn't thinking of that at all)

I-I think we just discovered a rival for THE PINK ONE...

I'm going to go hide now :smalleek:


All right then, is good.

I'm kinda on a low ebb myself. I think I've emerged at last from initial-ponysanity to chronic-ponysanity. It like a case of really awesome Herpes or something, can flare up any time and you never get rid of it entirely.

This is simultaneously the most apt and most disturbing analogy for the fandom I've ever heard...

[Soras Teva Gee]

Define "nobody".

Excuse me it has been corrected.

[Bayonet Priest]

So I'm playing in a DND 4th edition campaign and we just hit level 2. The setting is intentionally generic and we're allowed to pick setting specific material from wherever we want. I decided to take a Dragonmark, the Mark of Scribing, as my level 2 feat. I thought that its effects, namely the ritual casting and 4 bonus languages, really fit my character's backstory (he was an arcane academy drop out who wound up as an archivest/secretary to a cabal of diabolists for a little while. Don't judge him, there was girl involved.) Then my brain made a connection and after I saw it I couldn't unsee it. Dragonmark = Cutie mark. Now I can't help but picture him with a tome of eldritch lore tattoo'd on his ass. :smallbiggrin:

Just thought I'd share that cause I thought it was kind of amusing.

[Thanqol]

But things get rather fuzzy when it comes to the details. What is "better"? Say, you see a homeless. What is the right thing to do? Give him money to improve his current situation, or not give him money, so he'll learn to not rely on others? Or would it be kind to make his situation even worse, because he's probably in this mess because his own past misdeeds, and making him pay for that would make the universe a more just place?
It'#s like Pascal's wager: sounds right on general, but has no practical use.

What, you want objectively correct policy implementation programs? Good luck getting that. That depends on any number of things depending on any number of other things.

No, morality is deciding that the homeless man is your problem and your responsibility. You are then compelled to search for the best way to deal with that problem. You may never find it. You may be wracked with guilt and insecurity forever because of the mistakes you are destined to make. And that's the way it should be.

If you told me you knew the right answer to the problem of the homeless man I wouldn't trust you.

[Kris Strife]

Didn't see this get answered. So, first off, I think duck punch advanced Sidereal Martial Arts should almost surely be involved. Perhaps as a limit break, your character becomes overwhelmed by the realities of the world and turns their own arts on themselves, temporarily permanently transforming into a pony until their mind can be properly restored. This pony would, of course, be very brightly colored and retain many of the advantages of an exalt, but might have difficulty wielding a 30 foot long sword in his/her mouth. Twilight cast turns into unicorns, of course.

Actually, I'm looking for this one for Leo. :smalltongue:

[Aotrs Commander]

What, you want objectively correct policy implementation programs? Good luck getting that. That depends on any number of things depending on any number of other things.

No, morality is deciding that the homeless man is your problem and your responsibility. You are then compelled to search for the best way to deal with that problem. You may never find it. You may be wracked with guilt and insecurity forever because of the mistakes you are destined to make. And that's the way it should be.

If you told me you knew the right answer to the problem of the homeless man I wouldn't trust you.

Silly, the answer involves particle beams, destructive spells and/or explosives!

The answer is always particle beams, destructive spells and/or explosives!




We now have some "offical" names for the background ponies. (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html#more)

Not better, I fear, than the fanon, though I do like the idea suggested of adopting the canon names as second names (or otherwise combining them): "Lyra Heartstrings", in particular, has a very nice ring to it, doesn't it?

[Thanqol]

Silly, the answer involves particle beams, destructive spells and/or explosives!

The answer is always particle beams, destructive spells and/or explosives!

As the size of the explosion increases the number of social situations it is incapable of resolving approaches zero.

[Trixie]

The only two things I can think of are a link to the IRC post by Titanium, and the link to the crazy twilight emote imgur.

Sorry, am still running around @ work so didn't have time to do a throrough check of previous threads to find them I'll do it this weekend unless someone else beats me to it.

I hope so, too ^^"


1Okay, not that last one; despite being a common idea in some sci-fi, that is one weapon that always makes me skullpalm and point out that PHYSICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! It it's one molecule thick, then you can't swing it and even if you could there'd be no mass for it to work. And if it's stabilised/strengthened by a forcefield or something (like energy whips), why not, I dunno, just use the forcefield?

...well, depending on setting, asking why they just don't use forcefield might just be like asking 'we send electricity on tiny wires, why we just don't use pure electrons instead'? :smallconfused:

Anyway, I saw enough materials cut by thin, wire blades to not laugh the idea, all it needs is just something to weight/secure the end not in handle. Plus, one of the most iconic weapons of all sci-fi has monomolecular edge, so I guess that's enough to make me fine with them :smallwink:

[Draconi Redfir]

Derpy Hooves knows the gate. Derpy Hooves is the gate. Derpy Hooves is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Derpy Hooves. She knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. She knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

(in all seriousness i wasn't thinking of that at all)


This is obviously why she travels with the docor, he must protect the universe from her and her from the universe!

[otakuryoga]

Lyra Heartstrings comic! Grif, I think you'll like this one:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/bd91eed85dd21523f9231cff64798adf/79372%20-%20Lyra%20artist%3Aemlan%20comic%20mane%20rarity%2 0twilight_sparkle.png


I was more of a Twinzam guy myself.

fixed that for ya

waaaaaahhhhhh!!! that name is gonna take some getting used to




Actually, promising news on that front. Apparently in the new pony blind-bags, Derpy was actually named Derpy Whooves instead of Ditzy Doo. That would show a great deal of respect for the brony community if true. Might just be a rumour though.

didnt see a derpy in the next set pics that were on ED




We now have some "offical" names for the background ponies. (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html#more)

Not better, I fear, than the fanon, though I do like the idea suggested of adopting the canon names as second names (or otherwise combining them): "Lyra Heartstrings", in particular, has a very nice ring to it, doesn't it?

i can live with that

Lyra/Bonbon just sounds better than Heartstrings/Bonbon or Heartstrings/????

and...Golden Harvest----"likes sharing treats" what the HAY does carrots cutie mark have to do with sharing treats???

[Draconi Redfir]

if Derpy hooves is now Derpy Whooves, and Doctor Whooves becomes canon, the two can be married! :P

[Gaelbert]

if Derpy hooves is now Derpy Whooves, and Doctor Whooves becomes canon, the two can be married! :P

Well like I said, I don't remember where I heard that, and I probably spelled it wrong anyways. I can't imagine why they would spell it Whooves.

[MBI]

Not better, I fear, than the fanon, though I do like the idea suggested of adopting the canon names as second names (or otherwise combining them): "Lyra Heartstrings", in particular, has a very nice ring to it, doesn't it?

I was just about to suggest that. Besides Golden Harvest.

Pony naming confuses me. How can they have a name that reflects their personality?

For example, How could Fluttershy's parents of possibly known that the then Newborn Fluttershy would grow up to be shy?

And finally, Hasbro got unbelievably lazy with the art there.

[Beeskee]

Somepony said ponythread was SLOW lately didn't they?! DIDN'T THEY?! ... Ohyeah it was me. *looks nervously at the 10 pages he has to catch up on*



chapter 8 of Mare in the Mirror (http://adcoon.deviantart.com/art/Mare-in-the-Mirror-8-266457378) is up. I'm not getting much response to these here it seems, but I'll link it anyway.

I read all of this series, and the prequel. It was really good, though I did regret reading two horror stories just before bed. O.o;



...now I'm worried things like that have been going on and have somehow passed my notice. If I have to review thirty threads to check, I shall be very cross.

I think it was a joke, at least I hope so. The closest I have seen is the pic I posted in IRC which got linked here, involving Fluttershy and Discord. So if it is a TOS violation, don't blame the pony who posted it, blame me. :smalltongue:



Not pony, but slightly related since there's a pony mod in progress:
I picked up Sword of the Stars. :smallbiggrin: It looks pretty cool. I'm wondering how I missed it, considering that I love 4x games. Now to find some free time to play it in, hehe.

[Athaniar]

We now have some "offical" names for the background ponies. (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/official-blind-bag-pony-names.html#more)
We now have... uh-oh. Brace yourselves, the fanon is exploding!

*hides under shield*

[Gaelbert]

We now have... uh-oh. Brace yourselves, the fanon is exploding!

*hides under shield*

Nah, it seems the general consensus is to ignore their names and use our own because theirs were stupid. And the artists were lazy.

[MBI]

We now have... uh-oh. Brace yourselves, the fanon is exploding!

*hides under shield*

Don't worry my friend! Through the unlimited power of Fannon Continuity (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanonDiscontinuity), We can continue using our own names (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qcccZy03s) for them.

And is Derpy Hooves now an official name? I've grown accustomed to Ditzy Doo.

[Thanqol]

Nah, it seems the general consensus is to ignore their names and use our own because theirs were stupid. And the artists were lazy.

Lyra will always be a filly Lyra to me. Heartstrings is a pretty last name. Carrot Top stays, Noteworthy gets a pass because I never liked 'Blues', Berry Punch and Berryshine both sound alcoholic enough to be interchangeable for me.

[Kurgan]

Pony naming confuses me. How can they have a name that reflects their personality?

For example, How could Fluttershy's parents of possibly known that the then Newborn Fluttershy would grow up to be shy?

Perhaps Equestria isn't such a great place after all? Maybe they don't name their foals till they are 4 or 5 years of age (or the pony equivalent) because infant mortality rate is so high. Or perhaps the parents give a name, and then force their child to into the personality.



And finally, Hasbro got unbelievably lazy with the art there.

Yeah...considering that if memory serves, Berry Punch is an earth pony.

[MBI]

Perhaps Equestria isn't such a great place after all? Maybe they don't name their foals till they are 4 or 5 years of age (or the pony equivalent) because infant mortality rate is so high. Or perhaps the parents give a name, and then force their child to into the personality.



Yeah...considering that if memory serves, Berry Punch is an earth pony.

Maybe that's Berry Punch's Twin Unicorn sister? Yup. Thats now my headcannon.

[Kurgan]

Maybe that's Berry Punch's Twin Unicorn sister? Yup. Thats now my headcannon.

Nah, she's just always been envious of Rarity, so she "acquired" a horn had Nurse Redheart graft it on.

[Gaelbert]

Lyra will always be a filly Lyra to me. Heartstrings is a pretty last name. Carrot Top stays, Noteworthy gets a pass because I never liked 'Blues', Berry Punch and Berryshine both sound alcoholic enough to be interchangeable for me.

Huh. All this time I had thought it was Carrot Cake, not Carrot Top.
I like my fanon name better than the normal one and the canon one I guess.


Perhaps Equestria isn't such a great place after all? Maybe they don't name their foals till they are 4 or 5 years of age (or the pony equivalent) because infant mortality rate is so high. Or perhaps the parents give a name, and then force their child to into the personality.

Yeah...considering that if memory serves, Berry Punch is an earth pony.

Pip is a year (or less) old, but he has a name. Although considering Pip is probably short for Pipsqueak, I have to imagine that's just a nickname. Huh. You may be onto something here.

Lyra is a recolor of Twilight Sparkle, Blues is a recolor of Big Macintosh, Berry Punch is a recolor of Rarity, and Carrot Top is a recolor of Pinkie Pie. One of the best comments I read suggested that the pony figures were actually different background characters we hadn't seen yet. Or Twilight cosplaying as Lyra, and so on and so forth.