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A point occurs to me, regarding the Discord disposal discussion.
Bleakbane, you're talking a lot about astronomical improbabilities. May I point out that Discord is a spirit of chaos? Improbability is, quite literally, his thing. If he has any influence at all while statued, he would sooner or later be able to twist the probabilities around so that he would encounter someone fun to torment.
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Deadly
The latter. Names for the leader and some random stallion of the Shadowbolts, they don't have to be similar names to "Spitfire" and "Soarin'"
Some good suggestions, but keep 'em coming :smallbiggrin:
Dive Bomb
Immelmann
Black Baron
Bolt from the Blue (maybe that's more of a technique name)
Twister
Cloud Cover
Nightfall
Tempest
Shady... something, that needs work
Also Barrel Roll, but only if you can use the line "Do a Barrel Roll!" in a dirty context
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I really like Cloud Cover. That sounds like a legitimate pegasus name.
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Deadly
Names wanted!
I need some good names for the Shadowbolt equivalents of Spitfire and Soarin'. Anyone got any good suggestions?
at least one of your shadowbolts should be named "doodlebug"
someone get the reference
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DigoDragon
How did it go?
Time = Money. Money = Power. SQR(Money) = Evil.
-> Time = Evil^2
time = money
power ∝ evil [that is, power corrupts]
love(money) = root(all evil)
Therefore, love(time) ∝ root(all power)
The love of time is proportional to the root of all power. Uh... if we slightly grossly and unforgivably mangle the English there, we get roughly "Love is Power" -- or "Friendship is Magic", if you prefer.
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Tvtyrant
I really like Cloud Cover. That sounds like a legitimate pegasus name.
Normal names for ponies and pegasi are almost always alliterative.
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thubby
at least one of your shadowbolts should be named "doodlebug"
someone get the reference
I might have a different use for that one, too :smallamused:
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Eakin
Normal names for ponies and pegasi are almost always alliterative.
twilight sparkle, rainbow dash, sweety belle, apple bloom...
not seeing it:smallconfused:
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Deadly
I might have a different use for that one, too :smallamused:
oh sweet celestia, what sick idea did i just give you?
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Eakin
Amaterasu has some really good pony fan art, actually
Oh my God that is ****ing adorable. Amaterasu is the best pony.
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thubby
twilight sparkle, rainbow dash, sweety belle, apple bloom...
not seeing it:smallconfused:
oh sweet celestia, what sick idea did i just give you?
Don't you go ruining my alliteration kick with your "data" and "facts"
Probably better to say that alliteration makes names like those feel a bit punchier. Also if you don't think the FiM team likes alliteration go watch Applebuck Season again
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thubby
oh sweet celestia, what sick idea did i just give you?
Well, I can tell you, one character isn't going to thank you for it :smalltongue:
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Eakin
Normal names for ponies and pegasi are almost always alliterative.
i c whut u did thar
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled pony for the Official release of Dash's stage theme from Fighting is Magic by RainbowCrash88
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Eakin
Aaaawww yeah! :smallbiggrin:
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Eakin
..... ****, that was awesome. I could drive / work out / box to that...
GOD I WANT TO PLAY -SO- BAD! IT HURTS!
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Anarion
I can think of two times when Celestia seems a bit tired of her job
1. A Bird in the Hoof, when she plays little practical jokes and tries to get everypony else to act normally instead of treating her with so much reverence that they constantly freak out.
2. End of the Best Night Ever, when she declares that the Grand Gallopin Gala is usually really boring and all the chaos made it the best night ever.
Ehh, to me that really just says that she gets bored easily. I suppose yes, attending these things is part of her job, but it's not really the main part, which is ruling, raising the sun, and teaching magic.
Although, she has been doing the same job for over a 1000 years. Things change, but I would completely understand if she was tiring of it. :smalltongue:
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Deadly
Names wanted!
I need some good names for the Shadowbolt equivalents of Spitfire and Soarin'. Anyone got any good suggestions?
Shade
Void
Scorchin'
Blaze
Edge
Blackfire
Frostburn
Aaaaanyway, I just got out of a livestream with my friend Angie Cakes, and she drew some great stuff that I feel like sharing :3
And this one is based on my own oc!
Speaking of which, here he is! My alchemist pony! Two versions because I'm still not sure which colour scheme I prefer.
And I can't think of a good name for him, so he is currently just Dr. Havoc. Anyone got any good names for an alchemist? :I
Oh wow, that theme is so perfect for Dash! Makes up for the lackluster Pinkie and Rarity themes completely.
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Diego Havoc
Blaze
Ooh, I love that one. Especially because "blaze" can also refer to light markings on a horse's face :smallcool:
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Diego Havoc
Oh wow, that theme is so perfect for Dash! Makes up for the lackluster Pinkie and Rarity themes completely.
I dunno, the Rarity one in particular seems to suit her, and has that touch of sophistocation that makes a defensive battle-field control character's victory all the more satisfying.
They're having an official tournament in a Month and a half, right?
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Deadly
Ooh, I love that one. Especially because "blaze" can also refer to light markings on a horse's face :smallcool:
Glad you like it. And I did not know that! :o
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INoKnowNames
I dunno, the Rarity one in particular seems to suit her, and has that touch of sophistocation that makes a defensive battle-field control character's victory all the more satisfying.
After listening to it again I'll agree that it suits her. I just find it a bit of a boring theme really. That's just personal taste though.
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Diego Havoc
Glad you like it. And I did not know that! :o
Wikipedia is a treasure trove of obscure knowledge :smallbiggrin:
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Pokonic
"Telaports"
Can I offer you a jo- oh, huh. Err, do I know you? Also, I suggest the mask with the moving swirly parts on it.
Ghoul, do you have the faintest idea where you are right now?
I would suggest you go back the way you came, before the Darkspire notices you are here. This is not a healthy enviroment for one such as yourself.
And I would thank you not to endanger a guest of Princess Bleakmane in her own stronghold.
That could be construed as...impolite.
DigoDragon;
The kicker is, I agree with Batman on whether he himself should do any such thing. It's not his place to do anything of the sort. It's Gotham's responsibility to administer Justice, Batman's place is in making the Joker available to face it. If Gotham lacks the death penalty, it should be legislated through on a one-off case, specially for the Joker, or they should work cross-state to get him sent somewhere that has it, because with the amount of victims and the amount of crimes he has committed, I'm sure there must be one or two that would be keen to get their hands on him.
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Eakin
Needs more cowbell.
Eh, I'm not sure what it is, but I really don't care for any of the themes. Rarity's is almost techno, Dash's is almost speed metal, Applejack's is... odd, Pinkie's has way too much drum in that one spot and then the sax comes out of nowhere, and I don't know what's up with Twilight's.
Then again, a fighting game theme is completely different from a real song, and I don't have experience with other such themes to compare them to, so I'm probably just shooting in the dark here. Not to mention that I'm by no means a connoisseur of music.
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What time is it? It's quotepost time!
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SiuiS
maybe, but it's really a sort of quantum thing.
All ponies are best pony at once, an picking a single one is just turning your eyes to a single facet of what "best pone" truly is, like picking a single virtue and declaring it Virtue itself..
Despite the Rarity Crew gangbanger act, I like this.
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Dexam
Ah, it's time for the latest round of 'Best Pony' arguments, is it?
Sublime.
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Dexam
Why?
Because it's a willful misuse of the word, in a way that only serves the obfuscate the truth you want to reveal.
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Dexam
This isn't always a bad thing.
Of course not. A lie exists independently of it's moral value. Whether or not a given lie is a bad thing is irrelevant to the nature of lies.
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Dexam
An honest statement isn't necessarily a true statement.
True. You seem to think I think that lies and truth are opposites. This is not the case. A lie is a falsehood crafted to decieve. A falsehood crafted only to explain a complex truth is not a lie, it is a model.
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Dexam
No, I'm not. This isn't controversy, this is philosophy.
Philosophy is not immune to controversy. Thanqol proves this frequently. :smalltongue:
I do beg your pardon for getting it wrong in this instance, though. :smallsmile:
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Dexam
I know exactly what the word means. Perhaps you find the word "lie" to strong? Would you prefer "partial truth", "fiction", "tale", "fable", "story"?
I dislike the word lie because the truth* you postulate is not accurately described with the word "lie". The right words to describe it are "tale" and "story".
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Dexam
I would love to have a long debate about the nature of truth and lies, but unfortunately I don't have the time. However, to understand my perspective, if you haven't already I suggest that you read "The Science of Discworld II: The Globe" by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen. It contains some wonderful essays on the nature of truth, and why lieing is not a bad thing and is actually quite vital to human development. Go. Read. Contemplate. Then we can talk (assuming I have the time).
Read it. Own it. Love it. Have some issues with the nomenclature. :smallamused:
*Story
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Deadly
It may be different, it may be another genre, it may not be to your tastes, but saying that it is OOC is frankly insulting to all the authors who try hard to write believable, in-character pony tales.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I do not intend to offend.
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SiuiS
Thank you. I often feel like a black sheep for these sorts of thoughts.
Same. Glad to see it's not just me. :smallsmile:
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DigoDragon
Luna with the juice box. I'm a fan of that classic image.
/this
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SiuiS
Well, of course. The problem is Dragon Ball Z.
[snip]
I agree with everything you say here. But I also don't think that magical beam wattage alone is a valid metric for power-in-general. It's a good metric for blowing-you-up-with-magical-lasers-power, but power comes in many forms that are difficult to compare to each other. A strait up fight only measures combat prowess.
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Aotrs Commander
Either magic is unlimited in power and scope, in which case it should be everywhere and abused like it's going out of fashion for everything possibly imaginable, up to and including the creation/destruction of solar systems, new dimensions, the complete negation of death/time/whatever, or it isn't. The lack of the former being widespread across the entire of the everything would empirically suggest the latter.
Depends on the kind of magic. In the kind I prefer, the scope and power of magic is limited not by physical restraints, but narrative ones. Narrative Causality, conceptual proximity, that sort of stuff.
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Deadly
If we're arguing that it's OOC for the show then I will agree with you, but it is not OOC for the setting. It's not OOC for ponies in general.
Mmm. This seems to be the core of the matter, seeing as we're back to the show being or not being a representative sample of Equestria. IMO the flavour of the show is the same as the flavour of the setting, and of ponies in general. In yours, this is not the case.
It seems we understand each other, so mission accomplished! :smallsmile:
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Eakin
Oh.
Hell.
Yeah.
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Originally Posted by
Eakin
Don't you go ruining my alliteration kick with your "data" and "facts"
Probably better to say that alliteration makes names like those feel a bit punchier. Also if you don't think the FiM team likes alliteration go watch Applebuck Season again
Or the MMMystery on Pony Express... or whatever that one with with the MMM cake was called.
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SlyGuyMcFly
I'm sorry you feel that way. I do not intend to offend.
And maybe I came off a little hard there. Sorry.
But I do think it's a little unfair to call it OOC when many authors (I at least) put a lot of effort into staying true to the characters and the setting, to specifically not be OOC even if it's a different genre and different tone than the show.
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SlyGuyMcFly
Mmm. This seems to be the core of the matter, seeing as we're back to the show being or not being a representative sample of Equestria. IMO the flavour of the show is the same as the flavour of the setting, and of ponies in general. In yours, this is not the case.
It seems we understand each other, so mission accomplished! :smallsmile:
Fair enough :smallsmile:
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Siosilvar
Needs more cowbell.
About 20% more cowbell?
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OracleofWuffing
About 20% more cowbell?
At least that much.
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Tiki Snakes
Ghoul, do you have the faintest idea where you are right now?
I would suggest you go back the way you came, before the Darkspire notices you are here. This is not a healthy enviroment for one such as yourself.
And I would thank you not to endanger a guest of Princess Bleakmane in her own stronghold.
That could be construed as...impolite.
Ohh, hello. Err, I have long kept myself away from undead groups not native to my general domain, so no, actualy, I dont know where I am. I actualy have a magical item that detects events that are destined to effect the cosmos at large, and I just used the teliporter we have in stock to jump over here. And I do belive I am durable enough to survive this place, thank you very much. Actualy-
" rubs hooves together"
-if you dont mind, I would like to see Princess Bleakmane. I was going to send a request, but now that I am here, may I ask to be directed to a waiting room or such? I am dreadfuly sorry that I-err, we had to be introduced to eachother in this manner, but if you would be so kind to lead me inside this fortress in a way I would not risk to much vaporization?
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Tiki Snakes
This is the Ancient Gallery, our little Hall of Faces. There are a couple of hundred magical masks in here, as well as a handful of helmets and at least five sets of enchanted spectacles. Most of the objects here were either crafted by, or at least in the possession of an evil cult, intergalactic crime syndicate, insane wizard or demonic entity of some sort, (and there's a lot of cross-over between all that, let me tell you!), before falling into our possession. They should mostly be safe for you to use, and the Commander has said you may freely take your choice, though I'd avoid anything with a floaty-aura and all of the ones with a persistant smell of bacon, if I were you. Their properties are diverse, their abilities vary immensely, and some of them look really silly.
*Does her best to ignore Lix tackle-hugging Sundancer from no-where*
Take your pick, it's all up to you now.
(Then draw it for us).
"Ooooh, can I use this one?"
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As for Mage and Space, there is little Interstellar action in mage, because of how sympathetic magic works. There's a good chance that Neil Armstrong, if he awakened (And if he actually went to the moon rather than it being an elaborate Seer Plot), could with the correct arcana open a portal there easily enough. But no-one else has the right kind of connection to pull that off with anything less than herculean effort (and it's probably some kind of Seer plot regardless of whether he went or not).
Read the story of the God Machine in the World of Darkness Core for exactly what kind of elaborate plot the moon landings are.
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A Fragment of the statue, the creatures true name, a vial of chaotic energy, all things that would make it easy to fetch Discord-Statue, and there are plenty of ways that a Mage could find such items in the first place. Distance barely comes into it.
Heck, even Celestia, Twilight, Screw Loose or any other pony who knew him well would have the appropriate connection. All you'd have to do is kidnap Fluttershy, which is not hard.
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Lix Lorn
(snuggles the adorable, lost pony)
"Oh fine. Just a little hug, then."
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Thanqol
"Oh fine. Just a little hug, then."
(hugglesnugglepurrcuddle)