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2011-09-25, 02:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Harsh. But hey, that means you're making progress! Putting in a room, though, that's an interesting thing. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's the most severe headache ever.
Either way, though, I presume that means you have a house, so I'll edge more towards kudos than not. Enjoy your binge! And remember, everypony skims, so don't burn out ok? We've had a lot of that recently <<;
Actually,we're at the point where the thread is it's own beast. We all say it goes too fast, but there are so many of us that it can't be fixed. That's... Interesting.
As for the house, heh, I, unfortuatly, am rather young to actualy own one (being under 18), but I must say I do belive that it will be worth it in the end, considering its been a long term project for a very long time.
As for the shear rates these threads are going, how about a petition for a subforum? We have so many topics and conversations that its almost needed to keep up with it all!Just kidding.
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2011-09-25, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I imagine the largest problem is that, and several others: Probably a few million dollars worth of existing inventory, possible existing multi-year contracts with factories, and definitely limited shelf space in stores.
They could start new production lines, and sell those toys alongside existing products, but they'd be competing with .. themselves. Parents wouldn't want to get the "old toys" for their kids, so the existing inventory would stagnate, and stores would stop ordering it.
One other thing to keep in mind is that the current toys have probably had several decades of 'playtesting', Hasbro has had time to correct for design defects such as weak points. A new product line means new problems. It's easier to keep using the same basic design that's been corrected and optimized. The art style of the new show might be hard to match with a plastic toy. Almost nothing sucks worse for a kid than when a toy breaks while trying to take it out of the box.
Plus the show might have bombed. Hasbro couldn't have known ahead of time how it would do, and it takes a while to start up production and get toys shipped to the stores. If the show did poorly, then they'd have been stuck with millions of dollars of unsellable inventory. Since the parents are the ones who ultimately decide what to buy for their kids, figure they're about 20-30 years old right now so they remember the cartoons and toys from the 80s and 90s, they would be more willing to get things that are familiar to them for their children.
I would bet that if the show continues to do well, we will see show-specific toys and ponies, and not just repurposed models from the existing manufacturing lines. There is that one Celestia toy that seems more custom to the show, and I even have a pretty good idea why she's pink instead of white: Hasbro got a little flack from having the good princess be white and the "bad" princess be black in the show. Of course, Luna isn't bad, she was unhappy and upset, etc, but those details would be lost on parents who haven't seen the show and are the ones holding the cash and deciding what to buy their kids. I expect if we see a Luna toy, she'll be purple, and a much lighter color than in the show.
lol I got bored while waiting for the database backup to finish, and looked it up: Yep, purple.
Plushes are good too, but again Hasbro would be competing with themselves in this regard. Children would want "something pony" and it'll be a choice between the plastic toy and the plush. And like with the toys, if the show continues to run and continues to do well, and the existing toys continue to sell so Hasbro doesn't have quite the backlog of inventory, I would imagine that we'll start to see more diversified toys and plushes and themed games and etc.
Keep in mind though, internet memes are very flash-in-the-pan popularity, in 5 years there will definitely be some other thing which has grabbed people's attention. I would imagine that if the show keeps running and keeps up the high level of quality that folks have come to expect, then it will still be popular, with a significant internet following and fanbase like we have now, if not moreso, but at the current point of 1 season and 2 episodes, Hasbro probably isn't willing to commit significant resources to customized production.
On the other hand, if they wait too long, they'd be holding the idiot ball for not milking an obvious cash cow. I remember several memes and other things that caught on popularity-wise, where the related products either didn't exist or weren't available, or were sold out because of conservative estimates and no fallbacks for expanded production. By the time the problems had been corrected, consumer interest had moved on.
Because it is!
Thank you.
I'm just not interested in pony pr0n at all. I realize it's some people's thing and that's fine, I don't begrudge them their interests. That's just not my interest. I know fanbases in general tend to write a lot of adult material so I avoided looking up any pony stories.
I have no problem reading erotic sci-fi or fantasy in general, I just want to keep the ponies pure in my mind lol.
The story posted a little earlier in this thread was fine.
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2011-09-25, 03:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I find ponythread's appeal to be the crush. I think a subforum would damage the carefully cultivated memes and interrelations. Conversations would silo and grow shorter. Interest would drift.
Ponythread is close, packed, friendly, noisy, together. It's a party. Only the mad or SiuiS can dance every dance and play every game in the party, but there's always space for an anecdote or a conversation topic that can rise and fall organically. Some people's comments get lost or unreplied to, and I find that sad, but I know many of us do our best to at least read everything.
We don't have enough pony to fill a subforum. We have enough friendship to fill a ponythread.
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2011-09-25, 04:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Thanks to Dirty Tabs for the Travis pony.
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Thanks to A Thousand Words for the My Little Simhata avatar, and thanks to Trixie for fixing the cropping.
Breakdown Twilight from Pony Halloween celebration, thanks to Thanqol.
Thanks to Akrim.Elf for the awesome Laharl pony.
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2011-09-25, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-25, 04:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-25, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Huh. I'm sure I read that on a fortune cookie once.
Then I'm sure you'll be glad to know that I've watched an episode that I actually properly enjoyed.
I can feel the ponies inside my head. They're attacking my mind. Like a kitten at a ball of yarn.
Hard to fight age of majority. Don't worry, you're not old until your joints say you are.
Related: don't wear cowboy boots and make athletics checks.
Or run 20 yards on your knees. Or sword-fight on balance beams.
Leave. LEAVE WHILE YOU STILL CAN!Last edited by Nameless; 2011-09-25 at 09:25 AM.
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2011-09-25, 04:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Woo, I've figured out how to multiquote! (or rather, you guys were nice to tell me how)
I've been trying to think of a punny title, but nothing my brain associates with that guy turns out to be appropriate.
Case in point:
SpoilerMy Little Pony XXV: "Far Q Discord!" <--- My reaction once he went after Pinkie and Fluttershy
Neat pictures, nice to see you around :D
Here's another: You're only as old as you feel.
Out of interest, which one was that?Last edited by BlasTech; 2011-09-25 at 04:41 AM.
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2011-09-25, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I oughta get an OC, but I can never decide on designs, much in the same way that my favourite pony changes every week. I'm fickle. So I'm thinking I may as well also take the "shapeshifter" route. It's actually something I've been thinking about for a while but never really came up. Mainly 'cos I don't RP much here.
Yup, that's my situation too :P
Minor image dump time! Non-S2:
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Where's our resident pony history buff? I'd like to know more about that last pony (Toola Roola from G3 according to the tags)
S2:
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There are many advantages to being Rainbow Dash
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2011-09-25, 05:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I'm glad we ponies meet with your approval ;3
And these are for you, commodore.
SpoilerPony size comparison
Twilight Sparkle
Height: 2-3/4" w/ ear, 2-1/2" at horn/top of head
Cannon: 1"
Rump: < 1-1/2"
Hoof width: 1/2"
head height: 1" width: 1"
Anomalies: head cocked, Anterior Right leg crooked; AR hoof between 3/8" and 1/2"; Posterior Left leg has shorter proportions.
Cheerilee
Height: 2-3/4"
Cannon: > 1"
Rump: < 1-1/2"
Hoof width: between 3/8" and 1/2"
head height: 1-3/8" width: 1-1/4"
Anomalies: legs inconsistent with each other, vrey poofy mane (I swear, she has a bump-it or something), 2 plastic seams deform lifted AR leg; least proportional looking model.
Pinkie Pie
Height: 2-7/8" with mane, 2-3/4" at ear
Cannon: 7/8"
Rump: EXACTLY 1-3/8"
Hoof width: approximately 1/2"
head height: 1-3/8" width: 1-1/2"
Anomalies: poofiest mane; best pose for measuring; best hoof measurement (oblong, semi-triangular shape like an iron- width is closer to 3/8", length is 1/2")
Rarity
Height: > 3" at mane/horn tip- of course Rarity poses the most regally XD
Cannon: Between 7/8" and 1"
Rump: > 1-1/2"
Hoof width: 1/2"
head height: 1-3/8" width: 1"
Anomalies: Good. God. That mane. THAT MANE.
That should cover it, I've got consistent numbers across the board.
Cannon measures from hoof to rear elbow crook. The numbers here came out weird. The difference depends on the position, as the elbow is almost in the same spot no matter where it would be on an animal. That is, a 45• angle leg and an 80• leg both have the elbow in the same position, though logically they should be differently located.
Rump measures from ground to top of the PPB (pert pony buttTM). Belly averages 1" from ground, meaning torso is 1/2" thick at halfway point.
Less-than, greater-than, and between-measures are due to using an imperial measuring stick. Some measurements were just at, just between, or crossing the lines of measure. Pinkie turned out perfect, sitting dead center on an otherwise poorly painted line.
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2011-09-25, 05:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-25, 05:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Thanks.
On other, more pony-related news, I think this will delight Touhou fans. (and Starcraft II ones as well I suppose, but they're only there strictly as enemies.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZndB83Umrz0
(How do you guys even play the game? It gave me a headache trying to see how you avoid all those bouncing balls.)Last edited by Grif; 2011-09-25 at 05:59 AM.
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2011-09-25, 06:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I pretty much agree with everything you've said. My only wonder is;
Every day they dingbat my money they lose profit. Hotels and airlines are like that; every seat or room unrolled is food out of their mouths.
So simplified (and yes, I know that means I'm not really seeing the whole picture :smallwink) they may sell less plastic toy sets that they already made, but if they sell the same amount of product or more, on the whole, they come out ahead. If producing plushies reduces their plastic toy sales, not a problem. Aren't plastics more costly? Develop a pattern and fabrication, you make more on mark-up from a stuffed animal than a standard doll, and you also sell more plushies because while the audience for plastics is little girls 5-12 and parrots 30-40, the plush market has boys/girls from 14-35 as well.
The only resource they are guaranteed to lose is time. So it isn't "are MLP toys profitable?" it's "are they more profitable than whatever else we would have been directing our manpower at?"
That's where I lose my ability to give a definitive yes. As a submarket, fan toys are bought up left and right. But the prices are due almost entirely to low supply, aren't they? If there are 10 Lunas I would be afraid of showing it to someone for fear of ending up on NYPD Blue. If there are ten thousand, falling off the shelves, no one would pay the same 20-40 dollars.
I seem to have stopped addressing your point and started typing while thinking though. Forgive me
I'm just not interested in pony pr0n at all. I realize it's some people's thing and that's fine, I don't begrudge them their interests. That's just not my interest. I know fanbases in general tend to write a lot of adult material so I avoided looking up any pony stories.
I have no problem reading erotic sci-fi or fantasy in general, I just want to keep the ponies pure in my mind lol.
The story posted a little earlier in this thread was fine.
Really? I have a crush on Ponythread, too!
Oh, wait... You said... Nevermind
Ponythread is close, packed, friendly, noisy, together. It's a party. Only the mad or SiuiS can dance every dance and play every game in the party, but there's always space for an anecdote or a conversation topic that can rise and fall organically. Some people's comments get lost or unreplied to, and I find that sad, but I know many of us do our best to at least read everything.
We don't have enough pony to fill a subforum. We have enough friendship to fill a ponythread.
I still think that, with proper link-back, we could remove the RP from the thread's post coun't without altering it. I suppose I'm the only one who does thread R&D though, so I'd be the only one willing to really work at it.
Let's do some quick sloppy math.
I wake up at hour zero. There are 8 pages, so 240 posts. I get ready for work, start copy/paste-Kido on the thread.
By hour 2, there are 5 more pages. This will become our imaginary standard.
By hour 4, I have finally copy/pasted all 13 pages. But I must start work. There are an additional 5 pages.
By hour six page coun't is 23, and I am approximately 2-3 pages behind, depending on how I copy and answer.
By hour 8, the thread would normally slow enough for me to get my work done, write up responses, and not be too far behind; except we would be 5 pages ahead rather than 1. Too irrelevant, replies to my replies would be two generations - 10 pages - behind current topics. So press on.
Hour 10, page 33, I am still 3-5 pages behind but catching up.
Hour 12, I am caught up and typing; thread gains five pages in two hours, I type about 7. I am probably skimming.
Hour 14, 5 more pages (sitting at 43 pages! In one day!) and it's late. K get home, have dinner. Put Internet away totalk with Brazen, watch tv, do other things.
Hour 16, I do more quote compiling and fall asleep. By hour zero the next day, the thread would add 40 more pages. A hard slog would bring me up close...
If we then assume that, posting being continuous, we would all have homogenized schedules so that posting was smoother... It would probably drop to 3 pages every two hours, which is approximately one post every two minutes. Sounds right to me.
With 3 pages in two hours, I would completely catch up by hour 10, except for that page. The difference would drop by about 2 pages of backlog a night.
I would post a full two threads worth of quotes, broken into multiple posts using my text message character counter, every five days or so.
All of this means nothing without my original point I forgot to write though, and that isthe ebb and flow, the up and sown, the pony tide; this is what makes pony thread work. Musi is defined by the silence between the notes, not the noise itself. We need the slow periods.
[season 2] [spoilers]
Spoilerdamn. I was really hoping that wouldn't catch on... Poor Fluttershy. You'll never live this down
And disQord did get shafted. Up until the very end, I was hoping he was unaffected by the elemental rainbow, and they'd have to bargain with him. Then at he end he was all "oh noes! *statue'd*" and I got sad.
I like your work.
We are working on containing the RP. It's not going away, but we have a soft rule of "post actual content with RP in spoilers" that is making the ride a little easier. The speed I can't affect though; I slow the thread by doing big posts instead of many little ones.
Turnabout and fair play, and all that
what you get for the 'citation needed' joke, mate.
SOFT SERVE!
don't have much to say about your post, but it's good to have you back
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2011-09-25, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Huh, that took some time to catch up. Actually reading everything does that.
This is HASBRO. We have mentioned before that they are not very good about this "making money" thing. I think they only survive because big companies have a money sucking gravity field. I think we should put that in the OP post.
And what Beeskee said. (Hello btw )
You Sir, are Kru-ah-zee.
Also they are not newly drawn, some old Clockwork orange ponies:
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Wait, you did refer to Clockwork orange, right? Not that it matters, I would have posted anyway.
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hehe. Now I want a cupcake.
SpoilerYes, I did. Two Derpies, and both with wrong eyes. As in, not crossed.
SpoilerYes, I do. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more interaction between the both. A Pinkie/Disqord episode would be awesome.
SpoilerI agree with that.
When I saw the episode I was a little disappointed. I think the hype of the last few months propelled up my expectations to high. But when I sum it up, I like the characters and feel with them, I laughed at the jokes, I liked the visuals, and I liked the villain.
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2011-09-25, 07:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
After reading through a summary of the Bronycon interview, I discovered some interesting tidbits:
*Minor episode 3 spoiler possibly*
Spoiler*In Applebuck Season Applejack was originally supposed to "applebump" not "applebuck", which meant that to harvest the apples she would ram her head into the trees.
*When asked to give a hint for episode three, he gave a riddle: Tick tock, times running out.
*Ponies get glue from the store. A pity, we might have had a use for Blueblood.
*They apparently are on a shoestring budget.Last edited by Gamerlord; 2011-09-25 at 07:13 AM.
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2011-09-25, 07:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Here's a sad thought about the subject. Bronies may not actually be a big enough market for it to be worthwhile. Hasbro is a huge company that does billions of dollars in business every year. They do Star Wars toys, they own WoTC, they own Milton Bradley and a bunch of other subsidiaries. Such size tends to distort your thinking when it comes to profits and what's worth pursuing in terms of markets.
I recall hearing an account by a WotC guy of a visit from a Hasbro executive to their offices. They were showing the exec around and they happened to have recently released a new supplement which had done well. They told him about the book and the fact that they had so far made something like 300 thousand in profit on it, the exec reportedly just looked at them and asked "Why did you bother?" The amount of money was so small compared to the profits they see on other lines that to him it wasn't even worth the effort.
We may very well be running up against a similar mindset. Does anyone know in hard numbers how many bronies are actually out there and ready to buy toys? I mean we see a lot of posts on message boards about it, but as a big toy company Hasbro wants hard data before they start retooling production lines. A few online petitions with a few thousand sigs? Forget it, that's a joke to them. It's like expecting China to free Tibet because you copy/pasted something on facebook.
The internet tends to distort your perception of how many people are actually into the thing you're into, so it's very hard to tell exactly how many people would buy the toys, but until Hasbro is able to see actual numbers, and those numbers are in the millions, I don't hold out much hope.
Sorry, rant over."Ponies are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy."-Ben Franklin
Rainbow dash...
They're coming. The Shippers are coming for you, but listen—your life could depend on this—don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're shipped. They are fast, faster than you could believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
Gamerlord on EQD.Spoiler
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2011-09-25, 07:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
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Just saw some actual, legitimate Shaolin Monks do a 2 hour performance o.o Good god.
Uhh... something pony related to keep this topical. Pony... martial arts. How does it work? Anypony got any ideas?Last edited by Thanqol; 2011-09-25 at 07:24 AM.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Thanks to Dirty Tabs for the Travis pony.
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Thanks to A Thousand Words for the My Little Simhata avatar, and thanks to Trixie for fixing the cropping.
Breakdown Twilight from Pony Halloween celebration, thanks to Thanqol.
Thanks to Akrim.Elf for the awesome Laharl pony.
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2011-09-25, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Discord: I am the Jack Noir. It's me.
You too? Wow!
RainbowRarity. Shiny.
Yup!
Ah, the way you had it there, I was picturing a small town, and they were crowding around the local mailmare's house. Kind of like how you would go to the miller's house, rather than a miller's house, if that makes sense.
Alright, I'll finish reading and giving feedback in a bit. In the meantime, Ronin loaned me Rome: Total War and I need to go waste as much time as I possibly can. Haven't played that game in too long.
And I suck at Rome... xD
Oooh! Use a Catenative Doomsday Dice Cascader!
Mine are kinda both. I acquired them, but have basically assimilated them into my being.
Killing something for power is evil whether or not you are successful. But that's unimportant. What is important is how to break this up past 11 on the dial!
Energy transformation field creates an area which absorbs spell levels and stores them, producing the effect of an attached spell when it has enough energy.
Combine Deathknell, Summon Swarm, and a swift action item which doesn't deplete barges unless used successfully, such as boots of battle. Have at least one level of ur-priest, sublime chord, and spellthief. Et the mater spellthief feat which stacks all your caster levels to determine final CL. Throw in a greater aura of consumption or whatever so anything with less than 10 hp dies immediately.
Go into the venn diagram created by the overlapping fields and start activating the boots. Free action activation, adding one spell level to each field in turn. Don't have the paperwork on me, but the end result is you contantly spawn swarms of 10,000 creatures, which are killed and generate a higher caster level through sublime chord/ur priest/spellthief, which is used for te next casting of dean knell, giving you a higher CL cap for killing the next swarm...
It costs approximately 13,000 gold to set up, generates NI caster level for 1 hour per (NI) level, and takes five rounds. It caps eventually, where the number of creatures killed is no longer sufficient to generate an appreciable increase; this is because you start to gain only a fraction more CL instead of the massive boosts. If I recall it falls apart after 14, 15 iterations. More with more synergy; having one of every casting class plus ur priest nets you somewhere like 15 CL a pop, though.
I have a whole pile of stuff that's labeled "could slip past DM but why bother?".
Thanqol is best pony.
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2011-09-25, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I thought we'd all agreed that artificially slowing and rushing the thread is a Bad Thing (TM)?
I can very much sympathize. But I keep coming back, myself. It's such a strange effect...
Also, welcome, Beeskee! I forgot to quote anything by you to welcome you properly, but... welcome anyway!
Edit: On the subject of Ponyconomy: If Hasbro's going to make show-accurate toys, they should hurry up and do it. If they won't, or it's not feasible for them, that's a bit disappointing but I can give my money to the Bronies who make the stuff I want instead. What I really disagree with is that they want us to buy what we've already expressed displeasure in before we get what we really want. Yes, they have the toys they have now to get rid of, but products that the consumers don't want don't sell. And plenty of people are buying them anyway, already.Last edited by The Dark Fiddler; 2011-09-25 at 08:23 AM.
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Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2011-09-25, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Exactly.
Ace. That's gone into notepad file for future reference.
Unfortunately with Shapeways's expletiveing announced price-rise, doing 144th ponies is going to be a great deal more expensive or impractical (unless I do umpteen dozen). So we'll see.
SpoilerI kinda like that sort of comupance, though. The bad guy's all "muahaha-victory-is-mine" ('cos he's not as smart as me) and then the protagonists do something stupidly awesome and he's like pupils-narrow-to-pin-pricks, frozen-in-horror-with-just-eneough-time-to-go "Oh, [EXPLETIVE]!" and get totally blasted away. For me personally, seeing that frozen moment, the moment the moment the bad guy realises that he's going to kark it and there's nothing he can do about, and that all he's done, all his effort and planning and schemes are for naught- that, that to me is the biggest payoff.
This amuses me far more than it should.
SpoilerLast edited by Aotrs Commander; 2011-09-25 at 08:30 AM.
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2011-09-25, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
So, I finally finished my latest chapter of Pony Effect.
Yay. At one point I thought I would never get it done.
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2011-09-25, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I still love that picture, I can't wait to see it finished. Aurora is adorable, and Mature Midnight is amazing and graceful.
I'm not sure I'll ever feel that graceful, though.
Well, you know what?
Good.
That level of panic is exactly what I want somepony reading that part to feel. So I'm glad that it's very effective. Even if you want to beat me.
Well, yes, the Prequel Problem is always an issue when coming up with an idea earlier in the time line after you and others have written later first.
Sleep, goshdarn it! You ponythreaders and your keeping awake.
When you do read it, feel free to do your usual critque and suggestions, I really do appreciate them.
*bows*
I'm glad that you approve. If you feel like continuing your fanfic adventures, be sure to check out the first post, there's a list of amazing fanfics from some wonderful ponyauthors. (And me.)
That poor guy is going to be confused for the rest of the night. Hahaha.
Pretty much exactly how I feel. Phrased wonderfully. It's got an amazing party atmosphere that would be just ruined if we start seperating.
Do what I did and cheat, and get a legit artist to decide on the design for you.
Everypony is best pony at some point in the thread. That's what makes the thread wonderful.
And unless a thread I saw elsewhere on the boards is lying to me...
Happy birthday, Mentor! *lots of naughty, naughty gifts!
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2011-09-25, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Well in this fanbase as long as you don't too far out it's easy to avoid. If you look at Equestria Daily for your fix of ponies, the pre-readers keep out the bad stuff essentially. Most Shipping stories (like the story Esper wrote that created the excerpts currently being posted, was at first a Twixie, TwilightXTrixie story) are generally tame and there isn't much to freak out about. There are some that are borderline and some full stop pr0n stories but the most I've seen in passing have a warning or some such. Or just avoid Shipping in general if that's not your thing.
It's actually easier than it looks. I thought the same thing when I first tried one of the bullethells (I think it was Bullet Heaven if you want to look it up), but once you notice the patterns and understand the movement it gets easier.My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: The Thread, The Game, The Tumblr.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
S2
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Key difference between Discord and Q though seems to be that Discord actually intended to win, and was doing so in a way that would net him a few laughs. I'm still not even entirely sure he would have been able to discord Twilight with his spell, I think he actually needed to break her. Q, on the other hand, was more interested in teaching Picard a lesson. That and Picard does give up. Or at least he acknowledges defeat. He does it twice in the episode where Q introduces them to the Borg.
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Fun fact: Online petitions are a joke. Period. No exceptions. It's entirely too easy to simply click a button, and far too difficult to actually confirm any of the data for anyone to ever take them seriously.
*Looks at Rarity*
How does it work? Very well, apparently.
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2011-09-25, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
if by that you mean the excerpts from EsperDerek? yeah..he is awesome(and i should use today to finally read the guide to dating) and you can find the midnight stories over on EQD and the story of how Midnight came about is actually a pretty good example of the level of "action" you get in most fics
---the real Pr0n stuff you dont have to worry about if you stick to anything on EQD...that stuff is over on FimChan /shudder
we can certainly provide recommendations for plenty of "safe" fanfics
---it just depends on what your exact tolerances are
--- most fics will have some "action" in it(thats the nature of the beast) .... but its usually of the kiss/nuzzle, fade to black, rejoin later variety
---if even that is too much there are some that (gasp) involve no shipping at allLast edited by otakuryoga; 2011-09-25 at 09:20 AM.
Ponies not only make ME want to be a better person than I was before they entered my life, they make me want to HELP OTHERS be better people too.
And that is a GOOD thing by any definition.
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2011-09-25, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Have some of the cutest Pinkie Pie animation I've seen recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2hsvByNno
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Very, very nice! You've gotten the panic of the three mothers for their child conveyed perfectly! I'm really feeling their emotions wafting through the screen of my laptop! And the note which this excerpt ended on? Soooooooo ominous! It conjurs a strong desire for the next installment (as if we weren't hungering ravenously for more already)!
And to think that this story wasn't planned as a seperate entity when you first began it! If you can come up with gripping material spontaneously then it makes me even more excited for things you plan ahead of time!I come and go where the wind blows me.
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