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2011-10-05, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!
I have considered this from time to time, though virtually any and all OCs that I come up with are essentially just another copy of myself on the big Venn diagram that is my personality. Heck, Ido himself is technically an OC.
Guys, I'm RPing myself.
Guys, I didn't sleep very well last night and I fear my mental state is less than awesome right now.
Though when that happens that reminds me that I should make an acceptance to my pinkie pie nomination, because that is when i most best would sound like the best choice.Last edited by Capt. Ido Nos; 2011-10-05 at 08:19 AM.
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2011-10-05, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Badger badger badger badge- Wait. I've got a better one. And points for whoever catches the reference. Weedle weedle weedle weedle weedle...
That is awesome. And in this economy it's a blessing to actually land a job, never mind one in a field you truly want to work in.
I hate that the news is only motivated on ratings, and that negative stories and slander/partisan politics (*points to FOX News*) get those ratings. It's a vicious downward cycle that's next to impossible to break out of. Well, until you discover the magic of online news and RSS feeds / FARK.
You mean that terrible knock off by Katy Perry? She did it SO wrong it's not even funny. Nopony can compare to the unbridled musical aptitude of the Pinkie.
...You're starting to sound like Lix here...
That's also a fantastic read. Although poor Luna and those damned baseballs. XD
That is awesome! And Happy Birthday!
My vote goes to somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 Bronies worldwide, and that guess is including both active online bronies, inactive bronies that just watch the show, and closet bronies.
AWESOME. FIVE STARRED SO HARD.
Agreed. I'm seriously curious as to what exactly the pre-readers said.
I've seen worse. A LOT worse.
Honestly, if the response is because 'it's not their cup of tea' that's their problem. Their job as pre-readers isn't to filter fics by personal preference, it's to ensure the fic is well written and polished enough on its own laurels to be good enough for the general population of EqD.
Derpy looks SO badass in the second picture.
Y-You saw that?
Wait, the strangeometer in this thread even works? I figured it's baseline was so high that it ERR.
You can't zero a scientific scale to 20 metric tons is all I'm sayin'.
...Dat Rarity. So saved, that is awesome. Although there's no Tom! No de-elemented Rarity is complete without her faithful sidekick Tom!
Aaaargh why do I have to be at work. Quoted so I can guaranteed find it again.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep up with EqD now on that note? I don't have my RSS feed on my work laptop so I can't check articles as they come in. Every day when I get home from work I come back to 50 - 55 new articles to go through. All of my free time. There, and this. I can't keep up with Ponychan anymore. It's kind of depressing.
Because Applejack is best pony!
Psychoshutin is a doctor! He did these for me! *Wiggles face tentacles*
Granted I asked to be turned into a pony... The closest he could do was Mind Flayer Pony hybrid thingy.
1. That is incredible news, I'm glad to hear that.
2. I feel you there man. If you work at a pet store per chance then the bunny stampede should be easy. Otherwise it's a bit of a tall order.
3. SHHHHHHHH! If you say it loud enough they'll hear you! And nopony can know that we like ponies!
Aaargh, lucky. I want to go to that so badly. However I'll be at FurFright that weekend and I already have a hotel room reserved. What can you do though, you know?
Every single character I've ever had has aspects of myself in them. I pick one aspect of myself as the main aspect of said character, and then work backwards from that. For example, I like to drive fast; and that translates to running / flying in Equestria. I knew I wanted an earth pony, so I then worked backwards to create Jade.
I grew up on a farm and love to sing. I took those to aspects, made them Haybuck's main motif, and then worked backwards to create a backstory, personality, and visual presentation that would likely lead to said main motif.
It's not a bad thing. You know yourself better than you know anyone and anything else. After all, you've been inside your own head for your entire life. If you can be creative and still keep it under that umbrella of expertise, all the better!Last edited by Titanium Fox; 2011-10-05 at 08:38 AM.
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2011-10-05, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-05, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, I love it oh so much when I miss posts because no amount of morning coffee is enough morning coffee.
That's an amazing response to that. Your manager doesn't exactly have the right idea there... While 99.9999999999999999% of the time it's a prank call, that one in one trillion that it's not...
And the story about the g3 Rainbow Dash made me D'awww. You must have made that little girl's day.Avatar by DirtyTabs in the Adopt-A-Pony thread.
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2011-10-05, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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yeah, we had that problem...then we blew a few million internets to buy a top of the line industrial rated one...the entire forums budget of internets in fact...thats why we have been getting so many 500 errors lately
and this...this is just awesome
SpoilerApparently this huge Fluttershy poster thingy is chillin at the tallest building in Oslo. It's supposedly created with Post-It notes... Pretty crazy!
aaaaaand...EQD has popped the 50 million hits markLast edited by otakuryoga; 2011-10-05 at 09:40 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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2011-10-05, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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In complete and total legitimate seriousness, I am convinced that's our fault. I mean, who else moves the kind of traffic we do in terms of either post count or data piped through the site ([IMG] tags, etc)?
Wait that actually exists somewhere? I literally had a dream about doing the exact same thing in my office last night (except it was Rainbow Dash and there was a Sonic Rainboom in the back). Holy crap.
Also, proof we're taking over. PROOF!Last edited by Titanium Fox; 2011-10-05 at 08:58 AM.
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2011-10-05, 09:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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...sort of. xD
Wha?
No, blame me for this instead.
Naaaah. THIS song! Luna's not used to people being nice to her.
Yeah, I've always done this. xD
Sometimes I forget you're a british lich. xD
Nice one Braz! It's for the best!
She's actually taken it rather well, considering...
I made a character who is the epitomisation of all that I am and want to be. She is the ESSENCE of a self insert.
Today, I found something new about her/me. It was distinctly odd.
MUSH-ROOM MUSH-ROOM!
...You're starting to sound like Lix here...Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2011-10-05, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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So... You want to have the powers of a Goddess? Actually this doesn't surprise me. Who wouldn't?
I meant the weedle thing.
Why yes, yes it is! We could always use more shipping related chaos in this thread! It's as if Metal Mask, Lix, Phoe, and Midnight weren't enough! They didn't manage to create thousands of clones and influence them with the ship note, nooooooooo.
Since this might come off that I have a legitimate problem with all of the shipping and gender bending and bondage and everything in this thread, I don't. I legitimately mean the more the merrier.Avatar by DirtyTabs in the Adopt-A-Pony thread.
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2011-10-05, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-05, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-05, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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My trick, is that while I do have a good handful of personas, they literally are all exactly me, differentiable from each other in that they are very VERY specific aspects of me and my life. I am the one who's spent the most time in my own head, heck that's where I spend MOST of my time it feels, so it's pretty natural for me to simple compartmentalize myself into the different hats that I wear on a day to day basis (which, ended up being the chief mark between myselves when I draw them). Like Ido, Ido wears his captain's hat of bemused confusion. Others, such as Zod, he's usually got his [Zod] gamertag floating above his head. Bossman took a while to find a good hat, but he eventually settled on the black and white Dr. Seuss hat he found that seemed to hold a +5 to his intimidate and serious business checks.
That said, I do have OCs that float around in the nether somewhere, but none of them are ponies, and I've had a darned difficult time thinking one up. I could try and import one over, it technically could work, but I don't think I'd be happy about it since it'd be an awkward execution, and I'd have to find a Bill's Hat level of justification as to why he's suddenly in the ponyverse
Ponysona... there is an opening for the brony aspect of m'self, but I put way too much work into it for that guy to show up any time soon ^^;; Maybe... maybe before season 3 I'll have decided on his name. Until then, I'll just look wistfully from the sidelines, and continue to let the other circles have their fun
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Let me tell you a story Mr. Ido...
So, you know Jade, my current OC, right? She's gone through quite a few iterations over the years. First, she was my car. Yep. My first car was a Teal Oldsmobile Alero, and I named her Jade. She had her own personality, and I knew that car like the back of my hand.
So, when she finally went the way of the pipers, I decided to "honor" her by creating an OC which kind of matched the personality that the car had. This OC was an Anthromorphic Rabbit of the same color.
I then went onto a Role Play based around Battle Royale, except with original characters. Jade made another appearance there as a Tomboyish High School Student who plays the drums in a Metalcore band.
And then I decided I wanted a female earth pony OC. Guess who showed up again! You don't need to shoehorn it in, it can just kind of flow on its own like I made happen. None of the continuities are linked, they're all just... Evolutions of the character. The car was v1, the filly is just v4.
Apparently! Although he missed the right pony! DAMN IT! We must develop this magic! Wait, technology? Magitech?
Butbutbutbutbut...Last edited by Titanium Fox; 2011-10-05 at 10:09 AM.
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2011-10-05, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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You guys are absolutely souring me to the episode when this stuff (probably) won't appear in it.
I can totally see either of those songs being sung by the pony crew, which makes the realization that they probably can't use them sting all the more.
Unrelated note, am I the only one that actually gets more sad when you see this rarity emote?My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: The Thread, The Game, The Tumblr.
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2011-10-05, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Here's my guide to roleplaying character generation honed from message-board DnD since I was a freshman in high school.
1. What do you want the character to do
2. what kind of character WOULD do that
3. How would the setting react to that kind of character
4. How is the character doing right now?
5. How did the character get there.
6. Come up with a name (AAAAAAARG hate that part, at least ponies have puns)
7. Hammer down a few backstory points
Keep it simple to begin with, flesh out through play.Ask me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and PieSpoiler
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2011-10-05, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-05, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cows? Wouldn't that require Baleful Polymorph?
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Oh, I see what you mean. That's a tad extreme... I'd just like to release horde of adorable stampeding bunnies into an office building for theHORRORlulz.
Okay, here's the secret: all RP characters start out aspects of the interwoven tapestry that makes up your own personality. Take a little bit of one of those aspects - a seed, if you will. Plant that seed in the great garden of gaming, and let it grow by feeding it on interactions with other characters. Initially, when RPing the character, continually stop yourself and ask not "What would I do?" but "What would the character do?". Pretty soon you might find that some of the answers will surprise you, and the character will sprout and develop into full grown personality. You know you've made it when you're having arguments with the character that you've created. More than once when RPing I've stopped myself and said "You know, that's a pretty stupid thing to say or do" and the character has replied "You might think it's stupid, but it's what *I* am going to do."
On that note - have some awesome fanmusic by PepperBrony (a.k.a. Foozogz). These two tracks have been sending chills down my spine and tingles through my body:
Sparkle (Season Rebirth) and Forever Dreaming
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Re: My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!
This, this, a thousand times, this. The best character ideas I've had have sprung up as a character is being played. Seeing them in action, something about their personality and the situations they find themselves in just clicks and you suddenly start realizing backstory details that you just thought of, but totally have fit the character this whole time.
Also, name selection can go fall in a hole because it is a meanie meanie-pants.
This is something I struggle with a lot with my characters, and something that is a major risk to including yourself in a character. Yes, every character starts with a speck of their creator, but that's all you want to add; a speck. Too much, and you find that your thoughts and your character's thoughts are similar 90% of the time. Which makes it incredibly easy to ignore that last 10% of vital character difference, and before you know it, you're just RP'ing as yourself. I've fallen into that trap numerous times, and only some last-minute character flaws that popped up as I was playing them kept them separate from me.
On a side note with that, it's also amusing to give your characters bits and pieces of an old personality of yours. Give them flaws that you overcame. It's easy to RP because you've actually been in their shoes, but it's also easy to keep their personality separate from you because you've spent so much time and effort not being like them.
Huh. When did this post turn into a minor rant about character creation? Have a FillyTwilight:
SpoilerI'm developing a game. Let's see what happens! Complex.
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2011-10-05, 11:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!
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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2011-10-05, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!
I usually start with asking myself a few questions:
1) What horribly destructive way do I want to be able to kill people that snaps the game engine in half?
2) Is there a least/most appropriate character I can spoof/use as a base/annoy everyone with?
3) Can I do a silly voice?
and 4) Can I do all of the above at once and make everyone else at the table cry?
And thus came Shikue Ryushin the Shinobi (Naruto), Jarmin Kuld (the entire GLA from C&C Generals) Judge Caine (CSI Miami), Dixton (Lewton from Discworld Noir), the Sage (Ten, mostly, with a bit of Eleven and Four), and my favourite character of all time, Helen-Jennifer Silk (Jubilee...)
Not that the villains in my games are sometimes any better, Cthulu Juju the Psionic Demon Monkey I am looking at you and you are the one I am looking at and it is you that is the one under my observation that I am watching...
(I suppose I should mention that I do have other characters that do not have their origins in Things I've Seen/Watched/ etc... But why ruin a perfectly good joke with facts.)
Psshaw!
It's no worse than what I do to control my players of an evening's RPG session!Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2011-10-05 at 11:21 AM.
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And humans don't?
Quick first name generation:
1.) Find a meaning.
2.) Search names by meaning, choosing an appropriate linguistic root.
Quick last name generation:
1.) Determine a verb or noun that describes the character and/or the character's family.
2.) If you need to disguise the name, translate into another language.
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2011-10-05, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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hehehhe. Fillydelphia!!
I heard the MLP theme song while listening to National Public Radio today on the way to work. Sure, it was the intro into a story about advertising to kids and the ethics involved, but it still made me smile.
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Not here as much. I am out Roman around.
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you know that I'm more than just a doll do you?-Geno
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