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2012-09-29, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 02:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
I've described MLP as the Westen Touhou. Most of the characters are female, most of the content is fan made (you've got to admit, 95% of pony stuff these days /is/ fan made) and there are conventions and music and all that.
The Touhou fandom tends to maintain for years between games, if I recall correctly.
Chances the Brony thing is going to be for the long haul.i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
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2012-09-29, 03:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
At this point, the fandom has become self-sufficient. No pony? No problem. Although YMMV, EqD is proof positive of this: forty high quality pieces of art, maybe a dozen videos / songs, two or three fics... If anything, 95% is lowballing what the community has done.
(Consider Fallout: Equestria, Background Pony, It's a Dangerous Business Going Out Your Door. Three superb fanfictions, each at least triple-paperback length. By the way, if you like Brian Jacques, give It's a Dangerous Business a shot. It's like hearing his voice narrate ponies.)I run a Let's Play channel! Check it out!
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2012-09-29, 04:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
And then there's people like me, who are just waiting for the thing to officially end to cash in on cheap knock-off memorabilia.
o/~ Your Tiny Horsey, Your Tiny Horsey..."Okay, so I'm going to quick draw and dual wield these one-pound caltrops as improvised weapons..."
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."
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2012-09-29, 05:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Nope. The system was designed around modelling weapons system effects such that they could be used to define pretty much any genera. Which I have done very well, if I do say so myself... To the extent that, when I read the Lost Fleet series, I realised I could model every one of their weapons systems in AccAtt, without even having to try. (Hell lances = beams, spectres = missiles, grapeshot = blast torpedoes, null-field projector = heavy beams...)
(The only thing I haven't got is an intertial movement system, because a) I have only seen one system that does that passable well, and if you were really bothered, you could more or less nick it and use AccAtt with it wholesale, b) whatever you do, it adds much more time and record keeping, which reduces the bit count of the number of ships you can use and c) it isn't really something I find particulalry interesting enough to spend the time developing myself.)
Far from being the ships around which the system was designed, the Aotrs were at least sixth or seventh of the list, out of the fourteen or so fleets we had at the time, and at least one or two new fleets (like the Herosine Empire) which we hadn't used in Full Thrust, got their stats before the Aotrs did. (The Cybertanks were one of the first two, along with the NAC; indeed the NAC's heavy cruiser, and the Cybertank Assimilator were used as the first-order defining points of the whole system (i.e. what sort of size/numbers and whatnot, because you have got to have a baseline somewhere).)
Speaking of AccAtt, did you or your mates have chance to have a go or a proper look yet? I know you said he seemed quite interested, but if you sent him my email, he hasn't got back to me. And I assume from your quietness, Lix, it made your brain melt or something...!
(You'll actually seen 90% of the Aotrs technologies in the starter rules - beams, missiles, torpedoes, pulses, PD/ID, heavy beams; the only thing not in there is bolts (our railguns) and teleporter FTL. (Some of) the Aotrs technologies are just higher (e.g. TL 10 missile/torps, rather than the 5/6 as the Vivrathk and Stone Portals have, with more compact technologies. There aren't in fact, many more types of weapons than found in both the SP and Vivrathk fleets - a few more different types of warhead (like Salvo rockets), but that's about it.)Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2012-09-29 at 05:16 AM.
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2012-09-29, 05:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
You know, I just looked ... didn't know what else they had written besides Background Pony, and now I just have one question.
14 stories and a million words.
How the hay do you get that prolific? What kind of Fausticornian bargain must you make to be able to write that many words without it all being crap? I wanna know! With that kind of productivity I could have finished all my stories long ago.
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2012-09-29, 06:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Cocaine.
Nutritious, delicious cocaine.i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
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2012-09-29, 07:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
I think three seasons of a show is enough to establish a pretty solid fandom already. Many anime are only 26 episodes and people remember them and remain fans of them.
As several others have pointed out, fan work is really most of the content at this point, although I do think the episodes provide a core of inspiration for everypony. Particularly if the show does get a 4th and even a 5th season, I think it will end up being pretty lasting.
Made all the more complex because with Mask in there, we can't ever be absolutely certain you're who you claim to be.
Honestly, I'm sure the person had done a bunch of writing previously because there's no way one could write that much that well unless the act of writing was something that came pretty easily and naturally.
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2012-09-29, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Yeah
For fun I counted my own words. I've written 9 stories with a total of 182.000 words. I suppose another possible factor is that they dedicate almost all of their time to writing. I spend an awful lot of time on other stuff; drawing, reading, ponythread, games, studying, sleeping ... If I spent most of my days just writing I suppose I could probably have churned out a million words by now too.
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2012-09-29, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Avatar based on artwork by Jabari Weathers
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2012-09-29, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
If brute force isn't working, that just means you're not using enough of it.
When in doubt, set something on fire. If not in doubt, set something on fire anyway.
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2012-09-29, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
What is this MadTV and why have I never heard of it? ;_;
Yup.
That was quick:
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2012-09-29, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
You've never heard of it because it's not worth mentioning. Trust me.
Also, someone mentioned End of Ponies. Never read it (of course), but this song is pretty damn good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrqbWUjhgvo
I'm of the opinion that the very best of each art (JJ for drawing, her for fics, etc) are actually professionals that are secretly pretending to be normal people.
Take music for example. MandoPony was in a commercial in New England where he was singing an acoustic cover of a Beatles song. Ponyphonic's video of his cover of Winter Wrap Up clearly shows him using professional equipment.Last edited by Pendulous; 2012-09-29 at 11:02 AM.
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2012-09-29, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
This makes me uncomfortable, which is why I wanted to stop. I would really appreciate it if this subject was dropped.
I love you. Will you marry me?
...who are the NAC? I don't know they've been mentioned. O_o
Speaking of AccAtt, did you or your mates have chance to have a go or a proper look yet? I know you said he seemed quite interested, but if you sent him my email, he hasn't got back to me. And I assume from your quietness, Lix, it made your brain melt or something...!
Um.
LOOK, A DEMONIC DUCK OF SOME SORT!
I've been busy I swear X_xRecent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2012-09-29, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
So, I thought I actually ought to get around to putting my full avatar onto a t-shirt like I've been threatening to, for the Worlds next weekend.
Not an auspicious start, as I managed, despite my best intentions, to print it on the wrong side of the paper, and then the printer ran out of ink.
(Though to be fair, it's been sitting on nearly empty, just waiting for me to need to try something like this.)
So, must attempt again, later in week...Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2012-09-29 at 10:39 AM.
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2012-09-29, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Gauze fixes everything:
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Yeah, some of us have trivial annoyances that take us away, like jobs, children, house chores.
Ah, proof that these threads move so fast that content is missed.
(I posted it a couple days ago). "We're on a bridge Twilight!"
Shoot, IHOP sounds good about now.
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2012-09-29, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ahhh. So they're the baselines in more respect than one.
Do you have a space bugs race anywhere? The trope is common, but I don't think I've ever seen you do anything like Zerg or Tyranids.Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
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2012-09-29, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
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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2012-09-29, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-29, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Blue Star Topaz is my name
Equestria's my station
The Elements define my creed
The Herd's my destination
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2012-09-29, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, that was funny.
Also, and I've said this before, it never fails to surprise me how utterly alien anime/pony/games conventions are by the standard of a typical wargames show. Even Expo, which the one we do that's a games convention (as opposed to a wargames convention) is nearly completely different...
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2012-09-29, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
If brute force isn't working, that just means you're not using enough of it.
When in doubt, set something on fire. If not in doubt, set something on fire anyway.
My Homebrew
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2012-09-29, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony LIV:E Long and Pony!
Recent Homebrew: The Socialite | The Crystalline: Memory Altering Construct Race | Sanguine Hand, a ToB Discipline of blood and cruelty
Homebrew Signature | NEW Homebrew Collection
Thanks to all my avatar artists, especially to Paisley for my avatar of Vivian, cowardly cryophoenix.
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2012-09-29, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2012-09-29, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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I run a Let's Play channel! Check it out!
Currently, we're playing through New Vegas as Gabriel de la Cruz, merchant and mercenary extraordinaire!