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[OracleofWuffing]

You might've forgot, but Diego Havoc didn't.

[Anarion]

X-com ponythread (it's grisly, you've been warned)
UFO 2-3, Abductions 3-4, Terror 1

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No No No No No No!

Argh, they're dead, Princess. I've killed them, I've killed them all!



There were these aliens, some kind of silicon-based thing. The lab techs are calling them chrysalids because they LAY THEIR EGGS IN THEIR VICTIMS. I'd tell you what the soldiers called them, but, y'know, NOPONY SURVIVED THE MISSION



That's okay though, since we had such heavy losses, I decided to send in more Thanqol's on the next mission to try and capture some of the aliens. I thought maybe if we had a floater and a sectoid captive, we could catch up, and everything would be a-okay.



They're all dead too.



But that's okay, we did capture a sectoid on one of the missions. I mean, sure, most of Africa has withdrawn from the counsel. But it's fine. We'll be fine. Everypony will be just...fine



[OOC. I'll be editing in a moment of silence for all dead forum members with proper nicknames as soon as I finish the current mission. There's a lot of you. The save isn't completely dead, but losing the terror mission to 6 chrysalids screwed me pretty hard. I lost Egypt on the spot and all of Africa is panicking.]

[Pokonic]

What a twist!

No, the twist is that it thinks it's wearing a changeling suit, which is actualy a disguised Pinkie Pie.

[Balmas]

Truth, my friends.

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[Thanqol]

They're all dead too.

I'm laughing so hard right now.

[Forum Explorer]

X-com ponythread (it's grisly, you've been warned)
UFO 2-3, Abductions 3-4, Terror 1

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No No No No No No!

Argh, they're dead, Princess. I've killed them, I've killed them all!



There were these aliens, some kind of silicon-based thing. The lab techs are calling them chrysalids because they LAY THEIR EGGS IN THEIR VICTIMS. I'd tell you what the soldiers called them, but, y'know, NOPONY SURVIVED THE MISSION



That's okay though, since we had such heavy losses, I decided to send in more Thanqol's on the next mission to try and capture some of the aliens. I thought maybe if we had a floater and a sectoid captive, we could catch up, and everything would be a-okay.



They're all dead too.



But that's okay, we did capture a sectoid on one of the missions. I mean, sure, most of Africa has withdrawn from the counsel. But it's fine. We'll be fine. Everypony will be just...fine



[OOC. I'll be editing in a moment of silence for all dead forum members with proper nicknames as soon as I finish the current mission. There's a lot of you. The save isn't completely dead, but losing the terror mission to 6 chrysalids screwed me pretty hard. I lost Egypt on the spot and all of Africa is panicking.]

I'm laughing so hard right now.

I know. I can't stop laughing at how perfect that Twilight emote is.

Also I can only hope that I was still in the medic bay at the time.

[Anarion]

Truth, my friends.

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It's like shooting fish in a barrel, isn't it?

I'm laughing so hard right now.

Wondrous grand.

X-com Ponythread in memoriam. Further lengthened because I just ran into Mutons. I should be screwed, but we might yet pull this out.

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Lt. "Boomer" Maxtronaut
Lt. Jay "Yeti" Balmas
Lt. Amish "Crash" Pirate
Sgt. Tiki "Hex" Snakes
Cpl. Diego Havoc
Cpl. Forumexplorer
Sq. Otakuryoga
Sq. Gamer Lord
Sq. Sylvestor McFly
Sq. James Pokonic
Rookies Thanqol Thanqol #1-7

Your world thanks you for your sacrifice.

[Balmas]

It's like shooting fish in a barrel, isn't it?



Wondrous grand.

X-com Ponythread in memoriam. Further lengthened because I just ran into Mutons. I should be screwed, but we might yet pull this out.

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Lt. "Boomer" Maxtronaut
Lt. Jay "Yeti" Balmas
Lt. Amish "Crash" Pirate
Sgt. Tiki "Hex" Snakes
Cpl. Diego Havoc
Cpl. Forumexplorer
Sq. Otakuryoga
Sq. Gamer Lord
Sq. Sylvestor McFly
Sq. James Pokonic
Rookies Thanqol Thanqol #1-7

Your world thanks you for your sacrifice.

Simply out of curiosity, how many dead ponythreaders owe their lives to my grievous misuse of explosive munition?

[Grif]

My name isn't there. I think that's a good thing. Right?

[pendell]

:Raises hoof:

Does the X-com thread need an interceptor/avenger/Firestorm/Lightning pilot? I'd like to volunteer. Or does Twilight Sparkle knock down alien battleships with rainbow Power Of Friendship (TM) coming out of his horn or something?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Forum Explorer]

:Raises hoof:

Does the X-com thread need an interceptor/avenger/Firestorm/Lightning pilot? I'd like to volunteer. Or does Twilight Sparkle knock down alien battleships with rainbow Power Of Friendship (TM) coming out of his horn or something?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

I don't think you can name the pilots in the new X-com game. Right?

[Sean Mirrsen]

X-com ponythread (it's grisly, you've been warned)
UFO 2-3, Abductions 3-4, Terror 1

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No No No No No No!

Argh, they're dead, Princess. I've killed them, I've killed them all!



There were these aliens, some kind of silicon-based thing. The lab techs are calling them chrysalids because they LAY THEIR EGGS IN THEIR VICTIMS. I'd tell you what the soldiers called them, but, y'know, NOPONY SURVIVED THE MISSION



That's okay though, since we had such heavy losses, I decided to send in more Thanqol's on the next mission to try and capture some of the aliens. I thought maybe if we had a floater and a sectoid captive, we could catch up, and everything would be a-okay.



They're all dead too.



But that's okay, we did capture a sectoid on one of the missions. I mean, sure, most of Africa has withdrawn from the counsel. But it's fine. We'll be fine. Everypony will be just...fine



[OOC. I'll be editing in a moment of silence for all dead forum members with proper nicknames as soon as I finish the current mission. There's a lot of you. The save isn't completely dead, but losing the terror mission to 6 chrysalids screwed me pretty hard. I lost Egypt on the spot and all of Africa is panicking.]

Heh, that seems like a wonderful game session right there. ^_^ Sign me up as a Sean "Jaguar" Mirrsen, any class as long as the trooper is Russian or thereabouts (Russian troops seem to be rare in my games, so a Ukrainian will do as well).

[Deadly]

Quick! I need opinions

I decided to take one last shot at getting my story featured on EqD. I've been scouring every chapter for punctuation errors for the past two days, and I'm going to submit it in a few hours so that hopefully it can get featured before season 3 airs.

I decided to also rewrite the description, because frankly it was rather weird. So, whether you've read my story or not, what do you think of this description?

Can a heartless pony live and love?

Rainbow Dash is divided, and she doesn't have much time left. Soon she will have to choose. To save herself and her friends, she will have to convince them to give up the Magic of Friendship. But how can she give up everything Luna suffered for?

Compared to the old one:

Can a heartless pony live and love? Twilight Sparkle is at a loss for answers after she finds a wounded Rainbow Dash in the forest. Meanwhile a dispute dating back to a wish Luna made thousands of years ago threatens to end in war. When even the Elements can not stop what is to come, will Twilight be forced to give up the Magic of Friendship for a wish to save everything she loves, or will she fight and lose it all?

Does it make you interested or curious? Does it draw you in? If you've read the story so far, do you think it's fitting? Any improvements I can make?

The story is about Dash and written from her perspective so it seemed really silly that the old description mostly talks about Twilight.

[Aotrs Commander]

Forgot to post this earlier but further evidence Filly Twilight is cutest pony:

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That is hilarious and I don't know how I missed it the first time.



In other news, after a good day or two being too mentally exhausted (probably partly because I was up until about three finishing that TT game), and trying to decide what to play between Witcher 2, more OpenTTD or X-Com (original, for those not keeping track, since I can'y play the new one), I finally decided on... Icewind Dale 2.

(Which probably shows you why my gaming habits are so schizophrenic.)

I've only been though it once, and last time I spent hours installing it, and resetting my party for a Heart of Fury run, and then playing about twenty minutes. This time, I've spent even longer, since I decided I wanted to replace the boring fighter and boring cleric with new characters (I had toyed with starting a fresh new game, but then remembered that IWD2 is early 3.0 and it wasn't worth the effort), so created two new characters (Fighter 4/Paladin X and Druid (which, like clerics, drastically suffer from not having the later range of 3.5, but whatever) and I cranked out DaleKeeper 2 and copied the XP and equipment (mostly) from the older two characters.

I might even start playing in a minute...



I will eventually get back to AotrsCom, don't worry. (And we've got plenty of XCom stuff to be getting on with at the moment, so let's spin the joke out a bit longer, shall we?)

[Sean Mirrsen]

In other news, after a good day or two being too mentally exhausted (probably partly because I was up until about three finishing that TT game), and trying to decide what to play between Witcher 2, more OpenTTD or X-Com (original, for those not keeping track, since I can'y play the new one), I finally decided on... Icewind Dale 2.

In regards to the underlined: not sure if it actually works, but: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2964408

[Tiki Snakes]

It's like shooting fish in a barrel, isn't it?



Wondrous grand.

X-com Ponythread in memoriam. Further lengthened because I just ran into Mutons. I should be screwed, but we might yet pull this out.

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Lt. "Boomer" Maxtronaut
Lt. Jay "Yeti" Balmas
Lt. Amish "Crash" Pirate
Sgt. Tiki "Hex" Snakes
Cpl. Diego Havoc
Cpl. Forumexplorer
Sq. Otakuryoga
Sq. Gamer Lord
Sq. Sylvestor McFly
Sq. James Pokonic
Rookies Thanqol Thanqol #1-7

Your world thanks you for your sacrifice.

I for one would like to request a more detailed debreifing.

[Beacon of Chaos]

Friendship reports

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Indeed a random discussion. And while we're being random, here's a random picture I found, spawned via the classic toon discussion!

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I've seen this plenty of times before but... soooo many puns.

Dear ponythread heavies,

Learn to aim your damn rockets!

That is all.

Wow. Did they drop the rocket accuracy in classic? I only missed once during my whole normal game, and that's with two heavies on my team.

X-com Ponythread in memoriam. Further lengthened because I just ran into Mutons. I should be screwed, but we might yet pull this out.

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Lt. "Boomer" Maxtronaut
Lt. Jay "Yeti" Balmas
Lt. Amish "Crash" Pirate
Sgt. Tiki "Hex" Snakes
Cpl. Diego Havoc
Cpl. Forumexplorer
Sq. Otakuryoga
Sq. Gamer Lord
Sq. Sylvestor McFly
Sq. James Pokonic
Rookies Thanqol Thanqol #1-7

Your world thanks you for your sacrifice.

:_: i didn't get a nickname.

[TheAmishPirate]

Quick! I need opinions

I decided to take one last shot at getting my story featured on EqD. I've been scouring every chapter for punctuation errors for the past two days, and I'm going to submit it in a few hours so that hopefully it can get featured before season 3 airs.

I decided to also rewrite the description, because frankly it was rather weird. So, whether you've read my story or not, what do you think of this description?



Compared to the old one:



Does it make you interested or curious? Does it draw you in? If you've read the story so far, do you think it's fitting? Any improvements I can make?

The story is about Dash and written from her perspective so it seemed really silly that the old description mostly talks about Twilight.

The second description is better, but both seem awfully busy. Like, I've no idea what a wounded Rainbow Dash has to do with any of the Luna parts, or even where the "heartless pony" bit fits in. And yeah, it is weird that the story is from Dash's perspective, when that description would make me think it's a Twilight-focused story. My advice is to stick to one of your more over-arching plot threads, and just focus on that.

[SlyGuyMcFly]

Wow. Did they drop the rocket accuracy in classic? I only missed once during my whole normal game, and that's with two heavies on my team.

It's 90%, but the RNG being what it is...

:_: i didn't get a nickname.

I didn't even make it past Squaddie.

I decided to also rewrite the description, because frankly it was rather weird. So, whether you've read my story or not, what do you think of this description?

Keeping in mind that I haven't read the story, that I probably won't, that we have unsalvable differences regarding what "dark" is, and that these differences probably extend to the "sad" tag...


In the earlier version I like that I get some plot details, and pretty intriguing ones at that. In the revised one I like the wording better, but the rhetorical question about Luna's suffering comes a bit out of nowhere and gives no hints about the plot. I think you could do well by meeting those two versions halfway.

I'm not sure who the rhetorical question in the first line refers to. If it's supposed to refer to RD and indicate much angsting on her part, then it's doing it's job. And I do mean mean this completely unsarcastically. It also means I'm awfully turned off by this fic buuut *points back to the "unsalvable differences" bit*

Hope it helps.

[Gamerlord]

Quick! I need opinions

I decided to take one last shot at getting my story featured on EqD. I've been scouring every chapter for punctuation errors for the past two days, and I'm going to submit it in a few hours so that hopefully it can get featured before season 3 airs.

I decided to also rewrite the description, because frankly it was rather weird. So, whether you've read my story or not, what do you think of this description?



Compared to the old one:



Does it make you interested or curious? Does it draw you in? If you've read the story so far, do you think it's fitting? Any improvements I can make?

The story is about Dash and written from her perspective so it seemed really silly that the old description mostly talks about Twilight.

I have to say the new one seems better, though the whole Luna thing seems to come a bit out of nowhere. However, I suck at critique, so you should probably look to others for advice.

[Deadly]

The second description is better, but both seem awfully busy. Like, I've no idea what a wounded Rainbow Dash has to do with any of the Luna parts, or even where the "heartless pony" bit fits in. And yeah, it is weird that the story is from Dash's perspective, when that description would make me think it's a Twilight-focused story. My advice is to stick to one of your more over-arching plot threads, and just focus on that.

That was what I tried with the new description, to turn the focus on Dash and the main dilemma of the story, where the old description is sort of all over the place and very unfocused.

You don't think the mystery and vagueness of the descriptions would make people interested in finding out what it means by reading the story? That was my intent, at least. I don't want the description to tell people what is going on (at least not outright), I want it to leave them wanting to find that out.

In the earlier version I like that I get some plot details, and pretty intriguing ones at that. In the revised one I like the wording better, but the rhetorical question about Luna's suffering comes a bit out of nowhere and gives no hints about the plot. I think you could do well by meeting those two versions halfway.

Hmm, I guess the Luna part needs work, then

I'm not sure who the rhetorical question in the first line refers to. If it's supposed to refer to RD and indicate much angsting on her part, then it's doing it's job. And I do mean mean this completely unsarcastically. It also means I'm awfully turned off by this fic buuut *points back to the "unsalvable differences" bit*

The question does refer to RD and is a little bit of what you said, but also very literal. As in, "how the hay can a pony with no heart even live?" Maybe I need to make the literalness clear, but I don't want to risk giving too much away by doing that.

I just want to be vague and mysterious, because the story has a LOT of mystery and I don't want to ruin that mystery before people even read the first chapter. I want to draw them in, and then reveal the mysteries.

I have to say the new one seems better, though the whole Luna thing seems to come a bit out of nowhere. However, I suck at critique, so you should probably look to others for advice.

Hmm, so you all agree the Luna part needs work. I guess that's fairly conclusive, at least

[pendell]

I don't think you can name the pilots in the new X-com game. Right?

No, but if pilots participate there's no reason they can't have a name for storytelling purposes, is there?

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Deadly]

So what if I reduce my description to just this (with optional bits in brackets)?

Rainbow Dash is divided, and she doesn't have much time left [to live?]. Soon she will have to choose[, or she will lose everything?]. To save herself and her friends, she will have to convince them to give up the Magic of Friendship.

It leaves out a lot compared to the original, but it's short and sort of to the point, while also very vague and mysterious.

[DigoDragon]

So yesterday I went to WalMart to get my daughter a new pair of sneakers and we stopped at the toy isle to browse. The pony selection (as usual) was just the basic common pony figures and a couple blind-bags. They had one of the huge talking wedding Cadence figures.
However something was trying to peek from behind the box, so I lifted it out of the way and found someone hid a couple Trixie and Lyra figures. Yay!

So I got myself a Trixie.

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Giant image: Captain Trixie of the Royal Guard

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YEAH!!
I like how Pinkie is totally having fun being the kiddnapped princess.

Pony Dreadnought- Old fans who watched and loved MLP since g1.

While I watched some of the G1 series, I wouldn't call myself a fan of it. Though your term is interesting.

[Kindablue]

Twist ending: It's a changeling PRETENDING to be Pinkie in a changeling costume

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[otakuryoga]

Bwah-ha-ha-ha
Tremble before me Ponythread..as of today my age is = to The Answer and I now KNOW ALL!!

Twist ending: It's a changeling PRETENDING to be Pinkie in a changeling costume

actually.. thats not a costume
Pinkie killed and skinned the changeling that came to imitate her in a changeling costume

[TheAmishPirate]

So what if I reduce my description to just this (with optional bits in brackets)?



It leaves out a lot compared to the original, but it's short and sort of to the point, while also very vague and mysterious.

Better, I'd leave out the bits in brackets. Odd that you mention a choice, when it seems like she's already made up her mind with "she must convince her friends...". Other than that, seems good to me.

[Deadly]

Happy birthday, otakuryoga!

Wow, so many ponythreaders are older than me.

Better, I'd leave out the bits in brackets. Odd that you mention a choice, when it seems like she's already made up her mind with "she must convince her friends...". Other than that, seems good to me.

Hmm, good point. So maybe:

Rainbow Dash is divided, and she doesn't have much time left. Soon she will have to choose. To save herself and her friends, she will have to convince them to give up the Magic of Friendship, or she can fight ... and lose.

Also kinda unsure what "5 words" to use in my submission. EqD asks for that. In my previous submissions I used "Can a heartless pony live?" but with these changes I'm leaning towards something like "Can a pony fight destiny?"

[Balmas]

So I got myself a Trixie.

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There are so many details here that make it funnier. For example, the "Forever Alone" trollface on the front, the Twilight Sparkle fold-out...

[Aotrs Commander]

In regards to the underlined: not sure if it actually works, but: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2964408

Interesting; something to bear in mind, though I'm not sure if I'd want to risk it (you'd try it out on the demo, first I guess) and the implication is it's a bit more programming than I'm comfortable with.

But useful to know, nevertheless (I'm not actually surprised that it exists, though); something to consider one day if'n I'm bored and feeling adventurous.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha
Tremble before me Ponythread..as of today my age is = to The Answer and I now KNOW ALL!!

Happy Birthday!

actually.. thats not a costume
Pinkie killed and skinned the changeling that came to imitate her in a changeling costume

S'what I'd do...!

I actually did - well, not a changeling, but you get the idea - one undercover mission a few years back, chief. I gotta tell you, skinning 'em right is way harder than you'd think! The look on the guy's face when I revealed myself, though...! Totally worth it! Still makes me laugh now...