My Little Pony XCV: I am (Finally) Become Pancakes!

[DigoDragon]

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I thought it was a decent episode, maybe not quite as good as last weeks but certainly enjoyable. I think what I appreciated most about the episode was the fact that it didn't reform Flim and Flam so much as point them at somepony that deserved it.

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Yeah, it was interesting those two are still themselves. And in a place like Las Pegasus they probably fit right in.

I have very little to say. Here's an appropriate image

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Um... don't think I get it.

[Beacon of Chaos]

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The highlight for me was all the background pony designs. So many huggable new ponies!

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Agreed! Did you notice the Penn and Teller ponies?

[Deadly]

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What does AJ have against parties? Better not tell Pinkie

You just know something isn't what it seems, or as good as it seems.

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Hah. That was a good one. AJ is her usual stubborn fool self, but thankfully Fluttershy manages to work as an effective foil to that.

[zimmerwald1915]

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"The Old Divide and Rule," eh? Nice to see it fail miserably for once.

I'm a bit surprised Vogel contributed to the story. You'd think a former VP would know better than to give the game away. Although now I think about it, he might have been responsible for the answer being "just up and quit" rather than "solidarity forever"

[DigoDragon]

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Agreed! Did you notice the Penn and Teller ponies?

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Was that actually them? I knew I wasn't just seeing things! I need to find some screen captures of this episode.

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What does AJ have against parties? Better not tell Pinkie

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Maybe the city has a Gomorrah reputation of partying and hedonistic activity?

[Derjuin]

Stream this morning was messing up BIGTIME... and now I'm frazzled because I (almost) never skip watching an episode when it airs. Ugh.

I can't even find it on Youtube...

[zimmerwald1915]

Stream this morning was messing up BIGTIME... and now I'm frazzled because I (almost) never skip watching an episode when it airs. Ugh.

I can't even find it on Youtube...

I missed it too. Somehow the Dailymotion upload worked with no problems.

[MCerberus]

Um... don't think I get it.

It means that adorable griffon is adorable

[Beacon of Chaos]

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Was that actually them? I knew I wasn't just seeing things! I need to find some screen captures of this episode.

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Found them!


Also, this stallion in the middle look remarkably like my oc pony, Elixir:


Loving the new mane designs too.

[DigoDragon]

It means that adorable griffon is adorable

Ah okay. No disagreement here.

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Found them!

Loving the new mane designs too.

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Yeah, that's them! Thank you. :D

I like that pony world has DDR.

[t209]

So any cracks on pony version of Ringling and lion mauling?

[Spamotron]

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I thought it was a decent episode, maybe not quite as good as last weeks but certainly enjoyable. I think what I appreciated most about the episode was the fact that it didn't reform Flim and Flam so much as point them at somepony that deserved it.

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Agreed. Grey Hats who could be allies or antagonists depending on circumstances are a perfect role for Flim and Flam.

[otakuryoga]

at least this episode got up on youtube(im not sure if last weeks EVER did)

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Penn & Teller ponies!

siegfried & roy poster
...and now in the flesh

That voice.. urge to kill: rising

loving the variety in BG pones

dance dance revolution is a thing

showgirl pones..Fleur bodytype

Impossibly Rich.... how did that never occur to me before now?

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Found them!


Also, this stallion in the middle look remarkably like my oc pony, Elixir:


Loving the new mane designs too.

yah..they were a blink and you missed em moment

love that one on the left..she really popped out for me during the episode

[DigoDragon]

they were a blink and you missed em moment

Haha, found it!

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[digiman619]

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Definitely in the top half of episodes this season. One small thought. After the Batman Gambit, I was sure that it would have Gladstone attack rather than run away. I was expecting a "Why you!" lunge followed by a quick buck/uppercut from Applejack.

As a final aside, clearly I've strayed too long in the seedier side of this fandom as the exchange "What about the Baltimare Flair?" "My flair isn't what it used to be." had me raise an eyebrow.

[zimmerwald1915]

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Definitely in the top half of episodes this season. One small thought. After the Batman Gambit, I was sure that it would have Gladstone attack rather than run away. I was expecting a "Why you!" lunge followed by a quick buck/uppercut from Applejack.

As a final aside, clearly I've strayed too long in the seedier side of this fandom as the exchange "What about the Baltimare Flair?" "My flair isn't what it used to be." had me raise an eyebrow.

Why, to what goodfella cliche does it refer?

Oh, that's not what you meant by "seedier," is it?

[digiman619]

Why, to what goodfella cliche does it refer?

Oh, that's not what you meant by "seedier," is it?

'Fraid not.

[DigoDragon]

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One small thought. After the Batman Gambit, I was sure that it would have Gladstone attack rather than run away. I was expecting a "Why you!" lunge followed by a quick buck/uppercut from Applejack.

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As awesome as that would be, Hasbro wouldn't approve such a move.

Now if this were a Cartoon Network show...

[Aotrs Commander]

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Not really much to say about this one.

Again, we trust the magic table with blind faith and things just happen to turn out. Rather than be supplied with a sensible amount of information.

No, I really don't like the magic table at ALL.




Everything else was... okay, I guess? Run-of-the-mill by pony standards (which is at least a little above the moribund end of this season)... But then again, I've never been a fan of this sort of story, whether they do in Pony or in Xena, so it's largely sort of lost on me.

Never been struck on Flim and Flam particularly, either, for that matter, so this sort of just hit a "s'right, I guess," curve.

Nothing really stood out to me, is what I'm saying.

Had to watch it on Dailymotion again; tried using some of the stuff you folks mentioned last time,but with adblock plus on, it didn't even load the videos. Gonna leave noscript up for the immediate moment, though, and see if make any difference to the browser performance. A lot of places are starting to get untenably difficult to go to; and not palces that you might think might be a bit dodgy (like where I've been watching Pokémon, which is very well behaved), but places like Bulbapedia or the Civ V wiki¹.



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Huh, concensus of "s'right or slightly better" from ponythread, which is kinda unusual. But not of us really has much to say about it, apparently, interestingly...

¹Bought Brave New World for about £2, so while I'm waiting for CK2's next patch before I carry on again, I figured I'd have a stab. A couple of hours later, I remembered, no, I do in fact need to go use the map editor to set a decent game up. Also barbarians are tedious and I have come with a hair's breadth of setting it to Settler....

[digiman619]

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As awesome as that would be, Hasbro wouldn't approve such a move.

Now if this were a Cartoon Network show...

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If it were on Cartoon Network, they would have cancelled it because not enough of the target audience bought the toys.

[Excession]

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I liked this one. A new location, lots of new background ponies, the main cast member seemed in character. Same writers as The Times They Are a Changeling, and I think did better this time.

Seeing Flim and Flam come back, not as antagonists, but not redeemed was fun. Hopefully they'll be less dangerous at running a casino resort than their previous ventures.

[Manga Shoggoth]

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Man, I enjoyed that far more than I should have. It was the little things that made the sale, from Fluttershy interviewing the animals in the background, her playing Impossibly Rich up to Flim and Flam suddenly being in a location worthy of their talents.

I'd give it a four out of five

[otakuryoga]

hey Commodore,
http://www.boredpanda.com/humanized-...ions-tamtamdi/
this might tickle your fancy

pokemon as humans

[Aotrs Commander]

hey Commodore,
http://www.boredpanda.com/humanized-...ions-tamtamdi/
this might tickle your fancy

pokemon as humans

Not... Really. Given my stance on anthropamorphism extends to Pokémon as well.

The only time I might make an exception would be Ash's Chikorita and only THEN because it'd be abso-fragging-lotely hilarious to see him utterly and totally lost as to what was going on.



Assuming, of course, that Bleakbane's Ash Theory No. 27 is not true...

This builds on Ash Theory no. 1, which says that Ash has aged (nevermind what the dub says, it is canonically impossible for him to be ten, given the number of episodes and interestingly, the Japanese dub places him at 15 at the start of XY), he's just really short.

The latest theory goes all the way back to School of Hard Knocks, the only time time we've seen Ash actually show interest in a girl. However, this was early days, before Brock started... Being so much Brock. Current postulation is that, given every single time a pretty girl/woman showed up, Brock jumped at her, and embarrassed them all, Ash started to feel that showing interest after that would be really uncomfortable or bothersome so he quietly quashed any such impulses and feined ignorance (which, to be fair a fair proportion of the time was probably genuine, at least until later reflection). Especially with regard to this feelings for Misty, because he was, like, still 11-12. And, after she left, and he travelled so much with Brock - over his formative early teenage years... It became habit, and he got so used to just feining (or actually being until after the fact - which made it easier to pretend of course), that it's basically been ingrained into him at this point. And will take a huge amount of effort by any interested party, not just to be explictly clear of that interest, but that it's even just actually OKAY for him to be interested. (Something that would take a great deal of knowledge of Ash - or a long talk with someone who does (and not Brock), which seems unlikely...) And, in that sense, it's sort of a spot of mild tragedy, to go with his other absolutely ridiculously heroic life.

(Seriously, the dude has saved the world more times than many mid-level superheroes...)

[DigoDragon]

A few screen captures from the new episode that got me thinking~

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That game in the lower right, with the mare inside the glass bubble... how the hay do you play that one? The stallion seems to be good at it, whatever it does. XD

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Oh no, Las Pegasus has been infiltrated by The Unity!! :o

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And to continue on my silly Fallout idea...

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[Beacon of Chaos]

Not... Really. Given my stance on anthropamorphism extends to Pokémon as well.

The only time I might make an exception would be Ash's Chikorita and only THEN because it'd be abso-fragging-lotely hilarious to see him utterly and totally lost as to what was going on.

Turns out it exists.

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[Aotrs Commander]

Turns out it exists.

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Given that there was fanfic of it YEARS ago (and let's not forget, it was actually the Pokémon fandom that coined the phrase "shipping" in the first place and the names they had for every permutation...), it would be more surprising if it didn't.



Fracking heck Civ 5 - as per usual - waited until I was just trying to get to a natural break and then through a wobbly "no, someone will build that wonder just before you; no, for some reason, you don't get a save that's not 50 turns back and the next one is two turns too late." I tried everything and got it down to the same turn... And then the game decided it could finish the wonder three turns earlier.

So, at this point, I said "y'know what? NO. I'm fed up of going back and going back and going back to fix things so, you what? [Expleteive] you, game, I'll just use the editor and hurry the production the turn before you and you can FRACK OFF."

This is, notably, after spending a lot of time in the early game (unsucessfully) breeding Skrelp, because Civ 5 has the loading time of a glacier, and despite it's age, is still highly unstable and prone to graphic-glitching so you have to task manager and force-close it.

Not endearing me to the idea of Civ 6, given the level of Beyond Earth and Civ 5, frankly. Firaxis just ain't what they were up until Civ IV anymore.



Every little niggly thing at the minute, every little frustrating niggling thing.

[Thanqol]

Fracking heck Civ 5 - as per usual - waited until I was just trying to get to a natural break and then through a wobbly "no, someone will build that wonder just before you; no, for some reason, you don't get a save that's not 50 turns back and the next one is two turns too late." I tried everything and got it down to the same turn... And then the game decided it could finish the wonder three turns earlier.

My understanding of the Civilisation series is that getting wonder-sniped is the core gameplay mechanic.

[t209]

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6448220.html
So here's Hasbro version of Rom the Space Knight.

[DigoDragon]

Beware the boop

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Uppercut 'em Fluttershy. You know you wanna.



I'm noticing a shipping preference here...

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