My Little Pony XXXVI: Superponies Everywhere!

[MCerberus]

Speaking of which, is Operation Lauren Faust in progress yet? What's needed?

Random thought for the day: Do you think Lauren Faust shouts her last name before dramatically punching someone?

[Tiki Snakes]

I do now, yeah.

FAAAAAAUUUUST! *whack!*

[Grif]

If I can have a say in the new thread name:

MLP XXXVII: We Should Have Learned [Something] By Now



(Brackets in case the title is too long).

You have my axe. And my vote. And my beard.

[Gamerlord]

If I can have a say in the new thread name:

MLP XXXVII: We Should Have Learned [Something] By Now



(Brackets in case the title is too long).

Switching my vote to this.

[Kyouhen]

Sooooo much responding to do...

I don't belong in a sentence with those two.

Phoe, SiuiS, Braz, DD, myself, Soras, Kairaven, Gaelbert, TGPFluttershy, Kindablue, Saint Ridley and Saint Ridley's guest are going to BronyCon to see Lauren Faust and John de Lancie. Now everypony's in a sentence with those two. HA!

Well, it did take a little over a day, but... brought it.

Happy vacation, Jayden! And don't forget that MP3 player full of mood music I sent you!
Special mood music. Almost... entrancing.

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Yeah, could've done better, I know. First attempt at anything resembling actual hand-drawn animation though, so could've done a lot worse. :) Photoshop is surprisingly good for little anims like these, btw.

It's a real shame animated avatars aren't allowed, because those are amazing and hilarious.

Well! Looks like I've finally got myself a welcome image:

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(I'm sorry I haven't been around at all lately. In short, I am currently experiencing my first real life experience with Crunch Time.)

That is now, without question, the best welcome image.

I don't know about this. There have been an increasing amount of movies and such that have had homosexual characters without that much negative backlash. I honestly believe that as long as they didn't rub it in they could get away with it now. However I do agree that Hasbro would likely nix the idea in the bud. Like you said it wouldn't really grab anymore positive attention (though it would be impressive and I think lots of the more mature fans would be impressed (after they stopped complaining about their ship being sunk of course)) and they would much rather play it safe then trying for such a bold move.

Key difference is that most movies and such don't have us. Fox and whatnot are already out to get us, and canon same-sex shipping would not go unnoticed. As much as I'd love to see the show get away with something like that just to further promote love and tolerance, it's not happening.

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This only contributes to the fanon of her as town drunk...

Didn't someone say that one of the artists suggested they had made her sneak a drink out of the punch bowl for exactly that purpose?

Actually I think it was Lauren herself who chose Berry for that part. Can't remember for sure though.

I think the people who would be foaming at the mouth the most are already doing so. The show is full of teh Evulz, according to their twisted views. I could make a long list but let's just say that if the show wasn't bad enough, the brony community alone pretty much condemns it to eternal hellfire in the deepest pits of the abyss. Teletubbies and Harry Potter is nothing compared.

I wouldn't be too sure of that. A lot of the people going after FiM are actually targeting the brony community, with only the extreme crazies chasing after the show itself. (I saw one article that said it was satanic because Rainbow Dash can control the weather) Same-sex relationships, unfortunately, are still a hot issue and one a lot more people are likely to stand up against even within the brony community. (And yes, I've found plenty who are against shipping for that very reason)

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I lol'd. So hard. Hasbro: Best troll or bestest troll?

So regarding the antagonists from the last episode:

If they call each other "Flim" and "Flam," and they're also "The Flim Flam Brothers..."

Does that make their full names Flim Flim Flam and Flam Flim Flam?

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Shall we assemble the collective, HARMONY, Friendship, party and hug cannons?
Show them while they may hate us, we love and tolerate them.

Sorry, the hug cannon's out of commission until I figure out what Bleakbane did with my ammo.

Look at the individual who has inspired legions, worlds, even of loyal individuals to him without question, from the very bottom of his organisation to the very top, and in nearly three millenia, and the numbers of people who have tried an actual coup¹ can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Look at what this individual has accomplished. Someone, who, from literally nothing, has crafted an empire exponetially smaller than most of the other major - and even some minor - powers, and yet one whose technolgical edge is phenominal. Who has forged a highly competant and highly professional military among the most feared in the galaxy. Who leads by example, in the very best of military traditions. Who is a strategic and tactical genius unsurpassed.

So no more than 31? For a race as long-lived as liches that's a pretty reasonable number. I don't imagine the coups would be something handled through brute force. When you're immortal it would be much easier to slowly edge things into place for the big victorious blow.
Forcing myself to count on my fingers in binary is the best thing I've ever done.

@ War on Ponies thread:

Come on, guys. Aren't we like, equipped for this? Don't we have an entire grimdark subfandom purely to help us out in times like this? Let's answer the guys's question straight. Load him up on war ponies and dark and disturbing pony pictures. We got frickin' hundreds of them. Let's impress him with the sheer scale, depth and creativity of the pony fandom.

Love and tolerance doesn't mean going in there and saying 'you're wrong but we tolerate you'. We can respond in kind, find what the guy likes and show him that it's okay to like blood and violence and also like ponies. We can show him that multiple people do that already. We can show him that multiple fantastic artists have drawn pictures of exactly what he's asking for, while still being bronies. Perhaps we'll broaden his mind and show him that it's okay to like ponies.

Let's hold the door open rather than taunting from inside the walls.

Actually, that's a tempting idea. I just tossed in a single post and am now bored with the subject. It's a shame you're doing Dragon Month Thanqol, or you could have a whole new topic to draw for a while.

Wait a minute, the current CHALLENGE theme is life and death... Excuse me, I think I have some work to do.

Look at mah gifs mah gifs are amazing:

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Dammit Pinkie, stop breaking physics.

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Pinkie can really hold her cider.

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ENTIRELY TOO HAPPY.

Give these a lick they taste just like muffins:

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Hehehe, I love that they even swapped in Bon-Bon and Lyra.

Oh and uh, 24 years ago today I was brought into this world. During the middle of the Super Bowl iirc, but I couldn't tell you who was playing at the time.

Happy belated birthday! This gives me an excuse to go do a thing I was going to do. Picture pending!

So, we're on page 45 46 of the thread now. Anybody put forth ideas for the next thread name yet?

I'd be amused if we used the best friendship letter ever's first line:
My Little Pony XXXVII: I Didn't Learn Anything!
(Or "Ah" instead of "I," if we want to transcribe AJ's accent.)

Zevox

I vote we use "Season 2 Ruined My Fanfic" now. Derpy having a voice is totally a reason to use that.

This one gets my vote, but one of these days, we need to have our next thread be, "Season Two Ruined My Thread Title."

Actually I think I'll add my vote to "I Learned Nothing". Alternatively, as the one comic said "I'm Bucking Perfect". And I'm agreeing 100% with "Season Two Ruined My Thread Title" at some point. Maybe after Season 2's over, since we don't seem too likely to actually run out of ideas before that.

we really need to save that one for after Valentine episode..if any episode is gonna drop a rainnuke on mass #'s of Fanfics it is that one

derp...you slightly changed it

It's funny because we keep saying that and then some memetastic new idea comes up.

HA! FINISHED THIS BEFORE A NEW THREAD! FEAR ME!

[Beacon of Chaos]

More new episide stuff.

Firstly, Thor pony gets a nemesis:

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LOL Mac:

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Regarding Pinkie and toon physics:

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Also, don't forget the ending to Over a Barrel. She actually interacts with the screen wipe. That's gotta count for something.

[Aotrs Commander]

It's a real shame animated avatars aren't allowed, because those are amazing and hilarious.

I can't believe I missed that before (though there have been times in the last coule of days when I've been actually struggling to read pony thread, when my skull got too foggy and my vision wonky...) I tip my helmet to you, sir, o metaphysical, mulitversal entity.

A lot of the people going after FiM are actually targeting the brony community, with only the extreme crazies chasing after the show itself. (I saw one article that said it was satanic because Rainbow Dash can control the weather)

This being the same set of crazies who went after Pokemon and Harry Potter, so...

Sorry, the hug cannon's out of commission until I figure out what Bleakbane did with my ammo.

Huzzah!

So no more than 31? For a race as long-lived as liches that's a pretty reasonable number. I don't imagine the coups would be something handled through brute force. When you're immortal it would be much easier to slowly edge things into place for the big victorious blow.
Forcing myself to count on my fingers in binary is the best thing I've ever done.

You are a strange little pony sometimes, Kyouhen...



Let me put it this way, though. If you take Grand Admiral Thrawn, give him 2700 years of experience and intelligence boosts and magic super-powers (i.e. Twilight's-talent-for-magic super-power, and a dollop of Pinkie Sense for good measure), you will approach Lord Death Despoil's capabilities.

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

[Trixie]

More new episide stuff.

Firstly, Thor pony gets a nemesis:

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Ah, yes, there were a lot of excellent new colour combinations in this one

Regarding Pinkie and toon physics:

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Also, don't forget the ending to Over a Barrel. She actually interacts with the screen wipe. That's gotta count for something.

Didn't she pretty much use her teeth?

Plus, a lot of zippers can be opened easily if you push fabric in front of them, doubly so in something designed for Earth Pony...

[Kyouhen]

You are a strange little pony sometimes, Kyouhen...



Let me put it this way, though. If you take Grand Admiral Thrawn, give him 2700 years of experience and intelligence boosts and magic super-powers (i.e. Twilight's-talent-for-magic super-power, and a dollop of Pinkie Sense for good measure), you will approach Lord Death Despoil's capabilities.

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

In my defence when you become incapable of viewing your fingers as 1 to 10 and instead view them as 1 to 1023 all cases of "I could count it on two hands" as a sign to show how infrequent something happens become hilariously unimpressive.

And I'll agree that super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn is an awesome idea.

[Litewarior]

Hey Aorts commander, what does AORTS stand for? The best I've been able to think of is Amazing Overlords of Real Time Strategy.

Whoops misread it. In that case... Amazing Omnipotent Rulers of Time and Space?

[Gamerlord]

Hey Aorts commander, what does AORTS stand for? The best I've been able to think of is Amazing Overlords of Real Time Strategy.

I think it stands for Army Of The Red Spear.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Didn't she pretty much use her teeth?

Plus, a lot of zippers can be opened easily if you push fabric in front of them, doubly so in something designed for Earth Pony...

Also tent zippers always have tabs on either side so its obviously just out of sigt.

[Athaniar]

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

I can't help it, I love both those ideas.

[Trixie]

Let me put it this way, though. If you take Grand Admiral Thrawn, give him 2700 years of experience and intelligence boosts and magic super-powers (i.e. Twilight's-talent-for-magic super-power, and a dollop of Pinkie Sense for good measure), you will approach Lord Death Despoil's capabilities.

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

You take Grand Admiral Thrawn...

Give him 2700 years of experience...

Boosts...

Make him into Marty the Lich...

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Then, real Thrawn still kicks your arse. That's just how he rolls, yo

And, for the record, Ninja Thrawn? I take you didn't read his second origin short story, then?

[Beacon of Chaos]

Let me put it this way, though. If you take Grand Admiral Thrawn, give him 2700 years of experience and intelligence boosts and magic super-powers (i.e. Twilight's-talent-for-magic super-power, and a dollop of Pinkie Sense for good measure), you will approach Lord Death Despoil's capabilities.

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

Forgive my ignorance, but who is this Thrawn fella anyway?

Didn't she pretty much use her teeth?

Plus, a lot of zippers can be opened easily if you push fabric in front of them, doubly so in something designed for Earth Pony...

*shrug* I guess. Just seemed funny to me.

[Zevox]

Forgive my ignorance, but who is this Thrawn fella anyway?

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: The Last Command

Get those books. Read them. Now.

Zevox

[Athaniar]

Forgive my ignorance, but who is this Thrawn fella anyway?

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The antagonist of the Timothy Zahn novels Zevox mentioned (generally considered some of the best Star Wars novels ever), a truly brilliant chiss Imperial Grand Admiral who took command of the Empire after the Battle of Endor. Honestly, I consider the books truly excellent and Thrawn my favorite Star Wars character. If you like Star Wars, or even if you have just seen the movies, read it now.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: The Last Command

Get those books. Read them. Now.

Zevox

Ah. Expanded universe. I thought the name was slightly familiar, but I didn't read the books. I tend to keep out of the SW 'verses, because they're pretty boring, even with the planet-scale destruction and "that's no moon" spacestations.

And also, I support the "We should have learned something by now." name for the next thread.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Ah. Expanded universe. I thought the name was slightly familiar, but I didn't read the books. I tend to keep out of the SW 'verses, because they're pretty boring, even with the planet-scale destruction and "that's no moon" spacestations.

Well I will say that while my love of SW died an unmourned death a long while ago... the Thrawn trilogy is still the only part of SW worth a damn.

[Beacon of Chaos]

Confess that you've never heard of a character from a sci-fi book you didn't know existed. People act shocked.

You can't explain that.

Get those books. Read them. Now.

Zevox

If you like Star Wars, or even if you have just seen the movies, read it now.

I'll keep an eye out for them if I ever visit a bookshop. Star Wars is okay. I do like the original trilogy.

I love how most Star Wars races have some uniqueness to them and yet this guy is just a human with blue skin and red eyes. still, if he's just that awesome I guess I can take a look.

[MCerberus]

I do now, yeah.

FAAAAAAUUUUST! *whack!*

It makes me want to remake the 'gaze into the fist of Dredd' only 'Gaze into the Faust of Lauren'

[Trixie]

Well I will say that while my love of SW died an unmourned death a long while ago... the Thrawn trilogy is still the only part of SW worth a damn.

What.

*cough* TIE Fighter *cough*

Incidentally, it also has Thrawn, at his best.

[Kairaven]

I do have to say that it was a star wars novel that got me to stop reading R.A. Salvatore FOOOOOREVAR!!

Oh... and also stopped me from reading any further star wars books.

And generally made me realize that every story needs to end. And if you do choose to continue with it, set it a couple hundred years later so that the original characters are not mentioned ever again except maybe as vague legends or myths.

Only exception to that rule is Shannara books... which though set years apart are basically rehash of the same story over and over again. (the original stories of which are arguably heavily "borrowed" from LoTR)

Ann McCaffrey on the other hand managed to keep Pern novels relatively fresh by focusing on different characters, even though it was mostly the same time period.

anyway, to keep this pony related a bit:

So, Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000...
Do you think that.
- it is the 6000th Flimflam patent?
- the 6000th prototype?
- or like some commercial products names that coincide with the calender years, is it the 6000th year of the rule of Celestia?

anyway, thread title will be whatever Trixie decide it is.

[MCerberus]

What.

*cough* TIE Fighter *cough*

Incidentally, it also has Thrawn, at his best.

That character is like having admiral Batman.

[Trixie]

anyway, thread title will be whatever Trixie decide it is.

Speaking of which, do we have a consensus?

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Also, this needs to be one of the future thread titles

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[Zevox]

Speaking of which, do we have a consensus?

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There were quite a lot of votes for "Ah didn't learn anything!" earlier, but another suggestion of "We should've learned something by now" also had some posters seconding it recently. I think the former had more, but I haven't counted.

Zevox

[Trixie]

Yeah, more, though I can't trace what exactly it references ^^"

Oh, well, I'll find some suitable picture on my own, then.

[Aotrs Commander]

Hey Aorts commander, what does AORTS stand for? The best I've been able to think of is Amazing Overlords of Real Time Strategy.

I think it stands for Army Of The Red Spear.

Gamerlord is entirely correct.

(It's Aotrs, rather than Aorts; it surprises me how often people make that mistake... I think it says something interesting about human pattern recognitions when reading.)

And, for the record, Ninja Thrawn? I take you didn't read his second origin short story, then?

Oh, I haven't read that, in what, nearly...forty eight hours?

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: The Last Command

Get those books. Read them. Now.

Zevox

As I've just started doing again.

I'll keep an eye out for them if I ever visit a bookshop. Star Wars is okay. I do like the original trilogy.

The guy uses alien artwork as a means to understanding their racial psychology and then turns that into a stratagy to beat them. One look at pony thread, and he'd be able to beat any one of us here who's ever done an artwork, myself included, and I've only drawn two pictures!

Yeah, he's THAT AWESOME.

Seriously, the Thrawn trilogy is absolutely brilliant. I think it's about the only other fiction my Dad read and enjoyed, apart from Discworld and Hitchiker's, which is about as ringing an endorsement as I can manage.

It's also written way before the prequel trilogy, so it you're one of the people that don't like that, you can rest assured that there is no taint of it there!

Thrawn, is, I think, probably the best villain of, like anything (even though the Witch-King of Angamr holds a special plaace in my metaphorical heart). Smart, urbane, cultured...not without a certain sense of humour, and at the same time, utterly ruthless without being wasteful.

I love how most Star Wars races have some uniqueness to them and yet this guy is just a human with blue skin and red eyes. still, if he's just that awesome I guess I can take a look.

No, dude has GLOWING red eyes. Like a Lich. He's that badass.

(His human-proximity-appearance also made him a little easier for the radily anti-alien Empire to accept. He's the only non-human ever to hold the rank of Grand Admiral.)

What.

*cough* TIE Fighter *cough*

Incidentally, it also has Thrawn, at his best.

What, fifteen years-odd on, and still one of the best computer games ever.

I think my only quibble with it is that I think an English accent would have suited Thrawn better - though to be fair, I think (as I got the Collector's CD version) the fully-voiced parts only came later, and the early cut-scene voices were done with a bit of a lower voice-over budget and American voice-actors. Notably, the in-game wingman commands are in an American accent, but the mission dialogue for young wingmen is often a completely different voice.

That character is like having admiral Batman.

Hells, yes.



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Thrawn is Best Pony.

[Lix Lorn]

(Hell, it'd be trivial to model her in D&D as a psion, it really would.)

Wilder would be better, I'd say. Shame Psions are so much better...

In other news, Super-powered Grand Admiral Thrawn the most Awesomely stupid idea I've ever had since Naruto-ninja Julius Caesar.

Naruto-nina Caesar? SO MUCH WIN.

[Eakin]

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Thrawn is Best Pony.

It's probably just the eyes, but that picture looks like something more out of Invader Zim than MLP.