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2011-09-24, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2011-09-24, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
There's a writing technique I came up with called 'seeding'. By using a small number of words and phrases you can communicate a huge amount of information by playing off popular culture and people's assumptions. If you start off a story with 'once upon a time' you've seeded the idea of fairy tales in people's heads - they know what to think, they make a whole bunch of assumptions, and then you can play with or subvert that.
Another example of seeding is, for instance, dropping the word 'Bethlehem' in your opening paragraph. Now it's about Jesus, and the entire story is coloured by that. You can riff off popular culture and expectations to a great degree with just a few carefully chosen words or phrases.
So, to answer your specific query, seed some lines from the cold war. Reds under the Bed. East Germany. Space Race, whatever. The best way to communicate a genre is to couch the story in the language of that genre.
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2011-09-24, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Er, thanks for the tip. I'm a bit concerned that they have the same watermark that'd be on the channel I'd watch, when my cable guide says it wasn't aired yet, but that's probably the cable people's way of doing it.
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SpoilerBut but but but but but but but what about the CMC's report on Discord!? There's no way they can finish that now!"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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2011-09-24, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
So, a bit belatedly, I watched - well, it's yesterday's episode now!
SpoilerThat was hilarious! And Awesome! And hilarious!
I thought the pacing was a bit better, and that totally was written as a season closer, right down to the side-splitting Star Wars ending!
(I agree, they probably could have spun it out into a three-parter. My guess is that Hasbro wouldn't have let them, though - I mean, they didn't let 'em close the season out with this - which would have been a better capstone than Best Night Ever, I think.)
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Spike is the new Rainbow Dash. Therefore Spike must be shipped with everything and everyone, including the kitchen sink (happened with RD, so...)
This is, at least, an improvement over being the fanon punching-bag (and the canon-punching bag more often than not...!)
Spike/RD shipping is looking actually even more plausible (and, while Spike/Rarity is the best, Spike/Rainbow is a good second - heck even Bobcat ... Even Bobcat said he bought that one...)
(I suspect a fair rise in the amount of Spike shipping, even just from memetic mutation...)
Yay, mane six are now really famous! Blows that bit of fanon right out of the park. (And, honestly, I prefer them being Big Damn Heroes.)
Also, yes. Very much so...
Bugger that. We've got enough "redeemable" villains already in this show, let's have at least one who is out-and-out villainous - about as Chaotic Evil as you're going to get in this sort of program...) I mean, for crying out loud, people are trying to redeem Blueblood and Gilda!
Also, on an unrelated note, as I watched Hero Factory and Thundercats before Doctor Who, I saw the Celestia advert, to which I found myself shouting "Why are you pink!"
It did, however, give me an amusing thought, whereby some entity kidnaps our dear sun goddess and replaces her with a clone (so as to rule from the shadows). Trouble, is they suck at it. Twilight and co are called in by a bemused Luna to find a pink Celestia, who keeps saying things like "I have pretty wings!" and generally being the Worst Clone Ever. It is fooling nopony (except perhaps, for comedic value, Prince Blueblood). Luna has to hold down the fort, dealing with an equally exasperated court as Pinkestia continues to follow her creator's "plans." Meanwhile Twilight and co have to search and rescue the real Princess, and find out what kind of idiot savant is capable of foalnapping and cloning a goddess, while simultaneously being the Worst Villain Ever. Hilarity ensues...
On an unrelated and unpony, but mind-shatteringly stupid note, among the other avderts was for one of these gimmick kid's games - you know the sort, some technicaly dohickey that they build a "game" around. Only this one was actually about cleaning up dog poop. No, I excrete you not.
I...I don't even...
Okay, I understand the need to educate people to clean up after their animals, but seriously? What. The. Hell!?!
I know far too many toy companies have long since stopped scraping the barrel in coming up with gimmicks (instead of creativity and playability) to sell toys, but this? This is excavating the ground under the barrel so far that you've gone into orbit on the otherside of the planet!Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2011-09-24 at 07:54 PM.
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2011-09-24, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-24, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Go for it! I sometimes have a few ideas like this, but would never get around to coming up with enough - and the energy - to actually write something. I was hoping one of you would find the idea worth pursuing!
(I mean, seriously, I have had a really silly Harry Potter parody kicking around in my head for months now, but it's likely to stay there - it took about two years for me to crank out Raman-Man (which is a (short) Naruto parody on FF, and yes, it is what you probably think it is, from the title!) Given my fanfic record is currently literally one every TEN YEARS, I think it's much safer in your hands!)
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2011-09-24, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I have decided that it's TF2 time now. My steamname's on the bronylist
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2011-09-24, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Hey Esper! Look what I found.
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Maybe start with something like: "Two thousand years after Alexander of Maredon stomped his hooves in despair knowing that there was nothing left to conquer, two hundred years after John Hancolt signed the Declaration of Independence, etc, etc..."
I think it's mainly this. She gets a little too much reverence and undying love for some people to believe.Last edited by Kindablue; 2011-09-24 at 08:11 PM.
... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2011-09-24, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
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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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2011-09-24, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Hehehe, that's a great idea. Sounds strangely familiar though...
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2011-09-24, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Season 2, madness, extreme madness, crackpot theories, big
SpoilerAsk me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and PieSpoiler
Evoker avatar by kpenguin. Evoker Pony by Dirtytabs. Grey Mouser, disciple of cupcakes by me. Any and all commiepuppies by BRC
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2011-09-24, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-24, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Is this annoying backwards to anybody else? The way it works is the company supplies the product, and the consumers buy, not the consumers buy some other products in the hope of maybe getting the product they actually want.
Besides, I don't have that kind of money. Hasbro is not getting any Pony money from me without show-accurate toys, because I can't (and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as me) afford to buy a bunch in the hopes of getting what I actually want.It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2011-09-24, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-24, 09:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Friendship is Witchcraft Background Music (the song titles are great)
How would we be able to... never mind, I don't want to know.
Pretty much, yeah. If the demand for bad toys increases, they're just going to make more bad toys.... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2011-09-24, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-09-24, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
I can see how that thinking is backwards, but I believe the logic that they're going off of is that lack of sales conveys the message of "We don't want pony toys at all" instead of "We don't want BAD pony toys" to the suits.
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2011-09-24, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
If that's what they think, then they aren't paying attention to the right stuff. We're pretty blatant about our desire for more show-accurate toys, so it's not really our fault if they aren't getting the message (which sucks because we're the ones that suffer for it ).
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2011-09-24, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Season 2....sorta...kinda..spoiled anyway, involves shipping.
SpoilerSo.....Tom x Rocky anypony?SpoilerPony Rp-Fox Trot Profile
Pony RP Gwynfillion Profile
Pony Rp Spark Chaser Profile
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2011-09-24, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Okay ponythread pop quiz time. I noticed something about the end of Ep 2 and its gag:
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Six Main Characters in SW: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Threepio, and Artoo
Six Mane Ponies: Twlight, Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy
If the mane six were being cast in a ponified remake (for once a probably improvement) who would be who?
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2011-09-24, 09:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Credit for my various avatars goes to Dashwood,Cealocanth,Kwarkpudding,Randomizer,kpengu in,Alarra,Bisected8,zimmerwald1915, and Thanqol.
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2011-09-24, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Season 2
SpoilerSo doesn't that "No Divorces" part mean that Rarity's still going to hang out with Tom? I mean, admittedly, I was rooting for him to be the guy that deals the final blow to Discord in some upside-down display of poetic justice, but I never expected him to be a continuing character! Maybe he just needs some time to chisel out some of his character traits."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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2011-09-24, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Credit for my various avatars goes to Dashwood,Cealocanth,Kwarkpudding,Randomizer,kpengu in,Alarra,Bisected8,zimmerwald1915, and Thanqol.
Once known as "Gamerkid".
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2011-09-24, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXIV: Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Han Solo: Rainbow Dash - the ace
Luke Skywalker: Twilight Sparkle - force/magic
Rarity: Leia - not so helpless princess
Applejack: Cheewie - the brute
Fluttershy: C-3PO - team diplomat, talks with animals (kind of like languages)
Pinkie Pie: R2-D2 - completely random ability set. Some days she is rocketing around striking fear and lasers into her foes, the next she is hangs around the group for the sole purpose of having the keys to the building.
Does that mean I get a shiny everything?!
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Ah, the way you had it there, I was picturing a small town, and they were crowding around the local mailmare's house. Kind of like how you would go to the miller's house, rather than a miller's house, if that makes sense.
Alright, I'll finish reading and giving feedback in a bit. In the meantime, Ronin loaned me Rome: Total War and I need to go waste as much time as I possibly can. Haven't played that game in too long.
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2011-09-24, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Credit for my various avatars goes to Dashwood,Cealocanth,Kwarkpudding,Randomizer,kpengu in,Alarra,Bisected8,zimmerwald1915, and Thanqol.
Once known as "Gamerkid".
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2011-09-24, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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