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2012-08-13, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's a low-powered scope sniper rifle that charges up. It shoots a half-meter spear that causes bleed damage, ignores armor DR, ignores the shield gate, ignores enemy physical barriers (such as a guardian's shields and possibly wafer thin cover), and unlike every other sniper gun does NOT lose damage if you don't scope in, so it can be fired from the hip. The projectile arcs, so headshots are harder to score but deal triple damage if you pull it off. It's also approximately equal to a widow in power at about half the weight.
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2012-08-13, 10:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Will Anderson dropping hints about Weird Al and MLP like a baws.
Opalescence?
Used to? Sad ponies in the snow all the way across the sky.
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I think this particular OC of mine might be a little bit of a drama queen. But then, she is a vampire unicorn princess.
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no idea on quaility level as i cannot view tumblr's from here at workLast edited by otakuryoga; 2012-08-13 at 10:46 PM.
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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2012-08-13, 11:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Frankly, I've always felt they should have tags that indicate different levels of "Dark", especially since at the moment the "Dark" tag supposedly covers everything from Batman and Harry Potter through Cupcakes.
I think a good start to differentiating between Dark and Dark-ish would be whether or not the story ultimately has a happy ending.
To me that's the difference between "suspenseful and engaging” and downright depressing.
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Fausticorn is best pony.
Because without her, we would have no ponies.If brute force isn't working, that just means you're not using enough of it.
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2012-08-13, 11:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey folks, I was wondering...
Do any of you still have that mini-story about Snapshot (I think that was his name)? That one about how he got his Cutie Mark. I don't know why, but I have the intense urge to read that again. :/(Un?)official ponythread element of airships.
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2012-08-14, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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just read a fic where the author mentioned a group known as the Magisters
described as the Unicorn equivalent of the Wonderbolts
...I cant believe I haven't seen that idea done beforePonies 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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2012-08-14, 12:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-14, 12:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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The story that started life as a dare from Lixie to turn one of my own wise-ass comments about retcons into an actual story is now up on Fimfiction. Still have no idea where I'm going with it, but I'm challenging myself to push ahead with it anyway.
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2012-08-14, 12:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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*Desk collides with face.*
Ouch. Don't worry Thubby. I've almost got Ch. 23 done, but school is already starting to hamper my progress. However, I do have 3 other fic ideas residing both in my head and phone, so you'll have plenty of storis from me to eat.
Also, it's good to be back.(Un?)official ponythread element of airships.
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2012-08-14, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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I just proved Rule 34P true again: If it exists, there is pony of it. No exceptions.
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2012-08-14, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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It has been done before. Just not well. I've heard magisters before (possibly in reference to this fic), inquisitors, archmages, and one that was a fraternity of Celestia's Students. But... Why?
The wonderbolts are an air show, military group and point of national pride. They are also a parallel to real world groups. A bevy of hyper competent unicorns would do what? Intelligence? SWAT team tactics? Okay, sure, but do they do anything that would make canonical sense?
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2012-08-14, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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There the public face of the royal guard. They go around, in there nice robes and shiny armor, and put on shows of magical display. Grand explosions, false monsters, and real magical skill all on display, with the merch pulling in a nice amount of dough. As for tactic's, Twilight is the only pony we have seen that teliports like it's going out of style. No, much like the Wonderbolts, there flashy, but instead of cute contrails they fling out genuine grade-a magic missiles and such.
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2012-08-14, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Alright, ponythread! They officially have me on a Fiber Optics connection right now, so... Continue posting so fast that I'll never catch up!
"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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Separation isn't the issue for me. I'm good at compartimentalising. For me, it's simply not liking pony+dark. There's no fun in the experience of the two things overlapping. I think what really gets me is the feeling of out-of-characterness that inevitably accompanies such stories. Happy, pony-natured ponies cannot exist in a dark story and remain true to that nature. Nor can the universe that the ponies themselves live in remain in-character either. Funny can make up for it though, regardless of whether the funny is intentional or not.
Just my own two bits on the subject, natch.
Wait a... I'm sure I read a couple more chapters of that fic! Where are they?
oh god.
It's spilling out to ponythread! Run for your canons!Last edited by SlyGuyMcFly; 2012-08-14 at 04:18 AM.
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2012-08-14, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Why would Equestria need artillery or magic missiles? Unless the grad corps of magisters work as special effects artists, and it really is just an ol' boys club fraternity. It just too weird for me. Especially the "special unit" part. Suddenly you have the most powerful force in Equestria not being being loyal or obedient, simply as a consequence of existing.
No, if Equestria did have something like this, they wouldn't operate like a SPECTRE, as Boffenspark and Clockwork seem to do. They would be just another group of competent unicorns. In which case we see them all the time, in Celwstia's throne room. The royal honor guard.
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The fact that Elements of Harmony appear to BE pretty much Equestria's elite unit, and the the royal guard have been totally ineffective in every combat situation (with the Wonderbolts, who appear also to actually serve in a paramilitary capacity not far behind) would seem to indicate that no such group would exist. And that even if they did, they would be no more cop than either of the aforementioned; as so far no-pony, apart from the Elements and Shining Armor/Cadance has even made a contribution to dealing with the any of the threats seen in the series, major or minor.
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2012-08-14, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-14, 05:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well that's... just plain silly really.
Me gusta! I think I seem some references for Charlotte's wardrobe.
I understand that, so sorry if it sounded like I was dismissing you or something. I'll think about reading it. I still have a large fic backlog to go through.
Yeah, I've had moments like these. I do tend to get over them after a while though.
Mostly though, SlyGuy seems to have said it best. I just don't really like mixing dark and ponies.
In the end it's up to any one person hat they're willing to do. I just get irked when old judge a thing they haven't tried. Personal peeve. So best compromise is we can have others review it when you're done, and let him know if it's too dark or not.
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Any excuse to post that.
Hey, don't apologise to me, I did the same thing.
Then find me Captain Harlock Rule 34P please. I tried finding some to see if I could prove the rule to a friend. I couldn't, though I was luckily able to find Ragnarok Online pony, so it worked out.
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2012-08-14, 06:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Deden Aspect?
Um... Huh. Guess that means Spike is a "D&D" type dragon.
(i.e. can mate with anything and produce offspring)
Oooh, I love "Tesla Gun" designs. Looks like that parasprite is cooked.
Well, certainly not the ground.Last edited by DigoDragon; 2012-08-14 at 06:38 AM.
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2012-08-14, 06:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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I can respect that you prefer the sweet and innocent stories, but I must admit I don't understand or agree that it's OOC.
Serious, adult ponies who act and think and feel in complex, mature and realistic ways do make sense and aren't, in my opinion, out of character at all. Nor are dark, gritty situations somehow incompatible with the setting.
There are big, scary monsters everywhere. There are evil ponies and evil monsters and evil deeds. There's love and conflict and war and complex emotions. All of this is canon, it's part of the setting and part of the ponies and their lives, it's just that the show has to step carefully around certain details, but that doesn't mean your story has to do the same. Like, they can't actually show a pony getting seriously hurt, or go into detail about Pinkie's mental problems, but it is clear that it's there, it's real, it happens, and your story can deal with it if it is meant for adult readers. It is not in conflict with the setting, it is not "out of character" for the world or for the ponies.
It's just looking at the same world and same characters through different glasses. If you prefer to keep the rosy glasses on, that's fine and good and there are many stories where that works great, but there's nothing wrong or OOC about viewing the same world through different shades and for some stories anything else would be OOC and odd and unbelievable.
My intention is that the first chapter will give you a good idea about how dark the story is. Not that it'll necessarily be the darkest chapter, but if you like the first chapter then there shouldn't be any nasty surprises later on.
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speaking of pinkie's issues, has anyone read a good fic exploring them? i have a taste for tragedy
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2012-08-14, 07:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'll have to agree with Deadly here; simply being dark does not mean being out of character. Even ones featuring the main cast can portray them very much in-character, without needing to rely on fandom personality interpretations. Cupcakes / Rainbow Factory isn't a good example of this, but not all dark fics are like those.
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2012-08-14, 08:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also the reason I've been posting less in ponythread recently. My giantitp time has been all PBP thread posts, which take up my ponythread catchup time. So right now I'm just skipping some pages.
I would make one distinction, which is that it's kind of built into the setting that friendship and kindness work really well as a practical solution to obtaining power. So I think it can be weird to have ponies get into conflicts and suffer serious injuries or have bad endings even if they're all working together with their friends. Not that it could never happen, but it would need some serious explanation about what they were dealing with to justify overcoming the whole friendship magic thing.
Other than that, I agree, the ponies clearly understand conflict and have a military history that imply that all sorts of mature things went on in the canon.
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2012-08-14, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dealing with the seemingly unbeatable power of the Magic of Friendship is of course an issue, and one I've certainly considered for this story. But not every conflict requires the Elements, or there may be reasons why friends are separated, or the Elements aren't working.
Ultimately it's a matter of the writer doing a good job or not. You can write a grimdark in which the characters are in some serious deep s***, where friendship is broken and the Elements scattered, where characters get hurt or even die, and still be believable and IC. It no doubt will involve friendship, but that doesn't exclude conflict, in fact conflict can make friendship that much more meaningful. If friendship always comes without effort, is it really interesting?
Take LotR, I'd say there's a lot of powerful friendship there. Frodo would never have made it without Sam by his side, and their friendship is undeniably much more deep and powerful at the end than when they set out. Same with the rest of the Fellowship. The conflict and struggle brought them closer together and gave them the power to overcome impossible odds. Don't tell me that doesn't work in the MLP universe
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2012-08-14, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Princess Celestia is best princess. I can't believe I haven't drawn her before.
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