My Little Pony 2F: Ponibooru, We Hardly Knew Ye...

[Alabenson]

*is quietly nibbling on fanfiction*
wait, wha-


*looks at bullet riddled fanfic*
*teleports to maxtronaut, still filled with bullet holes*
I will end you

This calls for a distraction.
"Hey, thubby, look over here! I finally finished the second chapter of my fanfic."
*tosses chapter at thubby*

Now with Woona

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Maxtronaut, you know what to do.

Who do I have to maim and/or throw money at to aquire one of these?

Ahhhhhh! Girrrrrr! Wahahahaha! You cursed, twittering fool! Gaaahhhh!

You know what? I think it is time to show you what I have been doing for the last few days.

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I have your wife. And if you cannot find a way to barter with me, she is going to die. Horribly, I might add.

Really, Silent Night? You can't tell the difference between my wife and her younger sister? The younger sister that you've regularly teamed up with against me? I'm starting to think all of those OFC blasts to the head are starting to affect you.
Boffiekins, we need to save her from that monster!
*sigh* Fine. You do realize, Silent, that I can send other things through those portals besides pudding, don't you?
*opens portal directly above Silent Night*

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[Soras Teva Gee]

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck but if it regenerates damage unless exposed to fire, weighs 500lbs and has an Acme Duck-Disguise-Kit under one wing, then it's appropriate to consider other explanations.



Also chipping in for Roman Numerals (Corrected to account for the Double-Thread-20 incident preferably) and I say ol' chap, how about those Equestrians?

Sompony really need to share that story for those of us that weren't here last summer.

Roman numerals are fancier, which are more in tone with the next thread name...

In general I think they are better for title. Then again I was taught in school to never use 1234567890 in written form unless you are actually doing math.

[Anarion]

Sompony really need to share that story for those of us that weren't here last summer.

No way, it's this thread's Noodle Incident.

In general I think they are better for title. Then again I was taught in school to never use 1234567890 in written form unless you are actually doing math.

Don't forget big numbers. If you tell someone in a business that their account has two million, three hundred seventy-four thousand, five hundred and twenty three dollars and sixteen cents in it, they'll get really annoyed.

[Siosilvar]

In general I think they are better for title. Then again I was taught in school to never use 1234567890 in written form unless you are actually doing math.

That's different. I was taught to always use digits for numbers bigger than a dozen twelve or so.

I do agree that Romans are more title-fitting.

[Kd7sov]

That's different. I was taught to always use digits for numbers bigger than a dozen twelve or so.

And I was always taught that it doesn't much matter as long as you're consistent.

Whoops!

[Zigg'rrauglurr]

No way, it's this thread's Noodle Incident.

And then I said: "Oatmeal! Are you crazy?!"

[Soras Teva Gee]

No way, it's this thread's Noodle Incident.

Right so never happened, canter on.

Don't forget big numbers. If you tell someone in a business that their account has two million, three hundred seventy-four thousand, five hundred and twenty three dollars and sixteen cents in it, they'll get really annoyed.

Well certainly depending on context, if I was writing dialogue that it precisely how I was taught to write it, and would see it as dissonant if it didn't happen. If I'm citing a statistic, year, or fact that becomes another matter. Or of course something like a bank statement I would expect numbers.

But while still within prose I was taught to prefer stating a number unless there's a good reason not too. And titles are closer to prose and more formal (or "titular") on top of that. Quite aside from this board there's plenty of precedent for Roman numerals in this context. Ours being a little higher doesn't really change this to me. .

[Welf]

That's different. I was taught to always use digits for numbers bigger than a dozen twelve or so.

I do agree that Romans are more title-fitting.

Maybe we should use greek numbers? They were pretty good at math back then, so obviously they must be easy to use.

[Forum Explorer]

Well, I kind of draw the line with any fandom. Going to con's, publicly reffering to oneself as whatever fan term you might come up with, ect. I, among other things, am very much keeping the whole "pony" thing away from those close to me. Not budging on the issue. I love the fandom to death, but I love a lot of things. And so far, nothing has conviced me to decend into the final circle of geekdom go to a fan event.

same here in that I don't want to put up with the teasing. It would be all in good fun but it would get annoying fast.

OotS was my first. xD

Same here

I Say Ol' Chap, How About Those Equastrians?

It cannot be anything else.




Well... I did do this once:



It... It didn't go so well. During a base defense Applebloom got mind-controlled shot Big Mac and Applejack in the back, killing them both instantly. It was the single most horrifying experience in my entire gaming life.

*pours himself a shot with a haunted, faraway expression*

What game is this?

In general I think they are better for title. Then again I was taught in school to never use 1234567890 in written form unless you are actually doing math.

I wasn't taught Roman numerals at all.

[Anarion]

I wasn't taught Roman numerals at all.

How did you ever figure out when buildings were built or movies were produced?

[Trixie]

Having one of those days?

*boring personal rant*

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Those days...? More like last 4 weeks

Funny story is, being made head IT specialist of university's cathedral seemed like a good idea... Until I found out it's new unit and as such 'head' means 'only' IT specialist. And 'only' because the pay was rather low. Still, figured out I could use entry in CV, and work, though long and boring, was rather easy, because there wasn't a lot to be broken in new infrastructure and I managed whole network rather well.

Well, until I found out that being sick doesn't allow you any special privileges in university charter for now - workers only start earning sick days on sixth month of work. I'm currently on fifth. Alone means no work division, everyone immediately notices when something doesn't work as it should and there is clear person to blame. Guess who? So, I kept going.

I considered terminating the job, but with one month of probation left, I'd have wasted 5 months trying to get recommendation, and to make story even funnier, terminating also means quitting common medical insurance program. And since I'm now looking at possible medical bill that would easily eat my last 3 months of pay had I been forced to cover it out of my own pocket...

Eh, long story is, recently I have barely had energy to follow GitP a bit, while not having energy to debate anything long, idle and trade in TF2 on new upgrade, not even seriously playing, and lying in bed. No, not sleeping, doing that is kinda hard when you manage to barely sleep half the time you spend in it due to... circumstances. I even had to cut offering local bronies help with learning graphic programs, something I agreed to a long time ago, and I hate shirking everything I see as my responsibility

/of rant.

So, how everyone had been...?

[Gamerlord]

What game is this?

X-COM: UFO Defense, one of the greatest games ever made.
@What was our first webcomic: I almost certainly read other webcomics beforehand, but "Irregular Webcomic!" is the oldest thing I can remember.

[Siosilvar]

Upon further consideration, I think I tend to write out numbers to two significant digits. So two hundred, two-fourty, but 247 (or even 240 if that's an exact number).

[MCerberus]

So, how everyone had been...?

Mustache, maybe alfalfa occasionally.

[Welf]

Mustache, maybe alfalfa occasionally.

Man, I used to feel Mustache. I used to be the element of Mustache. <sigh> Good times back then.

[Trixie]

X-COM: UFO Defense, one of the greatest games ever made.

Also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown, which is IMHO far better title ^^"

See this video from the remake thread.

[Kurgan]

So what is that:

8 - I say ol' chap, how about those Equestrians?

1 - My Little Pony (#): Posting at the Speed of Pony

And then a mashup between either roman or arabic numerals?

[Alabenson]

*boring personal rant*

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Those days...? More like last 4 weeks

Funny story is, being made head IT specialist of university's cathedral seemed like a good idea... Until I found out it's new unit and as such 'head' means 'only' IT specialist. And 'only' because the pay was rather low. Still, figured out I could use entry in CV, and work, though long and boring, was rather easy, because there wasn't a lot to be broken in new infrastructure and I managed whole network rather well.

Well, until I found out that being sick doesn't allow you any special privileges in university charter for now - workers only start earning sick days on sixth month of work. I'm currently on fifth. Alone means no work division, everyone immediately notices when something doesn't work as it should and there is clear person to blame. Guess who? So, I kept going.

I considered terminating the job, but with one month of probation left, I'd have wasted 5 months trying to get recommendation, and to make story even funnier, terminating also means quitting common medical insurance program. And since I'm now looking at possible medical bill that would easily eat my last 3 months of pay had I been forced to cover it out of my own pocket...

Eh, long story is, recently I have barely had energy to follow GitP a bit, while not having energy to debate anything long, idle and trade in TF2 on new upgrade, not even seriously playing, and lying in bed. No, not sleeping, doing that is kinda hard when you manage to barely sleep half the time you spend in it due to... circumstances. I even had to cut offering local bronies help with learning graphic programs, something I agreed to a long time ago, and I hate shirking everything I see as my responsibility

/of rant.

So, how everyone had been...?

I hope things get better for you, have a special edition hug bomb.

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[Tiki Snakes]

And then a mashup between either roman or arabic numerals?

To clarify, Either Roman Numerals Or Arabic Numerals.
Not a mashup of the two, or any wish-corruption-lawyer interpretations of the above.

Also,

Thanks for reminding me.

Currently open questions:

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Someone who isn't me should take a shot at doing one of these at some point. (I draw the line, if you'll pardon the pun, at being over half of the Tumblr).

[Lix Lorn]

To clarify, Either Roman Numerals Or Arabic Numerals.
Not a mashup of the two, or any wish-corruption-lawyer interpretations of the above.

Seconded. Entirely.

[Kurgan]

To clarify, Either Roman Numerals Or Arabic Numerals.
Not a mashup of the two, or any wish-corruption-lawyer interpretations of the above.

I am just trying to picture how that would work...

Thread 4VIII?
Thread X5V3?
Thread XL5III?

The horror, the horror!

[Siosilvar]

To clarify, Either Roman Numerals Or Arabic Numerals.
Not a mashup of the two, or any wish-corruption-lawyer interpretations of the above.

XL9! It's the best number!

Someone who isn't me should take a shot at doing one of these at some point. (I draw the line, if you'll pardon the pun, at being over half of the Tumblr).

I would take one if I had the ability to draw anything remotely resembling a pony. As-is, I'm pretty much stuck with geometric shapes.

[Maxtronaut]

I hope things get better for you, have a special edition hug bomb.

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^ this.

*Shoots Thubby once.*

[Soras Teva Gee]

I wasn't taught Roman numerals at all.

Outside of Latin its pretty rare, but I'm talking about in sentences where I was taught to use words. You write "the two cats" not "the 2 cats" for example.

Its really a sidebar for different contexts. But arabic numerals in my experience were reserved only for fairly specific contexts. Titles though were not among them.

[Tiki Snakes]

I would take one if I had the ability to draw anything remotely resembling a pony. As-is, I'm pretty much stuck with geometric shapes.

Here is a thing;

Ponies are a series of tubes and circles.
Use layers and/or vector stuff, shuffle around like craft-paper-shapes until you have a workable pony-like flat-colour collage and save as jpg.

You just answered a tumblr.

[Siosilvar]

Here is a thing;

Ponies are a series of tubes and circles.
Use layers and/or vector stuff, shuffle around like craft-paper-shapes until you have a workable pony-like flat-colour collage and save as jpg.

You just answered a tumblr.

Well yeah, but I have a hard time getting all the shapes to look right when they're all together. I'm not an artist. [Obligatory "Yet." for Thanqol and everybody else.]

Eh, I'll see if I can't rustle up something for the 1-10 scale question.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Well yeah, but I have a hard time getting all the shapes to look right when they're all together. I'm not an artist. [Obligatory "Yet." for Thanqol and everybody else.]

Eh, I'll see if I can't rustle up something for the 1-10 scale question.

Yeah ponies are very close but not quite and I know I'd drive myself crazy putting together a model from base shapes.

[Pendulous]

THERE YOU ARE!
Ach. You were impossible to find @.@
I even resorted. To going up to people and asking about their screen names.

I was roaming around, and spent most of day 2 watching the panels. Had my "Free as a butterfly" shirt on, made by fellow MMO-Championers, and somewhat famous pony artist Valcron. I wrote Pendulous on my badge, just in case, so it was probably just some really bad luck.

On de Lancie, I still think it's odd. He's giving so much praise to people he admits he doesn't know. I'm all for the documentary, but he just felt very presumptuous.

Speaking of, here's his panel for those who haven't seen.

I don't know if I mentioned, but the audio quality on that video is what it sounded like the whole time there. It was terrible. I've been to a concert before where I couldn't even hear the singer because of the audio (and was confirmed when I saw a video on Youtube of it). Really bad. Would have been much better if these awesome panels would have been easier to hear.

[Tvtyrant]

I'll do one if I am allowed to use a crappy paint pony. Otherwise out of luck.

[Kurgan]

I'll do one if I am allowed to use a crappy paint pony. Otherwise out of luck.

This thread is getting a bit stale, we about set for the next one?