This - I've just seen it myself - unfortunately sort of invalidates the experiment, actually, since with a contest on it, it is going to skew the "natural" results. And there is an upper limit to the amount of time I'm prepared to devote to this (both in the analysis (did we ever get any more suggestions on that point than the last one) and in the drawing. As if it gets too big, it'll become a chore and then there's no point anymore. (Much as I hate to back out of anything, I also know my limits. When I first posted the idea, I was banking on having to draw one picture if and only if the brony fandom surprised me by not doing it; I'm already stretching a bit beyond that. I just don't have the time or inclination to spend days on this; especially given that this is really all extraneous to my point, as we had the first sympathetic portrail in just over twenty-four hours.)
So we'll have to see how many results come out of it. It might only be practical to do a proportional analysis (and, given the small size of the contest submissions - which of course will likely mean higher volumes - count a submission as a fraction of "one" for the purposes of my final count.) Or disregard the contest result completely, though that's not very satisfactory either. I dunno. We'll have to see.
Actually, scrub all that, on examination, Seth means the "contest" is in the comments section, rather than something semi-official like the holiday fanfic contests or drawing events that Phoe organises (whose name escapes at the moment). So I think I have to say, on that basis, it doesn't count as "fanart/fanfiction" (especially as it's 300 words or less, and not "no more than 300 words") for my purposes; I'm not gonna count anything that short as viable, no matter how silly or sympathetic it is (I'm not going to devote time and energy to assess or draw something on a two-or-three line thing that took somepony two minutes to write, sorry.) If we get some "proper" fanfiction out of it, that will still count and I'll take my lumps (within reason).
(Unless something there is of utterly stupendously quality - which might happen - but I'm not personally going to trawl through nearly three hundred comments already looking for that.)
I think this is fair.
Although the amount of backstory concepts being thrown around do make it slightly more likely that people will write actual fics about Sombra, which does increase the chances of you having to draw us pretty ponies.
So, you know, it's not all bad.
Well, instead of cyanide perhaps something less drastic like ... laxatives? I kinda wonder what'll happen if you give parasprites laxatives, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer
Um. Well, normally parasprites vomit up their youth. So, if you give them laxatives... Bad image. Bad pony. Bad pony.
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Yeah. I have some explosions already, but cyanide is definitely too dark for this story. It's just a random, silly adventure rated for everyone, much like the show itself.
I think I'm going to go with your vaccuum idea, mixed with Pinkie's crazy chopper, because then I can have Lyra playing "Ride of the Valkyries" as they suck up parasprites. I even have a super silly name for the sucker
Out of curiosity, how will you keep the parasprites from devouring the vacuum cleaner from the inside out?
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Some of you may remember about a year ago, I extended the challenge of "How long until I screw up and say 'somepony' instead of 'somebody'?" Sort of a little challenge to see how long until ponies absolutely corrupted my brain. Well, I just did.
The only problem is I was talking to myself. Alone. With the door closed. But it was still an honest-to-goodness slip-up. I meant to say, out loud, "somebody", and out came "somepony." But I was technically talking to myself, which some may argue that means my defenses were naturally down, and thus, doesn't count. So I'm turning it over to you all: Should I call this the moment when I finally slipped up, or should I wait until I'm talking with others and it happens?
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Assuming parasprites have two... ends, laxatives shouldn't affect the way their offspring turn out, right?
Maybe.
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Some of you may remember about a year ago, I extended the challenge of "How long until I screw up and say 'somepony' instead of 'somebody'?" Sort of a little challenge to see how long until ponies absolutely corrupted my brain. Well, I just did.
The only problem is I was talking to myself. Alone. With the door closed. But it was still an honest-to-goodness slip-up. I meant to say, out loud, "somebody", and out came "somepony." But I was technically talking to myself, which some may argue that means my defenses were naturally down, and thus, doesn't count. So I'm turning it over to you all: Should I call this the moment when I finally slipped up, or should I wait until I'm talking with others and it happens?
Keep going, I say, until you actually do it in conversation. See if anyone notices.
On that topic, I don't say "anypony," but I think it a whole lot.
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Some of you may remember about a year ago, I extended the challenge of "How long until I screw up and say 'somepony' instead of 'somebody'?" Sort of a little challenge to see how long until ponies absolutely corrupted my brain. Well, I just did.
The only problem is I was talking to myself. Alone. With the door closed. But it was still an honest-to-goodness slip-up. I meant to say, out loud, "somebody", and out came "somepony." But I was technically talking to myself, which some may argue that means my defenses were naturally down, and thus, doesn't count. So I'm turning it over to you all: Should I call this the moment when I finally slipped up, or should I wait until I'm talking with others and it happens?
A short way of saying "letting the enemies take you to their prison camp where you'll start an uprising later, which will be made into a film 30 years in the future."
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Among a few side wagers, I would have to record myself singing a song of the winner's choice from the show. A bunch of folks put wagers on how long it'd take me to crack.
For the record, I am not a song pony.
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A short way of saying "letting the enemies take you to their prison camp where you'll start an uprising later, which will be made into a film 30 years in the future."
That too.
Heck, just earlier today, I managed to make a fantastic parallel between a fictional vampony race and my personal beliefs, which I won't go into due to board rules. But needless to say, the infection runs pretty deep now.
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On careful deliberation entirely unrelated to the above revelation, as the goal was to see how long it would take until your brain was corrupted by pony, NOT how long until you gave your corruption by pony away in public, it probably does count. The best thing to do would be to check directly with those who have made wagers, directly and collectively.
You should at least consider just ponying up though, so to speak.
Now, you might have promised to draw ponies for people or something like that. This wouldn't have affected my reading of the situation AT ALL and if I happened to be more adamant that you had indeed triggered the forfeit it would be PURE COINCIDENCE.
Some of you may remember about a year ago, I extended the challenge of "How long until I screw up and say 'somepony' instead of 'somebody'?" Sort of a little challenge to see how long until ponies absolutely corrupted my brain. Well, I just did.
The only problem is I was talking to myself. Alone. With the door closed. But it was still an honest-to-goodness slip-up. I meant to say, out loud, "somebody", and out came "somepony." But I was technically talking to myself, which some may argue that means my defenses were naturally down, and thus, doesn't count. So I'm turning it over to you all: Should I call this the moment when I finally slipped up, or should I wait until I'm talking with others and it happens?
doesn't count. It needs to be in a legit conversation with non-bronies.
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On careful deliberation entirely unrelated to the above revelation, as the goal was to see how long it would take until your brain was corrupted by pony, NOT how long until you gave your corruption by pony away in public, it probably does count. The best thing to do would be to check directly with those who have made wagers, directly and collectively.
You should at least consider just ponying up though, so to speak.
Now, you might have promised to draw ponies for people or something like that. This wouldn't have affected my reading of the situation AT ALL and if I happened to be more adamant that you had indeed triggered the forfeit it would be PURE COINCIDENCE.
I'm with Tiki, only lacking the obvious bias (at least, I don't recall being promised anything if I correctly guessed when your brain would fail you). Since the challenge was when you'd say somepony without intending it, the fact that you happen to talk to yourself out loud doesn't invalidate the slip-up.
Long story short, somepony needs to start paying his wagers.
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You just highlandered an entire city block into a glass-filled storm by road-runnering down it in your underwear.
I honestly can't believe it took the fandom this long to cross ponies with Bliss Stage. Relationship-powered giant robots? It actually make sense if you don't think about it which is more than I can say for most crossovers.
As for parasprites: Glue traps, scented like something edible. Then either release them far away or let them starve to death if you're feeling cruel
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Some of you may remember about a year ago, I extended the challenge of "How long until I screw up and say 'somepony' instead of 'somebody'?" Sort of a little challenge to see how long until ponies absolutely corrupted my brain. Well, I just did.
The only problem is I was talking to myself. Alone. With the door closed. But it was still an honest-to-goodness slip-up. I meant to say, out loud, "somebody", and out came "somepony." But I was technically talking to myself, which some may argue that means my defenses were naturally down, and thus, doesn't count. So I'm turning it over to you all: Should I call this the moment when I finally slipped up, or should I wait until I'm talking with others and it happens?
well, would you talk to yourself around others? if yes, it counts. if no, it wouldn't.
I've never had that particular slip-up, but then im rather open and unapologetic about pony.
also, the obvious solution to parasprites is to call tom and get some of his friends to take care of it.
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I wonder if we want Elvis Pony for Advisor in Civilization.
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I'm certainly not going to read it, but it's called I'm Sorry Sombra. So it really doesn't look good for you.
It could be at some point, but right now, it is just Sombra being resurrected by someone who is (to quote) "5x larger than the ponies that lived in Equestria" and was once capable of "teleporting anywhere on the entire planet [by] snapping my fingers."
Then again, it has indicated that Sombra was forced into doing somthing, but it's been rather vague on just which thing he was forced to do. Losing intentionally during the Crystal Empire episode is kind of the implied thing he was forced into doing.
It seems everyone remembers the fat Elvis in the spangly white suit instead of the twentysomething from the 50s. :(
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So of course I fix that with a drawing.
I really like his... pompadour?
And I just remembered: wasn't there a fat pony in a spangly costume in the H&H Day song? Does he count?
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It could be at some point, but right now, it is just Sombra being resurrected by someone who is (to quote) "5x larger than the ponies that lived in Equestria" and was once capable of "teleporting anywhere on the entire planet [by] snapping my fingers."
Then again, it has indicated that Sombra was forced into doing somthing, but it's been rather vague on just which thing he was forced to do. Losing intentionally during the Crystal Empire episode is kind of the implied thing he was forced into doing.
That is beyond awful. I'm so glad that I'm not reading that fanfiction.
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