My Little Pony XLVIII: I say Ol' Chap, how about those Equestrians?

[MCerberus]

Does anyone else find it really odd that the Friendship is Witchcraft people manage to take one joke in the first episode and combine it with a single schtick into the consistently best pony music?

[Siosilvar]

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Man, just looking in fear at the portal before you got whisked away gave you some crazy hallucinations.

Thubby, can I get some of that stuff? For... uh, science, you see.

EDIT: Train of thought ran into a passing whale. Classic.

[Aotrs Commander]

Right, now that Thanqol has posted up his art (in a general sense, Easy was definately "arty!") for the day for critique, I shall follow suite...

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I also feel like the front... what are they, shins? between the two blue joints—are a little thin.

Going back a bit, as it only now occurs to me, as I come to examine it, to ask the question... Thin in which direction? I.e. the thickness of the leg at that portion, or the vertical distance between the blue articulation points?

(Working on the improved head, which looks better and a bit less like a cow - will post pictures later, once I've tweaked to my satisfaction.)

[thubby]

Wait, a cage? You moved a cage to put a gummy portal under? Bwahaha! You know I have to maintain my Good alignment somehow, you can't go around picking on underdogs near people with time portals and make such silly mistakes.

well, actually, i moved the portal to over the cage, but that's not important. i had to have somewhere to put him. and as i mentioned earlier, I'm out of writing desks. the gummies are working on stone ones, but they take forever

Man, just looking in fear at the portal before you got whisked away gave you some crazy hallucinations.

Thubby, can I get some of that stuff? For... uh, science, you see.

EDIT: Train of thought ran into a passing whale. Classic.

there's nothing to give really.
*idly tugs at reality*
"portal" is just a term of convenience. i have other methods, of course, but the easiest move is to just punch a whole in both dimensions and navigate the intervening void.

if you just want to be terrified, though. that can be arranged

[Deadly]

I think I've answered your question for 'reviews' before so I think you'll know what I'll say. Only problem is what Thanqol already pointed out.

I was only going to read the prelude to find out if I wanted to read the story and then I just continued on with it.

You have? I might have missed that

Anyway, glad to hear it. That's a great sign

Read it, don't really have anything to say except it looks pretty good and I cannot immediately see anything wrong with it.

Yay ^^

[TimeForSP]

My friend (if I could call him that) has finally gone back to Europe.

I can now post the things I got/did at bronycon. Yay.

All the stuff I got; my brother has some other stuff we got in his room.

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My pass and a button made by Speccy.

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A poster signed by:
Dustykatt
Atryl
Eurobeat Brony
Egophiliac
Empty10 (He made it)
SpeccySY
Aphex
Raikassu
Final Draft
123Hamster
Pixel-Kitties
Solrac
KevinSano
KefkaFloyd

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Aphex drew me something for a dollar.
Aphex: "Let's give her a cookie 'cause she's a little fat-ass."

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Badass etch-a-sketch.

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ComicCon poster.
Lauren plz sign I will love 4evr.

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Lazerponies.

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[Alabenson]

Well crap. What should we do now, sir?

Tartarus if I kn- Wait! The OCCC! Clockwork, can you re-design the controls in order to fire the cube through space-time?

Of course I can but, what good will that do?

It'll distract Thubby long enough for us to find a a way out of here!

I fail to see how we'll be able to escape this weird black emptiness.

*Gasp! Raises hoof.*. Ooh! Ooh! Big Brother! I can help!

Go for it.

*Takes off socks. Transforms socks into glowing katanas.* Big Brother, is that cube shooty thing ready?

Already done.

*Slices open portal just above Thubby's head. Slices open another portal just below the OCCC.* Fire!

*Presses button.*

*127 steadily fire out of the OCCC directly towards Thubby's head. Just as the first cube impacts, the 3 friends run for their lives!*

Well, I suppose it falls to me to save the day here. Igor, activate the-oh for the love of Celestia, Igor, stop loafing around and get up, we have work to do!
*Igor's remains ignite and he reforms from the ashes* oOoK
Oh, stop whining and activate our portal network.
Ook. *portals open to pull Clockwork and company out of danger*

[Grif]

Just dropping by to say I'll be starting work next week, so if anything, I'll be more scarce than before.

*obligatory post per thread stamp*

*lurks*

PS: Also, loving these Bronycon pics.

[thubby]

Now now, we can't have that.

Destination: ρϕθ remain, t minus five minutes.

DOOR opening.

Property damage or sanity damage, you don't get both.

Well, I suppose it falls to me to save the day here. Igor, activate the-oh for the love of Celestia, Igor, stop loafing around and get up, we have work to do!
*Igor's remains ignite and he reforms from the ashes* oOoK
Oh, stop whining and activate oru portal network.
Ook. *portals open to pull Clockwork and company out of danger*

you, and indeed maxtronaut himself, got beat to the punch.
and would either of you really want to start an inter-dimensional war with an extra-dimensional being that regularly moves throughout your facilities with impunity?

[Siosilvar]

Going back a bit, as it only now occurs to me, as I come to examine it, to ask the question... Thin in which direction? I.e. the thickness of the leg at that portion, or the vertical distance between the blue articulation points?

(Working on the improved head, which looks better and a bit less like a cow - will post pictures later, once I've tweaked to my satisfaction.)

Thickness was what I was thinking. Looking at it again, only the left (image left, Ja-whatsit's right) one looks too thin, so it's probably just a matter of the camera angle.

there's nothing to give really.
*idly tugs at reality*
"portal" is just a term of convenience. i have other methods, of course, but the easiest move is to just punch a whole in both dimensions and navigate the intervening void.

if you just want to be terrified, though. that can be arranged

I'll pa—you know what? Just drop one at these coordinates. I'm sure the terrifying and insanity will happen on its own time if I mess around with it too much. I'm already MAD!!!, what's a bit more?

*portals open to pull Clockwork and company out of danger*

Been there, done that.

[Strife Warzeal]

You have? I might have missed that

Anyway, glad to hear it. That's a great sign

What I meant was pretty much every time I've answered someone's question for reviewing on this site has been whether I enjoyed reading it or not.
A good scale of how much I enjoyed it: After I started reading, I set aside an hour and put off playing my absolute favorite character in Skyrim I've had.

[Eakin]

I had to break a heart.

It was awful to do, but it had to be done.

Sorry to hear that. Never a fun thing to do. Hope it was a fairly clean break so it can start healing as soon as possible

This needs to make it into the OP or Soras's post next time we get a new thread.

It's hardly a comprehensive list, although if others want to add to it we could make a collaborative one. I'll put it in a spoiler box next time though.

Does anyone else find it really odd that the Friendship is Witchcraft people manage to take one joke in the first episode and combine it with a single schtick into the consistently best pony music?

They've actually had a song every episode, starting with the polka mix of "Friday" in the first episode.

I think the reason Pinkie's songs are so catchy is that they're just fairly simple and upbeat melodies, extremely humable, coupled with clever lyrics. I don't think the Orphanage Song that they used in place of Hop Skip and a Jump is catchy in comparison, for example, and Sweetie's Big Race, while catchy in its own right, doesn't feel like it has the staying power of Gypsy Bard or Pinkie's Brew. I think it's the robot voice and the fact that the lyrics aren't as clever if you're listening to it separately from the video.

Plus Jenny does a really good Pinkie voice

[Deadly]

What I meant was pretty much every time I've answered someone's question for reviewing on this site has been whether I enjoyed reading it or not.
A good scale of how much I enjoyed it: After I started reading, I set aside an hour and put off playing my absolute favorite character in Skyrim I've had.

Ah. Wow.

That makes me feel a lot better about it. I've been feeling like this story was probably a lot of rubbish

[Alabenson]

you, and indeed maxtronaut himself, got beat to the punch.
and would either of you really want to start an inter-dimensional war with an extra-dimensional being that regularly moves throughout your facilities with impunity?

That largely depends on the likelihood of Silent Night being destroyed as colateral damage. Or completely intentional damage, I'm not picky.

[Raz_Fox]

Thanqol: Do Not Serve These Ponies is brilliant. And I want more. And I will show you that I am not a hasbeen you prolific son of a diamond dog just you wait and see I'll make new fics which will blow yours right out of the water

I mean, uh. I feel that a year is far too long to have gone without producing pony fiction. And will be working on fixing that. Along with Heroics.

[MCerberus]

They've actually had a song every episode, starting with the polka mix of "Friday" in the first episode.

I think the reason Pinkie's songs are so catchy is that they're just fairly simple and upbeat melodies, extremely humable, coupled with clever lyrics. I don't think the Orphanage Song that they used in place of Hop Skip and a Jump is catchy in comparison, for example, and Sweetie's Big Race, while catchy in its own right, doesn't feel like it has the staying power of Gypsy Bard or Pinkie's Brew. I think it's the robot voice and the fact that the lyrics aren't as clever if you're listening to it separately from the video.

Plus Jenny does a really good Pinkie voice

One thing I will say to compare Gyspsy Bard to Pinkie's Brew is that Brew took more care to make literary references to highlight the depressing and dangerous situation, but Bard seems to be an evolution in their music making capabilities.

[Maxtronaut]

Well, I suppose it falls to me to save the day here. Igor, activate the-oh for the love of Celestia, Igor, stop loafing around and get up, we have work to do!
*Igor's remains ignite and he reforms from the ashes* oOoK
Oh, stop whining and activate our portal network.
Ook. *portals open to pull Clockwork and company out of danger*

Woo!

Woo!

Wee!

Boffenspark! Do you have a time machine?! I need to know, there just may be a way to save my ship!

[Siosilvar]

Boffenspark! Do you have a time machine?! I need to know, there just may be a way to save my ship!

*checks mirror* Well, I haven't gone invisible. *runs a scan* And I'm not undetectable. Which means I am not volunteering mine for you again, as ungrateful as you are.

[Eakin]

One thing I will say to compare Gyspsy Bard to Pinkie's Brew is that Brew took more care to make literary references to highlight the depressing and dangerous situation, but Bard seems to be an evolution in their music making capabilities.

Literary references? What am I missing? Wordplay, absolutely, but what literature is referenced in there?

I think that Bard also better integrates the cheerful elements with the sad ones. The depressing bits of Brew are mostly the verse by her dead parents and the little sigh at the end. Bard has both threads running through the entire song, and the same verse makes you want to smile a whistle along and cry at the same time.

[Aotrs Commander]

Thickness was what I was thinking. Looking at it again, only the left (image left, Ja-whatsit's right) one looks too thin, so it's probably just a matter of the camera angle.

I left that, then, for the moment.

So, next iteration:

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And one that, as with the finished model, has both floaty guns.

Now, that's exactly the same model, except I've changed the head. Which means the legs are identically sized and posed as to the last picture, but you have two new viewing angles on 'em. The head's been slimmed horizontally, as well as a bit more streamlined.

I took some thought from Tiki's attempts, and decided that there was no reason for the helmet to be as face-fitting as it was. Just because the Jalyrkieons have more pony-shaped heads doesn't mean that their helmets have to be... (And given that, famously, Space Marine helmets haven't always been human-head shaped (see the old conehead marines...) So I decided to make the helmet more horse-face-y, and the "visor" is now envisioned less as goggle-like "vision slits" ala (say) Halo dudes, but more like a clear face plate on a bubble helmet, such as you might see in, say, Babylon 5's starfury helmets; i.e. the face plate isn't right close to the face.

The horns are now really, really, really, as good as I can get them, and I'm really skirting the limits of the material thicknesses with that so it's a bit hopeul as to whether they'll print.

(Okay, they now look a bit more like giraffes than cows... but on the other hand, looking at it that way, giraffes do have four horns in a position not that far away from Jalyrkieon ones, and given the exaggeration necessary with the materials, I think that's probably inevitable.)
Still, I think it's a significant improvement!

[Tiki Snakes]

I think we have a winner.

[Alabenson]

Woo!

Woo!

Wee!

Boffenspark! Do you have a time machine?! I need to know, there just may be a way to save my ship!

Unfortunately not anymore; Princess Celestia forced me to dismantle my only prototype and forbade me from conducting any more research in that area. She said something about it posing an unacceptable threat to all current and potential existences, I wasn’t really paying attention.
However, should you so desire, you shall have my full assistance in rebuilding your ship.

[MCerberus]

Literary references? What am I missing? Wordplay, absolutely, but what literature is referenced in there?

I think that Bard also better integrates the cheerful elements with the sad ones. The depressing bits of Brew are mostly the verse by her dead parents and the little sigh at the end. Bard has both threads running through the entire song, and the same verse makes you want to smile a whistle along and cry at the same time.

Macbeth, Hunchback of Notredam, and an anglo-saxon proverb.

[Welf]

Just dropping by to say I'll be starting work next week, so if anything, I'll be more scarce than before.

*obligatory post per thread stamp*

*lurks*

PS: Also, loving these Bronycon pics.

Awww man, not you too. Dam you, slowly recovering economy.

[Tvtyrant]

I like to listen to Pinkie's Brew and then Pinkie Breaks the Fourth Wall for the Last Time.

[Pokonic]

Unfortunately not anymore; Princess Celestia forced me to dismantle my only prototype and forbade me from conducting any more research in that area. She said something about it posing an unacceptable threat to all current and potential existences, I wasn’t really paying attention.
However, should you so desire, you shall have my full assistance in rebuilding your ship.

Interesting. We have a few portals just for that reason. Admitly, they send you to a standered point in time, but neverless it works.

[Forum Explorer]

I don't really hold that against you or anything... and it's not like I haven't seen worse... it's just...

How..... I don't understand...
It's.... It's.... It's....
It's a cartoon....
It's colorful ponies for christ's sake! I don't understand!
How!?!
HOW!?!
GOOD GOD WHY!?!



I DON'T WANT THAT HONOR!

Reading Cupcakes is like being shot. We honor your suffering but nobody wants it to happen.

Especially since that, unlike Bambi (which at least had the decency to have sorta half-a-point, in an anti-hunting or Man verses Nature sorta way), that was villifying carnivores and predators as Evil; an attitude I find unequivocably and indefensibly excreble. Predators are predators, that's what they do! And 99% of them are far more interesting than most herbivores, nonsentient equines included!

(Watching herbivores eat is, let's face it, not interesting. Watching something hunting, be it a plant, to a predatory sea snail to an ant-eater to a hunting wasp to a chimpanzee to a weasel, is at least entertaining. A cow/deer/horse eating grass is really not.)

I disagree with this. Watching herbivores eating can be very interesting. There's so much you can notice as they eat such as defensive behaviors, grazing patterns, preferred food and so much more.

[Zigg'rrauglurr]

Reading Cupcakes is like being shot. We honor your suffering but nobody wants it to happen.

Amen, and now a modified version is in my signature

[Gamerlord]

Someone has scanned the backs of all the Character cards for the Friendship is Magic trading cards. Among other things, apparently there is a seventh Element of Harmony, Love, which Shining Armor and Cadence co-wield. Personally, I'm invoking Death of the Author on that one.
There are also a couple of errors on them though, for one, apparently Pinkie is Tank's owner.
I like how the text on Discord's card is upside down.
And apparently Discord is only four-fifths of the maximum threat to Equestria? There must be some REALLY nasty villains in season three....

[Pokonic]

Someone has scanned the backs of all the Friendship is Magic trading cards. Among other things, apparently their is a seventh Element of Harmony, Love, which Shining Armor and Cadence co-wield.
There are also a couple of errors on them though, for one, apparently Pinkie is Tank's owner.
I like how the text on Discord's card is upside down.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Death of the auther, folks. Or, preferably, the death of hasbros folks.