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Post by Mio on Jun 9, 2014 16:37:26 GMT
I'm not very familiar with Magyar history except for when that they were a sort of turkic nomads until they settled in Hungary. Also they somehow became attached to the Hapsburg's empire. How do you think they could be compared to Unicorns?
That's it? I could think of lots of things that the Earth Ponies and Unicorns can be known for outside their "hats", but the Pegasi seem really limited.
I could believe that, but I'm not sure if that was genuinely the case.
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Post by Mio on Jun 9, 2014 16:24:11 GMT
Oh ya? Well how would you censor the speech of others? No, what I meant was that the censor didn't catch all of the words I said. Which I have since self-censored.
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Post by Mio on Jun 9, 2014 16:22:14 GMT
There's plenty going on in Vegas that you could avoid directly referencing gambling. Anyway, silly headcanon of mine includes that the pre-equestrian tribes of the Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies are, broadly speaking from a linguistic and cultural perspective, are Slavic, Greek, and Germanic. I also speculate that old Earth Pony society was mercantile as well as agrarian. But the gambling is what makes it though. And I remember your take on pony history. It's pretty good and believable. When you say Unicorn's are Slavic, are you thinking Russian in particular? More or less. I was thinking a bit Polish too, but considering Poland's history it doesn't make much sense since they were primarily an elective monarchy rather then what I assume is an Absolute or at least a very high crown authority feudal monarchy that the Unicorn's seem to have, but you never know. I do wonder what the Pegasi do other then war though. They can't just be that. I also want to say that I hate the headcanon that some have of the Earth Ponies actually being serfs in that situation when it is obvious that they are independent.
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Post by Mio on Jun 9, 2014 16:08:55 GMT
Yep, a vaccum or a can of compressed air is always necessary for computer ownership.
Also, we have curse word censors. . .
horse apple! flying feather! peach!
Not quite perfect but it works.
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Post by Mio on Jun 8, 2014 20:56:51 GMT
It would be hard to fit Las Vegas into canon Equestria without really bowdlerizing it. There's plenty going on in Vegas that you could avoid directly referencing gambling. Anyway, silly headcanon of mine includes that the pre-equestrian tribes of the Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies are, broadly speaking from a linguistic and cultural perspective, are Slavic, Greek, and Germanic. I also speculate that old Earth Pony society was mercantile as well as agrarian.
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Post by Mio on Jun 7, 2014 2:03:48 GMT
Graduation, eh? If it weren't for certain bureacratic things I could have graduated a couple of months ago, a year late, but better late then never. It doesn't matter at this point since I decided to go back and get a second BA since I was under the impression that my former one had poor job prospects. I'm still uncertain if I'll regret that.
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Post by Mio on Jun 5, 2014 15:14:38 GMT
Well the big idea so far has been a cooperative game where you control a character in ponyville and go around making friends and other activities.
I could go into details, but I'm not really sure if the game in my head is the same game JTeeth has in his.
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Post by Mio on Jun 5, 2014 14:36:41 GMT
I've always felt that Gilda had the potential for a better redemption story then practically anyone who has been redeemed save perhaps Luna.
Considering everyone else that has been redeemed leaving Gilda out just seems arbitrary. Though I know it has more to do with her relative unpopularity compared to most antagonist.
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Post by Mio on Jun 5, 2014 13:34:28 GMT
Ehh. Not much I imagine outside of a cameo or two. Or at least that's what I think should happen.
They probably work him into a greater episode purpose somehow, considering how stupidly popular he is.
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Post by Mio on Jun 4, 2014 22:36:31 GMT
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Post by Mio on Jun 4, 2014 14:01:41 GMT
I don't think guest can comment either.
Considering the huge drop off in guest during non-peak hours I think we can say that maybe about five of them are genuine lurkers. And even that is not for certain.
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Post by Mio on Jun 3, 2014 23:03:26 GMT
You don't necessarily have had to played boardgames to contribute. Though a basic idea of how any kind of game (be it video, card, tabletop ect.) works is useful. I think I'm going to eventually want to collect the concepts that JTeeth and I have kind of been throwing around into something concrete.
If you want to get a vague (and I do emphasize vague) idea of the kind of gameplay (and emphasize only gameplay) I'm envisioning (I'm not sure about JTeeth) you can look at these videos. . .
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Post by Mio on Jun 3, 2014 21:40:14 GMT
I think it's mainly because she's a perfect straight man to the rest of the cast and a really good counterpoint to Pinkie while still being similar. She's the opposite of Pinkie in terms of personality, but she has the same "just thinks differently from everyone else" feel. And vaporizing a rock with her hooves probably helped. The fact that she's so deadpan also means she's a relatively different type of character than we commonly get in the show. I guess that goes to explain why I don't like her. Even though their opposites I essentially perceive her to be the same character-wise as Pinkie. Just replace extrovertness with introvertness and parties with rocks and I wonder if obsessive monolithic personalities run in the family. A Dog and Pony Show is far from my favorite episode, but Rarity's " This is whining" routine is the moment when I fell in love with her as a character. Hey, Diamond Dogs, your voices aren't exactly pleasant to listen to either. There is no such thing as a bad Rarity episode. Except maybe Inspiration Manifestation, but that's more of a Spike episode so that doesn't count.
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Post by Mio on Jun 3, 2014 21:13:01 GMT
That actually tells me that kids can handle quite a bit.
Going back to the characters I think another way to possible differentiate them is to give them some simple "stats", like how quickly they move or how smart they are.
Another possibility is that instead of unique abilities for everyone, have smaller list of abilities that ponies can have, and then have only a couple of them appear on their character cards.
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Post by Mio on Jun 3, 2014 20:56:55 GMT
I don't re-warch that one very often. It's really formulaic, more so than usual. It has its moments, though. "Bats on my face!" "Yes, we are just doing this for the ticket." Ticket Master is a bit of an artifact from when the show was in it's planning phase. I got the feeling the Lauren Faust either didn't expect to be able to do as much she hoped she could or that she would be writing a different show since Ticket Master was the first thing she wrote. It was meant to be a roughly 10 minutes long since she expected the show to be in a two shorts format. At least that's what I remember reading. A very close second for my personal favorite is Maud Pie, because Maud is my favorite new character of season four, the episode was hilarious and awesome, and also because of...reasons. Can I be honest and just ask, why do people like Maud so much? She garners a similar reaction in me as does Pinkie, which is to say not positive.
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