My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

Goddamn it, Ed. First my father, and now you with the shitty puns.

I guess you could say that I do? We're actually pretty close to the city, we just have enough land that we can put a bunch of animals in the land and grow hay. We used to have a ton of goats, actually, but we sold them off after several years of them regularly getting out, getting their heads stuck in the fence, and at least two court summons that never went anywhere by a harpy down the street that claimed that goats ate her azaleas, which they can't because those are poisonous to goats.

I guess that kinda counts. My uncle had a farm for a while. It was mostly just wheat, but for a while he raised goats and emu. Always interesting to visit.

In other news, I'm up to "On the Run" in my Steven Universe binge.

1. I'm finally starting to click with the characters. I really wish the show had started digging into the characters like this a bit sooner.

2. All those holes in the Kindergarten are giving me some serious The Enigma Of Amigara Fault vibes.

edited 4th Sep '15 10:01:42 PM by JapaneseTeeth

I can't deal with nature. I respect it, but especially the smells unnerve me to hell and back. I guess more sensitive senses doesn't help. I just find most things outside of cities chaotic and untrustworthy.

That being said, the mountains here are quite peaceful at night.

Luna wouldn't mind my company, I enjoy the night much more than the day. The hushed feeling of a city winding down is interesting to walk around in. O one hand, my more existentialist/depression comes out stronger if I think too hard, but all in all I eel a lot more active.

Yeah, I can understand that. I personally prefer cities just because they always feel more alive, even at night. Small towns basically shut down completely at night, which I've always just found sort of weird. I like the sense of availability that comes from things always happening.

And now I need to go to bed.

Yeah, I like the rural/ nature-y areas for visiting purposes, but I'd go nuts if I lived there. Even living in the suburbs is driving me stir-crazy.

I live in an area that's been developing really fast for the last decade or so, but certain development lines haven't shifted yet, so there's a very hard cut between urban develped area and rural farmland. I usually wouldn't want to live in a rural area, but right over there would be nice since it's still so close to everything. I'm sure the people that live there are anxiously awaiting the city to expand its borders though, because that land is going to make them rich once it can be developed on. Either that or they don't want to move and are worried they'll be pushed out.

edited 4th Sep '15 11:39:45 PM by Crowfall

Rural areas are also generally a lot less walkable.

I suppose small towns are, there just isn't much in them.

edited 5th Sep '15 1:07:52 AM by storyyeller

I could never live Applejack-style. Too much of a Manehattan Boy.

I grew up in a small town (~5,000 people) in southern Manitoba, which is an extremely agrarian area of Canada. So much so in fact that several people I went to school with were the kids of farmers. I recall, just off the top of my head, the town was surrounded by a strawberry farm, a canola farm, an a pig farm. There was also a fourth one I never knew exactly what it did.

Generally when a town is any level of developed it has most necessities, and a few things here or there to do. And they have the benefit of being fairly accessible to people who don't, can't, or don't want to drive.

That said: Small Town Syndrome is a thing for a reason, and I knew a lot of kids who did drugs or drank simply because there was nothing else for them to do.

These days, having lived in Canada's most metropolitan cities for the last half-decade, I'm kind of ambivalent on it. On one hand, I like the peace and quiet. On the other, it is kind of annoying to have to go fairly far out of your way if you want to do something specific.

Also doesn't help that Manitoba's scenery is just so godawful boring.

For some reason or another, I have a pretty big interest in ROM hacks now. :/

What kind of romhacks?

Any kind to be honest. It's just been fascinating to me a lot lately.

Have you played Kaizo Mario?

I like rural stuff better, like mountains and whatnot. I'm rather particular about what sort of rural things I have xD

Not yet. I kinda want to though.

Kaizo Mario: Even Nintendo is getting into it nowadays if that Maker game is anything to go by.

@I-Block: check out this dubbed-over ROMhack playthrough

Haha, that was pretty great. Died of laughter when one of the guys referred to Yoshi as a car around the 7 minute mark.

Anyways, I'm gonna go to sleep soon. G'night everypony.

Cow issue is resolved, everyone.

Hurray!

-resists urge to make a pun involving the phrase "when the cows come home"-

I think my favorite was Proton Jon's LP.

Anyway, I'm feeling marginally less sick now. Hopefully it will last.

Meh, I'll allow it

No new Pony? Well if anyone is interested our Troper Coven will be airing the sci-fi cheese classic, Flash Goron tonight at 6:00 eastern standard time, with random videos being shown starting at 5:00 leading up to the main event. Come in here if you likey the Flash Gordon.