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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
@Star OMG! I'm gushing too! Daring Do is sooooo cute! Also, I want to get a MLP shirt of either Rainbow Dash, Daring Do or Luna!
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qWhat's up with this new mare anyway? I mean her design is hardly original, her catchphrase of so awesome! is annoying, and her introduction is contrived and has no foreshadowing, just so she can be special and save the day. Like Daring needs another young sidekick, there's a reason why nopony likes to talk about Speedy.
edit: I might do it, but I'd need a decent summary of the episode.
double edit: My braille typewriter worked much in the same way, though it had 6 keys and a space bar. Using a few keys with different combinations isn't too unreasonable.
edited 7th Dec '13 1:22:16 PM by darkabomination
@ Enlong it's the exact same typewriter type we saw the foals using in Ponyville Confidential.
Given how large the keys are, it's possible they work off a pressure and direction sensitivity. With two keys, just 8 main directions and straight down, that's 18 characters on it's own, and a LOT more of different combos of the two keys give different characters.
Yeah I was thinking something along the same lines Seraphem. Sort of like how the Analog sticks on a game controller work.
Pony Cinema - The Best Little Pony Video Site on the Internet Pony Forum@Lumin Also, I'm trying to work on my 30 Rock fanfic so I'm a bit sidetracked on that.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qEnglong
,We have a trope for that.
You also have a trope for that?
edited 7th Dec '13 1:30:35 PM by spyro4
ALL THAT YOU ARE IS A FACE IN A MIRROR,IL CLOSE MY EYES AND YOU'LL DISSAPEAR.
Me too!
Also, I'm I the only one who thought the way that Luna brought up the moon was so cute?!
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
That actually made me blush a little...and I'm black so you cant see it.
Managed to watch the episode. Thoughts, in roughly chronological order:
- Rainbow's fangasming reminds me of how some of us were during the drought.
- Rainbow, has Fluttershy even read the books? You're throwing out spoilers like nobody's business.
- Heh. Circling birdies.
- Methinks the random holiday was in fact Crazy Hat Day.
- "A. K. Yearling"?
So, she's like J. K. Rowling, if she wrote Indiana Jones instead of Harry Potter?
- Um, Rainbow... You can't just look up where someone lives and invade their lives like that.
- Twilight, don't get sucked into her nonsense!
- Where does Pinkie get all that paint?
- And the house is completely wrecked. I'm going to guess it's normally like this.
- So, what's with the secret book containing the One Ring?
- double take Plot twist. This is now definitely going in a different direction than I thought it would.
- Um, guys, why are all of you just watching her get beaten up?
- No, seriously guys, why aren't you helping at all?
- Rival archaeologist found. Here's hoping we get to see him explode like the guy he's based off of.
- Rainbow and Twilight having a nerd-off was quite amusing. As was Rainbow winning said nerd-off.
- They're not even making up names any more. I'm headcanoning that the Tenochtitlan they're talking about and the one in our world are one and the same.
- I can't remember how much of the episode so far I've spent with my hands firmly planted on my face, so it was nice to see Rainbow's nerd-self and her more level-headed-self arguing.
- Rainbow, she's trying to be stealthy. Stop talking.
- Wait, where did all that gold come from?
- So, does Ahuizotl just keep those cats of his in hammerspace or something?
- Rainbow, seriously, help her.
- That's not what I meant.
- Nice of all of you to finally show up.
- And another elaborate death trap. This guy definitely has a fetish for the things.
- Ahuizotl, just how do you benefit from 800 years of drought? Team Magma tried that, and look where it got them.
- And fight scene. This was pretty entertaining.
- I can't help but feel that a book where five random people, so far only established as friends of the annoying tag-along, show up at the end and save the day would be a bad book.
Not sure how I feel about this episode. Rainbow's fangasming kind of annoyed me, especially when it got in the way of something important she should be doing instead. I'm pretty sure just an episode where RD meets the (quite normal) author would have made for a good episode, whereas RD meeting Daring Do herself seems a bit fanfic-y to me. Maybe it'll grow on me, maybe it won't.
Alright, just woke up, so it's time to watch this baby.
- Oh look, Rainbow's channeling us from the months leading up to S4. :P
- And now she's channeling me when I found out Venture Bros season 5 had been pushed from February to March. XD
- Twilight doesn't know where the author lives, huh? Well, so much for it being her mom.
- Okay, AJ, sweetie? That hat's just ridiculous. How is Rarity allowing you to wear it?
- Heh, Indiana Jones travel map. Nice touch.
- Goddammit, Pinkie. XD
- So the author is actually a retired Daring Do. ...with Octavia's manestyle.
- I just realized AK Yearling's name is a take off on JK Rowling. Just how many Slowpony jpgs does that deserve?
- Typewriter with only two huge buttons. Cute, but how the heck does that work? Is it pressure sensitive so pressing one side more heavily is a different letter? Even if that's the case, I seriously doubt you could get 26 letters plus punctuation out of that system. Or does Equestria use a different alphabet? I'd say I'm putting to much thought into a background visual gag, but we all know there's no such thing as too much thought into inconsequential details.
- Okay, nix the "retired" part.
- Yeah, don't help or anything, girls.
- I'm disappointed no glowing elven runes appeared on the ring when it fell in the fire.
- Dammit, Do, the line is "It belongs in a museum"!
- Took you all long enough.
- "How can we stand by and do nothing?" ...the same way you did for the last two minutes?
- Oh god, fan argument. XD And Pinkie nodding in the background like se has any clue what they're talking about.
- D'aww, Rainbow nerves return.
- Rainbow fangasming and slapping herself is just freaking adorable.
- "My work always involves secrets. That's why I write them all down in a best-selling book series!"
- I foresee a flood of out of context images of Rainbow staring at DD's plot in the near future.
- Girl, that disguise is terrible.
- Oh god, that smug Rainbow face is going to be a meme in no time.
- Why aren't you in there, Rainbow? Isn't this what you were ostensibly tagging along to help with?
- Fastest flyer in Equestria, caught off-screen by an Aztec chimera's weird Aipom-tail-hand-thing.
- "What have I done?" Absolutely nothing. I thought you learned your lesson about that back at her house.
- "Owwie-whatever." Heh.
- I foresee Applelight requiring fanart of Pinkie and hulahoops.
- That hug is going to result in sooo much exploitation.
- Man, mailponies really don't get any respect around here.
- Where is this room?

@Enlong: The same type of typewriters were in Ponyville Confidential. Maybe the letter that appears is based on how far you press the key? I don't know, seems impractical.
"Man, forget that new pegusus, can you believe Yearling just randomly threw the new princess into her story? She barely even did anything. Maybe she's pandering to royalty or something."