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

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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

     Original OP text 
I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#29451: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:28:26 PM

[up][up] This is why you stop heavily publicizing incomplete fangames. Good God, you'd think people would have learned by now.

IP holders are legally obligated to shut down anything that looks like it's gaining steam. The legal teams watch Equestria Gaming. They try not to be too heavy-handed on everything in sight for the sake of PR, but if something looks like an unlicensed project is going to move out of the sandbox and be finished, they have to act.

Personally I don't think anything of value was lost this time because fucking visual novels. But...I mean really now. This is not a hard concept to grasp and you'd think it would've been clear enough after Fighting is Magic and MLP Online.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:33:20 PM by Pykrete

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#29452: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:28:46 PM

So... anypony read a good book, lately?

Worm

Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
BigMacintosh Work Horse from Sweet Apple Acres Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
Work Horse
#29453: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:34:37 PM

Really folks, I don't want to talk about my sister's romantic prospects. Could we just drop it, please?

It was awkward enough when I thought she was getting awfully close to Rainbow Dash, but this cross-species stuff is downright weird.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#29454: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:35:02 PM

Yeah this is why you keep stuff quite till it's done. Granted that makes it more likely the people making it might not go through with it, or not finish if they don't have support of people waiting but, you need to balance things. Also, something as minor as name changes, someone will have a patch made for that before it's even released.

[up]Oh so your a speciest? Would you be upset about her deciding to start dating a Zebra?

edited 16th Dec '13 3:35:46 PM by Seraphem

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#29455: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:35:29 PM

[up][up] Actually we're discussing it with the presumption of human versions, so you can forget the cross-species part.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:35:39 PM by Luminosity

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#29456: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:35:48 PM

@Big Mac (Looks at you sadly) I don't blame you....I can't understand it either....

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#29457: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:36:26 PM

Starswirl Academy looked pretty far removed from the source material anyway, so changing the names is all that's really required. With Fighting Is Magic, the characters looked exactly like they did in the show; just a name swap wouldn't have done it.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#29458: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:38:58 PM

Yeah, for all people bitch, Hasbro has been a LOT more hands off then it could be. The only real MAJOR take downs that weren't forced on them by legal reasons were on youtube videos that didn't deserve it, but that wasn't an issue with Hasbro, but with Youtube's bullshit content ID system.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#29460: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:40:30 PM

[up] That is so adorable I want I want I want I want *O*

BigMacintosh Work Horse from Sweet Apple Acres Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
Work Horse
#29461: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:44:29 PM

Oh so your a speciest? Would you be upset about her deciding to start dating a Zebra?

What?! No! I mean, it'd certainly be unexpected, but a zebra's still pretty close to a pony as far as I can tell. But humans might as well be lizard monsters from Pluto compared to ponies.

Actually we're discussing it with the presumption of human versions, so you can forget the cross-species part.

Imagining my sister as another species doesn't really help matters any.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#29462: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:45:04 PM

Or did they just believe that the humanized characters are far removed enough from the show for it to not be infringing on the IP?

I'm not a lawyer, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was because Fi M was using the actual pony designs, which are presuambly trademarked too. In Starswirl's case, only the names are trademarked since the rest is just humanizations.

Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#29463: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:46:54 PM

@Crimson: That is adorable.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#29464: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:47:22 PM

Yeah, unlike what happened with Fighting Is Magic, I can't say that I'm really upset by the loss of Starswirl Academy. I mean really, was there any reason why it was a FIM project to begin with? It had practically nothing to do with the source material apart from the names and hair colors.

KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
Streamer
#29466: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:55:26 PM

My pragmatic guess: because they were going to make an H-version of it too and human-school-girlized is the devs' fetish.

And yes, despite the lessons that should have been learned, everyone is quite eager to shoot themselves in the foot with a fully automatic machine gun.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:58:01 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi

FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshi
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#29467: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:00:04 PM

@Big Mac (Eyes start willing up with tears) I thought you liked me as a friend Big Mac....I'm nothing but a lizard monster to you....how could ya say a thing like that?

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
BigMacintosh Work Horse from Sweet Apple Acres Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
Work Horse
#29468: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:02:18 PM

(Eyes start willing up with tears) I thought you liked me as a friend Big Mac....I'm nothing but a lizard monster to you....how could ya say a thing like that?

W-what? Why is everypony... ugh. This isn't my day.

edited 16th Dec '13 4:02:43 PM by BigMacintosh

KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
Streamer
#29469: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:03:44 PM

*Peers at Big Mac and holds up a brush.* Brushies?

FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshi
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#29470: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:04:13 PM

@Big Mac You think I'm a ugly monster!

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#29471: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:04:19 PM

It had practically nothing to do with the source material apart from the names and hair colors.

Well presumbly their characters would be based somewhat on the characters from the show too.

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#29472: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:04:52 PM

FUCK. I just got done dealing with the most irritating customer EVER at my moms shop.

She was here for over an hour and a half. After about an hour, she brought me a pile of small items to buy. After 5 minutes adding it all up I told her what the total was.

She came back 15 minutes later with ANOTHER pile. So I added THAT in, and by that time she had MORE items, one of which had no tag so that was a pain to deal with. Then the calculator had turned itself off so I had to add it all up AGAIN.

Then, when that was all done, she had me make an ITEMIZED receipt. Which we have to do by hand. So that took ANOTHER ten minutes.

AND SHE BROUGHT ANOTHER ITEM AFTER THAT.

http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/
Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#29473: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:05:54 PM

Yeah it would the character will have the same personalities as the show ones. So really just add in a patch to replace the names and boom.

Also, anyone have a link to the list of numbers Meghan tweeted? Given the first number was 5, looks like that was the a list of the episodes with songs in them.

edited 16th Dec '13 4:07:32 PM by Seraphem

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#29474: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:10:33 PM

(I sit in a corner in floods of tears)

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#29475: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:11:45 PM

floods of tears

sigh

I'll get a bucket line started. Let's hope there's not any water damage.


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