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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.

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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

marston Since: Sep, 2011
#51326: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:51:08 AM

I generally hate Human/Brony In Equestria stories {Aside from ones that are crossovers}, but I found an exception. This is a Choose Your Own Adventure brony story, and let me tell you it is freaking hilarious.[lol] I highly recommend you all read it.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/22369/choose-your-own-adventure-brony-hero-of-equestria

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51327: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:51:38 AM

[up][up][up]It is. A special kind of insanity. Also a very interesting experiment.

In a way, also a very hopeful message for the human race: Despite all the hurdles, they are clearing the game so far. That's a very nice thing, isn't it?

edited 21st Feb '14 7:52:00 AM by Kayeka

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#51328: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:53:17 AM

and it's been shifting back and forth since.

Not really shifting back and forth so much as they only switch to democracy in case of extreme need. Democracy is highly unpopular among the users, and the voting system was latter changed so that it's heavily stacked against democracy too.

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KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
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#51329: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:56:30 AM

I noticed that there's been a bunch of other channels attempting to do the same thing with other games. This has resulted in stuff like Mario taking it in the face from koopas all day long.

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#51330: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:58:05 AM

So how many of those doing it do you are just trying to drag out the game in some way or another? If only for the lulz.

I guess all of them to some degree or another.

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51331: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:59:10 AM

[up][up]Platformers aren't really a good choice for these kinds of projects. Too much hand-eye coordination required. RP Gs are way better.

Heck, Pokemon really was the perfect choice on so many levels. You wouldn't have gotten half as many memes if they used, say, Golden Sun instead

edited 21st Feb '14 8:00:08 AM by Kayeka

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#51332: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:59:26 AM

I generally hate Human/Brony In Equestria stories {Aside from ones that are crossovers}, but I found an exception. This is a Choose Your Own Adventure brony story, and let me tell you it is freaking hilarious.[lol] I highly recommend you all read it.

The only one I really like is Arrow 18.

Btw, looks like they're half way through zone 3. And there's only two more patches of grass they have to go through. They might actually make it! OF course, they better make it, since this is democracy and all.

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#51334: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:03:29 AM

So how many of those doing it do you are just trying to drag out the game in some way or another? If only for the lulz.

There are some trolls, but I odn't know how many. Luckily the impact of isolated trolls is limited because it generally takes a whole bunch of the same input at the same time to do anything. Usually when something bad happens, it's either bad luck or a whole bunch of well intentioned people voting wrong due to the lag.

The start9 protestors are really annoying though. Luckily, even they realize how important the Safari Zone is.

Update: An ill timed right9 luckily got cancled by a wild encounter. It's nice to see people are finally learning somewhat - B got nearly as many votes as A. Unfortunately they still threw a ball (17 remaining).

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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51335: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:05:40 AM

And now they caught a Venomoth, possibly one of the raddest pokemon ever. 't Would be great if they were to actually use it, if only so they won't be completely screwed once the Elite Four comes knocking.

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#51336: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:06:21 AM

@Kayeka: Yeah, they specifically chose Pokemon because of the lack of any timing-based obstacles. It's one of the few games where you could conceivably make decent progress.

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#51337: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:07:56 AM

Kayeka: True. I still think Mario and Tetris are more amusing to watch in the short term, though, just because trying to see everyone deal with the lag (or not even caring about the lag, in some cases) has some really strange and funny results. There's some FFs running too, but they're having about the same issues as Pokemon.

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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51338: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:10:03 AM

[up][up]It's not just that. It's also that there are so many choices that makes the whole thing so interesting to watch.

They totally should've picked the Dome Fossil, though. Omastar is just so useless.

edited 21st Feb '14 8:10:13 AM by Kayeka

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#51339: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:11:20 AM

Does this game have an achievable end, or will it just end by pure luck, kind of like the 100000 monkeys with typewriters producing the works of Shakespeare?

edited 21st Feb '14 8:11:45 AM by Sydxelia

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#51340: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:12:35 AM

Well, I guess once they get all the badges. And it seems they just might.

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#51341: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:13:25 AM

Technically, the end would be defeating the Elite Four and the Champion. Which is possible, although my guess is that they'll get there largely by grossly overlevelling one or two pokemon rather than by using any coherent strategy.

Here's the main problem.

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#51342: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:13:48 AM

It's theoretically achievable, but it'll still be goddamn impressive if they manage to DO it.

Since Pokemon is a kids game it shouldn't be possible for there to be a Permanent Game Over, so the main questions is attrition, I think: Will people just get sick of it before it finishes?

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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#51343: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:13:54 AM

[up][up][up][up]Well, they've won once they've beaten they champion, and there's a rather specific sequence for getting there. So no, it's not like the 10000 monkeys. 10000 monkey's wouldn't have gotten this far in just over 200 hours.

edited 21st Feb '14 8:16:05 AM by Kayeka

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#51344: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:14:19 AM

@JT

The main problem would be a lot of those, but one troll can't really spam that much by themselves. The room is in slow mode, believe it or not, and repeat commands are not registered.

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#51345: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:15:37 AM

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#51346: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:17:55 AM

So, everyone is fighting to enter commands at the same time? Yeeps...

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#51347: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:18:42 AM

@Ace: When does he not? He and Pinkie are kindred spirits.

[up]That's the strange crippled beauty of the whole thing, apparently.

edited 21st Feb '14 8:19:15 AM by edvedd

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#51348: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:20:52 AM

@ Kayeka: I typed 100, 000. I edited out the comma because it created a line break at that point and it just looked weird.

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#51349: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:21:07 AM

Any bets on whether they'll go after Mewtwo after beating the champion?

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#51350: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:21:15 AM

Syd: Well, Pokemon is pretty straight-forward as the majority of the game is just "beat other trainers and get badges". It's just a matter of finally getting to the Elite Four over time. Just about any fight can be brute-forced by being over-leveled, so the iffy part will be them actually getting a Pokemon enough EXP and then not releasing it before the fights. Oh and obstacles that require TMs might stuff up the run for a while.

I pretty much lost interest myself, because when I jumped in, they were stuck running back and forth between the elevator and a lounge type area over and over for 20 minutes.

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