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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.

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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

MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#51526: Feb 21st 2014 at 7:59:02 PM

@Orion: Space Jam is actually a documentary.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#51527: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:00:20 PM

@Meta On how Michael Jordan SHOULDN'T ACT in a movie?

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#51528: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:02:33 PM

It has the most stupidly catchy theme:

But even better it has the most 90's website ever.

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OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#51529: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:04:01 PM

@Meta: A documentary on what exactly? How cartoon characters play basketball?

[up]That's the music I was talking about.

edited 21st Feb '14 8:05:40 PM by OrionAurora

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#51530: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:05:51 PM

Of how Michael Jordan became the greatest Basketball player of all time by sacrificing his skills at anything else, including Baseball and Acting.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#51531: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:09:51 PM

@Japanese Teeth And had to play a game of basketball with Bugs Bunny of all things.

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#51532: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:10:03 PM

Jordan's baseball career died to save us all.

edvedd Darling. from At the boutique, dear. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#51533: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:12:41 PM

The ending of the movie, in which Michael Jordan lands on a baseball field and is announced to the crowd by Wayne Knight, seems to operate under the tragically mistaken assumption that people WANTED to watch him play baseball.

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#51535: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:20:07 PM

Man, A.I.s need to stop going evil.

Are you implying something?

Anyway, I just showed my Mom Adventure Time (specifically, My Favorite Two People plus the Cuteness Conquerers and gladiator one.) She said "it's too simple".

Anyway, I'm confused. The later two episdoes were listed as season 3, but I thought season 3 started with Bubblegum getting reaged? Wheres L Emongrab and co?")

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#51536: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:20:30 PM

This can't seriously be happening.

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Thunderlane Pegasus from Cloudsdale Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
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#51537: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:25:06 PM

I've played chess a few times. Flitter kept beating me. She's better at it than you'd think.

-cough cough-
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#51538: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:28:11 PM

So professional level chess is just a very elaborate version of tactical RPS?

It's actually completely different. RPS is a fundamental element of games with imperfect information. More specifically, RPS is the classic archetpyal example of a mixed strategy, which is the game theoretic optimal in most cases where you don't know everything about the game that you need to. In the case of Rock Paper Scissors this is because you have to make moves simulatenously. It can also be due to secret hands or similar hidden information.

By contrast chess is a game of perfect information. At every point in the game, you know everything there is to know about the state of the game. So there is always a theoretical optimal strategy, and even knowing what your opponent will do in advance won't help you, theoretically. The reason it's interesting in practice is of course because people can't look far ahead enough to find the optimal strategy reliably. Grandmasters just spend lots of times memorizing patterns and praciting so they can look far ahead mentally and use patterns to recognize which moves to best consider.

The key thing to realize is that games of perfect information like Chess is exactly where Confusion Fu doesn't work. In an RTS you can do something unexpected and catch your opponent by surprise because they don't know what you're doing and hence have to guess. In chess, you know everything. Now the cases of Confusion Fu being discussed in the context of chess are more like one grandmaster deliberately making moves that will break the patterns that the other one has memorized. This doesn't reliy on surprise, instead it just reduces the chances of them being abel to mentalyl come up with the ideal move since they haven't practiced this situation as much. But it's a compeltely different thing and there's nothing about chess that would let a novice beat a grandamster by doing this.

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OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#51539: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:29:26 PM

Oh hi Thunders. I've had Colin teach me a few strategies. I never realized how important board control is.

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#51540: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:36:39 PM

I'm not particularly good at chess, but I was the only one to legitimately complete the blitz chess challenge at the CSAW finals last fall.

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Thunderlane Pegasus from Cloudsdale Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
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#51541: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:37:13 PM

@Orion: What's board control?

-cough cough-
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#51542: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:39:02 PM

Strategically limit your opponent's safe options.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#51543: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:39:30 PM

Space Jam is actually one of those movies I grew up with as a kid. It's a pretty weird film.

Also, if any of you know how creepy butterflies look up close, you might feel bad for poor Twilight here.[lol][down]

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#51544: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:42:47 PM

Dammit I can't find a good clip from that spongebob episode.

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#51545: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:43:00 PM

I know I saw Space Jam a couple times as a kid, but I only vaguely remember it now. Also, if anyone isn't following the Twitch Pokemon Live Updates stream on Reddit, it's getting pretty snarky. Some of my favorite quotes

Red has been wandering around route 6 for the past 20 minutes. The chat says he is grinding, which is hard to believe when the opponents are level 12-13 oddish and other various Pokemon.

As far as evolving our Pokemon goes, we're probably going at about the same rate as all life on Earth

it's suggested we don't evolve Drowzee yet. We are succeeding at that by virtue of total indolence

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OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#51546: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:43:16 PM

@Thunders: Being able to limit your opponent's control of the board will increasing yours. Having board control, in a sense, gives you more options for your pieces to move about and less chances for your king to be in an unfavorable position.

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#51547: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:46:04 PM

Maybe we should play chess sometime. I've never played a pony.

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Thunderlane Pegasus from Cloudsdale Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
Pegasus
#51548: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:47:38 PM

Hm... I think I get it. I'll have to try this board control thing on Flitter next time we play. Maybe I'll actually win for once.tongue

-cough cough-
OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Constellation
#51549: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:47:57 PM

@Story: If we did, I would have Colin remind me every turn what piece is what. I know human chess pieces look very different from our chess pieces (aside for the pawns).

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#51550: Feb 21st 2014 at 8:52:22 PM

Just swap in your own image sprites. Shouldn't be too hard.

Anyway, I like blitz chess better because I'm really impatient and I don't think much about my moves anyway.

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