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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

BigDannyC Since: Dec, 2013
#72401: May 15th 2014 at 4:27:03 PM

They should be genuine friends too.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#72402: May 15th 2014 at 4:28:37 PM

@Kyler: That's what Warcraft did with the current expansion. The Big Bad of the expac before this one was literally trying to destroy the world after the Big Bad before him was trying to convert everyone in the world into the undead, so Blizzard decided to hit the threat level reset button by making the current Big Bad just a megalomaniac warlord trying to conquer the world (with the bonus of said warlord being the current leader of one of the player factions). It was a very smart move, considering that the only way they could have really upped the threat level from Deathwing would be by making the next Big Bad out to destroy the entire universe (granted, Warcraft does have a villain like that).

Everybody bitched about the expac having no feeling of threat. :P

edited 15th May '14 4:29:09 PM by Wryte

Crowfall Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#72403: May 15th 2014 at 4:41:38 PM

That's one reason Chrysalis worked so well. She isn't really a step up from Nightmare Moon or Discord power wise, but she still manages to be an interesting threat.

Tirek was fun, but I'll be disappointed if all the major villains from now on are of the "and now I will throw even more large magical beams at you!" That sort of crap gets tiring fast. One big mountain shattering beam is pretty much the same as every other big mountain shattering beam, I'd rather see subdued but creative magic use ala Trixe vs Twi in Magic Duel than endless iterations of the same damn spell.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#72404: May 15th 2014 at 4:43:07 PM

Because it didn't. Since Garrosh was just some whiny daddy's boy idiot. And if you were Alliance, fuck you, you don't get any story or development about the main villain, just him showing up once or twice and you dealing with his schemes.

Not to mention just more dealing with the bullshit, forced and idiotic 'faction conflict' that yet again, had no point. All the players on both factions are technically teaming up to take down the same massive villain. Since at that point he was no longer the Horde leader, but just the leader of those fanatics that followed him among the orcs, and no one else. There was no actual feeling of a threat to him for the alliance. Beyond "he horde, he evil, must kill." It was a massive let down of a final boss.

Oh and about taking things down a notch, he ends up absorbing the latent powers of a dead Old God's heart. So yeah not just a common everyday vanilla threat.

The issue with WOW vilains isn't the scale of what they are doing, it's blizzard fails at using them right and building ANY threat about them. BC, Illidan did jack shit, and had no bearing on anything outside one or two early quest chains, so why are we killing him?

Wrath, Arthas showed up all the time, just to go "I'll kill you later" granted they ended up giving him a reason for it. But again, there was no sense of threat to him.

Deathwing. Again outside one or two quest lines, he had no presence, beyond randomly appearing in a zone and killing everything, which was cool the first time, then just got annoying as you had to wait for it all to respawn, and since nothing permanent ever happened, again no feeling of threat.

edited 15th May '14 4:45:45 PM by Seraphem

IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#72405: May 15th 2014 at 4:52:51 PM

I only played Warcraft 3, and whenever I read about the wild swerves used to justify certain characters becoming punching bags, it makes me a little sad.

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#72406: May 15th 2014 at 4:55:32 PM

I wanna play pathfinder. Anyone else wanna play pathfinder?

http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/
Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#72407: May 15th 2014 at 4:57:32 PM

I already do, well, Ponyfinder.

Crowfall Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#72408: May 15th 2014 at 4:59:25 PM

I just started running a Pathfinder game. It's my first time D Ming, and I'm pretty nervous about screwing things up.

MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#72409: May 15th 2014 at 4:59:31 PM

So far, FIM has been doing a good job making their villains different rather than just bigger. Look at the progression:

  1. Nightmare Moon: Possible world-ending threat.
  2. Discord: Even more powerful than NMM. Possible world-ending threat, or make-you-wish-the-world-were-ending threat.
  3. Chyrsalis and the Changelings: Paranoia-inducing but less a threat than NMM. Wanted to conquer and enslave Equestria.
  4. Sombra: Power level unknown, but probably about on the level of Chrysalis. Again, wanted conquest and slavery rather than destruction. Mainly a threat because he was crazy prepared a thousand years in the past.
  5. Plunder vines: Power level unknown. A force of nature rather than a character. They spread chaos.
  6. Tirek: Started off quite weak, but used deceit to become the single most powerful villain yet. It's unclear if he wanted to conquer the world or destroy it.

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#72410: May 15th 2014 at 5:01:09 PM

Sera/Crow- hope all goes well with that.

http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/
Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#72411: May 15th 2014 at 5:01:34 PM

Well ben going on for like a year and a half with mostly the same group so going great.

kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#72412: May 15th 2014 at 5:04:04 PM

I sort of play pathfinder, though I haven't in a couple of months.

And a bit of distance has made me kind of realize that two out of the four people I play with are either severely uncomfortable and frustrating to deal with - One has, in every different game we've played so far, done his damnedest to harass or outright rape any female characters, PC or NPC, to an escalating degree where he is the current parties cleric and will only heal you if you have sex with him, and the other is just generally kind of a huge, sexist neckbeard cock-nose.

Yeah, I live with him so I may be a bit harsher than I would be otherwise, but...

edited 15th May '14 5:04:39 PM by kegisak

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Crowfall Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
#72413: May 15th 2014 at 5:09:11 PM

Wow, I think I'd be able to put up with that for maybe one game session before looking for a group that didn't insist on making the whole experience unpleasant for everyone.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#72414: May 15th 2014 at 5:10:25 PM

I'm still waiting for a villain whose primary power lies in their manipulation ability. Sort of like a cross between Chrysalis and Discord, but without the enormous power. They could have an arc over the season where they slowly sow seeds of dissension between various ponies (e.g. they might try to cause a rift between Twilight and Luna, or between Luna and Celestia), so that when they make their big moves most of the threat is the result of characters being at odds with each other.

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#72418: May 15th 2014 at 5:34:28 PM

Maybe after Story gets back from his trip I can talk to him about trying to set up a Pathfinder game. That'd be fun.

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Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
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#72420: May 15th 2014 at 5:44:32 PM

@ Blissey and JT:

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#72422: May 15th 2014 at 5:56:52 PM

Any chance you could remake that image with a black outline around that text? White text on that background is kind of hard to read.

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#72423: May 15th 2014 at 5:58:42 PM

...but Weird Al gets shot in the head in that video...

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
Are you into... Vinyl?
#72424: May 15th 2014 at 6:06:21 PM

Any chance you could remake that image with a black outline around that text? White text on that background is kind of hard to read.

Me? Or Wryte? If the latter, it's not his image.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Constellation
#72425: May 15th 2014 at 6:25:04 PM

Oh hi everypony. What did I miss?

We are all made of star stuff. Very, very weird star stuff.

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