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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

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#76651: Jun 14th 2014 at 5:26:01 PM

I just thought of something. The "seed" box that the tree of harmony made produced the tree-castle in the season 4 finale. So, that means both the "trees" are the same species, right? And the original tree of harmony grew the elements of harmony. So does that mean the tree-castle could potentially grow new elements of harmony?

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KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#76652: Jun 14th 2014 at 5:46:35 PM

EQG Snowdrop
Shouldn't the cane be longer?
Now that you mention it, yeah, it probably could be a bit longer.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#76654: Jun 14th 2014 at 5:58:11 PM

@Dark Geez man!

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#76655: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:09:19 PM

@Ike: That would actually be really interesting. Secondary characters could get more elements or something.

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#76656: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:25:47 PM

Berry Punch: The Element of Cirrhosis.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#76657: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:34:20 PM

I don't know what that is.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#76658: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:36:20 PM

@Ike Basically being drunk, essentially what Berry Punch does most of the time.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#76659: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:39:46 PM

Snowdrops: Element of Clichés. Or Element of Unfortunate Implications. You decide.tongue

Also, you know what would be awesome? A subversion of the horrible "Doing hurtful things to your waifu" meme featuring Twilight being the victim, but instead of getting upset and crying, she get's increasingly pissed off and annoyed as it goes on, and when the anon breaks up with her, he gets a face full of harmful magic blasted at him.

[down]Neither do I, I was just joking. I actually think she's kind of cute, but I understand why Dark hates her.

edited 14th Jun '14 6:55:22 PM by marston

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#76660: Jun 14th 2014 at 6:53:04 PM

I may have my complaints about the Snowdrop the video, but I don't really have a problem with Snowdrop the character.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#76661: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:05:16 PM

No complaints with Snowdrop either, I get what she was meant to be like but she really did come off as sappy to me and I personally just don't care about the video.

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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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#76662: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:16:06 PM

From what I've heard it's basically a sappy Christmas special.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#76663: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:20:00 PM

I loved it. Yeah it was a bit heavy on the glurge in the first half. But just the set up, the second half was just pure heartwarming, touching and just so beautiful.

Plus it's a Christmas special, those are allowed to be glurgy and still be amazing.

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#76664: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:20:33 PM

So I've been looking for a pay timer to try some money stuff, but I can't find the right kind. Everything I can find is one where you input your dollars per hour, start the timer, and it tells you how much you've earned. What I want is one where you input a total money value, start the timer, and it tells you what your dollars per hour are. I don't suppose any of you know where I could go for that? Or even how to get google to search for the one I want?

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#76665: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:26:06 PM

Can't you just divide the total amount earned by the number of hours worked?

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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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#76666: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:27:03 PM

Can't you just divide the income by the number of hours you worked? On a calculator?

[up] son of a bitch.

edited 14th Jun '14 7:27:25 PM by IkeAndMike

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09MurphyM Since: Jan, 2001
#76667: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:30:20 PM

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but season 4 of friendship is magic is on Netflix. For some reason though, some of the episodes are in wrong order.

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#76668: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:30:44 PM

I'm tempted to say something really sarcastic right now, but I'll just leave it as "Yes, I could, but that would be inconvenient and run counter to the whole reason I want the timer in the first place."

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#76669: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:32:28 PM

It's not wrong, it's production order, not airing order. Same reason Games ponies Play and Just for Sidekicks aren't back to back in season 3.

[up] You want to figure out how what $/Hour you are making doing something, basic math will do that, so, what is it specifcly that you need a timer for?

edited 14th Jun '14 7:33:44 PM by Seraphem

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#76670: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:37:55 PM

@Seraphem. I've argued this one a lot, but come on look at her speech near the end.

Celebrating Spring is good, but Winter can't be all bad if it gives us these. It maybe cold, and dark, but that doesn't mean there isn't any good to it. Maybe, maybe Winter is sad that everypony doesn't like it. So, maybe we need to make wishes on the winter snow, just like how we wish on the night stars. Maybe then we can have a happy Winter instead. We already have a happy Summer, and Spring, and Fall. Can't Winter be happy too? Because Winter, it's important. Even if it seems useless, it can give us wonderful things.

About as unsubtle as a brick to the face.

And seriously, why go out in what's stated to be the worst blizzard of an already cold season to sit around and wish because you can hear the stars twinkle.

And neither the jerkish fillies nor the irresponsible teacher are brought to task for the needless dickery, and everyone only seems to remember her positively because she wasn't useless.

Head, meet keyboard. I think you'll get along quite nicely.

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#76671: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:44:17 PM

I know how to do the fucking math guys!

I want something that does it in real-time so I can keep track while in the middle of a job without stopping every five minutes to whip out a calculator. I want it for the psychological pressure it imparts to work quickly and efficiently.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#76672: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:47:39 PM

About as unsubtle as a brick to the face.

And? So what? yeah being subtle can be nice, but lack of it does not equal bad either. Again Christmas special, those can get away with being extremely blunt and still be simply amazing quite easily.

And seriously, why go out in what's stated to be the worst blizzard of an already cold season to sit around and wish because you can hear the stars twinkle.

Storm seems to have died down by the evening when she was doing that. And why not? It's something that used to make her at least a little happy, and she really needed cheering up. Was it smart, not really. Was it something someone would easily do when in that state of mind Yes.

And neither the jerkish fillies nor the irresponsible teacher are brought to task for the needless dickery,

Just like about 99% of all jerkass kids that make someone else life miserable and the useless teachers that let them. And this far tamer and no where near as bad as most cases of bullying.

everyone only seems to remember her positively because she wasn't useless.

You mean, like EVERYONE anyone remembers? Cause if you did something worth remembering, by definition you weren't useless. And it was what she did that she was remembered for. So not sure what the issue is here either.

Did it lay things on a bit thick with the set up and try to hard to make us feel sorry for Snowdrop? Yeah. Was it still effective and still amazingly beautiful, touching and heartwarming despite that? Again yeah.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#76673: Jun 14th 2014 at 7:51:22 PM

I want something that does it in real-time so I can keep track while in the middle of a job without stopping every five minutes to whip out a calculator. I want it for the psychological pressure it imparts to work quickly and efficiently.

Shouldn't be hard to whip up a piece of javascript. Where are you getting the data from though?

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#76674: Jun 14th 2014 at 8:02:13 PM

The only data to input is whatever price you're setting for the job.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#76675: Jun 14th 2014 at 8:16:18 PM

@Seraphem: I'm going to have to agree with Dark on this one. That animation is the very definition of Glurge. There's good cheesy and bad cheesy, and I think this one pushed the Too Good for This Sinful Earth angle and Purity Sue cards too hard. Though I think the single issue that stuck out most to me is how they decided to end it by having Luna talk about how awesome she was, even though their only interaction was Snowdrop's speech. Which itself boils entirely down to "Winter doesn't have to suck". Which is true, but the way they had her describe it just seems lacking. It's nowhere near as effecting as the animation frames it.

But the one issue that I think was more or less built into the premise is that Snowdrop just isn't a very well-rounded character. Her only flaw is her blindness, and in the end that turns out to be a good thing for her.

Was it still effective and still amazingly beautiful, touching and heartwarming despite that? Again yeah.

This is enormously a YMMV issue. There are plenty of people who don't consider it any of those things. Does it have beautiful, touching, or heartwarming moments? You could argue that. Amazing? I don't think so. There was some potential there, but it was too heavyhanded. Rather than just being heartwarming, it went overboard and ended up more as "DO YOU HAVE FEELS YET? HAVE SOME FEELS"

edited 14th Jun '14 8:23:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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