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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!

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AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
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#82401: Jul 27th 2014 at 4:34:03 AM

Rarity would be a better fit in Serena's position :V

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#82402: Jul 27th 2014 at 7:27:35 AM

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Yeah, I can't imagine lots of ponies taking the trouble to go through the forest to see her unless it's an emergency. Either that or they cleared a relatively safe path through the forest.

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#82403: Jul 27th 2014 at 7:36:55 AM

@Kyler: some of the design elements for the costumes were taken from pre-existing characters, but the designs themselves are original.

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#82404: Jul 27th 2014 at 7:43:09 AM

I believe at one point there was an effort to make a video game that would be playable by blind people.

There are several. Obviously, text adventures are playable, but I remember seeing one game designed specifically for blind people. It's a submarine combat simulator and it's audio only. There are probably others I haven't heard of. I also remember an article about researchers trying to create a game using haptic feedback, but I don't know if that went anywhere.

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#82405: Jul 27th 2014 at 8:48:42 AM

No surround-sound-only games yet?

In sadder news, my old man's Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has broken down for the 3rd time this month, and it's still practically new. I've told him to just get something from LG or Motorola already :P

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#82406: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:19:37 AM

Yeah, most games playable by blind folk would be purely audio-based.

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#82407: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:21:50 AM

No surround-sound-only games yet?

Why are you surprised? They're hard and expensive to make, and the potential market is very small.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#82408: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:22:32 AM

There's a few, but nearly all strictly Doing It for the Art projects by one or two coders, so they're kinda barebones.

Thankfully the Pokemon audio port project's going along. Still same situation, but she seems determined to finish.

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#82409: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:36:35 AM

^^^ At least until someone invents the world's first Braille touchscreen.

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
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#82410: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:45:29 AM

How would input work? You have to be already touching the screen to read it.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
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#82411: Jul 27th 2014 at 9:54:47 AM

Refreshable braille displays are already a thing, you know. As for touchscreens, you'd usually use something like Talk Back which tells you what's under your finger. But you can also scroll through items by swiping left and right and select by double tapping anywhere on the screen.

I also read an article a couple years ago about research towards tactile displays, but I don't know what the status of that is. Probably still stuck in the lab.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#82412: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:02:27 AM

Braille has it's functions, but is largely becoming irrelevant with screen readers, particularly nvda as it's the only one that's freeware. Seriously some like Jaws and Window Eyes can go up to 1000 bucks.

But yeah what Story said, the market's small enough that unfortunately there's just not much incentive.

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#82413: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:10:20 AM

Technically, Chome Vox is free too, but since it only works inside Chrome, it's not so useful on the desktop.

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#82414: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:11:11 AM

Is it possible to make an audio-only fighting game? I know it sounds weird and a bit too ambitious, but I get the feeling it could work.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#82416: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:41:23 AM

I'd legit pay for that.

Well, the simpler fighting games do kinda work. Helps with the 2d plain and emphasis on memorizing moves.

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#82417: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:50:29 AM

It seems like spacing and movement would be an issue though.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#82418: Jul 27th 2014 at 10:56:54 AM

I guess a stepping sound would be forward motion and a sweeping sound would be backwards motion, and sped up versions of that would be running motions. Light taps would be light attacks, punch sounds would be medium attacks and loud thwacking sounds would be heavy attacks. When ever the opponent gets damaged, they grunt and lose life. After 20 grunts, the opponents lose.

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#82419: Jul 27th 2014 at 11:08:59 AM

So they're just on a linear battlefield. Sounds kind of simple, but it might work. You'd probably want panning too though. And ideally different sounds to distinguish the characters.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#82420: Jul 27th 2014 at 11:29:33 AM

Some fighting games do have a little bit of sound production to have some panning, but still rare.

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#82421: Jul 27th 2014 at 11:32:02 AM

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#82422: Jul 27th 2014 at 12:44:05 PM

So I just watched The Secret Of NIMH. Talk about a strange movie.

There was less changed from the book than I expected, and some of the changes are understandable since it's a movie. For example, adding gratuitous action scenes and making everything 100 times more visually dramatic is par for the course in movies. And I guess they added the whole Jenner subplot so they could get a cartoonish movie villian while the book didn't really have any villians.

But some of the changes are just weird. Like the magic amulet bit. At the end, the conflict gets solved via Dues Ex Machina since a magic amulet comes out of nowhere and literally magics away all the problems. It's like the writers just ran out of time and got lazy or something. Plus it clashes badly with the rest of the movie since they never bothered to add any explanation of where the amulet comes from or what it does, and it's an adaptation of a story with no magic at all.

It's also interesting that a major part of the book is skipped over in a couple of sentences, while the climax of the book is literally not shown or mentioned at all. Maybe it got magiced away by the amulet offscreen too? Who knows? It would have made a good action scene though if the movie wanted more of those. But I guess there wasn't room narratively with the Jenner and Amulet subplot they added.

Also, the song at the beginning is really weird. It comes out of nowhere, doesn't have much to do with the action, and isn't even diegetic. It feels like they only threw it in because they thought that animated movies for kids should always have songs, but then it's the only song in the movie, so it sticks out like a sore thumb. And it's not even a good song.

Also, why on earth did they rename the main character? It took me half the movie to realize that they really were saying Brisby and I wasn't just mishearing.

edited 27th Jul '14 12:48:49 PM by storyyeller

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KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
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#82423: Jul 27th 2014 at 12:50:18 PM

I remember that movie.

Well, mostly I remember shipping Justin with Mrs. Brisby, so hard. For some reason.

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
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#82424: Jul 27th 2014 at 1:04:10 PM

So apparently they changed the name because they worried about getting sued by the makers of frisbees (the flying disc). Which is really stupid since it's an adapation of a book where the name was in the freaking title.

I don't think trademark law is supposed to work that way, but I guess even the threat of a lawsuit is enough to make people worried, whether it has any merit or not. This is worse than the The Last Airbender thing.

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#82425: Jul 27th 2014 at 1:26:55 PM

Ah god The Secret of Nimh, one of Doug Walker's favourite movies and one of which I haven't seen all the way through. That's a classic movie that one and one of Don Bluth's better movies.

edited 27th Jul '14 1:27:47 PM by Starscream759

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