Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Nightly Roundup #103

I have 75 Trixies running around my desktop right now and it's awesome. 

Have some news!

German Episode One

The first episode of FiM is now available in German for those that enjoy listening to the ponies speak other languages. Check it out Here!

Brony Pastebin

Another pony focused copy website is up and running, this time taking over the job of Pastebin. Check it out here!


FiM Panel for GMX

Have some copypaste!
Fillies and Gentlecolts! Two Bronies are currently working on getting
a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic panel for this year's Geek Media
Expo (or GMX) held on October 21-23 in Nashville, TN. At this current
time, the panel is not a guarantee, but the Bronies heading the panel
have made a topic on GMX/MTAC's cartoon forum for pony discussion
(http://www.mtac.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=12643822)
. If you
plan on attending GMX, feel free to reply and discuss the show!

If you have never heard of GMX, it's a convention held every year in
October for all geeky culture. Whether you like Star Trek or Star
Wars, Game of Thrones or True Blood, Doctor Who or Harry Potter, or
anything geek related, GMX has it there for you! It's a fun weekend!

For more information on GMX, please feel free to visit
http://www.geekmediaexpo.com/ and help promote the pony fandom! Hope
to see you all there!


Fluttershy Invades Smoke Shop


But Fluttershy! That can't be healthy!

Meetup Stuff

Vancouver Meetup

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Colorado Bronies Website

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More Pony on Yogcast

Sounds like Yogcast has gone full pony, or at least is on the road to it.  Check out their recent video here!


WoW Guild Seeks More

Game:World Of Warcraft
Realm:Dentarg
Guild:"The Equestrian Vanguard"

Everypony is welcome to join, so long as they are active. Our focus is to rise to the top while having a fun time in doing so.

Contact Raimaa in-game if you have any questions.

Pony Book University Article



Over at Stony Brook, the college magazine "THiNK" recently published a pony article.  Check it out here!


Ponychan Giveaway Contest 

For those of you with an OC pony, a contest is going on over at this thread on ponychan.  All that is required to enter is a picture of your pony and a few sentences of flavor text.  Check it out for more information here!


Video Defends Applejack's Element of Honesty

Another video from the guy that brought us the Octavia instrument debate has been released, this time focusing on Applejack's supposedly corrupt Element of Honesty.  Check it out below!






Ardracomic Posts Pony

Yep, another comic!


Ebay/Merch Stuff
Fluttersquidthingy
Big Mac Furry Suit
Subtle Pony Shirts


74 comments:

Pinkamena Diane Pie said...

Subtle? Why would I want to be subtle?
Also, still no mention of that TRU discount, Seth. There's only four days left.

Celestia said...

I spawned 250+ parasprites on my old disused laptop just to see what happened once, the lag was glorious.

Otherwise thats a nice Rarity and the Pastebin thing could be useful.

Bladecutter said...

That is a lot of Trixie.

SIaanme said...

No fic report tonight either? But I need those numbers to figure out if my fic has been lost to the cracks in the universe or simply still in the queue.

BWO Kilroy said...

If I hadn't watched the lulzy video first, I would have BEEN first ;)

Atiarotias said...

Honesty-vid was again interesting to listen to

Bladecutter said...

OH MY GOD FILLY TWILIGHT ON MY DESKTOP HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

Sumica said...

Yep desktop ponies running here too. Side note on that never leave AJ and parasprites running at the same time for too long.

Did not know there was a big mac suit, almost 2 grand for it jease some rich Bronys out there.

Radimir said...

Woohoo, my antivirus blocks the desktop site.

Also, I like dem Lunas on the Ponypaste site.

Killsteal_Wolf said...

Not much today, still need to find out the full details on what is happenening with Season 2 and episode 3

Mattwo said...

@Fluttershy Invades Smoke Shop

Oh god. Least it's just a figure...

@Video Defends Applejack's Element of Honesty

You could justfy it at her sucking at lying....till S2 when you realize even without the element she STILL sucks a lying.

Mattwo said...

@SIaanme

I just wish they'd include other submissions in that report.

Still have no clue if my PMV qualified...

James Corck said...

So much Trixie will cause a quantum singularity. If I were Carl Sagan I'd advice not to do more than 50 Trixies, with protection!

I see you are definitely doing the Fanfic updatesin its separate post. Goodie! That will make things better :-)

Drumfreak2421 said...

Windows only for the desktop ponies? My soul just died a little.... :(

Mike said...

the volume of Google searches (using Google trends) has doubled! and we only had the first episode of season two last week!

Kamarov Blak said...

Is the Roundup done with doing Fic Reports? Because I liked those...

Hax Mega said...

Desktop pony's is pretty awesome. I had around 500 Derpy's on my screen at once... Was hard to get anything done with all the derping. :P

Woof Hooves said...

ooo and the thought hits me...i wonder if these desktop ponys will work on a windows based phone........hmmmm....HAHAHHA must finf out after sleep

Jelfes said...

Well, I think it's time to fill my screen with ponies! Good Roundup as usual,

thengel said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXjizYPm08A
giggle at the ghostie german

Sethisto said...

@Kamarov Blak

The pre-reader that compiled the data had his laptop stolen sadly. It will probably be a while.

Mr.offspring said...

What the ... Someone actually bidded on Big Mac suit O_O

DulTek said...

Meh, I was first last night... You win some, you lose some...

Woof Hooves said...

2k for a big mac..wow.....
ponys randomly running around..LOL LOL LOL dashy smashing rain cloud on icons...the mini games is hi larious

Dashie said...

Think article says:
"known as a pegasister"
wut?
Have I missed something and girls aren't bronies anymore?

P. Pony Ponyson said...

No, Dashie. Anyone outside of the target audience is a brony, no matter what.

Ugh. Fluttershy is cute, Nyanface is cute, but Bloopers?
*punches through screen*
NO

Firleycat said...

The Applejack video was good. I really like the guy who does them. The amount of hate that Applejack gets did annoy me. It isn't her fault that her element sucks.

Also another Fluttershy-as-a-cephalopod plushy. Why are ponies with tentacles so adorable? And yes that includes the Slendermare. It just wants friends.

chachonimrod said...

Wow, I love that Octavia shirt that guy in the Vancouver photo is wearing! Super marmalade.

Ricochet Report said...

So his defense of Applejack is that it's OK to lie sometimes? I don't even...

Killsteal_Wolf said...

@Dashie

Pegasisters is the current push for what Female fans of the series want to be called. Probably because Bronies is sorta a Male Description, and not every fan is Male.

ROBCakeran53 said...

TIP ON THE DESKTOP PONIES! Make sure you click the button on the bottom left that says "Zero all ponies" cause if you immediately click the "Give me ponies" you get exactly what that means: ALL THE PONIES!

Flutterfan said...

Want to buy the furry suit and stuff it so I can have a gigantic plush :D

TheSharp0ne said...

That Yogscast vid is super old Seth. Not exactly their 'latest' vid.

Finghost said...

@Killsteal_wolf
It's not what Females WANT to be called, it's just a term that very few people try to force in to community. I know many females who prefer the term "brony". It will hopefully die out soon.
(Also, how does one post as an answer to someone?)

Killsteal_Wolf said...

@Finghost

Alright, it's what SOME want to be called. We shall see how it goes. It could happen, it could not.

And to post an answer to someone else, just hit that Reply button. Though I'm using a Google Account, you might need one to do it.

Oh and more and more each day I wonder what Seth's response would be if Trixie did return for Season 2. It's an if, it is possible.

Kuro Fox said...

I wouldn't call shirts with ponies faces on the exactly "subtle."

The subtlest pony shirt I've seen is a grey t-shirt with some bubbles near the bottom on the side. (Think Derpy.)

Spazturtle said...

@Drumfreak2421
Go to the downloads page thier is a mac an linux versions too. Its java.

saberscorpion said...

I like the fact that the Fluttershy figure in the smoke shop is standing above the Surgeon General's Warning (look closely).

SIaanme said...

@Sethisto
Well shoot. That sucks. My sympathies to that pre-reader.

colourpalette said...

@Kuro Fox

I think the first three shirts are subtle. The rest aren't, though. Maybe that's what they were referring too? o.O

Ion Storm said...

"...a female brony (known by the Internet community as a pegasister)"

I never heard that before.

EonMaster said...

@Ricochet Report well, in the case of the surprise party, people will generally agree that lying is the better/correct option instead of ruining it for everyone by telling the truth.

The thing I don't get is when he mentions AJ lying to the CMC, I don't recall her ever doing that. I assume it's somewhere in Showstoppers, but I don't remember her ever outright lying to them in it.

Ismaldi4ever said...

Wanna post pony. But cant. Jesus i hate apple.

pmcollectorboy said...

Poor Fluttershy just became the fandom's censor bleep.

pmcollectorboy said...

@saberscorpion
I nominate Fluttershy to be the new surgeon general.

Feloua said...

Fluttershy is now my smoking buddy.

tchernobyl said...

German translation isn't bad, but Fluttershy and ESPECIALLY Rainbow Dash's voices are quite horrid :(

ZuTheSkunk said...

@EonMaster

Oh, for Celestia's sake!

Instead of outwardly lying or spoiling the surprise, why not try stating the truth in an evasive manner? Why Pinkie Pie's friends couldn't just say "We are working on some secret project, but we want to keep it as a surprise to everypony, even you, and thus we'll be too busy to attend to your party"? That way, they could avoid the whole "Pinkamena" incident.

Would it really be that hard?

In that light, their poorly invented lying is nothing more than a forced plot device. Unless they're stupid enough to be unable to come up with something THAT simple.

RiffBrony said...

What about AJ cheating in Fall Weather Friends? Or lying in Look Before You Sleep?

Pixel Coder said...

I still stick by "ponies" (or "fillies" if you want to be distinctive) as the female term.

Drac said...

Ponies having a good game of hoofball on my screen??? o wait Fluttershy just made a hat trick!

Applejinx said...

@RiffBrony

Dashie TOTALLY started it =)

ShadeTail said...

Defending Applejack as the element of honesty? Huh. I have seen one person, right here on E.D., who claimed that she lied all the time, but I didn't realize that it was a big thing.

Profesor Rod said...

So much Trixie!

Oh Seth, you silly :3

Applejack85 said...

the AJ vid was quite good and I'm liking that pic of Rarity too. Not really as much news this time, but still good.

Octavia said...

Hah, 75 little Trixie's running around the desktop... that is quite a Great and Powerful desktop.

Fluttershy in a smoke shop? I would think she'd be the -last- pony I'd find at a place such as a smoke shop. :P But she does look cute down there in her little plastic case.

Rarity wall chalk pony. :) Article was decent. Though I'm still not a fan of the term "Pegasister". I prefer to use "Brony" as a gender-neutral term for everyone.

Goodness, please don't speak of the damn Octavia instrument debate. Including that video which still didn't conclude anything. It rustles my jimmies every time it's mentioned. Eh, he made some decent points, as always and reiterated some of what I qas thinking. Though at the end of the day, I remember this is still a cartoon afterall. lol

The Ardra comic... yup, that's pretty much how it works.

And dang, now the Big Mac suit is being sold. And it's going for A LOT.

HeroInferno said...

I old you all Simon was one of us!
Totally called it!

Applejinx said...

Maybe it needs to be unicolts and pegasisters- with /b/rony remaining the totally generic term?

You can't ever totally get away from these issues, look at the word wo'man' o_O

MarkTheCat said...

That defense for Applejack was amazing, thanks for the notification!

Cyl said...

@ZuTheSkunk

Then you run into the same problem. "What is so secret that my friends don't want me, one of their best friends, to know about?" Even if she bought it everypony else had blatantly lied to her. She still would be saying that "it's all secrets and lies with those ponies". She's not an airhead like the CMC. She would start thinking about what sort of secret project would involve Sugar Cube Corner.

AJ's poor excuse for a lie gets Pinkie focused on how all her friends are lying to her instead of focusing on the lie itself. We also have to consider how unorganized the ponies were. They clearly never went so far as to come up with valid excuses. They were all made up on the spot. So I don't see why people expect AJ to come up with something better.

Now let's look at her lie itself.

Rainbow Dash just brought in some supplies for the renovation. Fixing up the whole thing top to bottom: True. This is not a lie. They are fixing up the place for the party.

Lots of construction going on in there: This is where she's starting to stretch it but it's still fairly honest. The party is being constructed. Streamers being placed up, balloons being filled, ect. It's definitely the weakest part of her story but she already went down that trail with what was a pretty honest excuse.

There wouldn't be a story if the writers gave the ponies good excuses. This is something that happens in real life. I expect perfectly executed surprise parties from mind numbing girls shows. Like G3 ponies. If there is no drama then where is the story?

If the writers avoided the whole "Pinkamena" incident there would be no character development. One of my favorite moments in the show wouldn't have happened because the writers didn't want AJ to be forced into a situation where she is wrestling with her element and her friendship. The character development is not limited to Pinkie. We know that AJ is capable of lying but she is horrible at it. We can easily see that she is struggling and that there is a battle going on inside her mind. It shows that there is a lot of depth to her character. She is a believable character. I would think much less of her if she couldn't lie.

Mango~DERP said...

fluttersquid HHHNGGG :3

lamebunny said...

'Pegasister'? That's twice now I've heard that; why does it have to be another term? At least when I say 'brony' people don't go "huh?". Other terms sound like 'we're brony, but just not THOSE brony' to me.

Using logic to 'lie without lying' seems like a stretch for a kids show. I know if I were a kid and a character did that, I would hate it.

EonMaster said...

@ZuTheSkunk "What could be so important that my friends would rather skip my party and keep it a secret from me"

There, even without the lie, the same problem would occur. Obviously the other 5 didn't have a planned story in the case that Pinkie showed up at the barn, so AJ was put on the spot. If anything, her terrible lying should prove that she's honest at heart, and that lying is incredibly hard for her to do.

ILuvFlutter said...

SHUT THE YAY UP! I'm gonna use that from now on.

Wierdplatformer said...

Aww, Flutteshy is trying to stop people from smoking.

Finally, someone defending Applejack! I agree with him completely. Octavia is still playing a cello though!

eaglehooves said...

I love the desktop ponies! I've taken to leaving one or two running around during my lectures. I actually met another Brony today that way, he recognized Derpy & Pinkie from one of the rows behind me. Wish I had a bigger screen so I could have all my favorites, 1x size, and the ability to see my stuff all at the same time, though.

otakugal15 said...

@Cyl

The internets. You win them. :D

pmcollectorboy said...

Applejack didn't lie to the CMC, but they did ask her what she thought of their practice, to which her response was not to say anything.

Scootachicken said...

Why is that Yogscast thing just now getting posted on EqD?
I mean, Yogscast posted it all the way back in May..

Moontouched-Moogle said...

Does anypony else think that was the Surgeon General's Warning underneath Fluttershy in the smoke shop pic? It would make sense, but it's a little hard to tell since the text if fuzzy.

Jack Zhang said...

That's me in the White Shirt from the Vancouver Meetup.

Nymo said...

Random smokeshop Fluttershy is random. What are you doing there?!

also: I WANT that Big Macintosh suit! D: Nearly 3k now? BAH! Curse you bronies with monies... ;_;

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