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I really need to get around to playing Deus Ex once I get my new computer built. Newegg needs to hurry up and have better shell shockers! What is this 430 watt power supply?! I don't think that could even run a toaster these days.
Uhh, right, comics. Have some more Madmax to go with your Madmax.
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@Duskwisp - That's alright. It's the thought that counts.
ReplyDeleteTime for bed.
ReplyDeleteAs you all must know by now, I love Fallout New Vegas (it's all talk of video games with me, isn't it?). Tonight I'll leave you with the trailers for two of the DLCs for the game, just to show how awesomely different it can be.
Dead Money
Honest Hearts
Goodnight.
Mobius!
ReplyDeletemy favorite fallout dlc ever.
ReplyDeletePerfectly mixes seriousness and stupidity.
@Jaco Discord
ReplyDeleteIt's close, but I think Old World Blues is my favorite DLC too. Close behind it are Dead Money and Honest Hearts, though. I'm a sucker for the pseudo-science vibe since I like the cheesy 1950's sci-fi movies it's parodying. Science! was the solution to every giant radioactive ant/giant prehistoric praying mantis/giant radioactive lizard/alien invasion during that decade. Rarely did the military just roll in and kill the monster with conventional weapons. In a lot of those movies, a scientist would develop some kind of weapon to use specifically against whatever monster was wreaking havoc and it would succeed where everything else had failed. Pheromones, heat rays, oxygen-depleting chemicals, etc. In the cases where conventional weapons do succeed, like the movie THEM!, a scientist is instrumental in discovering the monster's weakness or locating its hiding spot. This could have been done in an attempt to glorify science and scientists and get children interested in careers in science so they would grow up and develop ICBMs to deter the USSR. That's my theory, at least.
I just recently finished Old World Blues (again) as a part of my New Vegas 100% completion playthrough on very hard difficulty with hardcore mode.
It's hard.
Derpy has good taste in music.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen Bombe in ages. Hope he's okay.
ReplyDelete@Dublio
ReplyDeleteFinals week, and tornadoes around family. The high of the storm should actually be right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6b3V2MNxQ&feature=player_detailpage
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/lg7gsqe
Time for bed.
ReplyDeleteBombe, I hope everything turns out okay with finals and the tornadoes.
Goodnight.
I will never be able to watch Tosh.0 again
ReplyDelete@Renegade the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDeleteI was barely able to watch it in the first place.
What did it for you? Their "Brony" segment?
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteI only liked the redemption segments for people who failed the first time.
Ya that segment, I don't.........
There's a good reason I didn't grab an ice cream scoop to unsee what cannot be unseen
@Renegade the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDeleteLet's see...
A show about viral internet videos hosted by a mediocre at best insult comic who just comes off as mean spirited and thrives on things that induce shock or disgust in the audience.
Because it actually takes talent and effort to write good comedy, and the easy way is just so much...easier.
Time for bed.
ReplyDeleteMore chicken knee injections tomorrow.
Goodnight.
I have arthritis.
ReplyDeleteSpecifically osteoarthritis, otherwise known as degenerative joint disease.
The doctor diagnosed me with that condition weeks ago but apparently didn't feel the need to actually tell me about it. Sure, he mentioned cartilage damage when he was looking at the MRI results, and he once SAID "inflammation" when I asked him what the prognosis is, but he didn't actually SAY arthritis. The only reason I know he diagnosed it as arthritis is because I read it off a computer screen in the exam room while waiting to get the chicken injection from a physician's assistant.
Getting information about MY OWN medical issues out of this guy is like pulling teeth. I have to ask VERY specific questions or I just get generic answers like "surgery may be an option." Okay, great. WHAT SURGERY? The same kind I had years ago? That worked so well the first time.
Are all doctors like this or only the ones you keep getting? :(
ReplyDelete@Dublio
ReplyDeleteI have been to many doctors over the many years I have been dealing with this condition. Some of them (far too few) have been competent and/or nice and/or helpful. I would consider some of them to be "good doctors." As of right now, my health insurance restricts my choice to one of a handful of doctors who all work for the same uncaring and frequently incompetent medical conglomerate. The doctor who referred me to the one I'm currently dealing with is actually a good doctor, but he isn't a specialist in conditions like mine. He figured that the guy I'm seeing now would be better able to treat me.
He was wrong about that. However, he is a specialist in knee replacement, so if it comes down to surgery, I'm going to insist that he does it.
Cute new Shkle.
ReplyDeleteAlso the Boy Scouts have voted to accept gay members beginning in 2014.
ReplyDeleteGay marriage has been legal here for a few months :p
ReplyDelete@Duskwisp
ReplyDeleteGay marriage has been legal in my state for almost two years now, and more states have been legalizing it recently. Quite a few states have banned it, though.
There are some cases that are going to be reviewed by the US Supreme Court, and one that's being reviewed now, that may strike down laws banning gay marriage as unconstitutional because they discriminate against people based on sexual orientation. Or the current case (regarding the constitutionality of California's ban on gay marriage) might be kicked back down to a lower court because of procedural issues, which will result in a reinstatement of the lower court's ruling that the law was unconstitutional, thereby allowing same-sex marriage in California. Again. Since it was legal for a while before the law banning it was passed by a simple majority vote. Now THAT is an example of "tyranny of the majority," even after the California state supreme court ruled that a ban was unconstitutional.
Time for bed.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
@J Alright, there are a bit of facts missing there in the California bit.
ReplyDeleteI officially hate my brother and his friend now. I walk into my room and instantly notice a few things off. For one thing, my big dog that sheds a lot was tucked into my bed under the blankets.
Here's a list of things that I had noticed off:
-My desk lamp has been rotated and the shade has been tilted slightly.
-My nightstand lamp has been flipped upside-down
-My tree-lamp thing has been rotated and the three lights that extend at the top, one above the other, have all been moved and rotated.
-A lightbulb is missing from one of the three lights on the lamp-pole
-One of the lightbulbs was replaced (I can tell because it's now brighter)
-My jar of 102 graphite artist pencils has been moved from the top-right corner of my desk to the lower-right corner.
-He took a tissue from my box, as it was not jutting nearly so high out of the box when I had left it.
-My wastebin was knocked on its side
-The red crate that I keep various things in has been moved from beside my door to beside my chair
-My ukulele has been moved from above my dresser to sitting on my chair
-My chair has been rotated so that instead of facing my desk it is now facing the window
-The fedora-that-is-too-small-for-me has been moved from my red crate to near the ceiling on top of my lighthouse room decoration that I got for $19.95 seven years ago.
-My speakers' settings have all been tweaked with (I most definitely did NOT have my treble set all the way to the right...)
-He put the picture frame that was resting on my small bookshelf on its face
-He moved my rubik's sphere that I got three years ago from its cheap plastic stand on top of my bookshelf to on top of my MIDI keyboard
-He popped half of my emergency bubble wrap (WHO DOES THAT?!)
-He moved my best black shirt that I wore today to graduation from my bed to crumpled on top of my nightstand
-He switched the outlet's plugin formation behind my nightstand between my lamp and my phone charger (the lamp is now on the bottom plug as opposed to the top one, and the phone charger switched as well.)
-My desk fan has been moved to the bathroom
-He flipped my guitar upside-down on top of my dresser
-He put one of my moccasin slippers on top of my backpack
-He rearranged the order of the few, few books that I have in my bookshelf
-He moved my Tony Gwynn bobblehead from my desk on top of my clock, and rotated the other one around to face the wall
-He moved my electric flyswatter-racket to my nightstand on top of my shirt
-He dusted. He frikkin' dusted my room.
-He put my shoes by my backpack
-He moved random dirty clothing items around and replaced them with one another
-He moved my knife(!) from my nightstand to my shelf
-He took my "deluxe" turban cloth square, still unopened in its packaging from when the Arabian team gave it to me, from my red crate and put it on top of my dresser
-He turned my ceiling fan to low, so that when I would turn it on, it would go to low instead of medium
-He.....somehow managed to get another one of those deluxe turbans (probably from my dad). Turns out the one in my crate is still there.
-He put blank 2014 summer calendar schedules printed out on large paper (no pictures) on top of my crate
-I do not remember a six-pack of Gouda cheese (only three slices left) being in my desk drawer.
-He replaced my black scissors with orange ones of the same size.
My robotics coach had joked sometimes during the season that if you went into my room and touched one thing, I would instantly know. Turns out, he was right. My room may be messy, but I know my mess well.
Oh yeah, and finals were nice. My favorite was chemistry. I got a perfect score and afterwards I got to combust-explode a gummy bear.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteOCD I TELL YOU!!!
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWhat's missing?
After the proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage passed, it was initially upheld by the California Supreme Court as the "will of the people", but a later ruling by a federal judge found it to be unconstitutional because it violated the fourteenth amendment's Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause. Then the California Supreme Court ruled that the ban could be defended by its supporters in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which also found it to be unconstitutional. Now, supporters of the ban have brought it to the US Supreme Court, which will rule on its constitutionality again.
Well Bombe, the fact that you've noticed of that certainly says something. Hehe.
ReplyDelete@Bombe
ReplyDeleteYou have really good memory.
I'm not going to ask why you had a knife on your nightstand....
Also, the Arab headdress is called a shemagh/ghotra
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteToday is Saturday.
ReplyDeleteSaturday is slow.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
@J Saturday learns at its own pace.
ReplyDeleteI'M FREE FROM SCHOOL FOR NOW. WHOOPEEEEEEEE!!!! FREEDUMB! Yeah, now to go DO STUFFS! AND THINGS!
Spent the day today with my friend. It was nice.
Today is Sunday.
ReplyDeleteUnrelated, eh? Actually, that's nothing funny, it's an informative tumblr post about why you shouldn't buy the XBox One.
ReplyDeleteSince they have premiered CoD with dogs, let's just call it the XBone....
So, out of the blue in the NZ Bronies Skype group chat, the guy that Dom warned me about randomly posted this after six hours of inactivity
ReplyDeleteI'm....I'm not touching that link.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteXbone?
You been reading The Escapist?
Anyway, the future isn't looking so bright for the next console generation. I had already heard about most of that stuff (the "always online" being initially denied, but then encouraged or mandated anyway, the complete lack of backwards compatibility, which I'm not surprised about considering that it was a poorly implemented afterthought on the 360, the fee to play used games, etc.) A lot of the specifics are just speculation though, since in most cases no one official has confirmed or denied it. There most likely will be a used game fee, but we don't know how much it's going to be. I've heard that the "used fee" might be only 10% less than the "new fee."
I'm now part of the "let the game market crash and wipe the slate clean" group. Conditions are looking similar to the video game crash of 1983, which was largely caused by lots of low quality games that publishers were ridiculously confident bout because they believed that brand recognition and/or customer loyalty would make even the worst or most broken games wildly successful, like E.T. then and SimCity now.
Companies that actually care about their customers and the quality of their games (Valve comes to mind, but you can make some anti-DRM arguments against them) and independent developers (like Double Fine) will end up being the only ones that really survive the crash unscathed and come out of it in a stronger position.
Man. Everything I see on Imgur has already come from tumblr. There seems to be nothing original on there. And if you look at the older posts, you realize that most of them end up being reposts too. It's like there's rarely anything original anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut not 100%. Hence the word "Rare." Occasionally, you get bits of gold that lead to awesome insights. Not sure if it's worth the massive timesink or not, but who knows?
Anyhoo, for fun I wrote a small scene between Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. Would you like to see it by any chance?
Also, my birthday is tomorrow, so I'll be 25 in about seven minutes. Hurray.
@Dublio
ReplyDeleteGLUCKWUNSCH ZUM GEBURTSTAG!
@Dublio
ReplyDeleteI would like to see it.
Here you go.
ReplyDelete@Dublio I've been browsing imgur today. I'm actually what I think to be in the running for a top comment for once on a new post that is bound to go viral.... http://imgur.com/gallery/iyqBDm9
ReplyDeleteDang it, that other guy just shot up to four...
ReplyDelete@Dublio Are you implying that the internet has reposts?! Who'da thunk!
ReplyDeleteI see some original gems every once in a while. Especially with Reddit's strict no repost culture, I can see how reposts would still surface. I have a good memory (as according to you guys), so I wouldbe able to spot anything that I've already seen before and link to this.
@Dublio
ReplyDeleteVery nice story bit there. Playful and fun.
So many birthdays! No time! Must get them all now while I have the chance.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Dublio! And ClosetBrony! And ThunderIce! And ZeroHero (wherever you are)!
CLosetBrony and Dublio share a birthday? Oh yeah, I forgot!
ReplyDeleteZeroHero's is on the 2nd, and I'm not really sure when ThunderIce's is. I hope that ZeroHero will come back like you all said. It'd be cool if it were on his birthday or something.
Happy preemptive birthday to any future birthday celebrations.
ReplyDeleteNow, Goodnight.
How was everyone's Memorial Day?
ReplyDeleteI ate too much and got a 49 cent Slurpee.
I've ran two miles, eaten five hot dogs, come across both deep-fried butter and deep-fried Kool-aid (HOW?!), and purchased $140 shoes that were on clearance sale for $70 for only $9.99. I also drove around for about an hour.
ReplyDeleteSo Memorial Day is more honoring the dead and those fallen defending America. Problem is, more active-duty soldiers have died this past year have killed themselves than died in combat.
This.... this is just tragic. Even with PTSD and, well, TSD taken into account, these are deaths that deaths that could be prevented.
Oh, look, botched grammar! Yay!
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Imgur community is definitely declining in politeness, apparently. Here's a post featuring a questionably-legitimate redhead women posing on the beach in a sweater top and bikini bottom. I say "Am I the only one who'd find her more attractive if she was wearing some pants or shorts or something?" Six+ downvotes and a reply of "Shut the fuck up." Honestly, I like beautiful women more when they're decent than when they're skimpy :/
I lose track of birthdays with the months,
ReplyDeleteSo Happy Belated/Early Birthday to everyone and everypony.
Memorial Day huh?
Spent most of it working on my new winch bumper for my truck.
My dad took off work early and we grilled up some delicious ribs. Then chased my dog Zeke who stole a whole burger. (He ate it and enjoyed it)
Got into a debate with my sister on how 9/11 was not (unless TRULEY proven) a government conspiracy, nor a communist Chinese invasion. (That surprised me)
The I finished playing Lonesome Road, lets say my Xbox glitches and there was a marked man who "bounced" off two nuclear explosions.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDelete"War is delightful to those who have never experienced it." - Desiderius Erasmus
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." - William Tecumseh Sherman
"The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing." - Karl Marlantes
Pretty much my view on war.
@Renegade the Last Shadowbolt
"Communist Chinese invasion" sounds like Fallout, which is convenient. Lonesome Road is the only DLC I have left to finish in my "100% completion very hard hardcore playthrough." I've also discovered that many enemies (even lowly geckos and coyotes) can sometimes be immune to mini-nukes and other types of explosion, which is really annoying when you're trying to complete the Gun Runner's Arsenal "Overkill" challenge by blowing up animals with mini-nukes. This is on the PC version, too.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteI was obliged to pull weeds for the entire day. My back does not thank me.
I could really use a day off. I can't seem to catch up on anything, and it's getting pretty sad.
But, at least my bills are (almost) current.
China? Conspiracy? Bah, they like us too much. All our base are belong to them anyway.
@Renegade the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDeleteThe best argument that I can see for the "9/11 was an inside job" claim is the Project for the New American Century which was an organization that sought to re-establish the US as unquestionably the most powerful country on Earth. It started in the late 90's and many of its members and/or people who agreed with its goals ended up being instrumental in the Iraq War and the larger War on Terror. It doesn't actually suggest that the government was responsible for the attack, but it reinforces claims that the government was aware that the attack was coming and let it happen because it was "for the greater good." Is that true? I have no idea, but it does seem to line up with stated mission goals.
"Section V of Rebuilding America's Defenses, entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force", includes the sentence: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor" (51). Though not arguing that Bush administration PNAC members were complicit in those attacks, other social critics such as commentator Manuel Valenzuela and journalist Mark Danner, investigative journalist John Pilger, in New Statesman, and former editor of The San Francisco Chronicle Bernard Weiner, in CounterPunch, all argue that PNAC members used the events of 9/11 as the "Pearl Harbor" that they needed––that is, as an "opportunity" to "capitalize on" (in Pilger's words), in order to enact long-desired plans."
President Bush did compare 9/11 to Pearl Harbor shortly after the attack. The first 30 seconds of that video are really the relevant part but the channel name doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Save Me
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
http://i.imgur.com/b3DIQYx.gif Loading.
ReplyDelete@MyBoyJ
@Dublio
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My favorite Greek gods
Some of you might need these tips.
I also clicked on that link that the NZ guy linked in the Skype chat. Here's what I found.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI am happy that the guy in "The Art of Manliness" drives a Volkswagen Beetle. I have one, but it has been inoperable for about a year due to a combination of rust and electrical problems.
If I get a VW bug, I would make it the VolkSWAGon, and constantly blast out music like Beach Boys or something, keeping the straightest possible face imaginable.
ReplyDeleteYeah.........no.
So I went back to my school today. I'm out of school, and you know what I find? A FRIKKIN' WEAPONS COMPANY HAS SET UP A MINI CONVENTION SHOWCASE. They're selling body armor, holsters, and they even have custom-fitting for certain kevlar objects. Wow. I mean, wow.....
They also were selling blatant copyright-infringement shirts that had "guns and coffee" on the front with the signature Starbucks logo, only the girl was holding a gun. Sheesh.
So apparently Lauren Faust visited /mlp/
ReplyDeleteAlso, of course it was SweetieBot who helped her out on Twitter....
Holy crap, even Moot showed up on 4chan. So many...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteEqD had a post about it yesterday.
She didn't really say much that wasn't known already.
Guess who's going to be at Everfree Northwest?
ReplyDelete@J you and CityFlyer502? Nice! Mind saying hello to Mr. Osorio for me?
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteIt shall be done.
I should try to turn in early tonight.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
Da ba de da ba die...
ReplyDeleteI plan to watch Equestria Girls straightfaced and unashamed in Phoenix in a few weeks. It's not quite a pony conference, but I'm sure it will be a hilarious evening. Just thought I'd share something random, since I seem to have time for nothing else until Saturday.
If Fallout: Equestria doesn't make this, then I don't know what will.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteFallout Equestria can't possibly get onto that service. There isn't enough room what with all the stories about the love triangle between Smedward and Brella and Jacobin.
Then the "best" one of those will up as an "original" international best seller.
@Millennial Dan
I'm torn.
Equestria Girls is going to be playing at a movie theater a couple of towns away from me and it would be easy to go see it. I would like to see it so I can formulate a justifiable opinion on it. If I go see it, and it ends up being a canon-destroying abomination that never should have been made (by giving Twilight a boyfriend who comes back to Equestria with her and features prominently in every episode from here on, for example), I will have provided financial support for something I detest, and Hasbro would take that as people liking it and supporting the direction they're taking the show in, because money, that's why. Forget strong, intelligent, independent, diverse female characters. No girl's life is complete unless she has a boyfriend. SO SAYETH HASBRO.
That's not assured yet, but that's the way it's shaping up.
Had my last knee injection today. I hope this fixes the issue at least temporarily.
ReplyDelete@J Well, I hope that you also get better.
ReplyDeleteI was watching the 2011 film Moneyball, and had to stop it to take this picture.
ReplyDeleteThis is the scene right before the first game, just before halfway through the movie. Look at the sign with the header of "1:05 GAME". Shouldn't the hit time be in the AM? I'm sure that if it's a game in the afternoon, the batting practice should be before the game, not hours after it has already ended.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteHehe.....
Funny you should mention that....
Somebody at my school stuck one of those "I heart guns n coffee" on the back windshield of my truck.
I actually don't mind it, I find it funny.
I support the right to bear arms, but I don't believe in most of what the NRA stands with.
I plan to watch Equestria Girls and just see if it appeals to me. If not then its on to the next one
@Travis (can I still call you that?)
ReplyDeleteNice. Speaking of stickers and cars and school, I don't drive to school- I walk. These past two weeks, I've walked past a car parked around the same area with a bumber sticker of "Don't make me think, otherwise I'd probably shoot you." Alright.
Just remember, true gun control is when you hit nothing but the bullseye.
I think that that's what most of the bronies are probably gonna do. Most of the sane/calm/level-headed bronies, rather...
@bombe
ReplyDelete1. Yep you can
2. That seems appropriate lol
I love driving, but its hard hard keeping gas in two cars without work. Savings dry up quick. I wish I could walk but my knee is still in pain and its like, 10 miles to my school
I'm not same but I'm not insane.
Crazy is the better description
@Travis
ReplyDeleteYeah, the reason I don't have a car is because most of my life is within walking or at least biking distance. No need for gas.
Loss of sanity? Please see our resident crazy, Dr. Jaco Discord. He has a degree in chaos and creative insanity.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteAh yes, that. Well, we've been told several times that FIM will go on unaffected, and they'd never lie to us, would they? Oh wait...
Regardless, still totally seeing it. I can't really explain it, since I was pretty skeptical myself at first, but now I can't help but feel completely amused by the whole thing.
But anyway. As Bombe said, here's hoping things look up with the knee issues.
Bedtime. Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteHello Everyone, Thanks for the birthday wishes and a belated Happy Birthday to all of you who I've missed. Sorry I missed the "roll call" from a couple of weeks ago. Work and family matters have kept me very busy.
ReplyDelete@ClosetBrony
ReplyDeleteHey! Good to see you again! I hope you've been doing well.
Get ready for the next blockbuster film.
ReplyDeleteXbox One, as seen through a Taiwanese animation filter.
ReplyDelete@MyBoyJ
ReplyDelete*push*
Got a new Shkle.
ReplyDelete@Jaco Discord
ReplyDeleteGreasemonkey seems to not work anymore, so I don't know which comment you're referring to. Unless, of course, that's just a completely random gif that's unrelated to anything else.
Now, goodnight.
The Safety Dance (Long Version)
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Oh yeah, dis my jam.
Thank you for that. I've been VERY busy lately on some good things ^.^
Well I just avoided a bullet or a hundred.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm browsing the internet as usual, racking up about three hours' worth of tabs over three separate windows for organization.
I go to the bathroom and walk into my room to find my DAD on my computer. He just sat down and was asking me where that "thing that I wanted to buy" is. I told him that I had emailed him and literally just brought the message up on his iPad-that-he-got-for-free-from-a-raffle, and he said "Well, why can't we just do it here?"
"Where is it?"
I try to reach for the mouse, and he adamantly dictates that he will be the one moving the mouse. I point to Google Chrome and say "middle window, tab furthest to the left." "Alright." *proceeds to HIT THE X AND CLOSE THE THIRTY-FOUR TABS THAT I HAD OPEN.* "Oh, where did it go?" "Dad, you just closed the window" "I don't think I did....look, Google Chrome still has two windows open." "Dad, those are other windows, don't-" *click* It's this link. "Dad, that is a cool motorcycle helmet that should I ever motorbike, I wish to have it."
I bring back up the link by hitting ctrl+t and ctrl+v (I still had it on my clipboard), and he started freaking out, like I was trying to do something quickly. He gets to the page, checks the shopping cart, and sees that there is a discount code box. Oh boy.
He opens a new tab by clicking, types out google, types out the product plus "discount code" (no quotation marks), and painstakingly-slowly he clicks. He doesn't use keyboard shortcuts...
He minimized the window and dragged it to my other screen and asked "Why is this screen so much darker than the other one?" to which I reply "I don't even kn-... you know what, I'm not even going to try explaining." Then he leans back and gives me a small lecture about how I shouldn't be implying that he's stupid. In all honesty, I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY. I've just come to accept it, as the brightness is max and all of the display settings are as bright as possible.
He then closes the entire Chrome window AGAIN in his attempt to minimize it, then brings up the second Chrome window that's loaded with tabs that I had from earlier, which is this video. Thank GOD I didn't hit play when opening and it was still a black screen. I did NOT want to explain TF2 and the whole fandom concept to my dad.
He tries to bring up the cart again.
>*Tetrapony is now online*
Oh crap.
My dad leans in to try and read the little Skype notification at the bottom-right of my left desktop monitor, but didn't do it soon enough, as it just disappeared. Phew.
>*Cloudy Kitty is now online*
OH CRAP.
My dad "Who is Cloudy Kitty?"
Well, I didn't want to explain WHO CLOUDY IS TO MY DAD, and am currently very thankful that he didn't open Skype or Steam while on my computer.
He gets back to Chrome, I bring up the website for him slowly and with no sudden movements, and for some reason, the cart won't get up on the website. GAH.
He just leaves, saying "Well, I have to go now."
And indeed he did.
I mean, he really did. I didn't know why he was in a Hawaiian shirt and nice shoes, but next thing I know he's leaving for a Hawaiian-themed fancy party. I went back to my computer to type this.
In all honesty, I don't like letting my dad access all of my stuff. Not because I have anything to hide or anything that if found, I'd get in trouble (in honesty, I don't), but because he has a track record for going through my personal stuff. Like, once when he couldn't figure out the password to my phone, he just took it to the store and started rifling through it all.
Well, that, and I don't think that he'll take kindly to me being on an internet forum.
Speaking of forums, I found this thread on the internets. Some guy says that he took note of one of my comments, then started to explain why the whole shipping thing being ruined in one chapter is flawed logic. I don't even remember what my comment was, but I want to go to that forum and personally apologize for whatever it is that I did.
ReplyDeleteJust hit play on that video.
ReplyDeleteI am not infinitely grateful for the fact that he didn't hit play. I was laughing while watching that just thinking about the awkwardness of my dad hitting play on it.
It's the TF2 sniper doing the Epic Sax Guy thing (excessive pelvic thrusting).
ClosetBrony, happy birthday, and I'm sorry if I seem like a nightmare, what with you being a dad and all.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like your dad doesn't trust you. Like, at all. Insisting on navigating the internet for you, on your computer, and doing a poor job of it; questioning everything he's unfamiliar with in an accusatory tone; taking YOUR PHONE to the store so they could UNLOCK IT FOR HIM so he could invade your privacy.
That's not cool.
The parent/child relationship has two sides to it. Treating your kid like a criminal does not make for a healthy relationship.
On the plus side, I know that he really does love me and is just trying to look out for me.
ReplyDeleteThere are better ways, that's for sure, but it's the whole thought behind it, right?
In all seriousness, I love my family. It's functionable and stable, and after hearing about all of the people around me's family problems (most notably my bet friend's parents getting a divorce), it makes me happy that my family is stable and happy together.
"It's the thought that counts, right?"
ReplyDeleteThis is the most common quote you hear. Well, think about this too.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
@Dublio
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite quotes.
I know that saying well.
ReplyDelete@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry.
One of my favorite QUOTATIONS. I dun lerned dat frum speach.
Ridgedog from the Yogscast may be a Brony.
ReplyDelete@J
ReplyDeletenice catch.
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteYup, AppleJack is still my favorite pony
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteBecause, like you, she has a computer from 1994 and doesn't know how to turn it on?
Nah, just the technological illiteracy part.
ReplyDeleteI'm rediscovering why I liked MLP in the first place. The sweet colors and feel of it all, it nostalgic.
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ReplyDelete@J Meh, old.
ReplyDeleteOn Imgur, I'm sure Dublio has come across a user named wadjet before. Basically, she compiles the best tumblr posts and posts them all as a gallery to Imgur. She's on part 71 last I checked.
I have them all saved and would link them upon request.
Maybe I see a billion Imgurs tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteNow is sleep. Goodnight.
"Captain Falcon, why are you dating that horse?"
ReplyDeleteIt's only about thirty seconds into the video, so just watch it. If J can link his gaming brony thing, I can link mine.
I mean, the dude even says "Captain Falcon: the original brony" in that video.
ReplyDeleteAnd then Bombe had three sea-themed paintings in his bedroom on his walls.
ReplyDeleteAlong with his four model boats, three lighthouses, various shells, a curiously-aquatic-themed clay basket-thing, and nautical-themed clock.
What's a pirate's favorite letter? Ye might be thinking, it be R! But nay! Any true sailor's first love be the C...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWell, the one I linked was a guy quoting a prominent Brony fan animation without explicitly mentioning Bronies. Subtle, if you haven't seen the animation in question. The one you linked was about two guys who flat out say the word "Brony" and apparently think that Bronies date horses. Which, if that's the case, they seem to be a part of the "we don't understand and/or openly mock Bronies, so let's make assumptions about them regarding beastiality" group. The mention of "Mr. Hands" right before the mention of Bronies reinforces that. If you don't know who Mr. Hands is, consider yourself lucky, but just know that it's relevant to that conversation.
@J those guys are a group of some of the most prominent LP'ers on Youtube. I've been watching them (mainly Chugaa) for a few years.
ReplyDeleteThey are'nt poking fun at bronies. Chugaa (the one who asks the question in hysterics) is really just laughing at the coincidence of the Captain Falcon mii being paired with the horse mii.
And yes, I know who Mr. Hands is ._.
They know who bronies are, but aren't bronies themselves. They aren't necessarily against them. In fact, their latest huge collaboration LP (with I think fourteen LP'ers) was with Mario Kart: Double Dash. One of the team's was named "The Purple Pwniez". There's obviously a brony or two there, and they never talk bad about it, so they obviously are tolerant of it.
They don't "think that bronies date horses", they're just making jokes in the hysterics of the moment. No harm.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteOkay. That's just how it seemed from an outside perspective.
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ReplyDeleteThe melody of this product demo sounds VERY similar to this song by brony musician Makkon.
ReplyDeleteGranted, it develops differently, but the main chorus-melody of the latter is repeated note-for-note in the product demo. It's only twenty dollars, and not that bad of a product. Too bad it doesn't work with the demo version of Kontakt...
Makkon responded and even said "That is uncanny."
ReplyDeleteAlrighty then.
http://chaoslife.findchaos.com/comics/2013-05-15A-Comment-Of-Errors.png Sometimes I feel like my comments come of differently than what they seem.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteBombe, you might want to double check that link.
Unless you actually meant to link this.
Goodnight.
ReplyDelete@J that was the intention of the joke. When my comments don't turn out as first perceived, as seen in the comment that the text itself linked to.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this Zero Punctuation review is now my new favorite one. Watch the whole video.
Didn't go to sleep. Instead, I played Cities XL (because I really wanted to play a modern city-building game and I refuse to buy SimCity because EA is a butt) for roughly three hours and then drew this based off a passing comment in the Everfree Northwest staff chat.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
Confusion. I has it. I also did go to the page that actually had the comic about comments.
This entire page is consisted solely of comments by MyBoyJ and Bombedrumbum.
ReplyDeleteJ, that is interesting. If we are talking passing comments, then I got quite a few things to draw from the retarded blokes on my Facebook feed...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWell, to be fair, we're only about twenty comments into this page. There's still plenty of room for everyone else.
Now I'm actually going to bed. Goodnight.
Combobreaker?
ReplyDeleteC-C-C-"____________________"
ReplyDeleteIf anyone hasn't made up their mind about going to Everfree Northwest, the con is still looking for staff to help with Logistics, the Gaming Room, Charity, Vendor's Hall, and the Arts and Crafts Room.
ReplyDeleteYou need to be 18 or older by the time the con starts (July 5th) in order to volunteer.
@J oh hey, what if my birthday IS July 5th?! No really, it actually is July 5th...
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteAHA! IT WAS ALL A CLEVER RUSE TO GET YOU TO REVEAL BOTH YOUR BIRTHDAY AND AGE! MWAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously though, as long as you're 18 when the con starts, there shouldn't be a problem. Are you actually thinking about volunteering?
No, I won't be volunteering.
ReplyDeleteMy birthday is on Skype and I've stated my age here before...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI don't remember you ever mentioning your age here and when the subject comes up (either talking about actual age or school grade), you never give an answer.
http://i.imgur.com/8xhdx.jpg
ReplyDeleteBombe's not joking. His birthday is indeed July 5th.
ReplyDeleteFunny coincidence though.
ReplyDelete@Lupon
ReplyDeleteAh, okay. That wouldn't apply to most of our members under 18 though, because most don't live in Washington.
@Lupon most interesting indeed. It would seem as though my birthday really is the absolute last possible day, heh.
ReplyDeleteI was born about two weeks before brony musician Omnipony. He is dubsteppy, I am classical. I really do despise some of the things that he's done, but oh hey, look, he's young and talented, let's praise him for being a prodigy... ಠ_à²
Meanwhile, I'm just serendipitously looking through Youtube, trying to play off the fact that I'm of the lowest official education level of this group... >.>
@Lupon nice profile pic
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, I few days ago, I did some research on Apple overcharging for computers, and did a detailed analysis of the specs. I posted it to facebook, and quickly found out that some of my friends fight with holy war-tier fierceness to defend Apple products, even when I'm talking about prices, not products.
Here's the full discussion. If you want to read it, that is. I'm the blue guy.
Props to anybody who notices right off the bat that the original post at the top is not even close to my writing style. It was originally from this here image, but I had to type it all out (fixing some grammatical errors and adding some of my own commentary to it). I mean, as long as my friends haven't seen this, they're none the wiser.
Also, eff the purple guy. I've posted here before about an idiot at my school. He's the idiot that I was talking about.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteBut you didn't fail Algebra-lll
.....
I can tell you most anything about history,
But quadratics kick my flank..
I'm also close to actually finishing my first play through of FO:NV.
I used two others to try out the DLCs before my main Character Rex went through them.
I must also input that from all the things I've done, Caeser will be erased from history by a good sized boot.
@Travis
ReplyDeleteIf it's any consolation, I got perfect on my Algebra II final a couple of years ago
I saw FO:NV selling at gamestop for twenty bucks. I almost bought it. Skyrim for $25.
History buff? History buff. Oh yeah. The only thing in history that I was never good at was EXACT dates. I can remember the eyars well enough, sometimes the months, but almost never the exact day. Other than that, I have a nice little timeline.
Caesar will be erased from history... good luck with that...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteSo basically this.
I've discovered that arguing with people on the internet is pointless. All it does is infuriate those involved. No matter how much evidence, or how logical the argument, there will always be someone who disagrees.
See: The Flat Earth Society. I just read a little of their wiki. Hoo boy. "Earth Looks round from space. How do you explain that?" asks a skeptic. "NASA is lying about space travel. It's all a conspiracy. Photographs can be easily doctored. (Same Breath) Check out this picture of the super expensive "Lunar Lander." It's made of cardboard and tape! That thing couldn't go to space! Also gravity doesn't exist and all sides of the Earth are surrounded by an ice wall that holds the oceans back. This ice wall has been named Antarctica by explorers, but no one has ever been beyond it. It is very mysterious." Says a flat Earther.
Point is, some people just refuse to see the truth even if it's staring them right in the face. You're wasting your breath and patience trying to argue with them.
@Renegade the Last Shadowbolt
ReplyDeleteDoes that "good sized boot" take the form of a nuclear missile barrage?
I finished Lonesome Road the other day and I'm curious what your decision was.
@MyBoyJ - You should know this! Didn't you say your dad was like that?
ReplyDelete@J yeah, except that it was more of me just saying "oh look, this costs $15 but Apple is charging $75 for it" and a bunch of people going "BUT APPLE IS BETTER!"
ReplyDelete@Dublio
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes I did. That's why I haven't spoken to him in weeks.
@Bombedrumbum
Yes, but I read the whole back and forth and you continued pressing your point. Granted, your point was simply "look at how much they're jacking up their prices for off the shelf parts" but saying anything to them when the facts should speak for themselves just inspires them to reaffirm their beliefs. They ignore the facts. You know it. I know it. They live in a fantasy world where evidence doesn't exist if you don't acknowledge it.
You could also have brought up that the "free repairs" aren't really free if you're essentially paying for them preemptively with the inflated purchase price. For how much they charge, free repairs are the least they can do.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteOne of the Lunar Landers from a mission that never happened has a home at this museum not far from where I live. I've seen it. It's cool.
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteAfter many years of health issues relating to physical pain and joint instability, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome about a month ago. It is a genetic disorder that affects collagen throughout the entire body, possibly resulting in a myriad of health issues ranging from joint pain and instability to problems with vision, the cardiovascular system and even neurological issues.
ReplyDeleteI am fortunate to have only a mild form of it, with symptoms primarily limited to joint instability and pain, with a few vision problems thrown in for good measure.
I began researching this disorder after I was diagnosed, and I have come to a conclusion.
Derpy has Ehlers-Danlos.
Collagen production issues can affect the tendons, ligaments, and muscles throughout the entire body, including those around the eyes. Some sufferers of Ehlers-Danlos have strabismus, otherwise known as walleyes, wherein the eyes point in different directions and can affect depth perception. Due to joint pain and instability, some of those with EDS experience difficulty moving around and can be clumsy as a result. Some neurological symptoms include slower reflexes, poor balance and an inability to concentrate.
What are Derpy's canon character traits?
She has walleyes, she's clumsy, and she isn't very aware of her surroundings.
All of these traits can be explained by different aspects of EDS.
What do you think?
I love all of you guys. I just wanted to let you all know that. God bless.
ReplyDelete(I'm not leaving or anything)
Nothing then?
ReplyDeleteOkay.
I suppose I'll go to bed in that case.
Goodnight.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteOh, now someone shows up.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI love you too, Bombe. In whatever way you want to take that.
@J My comment was posted before yours, so there's that.
ReplyDeleteI feel sad that you're put through such misfortune, but on the bright side, I find it great that you and your favorite pony share sich similarities, that there's a brightness in the darkness.
I love you guys in a grateful and caring way. I just would like to care for/about my friends as much as I think that I do.
ReplyDelete"God bless you." No, you didn't sneeze, I'd just like to say that, and I mean it.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI think that's one of the reasons I like Derpy so much. She's different from all the other ponies (at least in terms of appearance) and it's not a stretch to think that she was made fun of or bullied as a filly just for being different.
But you know what? She doesn't let it get her down. She just keeps on smiling and trying to help out. She maintains a positive attitude.
Now, I've never been one of the "Derpy was intended to represent disabled people" crowd, and the similarities to some symptoms of EDS are undoubtedly coincidental, but that theory just seems to make sense. If anything, she can serve as a positive influence on people with relatively mild physical conditions (like strabismus). Sure, she's clumsy, but who's not from time to time?
TL;DR: I'm tired and I'm talking like a physically disabled five year old who loves Derpy.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteGod Bless.
Now, Goodnight.
ReplyDelete@Dublio
ReplyDeletePretty much this.
Please accept Toxic Love I linked earlier as tonight's song.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
This arrived for me today.
ReplyDeleteI've looked through it a bit and there are some new insights, but for the most part, it's just things like episode summaries, song lyrics, character descriptions, concept art (most of which has already been available on Lauren Faust's Deviant Art page). For some reason, Bon Bon is called "Sweetie Drops" (even though the Gameloft game and the series two trading cards both call her Bon Bon) but Dr. Hooves and Octavia are called Dr. Hooves and Octavia. Derpy seems to be only on the "Cloudsdale Ponies" page, but there's no text about her and she's not named. The image of her that's used is the one from the Season two cast poster where she's sleeping on a cloud, with her eyes conveniently closed.
This.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteThat's the same idea as the concept of "fake nerd girls" who go to Comic Con and the like cosplaying as (insert female character from geek culture thing with skimpy outfit here). The belief is that they're not really fans of (nerd thing) but they act like they are so that the guys who ARE "real fans" of those things will give them attention.
LANGUAGE
This sums it up.
Now, I don't agree with everything in that video, but I agree with the general idea of "so what?"
It does seem to be a little different in terms of the Brony community, though, since the show is specifically designed to teach lessons about how to be positive and a good person and we see an abundance of people who are cynical and frankly not good people, and some who don't even like the show. However, that's more a personal failing on their part.
Sorry for dropping off the face of the Earth like that. Short life update, for those who care. Right after school, I picked up a job as an insurance salesman. 100% commission pay naturally, meaning that I have to put in some long hours to make it work, and even then, I'm in training, and not making anything really. I know some basics, but my training so far has been really haphazard, so I don't feel as if I'm ready for independent work. I know I can hack it, and that it get much easier after 3 years, but the first months are going to be incredibly tough, with times like this were I barely have a moment to talk to other people, or even iron clothes for the next day, and when you don't make any sales for the day, you wind up emotionally drained like I am right now. Keep smiling.
ReplyDelete@Trotsky
ReplyDelete...
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteWho's a silly alcoholic beverage? You's a silly alcoholic beverage! Who is? You is! Applejack!
ReplyDelete@J wow, that's even a fitting picture for it.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like something that my school would pull when nobody's looking in the superintendent administration.
@Trotsky OH, so you're done with school now? How was the last part of it? Always nice talking with another high school student... Looks like it's just me and ThunderIce now...
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...and Dom, but what the heck.
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteBOMBEDRUMBUM IS LITTLE BABBY!
Well, I just got my first "Nigerian Prince" email, except this guy claimed to be the financial advisor to the former president of the Ivory Coast. He and the president were forced to flee to neighboring Ghana for a while and most of the assets (money, gold, and real estate) were forfeit when they left, except for a large sum of cash that had conveniently been transferred to a bank in Ghana before they fled the Ivory Coast, so the story goes. A person who is not a citizen of either country (me, apparently) is the only one who can get the money back to the president and his advisor and I will receive a sizable commission for being the intermediary. All I need to do is send him my full name and occupation and he will send further instructions.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually surprised that I haven't gotten one of these before.
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteYou know the old saying "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras?" It's like the other saying "if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck" meaning that you should make the most likely assumption based on available evidence. EDS is fairly uncommon and frequently misdiagnosed as other conditions or brushed off as "all in the head" of the person with it. As a result, EDS has apparently adopted the zebra as its mascot.
ReplyDeleteSince learning this, I have considered making a secondary OC that's a zebra. Of course, that seems kind of "ech" to me. Like I'm treating it like a joke.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteHm, I don't know, I think it would be alright. Not many people have a zebra as a ponysona anyway.
So, hypochondria? You'd think a simple physical could establish whether or not someone's ailments are real or just psychosomatic.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteThe diagnosis is a bit more complicated than that for EDS. Most symptoms are either shared by dozens of other conditions, or are separate conditions in themselves. I have astigmatism, which is its own disorder as well as one of the symptoms of EDS. Arthritis in the knee and/or general knee pain or instability could be caused by any number of conditions or injuries and that's apparently what was assumed by the myriad doctors that I have seen over the last decade and a half.
EDS is generally diagnosed either by noticing that multiple symptoms fit and "putting the puzzle pieces together" what a doctor finally did with me) or a tissue biopsy or genetic testing (the latter of which I will finally be doing soon).
In cases where young children have chronic pain resulting from EDS, the pain is sometimes thought to be the result of physical child abuse since doctors generally don't see anything medically wrong.
Maybe I will make a zebra ponysona. I suppose it will have a more interesting story behind it than "I think zebras are cool."
I was just thinking back to what I said about war on Memorial Day and I've decided to link a song that's relevant to that. I think I may have linked it before, but a repeat now and then can't hurt.
ReplyDeleteWar Pigs
Goodnight.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteHm, it still seems to me that if a young man has arthritic symptoms, that's obviously a genetic problem. From there, it doesn't seem a great stretch to consider broader possibilities; but I suppose we can't all be House M.D., can we?
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteYeah, you'd think so. I may not have had a doctor like House, but I ended up with a lot of doctors like Nick.
It seems that the majority of doctors don't even know about this condition, or if they do, all of the dozen or so orthopedists I've been to just didn't feel the need to mention it to me over the last fifteen years. Last week, my mom mentioned it to her pulmonologist and he knew what it was and gave her some suggestions for finding a specialist.
He is a lung specialist who most likely has never treated anyone with EDS and yet he knew what it was and how to find an expert. Some doctors just care more than others and go above and beyond for their patients.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteEvidently.
And now, for something completely unrelated. Egophiliac is playing my song again. She doth wax hilarious.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteFORSOOTH!
I love Egophiliac's art style.
Heyo!
ReplyDelete@Dublio
ReplyDeleteHey Ya!
Now sleep.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight.
Super Smash Bros 4 has some new characters....
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWii Fit Lady!
Male Player Character From Animal Crossing!
Mega Man!
Wii Fit Lady actually makes more sense than ROB the NES robot (who was apparently in Brawl), since she is a game character and ROB was a real world entity and technically a game controller. She also has the infinite power of Billy Blanks and Tae-Bo on her side.
The only Super Smash Brothers game I've really played is the original for Nintendo 64. I played a little bit of Melee or Brawl when I was at college, but that was limited to one or two matches.
One of the games I'm looking forward to the most is Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty since I'm a big fan of the Oddworld games from back in the day. Of course, I knew it was coming months ago, but they had a new trailer at E3.
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone been reading the FiM comics? Issue eight of the main series came out today and I didn't like it very much. The whole second arc just seems a lot weaker than the first one.
ReplyDelete@Bombe
ReplyDeleteNintendo is really grasping for exciting new characters, I must say. Mega Man I can understand, but the Wii Fit Trainer? That's just odd.
@MyBoyJ
I wish. I haven't been able to spend much on myself lately, and I didn't want to cheat by finding it online for free. As such, the very first comic is the only one I've read. I have seen a lot of spoilery images of Nightmare Rarity though, for some reason...
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteYou're probably seeing a lot of those images because corrupted Rarity is "cool" or "different" while the very concept seems to spit in the face of Luna's fall and motivation for the whole "eternal night" thing. This comic arc is a perfect example of why I don't consider the comics or books canon. You give free reign to a new writer who has nothing to do with the show and they just start making up stuff that contradicts canon, or at the very least weakens or confuses character backstory.
I never had a problem with Cadence as a character, and I never bought into the accusations of her being a Mary Sue, but the Crystal Heart Spell book gave her an awful Mary Sue backstory. In addition, that book also completely ignored season three's character development for Trixie. The whole story of that struck me as "elevated fanfiction" and I've actually read fanfiction that was better written than that book, yet still done in the style and tone of an episode.
At Big Apple Ponycon, I asked Katie Cook (the writer for issues 1-4, the Rarity micro, and the upcoming 9-10 of the main series) about whether she worked with the show staff to come up with stories and she said that they have to run potential comic stories by the show staff and they can't touch on topics that the show will address. She said that, for that reason, she considers them canon. One of the stories she said she wanted to do was about the origin of the Elements of Harmony, but she was told that she can't do that, likely because the show will address it at some point.
One of the big reasons I don't consider stuff like the comics and books to be canon is because the people making it don't work on the show and things like that have a lower take rate than the show, so even fans may not read them and know parts of "canon" and the events of the comics and/or books will likely never be mentioned on the show. In addition, there's the old adage of "if it's not the show, it's not canon" which is the simplest explanation.
Goodnight.
ReplyDelete@J Sleep well!
ReplyDelete(Explicit) Some friend just sent me this link saying that they were laughing at this song and asked if I had heard it. He said that the top comment even made him laugh.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should be worried.
Also, my brother just came home today with a violin. He's learning the violin. OI vey...
Also, for EqD's current E3-themed banner, I will always think that the Shieka pony is derped with the eyes and that the white triangle on the forehead is really the white of the eye, and so her eyes are going in opposite direction from one another. I can not simply unsee that.
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI am impressed with your ability to get lots of votes on YouTube comments.
Also, I got this today.
Furthermore, new Shkle. This one is going to be my badge at Everfree.
ReplyDelete@J The eye derp is not very strong with this one. Very cute, nonetheless!
ReplyDeleteJ, that looks very similar to your card last year, doesn't it? Still looks pretty good, though!
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteFor comparison:
Last year.
This year.
They're both done by the same artist and I love the style.
The Derpy was made out of a stone material with a 3D printer. I agree that the eyes could be a bit more derped, but I still really like it.
@Lupon
ReplyDeleteI have Shadowwolf to thank for creating Shkle's personality in the first place. Combine that with the fact that I really, really like her work and you get me commissioning her whenever I want something pony art related.
I'll admit, since the age in the description lined up well, I thought that this was ThunderIce. I mean, he even has connections with some of Ravens' writer friends!
ReplyDeleteThen I read the rest of the description. Yeah, that's not him.
So today while leaving a message for a contractor, I ended by not saying "goodbye", but rather saying "Amen."
Well, it could have been worse. XD
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteToo much church? Or were you praying to the contractor?
Goodnight.
ReplyDeleteBlogger sure seems to be hungry.
ReplyDeleteThunderIce, was it April or March?! Your two comments say different months! D:
It was March; I realised after I posted the first comment that I got the month wrong
ReplyDeleteATTEMPT THREE
@Bombe
Yeah, that's not me. I haven't logged into Fimfiction for ages, but this is my actual profile anyway.
In other news, I had my last exam two days ago (even though school ended in March for me). Two years of studying/suffering, finally to an end.
Now to do it all again for A-Levels, yay!
@ThunderIce nice profile picture by the way.
ReplyDeleteThanks... :P
ReplyDeleteI couldn't decide between black square or white square. I eventually settled on the black square
I don't know if I'll be able to go to BronyCon this year. I paid for my badge months ago, but now with this new leg issue and dwindling money, I'm unsure if I'll be able to attend. I just looked at the FAQs on the website and it says that refunds are not available in most circumstances, but I can transfer my badge to someone else if I want.
ReplyDeleteI spent about four hours today at a classic arcade machine playing Tetris. 1,115 lines and 550k points on the hard (real) game mode. The thing is, nobody is ever at those machines for longer than thirty minutes, and the place was technically closed (I was still allowed to play), so I do not think that my high score will be beaten anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteI apologized to the workers once for subjecting them to the repetitive Tetris songs, but they didn't seem to mind. Also, I was going on free credits at that time. So unless somebody spends four hours (three or even two, if they're a lot better than I am) and a hefty amount of quarters, I don't think that my high score will be beaten anytime in the near future.
Also, I got fairly good at Tetris. Nice.
Ugh, I've done so many things that I haven't mentioned here yet. Like go to San Diego's SeaWorld (there's a sloth there. I overheard somebody say "Ew, those look disgusting." GET. OUT.), I saw a movie or two, I spent a day at the mall with a group of people (Hot Topic is pretty much a store that takes pop-culture on the internet and sells it. Their pony merchandise wasn't even all that good.), and I even threw some javelins with my brother-who's-on-track-for-the-Olympics. Driving out to the Olympic training center (OTC) is quite tedious after a while.