Twilight is finally getting an episode in just a few short hours! Can you handle the anticipation? Because she cant! Have some nightly roundup stuff while we wait.
Rainbow Dash Invades Harvard-MIT Math Tournament
Yeah, Rainbow Dash went full egghead.
Pony Colored Ghostbusters Stuff!
No movie is safe from the ponification!
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Twiiii
Lauren Faust at Wondercon Update!
I posted about this a while back with some information on her new ip, but this banner here has a bit more stuff to dig into! If you guys plan to hit Wondercon, definitely check out her booth!
Steam Contest
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Hoofington Steam Group will run an art contest to promote new art and more ponies!
The contest will reward to the most creative pieces submitted for the contest, with prizes up for 3 winners:
1st Winner – Any game up to 40Dlls over steam (or many games making up 40 in total)
2nd Any game up to 35dlls (or combined)
3rd Up to 30Dlls (or in total)
The rules are simple:
• Must be new art
• Submit before the end of March 31
• Must be Safe For Woona or no extreme dark
Submit everything to -> ShamelFuller1@aol.com
Kansas City Flash Mob
A huge flash mob is planned for Kansas City, Check out all the rules for it here!
Ponibooru Contest
Draw their oc ponies, win Mass Effect! Seems easy enough right? Check ti out here.
Podcasts/Vlogs/Ect
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Chess Sculpting: Pinkie Pie
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The Ponycast Episode 9
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That one Bronycast Episode 9
Episode 9
Mystery Pony Theater 20,000
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Successful Meetups
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Omaha NE Meetup
41 total here! Crazy!
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Brony Story Blog
A blog dedicated to telling everyone your story! Check it out here.
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Groups/Meetups/Guilds Looking for More
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Zagreb City Meetup
Where: Arena Centar, in front of north entrance (nearest one to Arena Zagreb (Dalmacija))
When: 10.3.2012., 16.00h
premeetup meetup: Josip Jelačić Square (under clock), 15.00h
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Toronto Meetup
his Sunday, March 11th, the bronies of Toronto are getting together for a long overdue meetup at the Eaton Centre in the food court, at 1:00pm.
The Facebook event can be found here:
And the Facebook group can be found here:
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Gaming Community: Ponies of Mayhem
Introduction: Were a Brony gaming community that is involved in several MMO's out on the market. We take joy in player vs player type game play and love to have a good laugh while rolling. In coordination with our game play we use Team Speak 3 and Steam to stay connected. And when were offline we migrate over to our site to mingle and share our stories and have conversation's.
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Battlefield Platoon
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Central California Meetup
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Wakfu Guild
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Are you a player of the newly released Square Enix's MMO Wakfu?
Are you tired that you can't find any bronies and/or are seeking?
Then look no further, Equestria needs ponies like you!
We aren't much, but we're all pretty nice and helpful, If you're interested.
Contact me by the in game name: Emmis
Or send me an email ! :Saturnis@hotmail.com
Server: Nox
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Wars of Equestria RP Forum
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The staff and members of Wars of Equestria would like to invite you all to our new My Little Pony Friendship is Magic-based roleplay site. Wars of Equestria combines a friendly and open atmosphere with three distinct roleplay settings. Wars of Equestria, Promise of Equestria, and Fallout Equestria. If you’re a My Little Pony Friendship is magic fan who’s looking for some pony-based roleplay, please stop by. We’d love to have you!
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Merch/Ebay Stuff
Fluttershy Bookbag
Derpy Plush
Flim Flaim Plushies
Coupon Code for Etsy Shop: Just toss EQDaily in there for 10% off!
Applejack Boxers
Fluttershy Boxers
Rainbow Filly
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WE MUST CELEBRATE!!
Screw the roundup. I WANT MY EPISODE NOW!
YAY
Oh hey, a roundup I'm actually awake for.
ooooh, that blog about bronies stories sounds interesting.
I'm awake!
Infinte energy power me through the night into the day!
Cant sleep
I have muffins and bubble wrap. I'm ready for the new episode.
Where the buck are the Pittsburgh bronies???
Egg-head RD is mildly refreshing.
I think Tara purposely did all of this Twilight trolling today to raise hype for her episode tomorrow. The two events are definitely connected, if you ask me.
Either I'm awake late, or I woke up early. In any case, I'm here and I'm definitely going to be thumbing through what's here. Math ponies for the win!!! :D
I'm looking at that Twilight .gif while listening to TheLivingTombstone's remix of Rolling In The Deep
It is amazing
So I am 17, and flip through the channels eager to read one last time the next episode description... I can't find HUB, so I look at the programming, dad removed HUB and many other of my channels TODAY. Guess I won't be watching TV ever again. Anywhere I can watch the episode?
Wait, Square Enix got involved with Wakfu? x_X When did this happen? I thought it was an Ankama-only project.
CELESTIAVERDAMMT WHY IS WONDERCON IN ANAHEIM THIS YEAR *SOB*
I DON'T CARE ABOUT CONSTRUCTION AAAAAAAAGH
STUPID UNITED STATES BEING SO HUGE AND CALIFORNIA SO LONG *SOB*
So does anypony want to take a crack at that math problem?
One thing that is bugging me is how to define "crossing" a circle. Does that mean crossing the exact middle of the circle, or some random point on the side (exiting at a distance less than the diameter itself)? Or based on the information given in the question, should this be self-evident?
I'm not a math buff, but this is really annoying me.
@Night Light
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/streams-and-mare-thons-tonight.html#more
A whole bunch of all night mare-a-thons to watch before the episode airs, and then those places usually stream the new episode as it is broadcast.
Also, I love the pony themed Ghostbuster packs. At first, I was concerned at the lack of a Pinkie Pie one, until I realized that all she needs to do is giggle at them, so she doesn't need one!
@Night_Light Yeah keep your eye on EQD there is a YouTube posting of it usually an hour or so after its aired.
@Night Light
Livestreams. Also, the episodes will be up on YouTube for a few days before they are removed for copyright. Catch them then.
Why do people like the Flim Flam brothers?
Dat gif, man. Everyone loves it. And I don't care if it added ponies, calculus sux. The only math i need to know is anything + RD = 20% cooler.
So tired... must rest for ponies tomorrow...
@garturo62
Can't speak for everypony, but one reason is that they seem like they've been taken directly out of an old musical movie and shoved into Equestria! Musicals are a ton of fun. XD
The first meetup around my area and I can't go because i'm broke :(
Those Zagreb bronies are meeting up ALL the time! Now I want to move there.. :(
The first meetup around my area and I can't go because i'm broke :(
I will give that dude my soul for the Rainbow Dash Neutron Pack!! Can we make a deal?
Also, new episode is gonna be awesome!
I will give that dude my soul for the Rainbow Dash Neutron Pack!! Can we make a deal?
Also, new episode is gonna be awesome!
It should be legal to mow down flash mobs with machine guns.
A pony-related question on a math test? At Harvard, no less! That must have been an awesome surprise for all the bronies making that test.
I know someponies are going to kill me, but am I the only one who thinks Lauren looks sort of like the singer from Paramore in that Milky Way Pic? Must be an older photo.
And I know I can't be the only one who misread Wakfu as Waifu Guild. Let me know when that one's up and running.
Not even Rainbow Dash can make me like math.
You can never have too much of our favorite little adorkable purple unicorn. :3
I always knew Dash had a dark side. And that dark side is that she absolutely loves those fancy mathematics!
Whoa, Ghostbuster packs colored to the colors of all the ponies. That some pretty epic fan love right there. On both ends. Though I notice the lack of a Pinkie pack.
That Twilight video. I don't even. lol But it's certainly fun to watch and listen to. I also love that gif. <3
Wish I could be at Wondercon. I'd totally go annoy her. Haha.
A flash mob in Kansas City? I've always wondered what it's like to be part of a flash mob. Though I suppose large Brony meets are sorta the same. :P Too bad its way too far for me.
@clarin-ed
It means crossing the edge, not the centre; since the centre for all the circles is (0,0).
Okay, I've worked the Rainbow Dash problem and got 2/5*sqrt(170) - 9/5*sqrt(5). Does my answer agree with anyone else's?
Um... I got a REALLY ugly answer for that math problem, so clearly it can't be correct. I musta done something wrong. It doesn't seem like the square root of 1285 would fit well.
May as well put up the whole answer since I worked so hard on it:
[-11*sqrt(5)+sqrt(1285)]/10
I did it by using right triangles, and proving that the longer length had to happen when Dash crossed the SAME circle twice (otherwise I get a weird negative number for the distance she travelled), which I'm glad because that was my hunch. Then, using three right triangles and a lot of cancelling, I got that number.
When I calculate it, it's slightly smaller than 3*sqrt(5)/5, which is what I was expecting, since eventually it will converge to 1, but still, it looks ugly.
@Clockwork
Don't need any calculus for this problem, friend. Just geometry and some algebra.
I'm working on it now. If you want to see my proof, I'll post it on youtube soon.
I must be misreading the math question. If the answer is supposed to be rd goes those units plus the diameter of a circle the answer would be (10+9√5)/5.
Still funny to see RD.
@clarin-ed They're talking about a secant line through all the circles. Now let's see if I can get an answer for this...
Wakfu is not made by Square Enix :O
It's made by a french company called Ankama :D
Wakfu is not made by Square Enix :O
It's made by a french company called Ankama :D
@clarin-ed
Well, If RD passed through the same circle the first two times (my hypothesis since 3X(5^(1/2))/5 is so much smaller than 5^(1/2)) that would mean the radius of that first circle is 2, and RD's path passes closest to the origin at (11^(1/2))/2, forming a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 2 and a third side of (5^(1/2))/2.
But then when I try to add in the 3X(5^(1/2))/5 the hypotenuse length is no longer an integer... so I'm stuck.
I guess we can be certain that RD passed through 3 different circles.
Who ya gonna call? GoBus....er... BOAST BUSTERS!
(Side note: GoBusters are the power rangers sentai, not the ghostbusters sentai...)
@Mike
Indeed. The same thing happened to me.
What I did was express the equations of the circles as functions, and assume that RD flies in a path parallel to the x-axis, so that you can express her flight path as a constant function.
You can do this because no matter what direction she travels, you can rotate the image so that she does fly parallel to the x-axis without changing any of the distances.
Once you do this, you have to express the intersections of her flight path and the three circles as three equations with three unknowns.
The unknowns are: the constant term at which RD flies, the radius of the first circle (since the other two are simply r+1 and r+2) and the x-value of the first intersection (since the other two will simply be x+rt5 and x+(8/3)rt5)
Getting these, you can solve for the intersection of her flight path and the FOURTH circle, yielding the distance.
I am currently checking the value I obtained.
If I understand the math problem correctly, then there's circles with their diameters increasing by 2. Which means that if you were moving to the origin, you would have to move 1 unit to get to the next circle.
Now Im going to assume that Rainbow Dash is moving towards the origin, because her direction is not stated in the problem. And whether or not she's on an axis or not does not matter if she's moving toward the origin because the difference in circle radii would be the same.
She moved a total of 4.024 units, but after crossing that first circle after 0.447 units, she moved 3.577 units. Which means she has another 0.423 units to move before crossing another circle.
That's what I think the answer is, if I am understanding the problem correctly. That is if she is moving towards the origin, if she's not and is moving at some angle or parallel to an axis, then I think I'd need more information to solve it. I'm no Harvard MIT student, only a UC MET student, but it's still awesome to see ponies work their way into math problems, haha.
I found the website with the answers.
http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/datafiles/solutions/2012/guts.pdf
I feel dumb now. You just need to consider distances from the origin to the intersections, then a little trig and cosine rule and you're done.
I'm depressed now. I'm gonna eat a sandwich.
Rainbow Dash INVADED MATH???....yeah truly Egghead
Gosh.... no meetup in NYC T_T
I don't think this makes RD an egghead but rather a very precise flier. What's more is that the professors at MIT are bronies ^.^
I wish I still lived in Toronto to get to that meetup ;_; but now I'm in brony-free Maine.
LOLOLOLOL Rainbow Dash
I'm cracking up at the Harvard math thing.
@AkihiroFR Square Enix is handling the North American, division, I think. Either way, they're working with Ankama on this one.
-Moonlight Ballad, Bard of Equestria
What is going on with eBay these days? I'm all for merch, but boxer shorts is just going too far.
@Christine
YOu're not the only who feels that way. But I'm more angry than sad. There's a ton of places they could have held it at the Bay Area (the Moscone Center is being renovated due what I'm assuming is construction of the new subway tunnel)! But no! they had to put in Southern California where I'm sure it's going to crash and burn.
hehe Twilights head is bobbing in time with the music I am listening to :3
@Ty
Ha, yes! I did it right!
Thanks for pointing out the solution.
Sometimes, I think Twilight might be staring into our souls and telling us to hug our screens.
WWell, I got 1.129414736... or (2√755-17√5)/15 in the math problem. Close enough to the others, I guess.
Smaller circle's radius is definitely 2.
Here's how I did it (pretty messy, by the way).
that gif makes my heart happy.
Holy crap Harvard?!?
DAMMIT!
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I was on the right track and found out I added when I was supposed to subtract when I tried to prove that she had to cross the same circle twice (turns out now I proved that she doesn't). I just fixed it and got the right answer.
I got the same circles as the answers: she crosses n = 3, 4, and 5, and all that's left is to find when she crosses n = 6, which is not too bad.
@Ajin
That's right.
Dude, I see Derpy in the ghostbuster dude's garage.
If you're interested in joining the Omaha meet up group, we're Nebraska Bronies (MLP:FiM) on facebook!! :)
The Omaha meetup was fun! I filmed the whole thing! My hands aren't the steadiest, but I captured some footage.
I was at the Omaha meetup. Good times, good times.
Who you gonna call? PONY BUSTERS!!
There was an Omaha meetup? I like... live there. How did I miss that? Geh. :|
Yay! Central California meetup! :D
Gettin' Faust's aut-o-graph! Getting Faust's aut-o-graph!
Btw NorCal bronies I'm making the drive down just for the con. U jelly? :D
Awww...! Twilight Sparkle is being adorable! And... she's backwards. Huh.
Dat Gif
The Brony story blog is an excellent idea. Maybe people could learn to understand us better if we can have the chance to tell our stories. I know I've got an interesting one.
As the guy who wrote the math problem and got it put on the test, I must say it feels quite strange to see this on EQD. Amusing, too. I guess I should have figured that it was completely reasonable for this to happen, although the tournament did take place about a month ago.
I feel the need to say that the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament is completely student-run, so sorry, there's no brony professors at either university, as far as I'm aware. Also, I'm an MIT student, so I'm going to clearly feel a little miffed when people are like "OMG HARVARD SO COOL." :P
Um, the answer is (2sqrt(170) - 9sqrt(5))/5, if that's still being contested. I didn't imagine the wording could be that confusing, but hey, it's hard to edit what you write, right? By crossing, I definitely meant intersecting the boundary of the circle, not the center. (Heck, all the circles have the same center!)
I also managed to get in two other (easier) pony-referencing problems on the test: one about Luna arranging socks, and another about Big Mac filling barrels of cider (although I just called him "Mac" in the problem... calling him "Big Mac" or "Macintosh" would reference other things a bit too much, I felt).
Im reading some answers that people are leaving in the comments and.....the answers hurt my thinker box more than the question
Yay! Twilight gets an episode! Hopefully we get another Rarity episode in the future too n.n
If only a question like that was in the math competition I went to today. :/
i hope i get another chance at an episode @TheRuggedBrony 9_6
Whoa. Rainbow Dash in a mathhead problem.
And we need a Galaxy Girls cartoon.
I'm not joking around this, but if you hear the song "K" from "Bump of chicken", twilight's head bob in perfect synchronization to the Drums :D
I demand similar animated gifs of the other characters.
Man, if I had the money and equipment I would go -banzai- with a Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls series.
There should be a Fort Collins Colorado meet.
@thingsclamsays
dude; you are awesome. If only you could get pony problems on the TCAP tests.
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