bloodaxegit wrote:I don't know how they're going to work spike getting wings, or in fact the way dragons grow. As we saw in Secret of my Excess, dragons grow with greed, but no wings throughout that growth. They may instead be based on age.
And Scootaloo flying... Didn't a lot of fans have the idea that she had some flight disability or something similar? I wonder if this'll make a few fan-fics obsolete...
yeah it'll be interesting, I think it was because scoot has smaller wings than normal :? maybe it'll be a generic *overcoming your disabilities* style episode :3 as for spike.......I have no ideas XD
bloodaxegit wrote:Sorry Frazzled, I was being a little silly. You're welcome to be talking about ponies with us, just don't go into any madly gory details. Otherwise, I'm happy for you to be here.
No hard feelings?
Anyhow, as the discussion was going, I think that although Wieners are voracious predators, the ponies of Equestria have long guarded their borders. They do fight off an army of Changelings in the season 2 finale for example. The magic of friendship is really about the power they can get from each other's qualities. The Elements of Harmony for example, are a Magic weapon which can only be wielded by the avatars of each aspect of friendship; Loyalty, Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter and Magic. With the Elements, the main cast have managed todefeat a chaos god, and the dark side of one of their rulers.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also guys, this may be fake, it was up on My Little Brony, but I've seen it elsewhere. But if this is real, well, season 3's going to be exciting, isn't it...
Spike- Wings
Scootaloo- Flying
I call a fake on that one, ive seen a fair bit of photoshop in my years on theis flying rock that is not inhabited by neon colored equestrians and something in that picture makes it reek of photoshop to me, dont get me wrong i want to see a flying chicken and little spike getting his wings in a kind of coming of age story line. but something about the picture and the tagline throws me off a little. also no showing on EQD if this was legit they would be all over it as it seems like the thing they would get before anyone else.
Well, in Ponyville Confidential, Scootaloo climbs a tree, but falls out, and tries to use her wings, but she still hits the ground (If you're wondering how I've remembered this, I've almost memorised a few episodes, Ponyville Confidential and Hurricane Fluttershy included, I've been watching them on my phone during long journeys, and an old phone can't hold many more than 5 episodes XD ).
Stupid Mondays. I'm usually up earlier because I don't work Sunday nights so get to bed earlier. Nothing going on at the FLGS. I've already watched all the new tv episodes that came out at the end of the last week. Internets still borked and there's only so much you can do on an iPhone. Soooo bored!
bloodaxegit wrote:Well, in Ponyville Confidential, Scootaloo climbs a tree, but falls out, and tries to use her wings, but she still hits the ground (If you're wondering how I've remembered this, I've almost memorised a few episodes, Ponyville Confidential and Hurricane Fluttershy included, I've been watching them on my phone during long journeys, and an old phone can't hold many more than 5 episodes XD ).
then yeah, she probbibly doesnt know how XD
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XD, brilliant.
I tried going to Westfield again, still no blind bags, they may have stopped selling them...
But tomorrow is another day, and Hamleys is a bigger store. So, I'm going to the centre of London to buy ponies. A floor of the girls' section. Oh joy.
If you fail your morale check and consider turning back, remember Commissar Joshi's words: Man up and buy your ponies. And feel like a boss while you do it.
That's handy, I'd better buy some Lego with it. Anybody's justified to buy that, right?
Also, have any of you seen this The Brony Song yet? It pretty much summarises every difficulty we can face as a fandom, and ends on a high note. All in all, it's pretty awesome.
its easy to buy ponys when you kidnap a small child and drag them through the store with you.
but in all seriousness i only have one place local where i can get ponys and for the past few weeks they havnt had any in. but soon i have been reliably informed that my local oldrids will be stocking them (a little over priced but thats oldrids) but asuming i have the nescisary funds i will be buying a few unless DP beats me to them.
KillerSkivil wrote:its easy to buy ponys when you kidnap a small child and drag them through the store with you.
but in all seriousness i only have one place local where i can get ponys and for the past few weeks they havnt had any in. but soon i have been reliably informed that my local oldrids will be stocking them (a little over priced but thats oldrids) but asuming i have the nescisary funds i will be buying a few unless DP beats me to them.
im fairly certain your going to get them all but 1 and then have some small child buy that one. im fairly certain its going to be a race to get them thats if i havnt spent all my money on warmachine or computer stuff. i only realy need my octavia as she is the all time best pony in ever and i should be set.
Self checkout... the only way to do it safely. The store near me that sometimes has them is big. Really big. There will be someone in there that you know, making every trip a stealth mission.
it may look even dodgeyer if you sneek into your local asda or where ever then sneak around the store to obtain ponies then going to the self checkout with nothing but ponies. if you walked in perfectly normaly and got some stuff other than ponies it would look alot more normal.
I must admit the self servace checkouts are a god send to nervous bronies. I am thinking that if you can grab a fellow brony to tag along for moral support it would go smoother. that or if your really desperate buy a cheap birthday card and some wrapping paper along with your pony (pro tip, buy ponies in bulk so you dont have to buy as much wrapping paper/ cards ) :3
Alright, a point of contention. How much, for want of a better phrase, "grimdark/less happy stuff" do we like in out fiction, etc? I'm thinking about things to do with the show, and know some people abhor it, some like the balance it adds to an otherwise bright fluffy world. I can see the argument from both points of view, and was wondering what people here thought. And also how dark I could get with the codex.
liquidjoshi wrote:Alright, a point of contention. How much, for want of a better phrase, "grimdark/less happy stuff" do we like in out fiction, etc? I'm thinking about things to do with the show, and know some people abhor it, some like the balance it adds to an otherwise bright fluffy world. I can see the argument from both points of view, and was wondering what people here thought. And also how dark I could get with the codex.
I'm not too fussed but I find the whole grimdark thing a bit meh, there needs to be some hope or some light at the end of the tunnel IMO, you cant just have everything going to gak lol
Oh god, Hamley's was awful. No blind bags, and they were selling brushmane ponies for £9, whereas I can buy them for £5 at the Sainsbury's on the way from the station. That is exactly what I did. One thing they did have was Twilight's balloon, a set in which she has a show-accurate mane, which is surprising for brushmane. It also includes Spike, so I may have to get that once I have money.
Liquidjoshi Let's go for using show canon, with a slight grimdark tint, shall we say?
bloodaxegit wrote:Oh god, Hamley's was awful. No blind bags, and they were selling brushmane ponies for £9, whereas I can buy them for £5 at the Sainsbury's on the way from the station. That is exactly what I did. One thing they did have was Twilight's balloon, a set in which she has a show-accurate mane, which is surprising for brushmane. It also includes Spike, so I may have to get that once I have money.
Liquidjoshi Let's go for using show canon, with a slight grimdark tint, shall we say?
damn :3 and £9 o.O I've seen the baloon though and there's three reasons why I want it: spike, twilight, droppod XD
Yeah, I'm after the balloon too, it'll be somewhat necessary for the RPG I'm making, as will Spike. I'm tempted by the show accurate Twilight, I may keep her accurate and make the one I already have into future Twilight. Who I did buy, was Applejack, and seeing as I already have her, I'm going to get some doll hair from ebay, and make a custom Carrot Top
Your doing better than me at the moment, my internet connection was cut a week ago by the ISP and should have returned yesterday but it didnt so i donr have a bloody clue whats going on with that
English schools are verry strict on thier internet usage but there can be ways around it. at my school we could change one setting on internet explorer and totaly bypass any form of internet block, whereas at mt college the only things that are blocked are things i would never want to see. even EQD is unblocked and that single handedly destroyed any level of productivity i would have had otherwise.
liquidjoshi wrote:The school internet filter blocked DP's image. Having said that, our internet (hay, our whole system) is utter gak.
And there would always be a light at the end of the tunnel, can't have everyponydying in MLP. That would suck!
best way round it, go to google translate and put in the web page you want and translate it from french to english and it should bypass the filter.....should :3 it worked for me for a while untill the school's admin got sick of everypony wasting time on newgrounds lol
putting an "s" after the http could work but i know for a fact it will destroy the conection speed as thats a totaly differant kind of page encryption but chances are that it may not work because the school will ban the sites ip address and not the HTML. the schools filter should be pretty badass and incredibly watertight.
KillerSkivil wrote:putting an "s" after the http could work but i know for a fact it will destroy the conection speed as thats a totaly differant kind of page encryption but chances are that it may not work because the school will ban the sites ip address and not the HTML. the schools filter should be pretty badass and incredibly watertight.
hmmm, so water tight if that it's anything like mine then youwont be getting onto GW's website anytime soon :3
the way that they find sites to block is through high trafic and url checking im guessing it was banned since there is the word "games" in the title and im asuming that you were constantly on it or a high number of people in your school were on it
I will still stand by my statement that Cupcakes was Awesome. Not because of the story itself, which was Meh, but for all the spoofs and spins offs it's generated. Just last night I found another hilarious Tumblr blog based off of its concept of Pinkamina. A Must Read! Doooooo eeeeeet!
AduroT wrote:I will still stand by my statement that Cupcakes was Awesome. Not because of the story itself, which was Meh, but for all the spoofs and spins offs it's generated. Just last night I found another hilarious Tumblr blog based off of its concept of Pinkamina. A Must Read! Doooooo eeeeeet!
So, Since everyone has been saying "don't read/watch Cupcakes" I did, just to see what it was about.
I want more of whoever wrote that. It was amazing. It was extremely gruesome(for MLP. I've read worse stuff in the BL books) but I just had to know how/if they catch Pinkie.
I now hope more gets written by the same guy continuing from after Pinkie breaks out.
I think that the Grimdark fanfics have had some brilliant lasting effects other than the stories. Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory left us with some really awesome music, and brilliant spoofs, like Rainbow Dash presents Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla.
bloodaxegit wrote:I think that the Grimdark fanfics have had some brilliant lasting effects other than the stories. Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory left us with some really awesome music, and brilliant spoofs, like Rainbow Dash presents Captain Hook the Biker Gorilla.
Wow... hats off to Hasbro. They certainly know their target audience. I just hope enough numbers are shifted to show them we are still a viable outlet for their products.
In other news, I'm going to be away for a while, and don't know if I'll have internet, so here's some things before I go:
Keep the thread alive, try not to get it locked. (I know it won't, but I'm paranoid about these things.)
This is great, and gets my recommendation... as well as a space on my MP3.
DP: I've still not decided about the commission, but as soon as I've got some things sorted (Read: I've sold my Orks) then I'll let you know. I definitely want something though, so you will get a commission from me.
Sure I will, creative writing at Cambridge for a week. If I have internet there then I'll be fine. And hopefully posting here. In the event that I don't, however...
liquidjoshi wrote:Sure I will, creative writing at Cambridge for a week. If I have internet there then I'll be fine. And hopefully posting here. In the event that I don't, however...
oooh, sounds good ^^ (pony fan-fic maybe ). cambridge uni I'll take it?
Actually, I have been writing something. but it wouldn't go further than my own PC. Not Cambridge though, it's in Foxton which is pretty close (apparently).
liquidjoshi wrote:Actually, I have been writing something. but it wouldn't go further than my own PC. Not Cambridge though, it's in Foxton which is pretty close (apparently).
cool ^^ I might be going to ruskin so hopefully there will be one local brony lol
We should be fine, Even if i can't actually see you on account of never opening my eyes. You just have to look for the guy that looks just like everyone else.
I need to make a Fluttershy custom. I'm missing her and Rarity from having a full set of the Mane6 out of the Blind Bags, but the Blind Bag Fluttershy doesn't look like Fluttershy.
AduroT wrote:I need to make a Fluttershy custom. I'm missing her and Rarity from having a full set of the Mane6 out of the Blind Bags, but the Blind Bag Fluttershy doesn't look like Fluttershy.
same here, she's sat on my shelf not looking right and I need to sort it out :? kinda wish I had less raritys TBH I've got like 2 spare and 2 clones :3
I just watche party.mov and was amazed at how weird these things are getting. im realy wanting to see swag.mov seeing what the hell they can do in that that will be better than magic or shed.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Sorry, Luna jokes are getting old... However, these started showing up on Derpibooru, which made me chuckle: Luna punching things, from Celestia to Chuck Norris...
bloodaxegit wrote:Huzzah; the quotes have been doubled!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Sorry, Luna jokes are getting old...
However, these started showing up on Derpibooru, which made me chuckle:
Luna punching things, from Celestia to Chuck Norris...
AduroT wrote:I have the urge to post the one of Luna punching down Chuck Norris in the Norris vs Gay Boy Scouts thread, but I'd probably get in trouble for it.
well.....that is....if that's ok with you.........sorry
Sturmtruppen wrote:Just searching 'Woona' is a gateway to much pleasure.
Exhibit B:
Spoiler:
Anyhow, it's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm going to order a lot of ponies from the US, Shirts, Trading cards, DVDs, the official Lyra, Trixie, Vinyl, Zecora and, of course, the official Derpy.
Anyhow, it's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm going to order a lot of ponies from the US, Shirts, Trading cards, DVDs, the official Lyra, Trixie, Vinyl, Zecora and, of course, the official Derpy.
A 'Bronie' holds up a plush Applejack at an April meet-up in this file photo. The fans of "My Little Pony: Bronies are fans of the show "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic&" and often collect T-shirts, pins and stuffed toys.
It may simply be the fact that the Brony community allows (with it's Love and Tolerance stance) those who would otherwise be too ashamed to travel and meet others, a place where they can fulfil the human need of community without fear of ostrization.
And this seems no different than... well any article bashing anything nerdy. Remember a few months ago when they were interviewing Unwashed neckbeards that Wargamed? Or when they interviewed those same neckbeards about PnP RPGS? Or when they interviewed them for MMOs/Video games in general?
To make their lives seem better, they pick on a group with an "Unusual" (Nerdy) hobby, find the example to best prove their point, and that guy becomes the hobby's posterchild.
What will(or would if anyone cared what Mike Nelson thought, since he has been unimportant since MST3K ended.) bite him in the ass is most of his fans are prolly bronies too.
I assume you mean as host and I agree. Joel created the show and much of the charm in the attitude of the show, especially in the host segments was gone after he left. However, Mike Nelson was head writer from very early on including while Joel was there. The combo of Joel at the helm and Nelson head writing and doing great hilarious appearances in the sketches was fantastic. I watch my Joel MST3K DVDs most of all, much more than the shows after Joel left. If you're a Joel fan, then you must check out www.cinematictitanic.com We've seen Cinematic Titanic live five times and own the DVDs, great stuff.
Not to mention the photo they used for the article wasn't even about the convention in the story. They had to dig up a stock photo from April.
The fact that someone knows this is a reminder of how scary "bronyism" really is to the rest of humanity.
Not to mention the photo they used for the article wasn't even about the convention in the story. They had to dig up a stock photo from April.
The fact that someone knows this is a reminder of how scary "bronyism" really is to the rest of humanity.
Or the fact I know that might be because I Read The Caption To The Photo That YOU Posted Under It. Or did you not even bother to read what you yourself posted, instead just cherry picking one unfavorable quote and photo to post along side what is actually a rather neutral article?
Or the fact I know that might be because I Read The Caption To The Photo That YOU Posted Under It. Or did you not even bother to read what you yourself posted, instead just cherry picking one unfavorable quote and photo to post along side what is actually a rather neutral article?
Scary and getting scarier. Yeah, the article was neutral or even favorable, but not some of the comments here which support Michael Nelson's comment about it.
Also, they opened up a new box of the blind bags at Walmart, so I rounded out my set of the Mane Six. Went ahead and grabbed the special Pinkie Pie as well. Still want to do a custom Fluttershy to replace the recolored Rainbow Dash version here when I'm feeling less lazy.
Or the fact I know that might be because I Read The Caption To The Photo That YOU Posted Under It. Or did you not even bother to read what you yourself posted, instead just cherry picking one unfavorable quote and photo to post along side what is actually a rather neutral article?
Scary and getting scarier. Yeah, the article was neutral or even favorable, but not some of the comments here which support Michael Nelson's comment about it.
It's scary that he read the caption?
In any event, I've only ever met three people who would admit to being bronies in person and (gasp!) they all looked like normal people.
Hell, I barely consider myself a brony, having only watched 4 episodes ever. At this point, I just have the avatar to troll non-Bronies, though I think my trolling masterpiece will be painting my unit of Cryx Soul Hunters and Darragh Wrathe like the six main characters from the show. The nerd rage from serious business Warmachine players will be absolutely delicious.
Only one I've encountered was normal, but every person in these pictures about obsessive bronies look like they just crawled out of the basement for the first time.
I honestly pity them, but I'm also annoyed at them (and neckbeards in other communities as well) because they make the community as a whole look bad to the rest of society.
I guess you could say watching MLP is creepy, but I'm pretty sure a grown man watching teeny boppers on the Disney Channel is several degrees more disturbing.
Well, the pictures are from a convention, and it seems like conventions in general, whether for ponies or comic books or tabletop games seem to bring out the most obsessive and socially awkward people in a given fandom.
Yeah, that's very true. I think the show is great and I even have a couple MLP inspired songs that I listen to, but I don't care about anything (other than 40k maybe) to go to a convention just for it.
Sad they didn't go with Dr Whooves, Timey-wimey makes up for it....A little.
From what i have read in another thread about those cards, Time Turner is really more fitting than you think.
One:
The Doctor is never called "Dr Who" in the series, he is just "The Doctor".
For this reason, it would be wrong to call the pony character "Dr Whooves" anyway.
Two:
When taking an alias in a place, the regular Doctor calls himself "John Smith".
When taking an alias in a place, the ponyversion of the Doctor calls himself "Time Turner", at least in the Dr Whooves & Assistant Fanseries .....
Happier now?
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Now i need to know what you here think (again) about a part of the game i'm trying to make:
I plan to make it more obvious that the group in the starter assignments are a kind of a Task Force, probably put together by Inquisitor Twilight.
What would your suggestions for it be, if they were to be (at least more) proper to WH40K? (This is what i am aiming for with this idea).
It is important that all still has Power Armor, so that may require some tweaking of 40K canon anyway.
I have thought of these ideas:
* Kill Team.
* Inquisitorial retinue, Inquisitor Rulebook style rather than WH40K -rules. (The Iron Hoof --> Adeptus Mech, the UltraPony --> Acolyte) This variant do makes me unsure of how to define the Royal Hooves (has Power Hooves, by the way) and the BloodMare (the most agile), though.
If any of you have other suggestions, i'm welcome to hear them, as well.
woo, I'm happy that pon-3 and octavia are now canon, same goes for the others in those cards.
as for bronies being fat neck beards.....I'm not fat and shave regular :? Same goes for the other five bronies that I know. as for war gamers that I know....well' there's a few who might be a bit on the large side.....
as for brassscorpion, It's moments like this when I really wish I didn’t have to share a world with people as ignorant as you. tell me, have you ever met a brony in real life? have you ever seen the show? if the answer to those questions is no then would you kindly take your misinformed opinions somewhere else.
Sad they didn't go with Dr Whooves, Timey-wimey makes up for it....A little.
From what i have read in another thread about those cards, Time Turner is really more fitting than you think.
One:
The Doctor is never called "Dr Who" in the series, he is just "The Doctor".
For this reason, it would be wrong to call the pony character "Dr Whooves" anyway.
Two:
When taking an alias in a place, the regular Doctor calls himself "John Smith".
When taking an alias in a place, the ponyversion of the Doctor calls himself "Time Turner", at least in the Dr Whooves & Assistant Fanseries .....
Oh damn, I tried posting, it was doubled, and now one has disappeared. That's my trusty 7-year old PC for you...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Wow, my family are amazing! My brother drew a "Great and Powerful Cryxie" card for me, my parents made a Rarity card for me, and my mum made A SONIC RAINBOOM CAKE. Pics will come shortly.
bloodaxegit wrote:Oh damn, I tried posting, it was doubled, and now one has disappeared. That's my trusty 7-year old PC for you...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Wow, my family are amazing! My brother drew a "Great and Powerful Cryxie" card for me, my parents made a Rarity card for me, and my mum made A SONIC RAINBOOM CAKE. Pics will come shortly.
I want your family D: hope you had an awesome day ^^
Ihave officialy run out of things to watch, literaly i have watched all the anime i can, ive watched both seasons of MLP almost 5 times now, started playing then promptly got bored of quite a few games, played the hell out of the minecraft technic pack, fixed evry computer im my posession, done as much painting as a human being can do before getting driven to madness, tried doing D.I.Y (it didnt go well). this is going to be a long holiday.
Conclusion: i either need more anime or ponies or interesting video games (ones that i can be bothered to play) i have something close to 6 weeks to fill with something and i cant just sleep all day (by celestia i want too). can anyone help relive these problems.... please...... anyone......... please.........
Hmm... Well Season 1 of Adventure Time comes out on DVD later this month, That'll keep me distracted for a little while.
But I'm kinda the same way right now. Going through Skyrim's DLC, but that'll fill a couple more days at best. I got some Tetras to paint for my Tau, once again a couple days max.... Hell I might Start Fantasy just so I have two rulesets and two armies to work on to tide me over for some time. And I guess I could IV breed some Trapinches but I want to hold off on any more Pokemon until BW2 come out in America. Let the Smogon Meta Settle.
Have you considered TVTropes? Best way I know of to eat entire days. And it'll probably introduce you to some interesting new animes, and remind you of amazing shows that you haven't seen in forever.
Or, go back in time! Looney Tunes, old Disney shorts and movies, maybe stop by your local Library and see if they have the original Dr. Who shows...
Speaking of Libraries, they can take up time themselves! Just go in and start browsing the shelves. Wander around the Reference and Nonfiction sections, see if you find anything interesting. Look up modelling books. Browse the Fantasy and Sci-Fi sections for interesting sounding titles. I found one book called Forge of the Ancients that was pretty awesome, and the old Sci-fi greats, like Heinlein and Asimov have large bodies of work.
I'm watching Game of thrones during the season break, and I'm working on custom ponies. But when I run out of episodes of Game of Thrones... that's when I'll start to lose my mind...
Oh god! Why would you do that? Why would you remind me I have to wait for new episodes of Thrones as well as Ponies?! Damn you season breaks! Damn you to Tartarus!
I honestly cant be bothered to play through skyrim at the moment, ive had it since launch day and the furthest i have got is puting the disk in my PS3 then playing megaman 9 because thats on the startup menu. I dont want to start watching any of the realy long animes like naruto, bleach or one peice as i will never finish watching them. i have seen an aweful lot of looney tunes and other such disney cartoons when i was younger and have no real intention of watching them again.
interstingly i do have a local library but it is almost entirely childrens books and the few bits of stuff for my age group and intrests is a couple of starwars novels (that i already have my own personal copies of). my local libary is pretty devoid of anything of intrest to people above the age of 7. i honestly wish that this area wasnt so boring, literaly there is nothing to do bar the local games club and thats only on wednesday nights.
well, I've been watching full metal alchemist thanks to SOMEPONY *glares at skivil for making me loose sleep* and it's pretty good. it's not MLP but it's something. other than that I have no games I can be bothered to pla,. guild wars is fun for about a hour and skyrim is getting tedious. silent hill 2&3 almost made me fall alseep (go into a bathroom, find a needle, go to another bathroom and find a thread, then go to each room in a certain order then go back to the first bathroom and use the thread and key to fish a key out of a plug hole the..... ) and I cant physically play through no more heros for the 20th time......I need the new season soon............
and I also ran out of game of thrones episodes to watch
KillerSkivil wrote:I honestly cant be bothered to play through skyrim at the moment, ive had it since launch day and the furthest i have got is puting the disk in my PS3 then playing megaman 9 because thats on the startup menu. I dont want to start watching any of the realy long animes like naruto, bleach or one peice as i will never finish watching them. i have seen an aweful lot of looney tunes and other such disney cartoons when i was younger and have no real intention of watching them again.
interstingly i do have a local library but it is almost entirely childrens books and the few bits of stuff for my age group and intrests is a couple of starwars novels (that i already have my own personal copies of). my local libary is pretty devoid of anything of intrest to people above the age of 7. i honestly wish that this area wasnt so boring, literaly there is nothing to do bar the local games club and thats only on wednesday nights.
What about the Abridged Series on Youtube? All the plot of the anime but cut down into bite-sized chunks which also parody the show!
KillerSkivil wrote:I honestly cant be bothered to play through skyrim at the moment, ive had it since launch day and the furthest i have got is puting the disk in my PS3 then playing megaman 9 because thats on the startup menu. I dont want to start watching any of the realy long animes like naruto, bleach or one peice as i will never finish watching them. i have seen an aweful lot of looney tunes and other such disney cartoons when i was younger and have no real intention of watching them again.
interstingly i do have a local library but it is almost entirely childrens books and the few bits of stuff for my age group and intrests is a couple of starwars novels (that i already have my own personal copies of). my local libary is pretty devoid of anything of intrest to people above the age of 7. i honestly wish that this area wasnt so boring, literaly there is nothing to do bar the local games club and thats only on wednesday nights.
What about the Abridged Series on Youtube? All the plot of the anime but cut down into bite-sized chunks which also parody the show!
there are abridged series but i realy dont want to watch any of that kind of anime, i frankly dont like the premice of any of them, for example:
Naruto: "im a ninja, i must be cool"
Bleach: "not even god knows whats going on here, i must be cool"
One piece: "im a pirate, i must be cool"
i do know there a little more indeph than this but that is pretty much what i get from all of them and find it rather boring, though i may re watch dragonball Z because cartoon network and toonami was my childhood. from 8 oclock onwards it was nothing but Dragonball and other such anime, since i didnt understand Dragonball in the slightest when i was younger (and was probably drawn in by the colors) i think i may watch it again so i can attempt to figure out the plot.
basicly what i got from it as a kid was they would charge an attack for about 3 episodes, meanwhile playing flashbacks. and then miss. then have 5 minuites to escape somewhere and this will then take about 5 30 minuite episodes. DBZ logic makes no sence
I feel that was more or less the Magic of One Piece. But it's just gotten SOOOOOO LONG! You have to dedicate Skyrim Levels of time to watching it.
Each episode is about 23 Minutes At 554 episodes, at 3 episodes an hour (possible if you skip the Opening/closing credits and watch on Netflix/anywhere else commercial free) you are looking at about 185 hours of anime to watch.
I did like when it was first aired on Toonami and watched it faithfully before it was removed from basic Cable. I want to watch it again, but when we are talking 185 hours..... it's Daunting. I just don't think I can do it. I barely got through all of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The only problem there is that both series are worth watching, and Brotherhood is much better to watch second. Reason being that the original has a lot of filler in it such that the first half of the original is covered in like the first five or ten episodes of Brotherhood before the stories really diverge.
I don't know how to continue with the game ...
Or rather, i probably know how, but my clearly lacking selfesteem (i'm very self-certain, but my self esteem ... is not that good), makes me feel as if i don't know what to do ...
I clearly has ideas, but getting them done ... is .. something else.
It's all about perserverance. Also, don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. I'm certain that there's people on this forum that could help you with a little coding, or writing, or designing levels and stages.
Hehe.
I have a history of "just do it" not working very often for me .... but sometimes it does.
I had to call someone i'm quite well aquainted with, and after half an hour of talking i felt icould do something.
..so i have started on making a "basic" Adeptus Mech, that will replace the Iron Hoof in the first missions.
In essence, the plan is to replace all in the "beginner squad" with a kind of Inquisitorial retinue, but far more according to Inquisitor Rulebook rules, than offical WH40K - rules.
However, i do falter in making things, often due to ... ... I can't even describe why, at the moment.
In a way, my lack of self esteem seems to fool me into feeling that i can't do things, even when i know i can.
It might be something else than lack of self esteem ... but i'm not certain what it is, except that i have some mental scarring after ... years of very flawed support.
Anyway ...
Thank you
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Anvildude wrote:It's all about perserverance. Also, don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it. I'm certain that there's people on this forum that could help you with a little coding, or writing, or designing levels and stages.
Thank you, too.
Right now, it isn't the codings or the ideas i lack.
I tend to lack "go", so to speak, far more often than any of those things.
I might be called an attention-seeker, and perhaps that is what i am, since when i get attention, i often find i have "go" too.
.... It try to not ask for attention very often though, since i know how annoying and disturbing that can be.
I'd really like to find a better way, but thus far, i have not.
Oh, I know just what you mean. I can't really get behind something very well unless I'm in the "mood" to work on it. The thing is, don't ever, EVER completely abandon a project that is dear to you. Leave it on the back burner, heck, put it in the freezer and forget about it for a few years if you have to, but always be willing to come back to it- re-do it, build upon it, use what you've learned to further your creations.
Anvildude wrote:Oh, I know just what you mean. I can't really get behind something very well unless I'm in the "mood" to work on it. The thing is, don't ever, EVER completely abandon a project that is dear to you. Leave it on the back burner, heck, put it in the freezer and forget about it for a few years if you have to, but always be willing to come back to it- re-do it, build upon it, use what you've learned to further your creations.
This. Just do what you feel like doing as you feel like doing it, but never discard your old projects. If you try to force yourself to doing something, you'll regret the final project. If you just flat out abandon it, you'll always be left working what could have been
Anvildude wrote:Oh, I know just what you mean. I can't really get behind something very well unless I'm in the "mood" to work on it. The thing is, don't ever, EVER completely abandon a project that is dear to you. Leave it on the back burner, heck, put it in the freezer and forget about it for a few years if you have to, but always be willing to come back to it- re-do it, build upon it, use what you've learned to further your creations.
Perhaps you do, perhaps you don't.
I can be in the mood of working on something, but still not get it done, perhaps because i unconciously/subconciously secondguesses myself ....
As for projects .... i have at least 10 other games unfinished, totally in the fridge, so to speak.
At least 2 other is other GM8 Computergames.
At least 1 other is a Card Game
At least 2 others is miniature-based Boardgames.
... And the rest is "tabletop" Rpgs.
I take any chance i can to reawaken any of them, except the computer games, as long as i have the "Equestria K" to work on, because i do not want it to join the club of unfinished projects ....
I made a thread about one of the "frozen" miniature games in a thread here on Dakka a few weeks ago ... but i have gotten No_respons_whatsoever to it yet.
Tiina Brown wrote:
In essence, the plan is to replace all in the "beginner squad" with a kind of Inquisitorial retinue, but far more according to Inquisitor Rulebook rules, than offical WH40K - rules.
How accurate is Dawn of War to TT? Not at all. So don't worry about it. It doesn't matter how close it is to TT, closeness to fluff is probably more important in games like this. That doesn't mean you have to stick to the fluff 100% (in a project like this, that's pretty much impossible) but keep it balanced.
In essence: TT balance doesn't matter.
Keep it fluffy, as much as you can in this project, but don't forsake originality.
Make it fun. A bit of hyperbole is allowed.
liquidjoshi wrote: .. closeness to fluff is probably more important in games like this. That doesn't mean you have to stick to the fluff 100% (in a project like this, that's pretty much impossible) but keep it balanced.
In essence: TT balance doesn't matter.
Keep it fluffy, as much as you can in this project, but don't forsake originality.
Make it fun. A bit of hyperbole is allowed.
It was exactly the fluff i was thinking about.
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I just got an idea of the origin to this story, or rather, i got an idea on how to make the original idea work .... with some more fitting tweaks.
However, it involves a heated transmission between Marneus Calgar(, that is on a planet with his Ultramarines, fighting against a kind of Undivided Deamon Prince and its army), and an Inquisitor (that aims to do Exterminatus on said planet ASAP).
However, i don't think i know the ... proper phrasings enough to give it the needed WH40K - feel.
Can any of you help me on that?
Why the planet is supposed to be destroyed?
Well, it involves a mess of a situation:
A "Master Chronus", obsessed with the idea of using the Warp to travel back in time to prevent the Horus Heresy, has invented what he calls a "Warp Inverter" that is supposed to pit the 4 chaosforces of the warp against themselves, thereby resulting in some energy that seems to be the only energy that can make his alleged "time machine" function.
But, as he started the machine, and warp started to get sucked in into the machine, a few things happened, one, the planet's atmosphere started to become red, and the Undivided Deamon Prince, calling itself "Discordant Perpetua" and his army showed up.
Oh, and even though the planet had been noted as an agricultural planet, the Inquisitor hellbent on its destruction, has found in way earlier scripts, that there didn't use to be any planet there ....
The planet?
It didn't use to be there ... and after the hamonized energies from the warp inverter (yup, the warp inverter did invert, kind of nullified, the warp it sucked up,) continued to envelop the planet ... it eventually vanished from the WH40K - universe .....
The time machine also worked, but it scattered several of the things across the times of the place where they came to ....
The planet and most of its regular inhabitants ... well they came "early", and it is uncertain if the planet became Equestria, or ... not.
The Inverter got destroyed, as did the Time Machine ... (?)
The place has no warp, magic is a part of everything natural ... However, there is an oncoming storm, the question is only when it will arrive, along with the Bad Dragon and other things ....
Ohhh.....
Sorry, i got out of hand there ....
At this you may guess that the game was supposed to be really large, but i guess i can be happy if i manages to at least pull off a fraction of it ....
So I actually ordered the new 40k rulebook, alongside the Fantasy Rulebook and the VC army book, so I now have two rulesets/metas to learn and 2 armies to play.
Should give me enough to fill the hole between now and season three.
Only problem is now I have to fill the time between now and Wednesday (I spent the extra money to send it Priority Express).
.....
Also spent all of Friday and Saturday studying my HAM Radio General test. After 45 consective hours of Studying, I did pass my test and killed some time. Gonna start on my Amateur Extra so I can try and fill the void of Noponies.
Iur_tae_mont wrote:So I actually ordered the new 40k rulebook, alongside the Fantasy Rulebook and the VC army book, so I now have two rulesets/metas to learn and 2 armies to play.
Should give me enough to fill the hole between now and season three.
Only problem is now I have to fill the time between now and Wednesday (I spent the extra money to send it Priority Express).
.....
Also spent all of Friday and Saturday studying my HAM Radio General test. After 45 consective hours of Studying, I did pass my test and killed some time. Gonna start on my Amateur Extra so I can try and fill the void of Noponies.
I've already got my rulebook :3
I would say that you should have gone Pegasus Express on the delivery option but then remembered that your items just end up falling on Twilight's head if you do.
They had that option, believe it or not. And I almost went for it, but.... Well If it's dropped on Twilight's Head, that puts it in Equestria. And I can't drive all the way out there and expect to make it back in time for work(well I also can't drive period. I get yelled at by 75 year old women that I'm driving too slow). That's just not going to happen.
edit: After reading what was quoted, I could see how my earlier post could come off as somewhat donkey cave-ish. so yeah. Didn't mean for it to come off that way.
well, apparently getting a good assassin build on guild wars can distract me from season 3 for a while but I've been thinking (after reading my little dashy), which pony would you guys want in that situation (only without the ending :3, that would be sad). I ended up thinking that fluttershy would be best pony for the situation, though that's maybe down to the dwaaaaar factor. or dash if I could keep up with her :3
edit: still waiting on my rulebook too :3 Englands postponies seem to be pretty slow :/
DPB, i love your sisters. they are a verry beautiful army (and im not just saying that because there all women) but the color you went for fo the army isnt an obvious choice but suits them all too well and its depresing that they have to share the page with copy-paste grey knights. but they are seriously the best pictures of your army out there, now all you need to do is paint the rest of it to the same standard and you will have one of the best armies i have ever seen.
Those are some beautiful sister you've got there, mate!
How did you do the sword like that! I've failed at that technique so many times with my DE, yet you've pulled it off wonderfully! Good job.
bloodaxegit wrote:Those are some beautiful sister you've got there, mate!
How did you do the sword like that! I've failed at that technique so many times with my DE, yet you've pulled it off wonderfully! Good job.
just normal blending TBH, cant really explain it :3
bloodaxegit wrote:Those are some beautiful sister you've got there, mate!
How did you do the sword like that! I've failed at that technique so many times with my DE, yet you've pulled it off wonderfully! Good job.
just normal blending TBH, cant really explain it :3
yeah your power weapons amaze me, you should do a tutorial on how you do those just to share the skill with all us lesser mortals, i would love to be able to do that on my power weapons instead of painting them silver and hopeing nobody will notice how bad they look.
bloodaxegit wrote:Those are some beautiful sister you've got there, mate!
How did you do the sword like that! I've failed at that technique so many times with my DE, yet you've pulled it off wonderfully! Good job.
just normal blending TBH, cant really explain it :3
yeah your power weapons amaze me, you should do a tutorial on how you do those just to share the skill with all us lesser mortals, i would love to be able to do that on my power weapons instead of painting them silver and hopeing nobody will notice how bad they look.
And that's why I play Tau, not a power weapon in sight
bloodaxegit wrote:Those are some beautiful sister you've got there, mate!
How did you do the sword like that! I've failed at that technique so many times with my DE, yet you've pulled it off wonderfully! Good job.
just normal blending TBH, cant really explain it :3
yeah your power weapons amaze me, you should do a tutorial on how you do those just to share the skill with all us lesser mortals, i would love to be able to do that on my power weapons instead of painting them silver and hopeing nobody will notice how bad they look.
Sturmtruppen....That was awesome bro. I want a MP3.
Tiina Brown, just promise us you won't delete anything you did with the game. Just put it aside and work on it as you want.
DPBellathrom, I really liked the Colors you chose for the Sisters, everyone has brought up your Power weapons(which were really awesome BTW) but no one mentioned those completely amazing hand painted banners.
Iur_tae_mont wrote:
Tiina Brown, just promise us you won't delete anything you did with the game. Just put it aside and work on it as you want.
Don't worry, for two reasons:
One: I'll probably keep the currently saved file on it.
Two: Most of the things i did for the Game is really a part of the Dollhouse, too ....
i saw most of it in a livestream the othernight, it got to 3:30 AM and i was still watching, i was constsntly thinking one more sketch.... until i eventualy fell asleep with my laptop on.
News Fresh in from EQD at Comic con. apparently at the MLP pannel it was hinted that in season 3 there would be a octavia and rarity duet, fluttershy dragon (apparently fluttershy will turn into a dragon) and more Trixie has been confirmed for season 3. also a song from the new series featuring spike and twilight was debuted and i will be posting a link to it when i can get ahold of it. so there is some cool stuff going on down there (if only i could be there)
KillerSkivil wrote:News Fresh in from EQD at Comic con. apparently at the MLP pannel it was hinted that in season 3 there would be a octavia and rarity duet, fluttershy dragon (apparently fluttershy will turn into a dragon) and more Trixie has been confirmed for season 3. also a song from the new series featuring spike and twilight was debuted and i will be posting a link to it when i can get ahold of it. so there is some cool stuff going on down there (if only i could be there)
yay for more trixie but dragonshy? it's an odd idea but I'm sure the team can pull it off :3
More Trixie? Could be fun, but honestly I keep hoping to see more villains/antagonists in general. As cool as Trixie was, imagine if they had done another Trixie episode seasons 2 instead of giving us Flim and Flam with their delightful song.
also news about derpy, she will not be apearing in any speaking rolls, however she will stay as a background character
Octavia (alltime best pony ever) and her duet with rarity was possibly teased when Cathy Weseluck came out with an "awesome" voice for her and hinted at a duet with rarity (im looking forward to this as rarity has a great singing voice and some of her songs are my faverioutes)
more crazy ponies, probably like Party of One and Lesson Zero. who out of the mane 6 hasnt had a breakdown yet, this could be interesting
some hype for luna, hopefully she will do something this season.
thats all ive got so far, hopefully a video of the pannel will appear so i can pu that up for you all.
im asuming that both songs are in the first episode because otherwise they wouldnt reveal them this early, also they gve away no plot points other than the crystal ponies and that cadence has somthing to do with them. wild speculation here but if you remember those caves from the end of season 2 chrysalis said that they used to be mined by unicorns i am asuming that they are the crystal ponies. but i honestly dont know whats going on with them
Just remembered, Princes Cadence cutie mark is a crystal heart. Considering how good the last two episodes were, it gives me hope that allot of thought and planning was put into season 3
Hmm... Celestia is the Day, Luna is the Night. Is Cadence the Dawn and Dusk? (or maybe Cadence is the Dawn, and Twilight is being groomed towards the position of Dusk?)
Or perhaps Celestia and Luna are the overseers of the Surface and the Heavens, while Cadence is Underseer of the Underground?
Hmm .....
First, expect specific "Crystal ponies" to be released this autumn .....
Second, Cadance is not related to Night and Day, since she is Love.
Third, By now, the animators has done all the basic movements, so they can do a bit more on details, such as the flowing hair.
Fourth: Given quite great measure of free reins, the makers of the series probably thrive on info, but avoid getting locked by it, therefor DJPON3 in the wedding celebration ... but with magenta eyes and not red.
I would not be surprised if the crystal pony - thing may have been in the works(or at least plans) already last year, therefor Cadance got a crystal heart as cutiemark, but also that the caves was added in .....
So, I've the first and the last page of this thread. This show quite a... following. Seems like every 3rd guy on Twitter has a MPL avatar.
I watch a lot of cartoons and imoFriendship is magic is pretty good. It's fun, as a simple, yet striking look and great characters. It's not my favourite cartoon (that would be TMNT 2003), nor the best (The last Airbender) I've ever seen, but it's still pretty good. Though I don't quite get that huge following the show has.
And for the record, I'd kinda wish my favourite pony would be Rainbow Dash, but it's Pinky Pie.
There's just something about Pinkie Pie that makes her everyone's favourite at some point. IDK why.
As for the thread, well, the first and last pages tell very different stories. I'm just glad we moved out of that phase, some incredibly inappropriate comments were made back then.
anyone else kinda hoping for crystal golem style ponies....like ponies MADE of crystals...maybe have some dwarven style story going on hence why their in trouble...or is that just me :3
I'm really happy that their going to be making more episodes about cadence seeing as we know pretty much nothing about her although I dont really think she has anything to do with night, day or anything inbetween.
and when will you lot learn that rainbow dash is best pony :3
Fell asleep at compute so here comes a mass reply!
AduroT, That was pretty good.
DPBellathrom, I'm thinking it'll be literal dwarven ponies (beards and all) that use crystals in all of their crafting endeavors. I do what to see some Crystal Golems though.
And, while I want Rainbow Dash to be my Favorite pony.....*points at avatar*
Just as a demonstration of how utterly pervasive and inescapable ponyfication is, I'm currently reading a trilogy of Star Wars novels called the Thrawn trilogy. For those unfamiliar with it, it's about a guy called Grand Admiral Thrawn, who looks like this:
Sturmtruppen wrote:Just as a demonstration of how utterly pervasive and inescapable ponyfication is, I'm currently reading a trilogy of Star Wars novels called the Thrawn trilogy. For those unfamiliar with it, it's about a guy called Grand Admiral Thrawn, who looks like this:
I'm a fan of Twilight. She would make the best Librarian in Terminator armor, or Chaos Terminator Sorcerer Lord........ Hmm, I am working on updating my Chaos army, and it is Tzeentch themed.. (Yes I know this has been done, I just need to do one as well.)
If Thrawn Pony was in charge of Equestria, the Stormponies would have shot Nightmare Moon on sight, the mane 6 would know exactly where the Elements of Harmony were without going into Discord's maze, and the Changeling invasion would have been invaded.
Sturmtruppen wrote:If Thrawn Pony was in charge of Equestria, the Stormponies would have shot Nightmare Moon on sight, the mane 6 would know exactly where the Elements of Harmony were without going into Discord's maze, and the Changeling invasion would have been invaded.
... And how many ponies would have died in the process?
Well without turning this into a Star Wars thread, I'll answer that question then we should move on.
Spoiler:
Grand Admiral Thrawn is the main antagonist in the novels Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command, collectively known as The Thrawn Trilogy. Written by Timothy Zahn, they were the first novels written to depict events taking place after Return of the Jedi, and focus on the campaign of Grand Admiral Thrawn, a Chiss with incredible abilities of pyschoanalysis of entire species by examining the art that culture has produced, as well as tactical foresight and being able to predict almost every move and thought of others.
AduroT wrote:Indeed. There have been quite a few Pinkie Pyro references since that Meet The Pyro video came out. Just one more reason why Pinkie Pie is Best Pony.
I eventually have plans to make a Royal Guard-themed Renegade IG army. So far, I've got plans to use Victoria Miniatures on Pistolier heads. Stay tuned for September, when the time I've alloted for them comes.
DarkStarSabre wrote:Crap. Derpy was a SDCC exclusive?
Gah. That makes the cost of my Cold One unit plans rather high.
Plan is to have them so they can be taken off the cold ones....
And mounted on Derpies.
Best Stupidity Failure EVER.
Yeah, they're going for around $80 a figure on eBay. I've been stalking HTS since Monday morning waiting for the leftover stock(California law requires them to hold extras for exchange of damaged purchases) to go up so I could get ONE at retail price. At SDCC itself, they sold out of Derby(and I hear the $125 Jem doll, too) first day.
I was able to complete my order, refreshed the exclusives page and she was sold out(along with everything except the Helicarrier, Masters of Evil, Star Wars carbonite set, and zombie Cliffjumper). All of that happened in about 5 minutes, btw.
Wait a minute. How come it's not until I saw this extra large pic of it that I noticed Foal Free Press is printed in an alphabet of letters being randomly flipped around and upside down (including the word 'free' written backwards), and also that it's endorsed by the Ultramarines?
EDIT: Also, just checked EQD, they say MLP won't air in August, but the true date will be announced a month in advance, and 'The Crystal Pony' DVD will be released in December so it's definitely airing soon.
) and I cant physically play through no more heros for the 20th time......I need the new season soon............
He's the coolest character that ever came out of the expanded universe.
