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Re: February General Discussion Thread: A Brave New Horse Ye

Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:10 am

Huh...I wonder if they'll be any new writers for the show that come from adult shows?
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Postby Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:49 pm

My favorite background pony is and has always been Octavia.

but don't tell ponygoon Octavia or he'll be smug, okay guys? :twonk:
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:55 pm

I wish she made a cameo or something.

:vogue: Of course the Ponytones can include a fifth member. Octavia would you mind rewriting our parts again to include a mezzo-soprano?

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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:58 pm

It'd be nice to have Octavia make another appearance. Particularly if it's in a concert in Canterlot or something...
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:20 pm

Grilox wrote:My favorite background pony is and has always been Octavia.

but don't tell ponygoon Octavia or he'll be smug, okay guys? :twonk:

Why would I be smug about something that's objectively true? :snobtavia:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:23 pm

What if Octavia is the actual Octavia and produces music for the show secretly? :tinfoil:
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Postby Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:25 pm

Octavia wrote:Why would I be smug about something that's objectively true? :snobtavia:


Because last September you said

Grilox has a plush in the shape of Octavia. He likes to squeeze it all day. :gotcha:


Which could count as "calling it" in some circles, despite me not having such a plushie.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:34 pm

I don't remember saying that at all, but apparently you hold quite the grudge. :starity:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:55 pm

Octavia wrote:If you say you enjoy someone's av, PLEASE post it so we know what you're talking about. That's like pet peeve #1 for me on these forums. :flipout:


Speaking of avatars: Corpy?

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She's doing god's work :allears:
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Postby Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:56 pm

I am just a master of remembering! :twonk:

Also it's from when you told me what song I was trying to find out the name of just from the onomatopoeia I put in my post. :-I

Also if that plushie would also have a plushie cello I would want that plushie.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:01 pm

Even better would be if there is a way that you could make the arm detachable, so it'd look like Octavia's really playing the cello. :allears:
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Postby Corpy (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:21 pm

Highbrow Dash wrote:
Speaking of avatars: Corpy?

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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:47 pm

Grilox wrote:I am just a master of remembering! :twonk:

Also it's from when you told me what song I was trying to find out the name of just from the onomatopoeia I put in my post. :-I

Also if that plushie would also have a plushie cello I would want that plushie.

As I recall, you had set up a word filter to change the name Octavia to "a butt", and that's why I wrote it that way. :gotcha:

Then you changed it to something nice after I was able to figure out your song onomatopoeia.
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Postby Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:53 pm

"Musical Genius Octy" :-I
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:26 am

Octavia wrote:Why would I be smug about something that's objectively true? :snobtavia:


Essentially empty-quoting this. Octavia is best background pony. :snobtavia:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:34 am

Looks like people are coming back finally. Was a ghost town today... :beggarshy:

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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:36 am

Wayoshi wrote:Looks like people are coming back finally. Was a ghost town today... :beggarshy:

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The forum was down for a while, which is probably why not many people were here.
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Postby Kitsune (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:44 am

I don't think it was down for everyone, but I know that I and a few other people simply could not access the forums at all for most of the day.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:51 am

I had no trouble getting on. I just didn't have much to say. :-I
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:53 am

The forum was down!? What were you all doing all day? :rant:
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Postby Kitsune (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:01 am

kefkafloyd wrote:The forum was down!? What were you all doing all day? :rant:


I was busy being productive and working hard on my schoolwork.



...Yeah, I'm not sure that could be any more untrue. Video games woo :-I
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:35 am

kefkafloyd wrote:The forum was down!? What were you all doing all day? :rant:


I ended up watching Ghostbusters. :twiright:

While constantly hitting refresh on my computer to see when I could access the site. Now I feel all :ponynet:
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:38 am

I’d like to take a moment to recite a timeless Hindu proverb…
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Boy oh boy, two weeks of exile and I thought I was going to go crazy and start making real friends. :hithere: Surprisingly, I stopped having panic attacks on the second day and kept myself busy by getting my new desktop up to snuff with updates and whatnot (until it had a hard drive failure within 7 days) but on the second week I started watching Mickey Mouse Shorts by Paul Rudish (co-author of the FiM Bible and yes, you SHOULD SEE THE SHOW and watching videos of protests/riots in Ukraine and my humble abode.

I watched Simple Ways and... well, I didn't see Filli Vanilla 'cos... well, I have it and it's on my laptop since Monday but since I couldnt discuss it with others nor was I that interested for the episode, I haven't given it a watch yet and I wonder if this may be a recurring thing where if I dont care for the premise/character then I may just skip future episodes like Filli Vanilli. But faltering Technicolor Ponies enthusiasm aside...

No, I didn't stalk the forums like I do on others on Facebook so don't worry (I dunno, I find forum lurking kinda creepy :pinkieshrug: ) and I'm going to have to read through two weeks' worth of new threads and posts so my 'Unread Posts' page gets cleaned out.

With that all said and done, Mr Keyboard and I have a lot of work to do :ponynet: . It's good to be back in the Ivory Tower :allears:

Fake Edit: Oh, and about why I got suspended, in regards to what I got suspended over and thought it was but I wasn't and therefore wrong and ergo publicly humiliated over it and thus never to trust myself ever again...
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Postby Caldera (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:14 am

kefkafloyd wrote:The forum was down!? What were you all doing all day? :rant:

*Looks at the how the time stamp displays for me*

Sleeping. :allears: Man, it's great when I can just sleep through issues.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:49 am

The forums were down for me as well. It lasted all last night until...2 minutes ago. I don't know why it happened either... :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Venusy (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:17 am

It was a DNS issue. Imagine you were looking up something in the phone book to call someone, but the pages for the person you were calling had been ripped out. In a few hours (the default being 8), some new copies of those pages will be automatically delivered, but if you want to, you can force a delivery of a new phone book immediately - or, if you know where a different phone book is, try that one.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:10 am

I wonder how much longer "phone book" analogies will work for anything... :smirk:
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Postby Venusy (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:39 am

Arguably, they don't work now, but much like the floppy disk still being the save icon, they'll stick around for a long time. :spoilers:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:23 pm

The website was just down for me from 11:30 to about now. Did it go down for anyone else as well? :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Caldera (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:40 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:The website was just down for me from 11:30 to about now. Did it go down for anyone else as well? :pinkieshrug:

The site heard me bragging about sleeping through issues so it gave me a fuck you. :-I
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:51 pm

Yeah...it's best not to tempt the Ponygoon Overlord...the wrath could be quite painful. :v:
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Postby drunkill (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:07 pm

Website is up for some people and down for tohers at various times.


Website upgrading and DNS issues. You can come hang out on IRC in the meantime. Hopefully some of the DNS issues will be solved "this evening", so sayeth Cosmobot.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:14 pm

So...in other words, that means the update is tonight, correct? And that in turn means that this website will be down for quite some time
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:23 pm

Headless Horse wrote:I wonder how much longer "phone book" analogies will work for anything... :smirk:


:granny:: Imagine a DNS server, except there's only one. It gets delivered to your home and you have to go through the whole list of IPs to find the one you want, only instead of IPs you're actually looking through phone numbers. But not for normal phones, these are phones you leave at home because they can't be moved, which is actually okay because all they can do is send and receive calls.

:nngh:: I don't get it.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:06 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Yeah...it's best not to tempt the Ponygoon Overlord...the wrath could be quite painful. :v:


I think we need to perform a sacrificial offering to please the Ponygoon Overlord, to put an end to these problems. :nnngh:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:38 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:So...in other words, that means the update is tonight, correct? And that in turn means that this website will be down for quite some time

If Cosmo were doing that particular major update, I think he would come out and tell us. More likely he's going to be shuffling around the DNS settings for TRS in order to possibly get around the recent issues we've been having.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:22 pm

The forum's back for me. It was out for about an hour...it seems to fluctuate randomly. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:54 pm

That's the best way to fluctuate! :party:
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Postby Tears (?) » Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:12 am

I know wider fandom stuff isn't much of a topic here, but I was thinking. I'm not sure how much impact the unexpected demographic has had. Probably too much in some respects - if people are yelling at you on twitter, it's hard to put that aside when you're writing your next episode - and probably none at all in a lot of respects. We have Funko toys, I guess.

But I feel like the impact of adult fans, or the momentum of media attention prompted by the adult fans, may have helped push the show beyond the 65 episode mark. Maybe being on a low-rated network in need of content might have pushed it onwards anyways, but I don't think the Wall Street Journal front covers etc hurt.

But irrespective of the impact of this whole ridiculous fandom, if any, we're now at a point where it doesn't matter at all. We're mid-way through season four, season five seems to be underway, there may be another season beyond that. But in terms of the show's lifespan, it seems like every MLP fansite could close down today and it wouldn't make any difference to the show at all.

It's pretty comforting, really. For good or for bad, whatever it was for, the grown-up fandom is done, as far as the show's concerned.
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Postby Passport Clean (?) » Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:19 am

Venusy wrote:Arguably, they don't work now, but much like the floppy disk still being the save icon, they'll stick around for a long time. :spoilers:


The process by which humanity generates, agrees upon, and then sticks with symbols fascinates me, especially when you're trying to keep things simple. :allears: There's only so many ways to quickly represent ideas in a small bundle of lines that can cross cultural/language boundaries. The floppy disk, the old fashioned telephone handle, the female/male=venus/mars circles... they're just so darn convenient, even after their original meaning has started to drain out. Momentum, man.

:applejargh: I've always resented the Nazis not just for their major crimes but also for the way they ruined the swastika, a very pretty and simple symbol that originated in basket-weaving techniques.
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