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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:13 pm

Eh, they've been saying that since the printing press, if not earlier. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Kitsune (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:56 pm

Oh no, people are making our lives easier and less uncertain through technology! Now they won't enjoy traveling fifteen miles uphill through the snow both ways to do fun things, which literally everyone did before the existence of computers.

I mean, like, sure, maybe it was an 'adventure', but it's also the romanticization of inconveniences we can easily get around nowadays. It wasn't objectively more interesting or fun, and it certainly won't be to the coming generation that never even grew up in that time.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:13 pm

Eh, But how far to we go with the making life easier thing? I'd hate all of mankind to end up as fat sacks of lard like in Wall-E.
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Postby Rarietty (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:55 pm

The humans in WALL-E didn't just become fat sacks of lard because they were lazy. They became fat sacks of lard because they lived on a spaceship and their bone density decreased. We're not moving to space, inventing floating chairs or creating robots as smart or humanlike as WALL-E or EVE anytime soon so I think we're good for at least a few more generations. Us humans still have to get stuff done by ourselves, and even with computers it's pretty hard to just sit in one place your whole life unless you have someone else taking care of you.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:03 pm

Yeah, about 99% of scenarios aren't going to happen, at least in our lifetime. Most versions of The Time Machine illustrates the idea of "going too far" but even in that depiction, things turned out for the better at the end.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:40 pm

Rarietty wrote:The humans in WALL-E didn't just become fat sacks of lard because they were lazy. They became fat sacks of lard because they lived on a spaceship and their bone density decreased. We're not moving to space, inventing floating chairs or creating robots as smart or humanlike as WALL-E or EVE anytime soon so I think we're good for at least a few more generations. Us humans still have to get stuff done by ourselves, and even with computers it's pretty hard to just sit in one place your whole life unless you have someone else taking care of you.


Speak for yourself, as soon as the Oculus Rift comes out I'm planning on getting an early start at devolution.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:46 pm

Will you be wearing your Energy Dome? :-P
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:10 pm

Back in the days the play grounds were all built upon asphalt. Imagine going down the slide a little too fast and -woop- here comes asphalt! Fall off the swing? Heeere's asphalt! That's the kind of shit that builds character.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:16 pm

There's a big gap between 'making people lazy' and 'removing annoyances', like, yea I guess in the old days if I wanted to know something about like, I dunno, a bug that's common in my area it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE, I just had to get the bug, get someone knowledgeable to tell me what it even is if I don't know, get an encyclopedia and hope that it's from this recent printing in case there's something new about it, and look it up there, but now I can fuckin go on the internet and say 'yo there's a bunch of big really shiny green beetle things buzzing around, suuuup?' and oh look there's a forum literally about bug ID I can use a snapshot from my smartphone to get info from and then wikipedia that shit.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:30 pm

Rarietty wrote:The humans in WALL-E didn't just become fat sacks of lard because they were lazy. They became fat sacks of lard because they lived on a spaceship and their bone density decreased. We're not moving to space, inventing floating chairs or creating robots as smart or humanlike as WALL-E or EVE anytime soon so I think we're good for at least a few more generations. Us humans still have to get stuff done by ourselves, and even with computers it's pretty hard to just sit in one place your whole life unless you have someone else taking care of you.


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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:33 pm

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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:00 am

"Hey you see that Cubs game? Man hell of a play at the last inning"

"Nah we were watching something else"

"Oh, maybe ESPN will show a shitty clip of it for five seconds while a man yells over it"

Technology rules.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:09 am

Throbulator wrote:Back in the days the play grounds were all built upon asphalt. Imagine going down the slide a little too fast and -woop- here comes asphalt! Fall off the swing? Heeere's asphalt! That's the kind of shit that builds character.

When I was in grade school we'd see safety videos which were all, "Be careful when playing, because even a short fall on blacktop/cement can be very harmful!" :iamapony: It was an era when people were smart enough to know this was dangerous, but not smart enough to say "Hey, maybe we shouldn't build playgrounds this way."
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:26 am

I don't care much about technology. I got my first black-and-white Nokia cell phone in 2006. Stopped using dial-up in 2007. I'm a late adopter if ever there was one. But this sort of "everything was better in the old days" curmudgeonliness always makes me chuckle.

On the telephone:
The telephone is the most dangerous of all because it enters into every dwelling. Its interminable network of wires is a perpetual menace to life and property. In its best performance it is only a convenience. It was never a necessity. In a multitude of cities its service is unsatisfactory and is being dispensed with. It may not be expedient that it should be wholly abolished, but its operation may be so curtailed and systematized as to render it comparatively innocuous.


On electricity:
At present our most dangerous pet is electricity—in the telegraph, the street lamp and the telephone. We have introduced electric power into our simplest domestic industries, and we have woven this most subtile of agents, once active only in the sublimest manifestations of Omnipotence, like a web about our dwellings, and filled our atmosphere with the filaments of death. Already the conservative public has taken the alarm, and it has become our urgent duty, in the interest of personal safety, to clip the pinions of the winged messenger and draw its claws.


On the written word itself, straight outta Plato:
For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.


(These examples all come from David Malki! of Wondermark. XKCD has also collected some good ones.)
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:38 am

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you Trixie being awesome! :smug:

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 4:32 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:We interrupt this broadcast to bring you Trixie being awesome! :smug:



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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:38 am

Ha, those examples are hilarious, Seven Seas. :-P
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Postby Wildfire (?) » Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:30 pm



Rarity in your avi sure seems to like Trixie's music. :smug:

Seriously watch her while listening to it.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:04 pm

Maud's VA posted this on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/yogiingrid/status/5 ... 8794939392


So I guess on top of Season 5 we might see Maud in a future EQG project as well!? I am good with this! :) :awesomedash:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:33 pm

Huh...wonder if she'll be a reoccurring character or this will be a one off thing. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:23 pm

Hasn't S5 already been confirmed to have an episode all about Pinkie Pie's family? If that's happening then Maud's return seems certain. And EqG's been mining FiM for characters since its very beginning, so Maud Pie showing up there is little surprise.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:33 pm

I wonder if they'll explain where Maud was when Pinkie got her cutie mark. Maybe she was at Rock University majoring in Rock n' Roll. :v:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:52 pm

It takes guts for a show to decide to base a character's schtick around rock puns when you'd think that well had been mined dry fifty years ago by The Flintstones. :-P
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:00 pm

Yeah, you can't just take that for granite.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:02 pm

Well 50 years is probably a long enough time to where something can circle around to being funny again I guess. :-P :pinkieshrug:

But yeah, more maud is always good.

If they do put her in EQG, she better be the new Geology teacher.

:gotcha: Class Welcome you're new teacher. Ms. Maud Pie.

:-D Oh my gosh, my sister is a teacher at my school, so awesome!

:geno: Remember class....... The only thing that matters in Life are rocks.

:applejargh: what about family?

:geno: ..... The only two things in life that matter are family & rocks.
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Postby londonarbuckle (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:06 pm

Headless Horse wrote:It takes guts for a show to decide to base a character's schtick around rock puns when you'd think that well had been mined dry fifty years ago by The Flintstones. :-P


Good thing The Flintstones is terrible, giving Maud a pretty low bar to clear. :geno:
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:21 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:
:geno: Remember class....... The only thing that matters in Life are rocks.

:applejargh: what about family?

:geno: ..... The only two things in life that matter are family & rocks.


A real geologist would never admit that anything other than rocks and binge drinking matter. :glare:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:28 pm

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A real geologist would never admit that anything other than rocks and binge drinking matter. :glare:

But Maud doesn't need alcohol to reproduce the warm, fuzzy feeling of having a loving family.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:48 am

The Picture for the Cafateria Song Music Video on Hasbro Studios Page is either very poorly timed or perfectly comedicly timed. :gotcha:

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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:51 am

Comedicly. :vogue:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:48 am

Ha, I love when YouTube thumbnails do that sort of thing. :-P
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Postby Sobana (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:55 am

Foxfyre wrote:Oh no, people are making our lives easier and less uncertain through technology! Now they won't enjoy traveling fifteen miles uphill through the snow both ways to do fun things, which literally everyone did before the existence of computers.

I mean, like, sure, maybe it was an 'adventure', but it's also the romanticization of inconveniences we can easily get around nowadays. It wasn't objectively more interesting or fun, and it certainly won't be to the coming generation that never even grew up in that time.

I never said technology is making people lazy. It just makes for a less interesting story. There is no way a story about a person spending 15 seconds to send a message by text will be as interesting as a person spending three months on horse back to send a message by written letter.

Also, I'm only saying this because I'm on my phone and can't watch the videos posted. The irony hurts my sides from laughing. :v:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 6:59 am

You know that the Pony Express only lasted about 7 months, because then people started using the Telegram as it was safer and more reliable, right?
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Postby doodlesplat (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:21 am

Even as the advancement of civilization reduces the risk and effort of doing things, it's highly unlikely that risky and effortful endeavors to tell each other about will disappear. Stories of interest will gradually be less about certain things, like basic communication or cross-country travel, and instead be about new things, like performance aerobatics, or perennial topics of interest such as friendships. The typical story of delivering a message a long distance will certainly go the way of the stories about unpredictable weather or running out of stored food.
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Postby Sobana (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:48 am

Alright, I admit I lost this discussion. Maybe a pony flash back to post 2000 time period could be interesting. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:26 pm

Headless Horse wrote:It takes guts for a show to decide to base a character's schtick around rock puns when you'd think that well had been mined dry fifty years ago by The Flintstones. :-P

I hope when we meet the Pie family, their dishwasher is a little elephant who squirts the plates and says "It's a living!" to the camera. :allears:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:29 pm

Not magical enough. Make it a Kelpie or a Seapony. :gotcha:
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Postby Venusy (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:32 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:When I was in grade school we'd see safety videos which were all, "Be careful when playing, because even a short fall on blacktop/cement can be very harmful!" :iamapony: It was an era when people were smart enough to know this was dangerous, but not smart enough to say "Hey, maybe we shouldn't build playgrounds this way."

I will be fair here, and this is coming from someone that split his skull open on the concrete base of some swings when I was 7-ish: while it is really bad design, it does at least let you analyse the ground for other dangers in a way that grass doesn't. Of course, there are much softer things that still let you check the area around the swings or slide is safe.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:16 pm

Anyone remember that Annoying Orange graphic novel parodying My Little Pony? It's out now.

I saw some pages when I visited the cartoonist's home, and they look great. It's even better because he is NOT a fan of "Ponies" :v:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:24 pm

Annoying Orange is still around? I thought it was cancelled and the views on the online show declined.
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