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Re: Offseason General Show Chat

Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:48 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:IMDB can be edited by its users. Without an official source, it's about as good as our fandom's collective guess.

Nonsense, IMDb is a highly-reliable news source.

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:57 am

^ That's the hardest I've laughed in days, thanks for that.
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:20 am

I dunno, looks legit to me fellas.
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That last pony is so baked
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Postby gluestick (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:44 pm

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It's going to be a bit of a letdown if, as expected, it's just last week's trailer. In that case, did the con make false promises, or did Hasbro make them to the con? Or did Yahoo screw up?

Either way, at the evry least I'm hoping for a premiere date.

It was a screw up on someone's part, Hasbro or Yahoo. The trailer that was supposed to debut at Ponycon NYC was indeed the one from last week. They did show off another trailer with the faux-In-A-World narration replaced with a much happier, more kid-friendly guy. There were some scenes that weren't in the first trailer in it. It looked like it was all from the same episodes.

Jayson and Jim got the okay to show off the backgrounds and character designs from Hasbro as a way to make up for the trailer leak. They weren't allowed to provide any context for them though.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:56 pm

Well, considering how at least a couple episodes each season inevitably get leaked before they're supposed to air, I guess this is just Hasbro's way of getting us ready for that. :v:
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Postby Frith (?) » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:24 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Nonsense, IMDb is a highly-reliable news source.

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Oh, it's going to be THAT kind of movie :smirk:
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Postby Venusy (?) » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:19 pm

So, all the footage they couldn't use from the original Bronies documentary finally got released, a long time after I stopped caring.

While I haven't watched them yet (and may never actually do so), the video hosting is surprisingly incompetent/illegal!
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No protection from backers just giving the URL out. Hosted on a site that is pretty clearly linking to illegal downloads of the episodes and EqGs. If Hasbro cared more, the documentary makers would probably get themselves in some deep legal shit with this. :psygum:
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:46 pm

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this resulted in said site being shut down by Hasbro, assuming the news spread around and somebody there notices. It's a pretty well-known and big site, so it only makes sense that they'd want it closed if they found out about its existence. The doc makers would probably get off lightly, though, because Hasbro probably doesn't care that much.
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:26 am

They'll probably just do a C&D letter at most. Perusing a judgment might not be worth the time and money, especially when the site owners might not be able to pay for a huge settlement. C&D letters are cheap compared to litigation.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:29 am

Venusy wrote:No protection from backers just giving the URL out. Hosted on a site that is pretty clearly linking to illegal downloads of the episodes and EqGs. If Hasbro cared more, the documentary makers would probably get themselves in some deep legal shit with this. :psygum:

Whatever link they had to that on their front page appears to have been deleted.
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Postby Blarghalt (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:21 am

Yeesh, just from a casual glance that site looks sketchy as hell. :-/
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:08 pm

Maybe the documentary's producers thought they'd be more "in touch" with the fandom by releasing those clips there rather than a more above-the-board site.
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:17 pm

Isn't this the same producers who were angry their documentary didn't sell as well they had expected?
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Postby fenster (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:58 pm

Blarghalt wrote:Yeesh, just from a casual glance that site looks sketchy as hell. :-/


While the site is very much illegal, it's not really sketchy in the slightest. Much like....every pony episode download place, it's very honest and straightforward as far as download/torrent sites go.

Doesn't make video hosting on the clearly illegal site a good idea though.

Throbulator wrote:Isn't this the same producers who were angry their documentary didn't sell as well they had expected?


Yes it was.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:16 pm

Throbulator wrote:Isn't this the same producers who were angry their documentary didn't sell as well they had expected?

Most of their target audience donated to the Kickstarter, so pretty much all their sales were front-end. They made the assumption that the documentary would attract people outside of the fandom, but it didn't.

And then they blamed piracy. :-I
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:42 pm

fenster wrote:
While the site is very much illegal, it's not really sketchy in the slightest. Much like....every pony episode download place, it's very honest and straightforward as far as download/torrent sites go.

Doesn't make video hosting on the clearly illegal site a good idea though.

It's not just videos though. It's basically everything pony that can be distributed in digital form. Comics, books, DVDs, etc. That's precisely why I'd not be particularly surprised if it ended up getting C&D'd at some point in the near future, assuming this incident brought its existence to Hasbro's attention. It's one thing to offer downloads for the show, but they straight up cut in to Hasbro's profits with DVD rips, e-versions of the pony books and comics and such.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:41 pm

The site has probably been served numerous times given how their top-level domain seems to change every other week.

And that's not even counting the times they moved to a new site before that; I remember there used to be links on Reddit that even offered the episodes as MP4s that you can play on an unmodded iPhone or set-top box and I can't believe I missed my chance on those. Even if I were inclined to pay $75 a season to buy them legitimately, I'd still want those MP4s.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:56 am

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:glare: Twilight!

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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:42 am

:whyme: Hey, I'm not a pet!

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I'm sure Tara is speaking for herself, and would just rather have a dragon for a pet than an owl. And, you know, fair enough.
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Postby fenster (?) » Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:49 am

Ruflux wrote:It's not just videos though. It's basically everything pony that can be distributed in digital form. Comics, books, DVDs, etc. That's precisely why I'd not be particularly surprised if it ended up getting C&D'd at some point in the near future, assuming this incident brought its existence to Hasbro's attention. It's one thing to offer downloads for the show, but they straight up cut in to Hasbro's profits with DVD rips, e-versions of the pony books and comics and such.


That's...not what I'm saying? I was addressing the "sketchy" thing Blarg said. I'm saying its not sketchy insomuch that the site isn't a scam nor has no real dangers if you try to use it. I could show it to my little sister and it'd be easier/safer than some of the places I'd have to go for torrents of other shows. All of which doesn't change what I also said in that it's still illegal obviously for the downloads of everything they have there so yeah.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:34 pm

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:sheepish: ....

:ohrarity: That is not nice.

:notthisshitagain: Really?

:sbahj: If he were a pet, he'd get invited to parties.

:glare: Twilight!

:offendash: You're a jerk, Twilight.

:dearcelestia: Dear Princess Cadance. Can I come live in the Crystal Empire?

:allright: Sure!


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Postby Ruflux (?) » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:54 pm

fenster wrote:
That's...not what I'm saying? I was addressing the "sketchy" thing Blarg said. I'm saying its not sketchy insomuch that the site isn't a scam nor has no real dangers if you try to use it. I could show it to my little sister and it'd be easier/safer than some of the places I'd have to go for torrents of other shows. All of which doesn't change what I also said in that it's still illegal obviously for the downloads of everything they have there so yeah.

Oh I wasn't trying to comment on the "not really sketchy" comment. I just wanted to point out that it's not just every pony episode but even more than that so that it'd clarify my own point about the possibility of a Hasbro C&D. Sorry if that was a bit unclear. :v:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Feb 22, 2015 12:14 am

shotgunbadger wrote:Owloicious just staring in the window from the outside as rain pours over him.

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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Sun Feb 22, 2015 9:10 pm

I like how the smoke bounces with the falling books. :gotcha:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:28 pm

The fire stays upright, too, no matter which way the books are facing. Seems like it'd be far too easy to accidentally rotate both the book and the fire for the few frames that they're falling.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:36 am

So Jay Fosgitt, one of the artists for the Pony comic book, was in a car accident (a kid ran over the red light and smashed his car).

Jay's alright (just a minor chipped tooth from the airbag), but his car's destroyed, pretty much. This really sucks donkey balls :fluttersmith:
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:48 am

Is the kid alright? :ohdear:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:32 pm

He didn't say, but I think the kid's not injured.
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:44 pm

Car accidents suck. It takes forever to get insurance companies to pay out even if you are 100% not at fault. I remember the time when an old man t-boned my first car in a parking lot. Even though I was not at fault and did everything right (filled out a police report, stayed at the scene, etc) and he just drove off and left the scene, it still took 8 weeks.

We had the same insurance company :-I
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:45 am

A brief update: Jay is doing a commission drive to help cover the cost of the new car. Read about it here.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:04 am

I'm finally biting the bullet and watching Equestria Girls for the first time. Really. I'm only about twenty minutes in and I'm having to hit pause and write this.

Oh my god they're just throwing Twilight face first into this premise. I'll accept that she's in a kind of weird mirror dimension, but
:flutterdear: :"No one ever stands up to Sunset Shimmer!"

Names like Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are ridiculous on their face. But Twilight is a purple unicorn - fine, it's a fantasy world; that's a perfectly fine name for a unicorn.
Except in EqG it's this mirror human world, but they still have their pony names and, UGH. :gonkity: this premise is still making me cringe.

Oh woah - this played in theaters? This feels like a direct to VHS (heh :sheepish: ) special, much like the Pokemon movies.

I realize I'm about two years late for this. I'm also procrastinating doing my taxes. :-I
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Postby Bremen (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:01 am

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:I'm finally biting the bullet and watching Equestria Girls for the first time. Really. I'm only about twenty minutes in and I'm having to hit pause and write this.

Oh my god they're just throwing Twilight face first into this premise. I'll accept that she's in a kind of weird mirror dimension, but
:flutterdear: :"No one ever stands up to Sunset Shimmer!"

Names like Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are ridiculous on their face. But Twilight is a purple unicorn - fine, it's a fantasy world; that's a perfectly fine name for a unicorn.
Except in EqG it's this mirror human world, but they still have their pony names and, UGH. :gonkity: this premise is still making me cringe.

Oh woah - this played in theaters? This feels like a direct to VHS (heh :sheepish: ) special, much like the Pokemon movies.

I realize I'm about two years late for this. I'm also procrastinating doing my taxes. :-I


I didn't watch either EqG movie until just recently either.

That said, while the world is obviously inspired by generic highschool setings, it's definitely not supposed to be the real world either. Everyone still has strange meaningful names, and there's other weirdness as well.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:42 am

Bremen wrote:That said, while the world is obviously inspired by generic highschool setings, it's definitely not supposed to be the real world either. Everyone still has strange meaningful names, and there's other weirdness as well.

This sort of creative indecisiveness, in both the character designs and the premise of the world, is the main reason why I dislike EqG. There's too many elements of reality and humanity in both of them for me to get over the handful of fantasy elements in the movies. (It would help if the people of Dougworld actually reacted to magic and shit with shock and awe, but they always just shrug it off for whatever reason.)

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Postby Lorce (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:21 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:(It would help if the people of Dougworld actually reacted to magic and shit with shock and awe, but they always just shrug it off for whatever reason.)

Pretty sure there's always mind influencing stuff going on when magic happens though? :pinkieshrug:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:40 pm

Lorce wrote:Pretty sure there's always mind influencing stuff going on when magic happens though? :pinkieshrug:

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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:14 pm

I never did one of these for Rainbow Rocks, because that movie was way better, and didn't feel like I really had anything to add:

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Postby fenster (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:28 pm

Scuderia Ferrarity wrote:Names like Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are ridiculous on their face. But Twilight is a purple unicorn - fine, it's a fantasy world; that's a perfectly fine name for a unicorn.
Except in EqG it's this mirror human world, but they still have their pony names and, UGH. :gonkity: this premise is still making me cringe.



I mean to be fair, the teens with the weird names also happened to have super weird Doug-esque skin color so maybe it helped explain some of the weirdness. :v:

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Oh woah - this played in theaters? This feels like a direct to VHS (heh :sheepish: ) special, much like the Pokemon movies.



I don't know everything about the first movie's theater release, but it seemed to me that it was basically just exactly what you said: a direct-to-vhs thing, but they snagged limited airing in some smaller theaters to play it for an extremely limited time. At least, that's how Rainbow Rocks was here. I presume for the big actual MLP movie they were going big time to put it the Big Theaters for a longer time.

Lorce wrote:Pretty sure there's always mind influencing stuff going on when magic happens though? :pinkieshrug:


That, and the fact that the same magic thing that hurt them actual turned out to help them, so hey if I was them I wouldn't complain. Doesn't change the weird talking dog though.

Also, it was a bunch of teenagers at the school dance. We all know school dances are super boring and dumb. :smirk:
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Postby fenster (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:30 pm

Aramek wrote:I never did one of these for Rainbow Rocks, because that movie was way better, and didn't feel like I really had anything to add:

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S'a bit on the long side. :sheepish: But, you know, I have a condition. See avatar.


I actually never saw this before! I was dying at:

"Twilight's like, 'Oh shit, where are we going to sleep?' At this point I was like, 'Oh Shit, where are they going to sleep?'" :lol:

It was a good listen, had fun, all I had problem with is the music hate but I'm probably biased. See avatar.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:47 pm

I remember having to explain that in the original thread. I didn't exactly hate it, but you just have to get in the mindset of "Oh, gotcha, we're doing this now." sort of thing.

We can all agree the Rainbow Rocks songs were way, way better. I even covered Trixie's song. :v: Butchering it.
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