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Postby Wharrrrrrgarbl (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:39 am

i work all the time now

is pony still good

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Postby Yolostar (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:43 am

Wharrrrrrgarbl wrote:i work all the time now

is pony still good

:cry:

Yes
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:07 am

Wharrrrrrgarbl wrote:i work all the time now

is pony still good

:cry:


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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:41 am

Wharrrrrrgarbl wrote:i work all the time now

is pony still good

:cry:

It's better :amazing:

It's worse :byopinkie:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:09 am


This isn't pony, it's Dougworld not-quite-human. :rainbert:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:00 pm

Okay you two, I'll accept your objections if you at least acknowledge the reference I was making with the name of the song :-/
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:13 pm

I didn't even see the title. :-I With the recent YouTube layout changes, all but the shortest titles are unreadable without actually opening the video to full screen. Otherwise, it looks like this:
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:41 pm

PaulloDEC wrote:Okay you two, I'll accept your objections if you at least acknowledge the reference I was making with the name of the song :-/

too egg; didn't listen :v:

...because
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Postby Pocket (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:32 pm

Maybe it's time to update our YouTube plugin to one that actually uses <iframe> instead of a direct Flash embed, and displays at at least 360p.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:05 pm

YT embeds work (worked, they're fine on Windows but under Ubuntu I do actually only see 360p or auto as quality options so...) just fine for me and allow picking whatever resolution the video supports. Also they play as HTML5 video too like they should. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Pocket (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:19 pm

Hmm, it is an HTML5 embed. Still too small though. I meant 360p as in actually that size on the screen.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:21 pm

Yeah, that's fair enough, they are p painfully small and also forced to 4:3 which is damned idiotic, tbh. But I think the YT embedding code may be some included phpBB shit that's probably difficult to replace? I dunno actually, the YT embed button is the last one on the post editor page so it might actually just be a simple plugin.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:49 pm

You'll have to ask Cosmo for all that, as he's the one who does the technical stuff around here. Unfortunately he is currently busy making Fontra sing for the reward of not getting probation.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:04 pm

Wow, the things that go on in threads we don't open… :starity:
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:29 pm

Well, at least my unsuccessful reference led to a valuable discussion on YouTube embedding.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:29 am

What does everyone think of this gesture the show keeps doing nowadays? The "hoof crossed across the chest in recoil" thing?

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I'm not really a fan. I think this was cuter and more innovative:

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It's kind of "doggy". :3:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:35 am

Headless Horse wrote:What does everyone think of this gesture the show keeps doing nowadays? The "hoof crossed across the chest in recoil" thing?

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I don't really see a problem as it's used there. There it reads like an expression of shock; if Sassy Saddles were a human, I can see how she'd have her hand pressed to her chest there.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:44 am

Sure, and that's how it's usually used nowadays; it keeps cropping up in a lot of situations. That was just one where I happened to have a screenshot.

It just seems like it's more of a "human gesture awkwardly adapted to pony anatomy" and less of a "uniquely equine piece of body language that somehow reads really vividly even though it has no obvious analog in human gestures".
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:01 am

Eh, it doesn't really feel that awkward to me. In cases like this, though, I think it's better for them to have readable expressions that aren't necessarily something a horse would do. If the animators stuck super hard to that then we wouldn't get amusing things like Rainbow Dash's goofy celebration dance seen later in that episode, for example.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:13 am

The ponies often don't move in true equine anatomy fashion. Given how their joints moves I would wager they are not even related to any known species of horse. Add to the fact their diet is poisonous to real horses, they must be an unique species. I think it might be unfair to compare them to horses in anything else then name and appearance. Like comparing a lizard to a dragon.

Any expression would be solely unique on to them.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:39 am

Headless Horse wrote:What does everyone think of this gesture the show keeps doing nowadays? The "hoof crossed across the chest in recoil" thing?

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Has it been used by more normal ponies? I figure Sassy can get away with it because she has the thin, leggy design that makes a lot of the normal pony body language kind of odd. It would probably look strange on an average pony.
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Postby PhoolCat (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:21 am

Soft Snow wrote:The ponies often don't move in true equine anatomy fashion. Given how their joints moves I would wager they are not even related to any known species of horse. Add to the fact their diet is poisonous to real horses, they must be an unique species. I think it might be unfair to compare them to horses in anything else then name and appearance. Like comparing a lizard to a dragon.

Any expression would be solely unique on to them.

My personal headcanon based on observation is that they're a mutant hybrid of horse, llama, goat, beanbag, swan and human in varying amounts.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:23 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Has it been used by more normal ponies? I figure Sassy can get away with it because she has the thin, leggy design that makes a lot of the normal pony body language kind of odd. It would probably look strange on an average pony.

This frame from PTS is the first example that came to mind:
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Even as an alicorn, Twilight still isn't very thin, so I think this counts.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:59 pm

I don't mind it. I'd call it just a natural gesture that Equestrians make. :-I
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Postby Bremen (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:31 pm

It shields their body, so I could see it being a reflex born of instinct to protect from predators or injury, like humans trying to protect their head.
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Postby Master_Twig (?) » Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:36 pm

Yeah. It's clearly a defensive pose. None of the examples in HHs post were in a defensive position, so they wouldn't cross their front leg in front of them like Sassy was, or like Twilight is doing in PTS.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:51 am

If I were a pony, I'd be worried about shielding those giant eyes. :-I
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:07 am

Pony eyes are secretly made of unonbtanium, and if you poke them they clink. Their eyes are actually their most heavily protected part of the body, a natural defense mechanism to lure predators into attacking the most fortified position to render the pony more likely to escape unharmed. :yay:
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:25 am

Dexanth wrote:Pony eyes are secretly made of unonbtanium, and if you poke them they clink. Their eyes are actually their most heavily protected part of the body, a natural defense mechanism to lure predators into attacking the most fortified position to render the pony more likely to escape unharmed. :yay:

The only substance harder than a pony's eyes is a pony's hooves, which is why Twilight can't stop injuring herself every time she does a Pinkie Promise. Image
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:34 am

If you want to talk about stuff that's technically weird with pony eyes, consider how both their pupils and their irises can change size.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:23 am

This was my tumblr login page :fluttershock:

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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:31 am

Octavia wrote:This was my tumblr login page :fluttershock:

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H-how does that work? :-I Does it just use random pictures?
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:47 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:
H-how does that work? :-I Does it just use random pictures?

Yep. I had this as my background image on the tumblr login page once:

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:07 am

I thought I heard somewhere that it was based on blogs you'd previously read, or something. I'd have o idea how to figure that out for sure, though.
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:14 am

Oh wow, that's too perfect and now I want that wallpaper. :lol:

But um, who is that directly behind Vlad's head? Is that Double Applejack?
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Postby theGECK (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:50 pm

Yup! Here's the original picture - they just split the mane6 in half and reflected one set to put them on the other side.

LINK that was totally in here when I posted this post: http://caitybabygirl.deviantart.com/art ... -372557899
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:38 pm

theGECK wrote:Yup! Here's the original picture - they just split the mane6 in half and reflected one set to put them on the other side.

I think you forgot the original picture. :-I
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Postby theGECK (?) » Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:27 pm

I don't know what you're talking about, it looks like it was there to me. :liarjack:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:29 pm

Time loops. Seriously, Twilight's going to be doing some Chrono Trigger-esque stuff.


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