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edited 10th Aug '12 10:14:51 PM by Whatshisgame

Wow luna, calm your tits with the entrance.

fandom first learned of the existence of something named discord on august 21, assuming the post on equestria daily is the first mention of him.

Only a couple of weeks off!

I used to think that Equestria was a complete sugar bowl, but they keep revealing things that show it isn't.

@story - Yeah, my mind really isn't clear right now. I am feeling really sleepy. That, and my mind got warped by FIW. Hell, I actually expected to see a bomb somewhere.

Oh well, better go to bed.

Good night/day to you all, bronies.

It's so confusing talking about multiple episodes at once. If only I could multitask mentally like Rin.

Anyway, if we're comparing ourselves to the mane 6 I guess I'm the thread Twilight except without the organization.

@Yeller: Seeing as Old Dream Valley and Paradise Estate were constantly threatened by powerful enemies, and Equestria itself seems to have its fair share of problems straight out of Gygaxian campaigns, I always thought that ponies were at least pretty hardcore to carve themselves a tamed peaceful land out in the middle of who-knows-where.

Why did you watch the abridged series first anyway? It's a lot funnier when you know what really happened.

only see one person making that assumption and saying its becasue it's a kids show.

Last Roundup is one of my favorite episodes because it's right. It makes perfect sense for AJ to react how she did. And the others are right to worry about her like they did. She's not one to lie or go back on her promises, so they knew something had to be up to prevent her from returning home like that. Cherry Jubilee is one of my favorite single episode characters, Dodge Junction was interesting, and there isn't really a single scene that I have a hard time remembering.*

I have a feeling I talk about how much I like Last Roundup a lot.

e: You're asleep now. Bluh.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:17:42 PM by Swasfews

IN WHAT WAYS IS THE ROYAL PONY'S BEHAVIOR NOT TO THINE ENJOYMENT?

@J Teeth: To be honest I find it equally as interesting that people assume the exact opposite, that ponies are naturally nicer, kinder, more altruistic etc. Personally we have seen them display a number of very human flaws, so I really have no reason to assume that they are genuinely any better as a species on a moral/ethical level.

complet Sugar Bowl, no, a whole heck no. a lot nicer then this Crapsack World Fuck yeah

So the flaws are part real, but the stuff that doesn't work in our theory doesn't count and is becuase it's a show, yeah you can't have it both ways.

and furthermore, becuase one of the bigget draws OF the show is that it gives us such a peaceful, kinfd world, that isn't a total Sugar Bowl, has it's share of issues and problems, isn't perfect, but is still a hell of a lot better place then this hell hole. And given that very very few if any shows these days do anything but try to create a world even WORSE then reality, or if not worse go full on Tastes Like Diabetes and are just rediculous. YEAH! We're going to assume that it is just as nice and friendly and good as it seems, and not have to have EVERY GODDESS DAMN THING IN EXISTANCE, have to be a load of bitter ugly hate filled crap.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:22:29 PM by Seraphem

Nah, their world is kinda like ours, only more advanced in some ways and less advanced in others. At least they don't have any "glass the land" tier weapons of mass destruction like we do. Also they seem not to have religious strife either.

@Swas: Shipping goggles apparently say the episode is a flag for Dashie and AJ since Dashie was the first to know what's up.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:21:03 PM by AceOfScarabs

Taking what we see in the show at face value, ponies aren't perfect but society as a whole is better on average than Earth.

@metal: it's was too melodramatic. Storm clouds, seriously. That's so 600 years ago.

Twi: Pinky your a genius.

Pinky: no I'm not I'm a chicken.

Van's reaction◊

edited 10th Aug '12 10:24:01 PM by vanthebaron

@Blissey: From what I can tell, Discord was first referenced on April 8, 2011 (when Lauren Faust confirmed that there would be another Big Bad) and first referred to by name on June 21, 2011 (when a "The Return of Harmony Part 1" script was leaked◊).

@Van: Congrats, you've been drafted volunteered to be the first shift posted to the Lunar Surface Guard! Your shift on the moon will last 1000 years, during which you'll be protecting the world from incoming rocks and dirty snowballs! You're so lucky!

Apparently Old Equestrian Royalty had to show their power back in the day.

I honestly think I'm more like Twilight overall. The moral of "The Last Roundup" is one of the few times I saw myself reflected in AJ.

I'm not claiming that it's a straight sugar bowl, or that there are no problems. It's just that I've run into a lot of people (not necessarily around here) who just assume that Equestria is really just the same as earth but with ponies. I.e. that it's plagued by stuff like xenophobia, racism, classism, etc. because we've seen "soft" versions of those problems appear in the show. To use a somewhat generic example, I find it kinda weird that some people assume that there's a whole upper/lower class struggle comparable to ones that occur in Real Life even though at the absolute worst nothing like that appears in the show. Take Blueblood for example. He's basically spoiled rotten prince, but a light and somewhat harmless version who's basically just a jerk. But I've run into people who basically assume that in "reality" he's a classist who uses his status abuse the peasants and that we just don't see that because it's a kids show. As opposed to just taking him at face value being a somewhat harmless jackass.

EDIT: Basically what Meta Four said. The issues in Equestria are evident enough that they're relateable, but I think it's better than earth by a fair margin.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:29:30 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@seraphem: Did I say that their world being nicer then our own was a bad thing? All that I was trying to point out is that I feel that we and ponies are not as different as some people say, and that some of the difference can be connected to the kind of show that it is.

If it came across as me saying that the setting of the show was somehow bad for any reason then that is not what I was trying to say. The setting itself is also a major draw of the show for me as well.

@Meta: Yeah well, Red Savant and JT are our Twilights already

I'm clearly one of the Pinkies in this thread :D

Toaster: Huzzah!

@JT: In before darkfic where Blueblood abuses his status to take advantage of some poor mare assigned to be his maid.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:29:55 PM by AceOfScarabs

Don't know if magic comes from unicorn horns, or is channeled through the horns.

-shoots ace with nerf gun- no

Yup, I'm definitely a Twilight. Easily stressed and overanalysis ho! When I write stuff from her perspective it's almost creepy because a lot of the time I'd act exactly the same in that situation.

@Ace: I know, right? I never understood the tendency to want to shove idealistic works towards the cynicism end of the spectrum.

edited 10th Aug '12 10:31:05 PM by JapaneseTeeth