I always thought that it was a two-way situation. Discord fuels fighting among the CMC, the CMC's fight spreads disharmony and chaos. Thus, Discord escapes.

I actually like the idea of the CMC accidentally releasing Discord, because I love innocent people unintentionally doing something small that has a major effect on the world. Swiss Messenger and all that.

Also, I don't like the CMC, so seeing them mess up is always fun.

I'm going through all my World of Warcraft alts and lamenting how much stuff I've allowed to be lost forever to the in-game mail system's 30 day holding limit.

I have too many damn characters.

THIS POST IS NOW ON-TOPIC.

Come to our server, we have, ummm, stuff, ummm and it's kinda got some pony stuff, so yeah get your alts to Sisters of Elune ally side.

@ATC: But again, it's never so much as implied that chaos makes Discord more powerful.

@L Mage: No new info yet. We know it's probably going to be aired sometime this fall, but that's about it.

I know, I know, it wouldn't make sense for disharmony to fuel Discord.

Then again, where's the fun in making sense?

Good point.

I'm watching a video of two bronies reacting to seeing Ponies: The Anthology 2 for the first time. They've just mentioned that they're not viewing in synch with each other for, I think, the 721, 119th time.

Hi, Mage.

Great to see you again L!

If that's true, then why them? And why now? He's been locked up for more than a thousand years. There had to be more than one squabbling group of ponies around the statue in all that time.

@Apple

Nice to see you to! And everyone :3

@Kyler: It was probably his containment weakening over time, and the fact that the Elements had changed ownership from Celestia probably didn't help.

@Kyler: I figure that the elements changing hooves weakened the prison, then the CMC fighting right next to it either gave Discord the spark to reignite his powers, or just woke him up from a 300-year nap and made him notice that he could escape now.

What kind? Seal? Spike?

sorry, that's where you lost me.

I'm with Blissey. Sorry, but I have one Alliance character and need no more. =)

Hi L Mage! We were talking about avatar swapping earlier today.

@Wryte: Why does he need a spark though, and why would the CMC fighting provide it? I think it's much more logical with the information we have that his prison was weakening on his own and allowed him to cause the CMC to fight. His evil laugh could easily be the result of "Yes, it's finally deteriorated enough that I can get back to work!" I think it makes more sense that his breaking out of the prison caused the fight than vice versa.

edited 24th Aug '12 6:58:19 PM by JapaneseTeeth

so anyone, doing a bit of thread archiving(gasp!), thread is currently talking about Cutie pox. I decided to rewatch that episode, because why not?

The scene where AB shows off her new cutie mark, I for some reason instantly thought of the Halo rings.

CUTIE MARK CRUSADER SPARTAN-II SPACE MARINES YAY!

I'm planning to rewatch it soon too.

I'm also someone who hasn't changed her avatar on this forum, nor do I have any plans to change it.

That picture of Raindrops tucking in Twilight confuses me, is she supposed to be Twilight's babysitter? Was that drawn before Cadance's story was revealed? Maybe Twilight had more than one foalsitter when she was younger, and Raindrops was one of them. The giant baguette next to her bed makes me think of my dog Diana, who LOVES bread with hard crusts and if she could, she would probably want to pop into that picture and eat the giant baguette!

Speaking of "Cutie Pox" and cutie marks in general, I wonder what Big Macintosh's cutie mark story is like. Applejack said that he also got his after most of the others in his age group did, but that's pretty much all we know about it. Maybe he had an epiphany involving a half of a green apple.

edited 24th Aug '12 7:11:50 PM by Rainbow

Maybe an apple fell on his head and he intvented gravity.

Does anyone else think Big Mac really is good at math?

@Story

Really? How so? :P

I personally never put much stock in that "fancy mathematics" line, considering that his line that provoked it wasn't really math at all. He's probably competent enough, though, considering that I doubt Granny Smith takes care of the finances for the farm.

Evening everypony. What's going on?