@pyke: Uh, what? I think our type writers are fine as they are. I mean, did you not see how fast those foals were going when they were making their school paper?

I'm just saying, for 1-13 keystrokes per character (not counting digits, punctuation, and Shift), you could crunch it down to 1-5 using a code that already exists for signal purposes and is still used extensively in many professional fields — including weather duty.

edited 12th Nov '12 8:34:29 PM by Pykrete

Heheh...sorry?

@Syd: Oh dear, talk about nightmare fuel. I forgot that dragons like gems.

So wait, if crystallizing turns you all transparent, how come we can't see organs and stuff?

That's ridiculously inefficient. I'm sure anypony who wants to do much typing learns to use a steganographer typewriter.

I thought your tpyewriters worked bt being able to tilt the keys slightly to alter which of the mapped letter you wanted.

Also just read a Mass Effect crossover fic, The Equestrian Equation and it is AWESOME!

edited 12th Nov '12 8:44:44 PM by Seraphem

So wait, if crystallizing turns you all transparent, how come we can't see organs and stuff?

Well, you see...um...

Who wants a flugelhorn?

so what do you all suppose this book is about?

yes, yes it is. And you know what else? Once the author is done with his next Dr.Whooves fic, there will be a sequel!

edited 12th Nov '12 8:49:46 PM by Blissey1

It's a special kind of magic. The organs become fully transparent.

I want a Flugelhorn!

edited 12th Nov '12 8:49:56 PM by edvedd

so what do you all suppose this book is about?

It's a sex-ed book with some interesting pop-ups.

@ Blissey I know, reading his DW fics now

Really that was just amazing, good overall but the end was just what made it so awesome so so, PONY seeing the CMC comforting Silver Spoon, the way the ponies dealt with what happened, really it's just, it's stuff like that that makes me love pony, and I love fics that capture that. And not just fics, the comments on it, since it's written as a kind of choose your own adventure type thing as it's going, every chapter ended with a list of choices like a ME decision point, and what the commenters voted on would be what happened in the next chapter.

All of them were the right ones, the ones that just FIT and above all else reading the comments for the last choice. Awaken the ponies.

Don't worry Fluttershy, it 's not your fault.

I really like this whole "King Sombra loves stairs." thing.

When I saw the stairways to the Crystal Heart, that is exactly what I thought: "My God, this guy loves stairs."

My God, it's full of stairs.◊

Good one. XD

Well, time for bed now. Good night, folks.

Maybe he's a Weasel?

I'm going to bed, too. Goodnight everybody.

You realize, in any and all Final Fantasy 7 crossovers from here on, Rufus will always, always be played by Sombra. Like, it fits for other reasons, but they'll do it for the stairs gag.

edited 12th Nov '12 9:44:28 PM by Pykrete

you won't be disspointed! as I have mentioned, Game of Stones is my #1 favorite Dr. Whooves fic!

I think you may be misunderstanding. He's suggesting a giant pad that types different things depending on the relative location of the pressure placed on it. By "first" and "second" and "third", I do believe he refers to "top left", "next to the right of that spot", "next to the right of the second", and so on, so the way you sort of "tilt" it effects the letters.

Whereas, I think you may have imagined he meant that you have to click the key multiple times to get different results.

@ Seraphem

You mean her DW fics. L2L casually identified herself in the foreword of The Equestrian Equation as a "caffeine-addicted, clinically insane fangirl".

What is Rufus in FF 7 like?

Well that's what he actually said. Hence everyone else trying to come up with more sensible explanations.

I haven't played FFVII through, but I think they mean Rufus Shinra, the president of the big evilcorp thing.