Taking the jobs and women from the decent, hard-working pear trees!

edited 13th Nov '12 8:59:39 AM by PurpleDalek

@enlong: I can't imagine many of the trees were transplants, unless the train always went to Appleossa since it's founding.

Sombra's favourite rhyming slang: Apples and Pears.

Sombra is Cockney?

Makes sense to me.

This pic reminds me: Ponies holding things in one hoof, while walking with their other three, look a bit odd. Is "The Crystal Empire" the first time we've seen that, or is there a previous occurrence I'm just forgetting?

On the other hoof, ponies with balloons tethered to their hoofs are really cute.

I dunno lol. I imagine it must have been a lot of work to figure out that animation, since Terran ponies don't know how to do that. Also it's evidence for Granular Jamming gripping in their hooves.

Yeah, that's kind of odd how they're able to do that. I suppose that for ponies it's like hopping on one leg for humans.

[[quoteblock]]@Sereg I'm just extrapolating the reasoning from the details provided. This issue is a failing of the writing of the episode, not in the morality of the buffalo. You need to take your real life biases out of this. [[/quotelock]]

Well, yes. If they had said that they needed that land to get food and water to cross the desert, I would have forgiven them, but this is my point about the episode being written badly. There was no indication at all that they needed that.

Cultural ties <<<<<<<<<<<<< food.

Yeah, I have real life biases. But they're based on seeing that when someone is forced to abbandon a farm, people die.

The Last Roundup - What If Good End?

Plus the buffalo could have just run through the orchard. There was more than enough space in between those trees to let a buffalo go through.

Sombra didn't update the OS on his trapped door

Brings me back good/bad memories of yesteryear and my second computer lol. Back in the day when VXD drivers were a pain to work with.

The vibrations from their stampeding would have caused the apples to fall off the trees prematurely.

@Ace: Well, that's a lost episode. Not to big of a loss I guess.

@ Story: Nothing more. I feel that's a realistic showing of their talents. They can grow plants faster in harsher conditions but they don't just plant a seed that is instantly grown in a few seconds.

Here's hoping that we'll get to see ponies use granular jamming to launch objects from their hooves without throwing.

That'd be a neat Earth Pony power, extra-strong granular jamming

I just realized...have we ever seen a pony walking on only 3 legs like this before? Cause that just raises all sorts of questions about pony center of mass and balance abilities...

edited 13th Nov '12 9:31:07 AM by Blissey1

I don't see what's so strange about it. Humans can walk on one leg if we want to. Unfortunately, it makes us look very silly.

Ponies can walk with only three legs?

Fantastic...that solves a lot of problems.

Earth pony magic can be used to anchor their hooves to the ground, allowing them to walk like that without wobbling.

edited 13th Nov '12 9:28:09 AM by MetaFour

humans can't really walk on one leg so much as they can bounce/hop on one leg...

and that pony clearly isn't bouncing.

edited 13th Nov '12 9:28:19 AM by Blissey1

Because 3 points is a lot more stable than 1 point.

My point was that is humans can manage with one leg, ponies should be fine with three.

Pinkie and some more acrobatic ponies have no problems going bipedal for a bit, too.

Dadgummit, are people intentionally forgetting the conclusion of the frakking episode?!