See ya later JT.

human!Roseluck :D

edited 9th Jan '13 9:26:33 PM by AceOfScarabs

@Crow: No one said there would be cider! You holding out on us, man?

I don't like cider.

I prefer whiskey.

If you had one look at this thing you'd think it was utter shit, too. Stevebat himself ragequit on it.

edited 9th Jan '13 9:30:38 PM by Pannic

@Pannic: What's this FO:E spin-off fic called anyway?

edited 9th Jan '13 9:34:15 PM by marston

actaully, no there is very little of "ponies dying horribly, " at least on screen, there is actaully very little gore after you make it through the first raider nest in cahpter 4, which is the worst the fic gets as far as that goes and is there to shock the reader and Li'lpip, with just how BAD the wastes are, as well as getting a rather gorey and disgusting imag of the nest out of the way, so that later, the author can just make a few cague refrences and let your mind fill in the rest.

the Mane 6 did not cause the apocalypse, the closest to actually doing anything was Fluttershy, and that was developing a means amplifying spells greatly and making megaspells, that she intended to be used for healing and defensive spells, but were perverted in Balefire Bombs and others. the rest simply did their best to win and survive a two decade long war, when no living pony had ANY experience in warfare or how to deal with a war, resulting in them making almost every mistake imaginable simply because they didn't know better.

And even in their mistakes, their darkest hours, even when everything they did ultimitly failed, there were left seeds, seeds of hope, of promise, seeds that would come from that which doomed Equestria, and become that which would save it, allow it to be reborn. in their worst errors, there darekst decisions, they planted seeds that would bloom in time to heal Equestria and allow ponies to once more be ponies, each of the mane 6 left somehing, some hope, some seed...all save Twilight, for instead of a single seed she created The Gardens in which those seed could flourish.

Yes i LOVE that story, wholly and completely and would recommend ANYONE to read it. yes it is not something everyone will like, but long as you don't go in TRYING to hate it and willfully twist everything to meet you idea of being bad, it is well worth at least trying, because while yes it is dark, it is grim, it does have some rather horrible things, all of that, ALL OF IT, pails compared to the true message of the story, hope, that nothing, no darkness, no fear, can withstand the light of hope, and that sometimes all it takes is the right spark, at the right time, one little spark that stands against the darkness as says NO it will not be extinguished, it will not accept that the darkness is right, it will fight back, and in doing so fan a flame the sweeps it away, overcoming it.

It trully is an amazing, beuatiful and just plain epic story, and as much as it might seem kind of going a bit to far, really the only way I can truly describe how it feels is with Tolkein

Sam: It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo... the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? (...) Those were the stories that stayed with you... that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. (...) Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going... because they were holding on to something!

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

so in short, YES you should at least give FOE a try.

edited 9th Jan '13 9:35:44 PM by Seraphem

Not directly. It's more like a series of unfortunate events. They did their best to help, it just didn't work out.

@ Story: We need a Lemony Snicket pony.

I'd rather not give away the title here. My running commentary will be on my liveblog later this evening. Here's one word that should sum up the entire awfulness: rapefic.

@ed: I've only got so much to go around, I can't bring it out when the thread is at full capacity.

Are you by any chance talking about Prject Horizons? Because everything I've heard about it sounds horrible, with none of the redeeming qualities of FOE.

I did not go in trying to hate it. I went in suspicious of its massive popularity. I had misgivings, but the story has had every opportunity to prove me wrong. It has not done so.

No, it is a two-chapter piece of shit that alters the events of chapter 19 so that, through a number of idiotic contrivances, Littlepip ends up being used as a sex slave

edited 9th Jan '13 9:45:31 PM by Pannic

And we've proven over and over and over where you are twisting events, ignoring things, misinterpreting motivation, and doing everything possible to make everything seem as bad and horrid as possible. All while condemning the ponies for not living up to your idea of a moral code, that does not account for living in a hellish, twisted post apocalyptic wasteland where everything is trying to kill them.

yeah, I'm with you on that one. gaaahhh, so so much gaaaahhhhh on that one

edited 9th Jan '13 9:48:16 PM by Seraphem

They could become great friends

Gee willikers!

Shouldn't Gadget be a lot smaller than Twilight, though?

Perhaps Twi magiced her up in size so she didn't need to worry about squishing her.

Of course, I don't think Little Ponies really are that little :V

Did someone just compare FOE to Lord of the Rings?

They're microscopic.

A comparison of themes, but not a direct quality comparison.

edited 9th Jan '13 10:24:17 PM by edvedd

No, I was using a quote from LOTR that perfectly described the story.

Ah, I see.

Still, I think I'll stick with the version of Fallout that doesn't have characters who are already familiar with the good in the world suddenly turning into pseudo-Cold-War paranoiacs.

I gotta say, I do admire your passion for this story.

I just hope all this isn't gonna be a source of friction between my boys in here.

edited 9th Jan '13 10:34:20 PM by edvedd

Amazingly, he actually liked my fic. He had some criticism of it, but it was all good natured and overall really positive. So I guess he does.

As for FOE, as the othrs said, the Mane six made mistakes, but they were understandable, if sometimes naive. The apocalypse was caused by a very specific combination of several mistakes. I actually see that as an important part of the stoy. Everything went wrong and the smallest differenc would hav resulted in a much beter situation. But yeah, the story is about impoving the situation. Not revelling in the darkness.

You know, I was ambivalent about it at first, but I think I'm starting to like this metal goddess Luna tumblr

I'm assuming these multiple times all happened after I stopped following your blog.

In other news, I updated the liveblog and then deleted the update because as refreshing as it was to mock to pieces, I was uncomfortable having that thing up.

edited 9th Jan '13 10:51:30 PM by Pannic