@ JT: Who made that toast? Couldn't have been Sweetie Belle, since it doesn't come in a glass.

Because the intended audience for those pictures are humans?

Beaverpie.

Glorious.

@Badwolf: Rarity, probably.

But if you really want Sweetie Belle to make you toast...

@Story

Exactly. All anyone has is the human perspective, so that's what they base their opinion off of.

That looks more like orange juice than toast to me.

Mmm, delicious liquid toast.

@Story: It's Sweetie Belle; there's really no way to tell.

Well one way to tell is to ask her.

She might not even know for sure, honestly.

New question - who's the worse cook, Sweetie Belle or Paige Fox?

Sweetie.

it takes SKILL at being bad to liquify toast and Burn JUICE!

I think Paige has done that too though.

I'll say Paige. Sweetie has the excuse of being young and not having much experience. Paige has no excuse for not having learned the most basic shit by this point.

I'm of the opinion that the cutie mark refers to the talent, rather than the event which led to it's discovery, but I know that not everyone believes as I do.

Actually, we do know what some other species find sexually attrative. Not sure about horses though. I'd have to check what studies have been done on that.

EDIT: Rainbow Dash won The Worst Bakers In Equestria three years running. Though that was right after the former champion retired.

edited 16th Jan '13 2:55:59 PM by Sereg

Well, just wait till Sweetie gets in, hehehehehe

The real question is "what happens when Paige and Sweetie join forces?" The answer is "chemical weapons".

@Sereg I was talking about the layman's point of view, not that of a biologist.

Hmm, it appears that Friendship is witchcraft has been blocked in some countries...

Apparently, Hasbro has set up an automated takedown system on Youtube, rumoured to be in response to China basically telling Hasbro 'Lol, we can just get the show for free, why buy it?'. Whether the episodes will stay down remains to be seen, but it should be covered by parody coming under fair use laws.

As for the actual show episodes, it's still very easy to get them all on Youtube, though the amount of takedowns have apparently been somewhat stepped up.

Something else, a website called equestriagirls.com (Just the ad of the same name on loop) also got taken down resently. This is possibly due to the fact that Hasbro has recently (Last month) trademarked 'Equestria girls'. This one isn't an issue, because one, It's not an actual episode, and two, it's still available on Youtube anyway. It's arguably pointless for Hasbro to take it down, unless they wish to claim the domain, but I can see why they did it with the trademark.

Honestly, I'm not worried. Hasbro does have to seem like they are making an effort protecting the trademarks to keep them legally strong, but Hasbro isn't stupid. They have worked out that keeping the episodes freely available and not stomping on fan content allows to fandom to flourish, and a large fandom buys lots of merchandise. So they have been making a token effort to seem like they are protecting their trademark, without actually making a real difference. I have no reason to think this will change. Hopefully, they will finetune the automated system so it will leave fan works alone. FIW is the only one that has been hit anyway. If Hasbro truly meant to take down fanworks, many more FIM things would be attacked.

Old news. And yeah they simply started using the auto block feature of youtube to hit anything with a large part of episdoes in it. Sadly some fan-works got hit in the process, but every one so far that has appealed the block has been put back up. This is ONLY targeting episodes. And if you look, they seem to be leaving Season 3 untouched.

They are doing the bare minimum they think they have to for Trademark, and other issues.

As to the Equestria Girls. trademarking that phrase, and nucking the website.....they have to be planning something big under that label.

Pretty much the only brony related channel that isn't episodes that got taken down was Oataku Ascendant, which did commentary vids, but that was just some bad timing, they got taken down for something in no way pony related, just happened to be at the about the same time.

edited 16th Jan '13 3:18:43 PM by Seraphem

I'm happy, two tags I named on derpibooru are taking off nicely.

Holding ponies and how babs died

It's good to hear they're still obeying fair use rules and reinstating takedowns.

@Cookoo: So what I'm getting from all this is that I should blame China? Can do.

"Equestria Girls" is most likely the next toyline after they're done with the Crystal Empire stuff. Sounds kinda generic though, might be a filler toyline for until whatever Season 4 promotes or a 30th Anniversary line if they do that...

February was when we found out about Nightmare Moon, White Celestia, Lyra, Wedding Castle, etc, I suspect we'll find out about Equestria Girls at the big New York toy fair when it comes around again. I'm actually really curious what Hasbro intends to do with the toyline going forward, even if I don't collect them.

Hello again.