Sweetie Belle found Rarity's secret magazine stash. It's not what you think.

The best kind of pegasus.

That's true enough. You could probably fuck a wizard over by ensuring he gets a really shitty sleep.

Nope. Fighters are actually pretty poor at defence. You can optimize a melee character to be near invincible. I actually had one 'Wolverine' build idea but that's more Changline Totemist 2/Barbarian 1/Crusader 1/Warblade 1/Warshaper 4/Witch Slayer 2. Still a melee combatant, but he's much more effective at killing things and he can regenerate most of the damage he takes, assuming his foes get a shot in. But that requires optimization, and you'll note it didn't contain a single level of Fighter, despite being a fighter.

As for the Wizard, they'll be fragile at low levels unless specifically optimized for low level survivability. But once they get to level 6 or so, they can start keeping up defensive spells for long periods of time. They still don't want to get hit, but it's not as big a deal as it was.

At level 9, a Wizard can start flying 24/7. By level 10-12, a Wizard can have redudant defences up all the time.

Now Wizards will still want to keep their distance, but that's just because why risk it? They can polymorph into a Hydra and melee it up if they want to, but it's easier to just blast people from 200 feet away before they ever even get a chance to act.

And of course, at level 17, spellcasters ascend to godhood, as mentioned previously.

Winter? Oh Sweet Celestia, that's...long.

What's long?

That's what she— *shot*

@ story: This.

Is it still just March? Oh lawdy.

Well it's surprising that they'll wait until 'winter' since it's a full season this time.

Really, what makes you folks think that they'll break the 65-episode limit?

Remember the wise words of Central Avenue: As the episodes of a cartoon approach sixty-five, the odds of cancellation approach one.

That statement is called the Central Limit Theorem.

umm the fact that it's already been announced, through multiple sources that we are getting a full 26 episode season 4.

@ATC: Uh... a fourth 26 episode season has been confirmed. It's been confirmed for a while already.

Yes, but what is your confidence interval on this; and what is your margin of error?

100 percent confidence. No margin of error.

Why are you being so negative?

edited 19th Mar '13 8:14:48 PM by Sydxelia

Yeah, it's already been confirmed. Plus MLP is a hugely sucessfull franchise at the moment. The only reason season 3 was short was because they were busy with Littlest Pet Shop and Equestria Girls.

Ah, pessimism in defiance of all evidence. Another trait I love about this fandom.

And by love, I mean hate.

@ATC: Dude, we just got an announcement that S4 will be starting up next winter. Multiple show writers have tweeted about season four. Unless the entire staff of the show and multiple news outlets are trolling us, we are getting a fourth season. My confidence level is pretty damn high.

edited 19th Mar '13 8:15:19 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Fine, I'll stop making obscure math jokes that none of you get anyway.

Central Limit Theorem is a pun on the Central Limit Theorem.

Since your sample size is at least thirty, I'd say that the results you get from the producers should be pretty reliably normally distributed. Going by simple odds, the odds of all the staff trolling you guys is so low I'd need a bunch of digits to express it.

edited 19th Mar '13 8:25:21 PM by ATC

Statistics and the Central Limit Theorem are useless for this question, because the probability of season 4 and the number of episodes are both known quantities. You use statistics when you don't know a quantity—and you can't directly measure it—so you need to estimate it.

I think he was just trying to make a joke.

I think.

Goodnight folks.

Uh, a pun requires you to at least chance of the words.

Goodnight, Apple.

You don't cancel a show that breaks rating records and has a massive and dedicated fanbase just because of a silly 65-episode limit. You don't cancel a show where the fans make fan-art of new random background ponies and give them a name; just so no background pony gets left behind. You don't cancel a cultural phenomenon for something so arbitrary as the 65 episode limit.

^^I don't know how to chance of the words. Unless your "chance" of the words is a pun on "change" of the words.

I just wish more figures commonly said were said with margins of error. Like this: America has fifty (+ or - 0) States; or Season Four will have 26 (+ or - 0) episodes; or we have 1.5 (+ or - .5) Administrators at Tv Tropes.

V You can't accidentally a noun!

edited 19th Mar '13 8:33:03 PM by ATC

I think he just accidentally a word or two.