Time travel. Duplication. Turning a frog into an orange. Size-changing spells. Duplication mirror.

I just realized that some of the airducts hanging from the ceiling in the library I'm at are big enough for people to crawl through.

Guys, Guys, I think CDRW found my hiding place.

No Fabrication, though. And there was the implication that Time Travel is a once-is-all-you-get deal, so that doesn't have... any level of practicality really, even if it was useful somehow.

I don't think even a unicorn of Twilight's caliber can consistently produce the amount of food that AJ does.

Discord can magic more food in, but that's pretty trivial when he can pretty much do "/give Discord 260 64" at will with a snap of his fingers.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

So that's what that noise is! I thought it was the CMC looking to get their cutie marks in urban exploration!

Hmm, I guess that the Unicorns need Earth Ponies.

I guess that's for the best, though.

I still would like to see MLP's take on the feeling of obsolescence, though.

Don't tell anybody, I don't want to be killed.

edited 2nd Jul '13 12:53:43 PM by ATC

"My friends don't like my parties and don't want to be my friends anymore." ;_;

edited 2nd Jul '13 12:55:07 PM by KylerThatch

The fact that most real life air ducts are too small to crawl through is a sad fact of life.

On the subject of magicing up some food, I'm gonna assume that it just doesn't taste as good as real meals. Kind of like a TV dinner versus a well-prepared meal.

And it's what they say about hydroponics.

Everypony needs food. Hardly anypony needs to get somewhere fast enough to break the sound barrier. In real life, there is constant research into improving agricultural yield; unless the ponies are dumber than we've seen in canon, there should be similar research in Equestria.

Besides, even if magic does supplant traditional agriculture against all odds, it's not like agriculture is the only thing earth ponies are good at.

No, that's abandonment that P Inkie was feeling.

I mean the feeling that the world has changed and you have no place in it because you have been left behind. The feeling of drowning in a world where the things you felt were solid are just water. The feeling that you're not wanted, not needed; and might as well have been replaced. That feeling. Obsolescence.

Maybe you'll find Fluttershy appealing for similar reasons.

True.

We've seen Rainbow's dad in a flashback. They seemed pretty happy. Also, Lauren Faust says that she sees Rainbow's mother as Firefly, who was her favourite pony, so unlikely to be a bad mother.

Well, that only became a factor at the end of the episode anyway.

That fits what we've seen. Except some ponies like Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash for example, have two word names.

This.

On uncorns conjuring food: My headcanon is that unicorn magic is like Harry Potter magic in that it can't create nutrition.

Which is weird because people get turned into animals in Harry Potter and you can eat animals.

Actually when you consider how RD acts, how Lauren said she would not make a good sister, and how she apparently took "Fire Fly's brain and put it in Rainbow Dash" that doesn't bode well for her as a mother.

Well, you can eat humans too.

Conjuration is a different sort of beast from transformation, I think.

I count those as cases of "one name, two words", with the avoidance of combining the two words into one word being a matter of aesthetics (Twilightsparkle and Rainbowdash just look ridiculous!).

@Mio: Point. But I don't think that would extend to severe neglect or abandonment.

@Marq: That makes sense.

Yeah, theme-naming seems to take the place of surnames, for the most part. Twilight Sparkle's brother, for example, is named Shining Armor. I have a Headcanon that Pinkie works at Sugar Cube Corner because the Pies and the Cakes are distant cousins.

Oh yeah, and I tend to pop in and out of the forums pretty abruptly. I frequently check/post on the forums during 5- or 10-minute breaks from work. So if I don't respond, I'm probably not ignoring you, I just needed to get back to work.

EDIT: For awhile, I actually had a hypothesis that only Earth Ponies used surnames, while Pegasi and Unicorns used theme naming. This was mainly based upon the Pies and the Cakes, with the addendum that AJ's immediate family all go by nicknames (and hate being called by their full names). That Headcanon seems to have been Jossed, though.

edited 2nd Jul '13 1:31:29 PM by Hsere

I was always partial to the idea that Dash's parents were divorced. It just seemed to make sense to me.

edited 2nd Jul '13 1:29:29 PM by Mio

We also now know That all of Pinkie's Sister's(And I think her Mum?) have Pie in their name.

Yeah, but given "Sleepless in Ponyville", that whole "wouldn't be a good sister" thing seems to have been...um..."Jossed"? I'm not sure what the proper term would be in this case.

Man, it's weird not having one person who can give definitive answers. I imagine this is how Whovians have felt for the last forty years.

EDIT: When did that get established canonically? Or is it Word of St. Paul?

edited 2nd Jul '13 1:37:40 PM by Hsere

I would actually say that's character development. Season one Dash would probably not have done the same in such a situation.

...Fluttershy, I think that's a little too forward...

@Hsere: It depends on how canonical you consider the supplemental material. A side books has revealed the Sister's names to be Limestone Pie and Marble Pie. And their mother is something-or-other Pie. So it's not really word of anyone, considering it's official material.