I consider myself lucky that I get 700v dollars from the government a month as part of social security. But that's barely enough to cover bills and rent as it is. And heck, my parents don't trust me with savings so I don't get to use what I keep. Bah, no matter how much I try and convince them otherwise, my parents still can't imagine that I could be a fully functional member of society because they want to protect me.

I'm still at the planetarium as usual. I pretty fun as far as I'm concerned. Colin's didn't get a summer job this time around mostly due to having summer school to deal with.

Your parents don't trust you with your own savings account, Dark? It sounds to me like an attempt to keep you dependent on their charity, but I'm probably being overly misanthropic.

Everyone, I'd like to apologise for such a massive derail of the thread. I likely should've just gone with my discussion on the importance of cathartic release in regards to the show. But I'm still glad to have created the oppotunity for people to vent their frustrations, even if it isn't the purpose of the thread.

Uh-oh, have I killed the thread?

Anyway, it's probably best that I hit the hay so you all can have a proper discussion about ponies. Goodnight.

edited 16th Jul '13 7:18:06 PM by Thirikal

I thought of an interesting parallel between Rarity's interactions with Sweetie Belle in Sisterhooves Social and Rainbow Dash's interactions with Derpy in The Last Round-Up. This came about with me thinking about how Derpy and Rarity happen to have the same voice actress, and that Rarity would hate having someone as clumsy as Derpy at her boutique. And then I realized that she'd probably yell at Derpy for trying to "help" like she did with Sweetie Belle. And then that's exactly what happened when Derpy was trying to help Rainbow Dash fix the town hall. In both cases, someone was clumsily trying to help and getting scolded for it. Also, both Derpy and Sweetie Belle do comply with getting out of the way, but end up causing still more trouble (Derpy breaks the floor with her butt and Sweetie Belle's attempt to entertain herself by drawing pictures led to her gluing Rarity's valuable sapphires to her artwork).

I see where you're going with this. Derpy is Rainbow Dash's younger sister.

In other news another Pinkie Pie's Fashion Boutique toy is released (Nude but with Skunk Stripes and a car)

edited 16th Jul '13 8:01:07 PM by MorningStar1337

@Crowfall: No, I didn't even think of that until you mentioned it, although it would be funny if that was true, especially considering Rainbow Dash's tendency to crash into things herself (although she can also be very agile as well). I was more noticing that Tabitha St.Germain has played characters who were on opposite sides of the situation; playing both Rarity, who is annoyed at Sweetie Belle's clumsiness, and Derpy, who is so clumsy she manages to smash through the floor just by sitting down.

edited 16th Jul '13 8:22:11 PM by Rainbow

She can certainly play many roles. In g3 alone she voiced 5 ponies and sang both theme songs.

edited 16th Jul '13 8:27:02 PM by darkabomination

That's mostly because of Irish and NES respectively.

Nah, the cheese thing is everybody's fault. And because cheese is delicious.

Tempting as it is, I don't want to derail the fic that badly. The real challenge is to figure out a way to subtley derail it so that it looks like it's someone else's fault.

Well excuse me for somehow being a cheese nexus! I didn't order that!

Anyways... going to actually hit the hay. -cheese bed'd-

That just doesn't work. Inserting the middle name like that throws off the rhythm.

Alsom you need to randomly switch your pokemon out constantly for no apparent reason.

I don't remember Agatha doing that. I thought that was Koga?

The ending for it was ruined for be by the ridiculous What Measure Is a Mook? as well as Eleventh Hour Superpowers out of nowhere (no, The Library does not count as foreshadowing)

She went to Kings Cross Station because the author couldn't decide whether to kill her off or not and decided to split the difference.

It's a thread injoke referring to the first time Apple started drunkposting.

How committed are you to the games industry? From what I've heard life is much better outside of it. I know there are people who used to work on games in my office, so there are other options, especially if you're good at programming.

Can't you just get an account in your own name?

Just read the Under the Sparkling Sea book. Oh I wish the seaponies were canon.

No it was definitely Agatha. I wouldn't be surprised if there's just a hard coded 25% of switching each turn or something. Especially noticeable since the other trainers basically never switched pokemon. You are right that I got mixed up wtih Agnes though.

I must sleep now. See you all tomorrow.

I may be the token zombie of this thread, but you guys do seem to do a lot of zombie-related derailing without my help.

How come we never do any AI derails?

Of course there was that recent Pacific Rim movie about everyone's favorite AI.

edited 16th Jul '13 9:46:01 PM by storyyeller

I'll never understand the popularity of Portal.

I'm sorry Spike, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Well I suppose you might have Hype Backlash especially from the endless memes, but it really was a funny game.

this remix of Love is in Bloom is just awesome.

That is pretty nice.