I love that picture SO much.

... why do you have that pic, JT? XD

edited 17th Jan '12 3:20:06 PM by gingerninja666

^^That seems like a good idea, keg. How about this:

After the episode has aired, the losers can pick whether they want to watch something picked by the winners, or produce some kind of fanwork to the winners' specifications. The losers have to choose blind and cannot change their mind once they've picked.

I don't, but you can't embed it into a post unless it's hosted on the wiki, so I just looked up Suzaku in the images list.

Sounds good to me, although we should probably specify lengths or quality beforehand so the losers don't phone it in. I.e. if you're going to do fanart you have to put more effort into it than stick figures.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:22:06 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Again, I'll be the ONLY one watching something if that's the case

Ginger: Then do something about it. Complaining won't help you improve. Doing will.

I actually wouldn't mind losing. It'd give me an excuse to write. Not that I can promise anyone they will like it. And I'm pretty sure I could handle older ponies, I've suffered through some pretty awful things.

Do WHAT? I can't think small and simply. You can't PRACTICE by doing stuff like that.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:24:18 PM by gingerninja666

I hear G1 is suprisingly tolerable...cannibal ponies...evil overlords...

^You had the Library of Power idea a while ago, right, Ginger? That was some fairly solid writing, all told - certainly nothing to be ashamed of, especially if it was a first fic. You only get better with practice, my friend; that's the long and short of it.

I don't know... there are a lot of us here who really like doing the creative stuff. I still think everyone should be forced to watch something, so it's even, and losers can volunteer to produce something for the winners. After all, only 1 of the three camps is going to win, so the ration of producers to requesters should be well even.

This...this right here.

I love the creative stuff.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:28:19 PM by ApplelightLimited

Try telling Rich that.

Truth be told it was HIM who shook me so much

edited 17th Jan '12 3:27:51 PM by gingerninja666

Cannibal ponies you say?

I am intrigued.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:29:25 PM by TheFreeman

Totally off topic but I don't post on Ponychan anymore, the Skype group is dead, and nobody looks at my facebook statuses except family members.

I just heard somebody say "Make like a tree and get out." Wait, what?

Ginger: Writing, of course. Take an idea and run with it. Even if you have to start something grandiose to get yourself motivated. Work your way through it a little at a time. Anything is better than just complaining (which gets you jack all).

@Keg: The problem is it gives very little motivation to produce something if you're going to have to watch something anyway. It's the choice between "Watching the movie" and "watching the movies and doing extra work" I don't think a lot of people are going to choose the latter unless they were going to do the writing anyway. Maybe we could do something like "Losers have to watch the movie and the live show, or they can opt out of watching the live show if they want to fulfill a request instead".

@Ginger: Just because he managed to get lucky the first time doesn't mean that you won't get any better with practice.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:31:52 PM by JapaneseTeeth

I've seen a still of them with a pony in a cauldron.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:30:49 PM by ApplelightLimited

@ Ginger: I already said I can't write and I can't draw. What makes you think you'll be the only one watching an oldie-but-moldy?

In other words, *SLAP* snap out of it!

That would work, JTeeth - but man, these are getting to be heavy stakes. =)

edited 17th Jan '12 3:33:52 PM by RedSavant

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!!◊

@JT Not that. He completely destroyed me when I asked him to look through my work.

I'm just trying to help Ginger feel included, here. I mean, like I said: Most of the people here who would be volunteering for the extra stuff wouldn't really consider it to be work. Hell, I'd volunteer and do the watching easily. I want to volunteer, it's the watching that's the extra stuff, so it's not much of a punishment. Not unless I get like... a really weird request.

Speaking of which, we need to iron out exactly what it is the losers are watching. I don't really care what as long as it's the same for everybody, and it's not too horribly long.

That kinda defeats the point of making the losers write though. But like I said, we can just pick two things the losers have to watch: one that they all have to watch regardless, and one that they can opt out of if they'd rather write or draw something.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:34:41 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Ginger: Rich shakes everyone down. The only reason he's never shaken me down is because I'm fairly certain he's got zero interest in my fic.

@CDRW: Balls to you.

I guess it would be fair to standardize the offending episode/movie the losers must watch.

@CDRW, ehh. I've seen worse.

edited 17th Jan '12 3:36:24 PM by Drenius