^Woohoo!

Wow, that's a blah pagetopper. Have some crazy Twilight, some zombies and The Best Pairing.

edited 17th Jan '12 8:00:20 PM by RedSavant

You're telling me. I've been working on that thing for like 3 days. Now I can get back to the fanfics I've been neglecting. Until saturday, at least.

Oh wow, that crazy Twilight is....I don't even know what, but I like it.

edited 17th Jan '12 8:01:20 PM by JapaneseTeeth

That crazy Twi sure is a thing, but still remains adorable.

@Mio Why DO you feel such skepticism towards RD episodes anyway?

I know you can't comprehend the writers making her nice... but why?

edited 17th Jan '12 8:04:13 PM by gingerninja666

x3

Me too her face is adorable even when crazy I really like her mane .

edited 17th Jan '12 8:05:08 PM by FallenLegend

Yup, as much as I like funnyface!Pinkie, crazy human Twilight is about a zillion times more awesome.

Nice, JTeeth!

If I had purple hair, and was a girl, I'd pretty much look like that.

You know, upon thinking on Baby Cakes for a while and more specifically Pumpkin's use of magic during it, I think I've come up with a new theory about magic. That mainly, until you're taught finer control over it, that it's roughly governed by your desires. Cases in point:

• Pumpkin levitated herself because she wanted to be with her brother.
• Pumpkin levitated toys over to her because she wanted one
• Pumpkin managed to phase out of the basket she and Pound were trapped in because she wanted to go out and play
• She managed to snap a padlock and several chains because she wanted the toys that she knew were in the chest.

Human!Twi with that face I think looks cuter than Pony!Twi (who looks legitimately freaky)

@Ginger: Well, mostly because being a pompous jerk is in fact her primary character trait. Plus I think the writers just find her easier to write that way (especially for comedy).

Huh? How so?

edited 17th Jan '12 8:13:16 PM by Mio

Heh, the way you describe her, she reminds me of House

I really hope that ability fades quickly, because a parent having to put up with that all the way through adolescence would be one hell of a trial.

edited 17th Jan '12 8:11:27 PM by Crowfall

@Librarian: Of course her magic did what she wanted; she was using it to do what she wanted to do. It was only doing what she wanted in the way that any tool would when used for its proper purpose.

^Human babies can do a lot cognitively and such that adults can't. It follows that baby unicorns can lose their magic ability as they get older.

edited 17th Jan '12 8:11:50 PM by RedSavant

I meant like impulsive desires, the more basic stuff like just "I need to have this" and stuff like that. It was more governed by her sense of want, rather than a spell that she needed to use for a specific purpose, like how Twilight normally applies her magic.

Baby Geniuses Pony version -_-

Why would you say that? That is now a thought that exists in my head. It will never leave. You will pay for this.

I still don't think the many applications of telekinesis count as a specific spells (it'd be silly to have a spell for 'float baby dragon over to bed and tuck him in', for instance). I mean, conjuration and such like that, yes, but the telekinesis we see unicorns use appears to be a general-use ability and not governed by too many limitations.

Yeah, I meant just levitation and the phasing spell, but that doesn't mean that they should know how to do it yet. It may be a general ability that all unicorns use, but you still have to pick up the basics first in addition to fine-tuning it, just like walking and talking, which is stuff that we take for granted but that we have to learn to use. Pumpkin just seemed to be using magic based on emotions and desires at that moment, and her magic reacted to the impulses.

I imagine the thought process kind of going like this:

-Pumpkin reaching for butterfly toy- Nrrrrf...urrrrf...toy...want...toy... *telekinesis brings toys over* Cool, toys! :D

edited 17th Jan '12 8:27:58 PM by theLibrarian

My personal headcanon is that Pumpkin is a prodigy, but that's not going to fly with a lot of people, so eh.

Babies can do all sorts of things before the neural pruning kicks into high gear and they have to relearn much of it.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She only can use it because her desires are so strong, but eventually she has to actually learn how to use it. I bet that for now as far as she knows, it's just something that happens whenever she wants something.

Hoof and mouth disease is serious business in Equestria for sure.

So basically it's intuitive at birth, then they have to actually learn how to do it once the natural intuitiveness fades? I can buy that. Although I still think the fact that she can do stuff that even adult unicorns can't, like phase through object or levitate herself, is a bit overkill. I mean, the whole point of the episode is that Pinkie is biting off more than she can chew, and when stuff like that happens it crosses over from "Pinkie isn't as responsible as she thinks she is" into "I wouldn't expect any single pony to have to deal with this".

edited 17th Jan '12 8:48:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth

^^Yeah, I see what you mean now, Librarian. Rather than having to think (as much as any motion requires thought, I suppose, but let's not get into brain/body duality and intent/motion and things like that) 'lift the toy, now bring it closer to me, now shove it in my mouth', it's 'toy toy want want toy now'.

^Yeah, you make a good point with that. It would have been a stronger episode without the superpowered children, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot and it gave Pinkie some good characterization regardless.

...Actually, I wonder if the superpowers could plausibly be related to Pinkie's earlier hallucinations (with the squeaky toy)? (Also, what did you mean by Homestuck making squeaky things scary? I've never read it.)

edited 17th Jan '12 8:52:16 PM by RedSavant