Unicorn did it.

Yes, but it amuses me to take things seriously that are not intended as such.

Edit: pagetopper!

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:28:08 AM by CountDorku

Well, as far as I can tell, Electricity is basicly magic anyway, so they are one step there already.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:27:05 AM by Cookoo

@ Ginger. Books are my oldest and greatest love. I don't read as much these days, but back in my school days I read at a rate that Twilight would be hard pressed to match. Getting to see a character who I already really really like come to the realization of just how awesome books are gives me warm fuzzies like an endless sea of kittens.

I still need to read more, but my imagination isn't good enough. I think too logically

I don't think it's a matter of your imagination, just that you haven't found the right books yet. The best stories don't require imagination, they create it. Unfortunately, the stories that do that are different for each person.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:33:31 AM by CDRW

Yeah, logic and fiction aren't mutually exclusive. I recently read Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card (my favorite author of all time), and it takes time travel in a very low-tech setting and applies every sort of logic it can as the characters try to figure out how it works, and eventually everyone has their own equally valid theories on the way paradoxes work that are reached through different logical paths, and it's awesome.

I stopped being logical when I realised that humanity knows too little to truly understand reality.

Or I just realised I liked screwing around.

@ Cookoo: That's a Fanfic.

@ Ginger: You got the 5 of the same number post again.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:40:47 AM by Badwolfwho

I'm going to see if the library has that on my way home from work. It sounds awe...

Wait, do you mean Pastwatch?

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:41:01 AM by CDRW

Oh, we talking about books atm?

I'm reading The Three Muskiteers, and I love it!

Logic, my dear Ginger, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Edit: I'm reading Altered Carbon. 'Tis good.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:41:35 AM by CountDorku

@Lurker I meant in the way I construct things inside my head. Not the plot.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:42:27 AM by gingerninja666

I'm reading The Truth right now.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:43:07 AM by Badwolfwho

@ ginger: Dammit! You just reminded me of a scene in a book where the protagonist very logically and methodically describes his jail cell in the context of a "what did you do during your summer vacation" writing assignment from elementary school, and I can't remember the name of the book! The whole thing is absolute hilarious!

I started chuckling just reading that.

I'm also not a fan of reading UBER FUCKING LONG books.

One of my favourite books is Another Note. A companion novella to Death Note. It doesn't feel the need to be ultra wordy and highly descriptive. It focuses on the bare facts and the interactions between the characters

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:49:51 AM by gingerninja666

Actually, speaking of short, but good books. Ever read Flatland?

I think I've...actually come up with an explanation for Pinkie Pie. The reality warping, the rock farm, everything.

There's a special kind of crystal that grows in Equestria with magical powers, known as faustium. Faustium is used in the construction of any device modern enough to need unicorn magic. "Rock farms" are actually faustium plantations, using special techniques to cause it to crystallise. Usually the faint magical radiation of faustium is totally harmless. However, because it was discovered well after the last known performance of the Sonic Rainboom, there was no information on how the shockwave of pegasus magic mixed with the unicorn-attuned power of faustium. As a result, when a pulse of pegasus power permeated Pinkie Pie's presence, the flare of faustium energy took her natural earth pony abilities and twisted them through ninety degrees, meaning that she's attuned to a different reality - specifically, a Warner Brothers cartoon - and as a result does things that don't really make sense in her native universe's physics. She also has a limited ability to share these powers - Twilight's injuries in Feeling Pinkie Keen were less than enduring because her close presence to Pinkie had temporarily given her Wile E. Coyote's resistance to injury. This backfired with the Cakes, since her powers are largely subconscious - she expected things to go badly, so they did.

Also, at night Pinkie offscreen-teleports to Gothorse, where she moonlights as Mare-Do-Well.

@CDRW No, the book is titled Pathfinder. It has a tropes page, but it gets eaten by the Pathfinder RPG when you link to it. It's fairly new, it came out in 2010, and it's really good. I greatly reccomend checking it out.

This one?

God! Choosing books to read is so fucking HARD! It's a commitment!

Hmmmm. . .no.

edited 23rd Jan '12 11:59:50 AM by Mio

What do you mean NO?

I doodled humanized versions of MLP today.

I feel dirty.

I am totally checking out Pathfinder.

@ Ginger. I coped with that fact by the twin methods of "pick almost at random" and "read everything." It's not a course I suggest everyone adopt.