Interestingly, the post times in my archived copy of the first page are 3 hours earlier then the current version of that page. I wonder what caused it. I guess maybe the server changed timezones or something. At the very least, this will complicate my plans of making a graph of posting times.

You aren't the only one who this conversation has been irking Ginger... but fine, I will stop.

E Dit: Ahem, never mind. Personal issues, not ponies.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:30:50 PM by kegisak

Hey, everyone in a different timezone, what times do you see on these posts?

My theory is that it used Pacific time in the past but now uses your own timezone.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:29:44 PM by storyyeller

10 more hours until next episode.

Lol, my first post was

Whoohoo overanalysis.

Eh... At the moment I'm reading 8:30.

Local time.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:31:33 PM by Chariot

I see my own local time. Presumably the timestamp is adjusted for whatever timezone you put in your profile settings.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:30:48 PM by KylerThatch

@kegi sorry. I lie all the time. and I'm decietful alot too. I don't like to rationalize it though. So I don't like talking about it.

Yeah, I'm at about 10:30 as well. You must have changed your timezone settings or something.

As far as Celestia solving Discord's riddle, Celestia wasn't there when Twilight used the book in the library to find out about the elements, so she wouldn't know where they were either. I bet she was doing some searching of her own, anyway, then moved on to Plan B with the letters when it became clear that they had lost round 1 against Discord.

@Lurker but the letters would only work if the mane cast were Discorded and Discord had figured he'd won. That implies that she let them go off to the maze knowing full well what would happen.

Chessmaster, anyone?

Mine is set to my local time, EST, but i know for a fact that before, the place was run on a different timezone before we were allowed to set it ourselves.

I can be a stubborn ass about keeping my mouth shut when I don't want to say something. Sometimes, this is kind of a bad thing.

Not presuming to speak for anyone other than myself, but being deceptive or misleading weighs more on my conscience than simply withholding information, though.

I dunno, that's just me.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:37:42 PM by KylerThatch

Local time in threads, but if I'm looking from the forum top it's PST, and then it's local time again in subtopic lists. I've been wondering about that, actually.

Like I said, Ginger, the letters could have easily been Plan B. Just because a character is The Chessmaster, doesn't mean that their first plan always works. It just means they have backups.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:40:14 PM by PerpetualLurker

The letters always came across to me like some desperate last resort.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:38:53 PM by Mio

@ginger: Or she just realized "Oh crap, Discord got them" and then sent the letters as a last resort to keep Twilight from being broken.

@Kyler: I'm the same way. I feel a lot less bad about telling someone that it's none of their business than I do about trying to mislead them, even if I don't technically lie.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:39:19 PM by JapaneseTeeth

personally, I'm glad that the CMC finally got some degree of characterization. Not that I really have any attraction to them, I just hate seeing characters be wasted...half the reason I wanna see Princess Luna back so badly kegi's first post, pg.15

Hehe....

Ah, I was wondering when I popped in. I knew it was early.

It's nice to know that that attitude persists to this day.

@Kyler: Well... sometimes you don't really get the option. It's in my nature to be honest, and I abhor lying... sometimes you just find yourself in a situation that you can't back out of, and there are just some people you can't tell to step off. And those are exactly the kinds of people you don't always want to be honest with... so I figured out a few tricks to mislead without lying, and rationalized it. I can't control how they'll take it. It isn't my fault they were wrong. I never lied to them. It's... as far as I'm concerned, it's easier. I have a rather startling knack for controlling people like that.

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:45:25 PM by kegisak

Sorry. You guys know me, I'm a massive fan of long running gambits and plans and manipulations. For me, it's easier to believe that Celestia had this all planned from the beginning, and what she always planned to do if the elements did end up stolen. I figured a lot of her anger in discord's introduction came from her knowing what she would have to put her subjects through now that Discord has stolen the elements

edited 3rd Feb '12 8:44:32 PM by gingerninja666

Me, I figure Celestia learned speedchess gambits.

Schneizel is your idol, Ginger, and 90% of Code Geass was plans made on the spot to counter other plans. In fact, anyone with a set plan from the beginning in CG almost always lost.

Is it me, or was every battle in Code Geass just won by whoever revealed a fancy new mech in the middle of the battle?

I have no doubt that Celestia is capable of Speedchess, but I also think her initial plan would be a bit more complex than what you guys seem to think it would be.

She had to find a way of having her subjects use the elements without Discord stopping them. The only way to do that? Put him in a position where he thinks he's won. and where he thinks the elements have been rendered useless. Simple.