There's a differenc between reading a forum, reading a tropes page, reading a creepypasta, and reading a 1000+ page webcomic with a solid narrative

i expect us to to honestly talk about the finer points of poetry at some point

I'm surprised that actually hasn't come up yet, unless you count the Zecoran rhyming stuff. Mostly we talk about TV shows and movies and stuff.

^ Well OOTS is available in print anyway.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:09:49 AM by storyyeller

As red said, the first four books are available in print. Well they will be once the Kickstarter drive ends, holy fuck did that go off, guy started with a goal of ~60K to reprint one book, and now has over 700K and no idea what to do with it since very single piece of physical OOTS merchandise now has enough money to have a double order of it made and still has a week left on the drive.

but just putting it out there since we know how much you love good villians and the Stick ones are some of the best.

and it's only 835 pages ATM

edited 14th Feb '12 8:10:01 AM by Seraphem

About that mirror that makes baby pony clones, I don't think I'd like that idea to be used again, unless the babies had distinct personalities from their parents. One of my major Pet Peeve Tropes is when the kids have identical personalities to their parents (I'm not sure if that's Generation Xerox or if that's just about their lives being the same or parallel).

I wouldn't mind the ponies having to deal with literal clones/duplicates, though, especially if it would be like the one where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes duplicated himself and then was confronted with the fact that his duplicates also shared his flaws (which led him to make a purely good duplicate of himself in a later series of strips).

edited 14th Feb '12 8:12:39 AM by Rainbow

@Ginger: Buy the print edition of OOTS! Throw some money at Rich Burlew on my behalf!

Badly, badly ninja'd.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:11:27 AM by KylerThatch

@Rainbow: Clone divergence would ensure the duplicate ponies would begin to differ quite a bit from their originals.

and it's only 835 pages ATM

Yeah but there's also the prequels and Dragon Tales.

Morning guys. What's up?

^Start of Darkness, at least, only has like 70 pages. Same with On The Origin of PCs.

...How about those ponies, guys? XD

All sorts of convos.

But only 835 online, the rest are in print that he said he had no issues with, he just didn't want o read over 1000 pages on the intertubez.

@Ace: If there was clone divergence with the clone babies, then that wouldn't bother me as much. Especially if it showed that even if they had similar personalities, their life experiences would be different because they're different people (ponies?), so they would end up having some differences from that alone.

Luckily, I don't think all the baby mirror clones in the original G1 series even HAD identical personalities to their parents, most notably Baby Shady, who didn't share her mother's self-esteem issues.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:15:56 AM by Rainbow

I would SO read Fallout Equestria if someone would just print the fucking thing

Got a printer? Just print out each chapter on it's own and staple them together.

If i had a printer I'd do it, just so I could re-read while not at my comp.

That's progress!

edited 14th Feb '12 8:16:39 AM by CDRW

Well, why don't you, then? Print the darn thing, I mean.

@Ginger: What if you printed it out yourself? And then got it bound into a book format? Or does it have to be formally published by someone else to count?

Edit: That was some fast ninjaing of my post to the Ginger Ninja.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:18:05 AM by Rainbow

And those online pages can also be found in print, too.

Wait, clone babies? What?

(We'll be getting some alternate-self shenanigans with Twilight soon enough, so.)

Edit: printing out FO:E would take so much paper.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:17:57 AM by RedSavant

1.) I don't read A4 sheets.
2.) Do you have any idea how LONG that would fucking take

...print it out? :P

NINJA'D!

edited 14th Feb '12 8:18:24 AM by RobbieRotten

Just do it one chapter at a time and what's A4?

@Ginger: I recommend taking the epub document to a print house and have it done right, with a good hardcover made with pony-friendly materials.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:19:38 AM by AceOfScarabs

@ Ace: You know, I've considered doing that. Having a hard-copy of FOE would just be awesome. I wonder what that sort of thing costs.

@Red Savant: I think it may have come from one of the comics from the UK, since it wasn't in any of the TV show episodes.

http://www.etherella.com/mlpmedia/

This website has some of the comics and the one about the mirror babies is included.

edited 14th Feb '12 8:22:56 AM by Rainbow

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