@Kegi Now you've gone and reminded me of this: .

Go Go Gadget Non-pony Pagetopper!

edited 9th Apr '12 9:54:35 PM by PerpetualLurker

Dude, now that you have the nerve, you just have to wait until the time is right. I was about as old as you when I went through with working up the guts to enter my relationship.

Just be patient and observant, Mousa. I know it might be a bit difficult considering your work environment, but nobody ever said it was easy.

edited 9th Apr '12 9:54:37 PM by nomuru2d

Lately, I've been catching up on oldschool arcade games that I didn't play as a kid, namely Ghosts n' Goblins (even made a topic for that one) and more recently, Contra. In other words, I've developed a taste for abuse. Meaning that if I had a Pony-girlfriend, it would probably be a fully-grown Diamond Tiara.

And there's no way that line is going to take this thread in disturbing directions.

Mousa why are you always down?

You just seem to catch me at my down times Chadman, I'm normally a lot more neutral, though that comes with a meaner tongue and a delight in the suffering of others, especially if irony is involved. I blame the 5 yeears of bullying taking a chunk out of my ability to see anything positive in anything I do and I am eternally convinced there is something wrong with me. I haven't been disproven yet.

@Nomuru, Nerve was a symptom was temporary stupidity, I was having a good morning, the crowds of idiocy on a Monday evening killed the rose colored glasses and allowed me to see myself as the failure in the eyes of my lord that I am. A worthless being designed to be an enteral chew toy pushed around by anything and everything.

edited 9th Apr '12 10:05:32 PM by MousaThe14

I think what you need to do is start carrying pepper spray around, even if you're not being bullied anymore. Having any form of self-defense tends to give one a huge confidence boost.

Of course I wouldn't risk it in zones where its illegal, but I don't recall ever seeing a law against pepper spray.

Also, Pony girlfriends. Discuss. Or not.

Keep Pinkie away from the medicine cabinet…

Dude, you work in the service industry. Everything and every one in the service industry is terrible - but just in the industry. You step outside and you're perfect again.

I kinda feel you on the bullying thing, though. I spent a long time being picked on as a kid, it can be pretty rough. The bullying stopped in high school when I got huge, but I was honestly pretty apathetic and honestly kind of a bastard for most of it. Since starting college, though, I turned into the man you know today... what I'm getting at is, the longer you spend in an atmosphere you actually enjoy - and one you've chosen - the better outlook you'll have.

That's not too weird, is it?◊

Then again it is Terry...

Edit: Slightly NSFW

edited 9th Apr '12 10:16:38 PM by DavidtheMouse14

That my peeve some people.

Anyway I understand Mousa.

edited 9th Apr '12 10:13:54 PM by Chadaman99

lolwat?

Yeah, a NSWF notice would have been nice...

@ David, I'm more confused than anything else.

@Kegi, it seems every time I hear someone's bullying story it all seemed to stop when they suddenly acquired height. I can't relate since I've been the tallest lad in all the lands once 3rd grade and that didn't stop a soul so it mostly confounds me. If they're not afraid of authority they sure as hell aren't going to be intimated by the fact you're twice their size.

And I guess I haven't found such an environment, except maybe High School. College was a failure since I was confused how after a whole semester I was the only one that hadn't found some form of assimilation. What a nightmare UKY was...

edited 9th Apr '12 10:20:42 PM by MousaThe14

It's, ah, not so much height as my suddenly gaining the ability to lift over a hundred pounds with virtually no effort. Also the fact that I have a Face of a Thug, so while I'm an ardent pacifist I look like I could flip out at any moment.

More to the point, though, it wasn't actually the physical side that did it - though that was certainly an element. MY main tormentor was expelled in the eighth grade, making him no longer an issue. By high school's time come around I was at least good at passing as genial - for all my snark and insult I was still funny, so no one cared to much. I made friends a bit easier and my secondary tormentors mellowed out a bit. Things sort of just relaxed in general, but my looks and size kept things that way. there were still unpleasant people about, they just never decided to bother with me. I imagine it's different if your tormentors have been there throughout.

Were you studying teaching in your first semester, or was it just a general studies thing?

I... was honestly kind of lucky about my school. I was expecting something much different from what I got, but what I got appealed to a part of me I really hadn't given much thought to before. Even then it still took me the better part of a year to really get into it, and everything just sort of... fell into place suddenly. I had a good long think, and a bit of a break down, but on the other side I knew what I wanted, I knew what I was, and I knew what I wanted to do. I won't deny that I got lucky in a lot of ways, there.

edited 9th Apr '12 10:31:23 PM by kegisak

I almost wish I could blame my problems on bullying. At least then I'd have someone to blame for my sucking at life.

Then again, maybe not. Playing the blame game gets you nowhere, anyway.

No, they were always different, that was part of the problem, it was like I was a living target for five years until high school and this is from going from being bullied in Botswana to being bullied in American middle school by a wide range of people. It was like I had one for every other class.

Luck luck luck everyone I know is so danged lucky... I'm going underground with the moles to dig in my hole. Good night

edited 9th Apr '12 10:36:06 PM by MousaThe14

IF it makes you feel any better, it's probably the only time in my life I've been lucky. It happens to everybody once, at least.

Anyways, goodnight Mousa. Hope you're in a better way tomorrow.

Awww.... good night Mousa. Sorry I couldn't offer any words of encouragement since I was taking a shower and doing homework.

But things may not get better, but you get stronger. (This is totally stolen from the "It Gets Better" project).

edited 9th Apr '12 10:44:40 PM by ilsemmr

What did Drenius's avatar use to be?

I saw some interesting answers here—even back in the nineties, there was someone answering questions in-character as a My Little Pony on the Web! It seems to be going with an Animated Actors hypothesis where the ponies are playing characters based on themselves, thus explaining why they get different personalities in different media, and Dream Valley isn't really under attack all the time; the "villains" were also just actors of various species brought in to add variety and drama.

I like the idea put forth toward the end there that alicorns were often used as stunt doubles, especially if it's true that they generally age more slowly than other kinds of ponies, so they're easily mistaken for baby ponies. Therefore in "Escape From Catrina", Baby Surprise must have refused to do any more stunts after she crashed into the building block arch, and so they filmed the leapfrog scene with an alicorn made up to look like her.

And at last I am done. Hooray!

Storyyeller, you'd better explain all there is to know about modular arithmetic to me RIGHT NOW, or I won't get any sleep tonight!

Modular arithmatic is what you get when you take a certian number and define it be equal to 0.

So for example, say we want to do modulo 12. Then we declare that 12 = 0

So 1 = 13, 2 = 14, 3 = 15, etc. It's that simple

Also, is Moe Dantes still here?

edited 9th Apr '12 11:17:04 PM by storyyeller

Interesting.

So what uses does Modular arithmetic have, then?

I use modular arithmatic in programming to determine divisibility in certain algorithms. Other than that, though, I don't really use it.

Actually, it comes up all the time. For example, random number generators almost always use modular arithmetic. In fact, pretty much everything computer related uses it.

Also, Cryptography is basically built on modular arithmetic.

edited 9th Apr '12 11:27:16 PM by storyyeller