Changeling X Amnesia? Hmm a wonderful concept for a horror story. I must investigate

@Berry: As a good doctor once put it: Shoot!

edited 7th May '12 8:34:01 PM by stevebat

Oh boy, here we go...

@ berry, up to you, I don't know enough about your sleep patterns to say anything.

@Berry: Probably better to force yourself to sleep now. Good luck though, I've been trying to alter my sleep schedule for a long time now, and it just won't stick.

For me I found that going to bed earlier is beneficial to a good nights rest. 3:00 am for me at least, is a threshold of no return the difference between waking up moderately late, and waking up ludicrously late and still tired.(Which is why I always go to bed by 1:00 am myself or even earlier on some nights.)

There are a few techniques to doing so. Go to bed when you first feel tired is one of them (Doesn't work if you normally don't "feel tired). The other is to slowly shift your schedule back. Like going to bed an hour earlier every night.

edited 7th May '12 8:37:34 PM by stevebat

Eh, I guess I'll try to go to sleep now and if that doesn't work, marathoning ponies ponies ponies. And if I get tired in the middle of the day I'll just take a concerta.

edited 7th May '12 8:37:09 PM by BerryBubble

speaking of..I need to do the same, see you all after work tomorrow. J teeth, again YAY!, hope you end up liking it.

All I saw was the sequel, but it looked like a stupid movie.

I should probably go to bed as well.

If you're having trouble sleeping, you should NOT be watching cartoons.

@colin Goodnight

@Kyler I know. But I really wanted to get it out of my system.

I have indeed heard of that show. Sounds a bit too depressing for my tastes.

Speaking of which. I should go to bed now myself. It's only 11:40 PM here but I can benefit of setting a midnight (or earlier) bed time.

Good night guys. Hope I dream of ponies (Or that other thing I like.)

@Lyra Yeah, that’s probably for the best. It would be interesting to see your reations, but...

Hey, Lyra, have you watched My Little Pony: Friendship is Ma—

Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

@Steve: I read the first three chapters. The prose itself is pretty good; probably better than what I could churn out unless I spent a lot of time tweaking it. Any problems I see so far are minor; the gore strikes me as a bit gratuitous, and I think LP is a little bit too competent at dealing with the outside world for somepony who was raised underground. I'm also curious as to what her exact goal is, because she seems to be just sort of aimlessly wandering around town at the moment, although I'm well aware that I've barely scratched the surface, and the actual plot will kick in soon. All in all, it's pretty good, but given that my main issue with the fic in general is how it handles canon stuff, which there hasn't been much of so far, I can't really make a judgement.

The only thing that really rubbed me the wrong was is that I think the description of the library was overkill; the content itself doesn't bug me too much, but I felt like the purpose of the scene was basically to see how much the library could be desecrated by turning it into a hellhole. I'm guessing the effect was supposed to be to impress on the reader how nasty the world had become, but it came across more like a deliberate effort to gross out the reader. It probably doesn't help that I think that implication is way more effective than detailed description; I probably would have found it creepier if more had been left to the imagination. Some bits ran a bit foul of Show, Don't Tell. I don't need the narration to explicitly tell me that the pony was raped and tortured. Just hint at it and let the reader fill in the blanks.

But overall I was pleasantly surprised.

edited 7th May '12 8:56:48 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Japan's premiere of the new series is cool.

And now I’m worried I’m turning into Kyubey.

Do you have multiple facial expressions? If so, you're probably okay.

True. But I’m still wondering how a pony would react to the show, if they could finish it at all.

Yet I feel bad for wanting to see that.

edited 7th May '12 8:53:05 PM by crowlover

Get Pinkie to watch it.

The gore in the library is definitely gratuitous. It appears that there's a special breed of Raiders dedicated to being as cartoonishy evil as possible. I call them the Dark Kantians. Fortunately, they only appear once more as far as I know.

@JT You do realize that if she likes it, though, she’s going to probably try to get everypony else to watch it.

And why do I find myself somewhat wanting this?

edited 7th May '12 9:07:26 PM by crowlover

Okay, so should I liveblog a FO:E reading? It's probably the only way I'll be able to make myself read it, and but it's not going to be worth it if no one really cares.

So THAT's how the six orbs got there. I was really wondering about that.