MLP Forum Archive - Page 8361

#209001 osias Wed, 30th May '12 9:36:20 AM

It's hard to see how would a family name a son "filthy rich" when he was born. If he was already rich, so was all the family... it's more understandable if it was a nickname, given by friend or society.

But the worst offender is Diamond Tiara, who is called Diamond Tiara, has a Diamond Tiara, cutie mark and uses a Diamond Tiara. If the name was a nickname that would make more sense.

#209002 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 30th May '12 9:36:54 AM from Singapore

SYNCHTUBE

room is open, Second Telecast will be airing in a bit.

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#209003 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 9:38:11 AM from Aboard The Damocles

Filthy Rich WAS born rich

Stinkin' Rich. Now HE wasn't born rich, it was the Zap Apples that gave him his start

edited 30th May '12 9:38:33 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209004 Sereg Wed, 30th May '12 9:39:04 AM from South Africa

@Red: That's your decision. I still find it a lot of fun and philosophically interesting.

EDIT: I know that it's not true, but I still like to think of ponies as having heritable last names. Plus, "rich" has more than one meaning. Stinkin's ancestors could have been chef's or something.

edited 30th May '12 9:43:01 AM by Sereg

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#209005 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 9:49:51 AM from Aboard The Damocles

I wanna see DT's mother

and Twist's too for that matter

I wonder what her name is...

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209006 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 30th May '12 9:52:45 AM from Singapore

Crossposted from our Synchtube, join ussssss.

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#209007 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 9:55:04 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@Ace No thanks. Bit busy at the moment

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209008 Pannic Wed, 30th May '12 10:02:06 AM

Tiiiiime to read chapter 8 of Fallout Equestria. Annoyance ho!

#209009 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 10:02:47 AM from Aboard The Damocles

You a masochist?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209010 Pannic Wed, 30th May '12 10:04:01 AM

Something like that.

First we start with Velvet being annoying...

Oh, it's a dream sequence.

edited 30th May '12 10:04:48 AM by Pannic

#209011 Sereg Wed, 30th May '12 10:12:26 AM from South Africa

Which episodes are you watching?

Also, Fluttershy's Bad Hare Day just had an AWESOME update.

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#209012 osias Wed, 30th May '12 10:16:01 AM

I watched yesterday the slumper party and dragonshy, in French

#209013 romanticaveman Wed, 30th May '12 10:16:40 AM from Catan

Sadly, nothing MLP related. The Spectacular Spider Man has become my latest obsession, and I'm rewatching episodes daily.

edited 30th May '12 10:16:57 AM by romanticaveman

Admittedly about fifty percent enlightenmentCaveman too.

#209014 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 30th May '12 10:19:47 AM from Singapore

We've done s1e17 and now are watching s1e18.

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#209015 Perpetual Lurker Wed, 30th May '12 10:28:25 AM

On the topic of names, I think that DT's is more of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Her rich parents named her after a prissy, fancy accessory and spoiled her rotten, so her personality and talents developed around that.

#209016 Ace Of Scarabs Wed, 30th May '12 10:31:02 AM from Singapore

I'm not sure I want to know more about that plushie

Coffee made too hardcore

Derpy is getting her toy after all :3 Hopefully it'll come to Singapore :D

edited 30th May '12 10:35:18 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#209017 Pannic Wed, 30th May '12 10:33:54 AM

Oh look, a missing quotation mark. Those are always fun. And I think the author misplaced a parenthetical clause. Unless I'm mistaken, rather than

I looked up from the book I was reading to pass the time. (Turns out, Equestrian Army Today was all about battle saddles.) The train was slowing to nearly a stop.

It should be

I looked up from the book I was reading to pass the time (turns out, Equestrian Army Today was all about battle saddles) The train was slowing to nearly a stop.

Anyway, looks like we're headed for another action scene. Y'know, something funny I've noticed - the things in chapters 5 and 6 had breaks to allow for a passage of time in the middle of the action scenarios. It's like the story itself finds its action scenes boring and wants to get them over with.

#209018 Perpetual Lurker Wed, 30th May '12 10:36:52 AM

Actually, the parenthetical statements inside of spoken lines are the real travesty of writing that I've seen in that story. They don't come up often enough to really tick me off, but just often enough to completely suck me out of the story.

#209019 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 10:37:02 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@Pannic YOU find them boring.

A lot of them I actually liked (mostly the ones involving the Alicorns)

Huh?

edited 30th May '12 10:37:36 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209020 Pannic Wed, 30th May '12 10:39:56 AM

Parentheses in dialogue? I can sort of get that if it's an aside remark that the character is muttering or an off-hand "gee, that reminds me" thing. The terrible, terrible and mercifully dead story ''My Second Life" was horrendous with using parentheses within dialogue.

#209021 Perpetual Lurker Wed, 30th May '12 10:41:57 AM

There are quite a few lines of dialog that have parenthetical statements in them. They just make no sense in spoken dialog. I mean, what is that supposed to imply about how the character is speaking? Is it an aside? Can other characters hear what they're saying? It's just not proper and very confusing.

edited 30th May '12 10:42:09 AM by PerpetualLurker

#209022 gingerninja 666 Wed, 30th May '12 10:42:47 AM from Aboard The Damocles

What's it called when you use "-" in place of brackets?

Cuz that's what I'm noticing in Wheel of Time. Where there'd usually be a parentheses there's a "-" instead

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209023 Pannic Wed, 30th May '12 10:43:22 AM

I usually imagine it to be along the lines of "muttering something." Admittedly yeah, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but My Second Life was absolutely awful with them. That story threw in parentheses that weren't actually things the character was saying, but remarks to the audience.

Yeah, they use "em-dashes." They're often used in place of parentheses. I like to think of them as "a break in the train of thought."

edited 30th May '12 10:44:14 AM by Pannic

#209024 Perpetual Lurker Wed, 30th May '12 10:45:30 AM

@Ginger That simply implies a larger pause than what a comma would imply. Those types of things define the rhythm of a character's speaking. Parentheses have no semantic meaning when it comes to rhythm, as far as I know.

edited 30th May '12 10:45:52 AM by PerpetualLurker

#209025 Sky Strike Wed, 30th May '12 10:45:42 AM from Trottingham

Hi everyone. More CEQ?

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