You just now noticed?

I dunno you guys could just ask Twilight

@Applelight, Thanks, I just wish it wasn't such a huge barrier between new work and getting out of this hell hole AMC calls work. I've been delaying applications because I knew how boring they were.

@Kegi, 2 Years? What? Just how efficient is the Canadian system anyway?

You doing followup calls to the HR Departments to ensure they actually recieved your info? Thats how I got the job I work at, their online form wasnt working and they hadnt recieved my info so they asked me to stop by and drop it off... and I got an interview the next day.

Anyone notice that almost every episode in season two has Twilight mentioning going on to plan 'B'?

Do we have a trope saying that plan A never works?

It's odd because I've never had trouble finding a job. Maybe you should try infosec?

@Mousa: I went to a private school(Hence the price - four years in Canadian college usually totals in the range of 10, 000 dollars as opposed to 50 0r 60), so the system is different. I actually took what would be a four-year course on a condensed course load, so we went through a lot of the stuff much faster. There's also the fact that we didn't get summer break - we got two weeks off every three months, and those were our equivalent.

So I had a four years course, just packed down really really tightly.

@turtle: I did at first, but nobody would ever talk to me when I tried, so I kinda lost heart. But I'm going to be trying to do it again. Gonna do a callback to a company or two tomorrow - I hear it's easier to talk to people on thursdays, for whatever reason.

edited 20th Jun '12 5:04:18 PM by kegisak

@Ginger Time for Plan B is as close as we've got, I think.

There's Despite The Plan, though that's more about everything fitting nicely together by fate or sheer improvision than a second plan.

Spike would be Brock, no questions.

And finding a job does indeed suck, it took two years for me to get one, and not even in the type of employment I was searching for in all that time.

edited 20th Jun '12 5:04:30 PM by Psi001

@Rich Uh didn't notice.

In all honesty you should just skip the beta plan and shoot straight to plan omega.

@ keg

Sounds intense.

@ Mousa

Hey no problem.

@Apple: Aheh, sort of. The third quarter nearly killed me when it picked up, but I got used to it fast enough. The intention is to get us used to the industry - historically it pushes people to work a LOT, though it's become much better lately. My figuring is if I could handle THAT, I can handle anything.

@Kegi - that sounds like the program im in now. Earning a Bachelor's degree in 2 years as opposed to 4. Unfortunately Im not going to graduate next fall as I expected because they decided to shift from quarters to semesters and cancel summer semesters... soo its going to be longer for me now. Im more than annoyed as I will not graduate until after the person I was hoping to replace steps down

Wouldn't ponies look at pony-like Pokémon the same way that humans look at human-like Pokémon?

Time for Plan B mentions Twilight using it as a catchphrase on the trope page.

@Psi 001 Hmm after checking that trope page:

Rocky and Bullwinkle - well it's focused on show villains so it can't really count as typical play of this trope.

Hmm first and second MLP can be this in same way, it's more focused on witch characters than ponies (and that stupid girl too).

I don't think humans in Bayfromers suck too. (Unlike in other Transformers shows).

Odd thing, this trope never bothered me that much, at least in live action where it just neccecery to focus (and add them for most time) on humans when turning animated show into live action adaptation (however I think most time making such adaptation is pointless and dumb idea, and most time I didn't watch those movies).

I can't wait for inversion where addaptation is focused on minor or annoying non human character like Thundercats Live Action - Adventures of Snarf.

@ keg

Makes sense. I hear the games development industry is a killer for deadlines. That's why I could never even dream of doing that.

Well no collage here but I had WORSE, be glad nothing you guys are doing in school can be rougher then NNPTC. (naval Nuclear Power Training Command) Basically you have to get the core courses of how to operate a nuclear reactor and all it's secondary system and all the theory behind it in about 6 months, followed by 6 months of hands on experience.

It just amuses me how Plan A almost NEVER works

Plan B is always the better plan somehow

Well, that was odd. I was playing on the reddit Minecraft server, when some guy PVP'd me to death and stole my stuff. When I went back to get the remains, he was standing there. He then gave me all my stuff back, plus enchanted armor. It kind of restores my faith in humanity, I guess.

@What I think that a combination of the fact that ponies already give equal rights to lots of "looks like a pony, but isn't" species combined with the fact that even human-ish pokemon still clearly aren't human would complicate things a bit.

As for game development, the company I'm working for is now actually starting development on a game, and I'm going do do my damndest to make sure that it actually has depth. We're starting quite small, though. Kinda necessary when the whole company consists of two developers, one designer and 2 freelancer artists who really help us out.

edited 20th Jun '12 5:14:25 PM by PerpetualLurker

Most versions of the trope tend to annoy me due to playing the humans as Audience Surrogate characters or The Everyman, ie. dull non descript characters that the audience is supposed to relate to. Sonic X and The Transformers are key examples. Doesn't help they usually go for Uncanny Valley designs in most examples.

Usually when they have wacky depthful humans it's not so much of a problem (The Muppets uses celebrities and lets them run as a loose as possible so isn't that bad at all) but that likely defys the point of the trope.

edited 20th Jun '12 5:12:59 PM by Psi001

Wow that was nice.

@Apple: Eh, any creative industry is like that. Every so often you have to go into crunch to meet your deadlines.

The real reason for it is that people in games can be really, really lazy, so a lot of work gets put off until crunch. If I actually sit down and work consistently, I'll never get a bad crunch. Otherwise it'd be impossible for a designer to ever have a family, and nobody wants that.