So anyhow, Pinkie is my second favorite, cause Dashie is best pony, so I knew I would enjoy this episode. I love how it was a character development episode on Pinkie (and not on Rarity for once) on her learning about responsibilities. It was one of her obvious flaws that hadn't been explored yet, and I loved how the writer did it! She learns her lesson at the end on not taking more responsabilities, but such a daww moment when the twins say her name Also, A letter to Celestia! Can'T be a great episode without that!
Two new songs, and great moments throughout the episode. About the twins having super powers, I think it's more because it something natural for all ponies, in the sense that their bodies are born with the abilities for what they will accomplish through life, but they need to learn to use these abilities. Since the babies have no conscious being, all they do (magic and flying) is done by their subconscious which knows all their abilities. As the babies grow older, their conscious takes over their subconscious, leading them to forget how they flew and did magic and having to learn it all from scratch. Also seen in human babies, which all know how to swim until they are about one year old. They forget after and need to learn again. Anyhow, that's my view on the phenomenon.
I was planning on posting this on the 400th page, but alas, I was away from keyboard at the time. + Show Spoiler +
So, most of you know me for showing up in the IRC very frequently and very infrequently depending on the day. This has been due to my scheduling these past few months. I have been spending 10+ hours a day on my schooling and another 4 on average a day working at a company that I enjoyed working at, but I no longer have the time to do both. This has left me with very little time to myself since September. And the intervening time has quite literally been the best of times, and the worst of times of my life.
It has been the worst because I have been under the most stress I have ever been under in my entire life. I have been way more emotional too, in a negative way. I’ve been cracking. I can’t take that much work in a day. I hate it. I hate the situation I’m in. And on Sunday, that will change, I’ll be done with working there, and as a result, I’m also reclaiming my soul that I’d loaned the company in question. I’ll have a chance to get back to normality, but I’m changed, I know what dealing with stress and being under it means. I also know how I react to such situations, and quite honestly, I hate what I have to do to try to maintain it.
It has been the best of times because I have found things that I never knew that I should have known. First, I found friendship. Seriously, I am not kidding, for the first time in my life, I have what I would consider true friends. They aren’t jackasses or messed up in the head. Nor do they completely ignore me like almost every single person my age has until recently. These people are absolutely awesome. I could spend almost all my time around them just talking or messing around. I really enjoy their company which is completely unlike being around other people before. I have known them for years before now and worked with all of them on technical projects, but I never really knew them. I never understood how awesome they were. I never understood what it meant to have a friend because I didn’t have one before, and I love how I feel when around them.
Second, I’ve found myself. As I mentioned earlier, this has been the best and worst of times in my life. Originally, I didn’t realize I wasn’t happy, much less as to why, although the mention of that fact would have made me shrug at the time. I was apathetic. I didn’t care, I was just trudging through life just because I didn’t have any choice short of completely breaking down and getting committed to a mental health facility or committing suicide. I just didn’t care. I was going about things such that I would apply a pseudo scientific method to everything and over analyze everything. I was a cold hearted bastard. Granted, there was a time where I had felt pure emotion because it was new. I could commit at that point to something wholeheartedly (FIRST Robotics in my case) and enjoy it. I lost that over a several year period by becoming simply a hard shell as a way to cope with the external world which I couldn’t deal with.
More recently, after becoming a philosopher and existentialist for a short period of time (I still cringe at the thought of it). I finally did realize that 1.) I wasn’t happy, 2.) the point of life is to be happy, 3.) realizing what does make me happy, which is thinking. Thinking about the possibilities, letting my mind roam. Experiencing for myself in my mind what would happen if I were to go down a path of conscienceness. Letting myself be free of pain. Being part of a constructive process. For while I am fine with speaking my mind and tearing down papers and ideas, including my own, I am not happy per se. However, I am happy with constructing ideas and concepts and that is something I can live with extremely comfortably. Unfortunately, only a few professions even have this kind of thinking at the heart (engineering and writing), limiting me in what professions I would enjoy, but they are more than adequate enough.
Third, I’ve found ponies. This is quite literally the first show I watched consistently for the pure reason that I really enjoyed watching it. Practically all others before were for the intellectual curiosity. I wanted to learn from them. I don’t care about that anymore, not so much the learning portion, but taking my curiosity to such extremes as to spend most of my time learning about random things that will never have much of an affect on me. This show resonates with me in such a way that I love it for it was there when I was down, it was there when I was in that cold hard shell that I was in, it was there when I fucking got it. I got the references. I got how the characters react. I got all of that. Not just at a surface, intellectual/analytical, level, but down to my emotions. I got it, and I still get it. I realized through the power of the show why I was unhappy. I realized why my life was screwed up. I realized why everything in my life is the way it is.
All this is why I would call myself a Brony.
And then I'd have a lulzy picture in here to boot. But I don't a scanner to scan it. :cry:
On January 15 2012 13:49 DeCim wrote: I was planning on posting this on the 400th page, but alas, I was away from keyboard at the time. + Show Spoiler +
So, most of you know me for showing up in the IRC very frequently and very infrequently depending on the day. This has been due to my scheduling these past few months. I have been spending 10+ hours a day on my schooling and another 4 on average a day working at a company that I enjoyed working at, but I no longer have the time to do both. This has left me with very little time to myself since September. And the intervening time has quite literally been the best of times, and the worst of times of my life.
It has been the worst because I have been under the most stress I have ever been under in my entire life. I have been way more emotional too, in a negative way. I’ve been cracking. I can’t take that much work in a day. I hate it. I hate the situation I’m in. And on Sunday, that will change, I’ll be done with working there, and as a result, I’m also reclaiming my soul that I’d loaned the company in question. I’ll have a chance to get back to normality, but I’m changed, I know what dealing with stress and being under it means. I also know how I react to such situations, and quite honestly, I hate what I have to do to try to maintain it.
It has been the best of times because I have found things that I never knew that I should have known. First, I found friendship. Seriously, I am not kidding, for the first time in my life, I have what I would consider true friends. They aren’t jackasses or messed up in the head. Nor do they completely ignore me like almost every single person my age has until recently. These people are absolutely awesome. I could spend almost all my time around them just talking or messing around. I really enjoy their company which is completely unlike being around other people before. I have known them for years before now and worked with all of them on technical projects, but I never really knew them. I never understood how awesome they were. I never understood what it meant to have a friend because I didn’t have one before, and I love how I feel when around them.
Second, I’ve found myself. As I mentioned earlier, this has been the best and worst of times in my life. Originally, I didn’t realize I wasn’t happy, much less as to why, although the mention of that fact would have made me shrug at the time. I was apathetic. I didn’t care, I was just trudging through life just because I didn’t have any choice short of completely breaking down and getting committed to a mental health facility or committing suicide. I just didn’t care. I was going about things such that I would apply a pseudo scientific method to everything and over analyze everything. I was a cold hearted bastard. Granted, there was a time where I had felt pure emotion because it was new. I could commit at that point to something wholeheartedly (FIRST Robotics in my case) and enjoy it. I lost that over a several year period by becoming simply a hard shell as a way to cope with the external world which I couldn’t deal with.
More recently, after becoming a philosopher and existentialist for a short period of time (I still cringe at the thought of it). I finally did realize that 1.) I wasn’t happy, 2.) the point of life is to be happy, 3.) realizing what does make me happy, which is thinking. Thinking about the possibilities, letting my mind roam. Experiencing for myself in my mind what would happen if I were to go down a path of conscienceness. Letting myself be free of pain. Being part of a constructive process. For while I am fine with speaking my mind and tearing down papers and ideas, including my own, I am not happy per se. However, I am happy with constructing ideas and concepts and that is something I can live with extremely comfortably. Unfortunately, only a few professions even have this kind of thinking at the heart (engineering and writing), limiting me in what professions I would enjoy, but they are more than adequate enough.
Third, I’ve found ponies. This is quite literally the first show I watched consistently for the pure reason that I really enjoyed watching it. Practically all others before were for the intellectual curiosity. I wanted to learn from them. I don’t care about that anymore, not so much the learning portion, but taking my curiosity to such extremes as to spend most of my time learning about random things that will never have much of an affect on me. This show resonates with me in such a way that I love it for it was there when I was down, it was there when I was in that cold hard shell that I was in, it was there when I fucking got it. I got the references. I got how the characters react. I got all of that. Not just at a surface, intellectual/analytical, level, but down to my emotions. I got it, and I still get it. I realized through the power of the show why I was unhappy. I realized why my life was screwed up. I realized why everything in my life is the way it is.
All this is why I would call myself a Brony.
And then I'd have a lulzy picture in here to boot. But I don't a scanner to scan it. :cry:
Any time bro! Nice read and glad to hear it! I feel much the same way, and it only goes to strengthen our calling card, our creed.
Overall, I think this episode was pretty meh. One of the greatest strengths of the show is the archetypal natures of the mane 6, and how their personalities play off of one another so effectively. Restricting an episode to a single one of the mane 6 removes that advantage, and makes it much less interesting in my book. Some of the best episodes in my opinion are those that play one pony's particular personality against multiple others (like the differences in how you see Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash react to Fluttershy's fear in "Dragonshy," for example).
And the weird horror-type scene in the middle of the episode had me like "What? Where the hell did that come from?" It just didn't seem appropriate given the context the rest of the episode set up, and it disappeared as fast as it popped up. Had it stuck around, I think it would have worked better. I mean, caring for small children can be extremely stressful, and they could have done some interesting things with the effects that stress (and constant, unrelenting FEAR of harm befalling the children, oh yes I know it well) can have, but they didn't. I also felt that the "super-powered" nature of the babies took a little too long to manifest; I know I'm not the only one who knew that was coming from Rainbow's and Rarity's comments at the beginning of the episode, and I guess I was expecting more time to be devoted to it. And the babies' crying got REALLY annoying the third or fourth time, and I realize that it was supposed to be to make us more invested in Pinkie's efforts to calm them down, but after a few times it really started grating my nerves. Having the superpowers come in earlier would have cut down on that too, since they'd be doing all kinds of crazy, fun-to-watch stuff instead of just crying.
I don't think it was a terrible episode, I just don't think it was that great. The lesson about responsibility had been done in both Applebuck Season and Stare Master, with AJ and Fluttershy taking on too much responsibility in those episodes, and I don't think it needed to be done again. I will make the comment that Pinkie Pie needed the lesson the most of the mane 6, so I guess that's a point in the episode's favor.
I really liked it. It was so cute ;A; I was happy to see a Pinkie focused episode as well. Mr and Mrs Cake are super lucky to not only have a pegasus and unicorn BUT twins on top of that. Living twins in the equine world are extremely rare. Usually one dies before birth or is a stillborn. Anyway, I enjoyed the episode. I hope to see more of the Cake twins in the future!
Okay guys, it's been a few months and I figure it's time for another music dump from me. Sadly, there's been a bit of a drought in really good stuff with many of the best composers either leaving the scene (NotACleverPony) or busy working on game soundtracks, so some of this will be older. And while I love Super Ponybeat and especially love the recent Find a Pet and Becoming Popular mixes, those have been linked in the thread and are pretty well-known, so I'll just mention them with a recommendation for newcomers.
My tastes are as follows: no lyrics (voice samples okay), no dubsteb, and not much in the way of rock or anything extremely loud other than orchestral.
First we have the long-awaited final version of Makkon's Luna Deos MLP remix, Deae Luna. A very slow, powerful, and sad piece. + Show Spoiler +
Next up is Nightmare Night, an absolutely amazing song from WoodenToaster and MikeTheMic; it is over a month old at this point, but I'm sure it's new to someone. This one comes in its original electronic version with lyrics (available in PMV form as well; folks watching Hax Mega this morning saw one of them). But the one I'm embedding is Stormwolf's orchestral remix, since that's just more to my taste. More remixes are available if you turn on annotations for the original video. + Show Spoiler +
My third piece of choice is an older piece that didn't get much recognition (less than 10,000 views on Youtube), but is a fantastic electronic piece to lose myself in: Lunar Luminescence by FraGmenTd. I personally suggest going right to the download link in the Youtube description for the instrumental version, since even though I love ponies, I like it much more without Luna's voice clips. + Show Spoiler +
Fourth is a remix of a song inspired by a half-remix of the title theme--that's three full steps away from pony canon, for those counting, with zero actual resemblance left over. But it's still a great piece that reminds me a bit of the Halo soundtrack, and it's another work from Makkon: his extended battle theme version of Impressions of Celestia(l) Origins. (l) because the original work was Celestial Origins by jeffthestrider, but Makkon has called it Celestia Origins both times. + Show Spoiler +
And some honorable mentions:
A tribute to NotACleverPony featuring remixes of his songs For the New Lunar Republic and Lower the Moon, by ByCelestiasBeard. If you like this and haven't heard his originals, I urge you to take a listen, and check out Makkon and Eurobeat Brony's remixes of some of the pieces as well.
The Rarity Stage theme from an upcoming Mega Spike game, composed by General Mumble
Equestria's Dream by Daxien AKA JoltMc (thanks to StarDragon for helping me with the name for this and the next one after I forgot to save them)
Didn't the baby unicorns seem wayyyy too overpowered? Unicorns flying? Twilight sparkle and rarity just walk! The two in the mane6 can't walk through walls either! And the baby pegasus was able to carry Pinkie Pie all the way throughout the house! They're only one month old for Christ's sake
Personally I loved this episode. It was really cute and sweet. However, I felt like the underlying message was kinda wrong... What I got from it was, if you can't do something, cry for it. Aside from that, Rainbow Dash's and Twilight's competition is coming... BEWARE OF THE NEW MANE 6
A good episode I think. I mean you can't get that much out of a babysitting episode, but it had it's moments. Again no Derpy?
I hope more mane 6 episodes are on the way. They are what the show is really about, a single character is good, but can't make up for all of them. You lose a lot of awesome moments for every one that does not appear in an episode. All CMC and single character episodes weren't that great, unless they got all mane 6 in the episode. Secret of My Excess and The Cutie Mark Chronicles are good examples of this.
Just wanted to mention an interesting reflection I've thought of yesterday while talking with Cane:
The TL brony community reflects the entire brony fandom on a smaller scale. I mean the brony fandom has done more in one year than many other fandoms do in 10+ years. And this TL brony community held two Mare-a-thons, a Bronycraft tournament, Minecraft and many other awesome stuff, within just a few months of existence as an actual community. It's still just mindblowing what kind of people ponies can bring together and motivate them to do a lot of amazing stuff.
On January 15 2012 13:49 DeCim wrote: I was planning on posting this on the 400th page, but alas, I was away from keyboard at the time. + Show Spoiler +
So, most of you know me for showing up in the IRC very frequently and very infrequently depending on the day. This has been due to my scheduling these past few months. I have been spending 10+ hours a day on my schooling and another 4 on average a day working at a company that I enjoyed working at, but I no longer have the time to do both. This has left me with very little time to myself since September. And the intervening time has quite literally been the best of times, and the worst of times of my life.
It has been the worst because I have been under the most stress I have ever been under in my entire life. I have been way more emotional too, in a negative way. I’ve been cracking. I can’t take that much work in a day. I hate it. I hate the situation I’m in. And on Sunday, that will change, I’ll be done with working there, and as a result, I’m also reclaiming my soul that I’d loaned the company in question. I’ll have a chance to get back to normality, but I’m changed, I know what dealing with stress and being under it means. I also know how I react to such situations, and quite honestly, I hate what I have to do to try to maintain it.
It has been the best of times because I have found things that I never knew that I should have known. First, I found friendship. Seriously, I am not kidding, for the first time in my life, I have what I would consider true friends. They aren’t jackasses or messed up in the head. Nor do they completely ignore me like almost every single person my age has until recently. These people are absolutely awesome. I could spend almost all my time around them just talking or messing around. I really enjoy their company which is completely unlike being around other people before. I have known them for years before now and worked with all of them on technical projects, but I never really knew them. I never understood how awesome they were. I never understood what it meant to have a friend because I didn’t have one before, and I love how I feel when around them.
Second, I’ve found myself. As I mentioned earlier, this has been the best and worst of times in my life. Originally, I didn’t realize I wasn’t happy, much less as to why, although the mention of that fact would have made me shrug at the time. I was apathetic. I didn’t care, I was just trudging through life just because I didn’t have any choice short of completely breaking down and getting committed to a mental health facility or committing suicide. I just didn’t care. I was going about things such that I would apply a pseudo scientific method to everything and over analyze everything. I was a cold hearted bastard. Granted, there was a time where I had felt pure emotion because it was new. I could commit at that point to something wholeheartedly (FIRST Robotics in my case) and enjoy it. I lost that over a several year period by becoming simply a hard shell as a way to cope with the external world which I couldn’t deal with.
More recently, after becoming a philosopher and existentialist for a short period of time (I still cringe at the thought of it). I finally did realize that 1.) I wasn’t happy, 2.) the point of life is to be happy, 3.) realizing what does make me happy, which is thinking. Thinking about the possibilities, letting my mind roam. Experiencing for myself in my mind what would happen if I were to go down a path of conscienceness. Letting myself be free of pain. Being part of a constructive process. For while I am fine with speaking my mind and tearing down papers and ideas, including my own, I am not happy per se. However, I am happy with constructing ideas and concepts and that is something I can live with extremely comfortably. Unfortunately, only a few professions even have this kind of thinking at the heart (engineering and writing), limiting me in what professions I would enjoy, but they are more than adequate enough.
Third, I’ve found ponies. This is quite literally the first show I watched consistently for the pure reason that I really enjoyed watching it. Practically all others before were for the intellectual curiosity. I wanted to learn from them. I don’t care about that anymore, not so much the learning portion, but taking my curiosity to such extremes as to spend most of my time learning about random things that will never have much of an affect on me. This show resonates with me in such a way that I love it for it was there when I was down, it was there when I was in that cold hard shell that I was in, it was there when I fucking got it. I got the references. I got how the characters react. I got all of that. Not just at a surface, intellectual/analytical, level, but down to my emotions. I got it, and I still get it. I realized through the power of the show why I was unhappy. I realized why my life was screwed up. I realized why everything in my life is the way it is.
All this is why I would call myself a Brony.
And then I'd have a lulzy picture in here to boot. But I don't a scanner to scan it. :cry:
On January 15 2012 15:19 RoKetha wrote: Okay guys, it's been a few months and I figure it's time for another music dump from me. Sadly, there's been a bit of a drought in really good stuff with many of the best composers either leaving the scene (NotACleverPony) or busy working on game soundtracks, so some of this will be older. And while I love Super Ponybeat and especially love the recent Find a Pet and Becoming Popular mixes, those have been linked in the thread and are pretty well-known, so I'll just mention them with a recommendation for newcomers.
My tastes are as follows: no lyrics (voice samples okay), no dubsteb, and not much in the way of rock or anything extremely loud other than orchestral.
First we have the long-awaited final version of Makkon's Luna Deos MLP remix, Deae Luna. A very slow, powerful, and sad piece. + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NbyUtARW6I
Next up is Nightmare Night, an absolutely amazing song from WoodenToaster and MikeTheMic; it is over a month old at this point, but I'm sure it's new to someone. This one comes in its original electronic version with lyrics (available in PMV form as well; folks watching Hax Mega this morning saw one of them). But the one I'm embedding is Stormwolf's orchestral remix, since that's just more to my taste. More remixes are available if you turn on annotations for the original video. + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLIwV23ta3I
My third piece of choice is an older piece that didn't get much recognition (less than 10,000 views on Youtube), but is a fantastic electronic piece to lose myself in: Lunar Luminescence by FraGmenTd. I personally suggest going right to the download link in the Youtube description for the instrumental version, since even though I love ponies, I like it much more without Luna's voice clips. + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnmVxtUgFek
Fourth is a remix of a song inspired by a half-remix of the title theme--that's three full steps away from pony canon, for those counting, with zero actual resemblance left over. But it's still a great piece that reminds me a bit of the Halo soundtrack, and it's another work from Makkon: his extended battle theme version of Impressions of Celestia(l) Origins. (l) because the original work was Celestial Origins by jeffthestrider, but Makkon has called it Celestia Origins both times. + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PLs7QuwzRc
And some honorable mentions:
A tribute to NotACleverPony featuring remixes of his songs For the New Lunar Republic and Lower the Moon, by ByCelestiasBeard. If you like this and haven't heard his originals, I urge you to take a listen, and check out Makkon and Eurobeat Brony's remixes of some of the pieces as well.
The Rarity Stage theme from an upcoming Mega Spike game, composed by General Mumble
Equestria's Dream by Daxien AKA JoltMc (thanks to StarDragon for helping me with the name for this and the next one after I forgot to save them)
EPT
Also, A letter to Celestia! Can'T be a great episode without that!![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tefr7.png)
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