>>11456
And have a Happy New Year's Day too!

Happy New Year, /pone/!

>>11490
Thanks y'all for keeping Endchan alive for all these years. Even if it has often been at a limp. People often don't value the fact that limping unsteadily for a few years is impression in an world of alt-chans where runs, and than trips and falls and dies, in a single year.

Happy times friends!

Christmas occurs 5 days before New Year, every year. File=
>https://ipfs.hypha.coop/ipfs/bafybeieknkbghwwjl26kcthfvttp5rp2ppzt4cqvgnre3pdz4pkz4tzjka/Auld_Lang_Syne_Punk_Rock-Knights_to_Remember_-_Topic-20150309-youtube-720x720-Q_cc4clDVmg.mp4

Rarity can get this dick.

She's elegant, sexy, and she is a small business owner with decent cash. Great pone to wife up and bone.

>>12011
It will always be Marble (Except maybe for when its Fluttershy)

>>12000
I can barely post through Tor or other means. Thought this place was dead, but, seeing this, is /pone/ back? Do we have a chance?

Yikes on the personal situation. Must have been frustrating NOT having any sort of contingency set up. Hope everyone out there is okay.

>>12003
>Must have been frustrating NOT having any sort of contingency set up.
We did/still do. See back in the 1.5 update:>>8Bunker: In the event of Endchan being wiped off the face of the earth, flee to here for now: https://8chan.moe/pone It is not a continuation of /endpone/ but a general bunker/secondary pony board held under friendly hooves. A more formal bunker maybe set up at some point later or organized post destruction depending on circumstances (that hopefully never will come or at least be at a point when we are better prepped).

A thread was even set up by the local BO there (whom you might know, as he is the local BO and pretty frequent poster here)
https://8chan.moe/pone/res/231.html#231

Between sickness, random site outages and being unable to post/update things, word never got and a organized effort was never launched. Need to put more prominent instructions and contact points (like, I really need to revamp the site instructions on the top).

> Thought this place was dead, but, seeing this, is /pone/ back? Do we have a chance?
It might, but the site barely usable to not usable for three months has certainly left me shaken a bit I admit. Not going to give up on it though.

>Hope everyone out there is okay.
As do I. There is one anon whom I've lost contact with in particular but I don't blame him for disappearing during that as it is frustrating to deal with.

>>12004
> See back in the 1.5 update:>>8Bunker:
Opps, meant here:>>8910
>Bunker: In the event of Endchan being wiped off the face of the earth, flee to here for now: https://8chan.moe/pone It is not a continuation of /endpone/ but a general bunker/secondary pony board held under friendly hooves. A more formal bunker maybe set up at some point later or organized post destruction depending on circumstances (that hopefully never will come or at least be at a point when we are better prepped).

>>12000
12000 GET magic
/endpone/ is on the front page. I guess with the attrition after the spanning attacks, lol. Post great data loss of 2019 vibes after /sp/ and co left though then sometimes we were even top 5.

>>12009
Wew.

>>12004
Minor correction part II
>A thread was even set up by the local BO there (whom you might know, as he is the local BO and pretty frequent poster here)
I meant to say, said anon is the local board volunteer here. I am not the BO there, lol!

>>11332
>That would be a funny challenge,
>writing a story based on whatever the AI gives you

>>11337
> It would be the inverse of AI prompting.

Here's one then: I asked (with a bunch of sure-to-hail-from-Uncanny negative prompts) for a picture of mares comparing


*negatives:
<loab, DIGITA PNTICS, road_kleenex, ennervation

>>11499
I might take you up on it, I have written a little bit of horsewords of late and maybe I could pull off a creepy short story?

>>12006
in retrospect, AI prompts of stories that haven't been written yet probably deserve to be in their own [containment] thread.

It's way too easy to slap together an AI copy/paste job that looks like an image that could come from a story. It is WAY more work to write a story that begs for an image of a scene.

As any writer in here would know. I feel like quoting U2, and this quote I even overuse because I see it so often, but
Every artist is a liar, every poet a thief.
We kill our inspiration then sing about our grief.

>>12006
>meaning the card game but I thought it should be easy enough to make a red-and-black alicorn.
She doesn't look bad though. She almost looks like a gender swamped Sombra.
>That last image. It's the only one with that look in her eye.
I think the second to the last one she looks morning grumpy over angry, but yes, that last one she does have the look of somepony doing a research project on the double.

>It's way too easy to slap together an AI copy/paste job that looks like an image that could come from a story. It is WAY more work to write a story that begs for an image of a scene.
Agreed. Especially if inspiration tries to take you elsewhere.

> As any writer in here would know. I feel like quoting U2, and this quote I even overuse because I see it so often,
Yes, it is fitting. I post New Years Dayevery year, so if anybody overdoes U2 it's me!

>in retrospect, AI prompts of stories that haven't been written yet probably deserve to be in their own [containment] thread.
I had been toying with the idea of bringing back a thread that served the purposes of the old mmaymays GET thread >>400 which we used to post stories that didn't thematically fit elsewhere (>>3835). Maybe AI could fit in some write dump thread? Of course, that would be the time there would be a sudden burst of activity and we end up with the need for a seperate AI general.

>>11990
>>11991
Great minds think alike.


Also, funny to find a Seapone image that relates to the old and forgotten Trixie eating pinecones meme.

>>11992
Agreed, compared to where we were just a little while ago it seems like AI is finally starting to get it's sea legs (or lose it's land legs?).

Plushies are still safe, right?

>>11994
Perhaps they think alike, especially when it comes to the timing for posting the exact same picture.

Not that the featured characters are complaining though.

>>11995
It still leaves a lot to be desired compared to earthly species but just like the franchise itself: once they dive into it,they are prone to come back and give it a other try.

At least, Rarity will always look fabulous regardless of the medium.

Speaking of which,it seems that someone else has decided to try out the sea while waiting for her uncertain comeback. Lurking in the shadows,they say...

...or the deep seas but she appears to be in no hurry to go back to the surface.

>>11999
>At least, Rarity will always look fabulous regardless of the medium.
Trips of truth!

>...or the deep seas but she appears to be in no hurry to go back to the surface.
Her color scheme looks more natural for it than being a supposed "fire alicorn!"

>>11996
It's just that good of a picture!

So, the word on the street is that G5 is dead. I see a lot of fruitless triumphalism over this with utter despair among the small number of complete unironic G5 fans. I don't share it. I wasn't a fan of G5 and thought it did mess up FiM's happy ending. But I was sort of a fan of some of the characters from it weirdly enough Pip So it is kind of bittersweet.

I don't know. Just wanted to express something other than happiness or being blindly butthurt and figured this thread was as good as any.

>>11149
Can feel you. I didn't completely hate G5 either. I didn't love it and still feel like my opinion was in this slow "forming" state as I slowly watch through its media. Potentially, G6 could easily be worse or doubled down on the aspects they didn't like, too...

I guess G5 ain't completely 100% confirmed dead. We may still see a G5.5 or something, but I imagine things are pretty shaky for a reason.

>>11149
I haven't watched anything G5 related yet and I don't know if I'll ever get round to it, but my initial reaction to the news is that I do feel bad for G5 fans. The earnest fans of the show I've seen seem quite passionate about it, and that's in spite of the obvious strong hatred the show received from the fandom. So I can't help but respect people who not only love something so hated, but are brave enough to say so too. I can only really imagine their feels, but what a ride it must have been to embrace something so unpopular, only to have it rather unceremoniously killed off. I (temporarily) left the fandom after G4 ended, it made me feel empty inside and like a hole was left that couldn't be filled. Eventually I found my way back here but for a good year or two I'd fully given up on something which had been a big part of my life, and that was with a huge supportive fandom still left intact. What the G5 fans are going to do and where they're going to go, I've no idea.
As far as G6 goes, I'm eager to see it come out even if it's bad. At this stage G4 is rather solidly in the past, so, so long as G6 doesn't try and revive any G4 stuff like G5 tried to, I'm basically eager for Hasbro to try out things as quickly as possible so they'll either give up trying to revive the franchise, rediscover their old niche of just being for little girls, or catch lightning in a bottle for an incredible and implausible second time. By which I mean not just that the sooner we get G6 the sooner we'll see which one of these it will be, but the sooner we get G6, if it's bad, the sooner we'll get G7 too, and G8 and so on until they bury the franchise, or manage to make it into something again.

>>11353
It technically contradicts what is said in MYM, but might be going closer to the show's bible, so while part of me just wants to dismiss it as worthless comic canon it still is possibly something that is influential. If G5 doesn't just kick the bucket in a year or two with no follow up.

>>11987 (crosspost)
...and honestly with the combined contexts of the final Season of FiM, and some of the implications of G5, Twilight Sparkle might be the more tragic character now.

>>8699
This drawing puts me very much in mind of the .gif in
>>6640
When I was offered an emergency drop of Princess.

We're in the middle of what some in my circle are pronouncing twenty twenty free.
Here's to hoping the princesses win decisively; Littlepip won't always be that little.

>>8721
>Here's to hoping the princesses win decisively; Littlepip won't always be that little.
Here here! /) and I hope your year has been doing you well!

>We're in the middle of what some in my circle are pronouncing twenty twenty free.
Do you still say two thousand? It is interesting as I still pronounce that way, sometimes... I suppose it is a hold over in a similar sense of still saying "video taping" over simply "recording". Albeit I am probably a little two young for either.

I wonder what burden Celestia did carry. Have heavy did it way on her? How much her soul was guilt ridden and defeated from it all.

>>9627
It was a heavy weight and I think all things considered, she did win in the /end/.