>>12463
Yay, the art actually posted this time. LOL.

Testing 1.2.3 testing.

Just deleted a previous post of mine. Image didn't post. Not the main problem. I wasn't sure if me mentioning the recent mirror spamming attack contained any keywords that would trigger crap from bots. Like mentioning a email address even partly censored just the address mentioned in post like this >>12450 . Considering what happened last year, I hope we don't have any sort of repeat. Thanks to admin/mods of /endchan/ and boardvole of here who probably dealt with this.

Another year, another chance to leave a celebratory reply around here.

Not much activity in endpone from my part, is it? This year has mostly been carried by the owner, 5050 and CB.

I suppose that the latter might recall what I am linking around here for tonight´s event.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rIJIqylAu3g [Embed]

I am leaving you to the main discourses of y´all to shine. Not much to say on my /end/ other than making my mark before the party even begins.

For now, take care ...which is a true gift on its own...

PoLS, currently healing from a foot wound. That and a sick relative has somewhat limited festivities at the moment. I might give a small Christmas storytime but for now, Merry Christmas and Happy Hearth's Warming to everyone and everypony out there.

>>12461
>Not much activity in endpone from my part, is it?
You're always welcome around here though, activity or not!

>For now, take care ...which is a true gift on its own...
You too.

>>12465
>storytime
I cut my foot on the lid of a can. (I was trying to make a raspberry pi case from a old food can, lol) It bled a lot and long story short, couldn't get it to stop. By the urgent care doctor saw me it had finally clotted but my sock was soaked with blood. Now I am doing okay, if not fatigued and I'll admit it is interesting to be out at 2 AM on Christmas.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm... Any further holiday messages can I muster? Heh, we shall see. For now, once again Happy Hearth's Warming to everyone (and Merry Christmas).

>>12465
> currently healing from a foot wound.It bled a lot and long story short, couldn't get it to stop.
>That and a sick relative has somewhat limited festivities at the moment.

That defines a...less than ideal way to celebrate Christmas. If I were to add a slice of sad relief/humour to it, it´s that these kinds of incidents happen more often than people are willing to admit in public.

Here, viruses are spreading out all over the place and I have info on people I know who have been dealing with the influenza, potentially making their relatives sick by pretending not to be sick in public.

No wonder you feel fatigued though, spilling blood like that may lead to headaches or some minor struggles because of it. So, even with that optimism, maybe it wouldn´t be wise to overlook the aftermaths so fast with a happy-go-lucky tone.

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>>12459
Up is better than down

>>12460
My fave is actually split between Skystar and pinker than normal Silverstream. Which surprises me slightly because I usually gravitate towards other ponies as seaponies over the race themselves.

>>12467
Line doesn´t always go up. Well, in this case, tags often gradually go up. Very slowly but they get some progress by optimising old pictures from the archives, even ones that are deemed as miscellaneous content.


>Which surprises me slightly because I usually gravitate towards other ponies as seaponies over the race themselves.

I think that once you are used to seeing pictures of seaponified versions, the novelty eventually runs out. Their luster dilutes the more you are exposed to them and well...it pretty much relies on the content of the pictures themselves, no matter the species of origin behind it.

Save for exceptional features, the seapony body/structure is pretty much standardised in that regard.

Or maybe, tastes change and you just feel like leaning towards those pictures because of mere vibes/visual appeal and nothing else.

>>12429
sunset goes to the fridge
>>12430
she has acquired food from the fridge
also, darn it I forgot my name for the replies! yet again!

>>12428
>but then deducing the reason or cause for that 'offness' can get way into the weeds and overcomplicated, as Pinkie finds out.
100% agree.

>Real pony disguises would either be the province of Unicorn magic, or painting over cutie marks and perhaps gluing cosmetic horns onto the forehead.
Depending on how one takes Call of the Cutie:>>11188 Maybe glue is completely required and no magic can do? A potential avenue for camouflage is something like the Don't-Notice-Me-Field one of the concepts I really liked from the comics. Now I've jumped too far in the past and ahead, lol.

> I think it makes pony villains particularly interesting in the show, since they're both equals for the abilities of our main cast and are inherently interesting in terms of exploring how villains can emerge even from a utopian society like Equestria.
An interesting lens that some characters fit comically perfect in (to the point of somewhat stupid, sorry Dolores our bridge of the board.) Nightmare Moon too, some don't fit as well but that is... bleh, a half formed point exists in my head, I want to get back to this later.

>>12429
>positive affirmations rather than advice that can sound like rulegiving: don't assume the worst of your friends and overthink things!
I think in some cases that is taken too far. Overcompensation for shows talking down to us.

>However, it does helpfully clarify things by stating that a *good* friend will always have your best interests at heart, which I think can be true, when there's a particularly strong basis of mutual trust.
This is why I am not sure it's just me, looking at this wrong, as an adult. When push comes to shove I don't think this would've even a minor negative impact on anyone even if taken slightly wrong. It wouldn't be solely at fault for a child in a situation being hurt if a friend was bullying/abusive to them. And if taken like you describe here, it has just as high a chance to help. (A real friend wouldn't treat me like this).

Okay, HOPEFULLY, I'll get my review out next week. I think I will but it depends on how much effort I want to put in. This is the final to Season 1 comfiness and I won't rush /comfy/ regardless of what life throws at me. Thinking I may aim to have the next season thread posted on New Years Day, BUT, with a hiatus/no expectation for us to jump in reviewing depending on life status for us. So it would be a mostly empty thread. What say you? ...and considering this thread is your idea, if you wanted to take the lead and post, whether new years or later, I would welcome in!



>>12430
>Perhaps, and I'll admit I find egregious grammar and spelling mistakes hard to swallow when reading something
I can be torturous at times I bet!

>very similar quality to AI-written stuff, an instant sense that I'm reading something written by a marketing department that feels at least as 'off' as something with awful spelling and grammar.
It is at the very least the new language of insincerity. I personally fear people offloading too much of there cogitative functions to it and it causing the ability to have a real conversation like this to be difficult. Think what cellphones did to everybody. I don't want to blindly join the anti-AI crowd (even if I count myself a skeptic) or be a doomer though. Nor sully a fun conversation with slightly apocalyptic semi-political musings, lol.

>I'd make sure to prompt it to make minimal changes, and to split changes into mere suggestions that it lists in a bullet point for you to then apply yourself, and then actual changes it applies to the text that you provide it.
I was thinking of a local LLM and having it point out and tell me mistakes one paragraph at a time. Right now I am stuck using a couple of Chromebooks but when I either get my laptop fix or my plan B assembled I'll see what sort of small thing I can run on there.

>>12431
Sunset eats meat, even as a pony. Equestria Girls corrupted her in a unique way!

>>12433
>I can be torturous at times I bet!
*welcome it!
*laptop fixed
*New Year's
Yes.

>>12432
>I think in some cases that is taken too far. Overcompensation for shows talking down to us.
Even so, it's been true since before cartoons existed that children prefer to imitation to obedience, so where one can set an example it can sometimes achieve better results. I think that was more or less Mr Roger's modus operandi. Whether overreaction or not I don't know, the shows I grew up in the 2000s with certainly didn't tell me dos and do-nots the way some of the preachier 80s cartoons did (Captain Planet and the 'Sonic Sez' segments come to mind) - perhaps in response to a perceived 'overstep' in preceding decades.
>Pinkie being Pinkie, versus Pinkie being more than Pinkie? I think you probably could argue you it both ways, tbh.
I'm a bit of a literalist, so as mentioned in Fall Weather Friends, overly slapstick antics bother me. It directly challenges me whenever it arises in the show with the loud question of "what actually happened here that the animation is exaggerating?" - I'm not particularly interested in dismissing something as 'just a show' or 'just fiction' when it's presented with an otherwise internally consistent world that permits for immersion, 'just a show' and 'just fiction' properly belongs to experimental art and I'd invite people who are overly reductive of immersive art in that manner to go watch something realist or experimental instead if me getting invested in a story bothers them so much. That said, a frame I find useful in my admittedly somewhat extreme literalism is the idea of a non-existent 'source text'. So for instance, any inconsistencies in Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit can be chalked to up to a mere mis-translation of the Red Book of Westmarch, the tome that Bilbo and Frodo penned together from which both books supposedly derive, with Tolkien as their translator. This actually serves to explain why in the original edition of The Hobbit, Gollum amicably gifted Bilbo the Ring, in fact IIRC it's directly addressed somewhere in Lord of the Rings as a lie that Bilbo deliberately wrote in his part of the text. In a similar vein, Star Wars is supposedly adapted from the Journal of the Whills, dictated by R2-D2 to the Keeper of the Whills, a um... Microscopic entity that lives in harmony with the midichlorians, or something to that effect? It doesn't fix Star Wars by any means, but it lets me enjoy the Prequels just a little bit more as I can write off certain inconsistencies and leaps in logic as either exaggeration or situations where R2 was absent and thus cannot accurately report on what happened. MLP *possibly* could be said to have this framing device towards the later seasons, where the journal and letters to Celestia are reminisced on, and there's even a flashback with the last episode which might suggest that the show is the recounted memories of the Mane 6. On the one hand, that's overthinking it a lot, but on the other hand, it makes the part of the show where the letters are being written and then the journal considerably more 'accurate' since they have a written record in-universe.
>...and considering this thread is your idea, if you wanted to take the lead and post, whether new years or later, I would welcome in!
I'm perfectly happy to have you make the thread, I don't know what I'd put for the OP for my part. A hiatus might be a good idea, but I'm open to having it posted new year's day, as it would make it a neat clean starting-date for the thread, with season 2 finished ideally by the next new year's. Up to you!

>>7757
I don't remember hearing any reference to such a beast. The story bible floats around but I don't know what else you'd hope to find.

But I'm not the archivist of the board so maybe another answer will be forthcoming after a time.

>>7757
I imagine, back in the old days, somebody would have made a complication but at this point I don't think enough people have been keeping track. The word of faust tag on the boorus would be a good starting point though.
https://twibooru.org/search?q=word+of+faust

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT! GET LOST CADENCE!

wtf

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>>8398
i am retarded

>>8399
well, up until the queen died. I can't get to /pone/ there anymore than I could the popular board.

Try again tomorrow

>>8398
Don't count'em out just yet. I know a certain anon who is trying to hold down the fort there. Though I agree it is certainly endangered and at high risk.

>>8401
>>8403

Polack

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