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It's funny how the console told me the game was unsupported on Steam Deck when it actually plays fine for me.

"Unsupported" in tech verbiage often means "no promises" and "you're on your own". Sometimes, it means "it works, for now, but no one is going out of their way to make sure it keeps working". I bet it's one of these situations but hopefully it'll flip over to some version of "supported" soon!

Glad to hear you're having a good time with your Deck! I've only been hearing good things about them. They give me hope for Linux in the future of PC gaming.

Looks awesome! The thread is now pinned and featured! It appears that uploading GIFs is bugged with our software right now for some reason; I'll follow up with the developers later as I have to sign off now.

But, I did find another copy of the same GIF that was uploaded elsewhere on MLPF and added that into your forum post! So I hope it looks good now. 

Hey @Dreamstar Moonlight - this is an incredibly good, detailed post that comes at a fantastic time for the G5 hype ramping up. Thank you for making the effort to put all this information together!

Could I please ask that you repost it as a new thread on the G5 forum and @mention me please? You should be able to do this by copy-pasting the contents of this blog post into a new forum thread, and I'll pin it as soon as I see it.

I want to bring visibility to this by making it into a pinned thread there and by featuring it on our homepage - it'll have a lot more staying power than a blog entry that way since that forum is our hub for all things G5, so everyone who comes to MLPF looking for G5 information is likely to see it. I expect you'll see a lot more responses and discussion in that format and I'd love to signal-boost future posts like this one over there too since it has so much discussion value. *squee*

P.S.: GIFs should work. I'm gonna poke around on our end and see if I can find any clues for why uploading them might not have worked. I'm happy to help you get them added to the post to make it complete since it appears that was your intent.

19 minutes ago, Harmonic Revelations said:

I slid a welcome thread in on my return though admittedly it was light on details about myself so I'll probably edit it to rewrite the post and be a bit more of a proper introduction to who I am, my interests, the like.

Derp; I just encountered said thread - I found this blog post first. Sounds like you already thought of this and I'm preaching to the choir.

19 minutes ago, Harmonic Revelations said:

You will be pleased to know that my Sunbutt art collection has been preserved in pristine condition on my old HDDs and is once again growing. Soon Celestia will conquer all, it is inevitable.

Share it forth! Bring it all here. May our Glorious Solar Goddess watch benevolently over us all.

Welcome back, Harmonic! It's as heartwarming to see old users returning as it is to have newponies joining MLPF for the first time. You had excellent taste in Celestia art that I look forward to being graced by again.

7 years is a really long time, wow - you, I, and this site are all so.... old now!

Long enough for people to change and for bygones to be bygones, I say; I'm glad to see you getting a chance to enjoy MLP Forums again as I know this place meant a lot to you and you have a lot of good to offer it.

Although you aren't exactly "new," may I suggest starting a Welcoming Plaza thread? I'm sure you'll find - and be recognized by - a number of "the ancients" but I believe your situation more than justifies a fresh self-intro should you want one. Consider it a way to mingle with our newer users and form a new "first impression" just the way you'd like it as the pony you are today, free of the past's baggage.

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We once talked about launching a fake Religious Civil War between the Church of Celestia and the Congregation of Fabulosity, but my becoming staff made that problematic so it was canned.

This sounds like the rest of us missed out on a lot of potential fun.  How did joining staff get in the way of it happening?

Hmm 

 

Feld0 approves of my advice and gives me a brohoof...

 

didn't see that happening on my first full day on the forum XD

I can have personal opinions, too, right?

I second Sapphire StarDust's advice - the way you treat an interest signals to others how they should be reacting to it. If you treat it as just another TV show/hobby/pastime in conversation, it sends a strong hint that there's nothing "wrong" with it.

I make about as much of a secret IRL that I'm a brony as my being a Nintendo fan, UBC student, and a software developer. Result: I'm the one who stays chill if someone tries to freak out on me about watching MLP, and they only embarrass themselves.

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Guinea pigs.

It might be a more appropriate model to pay out a fixed salary (with the occasional bonus and/or raise for really great work) than to pay animators and artists by the hour. If you're planning to employ an artist and animator full-time, this would encourage them to do their best work as fast as possible.

Congrats on the MBA!

Why not go back for a Ph.D.?

Is this a student exchange or an out-of-country field trip? I would personally take the school trip over the pony convention - it's likely to offer more in the way of radically new experiences. I certainly don't regret leaving some other things aside for major field trips when I was in high school - opportunities to travel like that will be rarer later on.

This may not help very much now, but from personal experience, I can highly recommend not trusting anyone with software upgrades - not even the software vendor. Take a working backup before your next upgrade; it'll save you a lot of grief if and when it doesn't go as planned.

Getting my hands on an SSD was one of the best computer-related purchasing decisions I ever made. I left the hard drive in its place, but replaced my workstation's optical bay with an SSD, did a fresh install of everything on there, and couldn't be happier. Everything just responds.

Negative events tend to make much greater impressions than positive ones, so it's only natural people will talk about them more. It's easy to complain about the bad things in life, but you may have to make a conscious effort to recognize and acknowledge all the good.

You'll often hear the saying that life isn't always fair. Well, look at it this way: it isn't always unfair, either. Opportunities come and go, but there's usually a learning experience to take away from even the bleakest moments. You do have a better grip on your life's direction than all the negativity in the world may lead you to believe.

To me, a big part of what makes overanalysis so fun is the fact that it is so much fun to try and put a sensible explanation to crazy stuff in the show, or even come up with in-universe justifications of plot holes. If you take away the overanalysis from this fandom, our Show Discussion section would have little purpose in existing.

I would like to reiterate that thoughtful posting is always welcome (and highly encouraged!) on MLP Forums. Posts existing solely to decry the value of "overanalysis" in response to a well laid-out theory are usually off-topic by definition, and should be reported.

I'd pay more attention to who wrote the review than whether IGN published it. As a large media outlet, they have a lot of writers, all with their own opinions and preferences.

But there is more than one, there are actually supporters of taking it down here on the forums, and what they're doing is unacceptable.

Take comfort in the fact that only the blog's owner has the actual ability to close the blog. If you don't want the blog to close down, get in touch with its owner directly and tell them that you care, and want it to continue. A small, personal message like that may do wonders to convince them to continue on in the face of haters, especially if they haven't been running websites for many years.

The Internet community doesn't need any more politics. The fact that sites are generally privately owned empowers people to carve out and destroy their own spaces on the Internet whenever they want. So... if you like a particular site, tell its owner that it's worth their time to continue maintaining it.

Just saying, supporting free speech is just as much about allowing a blog like the Molestia one to exist as it is respecting people's ability to hate on it.

RSVP to our calendar event if you haven't already! A lot of us will be there, myself included. Hope to see you at the Poniverse panel and table 214!

The thought that a pony year is much shorter than a human year in terms of days seems like the most plausible thought to me after reading your analysis, Fhaloan. It does throw a wrench in the idea that a thousand years is a stupidly long time, but may fit right in with the idea you expressed in the blog entry following this one which is that cultural change, measured in years, takes 3-4 times longer than cultural change in our own world.

To add to that, there's an easy thing you can do with any business whenever they ask for information you're not sure why they need: ask them why they need it and what they'll do with it. If they can't give you a straight answer, they might have something unscrupulous panned. You can do this with online business as well; any legitimate one will have a support desk and/or contact email address you can reach a human being through.

I believe the reason deviantART doesn't send much info to your email is because their business model is geared precisely toward forcing you to go back to their actual website to keep up with it. Though, that said, their notification system is also much more complex and organized than email, being specifically geared to handling voluminous amounts of art notifications. I can't see email notifications being anywhere nearly as graceful with dA anyway, though it would still be a nice option to have... at least a daily digest or something.

Sending an email to you would indeed be the fastest way to check if the address still works. It'll bounce back if it doesn't.

From time to time (less than once a year), dA might send out emails pertaining to account security or that otherwise affect nearly every single user. For things like that, it's important that they have an emergency line of contact to you other than their own website - say, if their own website has been compromised, making it unsafe to actually go on it. They treat it as a means of emergency contact more than anything else, from what I've observed.

I actually saw this happen some time back. The fake "news" they posted routinely made it to top sites like Destructoid and IGN, and the traffic they got from it nearly killed their competitors. They went "legit" later on, and few people ever figured out how they became popular.

Interesting... I never knew that the ranks of nobility could be so far removed from the titles. But it makes sense if you consider how convoluted medieval stuff in general could get. It's really neat to see that a sensible in-universe explanation can still be concocted for a royal "family" that was largely shaped by Hasbro's marketing decisions.