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  1. 8 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

    Blue:

    It strikes me as strange to see a post that is taking up this much vertical space because of various user data situated on the left. This is less of an issue with regular users, but it is more prominent with staff users, users engaged in some roleplay event, or both as illustrated above. That said, I am not sure what would be a suitable alternate design if this is considered worth changing.

    This has been bugging me for ages and is not specific to the stuff currently being experimented with. Thank you for mentioning it. I hope to do something about it to make posts a lot more vertically compact but it might come as part of a more comprehensive update to the site's look.

    @Silky The Smoll: See? I'm not the only one who is annoyed by how much scrolling short posts create. :P

  2. Interesting news. I was wondering WTF Hasbro was planning to do to manage their content production after selling off eOne. They just hired back key people from it? What in Tartarus did this even accomplish?

    I'm still disappointed in them getting rid of Boulder Media. They really showed us what was possible with a vertically integrated operation where the people who worked on the movie were part of the same company that made the toys and those who answered for the MLP brand. Atomic Cartoons stepped up their game fantastically with Make Your Mark but I was hoping we might get something like the quality of MLP:ANG again eventually, or that Boulder might have been allowed to make an MLP series.

    This is still good news though insofar that it means Hasbro's post-Goldner leadership hasn't completely given up on content production as something the company should care more than a passing thought about.

    @Misty Shadow Where did you see it stated that "Hasbro Entertainment" is developing a new MLP project? This quip from the article sounds like it could be referring to MYM or TYT:

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    Hasbro is currently developing and producing over two dozen projects based on major IP like “Dungeons & Dragons,” “Transformers,” “GI JOE,” “NERF,” “Play-Doh,” “Magic: The Gathering,” “Peppa Pig,” and “My Little Pony.”

     

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  3. On 2023-07-31 at 3:22 AM, Cash In said:

    Twi enjoying an ice cream. I think the longer mane looks really good on her. :)

    Art bh PetalTwinkle

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    On 2023-08-04 at 3:58 AM, Cash In said:

    Twilight looks concerned. Once again, I will say that the longer mane looks quite majestic.

    Art by Melody Libris

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    Celestia bless long-maned ponies. I am 120% with you on that! These are wonderful Twilights. 💜

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  4. On 2023-07-06 at 5:21 PM, Fluttershutter said:

    I like The Journal of the Two Sisters. It doesn't tell a lot about alicorns but yes, they come from a community of alicorns as Make Your Mark seems to confirm. 

    Canon? Who knows? :derp:

    That book is 100% canon. It was written by one of FiM's writers, Amy Keating Rogers, and AFAIK was never contradicted by anything in FiM. The existence of an alicorn homeland was confirmed in it though the book sadly said pretty much nothing about it.

    Make Your Mark (G5) spoilers:

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    Make Your Mark gave it a name, Skyros, and confirmed that Celestia, Luna, and Opaline all grew up there. I hope we get to actually see it!

     

  5. 12 minutes ago, Adariousmist said:

    Ever since the event end, I do not see my own or others' badges the way I had been, observe image.  No clue what's the cause.

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    That's an unrelated issue to this game and probably a bug in our software. I'm in contact with their developers about it. Hopefully will have a fix within a few days.

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  6. 12 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

    What does everyone think? Here's an example of my work next to the original:

    :Sunny-huh: sunny.png sunny2.png

    Manes are such an iconic part of ponies' designs that in hindsight, it feels weird to me to have left them out of MLPF's original emotes (I wasn't especially involved with them in the first place though and we all found them cute, fun, and cool at the time, so I don't say I regret it either). I know they're unique to this site and some may consider them iconic but if I could go back and do it all over again, I'd want to have them designed in a way that prominently includes every pony's mane.

    So, I'm all good with seeing manes in new emotes personally. I wouldn't mind retroactively revisiting the old ones and making a new alternate set that includes manes either.

    Did you make your emotes there by editing TYT screenshots or did you draw them from scratch?

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  7. 7 minutes ago, CloudMistDragon said:

    Your wish has been granted, I did one for Sparky. SparkyEmoteForum.png.e047db3ecd87ac700eaf690632763365.png Also already done with the ones I wanted to do for Onyx and Rufus. :izzy-shine:

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    Just wanted to say, you can make them as high-res as you want now because of this:

    3 hours ago, Twilight Sparkle said:

    I put in a new CSS rule that caps the display height of all emoji at 32px. Try uploading some high-res ones now and see what happens! ;)

    :izzy-shine:

    I'd go for making new emotes at least 64x64 if not 100x100 or even bigger. :)

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Princess Silky said:

    I have them but have been shrinking them and being sad that they become pixelated D:
    Sounds like you’re the go to for the answer. <3 Thank you so much 

    I put in a new CSS rule that caps the display height of all emoji at 32px. Try uploading some high-res ones now and see what happens! ;)

    :izzy-shine:

  9. 43 minutes ago, CloudMistDragon said:

    Funny thing is I was initially told to do smaller sizes. Oh well, I'm fine with doing larger sizes from now on. Is this fine? 

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    The larger size you can provide the original files in, the better. We can resize them to work well on the site. But I'm hoping to support high-resolution emotes (which look the same size - but are sharper on high-res screens) at some point in the not-too-distant future for which having high-res versions to work from will be needed.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Lunaholic said:

    Okay I switched back to expanded view and now it works also on expanded view :o

     

    No one else seem to have experienced this so far but me, weird

    It's more likely that a bunch of other people experienced it but you were the only one to speak up about it. So I'm really grateful that you did so I could do something about it!

    It turned out to be another version of the issue that blocked me from accessing the Fan Clubs section earlier. :adorkable:

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Lunaholic said:

    I switched back to condensed and now it works again! Thank you!! So that was the issue after all! :kirin:

    I'm unsatisfied with this. :( Expanded forum view should work - you are not in the wrong for using it. Was it still broken after my post? If yes, I want to troubleshoot it further.

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  12. 2 hours ago, Lightwing said:

    Surprisingly enough, I don't come here (just) to break your streak. I got a mini-announcement!

    You people managed to break above the 100 barrier I gave to everyone, and got to 137 uncontested :P And the lucky one to claim the last number was none other than @FlutteringGuardian, who has now been immortalized within the message on the top, alongside some words to share with us about this achievement :eager:

     

    Do you all feel up to the task once more? It won't be so easy this time. Let's start again at 0.

    @FlutteringGuardian has earned themselves an achievement for this, I say. You can immortalize it on their profile with an admin's help to enter the achievement into the system. :)

  13. What happens if you try again now? I tweaked a setting on the server that relates to an issue I was fixing in the Fan Clubs section earlier.

    Also, are you using the "condensed" or "expanded" view in forum sections? That's these options next to the "Start new topic" button:

     

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  14. Come on, everypony! The last pegasus city needs your help.

    My mom's gone mad throwing away all of ZH's progress at the bleeding edge of pony tech and science but I know we can get it back and make Zephyr Heights awesome again! We're not even that far behind on votes!

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  15. Oh, I see you cross-posted this to your blog, where you got a very thoughtful comment from @Props Valroa.

    I'm quoting that below because I think this whole theory works better in the forum format than the blog format and I think their response is well worth reading and adds to the discussion. As a future tip, I think you may have seen better results with responses to this theory by posting it in only one place (this thread) and then making a short blog post linking to the thread (as opposed to pasting the same text in two places, which splits attention and makes readers have to decide which version they'll respond to).

     

    On 2023-04-07 at 9:32 PM, Props Valroa said:

    @CloudMistDragon

    Taking a read of this, above all, I commend your effort and thought you put into this theory. It is extremely interesting to read.

    My problem with G5, is not G5 itself - but how it is written. The concept of G5 being a seemingly post-apocalyptic outcome to G4 is something I find to be compelling. My problem is that the "Downfall" of the old Equestrian order happens so soon right after the conclusion of G4 in the canon. If I was to personally suggest anything to the writers, it would be that Opaline comes about at least a few hundred years after Twilight assumes power over Equestria, that way, everything the characters in G4 doesn't seem to be in vain. My problem with the canon, is how Opaline seemingly comes about right after Twilight becomes leader of Equestria, leading to the downfall of how things once were. That timing just doesn't add up to me, at all, and the fact it's canon to me just shows that the writers like to shoehorn in a ton of world impacting events into a small timeframe. This seems very strange to me. I have not read the G5 comics, and knowing how the comics were separate from what was shown on screen - I do not know if it is the same case here or not. 

    My biggest problem, is the unity crystals being some sort of cliche "let's all work together and the magic will work right", even if that is what the show itself is about, just feels cliche to me. We have seen the trope of having different races, etc, coming together for some utopian dream in MLP and other genres so much, it's very hard for it to impress me. If I remember correctly, when the ponies have magic and are fighting, there is some anomalous magic that breaks loose - this seems to act as another measure to enforce the cliche. When ponies fight, there is (X disaster) that occurs relating to magic, enforcing the narrative that they have to work together. Let's think for a moment if that wasn't the case. The ponies fight over their differences, and it's far harder to convince them to work together as a result, why not have it so the act of convincing the ponies to work together has far greater weight and meaning to it, rather than it being enforced by the magic itself? 

    If Magic was created, and contained in the Unity Crystals - wouldn't it have then also gotten rid of Opaline's long lifespan? I am assuming, of course that the long lifespan that alicorns enjoy is based on their magic. If the Unity Crystals is the source of magic in G5, and it being absent for so long, where does Opaline's long lifespan come from, alternative to that? If the Unity Crystals truly do contain all of the world's magic, than surely there could be some way to release the world's magic back into the world itself rather than within a seemingly unguarded artifact - that's another question I have too, why are the Unity Crystals under so little protection? Why doesn't Opaline come by herself and take it - since Misty doesn't seem to please her? Doesn't all of the world's magic being contained within a physical artifact seem rather dangerous, knowing that it could be physically destroyed, stolen, or corrupted using other types of magic to suit anyone's whim?

    These are just general questions, you don't have to answer them, as they are things only the writers themselves know. I may have misread or misunderstood things in G5, so it is entirely possible that I misunderstood some things.


    Your interest in Twilight Sparkle is fascinating, though in my personal opinion, I wouldn't have had Twilight Sparkle or G4 connected to G5 in any other way other than mythology. Having the potential for Twilight Sparkle or the Mane 6 to still be "alive" is something I am anticipating, and it is something that I will not personally like to see. G4 is in the past. Let it rest in the past. I do not wish for the writers to lean too hard into nostalgia or sentimentality by coming up with some pillar-esque arc in which the Mane 6 were frozen in time and brought back to life or something of that sort. Seeing Twilight Sparkle in the G5 pony style has felt rather uncanny to me, to be honest.

    As for Sunny, I don't consider her an alicorn. She may have alicorn magic, but she isn't physically ascended into becoming one. Her wings are temporary - and not fixed. For that reason, I don't consider her a "True" alicorn" like the others were. I do like how Sunny has been portrayed thusfar, however. 

    This is all just my opinion, though. I just have so many questions about G5.
     

     

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  16. From one 2011-ponyfan-who-loves-G5-to-another, this is a super cool theory and I love the effort you put into articulating it! I don't have a detailed reply for you right now (I hope to write one later) but wanted to bump this thread to give it some well-deserved attention.

    I hope others take the time to read this too because the penultimate point:

    On 2023-04-07 at 12:59 AM, CloudMistDragon said:

    Take a moment to muse over all this. Can you appreciate just how much thought and care Twilight actually put into her plan for the generations that would follow her? The level of foresight she had? And then can you look back at what so many believed about her and think that her creation of the Unity Crystals was just some reckless action of a desperate despot? Or can you accept the fact that she did all this because she deeply cares about Equestria? I’m not writing from the standpoint of an apologist. I’m not writing in defense of Twilight. I’m writing to laud Twilight. To honor her for saving Equestria from a villain none could defeat with her own magical prowess, keeping the magic safe for generations, and giving the future generations the resources they needed to save Equestria from this villain themselves. All of this was accomplished through the creation of the Unity Crystals. I rest my case.

    really drives it home how G5 doesn't assassinate Twilight's character at all. This theory is, as you so articulately put it, well supported by canon and does a lot to reconcile the perceived lore gap between the generations.

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