SilverStarApple

#BoycottGhostbusters because at this point, the feminists are showing their true colours so many time, I'm wondering why there aren't memes about this.

Good to know. I'm not making any art for you.

I'd do it, but I'm on somebody's shitlist. Would making this get me off that list?

Oh, wow. I was going to say me, but... what's with the gradients? How do you pull that off?

I understand. Could it have a kind of metal/industrial feel to it?

So, uh... was my theme ever done? I think I posted in this thread a long time ago and gave a link to my OC's page on Deviantart.

180? Nice. I know most IQ tests are bunk (Though the people violently insisting IQ is pointless and "emotional intelligence" is what really matters are even more bunk), but this is certainly a nice number.

This is really good. Turn down 4 what syncs up well with the intro of the first one, I accidentally noticed that. What did you use to make these?

I like Mugen a lot, and I'm currently working on a Bisharp character.

Banned for seven days for disagreeing with a SJW.

What's the best Open-Source Video Editor?

In my fanfic, The Shining Silver Star of The Apple Family, there was a section planned in Arc 2. A section where Silver's past as a "Do whatever it takes to get maximum profit, prioritizing anything that looks challenging and fun" past catches up to him. And a lot of what I predicted about Dragon Culture turned out to be true. In fact, the only thing that was wrong was how the Dragon Lord (Even got the name right!) passes on his leadership using a possibly-magic sceptre given to anyone that completes trials, rather than the current Dragon Lord getting killed by an Usurper and that guy becoming the new Dragon Lord. Also, a complete lack of enslaved ponies might count, but since that's kinda dark, the show probably wouldn't show it even if it did happen. I say probably, because we did see the AUs Starlight caused when she messed up the timeline for the stupidest reason ever. Also, the previous Dragon Lord in my story was a green one and his daughter was the smartest and fastest Dragon alive, not just the smartest. Still, I guessed the dynamic between them correctly. In any case: A few years ago, Silver Star went treasure-hunting in the Dragon Badlands, a group of Replicas following him as backup, for if he needed any. One loot-seeking spell later, and he'd find a cave guarded by three Dragons, filled with loot. Impressive to a pony, but a solid "Meh." to a Dragon. He proceeded to use an Ice Spell to lower their core body temperatures until they could barely stand, and then, he mocked them. The leader of the three Dragons, known as Blaze, challenged him to a "Real battle, with no dumb Pony magic", and Silver, a sucker for gentlemanly acts of violence, accepted. He dispelled the magic and let the three catch their breath, and then fought the Dragon hoof-to-claw. Silver won, and proceeded to mock the defeated Dragon. After that, he used magic to enhance the Dragon, giving him an orange star on his right eye as a reminder (Transmuting the scales around that eye into their new colour, so it couldn't be washed out, and it would stay its new colour indefinitely). Finally, he kicked the three Dragons out, daring them to come back when they could actually challenge him. He proceeded to take the loot, and kinda forgot about it. Anyway, in Arc 2, the Dragons became relevant again, Blaze had crowned himself the new Dragon Lord after killing the old one, the old one's daughter fled to Equestria, and he turned the Dragon Badlands into a militaristic hellhole where winning the next war and training for it is all that matters, an invasion of Equestria was planned, and the land of Equestria was threatened with war. Silver would state he would fix this mistake, and go to the Dragon Badlands. However, his friends showed up along the way, telling him that they'd help him. And so, he took this pre-emptive strike team of himself, Twilight Sparkle, and [spoilerS REDACTED] right to Blaze's throne of gems and black diamond, enslaved ponies forced to work on it, and while his friends fought the army, Silver would battle Dragon Lord Blaze in the center of an active warzone, explosions and battles clashing around them. It would be epic. Hey, I'd have to top the season one finale SOMEHOW, right? Anyway, I can still use this plot... Mostly. I like Ember, she's awesome, so I probably won't kill her off. I'll probably use a contest of some sort instead. Anyway... I predicted a lot of stuff correctly. +700 points to me! As for the episode... I kinda liked it. It was definitely better than that godawful Maud episode. The moral of "There is more than one kind of strength" is nice, but it didn't really work here. Ember didn't win due to possessing "A different kind of strength" her brute-force-every-day father overlooked when it came to intelligence, accurately detecting crushing-gem patterns and thrown rock trajectories, or when it came to the strength of determination/the heart, in getting back up every time she was knocked down and continuing on, or walking through psychological mind-screw magic flames, a cavern filled with mind-screw hallucinogenic smoke, or ultra-lava and refusing to turn back, stop, or give up no matter what she saw or how much anything hurt, while bigger and stronger-looking dragons huddled and shivered at the cave's mouth, minds broken. She didn't really earn this victory at all, not even a little. She would have died and drowned in the first few seconds if not for Spike saving her, and from then on, it was constantly Spike doing the saving, the helping, and pretty much everything besides having wings. Also, Spike being told to go grab the scepter was ok, but it would have been more moral-ish if Spike told Ember to go get the sceptre, Spike was badly losing the fight against Garble, and Ember turned around at the last second to save Spike. Then again, that also would have been really cliche, and I like the way this turned out. Spike being Spike when he got the power of the Dragon Lord was a nice touch. Seeing Spike as more of a generic Straight Man and The Universe's Chew Toy was a nice change. And ponies are weirdly cute in those rock/tree outfits. Garble being a jerk to Spike made the audience hate him, so that character served his purpose. Do you think that on his "Hug every Dragon" adventure, he got attacked or beaten for hugging someone he shouldn't have? Also, why did Garble instantly know what a hug was, even though Dragon Lord Blaze didn't? Did he spend time amongst the ponies before? Perhaps that would explain the hatred of them he has. And why he wasn't just ashamed and furious when on his Hug Quest, but outright tearful, as if it's bringing back memories of his time as a pony's sla- "Assistant". This "There is more than one kind of strength" and "It takes more than brute force to be a great leader" plot would have been pulled off a lot better is Blaze had been a competent Dragon with a chance of winning on her own, but there was one challenge she could only get past when working with Spike. As opposed to being unable to ever complete most of the tasks without his help. The moral came out more like "Befriend any boy that could help you, but don't be afraid to abandon him when you no longer need his help, because if you do end up needing his help, he'll be by your side anyway no matter what, because he doesn't want to give up on you and you 'Proved' you were a good person by saving that guy's friends after he saved your life twice." By the way, for a challenge designed to emphasise Strength and choose the strongest as the winner, there sure was a lot of stuff only a very Agile dragon could have won. Btw, Spike casually shoved a boulder Garble couldn't bench, Spike is Hyper-Strength Dragon Jesus confirmed! And while I'm sure most of the crazy Maud fanboys probably didn't migrate immediately to this new character, let me say anyway: I like Blaze. She's awesome, and I hope the show does a romantic subplot between her and Spike, seeing him treated well by the one he loves will be a nice change. The show also subtly displayed that "Rarity doesn't really respect Spike's ability to do anything beyond carry baskets and other menial labour tasks, despite the time he kicked the ass of Diamond Dogs for her" thing again at the start of this episode, which will hopefully lead to a very important moral more shows should teach kids: There are plenty of fish in the sea, and most of them aren't going to see you as a slave, servant, basket-holder, back-warmer, sentient wallet, letter-sender, or whatever else you can do that they can't do or don't want to do. Love, real love, is a beautiful thing, not some stupid reputation-grind sidequest where you need to spend a ridiculous amount of time "Proving" your love to him/her to get Love Points for you to eventually go on a date and marry, with money and Love Points being exchangeable at a £150-1LP rate. Go out and find someone you truly love, someone who truly loves you back, someone you can form a deep emotional attachment with, don't just attach yourself to the first pretty flower you see and hope she'll eventually love you the way you think you love him/her. Also, when you can't decide between the two people you love, pick the genuinely better option, not the one you just happened to meet first. Also, don't be a jerk about it, but that kinda goes without saying.

Oh. Uh... Thank you for understanding. The problem I have with this episode is that it's a tired old Stock Plot. Some executive demanded "Make Maud episode to make bronies happy, or you fired!". And so, some writer, entirely out of ideas, opened up a catalogue of Stock Plots and said "Let's do the 'They shrink themselves to fit inside someone's body and retrieve something' plot!", and another slapped him and said "NO! We are NOT THAT DESPERATE! Let's try... 'Two friends or lovers or whatever give up something they like to get their friend a gift they can only enjoy if they have whatever they just gave up, which they don't". And then the executive said "This story amazing and originals! But too sad. Make happy end. Moral no matter. Just want see Maud. Me love Maud most of all. Make episode Maud episode. OR ME FIRE YOU!" And so, we got this episode. And let's be real here, if it was "Offensive", I wouldn't care. If there was an episode about racist old Earth Ponies as a metahpor for old jerks, or Unicorns as a metaphor for classist idiots that think killing all the poor is a good idea because it'd shut them up and stop them complaining, it'd be ok. If there was an episode where gay-hating old folks kicked out their gay colt and he had to live with the Mane Six until they found him a new home, that'd be ok. Even if they had him live with Twilight, he developed a crush on Spike, and they went with a stupid "Gay guy likes straight guy. They can never be together. omgffff so trajik!" plot. And if they put Derpy back into the series and let her be her Patrick-voiced clumsy, idiotic self AND brought her to the secondary character level, appearing in many episodes, I'd cheer. But here's the thing... At least the crappy Breezies episode tried to World-Build. At least Boast Busters tried to tell a story and introduce a Rival to Twilight, though Trixie wasn't really hate-able or much of a villain or rival in that episode. At least Lightning Dust was kind of a villain, even though the balloon shouldn't have been there in the first place and any non-BF military commander that didn't have a huge crush on Rainbow Dash would have said the same thing. At least those episodes TRIED to be original. This... This is phoning it in, being lazy, not even bothering to try to be good. It damaged my faith in the show because I thought it was above this. It picked a Stock Plot, went for it, mangled it, and spat the remains onto a table like a cat trying to feed its owner. And just like that cat, it failed, except even that cat managed to have more love for those it feeds than the writers of this episode. The average human puts more effort into defecating than the writers put into this episode, and you typically get a more palatable product at the end of it, too. The Writers. Just. Didn't. Care. They put zero effort into this episode, and made it nothing more than cheap pandering to Maud fans. It's not just a terrible episode, it doesn't deserve to be called an episode.

Heh. You know what? I might believe in ghosts, and the supernatural in general, if you can answer the following questions. Don't worry, I'm just going to ask the ghost ones. If ghosts are real, why can't science find evidence of them? If there are ghost-hunters and ghost-destroyers and ghost-appeasers that get paid by the hour, why do they never get scientific proof of ghosts and get rich for proving their existence? Why does nobody ever meet a ghost, befriend it, pretend to have psychic powers when it's really their ghost buddy moving stuff, and get the million-dollar reward for provable psychic powers? If there are dog ghosts, where are all the cat ghosts and dinosaur ghosts and ghosts of flies and turtles? If ghost energy is released when a person dies with unfinished business, where are all the workaholic ghosts that never finished their jobs, where are the postmen ghosts that went postal and never got all the kills on their list, where are all the ghosts of all the people screwed over by the government and alimony and pretty much anything else, wanting revenge now that they're in ghostly forms? Where are the ghosts of 9/11 victims trying to kill anyone dumb enough to think building an actual mosque there would help anyone besides the evil muslims (The good muslims would just get hate from the angry non-muslims that this will convince even more that they're all evil amoral monsters with world domination on the agenda), and where are all the ghosts of the jews that died in WW2, where are the ghosts of the nazis that were killed for not following orders, where are the ghosts of the nazis that did follow orders, where are the ghost soldiers on ancient battlefields fighting neverending wars, where are the sad kid ghosts in countries where landmines blow up kids that just wanted to play with their friends, where are the ghosts of the murderers and worse that were killed before they were 100% satisfied, where are the ghosts of murder victims that go free due to insufficient evidence or the police taking in the wrong guy? Where are the ghosts of singers and musicians slandered by magazine trash for stupid things after their untimely deaths, like the ones I saw today complaining about prince being kinky and liking what sounded like a very "Sensationalist" (To put it politely) way to describe his very tame and non-extreme fetishes? Where are the ghosts of great musicians and composers furious about the average prole liking crappy music designed in board rooms to appeal to the lowest common denominator? Where are the libraries filled with ghosts that would rather read books for eternity, stay on earth, and maybe send the odd ghostly message to put earth back on track, when Heaven, as is described in assorted bibles, sounds boring, miserable, and really bad, with the "Negative thought-erasing" and "No bad feels, ever" and "Your bad memories are erased, like the memories of your family members that didn't believe in your god, and how those guys are burning in hell when they die" sounding really bad. I think I'd rather stay in a giant-ass library for eternity, if I did have to die and I could pick where my ghost went. Yet, despite all of this... never once has a single ghost ever been captured on film. No ghost expert has ever proven the existence of ghosts. And if every human ever could have made a ghost, or at least, those with enough willpower or rage or Determination, where are the ghosts of executed innocents, killers come back to murder from beyond the grave, gamers come back to play games, fanboys and fangirls come back to watch their favourite thing ever for eternity, boxers that could have been a contender and easily could now that they have ghost powers, and most importantly... Why do haunted locations only pop up in tourist traps, where people could easily make money off people dumb enough to believe in ghosts, the tooth fairy, god, vaccines causing cancer, weed curing everything ever, weed causing cancer, weed being invented by satan, and pretty much any mystical BS that only exists to make money for the con-artists selling it? Post screenshotted just in case someone skims through it, gets offended, and thinks they have the right to censor me. I will not be silenced, and neither will the voice of reason. Religion is dying for a reason.