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  1. TheMarkz0ne
    I am halfway through my first semester, things flew by quick already. I am sick right now, we recently had an arctic blast and it was -11 in New Hampshire last weekend. I got a cold and even my family and friends do. My grade average is at a 95 so I made a great start. It's an accelerated course, so even though I am still on Network+, I have acquired more useful knowledge from this school, than those SCAMiversities that make you sit and blow your money for a whole year.
     
    Still play games and browse when I can. I graduate in january next year, and I am given a free Comptia A+ exam pass from my tuition, the rest of them I need to pay for. Each exam is 4 hours long, I must fulfill the 4 hours even when I finish.
     
    A
    A+
    Network+
    Microsoft Cert
    Security+
     
    So 20 hours of exam time in 2017, not good times. But I am going to pass.
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    So I wanted to express my feelings on the season 5 finale. I have nothing to do at the moment, I don't even review episodes, but for this one instance, I need to. Did I enjoy the season finale? Overall, in some ways yes, but there's so much problems that it pales in comparison to all the other season finales. Let me explain, that I can tell genuine effort was put into this episode, it screams "DHX made it and Hasbro wasn't sticking their noses in the creative department."( That's a relief)
     
    Time travel episodes are hard to do. I am not saying I can write the best one ever. There was too much crammed in for a two part finale. Usually all the well done plots invovling time travel I have seen were done in 4 or 5 parts. You need to absorb what is going on and you need to care about what's going on. I will bullet point my main problems with this finale, and what it could mean for the series and potentially me even staying for a season 6.
     
    - I don't like Starlight Glimmer. And this finale made me dislike her more. I will get to that in detail.
     
    -This was Rainbow Dash torture porn for 42 minutes, and seeing one of my favorite characters being treated like that rubbed me the wrong way.
     
    -Twilight's friends( real timeline) were not present. Another finale where they did nothing.
     
    -Alternate timelines were a tease. I will go more in detail.
     
    -No tension in time travel.
     
    -Starswirl the bearded being shoe horned in... Not even a flashback with him.
     

    Starlight Glimmer... Oh boy. If people like her, all power to you guys. I understand many people don't even like Sunset Shimmer, and loving her, I can understand why people don't enjoy watching here. The issues with Glimmer rest souly on the fact that I refuse to accept she's truly reformed. Her childish backstory made me pretty angry that this unicorn possesses intense magical abilities. It makes Twilight Sparkle seem average no. This also renders Sunset Shimmer, a garbage character. So people didn't want Shimmer to be in the show? Well, that's bad for you, because Glimmer is basically another Sunset Shimmer retold and to me it's pure laziness to even add her to the main cast.
     
    I don't mind new villains. I really was happy to see the old ones return. Everyone got a little something here. If you were a fan of Nightmare Moon, you got to see her for 4 minutes. Chrysalis fans, you and I got what we wanted. Sombra had an excellent cameo. That's the problem, all these felt like trailers for another separate episode all together. These timelines aren't the threat. It's Starlight Glimmer, this angsty little brat who has power over our heroine Twilight. It made me so irritated that Twilight couldn't over power her. The whole fate of Equestria was on the hoofs of a foolish and selfish mare who cared that she couldn't have better success than others.
     
    Sunset Shimmer's redemption felt appropriate for an 1hr15min special. She had a history with Celestia. And to see her in a ditch crying a river, showed me how real it was. She showed how real she was in Rainbow Rocks when she had the Sirens to worry about, while trying to mend her reputation.
    Starlight Glimmer didn't show anything real. It felt forced because the plot needed a good ending.
     
    Rainbow Dash went through hell in this episode. Getting shot by Glimmer made me feel awful and a character as cool as Dash didn't deserve that. It be like Sonic tripping over his own shoe buckle. I know no one is perfect.. But seriously, no one left Dash alone.
     
    I would have honestly thought a single timeline would have been ideal. I really think the show needs a format change. Its been 5 seasons and we're still using this structure.
     
    Two part opener
    slice of life for 80% of the season
    two part finale.
     
    I love the slice of life, because we don't always need action and adventure, every good story needs some down time and character and plot development. Maybe we should get a 4 part finale? It might work. Change things, because I think the old format has grown stale.
     
    Season 1's finale was a slice of life episode. But I was fine with that. I can go back and enjoy every minute of the Gala. Season 2 is when we started to get more action oriented with Discord and Chrysalis. My main point is that while no season finale is perfect, the first four seasons were focused on one thing. This finale explored too much, and left me wanting more than I should ask for.
     
    This is not the worst episode in the show. But I was let down. I enjoyed seeing the alternate timelines. Personally seeing Dash and Rarity as Nightmare Moon's servants was hard to watch. That's amazing writing. But again..... It was about Starlight Glimmer, and all this villains ruling in another period didn't mean anything, because they weren't real threats.
     
    I don't know if I will like season 6. I am sure of it. Starlight Glimmer will most likely overshadow Twilight's friends. I am fine with Cadence and Armour's baby though. Season 6 is just looking to be bad. I don't know if we're going to see Chrysalis, Sombra or Tirek again, or even the Sirens. I find it funny that a toy company will make new heroines and villains and will not sell them. I walk down Toys R US and see no pony toys that show Hasbro cares about their roster. Ponies are like the female counterpart to Transformers, so it's odd that they don't do this.
     
    My finale score is a 6.5/10. Things could change in the future. I may like it more. But I am just stating how I feel now.
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    I was described as a great artist in the past. However, I used to beat myself up all the time over never being amazing or special at the craft. I lacked technical skills when it came to art. Now, sometimes if I were to do observational art work, could create highly detailed works in time.
     
    I spent a year in art college and everything felt like a chore. I understand you go there to learn the objective art skills to get better, I understand that. But during 2011-2012, I was spiraling into a deep depression and art wasn't helping me out at all. I was paying an outrageous tuition to go to a private art college. I had to juggle a part time job with homework ranging from 3 to 9 hours long in one day/
     
    It was not great for me. So after leaving college and sort of floating around. I would just play around inside my own imagination visually, whether my own ideas or forming ideas about potential fan fictions in other media. I spent tons of time in music. Just listening to orchestrated, modern or classic. It really makes me have a deeper imagination when I have music in the background.
     
    I have great ideas with potential. But I lack these skills to bring them out. I remember way back in the day, like 2007-2009, I'd troll on yahoo answers and pull paragraph stories out of my butt. People told me I would make an excellent writer. Made me feel great actually. I have never written one complete work of fiction or non fiction.
     
    I feel the urge to get back to these skills now. Because I feel like they are a part of me, and being lazy waiting for things to happen will not make me better. But I hope I can improve. Seeing others work makes me a tad jealous. I wish I could be that amazing.
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    I am doing a dubbing project and would appreciate some help. Negima is my favorite anime series and it's a shame it never got proper english dubbing or proper licensing. This is for fun, I'm not monetizing anything. Just want to have fun and have some producing and editing skills expanded. I need.
    Voice actresses( primarily female characters.... Men are welcome to ask me for male leads)
    Audio FX specialists( need to mute region 2 disc audio and create another FX track. Someone who's good in that area,)
    Background musician( TAKEN )
    I am going to be doing dub edits and lip syncing.
    Not to discriminate, but please have an XLR microphone. I want to be as professional as possible. Something like an AT2020.
    Please contact me
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    Just making this quick statement about the upcoming bronycon in Baltimore, MD next coming weekend. I am hoping to meet some people on the forum and have some fun with all of you. I am actually rooming with a good friend already who comes onto the forums every now and then. I had my hotel and tickets booked 4 months ago and it was well worth it.
     
    Things at home are getting easier since my dad is taking it easier on me with the bills and has actually cut me some slack for being more responsible within my house. 2014 has been much better than last year. Last year I couldn't go to bronycon because my parents didn't want me dead in Baltimore. I didn't get a refund for the ticket I purchased last year, but hey lol I am lucky I didn't book a non refundable hotel last year right?
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    I have many ideas going through my head. I am just afraid to out them on a website and share them. Many ideas I had were already beaten to the punch. I know for a fact human beings have a collective consciousness/imagination lol.
     
    I am planning on writing a story about the changelings. It is going to take place after season 4 and I will be brining back some familiar faces alongside the Changelings and their Queen Chrysalis. I am going to try my best to make the best story possible.
     

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    I just wanted to take time during my lunch break to type this out. I know that I have been causing some issues on this site. I know it's not physically harming others(I hope it isn't). I wanted to take time to say on my first blog, how awesome you guys have been since March 2013 when I first came here. I have enjoyed being a part of this brony fandom and the show FIS has really helped me maintain a positive attitude on life.
     
     
    I have some problems going on in the real and I know that we all have issues. So I'm not special and I am not trying to make this sound like some pity party(it sounds like one). I have the following going on in my life; Parents have been harder on me since 2012. I have some house issues, meaning I am trying to get out on my own, but cannot support myself with the wages I make. I also have did everything I could to maintain health and things are going better than expected. I have issues with my so called "real" friends. To make a long story short. I have been there for them, they have never been there for me. They never call me and it boils down to me having to start something. I find real friendship to be a community.. a team effort. Real friends love and support each other. I have been with these people since 6th grade and it may have seemed real then, but I wasted 8 years on these people.
     
    So it's just the typical 'trying to find my purpose and place in life'. Things are building up for me and I feel this great change about to occur in my life. As a result it has made me very crazed. as in I cannot focus on channeling that energy to manifest into a reality. I have done these things to increase benefits in my life.
     
     
    I have started meditating with amazing results in March of this year
    This is important to me, because last year I started getting into 'religious study'. I thought christianity would have been good for me. But it actually wasn't. It instilled a ton of fear within my spirit and it really had this external influence over my life. So in December 2013, I started to drift from it and entered a secular spiritual view. I became fascinated with the mind and discovered what true spirituality is. It is within us all. So I left the theistic view. I couldn't go with the atheistic view. I am sorry for all the atheist on this forum I have offended and cause harm to. I know that atheism is not a black and white religion(yeah I said it). Atheist can be spiritual or non spiritual. I have met unique atheist and what turns me off from atheism is just that it's impossible and I have gotten better at respecting their view points. but know that atheism is not a one track system.
     
    So I am deist, I hold a secular spiritual view on life and it has helped me and is helping me. So in the future I will try to calm myself down. I am a very emotional person and people say I'm intelligent. I question my intelligence because I don't like to esteem myself above others. I need to find a balance between emotion and logic.
     
    So what do i want to do with my life? I want to help others. I love research and I know people have a tin foil hat perspective of how I come across. I am online and you are all real human beings and it doesn't excuse me from acting out of line. I vent my research online because no one in my real life wants to hear it. They think I'm an idiot. I love to learn and I love to experience real education. So just a heads up, I am not a conspiracy nut. I used to be heavily influenced by Alex Jones and David Icke when I was 15. I grew up and knew these men were money shakers and are hiding real truths.
     
    So my view is simply, do your own research and think for yourself to come to logical conclusions. I know we don't want to leave our comfort zone. But I grew up sucking in public school(Thank God). I left High School and started to get fascinated with the internet and this whole world that has been kept from us. Science, history, anthropology, archaeology and all these things about our planet are not defined. We humans are ignorant to think we know everything.. When we haven't learned to walk yet. It's my goal to get out and explore and I want to do it for others, not just myself. So yeah, public schooling is awful and I know why kids are sucking.. because they're actually intelligent people
     
     
    So to wrap up. I'm sorry for any mayhem I might have caused to people. I'm not going to play favorites. but there have been many people on this forum that have been great people to me, even though we don't know each other. No need for names, you know who you are Even if we have fought and don't agree with each other.. Still thank you for talking to me in the first place.
     
     

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