Yellow Diamond

If I remember correctly, the prevailing wisdom in the 90s was that cell phones were essentially limited to people with expendable incomes. Granted, at the time they were, and their utility remained extremely limited in comparison to the modern smartphone. I don't think most people (including myself) could have foreseen phones making the jump from clunky trinkets to essential commodities, though. The same holds true for high speed internet service. Like everyone else, I had dial-up; if you knew somebody with cable internet, that was a big deal. Now dial-up is essentially dead, and it's assume most everyone who has home internet has service in terms of megabytes per second rather than kilobytes. CDs were also going to supplant cassettes and floppy disks. In many ways, they did -- but the essential properties of a floppy disk (that is, a read/write data device with no moving parts) were then ported to flash drives. ZIP disks ended up as the awkward middle child between CDs (which were limited in terms of space and customization) and flash drives. Now very few people rely on CDs, thanks to the aforementioned availability of high speed internet. Seriously, a service like Steam keeps all of your data stored so that you won't ever have to worry about losing the CD (or the jewel case with the security code!) or your hard drive. Downloading music was a faux pas of sorts toward the end of the 90s. Remember Metallica taking Napster to court? I do. Plus, malware and viruses festered on downloading sites like Morpheus. Fast forward to today and just about everyone safely downloads and purchases music online. Music CDs are something of a novelty (not to mention expensive). That's an enormous change from the 1990s.

It was sort of a weird, uneven movie period for me this past weekend. I began with Drive (excellent film), followed by S.W.A.T. (mediocre film), then Exit Wounds (terrible film), and finally The Aviator (excellent film). All in all, it was sort of like having garbage pressed between two delicious loaves of focaccia bread.

"Tick of the Clock" by The Chromatics, which plays in the opening sequence of Drive. Also, "My Name On a Car". Just about every track from Drive could get stuck in my head at a given time.

If EqD wants to open a forum, more power to them. They're at liberty to run their site as they see fit. Their success, moreover, isn't mutually exclusive to ours, and vice versa.

Welcome to the forums, RealDeadpool! Since you already have a thread open about this topic in Show Discussion, I'm going to close this one. Please remember that the Welcome Plaza is for introducing yourself to the community, not asking questions about the show. Thanks!

Having worked alongside Feld0 for a few years now (years!), it's admittedly been pretty easy to assume he would always be the man in charge. Poniverse wouldn't have succeeded without him sticking around a lot longer than I think most people in his position would have otherwise. His continued presence and drive have made all the difference; still, it's incredible that we've gotten to the point where the organization can thrive even if/when Feld0 or any of his successors move on. Feld0 and a handful of others sank a lot of hours into making and reviewing the paperwork responsible for turning Poniverse into a nonprofit. Again, I think most anyone else would've asked "Why bother?" and given up the pursuit. It's been an incredible privilege to be part of a community which has taken a big, bold step forward, as opposed to playing it safe and hoping everything holds together. I hope the technical titles won't strike members as tacked on and imposing. We're still all of us really engaged with things like chatting and watching MLP. It's not like we're collectively donning our serious hats and hiding behind bureaucratic walls. That just isn't our style, despite that being the occasional impression people have gotten from our branding and organizing. Feld0, Simon, Stitch, and the rest of us are all fans at heart; otherwise we wouldn't be here. So again, I'm tremendously proud of the members of the community and the staff responsible keeping everything running smoothly. Each person in their own way has contributed to Poniverse attaining ever greater heights. There'd be no dream without you guys. You're all Diamond Dogs awesome.

Almost a neck to surpass Yellow Diamond.

Not braces, no. I did, however, have my teeth corrected with Invisalign retainers. They were inconvenient (and occasionally painful) to wear for most of the day, save for eating. Now I just wear night retainers to keep my teeth in place and protect against grinding.