Feather Spiral

8 hours ago, Kyoshi said:

I love it how people in this world act like 'everyone's opinion matters' when that is total bullshit. The moment one speaks up about anything, if it isn't the majority opinion OR if you don't have fame on your side, then nobody cares what one says. Literally nothing I say matters in the slightest, despite this illusion I am constantly fed that it does.

Depends on the environment you make your statements in.

You can put things out in the open, on social media for example. It'll have potential for everyone to see, until it get buried under newer (and more popular) ones.

Or you can share them on a more limited platform, like a Discord server or school club, with like-minded people. There's gonna be fewer people, but with better chance for some productive discussion. Plus, you get the chance for someone else to find a more effective way to spread the word, start a petition on campus for change, etc.

Oh lord, sorry to hear @Meson Bolt I hope you're out of that nightmare soon.

But speaking of aviation, I took weekly courses at school many years ago, way back in middle school, and have nothing to show for it. Our group actually had them all trimester, even when the others had to go on traineeships to gain work experience. We were prepping for the theoretical exam, a nationwide one; with talks about moving on to practicals flying a small Cessna.

We eventually received invitations and entered the exam, where the entire group did badly; our prof (a legit pilot iirc) gave extra courses, then we waited for invitations again.

Except mine just wouldn't arrive... I kept hearing other group members talk about receiving theirs, asking me if I had mine and it pissed me off. My parents actually had to poke whatever company was issuing the invites (an airline, or an academic thing, I don't remember) so they'd hurry the fuck up.

Until the literal morning of the exam date, while I waited at the door of a lab to take some practicals, the principal came to tell me it had finally arrived. Told me I could take the day off if I wanted to take the aviation exam.

I refused. I thought, since they took so fucking long to send it (the date on the invite letter was, if memory serves me right, a few days after being asked if I had it), they clearly didn't want me and so I didn't want them either. Besides, missing out on a day of school without prior warning felt so irregular, even if the principal herself had said it was okay.

In short; I put my regular classes (shit I'd never remember) ahead of this aviation business (an extraordinary opportunity) due to that one stupid delay.

TMW you realize you coulda flown a Cessna when you were just a teen but didn't because everyone made such a big deal of regular school education...

Still makes me rage every time I remember... I can still like, recite the aeronautical alphabet (with maybe 5 letters I have trouble remembering) or recognize a cumulus, remember the differences in flight control between a plane and a helicopter (some of it from the Search And Rescue 4 user's manual) but... urgh

I keep doing this shit all the time... forgetting that I had these wonderful opportunities and just let them slip, while I instead held on to a bitchass boring drone's life.

"...more than anyone else" I would feel the opposite. Mean... ask an anti-SJW and they might assure you, quite genuinely from the bottom of their hearts, that antifa or vegans or feminists counteraccuse much more often, by orders of magnitude.

People tend to notice such occurrences more from people they don't like, and pardon those they agree with. I try my best to not make absolute claims in the matter, because I often feel compelled to do exactly that, but I also don't wanna overcompensate.

Anyway... uhhhm

Oh yeah, why must sweet foods make my stomach sloshy? I'm trying to enjoy some cheesecake, but can't finish because it feels like I'm about to throw up. Same goes for soda and fruit, and basically any sugar-rich thing.

I had ^that^ happen a lot, always with the same people; not necessarily (anti-)SJ or (anti-)anything, not necessarily over social/political matters. Accusing me of being "hostile" and "oversensitive" about something they consider minor, all the while being openly hostile to me about something that's important to them.

What's more, it occurs to me later (I either find out or remember) that they've been hypocritical or lying asshats, but I can't bring that up because then I'm the one who sounds stuck-up.

I have a friend, she says she'll be happy to join!

I see what you mean, some of the badges are scratched out (to signify they've been defeated) and others are outright gone.

18 hours ago, Aqua shine said:

lets goo luna

Sure theng. *brings plenty of waterguns filled with goo*

Speaking of videos. You could always make your own vid and spread it around, although Creative being down (or glitchy) due to tests would definitely be a problem for that.

Maybe showing off the texture/skin pack, how the plugins change gameplay (weather potions, crafting mob eggs making some farms easier...), the Equestria server if it still works, etc.

Most videos I could find on YouTube are 2-3 years old, some stuff has happened since.

Poniarcade is the name of the Minecraft server directly affiliated with Poniverse, so yeah.

There surely are other games played together by forum members; they just aren't, well, "official" so to speak. Meaning, they don't have servers created and managed by Poniverse members/staff on a regular basis.
Someone makes a thread to get players for, say, a Fortnite or Garry's Mod session; people share their usernames and discuss a time, etc. None of that process involves a map owned and managed by people from Poniverse.

On the other hand, Poniarcade is managed by members of the forum, with people writing and updating plugins for it.

1 minute ago, Lord Valtasar said:

actually.. Fluttershy is in team moon, she's just not participating in this round

My attempt to joke backfired rather embarrassingly due to my inattention. I blame it on mental exhaustion from having to do taxes for two different countries.

18 hours ago, Lord Valtasar said:

nah. i know of Twilight's glory, it just the team as a whole that didn't impress me is all
(especially the one that barks)

also the one who is a tree... which also has a bark, interestingly enough.

Obviously, Ponyville is all bark and no bite.

14 hours ago, Will Guide said:

How is that lewd? I just said we just chatted. Not everything's code for adult stuff! 

I was jk... geezums

Soooooo this time, I dreamed that I was with a big werewolf, visiting a dream and hypnosis research clinic of sorts where I worked, but it was in a secret room. The building itself was strange, it actually looked like a Minecraft build, with how stainless every surface was and how cartoonishly saturated their colors were. Think about it - you look through a corridor, there's practically no way to tell the walls, floor and ceiling apart.

Anyway we start off at the top floor, where I tell the werewolf I'll be talking him to my secret place and lead him down a staircase. Explaining that it's the only way to access the room, as coming down onto the bottom step triggers a sensor that starts a timer. That's where I look aside to check if the corridor is empty before I proceed, and notice that all surfaces seem to blend into each other. Then I lower what looks like a large panel arching over the door, it becomes like a small crescent table with a keypad on it. Once I enter the code and fold the panel back up, the door in front of us opens and we can go in.

The room is rather small, in the middle to the right are 2 researchers (a man and a woman) in front of a computer terminal, staring intently at the screen and whispering to each other. I wave to them and the man waves back awkwardly, as I explain to the werewolf what we're studying there. Past the terminal, still on the right and against the glass bay at the back, is a double bed where a third researcher is sitting with a test subject narrating a dream or hypnotic vision.
I stop in front of the glass bay and watch the skyline, also the room's reflection where the werewolf looks around and approaches me.

Not sure what happens... but I end up in a small isolation area on the back, left side this time, separated from the rest of the room with thinner walls - and it gets even weirder.
I float up towards the ceiling, looking down as the researchers are talking to two dinosaurs this time, I think one Triceratops and a brontosaur? The long-necked one teases the other who reacts by pressing a foot on theirs, gently (I think they're friends or something). I keep going higher and higher, the "isolation" area and the rest of the room keeps growing taller as I float further up. Someone casually comments that the room also occupies the upper floor now, one of our colleagues criticizes that I think (I forgot much of the dialogue)...

I've no idea why such a secret place would have that big-ass windowed bay; maybe it didn't and it was all projections, to make subjects (and researchers) feel more "at home" and relax for the experiments.

...corrupted? How so? Besides the obvious about making duplicate accounts or other kinds of cheating mentioned in the rules...

On 3/5/2019 at 5:26 PM, Will Guide said:

we all must have chatted together

L-lewd. =w=

*ahem* Anyway.

I dreamed of my boyfriend IRL (we met when I was doin a traineeship in Sweden a few years ago) sitting next to me. For some reason, a spider decided to make a web between us, maybe it wanted us to stay together?
Except, well, my bf has a phobia of them, so I tried to pick it up and put it down. But it clung to my finger, then started with a string between my hand and my bf's shoulder, added more tensor strings... If you've seen a spider spin a web IRL, you'll know how the whole process went afterwards.

13 hours ago, Troblems said:

but I’m not one to ...look a gift horse in the mouth. Ouch. These puns doing it for you guys?

Not really, but neighther does this one.

8 hours ago, Lord Valtasar said:

don't get me wrong, i like dogs, but i wouldn't exactly want one to be fighting for everyone's survival in place of a powerfull pony, so yeah..

On the contrary, you'd want someone motivated who'd doggedly pursue the menace. Canine not convince you of that, especially in these ruff times? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Anyway - this thread seems to be full of Lunatics... next thing you know, someone makes their own version of Moona Lisa or make a movie starring Luna as the Night of Canterbury ._.

I dreamed of an extremely tall koala-lemur mix (anthro) for some reason.

Then there was me plugging my headphones' jack into the wrong port of my lagtop, among a bunch of other ports next to the hinge rather than towards the front, where it stayed skewed. It was a reflection (I think) of an IRL issue I had, except my actual lagtop only has a charger port (and no other ports) near the hinge...

There were a few other short and weird tidbits, but I couldn't remember any of them a few minutes after waking.

Drat, I missed this. I blame it on all the finance and taxes bs dad and I had to do this past week.

Nevertheless, glad to see we won by a narrow margin... after losing with such a narrow margin.

Besides, I got cake! even though I burned it quite a bit~

I have this game, actually I think it's the sequel (the Book of Water), I recently got around to lookin up the soundtrack.

Okami... do I need to explain myself here? <3

I also have the game following this one, SAR4 Coastal Heroes, but the previous one's soundtrack is pretty too.

Some IRL concerns of mine made it into my dreams last night. Mainly family, some errands and new duties I've been assigned.

A few nights ago, I had more pleasant dreams with someone I've recently met

My sister.... either wishing for bad things to happen to her just so she can bitch about it, or calling people (especially our parents) horrible words for not doing as she demands.

Fluttershy: "Why yes, I do love rabbits. I got a bun in the oven right now!"

Angel: *gulps and inches away*

*boops @PathfinderCS because he's deer to me*

Technically not a song, but

There's also Minecraft music, and some locations in Amnesia like the back hall.

lel I just realized I posted more or less the same rant, with some minor changes as to the details annoying me

...I'll put it in spoilers, cause I don't feel like deleting the whole thing either.

On 2/19/2019 at 10:15 PM, Jeric said:

Shush you. The official email said to PM me with a link to a profile that was decidedly not Valt.

...shet, just saw it in my spam folder. No wonder I had no idea wth I was supposed to do and candidly followed Pony-chu over there ;n;