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Another one I watched my dad play as a kid that I want to enjoy myself one day On topic: ^I don't think there's a better guitar song out there than this one. Whether it's how the guitar is at breakneck speeds for almost the whole song or how he gets his guitar to imitate bagpipes while still remaining serious, this song is painted into a masterpiece by the guitar work in it. It helps that the guitarist has excellent music surrounding him as well, but I've never heard a song with better guitar than this one right here. A lot of people would disagree with that, I'm sure

I actually think it had some great character exploration in it, myself. Only real issue that isn't cherry picking was the fumbled moral that was kind of a headscratcher. Besides that I'd rate it in the top half of Season 2, maybe even the whole series The one that aired before it was the one that deserved the hate, really. I am absolutely, 100% uninterested in the 100th episode with all the background ponies. It doesn't really serve any purpose at all other than to be an extremely unsubtle fanservice episode to the Brony fandom and thus I feel it will ultimately be one that I am uninterested in and will have no major impact on anything other than being a generic slice of life episode with characters I don't really care about, to put it bluntly. While not every episode is going to contribute greatly to the overall story at hand, many of them show exposition to characters important to the story and allow you to build opinions and feel closer to them. Slice of Life episodes such as "Sweet & Elite" and "Party of One" are just as important, if not more important, to the quality of the show than the ones that have great significance to an overlapping story such as "The Ticket Master" and "Pinkie Pride." They allow us to understand the characters better. They allow us to get a feel of who they are and what they are all about, and a well-developed main cast is just as important to the quality of a show as the storyline and basis of the show are. This episode doesn't do anything of that sort. It has no meaning in the slightest other than to be extremely blatant fanservice, and I don't like that. These characters, in all likelihood, won't be coming back to star in a mane 6-less episode again. They won't get much more canon development than this. They won't do anything other than sit there for 22 minutes and provide nothing of note before going back to filling space up in the background. The only really good thing that can come out of this episode for the quality of the show is it gives the writers more reason to focus on the story at hand than thinking up ways to do callouts to the brony fandom, thus cutting down fanservice in the episodes surrounding it in S5 significantly. However, if that is actually going to happen or not is anyone's guess, so it's possible that the only good thing that can come out of this episode is something worth nothing, that being a warm and fuzzy feeling of acknowledgement felt by this fandom. I'm sorry if I sound rude, but I don't think that's going to help make this a good show. I think fanservice such as this should be kept to a minimum and put in the background while the main focus remains on the mane cast and general storyline. I also predict that even if it is of terrible quality, people in this fandom are going to go head over heels for it because of how it is a massive callout, barring they butcher the fanon personalities of the background ponies. I'm getting the feeling that it can be a dull, meaningless, poorly executed episode and people aren't going to care about any of that just because of the meaning of the episode itself, which was nothing more than being 22 minutes of fanservice. Because of this, I feel this is evidence of the show's decline. Season 4 saw the smallest amount of growth in the fandom ever by a wide margin according to a poll Equestria Daily performed, thus meaning it'd be a reasonable assumption that the hype surrounding the show has died down and the popularity peaked during S3. The combination of a pure fanservice episode to the fandom as well as a stunted growth during the last season indicates to me that the writers are becoming desperate and I find that to be a saddening thought, because I for one love this show and enjoy it immensely. I just feel this to be an unnecessarily blunt and over-the-top amount of fanservice that, at best, will do little to improve the quality of the show and at worst send the fandom into a total outrage due to the canon destroying the fanon they had grown to love. I don't see anything worthwhile coming out of this, quite frankly, and I feel it will end up just being a waste of time and I'm still on the fence if I am even going to watch it or not. OMFG YES I LOVED TO WATCH MY DAD PLAY THAT GAME AS A LITTLE KID. It'd be great if they gave it a reboot to PC so I can play it myself and relive some of the happiest moments of my life

For a while I hated my name for sounding so strange off of the tongue. "Riley." It just felt weird to say and I wanted something less strange. Nowadays I embrace it, though, because when you put my full name together it kinda feels badass Riley Haden Barrett. I just dig the way it sounds when put all together

Gothic II Pretty swell game I'd say. Reminds me of a more gritty and realistic version of Morrowind, so of course I love it for that

I can see what you mean. They are very hit and miss. It just seems to me that they swing at pitches in the dirt far more often than they do knock them out of the park

So, I was browsing through Derpibooru, per usual, trying to find some good Rarity pictures to look at. I find their filter system to make finding the fanart that you personally want to see much easier than other mediums of fanart, such as DeviantArt, but I digress. What's important about me browsing through Derpibooru is that sometimes I find strips from the comics and whatnot that were recently released. Sometimes I find these amusing, but the majority of the time I find them to be on-par with what I've grown to expect from the comics. That's not a good thing, mind you, as that means I find them to be just plain stupid and leaving me to question as to why I took the time out of my day to read the comic block that I was presented with. When I was browsing today, however, I found the epitome of what I've grown to expect from the MLP comics. Naturally it had to do with Rarity otherwise it likely wouldn't have grabbed my attention, but it just summed everything up perfectly: I don't view myself as an analyst or a critic, to be honest. If I review something or share an opinion, I generally do it for fun. I do enjoy the majority of the television series, but I don't like everything it puts it out, of course. It's an unreasonable expectation to enjoy everything a medium of entertainment puts out, especially when one is as cynical as I am. I do find myself to grow attached with the characters that the show portrays, however. They have many redeeming and relatable qualities and the mane cast of characters I've grown to love and cherish is the main reason I tune into the show for every new episode to see what happens next. Perhaps it's my attachment to the characters that the TV show set up that drives me to dislike the comics, but if that's the case than I certainly can't find it within myself to view that as a bad thing. My main issue with this scene is the context. Rarity liking shopping wouldn't be surprising and I don't expect perfection. However, the context of this scene is what's so agitating, as I researched it a bit and found out that Ponyville had just been torn to pieces by the main villain of this particular comic. Families are now displaced and homeless, and the town they had not only lived in, but had grown to cherish, was now just a pile of debris and rubble. Someone stated that the scene of Ponyville crumbling was actually intense and very well executed. After that, however, it went downhill. RD initially just wanted to concede defeat and award victory to the villain, which is a start to where sardonic thoughts of "Oh yeahh, she totally would do that" begin seeping into my mind. Applejack mentions something about how the villain would just destroy the forests if they tried to use those to rebuild Ponyville, and then some things happen (I hope) that lead Rarity to get this airhead look on her face and spurt out the most cliche line for a girly character to spout out ever. Now, call me a cotton headed ninny muggins, but I'm pretty sure that one of the big reasons Rarity was created was to spit in the face of the cliche girly character. Not to brag, but I do know quite a bit about Rarity's character. Rarity wasn't really ever created to be the main sell, like Pinkie Pie or so - not by Faust, at least. Hasbro wanted a character that was obsessed with fashion, and Lauren was already wanting to create a show that defied the norm for a show that featured little girls as the target demographic due to her disdain for the shows targeted at the age group that she grew up with. Thus, instead of creating an airhead shopoholic like Hasbro wanted, she created Rarity - a girl who did not consume trends, but rather created them. A girl who did not rely on the support of others, but took care of herself and showed enough strength to manage her own successful business with no help whatsoever. A girl who was willing to put forth a lifetime of effort into being who she wanted to be, and wouldn't let anything change her when it came down to it. Thus, Rarity wasn't made to be a main sell in Faust's eyes - she was made to appeal to a niche audience, actually. The little girls who liked fashion and other "girly" things to prove that just because you're feminine doesn't mean you can't show strength, perseverance, and dedication. Rarity herself was also meant to prove that just because you associate yourself with stereotypically girly things doesn't mean you have to be like this: This is essentially a giant middle finger to everything that Rarity stands for. While it isn't really much to lose sleep over regardless, it's like this with all of the characters in the comic series from my experience. Rarity, who is symbolic of generosity and compassion in the show, has just witnessed the town she's lived in for the majority of her life crumble down around her. She has just witnessed the people she knew and loved become homeless and displaced. Pretty sure her own home and business is located in Ponyville, so that's probably just a pile of rubble and nothing as well. The only way she can respond in this moment, apparantly, is to get a stupid look on her face and say the most cliched dumb shopping girl line ever uttered. Even Spike thinks this is stupid, look at him. I bet he's rolling his eyes at whoever wrote this. This isn't just a problem with Rarity, though - it seems to stretch for all the characters, actually. Just a little bit before this scene, RD just wanted to give up. Give up, the bad guy had beaten them. That's it, it's all over. I don't really know about you, but I don't think I can see RD really ever...saying that. All apologies, as I don't understand RD as well as I do Rarity, but I'd like to think I understand her enough to know that she wouldn't give up before really even trying to defeat the villain. Or Twilight in the wild west arc, who apparently is more than willing to sit back and let her friends get their asses kicked by a group of criminals and not do anything because she doesn't want to use magic against citizens of equestria. This is a problem with all of the mane 6 throughout the comics, and I think, at least as a Rarity fan, that this particular block is just the pinnacle of the issues with the comics. Now, this all traces back to the point that I brought up earlier - I like the show for the characters. I am big on characterization for this reason, and unless they absolutely butcher characterization than I'm more than likely going to enjoy the episode. The comics have a brutal inconsistency in terms of characterization seen in the show and quite frankly it isn't for the better. It often dumbs down the characters to an extreme or will have them do things that they usually stand on the complete opposite side of the spectrum on in terms of personal viewpoints just for a cheap laugh, such as this scene right here. Most of the time I personally don't even find them funny, myself, but I don't want to delve into the subject of humor too much as it is far too subjective to form a concrete opinion on. I just see this and I think of how bad the comics screw up in this area, and it just bothers me to the point where I needed to rant about it for a bit. Say what you will about that, but I find this to be a serious problem with the comics and the main reason I can't find a lot of enjoyment in them