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Depends what I'm watching. My laptop's speaker's aren't what they used to be, keep them mostly at 76% or 100%.

I have two phones, one's a butt dial with service, the other's a smart phone with none. They take different cards and I've been too lazy/can't always afford to switch. The butt dial's volume has been broken for like 2 years now so it's at whatever it was at, and I have to answer on speaker because otherwise I can't hear anything, and even that doesn't come through very well sometimes. My smart phone depends, sometimes I have it at 12% if it's late and I don't want to disturb anyone, other times I have it all the way up for music. With headphones I keep it at around the 75% mark

In all fairness, under Nick we got some pure gold, and my understanding is that CN isn't doing so well right now. Perhaps the exact same thing would've occurred given SpongeBob's success.

I like my history to mostly be cemented in place I think. It forms a basis on which we can develop our own stories within a preexisting setting, but what we're given can and does do away with certain possibilities.

Prime example, Princess Luna's transformation into Nightmare Moon. As far as the populous was concerned, Luna was there, and then she wasn't. She was already being ignored by her subjects, and that continued to be the case for another 1,000 years, with exception to a holiday that could be argued as very unwarranted. The only real impact was that Celestia may have chosen to relocate the capital to Canterlot as a result. There was no visible build up, no cult following, and no prolonged conflict. Just a solar eclipse and some damage to the castle. No real consequences, no serious impact. I was overjoyed when we finally got to see the transformation, but it could've been so much more. Because of that, this is an area of canon I'm willing to ignore for the sake of better story telling, so long as alternatives maintain a sense of realism.

The benefit to not knowing most of Equestria's history is that it permits us the chance to fill it in ourselves, but I personally think too often, people go off the rails with this. Rather than simply applying paint to a canvas, they splatter it on the wall behind it, going outside of the barriers, creating a mess. We can and should draw inspiration from outside of the show and within ourselves, but if it can't hold some basis within, then I don't think it belongs.

For example, I like to look at the history of MLP as closely reflecting ours. This became more difficult as the show went on in later seasons, particularly with maps changes, and I go decently far by having thigns like the world wars in some form still take place. But I base everything to do with that, based on something I've seen within the show. Here and there are technological, architectural, and military aspects that reflect such things, and I make full use of them, with a simple fix of leaving certain things forgotten or limited, because they were so terrible, and in the right hooves could happen again.

History has room for flexibility, but it's not gymnastics.

One must study and practice in order to master their magical abilities. It doesn't come so naturally like the skills an Earth Pony or Pegasus has, and can be taken further than one's basic physical aptitude. While the other races can also enhance enhance themselves, there isn't as much creative maneuverability, particularly where they can apply their skills. Magic simply isn't bound in the same way. As a result, Unicorns are more often better educated, and this has set in as a cultural expectation as well, thus why they come off as being more intelligent.

The day our internet dies is when all goes to hell 

Kind of surprised that I haven't noticed things really slow down from higher usage in my current area, but it's a college town where most went on spring break and were told they probably shouldn't come back. US though.

When Cadence gave us the whole exposition of what a changeling was bursting into her own wedding and the shock from the guests, I took it as this not being the first time they had invaded, that there was a history we could explore. From season 2 we also saw Granny Smith put on an American style WW2 helmet. The first official map of equestria was also released around this time and was heavily based off of North America, so all of my head cannons reflect a history reminiscent of our own, but as such would go into darker elements not suitable for a children's program.

I really wasn't a fan of the changelings having a different appearance for "good and evil" but it has the potential to be useful in other ways. I like to imagine the Changeling Hive as having been the MLP equivalent of the Japanese Empire. Just as was once thought that Japanese Americans and immigrants could be spies, those living in Equestria or actually caught would be rounded up and placed into internment camps. There they'd be starved of love through harsh treatment, but instead of starving to death in the sense of needing food, I'd have love act as the source for their use of magic and their ability to change forms. Continued use of this ability without replenished love would slowly eat away at the body, forming the holes we've seen and possibly taking away their colors, only leaving a blackened husk. Those on the Hive Homeland would slowly suffer the same fate as they would've used their power to form this shining jewel of a civilization that couldn't be maintained as it was. They'd expand, invading neighboring lands and becoming stronger as they went, until they reached a tipping point where Equestria and the rest of the world had had enough. Devastating destruction would follow, chasing them back to their core holdings. Starting a war to obtain necessary resources is one thing, but stealing love was personal. This Equestria was one of isolation. It did not tolerate other species vying for power, nor hardly permitting others to live amongst themselves. The "harmony" had long been broken, and there'd be no sympathy, no forgiveness, no mercy. Only the subjugation of a bug infestation. The changelings would never surrender, so Equestria through terrible means would turn their shining jewel into a pile of burnt rubble. Those in the camps would be shipped over, and abandoned on those charred shores with the rest. They'd survive, but were considered as good as dead. Once again, ignored and excluded for decades, fueled by hatred and starvation, ready to strike again.

Equestria would come to recognize the power it wielded, and knew it to be something awful. They were alone in being a place where one could be safe and happy. Unlike at the end of WW2 where the United States would assist in rebuilding and changing the ways of it's defeated enemies, Equestria would dissolve it's military might and focus on maintaining its utopian existence, while the rest of the world was left to pick up the pieces that remained. This is why Equestria had such little contact or friendly relations outside of its own borders for most of the shows run time.

3 hours ago, ShadOBabe said:

VG, you made a thread in which you suggested doing away with an entire half of the USA.

I remember that one, really sticks out 

I've told this somewhere on here before, but I was banned from an MLP roleplay site, and the reasoning was "No".

Basically there were several chat rooms, and the first one I went in had a very specific format on how to show what you typed was an action versus a thought or something you were actually saying, and this was the first time I had seen it done differently than wha tI had been doing on multiple sites, so when someone told me to do it proper, I said no and left the room. A few minutes later I recieved a PM asking if I was the person who hadn't done the formatting correctly. I said I was, and was instantly banned. Not for 24 hours, not for a week, but permanently. And for the record, the other chat room I switched to, did roleplay in the style I was used to, so it was just that one. I tried logging back in but it would just say I was banned for the reason of "No". Couldn't make a new account either, and it didn't matter what device I tried to use in that house. This was back in 2011-12 I think.

I've also been banned in a few rooms temporarily on a site called Draw Planet which I learned about through Omegle and would get links to even though they're not connected but it'd be in the name. It was a bunch of chat rooms but in the form of a drawing board. I didn't have a drawing tablet and I'm not really good with a touchpad or a mouse so I'd just hang out sometimes. Trolls would come in quite often and scribble over people's stuff, erase it, or just sketch penises. I was temporarily banned because of a game I played to see how people reacted. I'd start with a small dot and slowly draw in a spiral to make this ever growing circle to fill all of the space between people's works. This obviously gets annoying when you encroach on what people would consider to be their space. I would never actually go over their stuff. If they boxed themselves in, I wouldn't get any closer. If they erased my progress, I'd just slowly make it up again. At one point I managed to get it pretty big and was temporarily banned. I did it again later on and finally someone figured it out and drew a space around me so I was confined. I totally get how it annoyed people, but I considered it an experiment of sorts.

Finally, there's a small site called echat where I got kicked from one chat room countless times. It was one for debate and the big one was where I was kicked for calling someone a bitch. The thing is, that was in their username. Swearing was allowed in moderation, but apparently I went to far by addressing someone by the name they chose. There was a loophole on that site though, where you could join the chat without having an account. Having an account allowed you to have a profile pic and the ability to make a friends list, but that's it, so if you were kicked you could just hop right back on, and if you didn't want to get caught you just waited a minute, changed your name, and said things a little differently. I just put in the same name over 50 times because I wasn't going to accept the judgement. I was also kicked a few times for being overbearing I guess when the mod was trying to keep things even between the opposition. In reality he gave in to the conspiracy theorists and anyone who opposed them too much was kicked. The room filled with trolls and neoconservatives after the 2016 election and it was unbearable for the regulars, so for three months it was nothing but that, and when things finally settled and they started to come back, the mod had already gotten lost in the rabbit holes and kicked all but a few out. That room died soon after and they were never heard from again.

In empty open spaces, I sneeze openly. If I'm all bundled up in coats and jackets, I go for the elbow. 90% it's going in the shirt and my coworkers get a kick out of watching it balloon out. On occasion it's gotten gross, but usually I'm in the clear. I have an odd sneeze, in that its mostly dry and I do so out of my mouth most of the time as though it's been rerouted. I understand that the mouth is involved, but the point is to clear the nose and unless my sinuses are getting cleared up in the shower, whatever's in there is probably not budging.

Went to Safeway last night and their toilet paper shelf was empty. They also had signs up limiting how much people could get, originally saying 5 but marking it down to two. No toilet paper, no paper towels, no napkins, no flour, hardly any ground beef, rice, bagged beans (half of the canned were gone), noodles, peanut butter, frozen vegetables, ramen, and half the eggs. I was surprised they weren't out of oatmeal, Mac&Cheese, bread items, and they were completely full with daipers. I've seen pictures online where people were completely filling their carts with milk and other mass quantities of single items.

They were kind of getting low but still had some tissues and flushable wipes. Got some more of the latter, the children's variety were the better deal 

We still have our 12 rolls and 2 partially used packs of wipes.

We have 12 rolls left from a pack of 30 bought several months ago.

I was at a Costco today and they didn't have any. In it's place was paper towels and I'll be damned if every other person wasn't leaving with some. Also a lot of the upper shelving was looking bare.

While I feel comfortable with what we've got, I'm probably going to stock up once this all blows over because of you crazy lot.

6 total over the past 4 years. 3 of those were fulltime, 2 were seasonal, and 1 was temporary.

I've sprained my right leg and possibly my left foot and tail bone before, but never actually broken anything.

Just the one girlfriend whom I'm happily living with right now.

Fluttershy has already had to deal with her assertive side and is the only one of them who doesn't crave power in some form.

The scariest for me are deeply personal, usually concerning the safety of my pets.

The weirdest isn't mine but my youngest brother's. Him, my other brother, and myself were all sleeping in the same room one weekend when I went to visit. He woke up crying in the middle of the night which in turn woke us up. At first I felt bad and tried to console him by asking him what he was having a nightmare over. The kid was dreaming about a talking hamburger, and that scared him. He was much more imaginative than that and had seen far worse by that point, so we groaned and went back to sleep. He was laughing about it by morning and still does to this day.

I talked to my step-dad a bit ago and he's working from home now. I worked for 2 months in his building in a call center, and they vacated all the reps out for a day to spray the place down with some kind of disinfectant. The building might be closed for right now actually, not sure what that'd mean for everyone. He's one of a select few who already had the option tow ork from home because of his higher position but now he's going to for the next 2 to 3 months.

Given the fact that we've only made 4 million testing kits as of last week I think, and only 5,000 people have been tested with 1,000 confirmed cases in the US, I think a lot more people have it than has been reported. I live in Washington by the way, but I happened to have moved temporarily to the east side just before it got here, and I've mostly styed inside and hardly interacted with anyone, so things on my end don't seem so crazy.

While I think that people have over reacted, I also think this hasn't been taken seriously enough. The president's mistakes in last night's address and the stock exchange suffering make me think that things are going to get worse before they get better, and I worry to think how the country will react if he contracts the virus when so many are already reaching panic mode.

I feel relatively safe at the moment, but if thing's do get bad I don't feel equipped, and my girlfriend is graduating in the next few months and has a safari trip to Africa that she's waited 7 years for.

@Kujamih The blades are supposed to be considerably stronger and shaped as such that they'd be shrugging off whatever hits them and send it flying out the back before it could do any considerably damage by lessening the impact and not having anything get stuck inside. Something hard enough could maybe bend a blade but unless the object were going to plough through the wing already, nothing would explode and catch fire.

The roleplay was limited to technology starting in the 1870's or thereabouts, and we could advance to about 1950 under certain conditions, but I saw it possibly have an application further on since I've never seen anything close too it.

I'll check those out!

Hi, I was a part of this roleplay back in 2014-15 where we played as world leaders in the MLP universe, and I probably went a little overboard in that I'd design my own vehicles and weapons for my military to use. One of these was an airship, a Zeppelin, and I wanted to make them more durable, so I made a design with engines intended to be able to survive a cannonball going through them. I had a French teacher at the time whose husband worked at Boeing, I don't remember what his exact position/title was put she passed the idea along to him and he did the math and everything for a propeller with long blades that were flexible enough to essentially allow a cannonball to not be able to transfer all of its kinetic energy into the blade and instead push it back somewhat and roll by. It was awesome that he put the time in to do it, but it wasn't at all what I had in mind.

I was picturing a sort of propeller that's inside out? Rather than spin on a center axis point, the blades would spin on the inside of a ring and have a rifled pattern inside of, say a 1x2 cylinder, thus leaving an empty space in the center and allowing debris to either be sucked right through or funneled out the back without hitting anything critical. I haven't really accounted for the material the blades would be made out of or their weight since the engines on an airship aren't what generates lift, but I'd like to see something like this also applied for airplanes. Perhaps not for cannon balls, but birds to say the least.

This probably isn't what you meant for the topic, but I'd like to know if you think this concept could work? 

While aliens would have a more of an immediate threatening impact assuming they can travel between worlds and there's the risk that they'll wipe us out with diseases, see us as inferior and merely want our resources, demons would be on another plane of existence and would be confirming the supernatural, potentially validating draconian practices and there's be no way to escape them since they'd be everywhere. It does beg the question, why weren't they prevalent/more out in the open then?

Demons are the more terrifying in the long run.

Most recently I've been drinking some every 2 to 3 days? I like the henry's hard orange soda, (has a tiny amount of alcohol in it) so I'll drink one if the day feels long, and then my girlfriend will get a bottle of coke a few times a week from the vending machine at work and typically drinks half of it then sets it down at home and promptly forgets about it so I steal it. Otherwise we'll hit McDonald's or some place once a week and I'll get some.

I've had periods where I've drank it more regularly. At one point I was collecting every sprite container variant I could. I think I had all of them except for the 3 liter bottle which I've never seen in person, and I always thought coke was ok, but then I was doing yardwork at a friend's place during the peak of summer, and he gave me a chilled pint with ice, and that's when I realized that's how it should be served. Not when you're generally thirsty, or plain having fun, but when you've been active and need something to take the edge off. I also enjoy stocking up for the winter for those days I can jsut admire the snow and chomp down on junk food, so I bought like a 36 case of glass coke bottles and left them in the garage to stay cold, and as a young teen because suddenly I had the ability and independence to have soda whenever I wanted.

Oh definitely. She may not be standing up straight in the first and is zoomed in more but look at

the horn placement, and you can go back and see her slightly higher than her friends as time

went on. Not to mention eventually becoming Celestia's size by the looks of it.

I never got into Battlestar Galactica, but isn't there this whole thing about a lot of people in that show are secretly Cylons and it's basically terminator but in space to some degree? Sorry for not knowing. My instinct is to say that the crew of the enterprise would win because Star Trek tends to have things over powered, but which crew of the enterprise are we talking about? is it just the crew or do they get the ship as well, and if they do get it then what ship do the Cylons get?

Who would win? The monsters from a quiet place, or the Xenomorphs from the Aliens franchise? We'll stick to with the three basics of regular drones, praetorians, and a single queen.

Kind of applies? I'm not entirely sure where everyone fell on this, but I liked Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones from the get go, but I came to that show after season 5, and was introduced to it via random clips from youtube, so I didn't see his first major action of pushing a 10 year old of a window till after I saw his charm and leadership. On the plus side, when I actually decided to started watching the full episodes in order, it made that scene all the more shocking.

I think people disliked him from the start, then it became a love hate relationship, and he gradually grew on them, but that people were split during the last season.

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This would be a nightmare to do without that calculator. Did it's creator not realize that the seasons would be offset by following a different system? What about the significance of Catholicism in France for holidays?

@EpicEnergy Thank you for clarifying.