Jeric

Berserk, Defender, and Vanguard for Atari VCS

I had a famacom and good god i wasted a lot of my time on contra and mario the original mario i completed contra without the 30 lives code

Contra without 30 lives, Beating Mike Tyson, and Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2 on NES are my proudest video game accomplishments to date

Crimsib criss

But take a look at Merriwether Williams. She didn't exactly get the hang of writing for the show until Season 3.

Good point and kudos for correctly applying a method for interpretation of authorial intent.

Collaborative function of art and fiction can be applied here too. BTW, I'm starting to see Trixie as a form of Unicorn HFA.

Called it.

RPB, until we see you again ... Cheers

And yet again today

Who is coco? I've watched every episode and I don't remember anypony by that name.

This be the Coco ... I think I'll also be killed by a Ninja.

@@Obsidian Sky,i love you so much right now. 

 

 

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..wheres my Pinkamena emoticons!!

 

Where the heck have you been hiding?

Or are we just not crossing paths on the board these days.

I love reading the comments in this topic before the show aired.

BTW , some interesting things came out of ComicCon today regarding your waifu.

getting closer ... a few more days mayhaps?

I see Rarity taking her on as an apprentice! I see all of the Mane 6 taking someone under their wing!

What if they use her to replace Rarity?  

 

I mean,  remember the end of Rarity Takes Manehattan?

Dude! No ... no no no no no no no no. Never will happen.

I didn't want to quote spoilers from the Con ... cause I know some are pissing me off and blowing my mind. But they only have a few bullet points and not enough to lay out a seasons worth of episodes. Luna, Pie Family with Maude, 100th may be a BG Pony Episode, and oddly they downplayed wanting to address AJ's parents but not sure how to do it. \

Coco Pommel ... and Rarity ... potential guys.

Coco Pommel returns for one ... that will be a Rarity episode.

I just hope the writers don't end up ruining the progress Rarity made in season four concerning her haters in season five.

 

Would be nice for me to be able to stop to fear new episodes and be excited instead again...

I think she'll be fine. The writers obviously love writing her character, and it's a full season. I personally can't wait to see what they do and see how Rarity goes all fan girl about Twilight's new digs.

Plato yes ... I don't argue his impact, influence, and contributions.

Aristotle if you only focus on his views about theater and storytelling. Everything else the man was wrong on. I mean, how does Skinner get marginalized in Phycology and Aristotle get lauded?

Hehe. Even though I ignore the comments section, I look at Equestria Daily quite often, and I must say, one of the latest drawfriends featured a lot of Rarity, including the cover, which was this beauty

 

Same here with EQD. I lost interest in the comments sections when all I saw were the same few people always trying to one up each other's one liners and witticisms.

That was actually one of the reasons I sought out an actual forum and this place was the first result.

None, though I'm told I am supposed to have one.

I was watching Ken Burns' Gettysburg episode just the other day!

 

Also, that's so cool you've been to Gettysburg THREE times. I haven't ever been

And yeah, Pickett's Charge is a crazy event. I guess Lee didn't learn his lesson from Malvern Hill or from the Federal's assault at Fredericksburg.

 

 

Well on that topic, here's my little piece of history for the day. Many people (largely popularized by The Killer Angels and Gettysburg) put blame on Richard Ewell for not taking Cemetery Hill after the I and XI Union Corps were defeated on July 1st. It's commonly believed that he was indecisive about taking the hill and that had Stonewall Jackson been in command he would have taken Cemetery Hill. However, what people overlook is two things. For one, Lee's orders to Ewell were to take the hill if practicable and without bringing about a general engagement. Ewell had earlier in the day disobeyed this order and engaged the XI corps at Oak Hill. His actions helped crippled that Corps and forced the I Corps back through town.

 

However, he did not pursue the Federals up to Cemetery Hill, since Lee had not wanted a general engagement (he did not want to disobey him again) and Lee refused to give him reinforcements for the attack. As it turns out, even if Jackson was in command (as many Lost Causers love to speculate), he would not have taken the hill. Any attack against Cemetery Hill would have been easily repulsed. At 4:30 Ewell had 4,000 troops available for an assault. At this time the Federals had 12,000 men in position from Cemetery Ridge through Cemetery Hill and around to Culps Hill. By 5:00 the force grew to 20,000 with reinforcements from the newly arrived XII Corps. Attacking these positions would have surely failed, so in short, Ewell, while not performing at his highest level during the three days, cannot be blamed for losing the battle here. Taking the heights south of Gettysburg was not in the least bit practicable.

 

Here's a great article to read further on this subject - http://www.historynet.com/did-lt-gen-richard-ewell-lose-the-battle-of-gettysburg.htm

Well, the first two visits were with my middle and high school ... but when I went back as an adult with more knowledge and appreciation ... it hits you.

I agree that Ewell gets unfairly blamed for failure to press the 'advantage'. If Lee had decided to reinforce him, things might have been different. Also, the fact that Lee failed to listen to Longstreet on the plan to take Big Round Top was another failure on his part. Can you imagine a coordinated flanking effort on both sides of Union forces?  To be honest, this was an engagement that should have not been avoided at all costs by Lee, because even if a few more things went his way, the best result would have been Antietam and resupplying the depleted Army of N. VA in PA would have made his desire to begin pressing into MD or DC that much more difficult.

It's too easy to just simply say Jackson would have made the difference, and Lee is even responsible for that view as well. Even in death the man is wrong about some things.

I believe in these gods:

1) Horus, the god of the sky, and the god of war and hunting.

2) Ra, the god of the sun.

3) Osiris, the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead.

4) Isis, the goddess of health, marriage, and love.

5) Anubis, the protector of the dead.

 

My favorite subject of history is Ancient Egypt.

I assume that you wouldn't be a Akhenaten fan then? Netflix seems to be in love with Egypt ... huge source of docs on the subject.

Epic bump

 

I'm a big Civil War nut and also know quite a bit about other various bits of military history. I hang out over at historum, which is a great history community, so if you guys like history you should check it out.

 

So I specialize in Civil War history (particularly enjoy discussing the war in Virginia and Gettysburg is my favorite battle. Grant is my favorite general and Stonewall Jackson is the most overrated general imo).

 

I was just watching episode 2 of Ken Burns Civil War yesterday with a copy of "Confederates in the Attic" by my side. I was hoping a thread like this would rise from the depths.

I was raised in PA so I've been to Gettysburg three times. Nothing prepares you for the moment you stand in the spot where Pickett's Charge began, look out into the expansive field before you, and begin to wonder what went through the mind of those men in that moment.

Full size version for use.

The link seems to be broken for me.

I think that this is the one. Had to bypass the image filter since I received the extension error.

There be a Rarity war in this here topic!

How will Obsidian respond? Stay tuned!

And if course

Excitement building!!!!!

Since the second clip all but confirmed there is some evil hocus pocus going down, I'm now excited.

And was that hippy Rarity in the first clip?